COMMENTARIES
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Issues in Devolution of Power in Sri Lanka
· 11 Oct, 2001 · #606 · Commentary
Within
Sri Lanka
there has been a debate on devolution, both inside and outside the parliament. The Government has introduced a new Bill which, because of inherent problems, would gain less support from the Tamil community.
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War on Terrorism: Coalition Sans Commitment
Maj. Gen. Yashwant Deva (Retd) · 10 Oct, 2001 · #605 · Commentary
The grand alliance that the US has rigged up to shadow box terrorism is a collage of disparate interests with a marked absence of commitment to the cause. It smacks more of crass opportunism rather than a willing cooperation to take on the evil ...
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New Regime in Bangladesh: Misplaced Notion of Concern in the Northeast
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 10 Oct, 2001 · #604 · Commentary
Results in the recently concluded elections in
Bangladesh
have been widely interpreted to be the beginning of fresh trouble in the Indian northeast. The victory of the alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)...
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Pakistan’s Afghanistan Policies in Tatters
Dr. Subhash Kapila · 10 Oct, 2001 · #603 · Commentary
Pakistan
’s policies towards
Afghanistan
have been shaped by its own strategic aims arising from its security perceptions and the demands of the Pakhtun people within
Pakistan
for independence.
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International Terrorism: The Pakistan Connection
Dr. Subhash Kapila · 10 Oct, 2001 · #602 · Commentary
International terrorism in its most diabolical manifestation found expression on 11September 2001 when Islamic Jehadis wreaked vengeance and terror in New York and Washington. Their vicious attacks were aimed at two symbolic targets of the might...
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Banning SIMI: A ‘right’ beginning, but…
D Suba Chandran · 09 Oct, 2001 · #601 · Commentary
The Central Government finally decided to ban the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, after considering the issue for a long time. The ban was justified on at least four accounts –...
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Terror in America: US Military Options
PR Chari · 09 Oct, 2002 · #600 · Commentary
The
United States
will never be the same after Black Tuesday; its sense of invulnerability, sheltering between the
Atlantic
and
Pacific
Oceans
, has disappeared after the World Trade Centre towers in
New York...
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Born to Die: The Black Tigers of the LTTE
D Suba Chandran · 07 Oct, 2001 · #599 · Commentary
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is one of the few groups in the world alongwith the Hizballah, the Hamas and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of
Turkey to have an elite suicide squad. A comparative analysis of the Black Tigers w...
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Kashmir: The Way Ahead – V
· 07 Oct, 2001 · #598 · Commentary
Where does
Kashmir
stand today, in the aftermath of the
Agra
Summit
, with
Pakistan
making it very clear that without any progress on
Kashmir
, there can be no progress elsewhere?
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Primacy of Air Power in Conduct of Warfare
· 07 Oct, 2001 · #597 · Commentary
The role of air power will be crucial in the coming weeks if the
US and its allies start pounding Taliban targets and Osama bin Laden’s hideouts in
Afghanistan by hitting them with the latest cave buster bombs. To achieve victory...
