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  • Insurgent Politics & Dhaka's Role
       ·   19 Feb, 2005    ·    #1650    ·    Commentary    
    Anup Chetia alias Golap Barua, general secretary of the outlawed Indian separatist group, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), will end his jail term in Bangladesh on 25 February. He is being detained at Dhaka's central jail ever since hi...
  • Afghanistan and Central Asia
       ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1649    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: R. Grant Smith, Senior Fellow at Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. Chair: P R Chari, Research Professor, IPCS P R Chari The chair welcomed R. Grant Smith, a lo...
  • East Asia Diary - January 2005: The Politics of Disaster Relief
       ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1648    ·    Commentary    
    As the Indian Ocean region prepared to usher in a new year, the old dealt it a final blow in the form of the killer waves that snuffed out 200,000 lives. Yet, international politicking continued unabated. It is germane to see how the major p...
  • Dialogue with Naxals: Doomed to Fail
    Prafulla Ketkar    ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1647    ·    Commentary    
    The euphoria over the talks between the Naxalites and the Andhra Pradesh government that began in October last year is over. This initiative, considered an unprecedented move to stop the four-decade history of violence in the State, has ended wi...
  • Why Nuclear Diplomacy Has Failed in US Foreign Policy for North Korea
    Eric Koo Peng Kuan    ·   18 Feb, 2005    ·    #1646    ·    Commentary    
    North Korea's sudden announcement that it has nuclear weapons, along with its withdrawal from the six party talks on its nuclear program, once again signified the failure of disarmament attempts by the USA on potentially dangerous regimes. N...
  • The Situation in Nepal: Possible Outcomes
    Satyabrat Sinha    ·   15 Feb, 2005    ·    #1645    ·    Commentary    
    The King of Nepal, Gyanendra, dismissed the Sher Bahadur Deuba government on 1 February, declared a state of emergency in Nepal that curtails civil liberties and took over the reins of government. The King's dismissal of the Deuba government...
  • The Nepalese Media Survey (January 2005)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   14 Feb, 2005    ·    #1644    ·    Commentary    
    Plight of the Public Dristi (4 January), a weekly newspaper in its report substantiating incidents of the excessive behaviour of the security forces alleged that "Security force personnel who are supposed to protect citizens are causi...
  • Enough of SA(A)RCasm: Venture New Directions
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   10 Feb, 2005    ·    #1643    ·    Commentary    
             The 13th SAARC summit has once again been delayed, this time owing to India's decision to pullout from the scheduled meet after the grave 'political and security' situation in Nepal ...
  • The Bizarre and Seductive Allure of Suicide Terrorism
    Eric Koo Peng Kuan    ·   10 Feb, 2005    ·    #1642    ·    Commentary    
    In October 2003, a 29 year old Palestinian woman, Hanadi Jaradat, walked into a cafe in the Town of Jenin, in the West Bank, Palestine, shot a waiter and then blew herself up by triggering the explosives strapped to her body beneath her clothes....
  • Naga Peace Process (Northeast Media Survey, January 2005)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   10 Feb, 2005    ·    #1641    ·    Commentary    
    Naga Peace Process The peace process between the NSCN-IM and the government of India entered into a critical phase in the first week of February 2005 as talks began in New Delhi. The talks and related developments dominated media headlines in ...
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