... India’s vital interests. Looking North is now more imperative than ever before.
Reference:
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. Discussion of the authors on this theme with Amb Jayant Prasad, former Director-General, IDSA.
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. The two energy projects – the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, and the Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000) which is expected to bring Tajik and Kyrgyz hydropower to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and evolve into the Central Asia-South Asia Regional Energy Market (CASAREM), once the planned Central ...
... reservations and demanding NPT signature. Surprisingly, Indian pursuit was not discouraged by any means on any forum. Simultaneously, Pakistan is devoid of NSG waiver which was given to India which also implied the incarnate discrimination toward Pakistan. Indian and Pakistan are two protagonists of South Asian region. Such discrimination would not only destabilize the strategic balance in south Asia but also exert the tremendous negative impacts on the credibility of NSG. Strategic balance would be affected as it will enable India to divert its ...
... unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing, India refuses to adopt any legal obligations in this regard. It is worth recalling that Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Advisor recently renewed country’s proposal for simultaneous adherence to CTBT with India. This proposal of converting their respective unilateral moratorium into bilateral arrangement on non-testing of nuclear weapons is reflective of positive intent towards promoting restraint in South Asia.However, India still does not support the treaty and resolves to retain the option of nuclear testing, as stated in ...
The Republic of India, the world’s second most populous country, is the core and central component of South Asia. To the north-east it borders Pakistan. Indian maps show Jammu and Kashmir marked as Indian territory and also its common border with Afghanistan. Along the Himalayas to the north-east its neighbors are the Peoples’ Republic of China (Xinjiang Uighur and Tibet autonomous regions), Nepal ...
