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  • Bangladeshi Influx: Security Implications
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   14 Jun, 2000    ·    #366    ·    Commentary    
    Governor of Assam Lt Gen  SK Sinha (Retd)  sometime back had submitted a detailed report to New Delhi warning the Centre on the enormity of the Bangladeshi infiltration into Assam . These illegal migrants posed fa...
  • Indo-Japan Defence Tie Up - Rising Prospects
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   14 Jun, 2000    ·    #365    ·    Commentary    
    It may not be purely coincidental that the Indian defence minister George Fernandes was in Japan in the first week of June to represent India in funeral ceremonies of Late Japanese Minister Keizo Obuchi. A couple of months back, he...
  • Isolating Pakistan
    PR Chari    ·   12 Jun, 2000    ·    #364    ·    Commentary    
    That India should be angered with Pakistan is undeniable. Its yeoman efforts to get Pakistan expelled from several multilateral assemblages informs that this constitutes a new thrust for Indian foreign policy. Thus Pakistan...
  • Sino-US-South Asian Relations
       ·   12 Jun, 2000    ·    #363    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Ashley Tellis Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Ashley Tellis began with separate analyses of US -South Asia and US-China relations and wove the two relationships together at the end of his presentation. US-...
  • Indian Airmen in Sierra Leone
    N. K. Pant    ·   12 Jun, 2000    ·    #362    ·    Commentary    
    Sierra Leone is the news these days. A number of UN Peace Keepers, including 25 Indian army soldiers, have been captured by the rebels. Besides, a helicopter of the Indian Air force was damaged while on a UN humanitarian mission. UN peacek...
  • Indian Military Intervention: Once Bitten Ever Shy?
    N Manoharan    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #361    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian dilemma is clear: Whether to intervene in Sri Lanka which had humiliated it? At the same time, is it prudent for India to adopt a "hands off policy"? If India must involve itself, what type of involveme...
  • Sri Lanka: Lions, Tigers and an Elephant
    N Manoharan    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #360    ·    Commentary    
    New Mahout     With the fall of Elephant Pass (EP) rapidly and surprisingly on April 22, the LTTE stands to achieve victory over the Sri Lankan army. Its fall was imminent since December 1999, when government troops started...
  • Intelligence Process and Kargil
    Bhashyam Kasturi    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #359    ·    Commentary    
    The Kargil intrusions in 1999 must be seen in the context of the Lahore bus ride and its impact on Indo-Pak relations. While information was available on possible "infiltration" as opposed to "intrusion", India missed the woo...
  • Prospects of 'Third Side' Interventions in Sri Lanka
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #358    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lankan civil war has acquired crisis prepertions. The fact that evacuation of the government forces is on the cards, with New Delhi agreeing to do this, is a pointer to recurrence of a Dien Bien Phu .    ...
  • Jaffna: Action Replay
    Maj. Gen. Yashwant Deva (Retd)    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #357    ·    Commentary    
    The ( Jaffna ) town, when we drove through, was more or less empty with the few people we saw, looking on with anguished faces, no doubt dreading the tomorrow, which had  promised to be different but was in fact, turning out to be just ...
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