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  • Nepal: Need to Remould Friendly Relations
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   10 Apr, 2000    ·    #346    ·    Commentary    
    At present there are no entry and exit restrictions for Indian nationals and Nepalese subjects travelling between the two countries. As  employment opportunities within the kingdom are limited, tens of thousands of Nepalese cross into Ind...
  • President Clinton's visit to South Asia
       ·   03 Apr, 2000    ·    #345    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Muchkund Dubey     Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India     Prof. Dubey:     President Bill Clinton’s visit to South Asia was posi...
  • Widening the Nuclear Trigger
    Sabil Francis    ·   24 Mar, 2000    ·    #344    ·    Commentary    
    No matter what is said about civilian control over nuclear weapons, technology will ensure that they will remain in more hands than one. Since a Pakistani missile can destroy New Delhi in five minute, the power to launch a nuclear counter ...
  • Indo-US Rapprochement and Chinese Discomfiture
    Rahul Arun    ·   24 Mar, 2000    ·    #343    ·    Commentary    
    The statement of Indian defense minister George Fernandes in the wake of Pokhran II regarding China was definitely a faux-paux.  But the nuclear dynamics between India and Pakistan can never be understood without facto...
  • Generalship in the Kargil war
       ·   24 Mar, 2000    ·    #342    ·    Commentary    
    One questions begins to form in one's mind almost imperceptibly  Was there any generalship in the Kargil War? Either on the Indian or the Pakistani side. True enough that there has not been enough scope in space and time to exercise this ...
  • Indo-US Joint Effort on Countering Terrorism
    Rajashree Kanungo    ·   24 Mar, 2000    ·    #341    ·    Commentary    
    The December 24 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane by Harkat-ul-Mujahideen terrorists again exposed the ugly face of terrorism in South Asia . It was given a wake up call to the international community to counter the menace of terrorism....
  • India's Peacekeeping Missions
    N. K. Pant    ·   23 Mar, 2000    ·    #340    ·    Commentary    
    The dawn of the twenty first century is witness to many conflicts being fought around the globe than there were during the cold war period. The nature of conflicts has also become increasingly complex, which demands new approaches to resolve the...
  • Reconaissance Sattelites
    N. K. Pant    ·   12 Mar, 2000    ·    #339    ·    Commentary    
    One of the recommendations of the Subramaniam Committee report on Kargil tabled in Parliament in the last week of February, 2000 is strengthening aerial surveillance capability by the use of satellites. Reconnaissance satellites detect static or m...
  • India: Package for the North East
    Zarein Ahmed    ·   08 Mar, 2000    ·    #338    ·    Commentary    
    The North-East comprises seven states, called the 'seven sisters,' namely, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam , Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Critically located and sharing a border with Bangladesh , Myanamar, ...
  • International Terrorism and US Policy Options
       ·   02 Mar, 2000    ·    #337    ·    Commentary    
    The threat of terrorism has steadily increased over the last few decades. With advances in technology, terrorist acts have become much more destructive and perpetrators of those act more elusive. Terrorism is defined as "the unlawful use or t...
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