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  • Hu's Visit to Africa and Implications for India
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   07 Feb, 2007    ·    #2204    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese President Hu Jintao's ongoing tour to Africa may have come as a surprise to several members of the strategic community in India. In Hu's programme, none of the other countries barring South Africa is important in the internat...
  • Destination Karnataka: Multiple Terror Threats
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   07 Feb, 2007    ·    #2203    ·    Commentary    
    After being widely known as the IT hub of India, Karnataka in general and Bangalore in particular has now become the destination point for a number of terrorist organizations. Adding to its agony is the fact that a lot of underground Maoist exer...
  • Joint Operations in the Mountains
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   06 Feb, 2007    ·    #2202    ·    Commentary    
    The role of modern armed forces is to prevent conflict through deterrence and if it does break out, to fight and win - on the adversary's territory. In any future war that the armed forces are called upon to fight in the mountains against ei...
  • Global Security Challenges: A Dialogue with NATO
       ·   05 Feb, 2007    ·    #2201    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Conference at the USI Auditorium, 24 January 2007 Dipankar Banerjee The perception of NATO in India has hitherto remained mired in Cold War politics. This perception has shown signs of change with the holding of the first...
  • Declining Militancy in Rajouri and Poonch
    D Suba Chandran    ·   05 Feb, 2007    ·    #2200    ·    Commentary    
    Militancy in the Jammu region has come down drastically in the last four years; it is believed that only about 30 to 40 militants are active today in the two districts of Poonch and Rajouri, with their bases mainly in Mendhar and Surankote tehsi...
  • Republic Day Celebrations in Poonch
    D Suba Chandran    ·   01 Feb, 2007    ·    #2199    ·    Commentary    
    Its 9:00am in Poonch, a border town and the district headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir. I was watching the TV coverage of the Republic Day parade by one of the leading news channels from New Delhi. The scene shifted, to another place - in front ...
  • Towards India-Japan Strategic and Global Partnership
       ·   31 Jan, 2007    ·    #2198    ·    Commentary    
    Session I Chair : Amb Eric Gonsalves Speakers: Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, Foreign Secretary, India HE Yasukuni Enoki, Ambassador of Japan Amb Eric Gonsalves We are in the process of r...
  • Plight of Villages along the LOC
    Shabir Ibn Yusuf    ·   29 Jan, 2007    ·    #2197    ·    Commentary    
    It has been more than three years since the two nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan declared a cease-fire along the line that divides Kashmir. Life has changed for the better for the people of Amroohe village, which is 187 kilometers from Srinaga...
  • Constructing a Democratic Peace: Institution Building in Nepal
    Samrat Sinha    ·   29 Jan, 2007    ·    #2196    ·    Commentary    
    The transformation of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) from an insurgent group to a critical stakeholder in the political process is one of the most significant recent developments in South Asia. On 15 January 2007, legislators in the...
  • The US Dilemma on Engaging Iran
    Amit Singh    ·   25 Jan, 2007    ·    #2195    ·    Commentary    
    The collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorial regime brought about by the US-led allied forces has disturbed the fragile political architecture of the West Asian region that has been characterized by foreign occupation, outside meddling, brut...
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