COMMENTARIES
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Pakistan: The Latest Military Reshuffle
Dr. Subhash Kapila · 25 Sep, 2000 · #416 · Commentary
Pakistan
's latest military reshuffle has been made much of in some Indian media reports. These reports basically focus on the moving out of Lt. Gen. Aziz Khan from the appointment of Chief of General Staff at Pak Army's General Hea...
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Sri Lankan General Elections: Issues and Problems
N Manoharan · 02 Sep, 2000 · #415 · Commentary
As the focus shift from the battle field to ballot papers attention in
Sri Lanka
would be on the issues and problems that will dominate the October Parliamentary elections.
Issues
...
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A Face Saver or a Brave Face: Options Before India
Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao · 02 Sep, 2000 · #414 · Commentary
Are
India and
Pakistan on collusion course once again? The abrupt collapse of the negotiations with the Hizb-Mujahideen and the renewed pledge of the
Pakistan President of continuing support to the militancy (read-cross-border te...
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Building a Case for US Supremacy
Sonika Gupta · 31 Aug, 2000 · #413 · Commentary
In the current indignation regarding George Fernandes’ “endorsement “ of Humphrey Hawksley’s Dragonfire, more significant aspects of the book have been ignored. Hawksley’s earlier book Dragonstrike, ...
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Indo-Nepal Relations: Nepal's Perceptions and Problems
· 30 Aug, 2000 · #412 · Commentary
The Nepalese Prime Minister, Mr. Girija Prasad Koirala’s visit was the first one by a Nepali Prime Minister in the last four years. This was not a sudden development. Both
India
and
Nepal
wanted to repair their relation...
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Understanding Pakistan
· 30 Aug, 2000 · #411 · Commentary
Speakers
Shaukat Qadir, Director, IPRI,
Islamabad
&
Riffat Hussain,
Quaid-e-Azam
University
,
Islamabad
On 25th August ...
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UN Security Council: A Permanent Seat for India
Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.) · 30 Aug, 2000 · #410 · Commentary
Tne of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s missions during his forthcoming visit to the
US
in September, 2000 may be lobbying
India
’s case for a permanent seat in an expanded UN Security Council. Reconstitution of the...
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Future of Indo-US Relations
· 21 Aug, 2000 · #409 · Commentary
Speaker: Alok Prasad,
Joint Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs
Initiating this Friday Group discussion the speaker stated that, undoubtedly a qualitative...
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Illegal Migration from Bangladesh
Brig. SP Sinha · 21 Aug, 2000 · #408 · Commentary
The danger to national security by illegal migration from
Bangladesh
has come into focus after the recent exercise conducted by the Delhi Police to identify and deport Bangladeshis living illegally in the capital for years. It is estimated...
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Monitoring Pakistan
· 20 Aug, 2000 · #407 · Commentary
Some years ago a former defence official went to
Pakistan
. At
Islamabad
he was taken to the Regional Centre for Strategic in
Islamabad
by his Pakistani hosts. Here he was shown around the place and saw rows of newspaper cli...
