COMMENTARIES
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Hydropower potential: Some concerns and issues
Col. PK Gautam · 11 Nov, 2001 · #630 · Commentary
No study of water in the Indian and South Asian context can ignore its hydroelectric potential. One of its vital uses is the generation of electricity. The region-wise potential along with its exploitation is given at Table1. The hydropower ...
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Profile of Indian Paramilitary Forces – I Central Reserve Police Force
Mallika Joseph · 31 Oct, 2001 · #629 · Commentary
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was originally raised as the “Crown Representative’s Police” on 27 July 1939 in Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh). The main function of the force was to preserve law and order in the princely states...
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Pakistan Post-September 11, 2001: A Divided Nation
Subhash Kapila · 31 Oct, 2001 · #628 · Commentary
September 11, 2001 was a day of infamy when the world watched with horror the vivid images of the citadels of the
United States
being subjected to terrorist attacks. The global focus turned towards the locii of Islamic Jehadi terrorism, na...
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Afghanistan: After Taliban What?
D Suba Chandran · 31 Oct, 2001 · #627 · Commentary
It is believed that peace will be established once the Taliban regime is overthrown in
Afghanistan
. Formation of a broad-based national government, either under King Zahir Shah or under the UN, the West feels, would be the first step in th...
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Japan: Assertive Step in Defence Policy
Dr. Subhash Kapila · 31 Oct, 2001 · #626 · Commentary
Japan
continues to be governed by the ?Peace Constitution? imposed by the
United States
in the aftermath of World War II. Article 9 of this Constitution stipulated
Japan
?s renunciation of war and the threat of using force t...
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Terrorism - A Messiah Needed in the Arab World
Lt. Gen. AM Vohra · 31 Oct, 2001 · #625 · Commentary
The 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were heinous, fiendish and abhorrent. The reaction to punish the perpetrators who threaten to repeat their performance is natural. The demand that Osama bin Lade...
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Sri Lanka Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections and the Politics of LTTE
K Sarveswaran · 31 Oct, 2001 · #624 · Commentary
Prabakaran, the supreme commander of the LTTE, has expressed readiness to ‘talk with the United National Party (UNP) without a facilitator, if it comes to power’.
Reading
between the lines would reveal the political calculation...
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Chronicling the Afghanistan Tragedy – VIII The Great Game Returns: American Interests in Afghanistan
D Suba Chandran · 23 Oct, 2001 · #623 · Commentary
The
United States
until the second half of the 1970s did not consider
Afghanistan
of any significance to its security interests. It provided little economic aid and rejected
Afghanistan
’s request for military assistan...
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Chronicling the Afghanistan Tragedy – VII Sending troops to Afghanistan: The Soviet Dilemma
D Suba Chandran · 23 Oct, 2001 · #622 · Commentary
Soviet policy towards
Afghanistan
in the post World War period followed the old Tsarist principles. Its leaders were initially interested in settling the border dispute with
Afghanistan
. Lenin wrote to King Amanullah Khan in ...
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Chronicling the Afghanistan Tragedy – VI The Saur Revolution gone Sour
D Suba Chandran · 23 Oct, 2001 · #621 · Commentary
The Saur revolution, as was called by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), was really a coup against Daud Khan, in which he was killed. Though the precise Soviet role in the Saur revolution is debatable, the Soviet Union di...
