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  • Peace Illusion in Assam: Need for a Cautious Approach
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   16 Dec, 2001    ·    #666    ·    Commentary    
    Peace is a necessity in Assam . The State has suffered violence over several years leading to loss of countless lives. However, one needs to be cautious about the latest offer for a peace dialogue by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULF...
  • Jihad: Its Two Facets
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #665    ·    Commentary    
    Jihad, a word rarely found in the holy Quran, has gained coinage and its importance has gained salience as an Islamic symbol of holy war against the unbelievers. The American military offensive against Afghanistan , following the carnage of...
  • India and the World Order: Implication of the Current Asymmetric Conflict
       ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #664    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker:   Prof TV Paul     Mc Gill University, Canada    Dr Paul began his presentation with a ...
  • The Impact of Afghan Developments in the Asia Pacific
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #663    ·    Commentary    
    The Asia Pacific?s political landscape has changed significantly after the Islamic Jehadi terrorist bombings in US on September 11, 2001, and the subsequent American military operations in Afghanistan .?   ? This region, ...
  • Pakistan: A Nation at the Crossroads
    Amit Jain    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #662    ·    Commentary    
    No one feels the sense of loss that Pakistan is suffering today.     There is an eerie silence on the streets of Karachi . The large and violent rallies in several parts of the country have disappeared. It is...
  • The Hidden Energy Security
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   15 Dec, 2001    ·    #661    ·    Commentary    
    Energy is a key national security concern for all nations. Primary energy has two components, i.e. generation of electricity for industry, agriculture and the domestic sector, and fuel for the transport sector, feed stock for industrial products l...
  • How FAEs Work
       ·   11 Dec, 2001    ·    #660    ·    Commentary    
    A typical fuel air explosive device consists of a container of fuel and two separate explosive charges. After the munition is dropped or fired, the first explosive charge bursts open the container at a predetermined height and disperses the fuel i...
  • N-Weapons against Afghanistan
    PR Chari    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #659    ·    Commentary    
    US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is reported [Hindustan Times, 30 October 2001] to have said, “The 5000-pound bombs are going to be able to do the job of hitting the Al-Qaeda in their underground facilities.” But when pre...
  • Indo-US Military Alliance: Our Independence Could be Bartered Away
       ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #658    ·    Commentary    
    Jawaharlal Nehru kept India out of military alliances with his sagacious and principled foreign policy. That mantra still holds good. Many Cold War allies of the United States – Egypt , Indonesia , Saudi Ara...
  • Iraq Next?
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   10 Dec, 2001    ·    #657    ·    Commentary    
    President Bush’s demand that Iraq open its research establishments to UN inspection was expected, even if a little late in being made.  The Bush administration has a visceral interest in bringing Iraq to its knees again,...
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