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  • Taking China Seriously
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   27 Jul, 2009    ·    #2919    ·    Commentary    
    The recent publication of the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) Annual Report 2008-09 has a welcome note - unlike previous reports, when military and strategic developments in China were either ignored or marginally treated, the latest report elabo...
  • Mapping the Afghan Elections
    Raghav Sharma    ·   25 Jul, 2009    ·    #2918    ·    Commentary    
    “If I say a [fully free and fair] election is possible at this time it is merely a lie. If I say it is impossible I block the only way forward.” This observation made by a provincial councilor of the insurgency-ridden Ghazni province v...
  • G-8 Declaration and India: Be Cautious not Paranoid
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   25 Jul, 2009    ·    #2917    ·    Commentary    
    The 8 July G-8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy and the agreement among the G-8 members on restrictions over transfers of sensitive technologies like enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) to non-NPT members has created much hullabaloo in New Delhi. The...
  • Enhancing the Credibility of CRPF
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   25 Jul, 2009    ·    #2916    ·    Commentary    
    In a crucial move to reform the security apparatus in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, who visited the state after the Shopian rape case, announced a roadmap, giving greater responsibility to the J&K police f...
  • Kargil: Ten Years On
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   25 Jul, 2009    ·    #2915    ·    Commentary    
    While crises under the nuclear overhang have punctuated South Asian security, Kargil was the first after the two states went overtly nuclear. It has since been followed by standoffs in 2001-02 and 2008. This has ignited a debate between nuclear op...
  • ‘Civilian Supremacy’ in Nepal
    Padmaja Murthy    ·   21 Jul, 2009    ·    #2914    ·    Commentary    
    The faltering peace process in Nepal entered an uncertain period on 4 May when Pushpa Kamal Dahal  resigned as the Prime Minister. The resignation was prompted by the President’s move to overrule the Maoist-led cabinet’s decision ...
  • Post-LTTE Sri Lanka: Demilitarization as a First Step towards Peace
    N Manoharan    ·   21 Jul, 2009    ·    #2913    ·    Commentary    
    Under President Mahinda Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan government’s approach towards the long simmering ethnic issue rests on “four D’s” - Demilitarization, Democratization, Development, and Devolution. Under demilitarization, t...
  • India and Pakistan: A Dialogue to Nowhere?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   20 Jul, 2009    ·    #2912    ·    Commentary    
    The meeting between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan - Manmohan Singh and Syed Yusuf Raza at Sharm el-heikh, Egypt, on 16 July resulted in a joint statement, signalling the resumption of the composite dialogue, which was stalled after the...
  • International Nuclear Fuel Bank: Promising Enterprise?
    Yogesh Joshi    ·   17 Jul, 2009    ·    #2911    ·    Commentary    
    On 18 June this year, the developing countries blocked the IAEA Director-General’s request to discuss the proposal of an International Nuclear Fuel Bank (INFB), brainchild of the US-based Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), in the 35-nation g...
  • Indian Defence Deals: Cleaning the Augean Stables
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   17 Jul, 2009    ·    #2910    ·    Commentary    
    Over the years, some big ticket Indian defence deals hogged the limelight with their involvement with middlemen in murky backgrounds, pay-offs and bribes, procedural improprieties and a lack of transparency in acquisition processes. However, Ind...
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