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  • Popular Perception of the Kashmir Conflict: Srinagar Round
    Amin Masoodi    ·   26 May, 2003    ·    #1040    ·    Commentary    
    The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), New Delhi, conducted a survey on "Popular Perception of Kashmiri conflict” in Srinagar during 15 April to May 2003. The survey was based on informal conversations with 92 people from...
  • Casablanca: Al Qaeda’s Maritime Node
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   21 May, 2003    ·    #1039    ·    Commentary    
    From Morocco to Pakistan, a string of incidents (attack in the Saudi capital Riyadh that killed 34 people and in Karachi on Shell oil company gas stations) demonstrated that Western targets remain vulnerable to terrorist attacks. These incidents...
  • SARS Epidemic in China
    Sonika Gupta    ·   20 May, 2003    ·    #1038    ·    Commentary    
    The SARS epidemic in China is testing the Chinese leadership on more than one front. Apart from its economic implications, which are the major concern of the leadership, the Chinese government has to contend with its impact on Chinese polity and...
  • US Strategic and Economic Interests in India and Pakistan
       ·   19 May, 2003    ·    #1037    ·    Commentary    
    The recent events in Iraq underscore the power and dominance that the United States of America enjoys in today’s unipolar world. Given that the Kashmir issue threatens to precipitate the world’s first nuclear war, India and Pakistan ...
  • The Indo-Pak Riddle: Neither forward nor backward nor stationary
    D Suba Chandran    ·   18 May, 2003    ·    #1036    ·    Commentary    
    India’s decision to engage Pakistan politically was due to four reasons. First, its border confrontation in 2002 yielded no tangible gains, politically or militarily; neither has the number of militant attacks nor their intensity reduced. ...
  • Anatomy of an Anarchic Confrontation
    D Suba Chandran    ·   14 May, 2003    ·    #1035    ·    Commentary    
    Why did India and Pakistan agree for summit level talks in February 1999 immediately after the nuclear tests in 1998? Why did Pakistan decide to bury the Lahore summit on the Kargil heights in summer 1999? Why did India decide to invite General ...
  • From Nadimarg to Baghdad (Survey of Urdu Media in Kashmir Valley: March-April 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   13 May, 2003    ·    #1034    ·    Commentary    
    Besides the general focus on the healing touch policy of the new government, the Urdu press also focused on two important events, one took place inside the Valley and the other outside it – the...
  • Vajpayee's Peace Initiative: Will it Work?
       ·   12 May, 2003    ·    #1033    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: PR Chari Director, IPCS In his opening remarks, the Chair put forth four points to be focused upon in...
  • Destruction of Weapons of Mass Destruction…
    Ajay Lele    ·   12 May, 2003    ·    #1032    ·    Commentary    
    The United States was criticized by many when it invaded Iraq. It needs to be appreciated that the Americans went to war after meticulous military planning. On the military front, their preparation was almost foolproof taking care of probable co...
  • Politics and Insurgency: Not So Strange Bed-Fellows
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   08 May, 2003    ·    #1031    ·    Commentary    
    The arrest of Arunachal Pradesh Minister for Rural Works Department Tingpong Wangham and a former minister TL Rajkumar on 1 May 2003 under the Arunachal Pradesh Control of Organized Crime Act, 2002 (APCOCA) for their alleged nexus with insurgent...
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