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  • India-Pakistan Imbroglio over CBMs
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   06 Nov, 2003    ·    #1200    ·    Commentary    
    India-Pakistan low-intensity conflict was extended to the arena of diplomacy in October. Following Vajpayee’s Srinagar surprise in spring, came Yashwant Sinha’s 12 point bombshell on confidence building in the autumn. This should not...
  • Talks Offer: A Positive Sign
    Amin Masoodi    ·   05 Nov, 2003    ·    #1199    ·    Commentary    
    The much-awaited ‘talks offer’ by the Union government to the Hurriyat Conference, an organization claiming to be the representatives of  the Kashmiri people is being seen as a good step amongst Kashmiris and this organization i...
  • Drug Lords or Law-makers: Former Manipur Minister in the Drug Net
    Paolienlal Haokip    ·   03 Nov, 2003    ·    #1198    ·    Commentary    
    The recent arrest, on 22 October 2003, of a former Minister of the Manipur Assembly, along with two of his associates, in possession of a kilogram of heroin by sleuths of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in Guwahati is significant in more ways...
  • Indo-Sri Lanka Trade Ties
       ·   03 Nov, 2003    ·    #1197    ·    Commentary    
    On 29th December 1998, India and Sri Lanka signed a landmark agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area to promote economic cooperation which became operational in March 2000. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was expected to spur Indo-Sri ...
  • India and Japan: Emerging Engagement
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   03 Nov, 2003    ·    #1196    ·    Commentary    
    Both Japan and India are two of the oldest civilizations of the world with a shared past dating back to the time of Buddha. After India achieved independence, its first Prime Minister Nehru looked upon Japan as a friendly nation in Asia that cou...
  • China and Taiwan Spar in Cyberspace
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   01 Nov, 2003    ·    #1195    ·    Commentary    
    In September this year, Taiwan repelled a mainland attack of Trojan Horse viruses on its government computer systems. Chinese hackers had introduced more than a score different Trojan Horse programs, into the networks of ten private high-tech co...
  • Vajpayee and Musharraf at the UN (Urdu Media Survey 1- 15 October 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   31 Oct, 2003    ·    #1194    ·    Commentary    
    Hurriyat Crisis In its lead news the bilingual Alsafa (04 October 2003) reported "Abbas Ansari, (Chairman, Ansari group) ready to resign", and referred to the statement of Ansari that, “it is unfair and un...
  • Fencing India's Eastern Border: Logic and Hurdles
    Bidhan S Laishram    ·   27 Oct, 2003    ·    #1193    ·    Commentary    
    The global age of time-space compression has been celebrated for bringing about a retreat of the international nation-state system. The fluidity of boundaries in conditions of globality is challenging the congruence of peoples and territories, e...
  • India’s New Peace Initiative
    PR Chari    ·   24 Oct, 2003    ·    #1192    ·    Commentary    
    Be this said of the BJP-led NDA government that its foreign policy initiatives vis-à-vis Pakistan are characterised by strategic surprise. India’s nuclear tests in May 1998 shocked the world. Thereafter India made...
  • Nuclear Proliferation: Disarmament, the Only Way Out
    Lt. Gen. AM Vohra    ·   23 Oct, 2003    ·    #1191    ·    Commentary    
                While the US is taking steps to prevent North Korea and Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, it has proposed a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to search planes, ships, tr...
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