by Prasad Nallapati* Summary Afghanistan accounts for more than 80 percent of the world’s opium production. Last year, production of pure opium
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Summary The Middle East is fast changing and how the region looks like five or ten years down is difficult to predict. Terrorist groups like the Isl
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Killing of Soleimani and other leaders of Shia militia groups in Iraq is a serious setback to Iran in the short run but will not alter the Islamic Rep
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Internecine clashes, maritime disputes and terrorist violence continued to be the hallmark of recent developments in East Africa. However, most count
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The BJP government has done it again! This time, it is Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Its `special status’, guaranteed under `temporary’ provision of Ar
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has just won a landslide victory in the parliamentary polls, is not resting on its laurels and preparin
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by Prasad Nallapati We are witnessing fast moving changes in the Gulf and Af-Pak area. Emerging geo-politics have set in motion headwinds for India,
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by Prasad Nallapati With just about a month for expiry of the current waiver from sanctions for importing Iranian crude oil, the Trump administration
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by Prasad Nallapati “Containing” Iran, which was the central piece of American policy from 1979 to 1990, has again come to the forefront of US diplom
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by Prasad Nallapati The US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is a process still in the making, which is little bumpy in the beginning. It is int
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