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  • Blockading Peace and Development in Manipur
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   17 Jun, 2010    ·    #3155    ·    Commentary    
    The road blockade by various Naga organizations in the state of Manipur has crossed well above fifty days and counting. The blockade which started with the issue of holding autonomous council elections in the Naga inhabited areas of Manipur was ...
  • Pakistan’s ‘Official Policy’ In Afghanistan
    Yash Malhotra    ·   16 Jun, 2010    ·    #3154    ·    Commentary    
    A recent report by Harvard security analyst Matt Waldam, written for the prestigious London School of Economics, based on interviews with Taliban field commanders and corroborated by western security officials, confirms Pakistan’s Inter Se...
  • Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East: Utopia or Reality?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   16 Jun, 2010    ·    #3153    ·    Commentary    
    A Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East (NWFZME) is one of the key issues being debated in the region, which also was in controversy during the recently concluded NPT Review Conferences. Earlier, the 2005 review conference had failed due ...
  • Countering the Naxal Threat-IV: Military as an Option?
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   21 Jun, 2010    ·    #3152    ·    Commentary    
    The Times of India headlines has it that the ‘Army is bracing to take on the Naxals’ (17 June 2010). The report informs that up to five divisions of the Army are being readied for deployment. A training center is planned to be opened...
  • Countering the Naxal Threat-III: Use the CRPF and Avoid the Army
    D Suba Chandran    ·   15 Jun, 2010    ·    #3151    ·    Commentary    
    There is a growing debate in India to use the military against the Naxalite threat and crush the Maoists. This article argues against such a strategy and recommends using the local police and the CRPF to deal with the Naxal threat. Three Ques...
  • Countering the Naxal Threat – II: a Case for Specialized Units
    Radha Vinod Raju    ·   14 Jun, 2010    ·    #3150    ·    Commentary    
    The response of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh to the Naxal’s threat needs to be analyzed. Studies for the 1995-2005 period have shown that even when the Naxalites boycotted elections in Bihar, they allowed their supporters to vote for the rulin...
  • Countering the Naxal Threat – I: An Analysis of Earlier Efforts
    Radha Vinod Raju    ·   14 Jun, 2010    ·    #3149    ·    Commentary    
    By the latest count, over 220 districts of India are Naxal affected. Without going into the merits of their ideology, one has to admit that the group has committed leaders. At least one of the leaders recently arrested, hails from an established...
  • Recent Developments in Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh
    Sonali Huria    ·   10 Jun, 2010    ·    #3148    ·    Commentary    
    Over a hundred members, including leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) were arrested in Dhaka on 1 June, after they defied a ban imposed b...
  • Recent Developments in Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan
    Arshi Saleem Hashmi    ·   08 Jun, 2010    ·    #3147    ·    Commentary    
    From a student of Sociology to Islamic Studies, a comrade of National Student Federation (NSF) a progressive left wing group to Jamiat-e-Tulaba activist (JeI student group), Syed Munnawar Hasan is the new Amir of Jamat-e-Islami (JeI). Considered...
  • Obama’s National Security Strategy: an Assessment
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   08 Jun, 2010    ·    #3146    ·    Commentary    
    The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Department Reorganization Act of 1986, under section 603, mandates the US government to come out with a ‘National Security Strategy (NSS)’. NSS seeks to purport the US perspective on its immediate and lo...
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