INDIAN leaders of unbridled ambition and meagre wisdom have recently suggested that India might revoke its earlier policy of No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons.
Slyly hinting that NFU has run its course and needs a replacement, several Indian strategists have been openly flirting with a so-called counterforce doctrine — ie the possibility of knocking out Pakistan’s nuclear forces before they are activated...
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Pakistan - India: Beware the nuclear con man
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India-Pakistan Standoff: De-Escalation
2 March 2019, by siawi3Source: https://thewire.in/diplomacy/india-pakistan-deescalation-airstrikes
India-Pak Standoff: All Signs Suggest That New Delhi Wants To De-Escalate
Despite confirming that the Pakistani Air Force targeted Indian military establishments, India (...) -
Senegal : « Le terrorisme djihadiste constitue une menace »aiguë« pour la paix mondiale »
12 novembre 2015, par siawi3« La paix et la sécurité sont remises en cause par des menaces nombreuses et multiformes parmi lesquelles l’on peut citer les pirateries, les trafics d’armes, de drogue, d’êtres humains, la criminalité transfrontalière ».
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Senegal : La paix, garantie des droits humains
19 décembre 2012, par siawi3comment promouvoir le rôle des femmes dans la reconstruction post conflit
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Afghanistan: the blind pursuit of peace and reconciliation
11 March 2013, by siawi3Putting criminals back to the community without making them pay for their human rights offences is like tinkering with a time bomb. It will not take long before the quench for justice of offended citizens collides with their returning offenders, to the detriment of peace in communities. Our peace process is actually a vessel for enabling more human rights violations to ensue in the near future.
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Pakistan peacenik Iqbal Haider dies weeks before Mumbai visit
12 March 2013, by siawi3Death of a tireless peace and secular activist in Karachi.
Deeply disturbed by the growing influence of fundamentalism in Pakistan and elsewhere, Haider never missed an opportunity to criticise Taliban and other extremist forces in his quest for a ’secular Pakistan’. -
Bangladesh: 13 from Pakistan honoured
10 April 2013, by siawi3Bangladesh Confers Friends of Liberation War Honour to 13 Pakistanis.
According to the Bangladesh government, these Pakistani nationals raised their voice for the freedom of Bangladesh against all the odds in their home country, which attacked unarmed Bangladeshis on the night of March 25, 1971.
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Israel : Le joueur de flûte de Sion
5 février 2016, par siawi3En Israël, le camp de la paix se désespère. Pas de sauveur en vue. Beaucoup se contentent de rester assis devant leur poste de télévision en se tordant les mains. Chez les autres il y a en ce moment un débat. Le salut viendra-t-il de l’intérieur d’Israël ou de l’extérieur ?
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Syria: Kurdish-led administration in Syria sets election dates: official
29 July 2017, by siawi3The dominant Kurdish groups in northern Syria have carved out self-governing regions since early in the civil war, but they say they are not seeking independence from Damascus. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tolerated Kurdish control over parts of the country but says he opposes the decentralized federal system they espouse and has described their ruling councils as “temporary structures”.
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UN: A Treaty Is Reached to Ban Nuclear Arms. Now Comes the Hard Part.
8 July 2017, by siawi3For the first time in the seven-decade effort to avert a nuclear war, a global treaty has been negotiated that proponents say would, if successful, lead to the destruction of all nuclear weapons and forever prohibit their use. The participants did not include any of the world’s nine nuclear-armed countries, which conspicuously boycotted the negotiations. In a joint statement released after the treaty was adopted, the United States, Britain and France said, “We do not intend to sign, ratify or ever become party to it.”