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  • An Inquiry into Suicide Terrorism: Psychological Perspectives
    Kanica Rakhra    ·   13 Jun, 2008    ·    #2596    ·    Commentary    
    In 2007, there were more than 280 suicide attacks all over the world. Used typically as a weapon of psychological warfare to affect a larger public audience, most of these attacks have taken place in countries with a heavy presence of US and all...
  • Daulat Beg Oldi: Taking Wing Again
    Prashant Dikshit    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2595    ·    Commentary    
    China's purported "unhappiness" at the landing in late May of a AN-32 transport craft of Indian Air Force (IAF) at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO), is quite perplexing. During the flight the crews had adhered to all canons of operating on in...
  • Pakistan's Problems: Nuclear Fallout?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2594    ·    Commentary    
    The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), in its recent Special Dispatch (http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD195308), reproduced an article written by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear Physics at Qaed-e-Azam University in I...
  • Singapore as a Gateway for Indian Companies
    Pranav Kumar    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2593    ·    Commentary    
    In recent times, Indian companies have increasingly used Singapore as a springboard to enter the world market. The number of Indian companies operating from Singapore has doubled during the last five years from 1,200 in 2002 to 2,800 by the end ...
  • The Myth of 'Weapons of Peace'
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2592    ·    Commentary    
    Celebrations attending the tenth anniversary of Pokhran II were unsurprisingly muted. This projected India as a responsible nuclear power, while having internal political utility of denying credit to the current opposition party for tests conduc...
  • New Terror Trails in Northeast India
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2591    ·    Commentary    
    The states of Northeast India especially Assam, Manipur and Nagaland have over the years witnessed an increased spate of violence and terror owing to their various homegrown insurgencies. Outfits such as the National Socialist Council of Nagalan...
  • Environmental Dimensions of Conflict and Disaster
       ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2590    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Presentation held on 29 May 2008 Speaker: Muralee Thummarukudy, Operations Manager, United Nations Environmental Programme Today the environment has emerged as an important factor in conflicts and disasters. First, all c...
  • Nuclear Disarmament or Deterrence Revived?
    Henri Laniece    ·   10 Jun, 2008    ·    #2589    ·    Commentary    
    Following the collapse of the USSR, the concept of deterrence underwent a change as the actors themselves had changed. While the efficiency of deterrence may have been proven by the absence of a major world war for 60 years, no one can predict t...
  • Malaysia's Visa on Arrival for Indians: Unfair Targetting?
    Namita Kumari    ·   06 Jun, 2008    ·    #2588    ·    Commentary    
    On 30 May it was reported that Malaysian government had withdrawn the Visa on Arrival (VoA) facility to Indians. The Malaysian Home Minister, Syed Hamid Albar, said that Indians would require a two-week social pass and a return ticket if they wi...
  • Democracy in Bhutan: Problems and Prospects
    Anil Kumar Mohapatra    ·   06 Jun, 2008    ·    #2587    ·    Commentary    
    Bhutan today proudly proclaims itself as the youngest democracy in the world, entering the club of democratic nations in March this year following the successful conduct of its first-ever parliamentary elections. It has thus completed the transi...
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