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  • Mission Impossible: Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in Crisis
    N Manoharan    ·   24 Aug, 2006    ·    #2099    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), established to monitor the ceasefire agreement (CFA) signed on 22 February 2002, is in a deep crisis. The CFA is being violated in every way by the two signatories - the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL)...
  • India at Crossroads: Next Steps in the Nuclear Deal
    Alex Stolar    ·   23 Aug, 2006    ·    #2098    ·    Commentary    
    India is at a crossroads. The world's largest democracy faces critical decisions about its future role in the world. Is India ready to play in the big leagues of international politics? Is India willing to extricate itself from nuclear l...
  • Using
    Ajay Lele    ·   21 Aug, 2006    ·    #2097    ·    Commentary    
    Terrorist organizations are fast becoming innovative and technology savvy. The recent plan foiled by British agencies was to blow up ten commercial airliners flying from Britain to the United States by using liquid explosives. Interestingl...
  • Afghanistan: A Greater Role for India?
    Rahul Bhonsle    ·   20 Aug, 2006    ·    #2096    ·    Commentary    
    Global preoccupation with Lebanon, Iraq, North Korea, Sudan and Somalia seems to take the attention away from Afghanistan. Under Taliban's influence, anarchy is strengthening in the Southern region. Increasing resentment to Western presence ...
  • Disarming Afghan Militias: Problems and Prospects
    Beryl Anand    ·   15 Aug, 2006    ·    #2095    ·    Commentary    
    An enduring legacy of Afghanistan's quarter century of conflict, has been the emergence of power structures based on the personal authority of commanders, backed by illegal armed groups. These structures continue to pose a principal challeng...
  • The Karakorum Highway: Opportunities and Threats
       ·   14 Aug, 2006    ·    #2094    ·    Commentary    
    With its 1300 kilometers stretching over some of the highest passes in the world, the Karakorum Highway (KKH) concretizes an enduring Sino-Pakistani alliance. It also installs China as a major player in South Asia, and provides Pakistan an '...
  • LTTE's Confession and its Implications
    RR Vinod    ·   14 Aug, 2006    ·    #2093    ·    Commentary    
    Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's ideologue, in an interview to the NDTV in London recently, regretted the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi as a historical, monumental tragedy. 'What has happened is, since we rejected the Sri Lankan accord ther...
  • Assam: Invigorating the Peace Process
    Aparajita Mazumda    ·   13 Aug, 2006    ·    #2092    ·    Commentary    
    Would the release of ULFA cadres end the stalemate on the dialogue process between the government and ULFA interlocutors? Can ULFA's participation in direct talks be assured after their release? Is the ULFA using the peace process as a s...
  • Destination India: US Defence Companies
       ·   14 Aug, 2006    ·    #2091    ·    Commentary    
    The incremental progress of the Indo-U.S. agreement on nuclear cooperation is generating increasing excitement within the US defence industry as manufacturers across the board are racing to secure contracts with the Indian armed forces. Accordin...
  • Afghanistan: Failure of Security Sector Reforms and its Implications
    Samrat Sinha    ·   12 Aug, 2006    ·    #2090    ·    Commentary    
    This article attempts to address a critical weakness of the Bonn Accords. While the Accords were successful in setting up a parliamentary system of government, Afghanistan, it has significantly failed to achieve the treaty's ultimate goal of...
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