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  • Profiling the Fidayeen Attacks: Suicide and Suicidal Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir
    D Suba Chandran    ·   25 Apr, 2005    ·    #1713    ·    Commentary    
    Suicide terrorism has increased manifold in the recent years, especially after the American occupation in Iraq. A particular group always managed to be in the limelight in a given period in terms of suicide attacks. There have been two exception...
  • Premier Jiabao's Visit: From Rivals to Partners?
    Satyabrat Sinha    ·   25 Apr, 2005    ·    #1712    ·    Commentary    
    Premier Wen Jiabao concluded his four day visit to India on 12 April 2005. It was part of his eight day South Asia visit, which included Bangladesh and Pakistan. The focus of the Chinese delegation was economics but without losing sight of the v...
  • India-China Strategic Partnership: Implications for US and Pakistan
    Mallika Joseph    ·   25 Apr, 2005    ·    #1711    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India is definitely significant within the context of Sino-Indian relations. Before his arrival it was believed that the visit would merely formalize many processes that were already in place. The 19...
  • Indo-US Arms Sale: Who Wins?
       ·   25 Apr, 2005    ·    #1710    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee (Retd.),Speakers: Air Marshal Vinod Patney(Retd) Professor K.P. Vijayalakshmi Air Marshal Vinod Patney The hype about Musharraf's visit to India is media-centric. In contrast to earlier ...
  • Maldives: Inching Towards Multiparty Democracy
    Alok Bansal    ·   23 Apr, 2005    ·    #1709    ·    Commentary    
    The recent visit of President Gayoom has brought the focus back on happenings in Maldives. When tsunami hit the smallest state of South Asia, on 26 December 2004, it not only put brakes on the fastest growing economy in the region, but also led ...
  • China's Aggressive Nationalism and Sino-Japanese Relations
    Abanti Bhattacharya    ·   23 Apr, 2005    ·    #1708    ·    Commentary    
    The Sino-Japanese relationship has long been a hostage of historical acrimony. The recent protests in April 2005 by Chinese students over the approval by Japan's Ministry of Education to printing a school textbook that glosses over Japanese ...
  • Political Stability in Pakistan
    AM Vohra    ·   21 Apr, 2005    ·    #1707    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistani's political situation has been a matter of serious concern for some years particularly since the latest military take over of the country by General Musharraf on 12 October 1999. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's clumsy attempt to ...
  • A Vision for J&K - 2015 - Part 2
       ·   20 Apr, 2005    ·    #1706    ·    Commentary    
    The new transport and energy backbone being put in place will start coming on stream from 2008 onwards. It is therefore appropriate that the Prime Minister has named a high-powered committee to prepare a long term development plan for J&K un...
  • A Vision for J&K - 2015 - Part 1
    BG Verghese    ·   20 Apr, 2005    ·    #1705    ·    Commentary    
    Jammu and Kashmir is firmly set on the road to normalcy - though peace may remain elusive for a while as spoilers, internal and external, and vested interests, stage ever more bloody incidents and threaten disorder to derail the peace process. ...
  • Kashmir Bus: Small but a Step in the Right Direction
    Prof. Noor Ahmad Baba    ·   19 Apr, 2005    ·    #1704    ·    Commentary    
    In order to understand and appreciate the due importance of resuming the bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad through Jhelum Valley Road, we need to place the whole issue in proper context. Historically Kashmir has been at the crossroad...
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