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  • F-22: The Next Generation Fighter
    Ajay Lele    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1557    ·    Commentary    
    The American Air Force is scheduled to fly one of the costliest aircraft in the history of airpower. The F/A-22 (or F-22) fighter, priced at $258 million, and codenamed 'Raptor', is being inducted into the US Air Force (USAF). Lockheed M...
  • What Would be Acceptable in Jammu and Kashmir?: A Kashmiri Perspective
    Arjimand Hussain Talib    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1556    ·    Commentary    
    The latest statement of the Pakistani President General Parvez Musharraf, proposing a way for solving the Kashmir problem, has predictably sparked public and private debates in Kashmir about his unilateral offer. There is both disquiet and amuse...
  • NDFB: Talking For a Truce, Then What?
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1555    ·    Commentary    
    It's a breakthrough of sorts in so far as the Assam Government is concerned – the outlawed National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) responding positively to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi&#...
  • Air Power No Solution to Iraqi Insurgency
    Eric Koo Peng Kuan    ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1554    ·    Commentary    
    In October 2004, in an effort to weed out the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, which killed 11 and wounded 17, simultaneously also smashed a house where a joyous wedding occasion had just been held. It i...
  • Nepal - India Relations: Current Issues
       ·   13 Nov, 2004    ·    #1553    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Amb. Karna Dhoj AdhikariChair: Amb. K V Rajan Ambassador's Opening Remarks Nepal-India relations are 'unique' for reasons ranging from geographical contiguity to close cultural ties, and extensive instituti...
  • Revisiting the tragedy of 1984
    PR Chari    ·   05 Nov, 2004    ·    #1552    ·    Commentary    
    No, this isn't about George Orwell's Brave New World and critique of totalitarianism. Orwell was concerned then with the menace of fascism and communism in Europe. History has revealed they were false gods. But State control over the...
  • Options in Nepal
    Anju Grover    ·   05 Nov, 2004    ·    #1551    ·    Commentary    
    Even as April 2005, the deadline set to hold elections draws closer, Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has begun making serious efforts to resume peace talks with the Maoists as well as strengthen the Royal Nepal Army. Will his twin str...
  • Bush's Second Term and Future Directions of Indo-US Relations
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   05 Nov, 2004    ·    #1550    ·    Commentary    
    The much anticipated 2004 presidential election in the United States finally came to an end when on 2 November the American voters exercised their franchise. In a dramatic finish, the incumbent president, George W Bush defeated Senator John Kerr...
  • Post-Afghan Elections: The Long Road Ahead
    Shanthie Mariet D'Souza    ·   03 Nov, 2004    ·    #1549    ·    Commentary    
    Afghanistan's rendezvous with democracy on 9 October, amidst vows by the remnants of the Taliban to disrupt the Presidential elections, was relatively peaceful. There was a general sense of foreboding among Americans that on the polling day,...
  • Pakistan's Nuclear Safety Bill
    Garima Singh    ·   29 Oct, 2004    ·    #1548    ·    Commentary    
    The National Assembly in Pakistan passed a new legislation in September calling for the tightening of the export of nuclear and biological weapons technology and missile delivery systems. The legislation titled "Export Control on Goods, Tec...
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