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  • Addressing the 'Central' Issue
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   16 Sep, 2004    ·    #1497    ·    Commentary    
    Interestingly both India and Pakistan claimed a bloodless victory at the end of Operation Parakram by convincing themselves that the other's bluff had been called. With that satisfaction, both states agreed at the Musharraf-Vajpayee meeting,...
  • ULFA: Rocked By a Killer Blast?
    Rani Pathak    ·   16 Sep, 2004    ·    #1496    ·    Commentary    
    Majority of Assam's 26 million people were shocked at the Independence Day blast in Dhemaji that killed 13 people, including six schoolchildren. The ULFA, accused of carrying out the explosion, responded to the public outcry by carrying out ...
  • A Kashmiri Voice in Bilateral Talks (Urdu Media Survey 1-31 August 2004)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   16 Sep, 2004    ·    #1495    ·    Commentary    
    Unification amongst Hurriyat leaders was an uphill task for the people putting in efforts to forge unity in an otherwise faction-ridden organization, commented daily Aftab (18 August 2004. "Efforts are being made by a section of people to f...
  • Proliferation Security Initiative: Imperatives and Relevance
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   15 Sep, 2004    ·    #1494    ·    Commentary    
    What is Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)? It is a broad international partnership of countries which, using their own laws and resources, will coordinate their actions to halt shipments of dangerous technologies to and from states an...
  • Reducing Nuclear Danger
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   09 Sep, 2004    ·    #1493    ·    Commentary    
    The May 1998 nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan increased nuclear sabre-rattling in the Indian sub-continent. The Kargil intrusions, attack on the Indian Parliament and the Indo-Pakistan border confrontation further aggravated nuclear...
  • ULFA's Mayhem in Assam (Northeast Regional Media Survey, August 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   09 Sep, 2004    ·    #1492    ·    Commentary    
    ULFA's mayhem in Assam A series of bomb explosions by ULFA left several people including school children dead. This led to a series of protest movements across the State asking ULFA to mend its ways. Commenting on the popular conde...
  • Insurgency and the Collapse of Justice
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   08 Sep, 2004    ·    #1491    ·    Commentary    
    Two contestation dramas have been enacted in Manipur amidst the mass agitation for the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). The actors are the Indian Army and the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Manipur Government in one d...
  • Cross-Straits Dispute: The Watchword is Peace
    Tshering Chonzom    ·   08 Sep, 2004    ·    #1490    ·    Commentary    
    The most immediate concern of countries in East Asia in particular and the Asia Pacific region in general, is the fear of miscalculation from either side of the Taiwan Straits, triggering a conflict. Once a conflict occurs, the spectators will b...
  • Disarming Development
       ·   08 Sep, 2004    ·    #1489    ·    Commentary    
    Since separation in 1971, Bangladesh and Pakistan have pursued different strategies for development, which in turn have had not only differing results for development but also for the security issues each nation has faced. Bangladesh has general...
  • Terrorism and International Security
       ·   08 Sep, 2004    ·    #1488    ·    Commentary    
    The lecture comprised of two broad parts: In the first part the speaker tried to situate himself in the security discourse, while in the second part he discussed terrorism as a security issue, with various aspects like definitional dilemma, ...
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