COMMENTARIES
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North Korea: From the State Sponsor of Terrorism to What?
Rajesh Kapoor · 16 Oct, 2008 · #2709 · Commentary
Amidst the ongoing debates among international security strategists about the heightened tension in East Asia over negotiations with North Korea to dismantle its nuclear establishments, an agreement between the US and North Korea has given a bre...
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Runoff in Maldives - Who will be the Next President?
Ashik Bonofer · 16 Oct, 2008 · #2708 · Commentary
For the first time in its history, the archipelago of Maldives saw multiparty elections for president on 8 October 2008. This historic event was an outcome of the democratic process that began in 2005. Since the time the incumbent President Maum...
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Eelam War IV: Military Strategies of the LTTE
N Manoharan · 16 Oct, 2008 · #2707 · Commentary
Since the fourth edition of the Eelam War broke out in 2006, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been following various strategies to thwart the Sri Lankan government's objective of finding a military solution to the ethnic issue...
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Chemical Warfare Agents and the Indian Context
Prashant Mehta · 16 Oct, 2008 · #2706 · Commentary
Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances/compounds to kill, seriously injure or incapacitate an enemy. Several countries began eliminating their chemical weapons stockpile...
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Nuclear Iran: Anathema for India
Siddharth Ramana · 16 Oct, 2008 · #2705 · Commentary
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated India's opposition to a nuclear Iran during a visit to France in October 2008. This is significant owing to the traditional Indo-Iranian friendship and the ongoing negotiations for a multi-bill...
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A Case for SIMI
Nanjunda Reddy · 14 Oct, 2008 · #2704 · Commentary
"E-mail authors identified, claim police," read the headlines of an article in The Hindu newspaper, in which, the Rajasthan police claimed that the terror e-mail which was sent by the Indian Mujahideen to media houses a day after the 1...
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A New Dawn in India-Nepal Relations? Prachanda's Visit to India
Oliver Housden · 12 Oct, 2008 · #2703 · Commentary
The picture of Nepalese Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda, leader of a ten-year long Maoist revolutionary movement who persistently railed against Indian imperialism, laying a wreath at the memorial of India's and history'...
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Towards Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia
Mohit Anand · 12 Oct, 2008 · #2702 · Commentary
The Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia (CEPEA) initiative, floated by Japan, has emerged as one of the most important steps being taken under the East Asia Summit (EAS). The idea for CEPEA was proposed by Japan at the 2nd EAS held i...
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The Naxal Testimony on Kandhamal
Rajat Kumar Kujur · 09 Oct, 2008 · #2701 · Commentary
In a shocking but rare interview given to a private television news channel in Orissa, the Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), Orissa State Committee, Sabyasachi Panda, claimed that it was the CPI (Maoist) who had killed Vishwa H...
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Bangladeshi Politics: Rewind the Last Two Years
Sandeep Bhardwaj · 09 Oct, 2008 · #2700 · Commentary
"Political reforms can't be imposed," was the statement Bangladeshi Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed gave while talking at a press conference at New York, recently. He went on to argue that for a stable democratic politics, refo...
