COMMENTARIES
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India as an Emerging Power in Asia: EU - India Dialogue
· 04 Mar, 2005 · #1663 · Commentary
Members of the
European Parliamentary delegation:
Herr Gunther Rinsche
Elmar Brok
Hartmut Nassauer
Hans-Gert Pottering
Karl von Wogau
Falk-Ulrich von Hoff
In his welcome address, Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee delineated
the scope of a ve...
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On Record: Who Said What on Srinagar-Muzafarrabad Bus Service
N Manoharan · 03 Mar, 2005 · #1662 · Commentary
Opinions from various quarters on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus are worth documenting for the insight they offer on how the related issues are perceived in both countries. Would the supporters be consistent in their views five years down the lin...
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Non-Proliferation Regime under Stress: Time for India to Rise to the Challenge
Harsh V Pant · 03 Mar, 2005 · #1661 · Commentary
Nuclear Non-proliferation regime has come under tremendous strain in the last few months and it is not clear if it can be salvaged unblemished. The strains had come into sharp relief ever since India and Pakistan tested their nuclear devices in ...
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Bridging the Barrier? - Srinagar-Muzaffarabad Bus Service
N Manoharan · 03 Mar, 2005 · #1660 · Commentary
After decades of discontinuity and months of negotiations, the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service is scheduled to resume on 7 April 2005. How could one situate this in the Indo-Pak peace process? What impact will it have on the Kashmir issue? Is ...
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Talks with the UNLF: A Non-starter
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 03 Mar, 2005 · #1659 · Commentary
The United National Liberation Front's (UNLF) 2 February proposal for ending the decade long conflict has been welcomed by several houses. Governor S S Sidhu on 24 February described the move positive and a good development. Chief Minister I...
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Peace with NDFB: Remnants of an Ill Diagnosis
Bidhan S Laishram · 28 Feb, 2005 · #1658 · Commentary
An exhausted-meaning syndrome seems to have afflicted the Government of India (GOI) in its peace talks with the insurgencies of Northeast India. The delay in translating the unilateral ceasefire by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB...
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Fighting India's War against Terrorism
· 28 Feb, 2005 · #1657 · Commentary
India has been fighting insurgency and terrorism since its days of independence. However, it was the attacks of 11 September which thrust the 'war on terror' into the international sphere and essentially turned the formerly nationalistic...
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China: Democracy, Development and International Relations
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 23 Feb, 2005 · #1656 · Commentary
When the purged leader Zhao Ziyang died on 17 January, the international media brought China again under the democracy scanner. Memories of the Tiananmen resistance of 1989 arose afresh with expectations that another democratic movement would em...
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Al-Zarqawi: The Name Behind Iraq's Growing Terror Network
Rohit Honawar · 23 Feb, 2005 · #1655 · Commentary
From suicide bombings to guerilla attacks and kidnappings to beheadings, the Al-Zarqawi group has been held responsible for waging a wave of terrorist attacks across Iraq. Al-Zarqawi and his associates were indicted for the August 2003 suicide b...
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Operation Parakram
· 22 Feb, 2005 · #1654 · Commentary
Peter Lavoy, Mary Cobb Wittrock and Christopher Clary (Center
for Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey)
visited the IPCS to be briefed on Indian views and perspectives on 'Operation Parakram',
its causes and the lessons...
