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...agenda includes a stalled trade pact and efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions...
...Afghan President Hamid Karzai embarks on his second five-year term, he maintains that his primary agenda is to bring the war in Afghanistan to a peaceful close through negotiations with members of the Taliban insurgency. Karzai has gone so far as to invite his "Taliban brothers" to "embrace their land" and join him in talks. The U.S. too is growing weary of the war. As President Barack Obama finalizes his new strategy for Afghanistan and deliberates over how many more troops he should send to the front, he is facing pressure to define a clear exit strategy. What...
There is an appropriate time to try and advance your political and social platforms. This was not it. Ironically, she chose to push her agenda at a service dedicated to the very people who defend her right to free speech. In a chapel full of distinguished visitors, President Faust embarrassed herself, Harvard University, and the agenda she was trying to promote...
...Under Bush, India was being encouraged to be an Asian power," says Brahma Chellaney, professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank. Implicit in the Bush agenda was the idea of helping a rising India become a democratic bulwark against authoritarian China. "Now," says Chellaney, "Obama sees things through a different prism." (See pictures of India's tempestuous Nehru dynasty...
...concessions on the decades-old Kashmir dispute in order to help Washington's efforts to persuade the Pakistanis to focus more resources on fighting the Taliban, little has been done to coerce Pakistan to crack down on extremist groups using its territory as a base for targeting India. The agenda for Singh's visit includes talks on boosting intelligence and counterterrorism efforts, but India remains unwilling to broach Kashmir with Pakistan until Islamabad demonstrates a commitment to crack down on jihadist groups in its midst...