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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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Unabated Menace of Sea Piracy
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   22 Feb, 2005    ·    #1653    ·    Commentary    
    The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) 2004 annual piracy report released recently has exhibited the gloomy state of menace of sea piracy in the world's oceans. There were a total of 325 piracy attacks on shipping in 2004. Although, this fi...
  • Democratic Mandate in West Asia and Implications for India
    Beryl Anand    ·   22 Feb, 2005    ·    #1652    ·    Commentary    
    West Asia is currently at the confluence of the most decisive developments of our times. Some of the world's most complex problems are insecurely balanced in this region, which include the Palestinian conflict, the tragedy of Iraq, and the t...
  • Lessons from Iran's Nuclear Stalemate
    Manish Srivastava    ·   21 Feb, 2005    ·    #1651    ·    Commentary    
    In a significant turn of events, the US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld is believed to have recently remarked that Iran is "years away from having a nuclear weapon" and that the United States would perhaps prefer diplomacy over mi...
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