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  • 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...
  • Musharraf-Manmohan Joint Statement: An Analysis
    D Suba Chandran    ·   19 Apr, 2005    ·    #1703    ·    Commentary    
    Unlike the Agra summit in 2001, General Musharraf's second visit in April 2005 to India witnessed a joint statement being arrived at. So much has happened since the Agra summit that makes the joint statement a special mile stone in the bilat...
  • Japan, China, South Korea and Contested History
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   19 Apr, 2005    ·    #1702    ·    Commentary    
    Several demonstrations have taken place in key Chinese cities in the last two weeks. In Beijing, 8000 Chinese protested in front of Japanese high-tech companies with banners and singing patriotic songs while burning the Japanese flags. In Shenzh...
  • The PMO Backs Out from Counter-Naxalite Strategy
    Richard Mahapatra    ·   16 Apr, 2005    ·    #1701    ·    Commentary    
    A well-thought out and effective long run strategy to contain the spread of Naxalites has been ambushed. And the culprit is the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF). This is as news of the collapse of Andhra Pradesh-Naxalite peace tal...
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