Headline: Gates and the Great Game
Newspaper/publication: The Indian Express
Topic: Defence/Foreign Policy
Date: 25 Feb 2008
When US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates swings through New Delhi this week, India’s civil nuclear
initiative is unlikely to be at the top of his agenda. To be sure, there are growing anxieties in
Washington about the UPA government’s inability to bring around its communist allies on a deal that is
so patently in India’s favour. Gates, however, knows that there is very little that Washington can do to
change the political dynamics in New Delhi. On the other hand, he has every reason to be pleased with
the progress on bilateral defence cooperation. From expanded engagement….
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/276727.html

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Headline: General in the east
Newspaper/publication: The Indian Express
Topic: Defence/Foreign Policy
Date: 25 Feb 2008
The week-long India sojourn of General Moeen U. Ahmed, the army chief of Bangladesh, is doubly
significant. For one, it is the first ever visit by an army chief of Bangladesh to India. Since the
assassination of its founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1975, four years after New Delhi helped
liberate the nation, the army in Bangladesh has tended to be an institutional opponent of cordial
relations with India. The very fact that Moeen has chosen to travel to India opens the door for a
productive engagement between the security forces of the two countries. The Indian army’s gift of six
thoroughbred horses to Moeen is hopefully a symbol of South Block’s …..
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/276723.html

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