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  • Pakistan's Afghan Policy: Towards a Change?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   23 Dec, 1999    ·    #300    ·    Commentary    
    The Chief Executive of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf in his address to the nation on 17 October declared that Pakistan "shall continue (its) efforts to achieve a just and peaceful solution in Afghanistan … (and) wis...
  • Arms Exports: Filling the Budgetary Gap
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   21 Dec, 1999    ·    #299    ·    Commentary    
    Indian defence planners have reportedly finalised a long list of combat and support equipment to add further teeth to our front line troops. Amongst the inescapable priorities are satellite surveillance, UAVs, battlefield surveillance radars, ther...
  • Sri Lanka: Elections, Human Bombs and the LTTE
    D. Azhagarsu    ·   20 Dec, 1999    ·    #298    ·    Commentary    
    On December 18, the last evening of campaigning, when everything seemed to be under control, there were two human bombings in Colombo to assasinate both the leading Presidential candidates of the People's Alliance (PA) and the United National ...
  • US Policy towards the coup in Pakistan
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   30 Nov, 1999    ·    #297    ·    Commentary    
    The United States was not surprised or caught off guard by the military coup in Pakistan on October, 12, 1999 by General Pervez Musharraf. The United States had prior knowledge of the impending coup as evident from the warn...
  • The Coup in Pakistan: A zero sum scenario
    Kanchan Lakshman    ·   30 Nov, 1999    ·    #296    ·    Commentary    
    The contrasting political structures that have emerged in India and Pakistan is an indication of the new direction in which conflict resolution would proceed in the South Asian region. This new direction would require political and...
  • Need to Secure Sea Lanes within the Indian Ocean Rim
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   30 Nov, 1999    ·    #295    ·    Commentary    
    The seizure of a hijacked cargo vessel on November 16, 1999 in the Arabian Sea more than 450 miles off the Goa coast after a hot pursuit by the Indian navy and coast guard was indeed a commendable job well received internationally. The...
  • National Disaster Management and the Armed Forces
    N. K. Pant    ·   30 Nov, 1999    ·    #294    ·    Commentary    
    The immense human tragedy caused by the super cyclone which hit the coastal and adjoining districts of Orissa in October 1999 caught the local administrative machinery unawares despite the fact that  timely warning of its movement over the ...
  • Shanti Bahini
    Zarein Ahmed    ·   30 Nov, 1999    ·    #293    ·    Commentary    
    The people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in South East Bangladesh have been demanding the revival of the former autonomous status of the region. The movement took a militant colour in the 1970s under the leadership of Manobendra Narayan Larm...
  • Developments in Pakistan I: Report of IPCS Seminar
    Sonika Gupta    ·   29 Nov, 1999    ·    #292    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Gen. A. M. Vohra & Mr. P. R. Chari     Date of Seminar: 15 October 99         The discussion centered on a causal and predictive analysis of the coup in Pakis...
  • Prabhakaran: Key to the LTTE
    Sabil Francis    ·   29 Nov, 1999    ·    #291    ·    Commentary    
    November 26, 1999. Velupillai Prabhakaran becomes 45 years old today – a day that the LTTE commemorates as “Great Heroes Day”. It will remember the 50,000 martyrs who have died for Tamil Eelam and Prabhakaran will speak to the Ta...
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