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  • Violence in Tank, NWFP - Taliban's Look East Policy
    D Suba Chandran    ·   03 Apr, 2007    ·    #2252    ·    Commentary    
    Map - FATA The last week of March 2007 witnessed Tank, a town in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) exploding with attacks by Taliban and its allies in South Waziristan. A pitched battle between security forces and the Taliba...
  • Enforcing the Right to Information
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   03 Apr, 2007    ·    #2251    ·    Commentary    
    It is often said that Indians are best at making laws but seldom show necessary gravitas towards their implementation. Of all the laws enacted recently, the Right to Information (RTI) Act is one which is really going to change the way of governa...
  • Hu's Visit to Russia and Sino-Russian Relations
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   03 Apr, 2007    ·    #2250    ·    Commentary    
    If international politics is all about permanent national interests and not permanent friendship or enmity, Sino-Russian relations is probably the best example of this. The two countries that were archrivals during much of the Cold War and were ...
  • Responding to Bio-Terrorism: India Devises New Norms
    Ajay Lele    ·   02 Apr, 2007    ·    #2249    ·    Commentary    
    Major catastrophes - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and plagues - have brought several early civilizations to their knees. Today, these natural forces are being supplemented by terrorism. Especially after 9/11, tackling terrorism has b...
  • India, China and Germany - Trilateral Dialogue
       ·   02 Apr, 2007    ·    #2248    ·    Commentary    
    The IPCS, in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) organized the annual Trilateral Dialogue between India, China and Germany at Hotel Uppal's Orchid, New Delhi from 12 - 13 March 2007. China was represented by a deleg...
  • Iran's Internal Bombs: Balochi or Sunni?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   30 Mar, 2007    ·    #2247    ·    Commentary    
    Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Balochistan province of Iran, was rocked by two bombings in February. The Jundullah, a relatively new militant group in Iran, but familiar in Pakistan, took responsibility for both attacks. While the international comm...
  • Connecting Kashmir - The Mughal Road Option
    Ram Chander Sharma    ·   30 Mar, 2007    ·    #2246    ·    Commentary    
    When the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway (NH) remained closed for several days in February and March this year, the government of Jammu & Kashmir and India began to think seriously about an alternative road link to the Kashmir Valley. For th...
  • LTTE's Air Power
    Prashant Dikshit    ·   30 Mar, 2007    ·    #2245    ·    Commentary    
    When two piston engine aircraft of the LTTE dropped a few bombs on Sri Lanka's Katunayake air base in the early hours of Tuesday, 26 March 2007, shock and awe waves seem to have permeated the South Asian region. The Indian media reacted by e...
  • India's Energy Diplomacy Gets a Jolt in Myanmar
    Yogendra Singh    ·   30 Mar, 2007    ·    #2244    ·    Commentary    
    In mid-March 2007, Myanmar declared that it would export gas by pipeline from discoveries in off-shore block A-1 and potential reserves in A-3 block to China instead of India. This event is another setback to India's energy diplomacy in Myan...
  • LTTE Air Raid: Raising the Stakes
    RR Vinod    ·   29 Mar, 2007    ·    #2243    ·    Commentary    
    The assault mounted by the Black Tigers on the Katunayake Airbase on 24 July 2001 had convinced the government of the day that the only way to peace was through talks with the Tigers. Earlier, in the mid-nineties, the SLFP government of Chandrik...
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