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  • Early Warnings: Is Naxalism Expanding in Punjab?
    Medha Chaturvedi    ·   09 Jun, 2011    ·    #3398    ·    Commentary    
    Peace is a prerequisite for development. However, when development is lopsided, peace cannot be sustained. Punjab saw an insurgency, followed by peace, followed by prosperity, and now, disparity, leading to widespread frustration. If this simmer...
  • US-Pakistan-India Equations Post-Obama
    PR Chari    ·   08 Jun, 2011    ·    #3397    ·    Commentary    
    A month and a week have passed since Osama bin Laden’s dramatic execution in his Abbottabad hideout. Two outcomes, both fully anticipated, have already come true. The first is that Osama’s execution and his burial at sea [read fe...
  • The Killing of Ilyas Kashmir: Implications for al Qaeda and India
    Radha Vinod Raju    ·   05 Jun, 2011    ·    #3396    ·    Commentary    
    With the confirmation of the news of the death of Ilyas Muhammad Kashmiri in a drone attack in Wana in South Waziristan by the spokesperson of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, one should recall similar reports in September 2009, in North Wazirista...
  • The Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee    ·   02 Jun, 2011    ·    #3395    ·    Commentary    
    While the death of Osama Bin Laden closes one chapter of recent history against the global war on terror, the risk of terrorism merging with nuclear weapons poses the greatest threat today, even more starkly than a nuclear holocaust. Pakistan, r...
  • Reading Pakistan-IV: A War within Pakistan’s Security Establishment?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   01 Jun, 2011    ·    #3394    ·    Commentary    
    The kidnapping and subsequent killing of a Pakistani journalist - Saleem Shahzad, along with the testimony made by Headley, raises a pertinent question relating to a widely prevalent hypothesis: Is a section of the security forces, including the...
  • The Killing of Shahzad: Links between the al Qaeda and the Pakistan Navy in the Open?
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   01 Jun, 2011    ·    #3393    ·    Commentary    
    The kidnapping and killing of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad has opened up a new vista of the alleged nexus between al Qaeda and the Pakistan Navy. The 40-year old Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief for Asia Times Online, a Hong Kong-b...
  • Crying Wolf: Al Qaeda and the Nuclear Threat
    Alankrita Sinha    ·   31 May, 2011    ·    #3392    ·    Commentary    
    The threat of nuclear terrorism has been around since the advent of the nuclear age, though it transformed into a real possibility only after the 9/11 attacks by the al Qaeda on the US mainland. This threat of nuclear terrorism has been used by ...
  • PNS Mehran and the Military Consequences for India
    Abhijit Iyer-Mitra    ·   30 May, 2011    ·    #3391    ·    Commentary    
    In the media frenzy surrounding the attack on the Mehran many questions of specific concern to India were overlooked. Specifically, what exactly were Chinese technicians doing on a base housing sensitive US equipment, protected ostensibly by tre...
  • David Headley’s Disclosures-II: Pakistan’s Complicity
    TCA Rangachari    ·   30 May, 2011    ·    #3390    ·    Commentary    
    Shorn of the verbiage and detail, the information that is now becoming available through the Rana-Headley trial in the US into the 26/11 terrorist attack in Mumbai makes one conclusion inevitable - Pakistani complicity. Much of it is largely a c...
  • Reading Pakistan-III: Is Pakistan Jihad’s Lebensraum?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   29 May, 2011    ·    #3389    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, an article in the Editorial page of The Pioneer enquired whether jihad had found its lebensraum in Pakistan. Based on the revelations from the ongoing Headley trial in Chicago on the involvement of state and non-state actors within Pak...
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