COMMENTARIES
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Plebiscite to Engagement: The New U.S Outlook Towards Kashmir
Parama Sinha Palit · 30 Dec, 2000 · #446 · Commentary
Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent,
Kashmir has been a source of friction between
India and
Pakistan . The mutual conflict over the issue spread beyond the confines of South Asia becoming one of the several points of ...
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The Indian Army - A Paper Tiger?
Brig. SS Chandel · 30 Dec, 2000 · #445 · Commentary
We are reminded that we have the fourth largest standing Army in the world, and that too a volunteer force. These million odd men by virtue of being ‘volunteers’ are supposed to be highly motivated. Behind this force are phalanxes of e...
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Aircraft Industry in India: An Apprisal
Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.) · 30 Dec, 2000 · #444 · Commentary
The disinvestment wave currently manifesting the corridors of financial and economic governance in
New Delhi
seems to have totally bypassed the holy cows of the burgeoning defence public sector units such as the Hindustan Aeronautics Limit...
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Drug trafficking and terrorist trail
Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.) · 01 Dec, 2000 · #443 · Commentary
The Paris based Geopolitical Drug Watch has labeled Pakistan as a ‘narco state’, a nation in which drug barons collaborate closely with politicians, senior bureaucrats and armed forces officers. This illegal and clandestine business pu...
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The Refugees Situation in South Asia and its Security Implications
· 01 Dec, 2000 · #442 · Commentary
Panelists
Dr. Mahendra P Lama (Associate Professor, JNU)
Ms. Sumbul Rizvi Khan ( Legal Protection Officer, UNHCR,
New Delhi )
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Missile Technology Export Control Declaration by China: Reasons for Restraint
Sonika Gupta · 01 Dec, 2000 · #441 · Commentary
China
’s pledge of imposing strict export control measures against missile proliferation has given hope to
India
that the China-Pakistan defence relationship may be weakening consequently, the strategic situation in
South ...
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China’s Track Record in Nuclear and Missile Proliferation
Arpit Rajain · 01 Dec, 2000 · #440 · Commentary
Over the last decade and a half,
China
’s missile and nuclear co-operation with
Pakistan
has caused great concern to the non-proliferation community. Viewed in this perspective the current assurance by
China
to reinfor...
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Burghers: The Forgotten Community
N Manoharan · 22 Nov, 2000 · #439 · Commentary
Burghers are a minuscule but important ethnic group in
Sri Lanka
. They are the descendents of children of Portuguese and Dutch marriages with Ceylonese. They were in fact Dutch tradesmen who came to
Ceylon
after the establishment o...
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Muslims: Third Political Force?
Zarein Ahmed · 22 Nov, 2000 · #438 · Commentary
In the multi ethnic Sri Lankan society, Muslims form the second largest minority community with a population of 7.4 % as against Sri Lankan Tamils (11.6 %) and the majority Sinhalas (74 %). From a pliant minority they have emerged as a key politic...
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US Presidential Elections: Implications for Indo-US Relations
· 22 Nov, 2000 · #437 · Commentary
Speaker: Chintamani Mahapatra
Prof Mahapatra commenced his presentation by describing the process of the US Presidential election under and the US Constitution. He said the US constitution was not democratic and was, in fact, an eliti...
