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  • Pakistan after Benazir
    D Suba Chandran    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2454    ·    Commentary    
    Benazir Bhutto, one of the most popular leaders in contemporary Pakistan and widely believed to have the best chances of winning the scheduled elections in January 2008 was assassinated on 27 December 2007. What are the implications of this assa...
  • Who Killed Benazir?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2453    ·    Commentary    
    On 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, the charismatic former Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in an attack which involved a gunshot to the neck and the gunman also blowing himself up in a suicide bombing. This attack on Bhutto w...
  • The Swat Offensive
    Devyani Srivastava    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2452    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is progressively coming under the grip of Islamic extremism. One of the more severe manifestations of this trend has been the outbreak of intense fighting in the Swat District, situated in the n...
  • The Kunming Joint Military Exercises and Sino-Indian Relations
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2451    ·    Commentary    
    India and China have often been described as two rising great powers with potential for mutual competition and rivalry, if not open conflict. Political pundits cite the unresolved border dispute, a history of war and the economic and military em...
  • 'Leaps in the Dark' for India-Pakistan Relations
    Sameer Suryakant Patil    ·   28 Dec, 2007    ·    #2450    ·    Commentary    
    One of the common refrains heard in the dynamics of the India-Pakistan relationship is the lack of trust or what is also referred to as the 'trust deficit' in bilateral dealings. An outcome of the inevitable security dilemma and the...
  • Northeast Insurgent Groups and the Bangladesh Connection
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   26 Dec, 2007    ·    #2449    ·    Commentary    
    At the recent Chief Ministers' meet on internal security held in New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh outlined the growing threat to the security and integrity of the nation posed by Naxalism and other homegrown insurgent movements, and ...
  • For a Return to Lahore
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   23 Dec, 2007    ·    #2448    ·    Commentary    
    Over the last decade there has been considerable doctrinal evolution in India culminating in the Cold Start and joint warfare doctrines. Similar activity has not been witnessed across the border. Pakistan has not spelt out its doctrine and it ha...
  • Indo-Israel Defence Cooperation: A Step in the Right Direction
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   23 Dec, 2007    ·    #2447    ·    Commentary    
    On November 26, 2007, the Defence Minister AK Antony, while replying to a question in Lok Sabha, said that there is a proposal to develop advanced medium range surface-to-air missile in collaboration with Israel. This is in continuation with Ind...
  • Dantewada Jailbreak: Strategic Accomplishment of Naxal Designs
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   20 Dec, 2007    ·    #2446    ·    Commentary    
    In yet another incident of jailbreak a total of 299 inmates, including 110 Naxal activists, fled from the Dantewada jail in Chhattisgarh on 16 December. It may also be recalled here that on 13 November 2005, about 1,000 Maoists and their support...
  • Dealing with Adivasi Resentment in Assam
    Souvik Chatterji    ·   16 Dec, 2007    ·    #2445    ·    Commentary    
    At a time when India is struggling with terrorist activities and separatist movements, the resentment showed by the Adivasis of Assam by their destructive activities has created new concerns for the home departments of the states. The blast on t...
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