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  • Rendezvous at Camp David: Disappointment or Euphoria?
    S Sasikumar & M Saravanan    ·   16 Jul, 2003    ·    #1078    ·    Commentary    
    The US has made a definitive statement regarding its overall approach/intentions towards Pakistan. The red carpet treatment meted out to General Musharraf, including the visit to Camp David is lost on no one. It became obvious that the renewal o...
  • Uranium Heist
    Gargi    ·   16 Jul, 2003    ·    #1077    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 May 2003, the Bangladeshi police arrested four suspected members of a militant Islamic group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen in village Puiya while smuggling uranium. The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission confirmed that the recovered football-size...
  • An Alarming Threat
    Snehasis Das    ·   16 Jul, 2003    ·    #1076    ·    Commentary    
    Harassed by the ever-growing insecurity over availability of fossil fuels, India has recently decided to establish a strategic resource of petrol and diesel for six months consumption. On the other hand, the finance ministry is getting restless ...
  • Media Reflects Assembly Proceedings (Survey of Urdu media in Kashmir Valley 16-23 June 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   15 Jul, 2003    ·    #1075    ·    Commentary    
    Indo-Pak dialogue; Freedom Struggle; Role of J&K Police; NC government; and killing of former Minister for Law, Mushtaq Lone, raised much hue and cry in the Assembly. These events shared prominent space in the Urdu dailies in the Kashmir Val...
  • Lessons of Surankote
       ·   04 Jul, 2003    ·    #1074    ·    Commentary    
    Operation Sarp Vinash at Surankote brought into light the existence of a fully functional transit camp with arms and ammunition, communication equipment and large stores of ration that could sustain 500 men for at least 15 days. Surankote,...
  • Ballistic Missile Stability in Southern Asia
       ·   04 Jul, 2003    ·    #1073    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: PR Chari Director, IPCS Sp...
  • A Difficult Waste
    Gargi    ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1072    ·    Commentary    
    India’s nuclear programme is facing its toughest challenge: how to dispose off its huge amount of radioactive wastes? There is no safe method to dispose off them permanently. Not a single count...
  • Small Arms and Lawlessness in Bangladesh
    Anand Verma    ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1071    ·    Commentary    
    The spread of small arms has become a major challenge for the maintenance of law and order in Bangladesh. The country’s association with small arms is not new; what is new is its large scale us...
  • Sri Lankan Peace Process: Tough Road Ahead
       ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1070    ·    Commentary    
    The Norwegian facilitated Sri Lankan peace process faces a critical test after the Tokyo Donors’ conference. After six round of talks, followed by LTTE's exclusion from the Washington Semin...
  • Should the Indian Military Go to Post War Iraq?
    Atul Bharadwaj    ·   04 Jul, 2003    ·    #1069    ·    Commentary    
    The US is losing one solider a day on the average in Iraq. The battle is continuing and is likely to intensify in the near future. Pentagon’s latest operation, named Desert Scorpion, is aimed to ‘De-Baathise’ Iraq. The purging ...
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