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  • Sino-Pakistan Maritime Initiatives
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #730    ·    Commentary    
    In yet another move to consolidate their “all weather friendship”, President Pervez Musharraf and the visiting Chinese Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo laid the foundation stone of a deep-sea port at Gwadar on March 22, 2002. The first phase of...
  • What after the Deployment?
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #729    ·    Commentary    
    Three months ago when the Government of India took the decision to deploy its armed forces after much saber-rattling and many bellicose statements, one was left wondering whether it had a grand plan like the Schlieffen - Manstein plan of Germany e...
  • Army in Aid to Civil Authority
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #728    ·    Commentary    
    In Gujarat the Army was deployed in forward deployment areas when the carnage began, hence, it could not have reached the trouble spots to prevent the blood bath. Looking to the future with a view to making the Army more effective in an en...
  • China’s Defence Budget
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #727    ·    Commentary    
    The global conflict dynamics in the Asia-Pacific regional security system will largely depend on how China formulates its military and economic doctrines in the 21st century. One of the indicators of China ’s strategic calcula...
  • Human Rights Organisations in the Northeast: Credibility in Question
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #726    ·    Commentary    
    Protecting human rights in a conflict situation as in the Northeast can be a delicate affair. The activities of these Human Rights Organisations (HROs) often reveal that objectivity is the first casualty. Only a handful of voices are not part of a...
  • Environment and Biodiversity
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #725    ·    Commentary    
    Biological (bio) diversity is a gift of nature which is best appreciated at three levels, namely:-      (a) Genetic diversity: This is the genetic difference between species like varieties of a crop or livestock breed....
  • Afghan Interim Government: Its Implications for India
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #724    ·    Commentary    
    At a time when India ’s relations with Pakistan have touched rock bottom and combat formations deployed on the borders have raised tensions between the two neighbours to dangerous heights, the installation of a friendly regime...
  • Peace Process in Sri Lanka – II De-proscription Debate: Un-caging the Tigers?
    N Manoharan    ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #723    ·    Commentary    
    Undeniably the ban on the LTTE is a thorn in the flesh of the peace process between the government and the outfit to find a viable solution to the ethnic question. The LTTE was banned by the Sri Lankan government through a Presidential proclamat...
  • Indo-US Relations: Past, Present and Future
       ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #722    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Amb. Dennis Kux     In the past, Indo-US relations were overshadowed by Cold War politics. The Indo-Soviet friendship and the US-Pak alliance were the two major irritants. Though ‘aid relations’ prevaile...
  • Is Pakistan at Crossroads?
       ·   10 Apr, 2002    ·    #721    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker:  Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha Defence Analyst, Pakistan      The speaker asked the question: ‘Are we at crossroads...
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