... strife and will try to recreate the Islamic emirate that existed in 1996–2001. The support of Al-Qaeda and the example of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant organisation make such a scenario quite realistic.
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Vasily Shikin:
India-Pakistan Dialogue Modi-fied
In such conditions Kashmir could again explode and become yet another front in the fight for Islamist goals. At the same time we must not lose sight of the fact that many leaders of the former “intifada” are alive ...
... Narendra Modi of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made it clear on his very first day in office that he was willing to improve relations with Islamabad, something that would take a lot of political will given the long-standing tensions in India-Pakistan relations.
In April 2014, people across India were anxiously awaiting general election results for Lok Sabha, the lower house of the country’s Parliament. This was the peak of the five-year political cycle, and was momentous in all respects,...
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To ease tension in the region and ensure a balanced policy in South Asia, Russia is likely to seek to strengthen economic cooperation with Pakistan in part by helping build gas pipelines from Iran and Turkmenistan. The construction of the IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India) and TAPI (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) pipelines can is unlikely to come to pass before the end of the forecast period or even later. Russia will probably participate in the CASA-1000 project to transfer the extra electricity from Tajikistan ...
