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  • Policy Options on Pakistan: What India Should Not Do
    Rekha Chakravarthi    ·   20 Jan, 2009    ·    #2784    ·    Commentary    
    Operation Parakram, India’s muscle flexing in the aftermath of terrorist attack on the Indian Parliament in December 2001 failed to coerce Pakistan in putting an end to anti-India terrorism emanating from Pakistan. Following the 26/11 Mumb...
  • Policy Options on Pakistan: What India Should Do
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   19 Jan, 2009    ·    #2783    ·    Commentary    
    The terrorist attacks in Mumbai and the ample evidence indicating the involvement of Pakistan-based militant outfits poses a difficult foreign policy challenge before India. While the demands of globalization coupled with the security interests ...
  • Implications of Indian Foreign Secretary's Visit to Sri Lanka
    Mayank S Bubna    ·   19 Jan, 2009    ·    #2782    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lankan government has never before been in a more undeniably assertive position with regards to the ongoing conflict in the island nation. Following the collapse of the LTTE's administrative capital, Kilinocchi, the Sri Lankan Army h...
  • The NC-Congress Coalition in J&K: Reasons to be Cautious
    Tahir Ashraf Siddiqui    ·   18 Jan, 2009    ·    #2781    ·    Commentary    
    The political stage in the state Jammu and Kashmir has reached a very crucial juncture. A new government has been installed after the successful completion of elections and as expected, the electorate did not give a clear mandate to one party to...
  • Mohammad Ahsan Dar's Arrest: End of the Road for Hizbul?
    Amin Masoodi    ·   18 Jan, 2009    ·    #2780    ·    Commentary    
    Already fragile and struggling to show its presence in Kashmir Valley, the indigenous militant outfit, Hizbul Mujahidin (HM) has suffered a major setback with the arrest of militant commander, Mohammad Ahsan Dar. Police arrested Dar, also the ch...
  • J&K Elections: Analysis & Policy Implications
    Samarjit Ghosh    ·   18 Jan, 2009    ·    #2779    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Seminar held on 6 January 2008 Chair: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, Director, IPCS Speakers: Dr. D Suba Chandran, Deputy Director, IPCS Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, School of International Studies, JNU Suba Chandran ...
  • Terrorism and Rising Security Concerns in West Bengal
    Maitreya Buddha Samantaray    ·   15 Jan, 2009    ·    #2778    ·    Commentary    
    In response to a request from the state government, the centre has agreed to deploy a National Security Guard (NSG) detachment in Kolkata for contingencies. Additionally, the state government is planning to set up an institute to train its offic...
  • Change Has Come to J&K
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   13 Jan, 2009    ·    #2777    ·    Commentary    
    The successful completion of the 7-phase Assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) shows that change has come to the state echoing what Barack Obama said about his victory in the US presidential election. This victory of democracy augu...
  • LTTE on the Run
    RR Vinod    ·   11 Jan, 2009    ·    #2776    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lankan Army has captured Kilinochchi, the Tigers' capital. There are reports that the Elephant Pass has also fallen and that the fall of Mullaitivu is only a matter of time. LTTE supreme, Prabhakaran, is on the run. However, this is ...
  • Should India Join NATO to Combat Terrorism?
    Sanjay Kumar    ·   08 Jan, 2009    ·    #2775    ·    Commentary    
    Giving India's current diplomacy against Pakistan a new boost, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh speaking at a conference of chief ministers in New Delhi on 6 January 2008 commented, "Given the sophistication and military precision of M...
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