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  • Coping With the Enemy (Pakistan Media Survey: February 2003)
    D Suba Chandran    ·   13 Apr, 2003    ·    #1006    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-parent: "" } P.MsoBodyText { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; TEXT-ALIGN: justify } In the last few months, there is a shift in Pa...
  • Sri Lankan Peace Talks – VIII: Sixth Round: It’s Alive and On
    N Manoharan    ·   13 Apr, 2003    ·    #1005    ·    Commentary    
    Venue Hakone (80 km west of Tokyo), Japan. Date 18-21 March 2003. Negotiating Teams Government of Sri Lanka: Headed by Prof G. L. Peris (Minister for Constitutional Affairs and Peace). Other members: Milinda Moragoda (Ec...
  • War on Iraq and American Global Interests
       ·   13 Apr, 2003    ·    #1004    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: "" } P.MsoBodyText { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; TEXT-ALIGN: justify } SPAN....
  • Kashmir & Palestine: The Fallacy of Analogy
       ·   13 Apr, 2003    ·    #1003    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: "" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman"; mso-style-parent: "" } The recently concluded...
  • Election Verdicts in Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura: Mandates for Peace?
    Paolienlal Haokip    ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #1002    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-style-parent: "" } That North East India needs peace is obvious. Equally apparent is the fact that insurgency stands in the way of realizing peace and development i...
  • Tigresses of Lanka: From Girls to Guerillas
    N Manoharan    ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #1001    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial"; mso-style-parent: "" } Given the patriarchal structure of Tamil society, one wonders what factors make young Sri Lankan Tamil women to enroll themselves into the LTTE...
  • Iraq: Bush versus Saddam
    PR Chari    ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #1000    ·    Commentary    
    There was inevitability about this war. The assembled 300,000-strong force could not have come back home without testing their new weapons, tactics and operational philosophy. It was therefore necessary for the United States to cast the issues i...
  • Japans’ Role in Sri Lanka’s Peace Process: India on the Back Foot?
       ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #999    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial"; mso-style-parent: "" } As the world’s attention remains focused on West Asia, a significant development is taking ...
  • International Security and War in Iraq
       ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #998    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker Gareth Evans President, International Crisis Group   Chair Eric Gonsalves ...
  • Assam: Retreat to Violence?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   21 Mar, 2003    ·    #997    ·    Commentary    
    P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial"; mso-style-parent: "" } A new wave of violence has engulfed Assam. Mortar attacks have occurred on the Legislative assembly complex in Dispur, on two locations in the ...
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