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  • Kashmir: The Making of a Dialogue
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   04 Feb, 2004    ·    #1287    ·    Commentary    
    The Kashmir Hurriyat leaders’ talks with Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani represent a new initiative to break the ice with the Hurriyat representing the separatist sentiments in the Kashmir Valley. This is an exercise in engagement that ...
  • Northeast India’s financial crisis (Regional Media Survey, 1-15 January 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   03 Feb, 2004    ·    #1286    ·    Commentary    
    Financial crisis in Manipur Manipur continues to face a serious financial crisis, which has not only led to an economic stagnation in the State, but has also forced the State to adopt stringent measures to the extent of closing down several...
  • Government Yields to Anti-Ahmadiya Alliance in Bangladesh
    Anand Kumar    ·   20 Jan, 2004    ·    #1285    ·    Commentary    
    The Islamist extremists of Bangladesh have found a new target to attack. They are a sect of Islam known as Ahmadiyas. The radicals are unwilling to accept them as Muslims and had issued a series of ultimatums to government to declare Ahmadiyas a...
  • Agra to Islamabad: A Chronology
    B Rajeshwari    ·   19 Jan, 2004    ·    #1284    ·    Commentary    
    14 July 2001: Musharraf arrived at New Delhi for the Agra summit. He was accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan (The Hindu, 15 July 2001) Musharraf also held discussions with the leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference (APH...
  • Case for an IDP Database for India’s Northeast
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Jan, 2004    ·    #1283    ·    Commentary    
    Estimates regarding internally displaced persons (IDP) in the northeast due to prolonged insurgency remain scarce. Even though literature on the dynamics and impact of conflict has been substantial, objective research in terms of assessing induc...
  • Arms Buildup in Nepal (Nepal Media Survey December 1-31 2003)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   17 Jan, 2004    ·    #1282    ·    Commentary    
    Arms Race and Conflict The Nepali Times (19-25 December) in its headline “Present Arms” said “the army and the Maoists are engaged in a lethal arms race” and revealed the changing face of Royal Nepal Army (RNA) &ldqu...
  • Kashmir and Jihad (Pakistan Media Analysis 1-7 January 2004)
    D Suba Chandran    ·   16 Jan, 2004    ·    #1281    ·    Commentary    
    An analysis of the articles in the last couple of years would reveal the changing perceptions of Pakistani writers on Kashmir. To a large extent there is a realization, which has been amply expressed in the national English media, that Pakistan&...
  • The Price of Malgovernance
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1280    ·    Commentary    
    James Michael Lyndoh is not known to mince words. With a lifetime of association with politicians and keen insight obtained as CEC he pronounced that Indian democracy was in poor health. He was doubtless informed by the ‘sting operations&r...
  • SAARC Summit: Pakistani Perceptions
    Saira Yamin    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1279    ·    Commentary    
    It has not been long since Pakistan and India proffered the mutual olive branch by signing Lahore declaration and getting together at Agra. Lahore and Agra came to naught.  Come 2004 and India and Pakistan started all over again. The settin...
  • Looking for Solutions in Kashmir: Pakistan’s Perceptions
    D Suba Chandran    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1278    ·    Commentary    
    Integration with India: Impossibility What are the possible solutions in Pakistani perceptions to the Kashmiri conflict? First, there is a unanimous approval in Pakistan that India will not be able to integrate Kashmiris into the Indian sta...
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