By accident or out of sheer ennui, I indulged in a rare act last evening channel...
There can be no two opinions that Prime Minister Modi tried very hard to get through to...
In a clean break from the UPA governments timid B&B policy toward Washington ...
About 4 months ago, when Irans Foreign Minister Javad Zarif travelled to Muscat to...
According to Pakistani press, one highlight of the participation by PM Nawaz Sharif at...
Russia has not been a significant beneficiary so far of the Chinese honeypot known as...
The US President Donald Trump must be a man with a queer sense of humour. He kept the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi happens to be only the second world leader with whom US...
On Wednesday, for the first time, Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
We are living in extraordinary times when every word uttered by the leadership must be...
While navigating my way through dozens of commentaries in the past week on the BRICS...
Career diplomats call it localitis propensity of envoys to play to the gallery...
Dhaka is throbbing with excitement as the day draws close for Chinese President Xi...
The United States has called for trying Russia for committing war crimes in Syria.
The Indian journalists must be compulsorily made to read the parting speech by Helen...
Generally speaking, Pakistan is quicker on its feet on the publicity side as regards...
The reported decision by Asian Development Bank to lend $2.5 billion to Pakistan and be...
The pantomime of Indias defining partnership with the United States at times has...
Prudence demands that the security and foreign-policy establishment takes with the...
The reported remark by Vikas Swarup to the effect that his ministry is not in...
Russian President Vladimir Putin did on Sunday what no major western leader from the...
A report by the well-known author and Middle East hand of the Independent newspaper...
The annual meeting of Russia's Federal Security Service, which is the successor...
Looking at it from any angle, the Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Pakistan this...
Two significant Indian diplomatic initiatives within the week need to be noted (despite...
The deployment of US paratroopers in Ukraine, alongside contingents from the UK and...
The signed article by President Xi Jinping in the Pakistani newspaper News titled...
The second half of last week saw a spurt of dynamism in Russia-Pakistan defence...
The 'breakthrough' in the commercialization of the 2008 nuclear deal between India and...
With Narendra Modi as prime minister, the expectation was that India's strategic...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will plead that the word "continuous" is not the...
The expert opinion in India, here, and abroad, here, is inclined towards viewing the Al...
The Islamic State is threatening to define the United States foreign policies in the...
As I wrote in an earlier blog, the fact that the decision by the all-powerful collegium...
The readouts of Corps Commanders meetings in Pakistan always provide insights into the...
The transcript of the interview by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Japanese...
The Indian political establishment is crying itself hoarse over incidents of violence...
German Chancellor Angela Merkels Mission to Kiev was far from easy. Merkel came under...
When I wrote in an earlier blog last Sunday, here, that Russia and the European Union...
The brutal execution of the American journalist James Foley by the Islamic State of...
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi's outburst against Pakistan condemning its proxy war,...
The role of the regional parties in the formation of the next government in Delhi is...
The two-day talks at Geneva on the Iran nuclear issue ended on an optimistic note. For...
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to China draws closer, one could have foretold...
The Russians had a saying in the Soviet era, "Gijye bumaga?" -- 'Where is the paper?'--...
A startling disclosure by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday, which...
The US state department assembled a formidable team of five senior officials to do the...
The Chinese communist party tabloid Global Times has featured an Op-Ed by a research...
The speculations about Saudi Arabia climbing down on the regime change project in Syria...
The annual APEC summit has been gaining stature as a forum of political consultations...
Winding down the imperial overstretch is a thankless job. Harold MacMillan had once...
The extraordinary announcement today by Pakistani army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani that he...
If Chinese diplomacy was on a roll in Central Asia through the month of September with...
It is something of a trade mark of President Pranab Mukherjee's half a century in...
The Russia Today, which is a government-funded media organ based in Moscow, featured a...
The Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal used the meeting of the Friends of...
The Manmohan Singh era is ending soon. One doesn't even know whether it ended yesterday...
Turkey's defiant decision, announced in Ankara on Thursday, to award a contract to a...
The US president Barack Obama was pipped to the Tehran post by Moscow by a whisker....
There is great poignancy that the Sri Lankan Tamil liberated himself from anger's grip....
Writing blogs can be dangerous. Prima facie, there is a lot of latitude for flights of...
The absence of Robert Blake, the former assistant secretary of state in the US state...
The Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's first official visit to Washington and his talks...