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  • Architects of Violence: Illegal Immigrants and Communalization in Assam
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   16 Jun, 2005    ·    #1768    ·    Commentary    
    Election time in democracies throws light on many political puzzles. In Assam, however, electoral logic of numbers has cast the society in communal architecture. Politics outside of this frame is becoming increasingly impossible. In the break up...
  • Skardu: The Key To Tap Pakistan's Waters?
    Seema Sridhar    ·   16 Jun, 2005    ·    #1767    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan's recent hysteria over India violating the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and cutting off its lifeline must be examined and understood within the context of its internal struggle for water resources. Pakistan has an acute need to harness...
  • The Insignificant Other
       ·   16 Jun, 2005    ·    #1766    ·    Commentary    
    We hang our head in shame and embarrassed silence, and hope for a miracle that can liberate enlightened moderation from the curse of religious bigots. What are we witnessing in this pious land? The democratic course Pakistan had set sails to is ...
  • The NPT Review Conference Fails: Non-Proliferation Regime in Disarray
    Harsh V Pant    ·   15 Jun, 2005    ·    #1765    ·    Commentary    
    They came, they talked, and they went - that's how one can essentially sum up the proceedings of the month-long seventh quinquennial review conference of the 35-year old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) that was held last month in New ...
  • Beijing Courts Taiwanese Opposition
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   14 Jun, 2005    ·    #1764    ·    Commentary    
    Taiwanese opposition leaders, Lien Chan of the Guomindang (KMT) and James Soong of the People First Party (PFP), were hosted by China with great fanfare between April to mid-May. China has thus enhanced its encroachment in Taiwanese domestic pol...
  • Gohar Serves a Googly
    Lt. Gen. Vijay Oberoi (Retd.)    ·   14 Jun, 2005    ·    #1763    ·    Commentary    
    Gohar Ayub Khan, son of late Field Marshal Ayub Khan, has set the proverbial cat among the pigeons with his revelations relating to the 1965 Indo-Pak conflict ahead of the publication of his autobiography. Essentially, the revelations are ...
  • Baglihar and Kishanganga: Problems of Trust
    Alok Bansal    ·   13 Jun, 2005    ·    #1762    ·    Commentary    
    During his last visit to New Delhi, the renowned Pakistani journalist and Editor of The Friday Times, Najam Sethi, remarked that for most Pakistanis water is a more serious issue today than the resolution of Kashmir. He also remarked that the Ba...
  • Siachen - The Ninth Round: The Freeze Continues
    Lt. Gen. Vijay Oberoi (Retd.)    ·   08 Jun, 2005    ·    #1761    ·    Commentary    
    The Ninth Round of negotiations on Siachen ended on 27 May 2005, again on an inconclusive note. It is apparent that the two sides are sticking to their positions. The resolution of this dispute is not all that difficult, provided Pakistan accept...
  • UPA's Foreign Policy: A Critique
    Manish Dabhade    ·   07 Jun, 2005    ·    #1760    ·    Commentary    
    As the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) completed a year in office, several commentators were quick to appreciate its foreign policy since it assumed office last May. India's relations with the US, China and Pakistan were cited as evidence ...
  • WHO Clears Smallpox Research
    Ajay Lele    ·   07 Jun, 2005    ·    #1759    ·    Commentary    
    Finally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed to carrying out experiments for genetically engineering the smallpox virus at the recently concluded World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting. The issue was discussed by the 192 member states on...
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