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  • India: Need for an Air Assault Brigade and Rapid Reaction Force
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   01 Aug, 2006    ·    #2084    ·    Commentary    
    India will need to raise and maintain small expeditionary forces in a state of readiness to further its national security and foreign policy objectives. When the Taliban came to power, a perplexing question was what India would do if it beca...
  • Trade, Terror and Indo-Pakistan Relations
    Satyajit Mohanty    ·   31 Jul, 2006    ·    #2083    ·    Commentary    
      Two events have dominated the headlines in South Asia in July 2006. First, implementation of the South Asian Preferential Trade Agreement (SAFTA) concessions from 1 July and; second, the 7/11 Mumbai blasts. These events established t...
  • Developing Sino-Indian Border Regions: Need for a China Policy?
    Urvashi Aneja    ·   28 Jul, 2006    ·    #2082    ·    Commentary    
    The border trade agreement between Tibet and Sikkim was signed in 2003 during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's trip to Beijing. Nathu La, however, only reopened on 6 July after 44 years. The agreement ensures China's recognition of ...
  • Why no Indian Muslims in International Jihad: A Response
    Jacob Chriqui    ·   28 Jul, 2006    ·    #2081    ·    Commentary    
    Dr. Suba Chandran's article, exploring "Why no Indian Muslims in International Jihad?" raises some pertinent factors at play that result in this phenomenon. But the neglect of certain aspects leads to a conclusion that might be mis...
  • Emerging Situation in Sri Lanka: Efforts towards Peace
       ·   27 Jul, 2006    ·    #2080    ·    Commentary    
    HE Chrysantha Romesh Jayasinghe Sri Lanka has been very much in the news these days in India. This is only natural, given the many bonds the two countries share, which in turn also lead to developments in Sri Lanka being of concern to the...
  • China's Growing Influence in Sri Lanka: Implications for India
       ·   26 Jul, 2006    ·    #2079    ·    Commentary    
    China is determined to enhance its strategic and economic cooperation with India's neighbours and in areas traditionally under India's influence. After Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh, China is getting closer with Sri Lanka. Its recent ...
  • The Poonch-Rawalkote Bus and Increasing Militant Attacks: What Next?
    Priyashree Andley    ·   20 Jul, 2006    ·    #2078    ·    Commentary    
    Sonia Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the first Poonch-Rawalkote bus linking the two Kashmirs, from Chakan-da-Bagh, on 20 June. Coinciding with such Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) is a new pattern of terror, which attacks soft targe...
  • Hostility amongst Negotiations: Is Peace Viable In Assam?
    Aparajita Mazumda    ·   19 Jul, 2006    ·    #2077    ·    Commentary    
      The third round of talks, held on 22 June 2006, between the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) assorted civil society groups, the People's Consultative Group (PCG), and the Union government, created an optimistic atmosp...
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       ·   18 Jul, 2006    ·    #2076    ·    Commentary    
    The Bush administration has been touting India as a unique case - a stable, responsible, nuclear-armed democracy with no history of proliferation. And by voting in favor of the bill, the foreign affairs committees in the US Congress have made a ...
  • US-Russia Nuclear Deal
    Ajay Lele    ·   17 Jul, 2006    ·    #2075    ·    Commentary    
    Nuclear Energy is fast becoming a tool of American diplomacy. After negotiating a deal with India, which still needs Congress approval, the US is planning to negotiate civilian nuclear energy cooperation with Russia. At the G-8 summit meeting in...
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