COMMENTARIES
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India-US Relations: Promoting Synergy
· 06 Mar, 2003 · #984 · Commentary
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Bhutan?s Dilemma of Democracy
Anand Kumar · 07 Mar, 2003 · #983 · Commentary
A significant progress was made by Bhutan towards democracy when its Constitution Drafting Committee submitted the first draft of the constitution; the constitutional process was started by the Royalty of Bhutan to give more powers to the Bhutan...
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Preparing for ‘Limited Nuclear War’
Firdaus Ahmed · 07 Mar, 2003 · #982 · Commentary
Competitive rhetoric that currently substitutes for Indo-Pak dialogue heralded the turn of the year. In the dying moments of the previous year, President Musharraf let on that he had contemplated “unconventional” war had India made g...
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Space Terrorism: Is it a Possibility?
Ajay Lele · 07 Mar, 2003 · #981 · Commentary
Post-9/11, the US administration has become paranoid with terrorism. The Columbia space shuttle disaster is a case in point. Since, neither the hundreds of nuclear weapons nor the missile defence shield are capable of saving the US from potentia...
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Nuclear stand-off: the US quagmire in Far East
Niraj Kumar · 06 Mar, 2003 · #980 · Commentary
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The North Korean intention to “unfreeze” a sealed plutonium reactor at Yongbyon sparked off an international crisis involving US, R...
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International Law and the current US-Iraq Crisis
Vivek Shankar Mathur · 06 Mar, 2003 · #979 · Commentary
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We are slowly inching towards another p...
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The Two Victims of Iraq Crisis
Atul Bharadwaj · 06 Mar, 2003 · #978 · Commentary
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The US has both the military might and the will to achieve its objectives, yet it is unable to force the outcome in Iraq. The international and...
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MDF: A Whirlwind in Formation
Nihar Nayak · 04 Mar, 2003 · #977 · Commentary
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The hitherto unknown Tamil Nadu based Islamist extremist outfit, (MDF), has hogged the limelight with 16 arrests of its cadres in 2002. The mos...
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Managing Bangladeshi Migrants: Crisis Resolved, Problem Remains
Prafulla Ketkar · 04 Mar, 2003 · #976 · Commentary
A weeklong crisis about the 213 illegal Bangladeshi migrants has finally been resolved for the time being. Illegal migration from Bangladesh is not a new security threat; in fact, it is continuously on the rise. Though the tension dissipated aft...
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Who Steers Al Qaeda’s Fleet?
Vijay Sakhuja · 04 Mar, 2003 · #975 · Commentary
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US intelligence has linked fifteen merchant vessels to al Qaeda that are being used to ferry operatives, weapons, money and supplies over the h...
