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  • Indian Naval Diplomacy: Post Tsunami
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1640    ·    Commentary    
    The recent Tsunami tidal waves hit the shores of eleven Indian Ocean littoral countries namely Bangladesh, Burma, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Maldives, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand. The effects were however felt across the At...
  • Of Godhra, Governance and Laloo's Swansong
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1639    ·    Commentary    
    The timing for making the Banerjee Commission's interim report on the Godhra carnage public, followed by the histrionics of the Union Railway Minister and Bihar's strong man Laloo Yadav, could ignite a communal inferno. The release of th...
  • Tripura on its Brink: Nayanbashi Jamatia's Violence Threat
    Amareet Singh    ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1638    ·    Commentary    
    With the Tripura Government refusing to entertain Nayanbashi Jamatia's political demands that included offering him the chief minister's post, the disgruntled rebel leader, who very recently talked peace, has changed track and had report...
  • Godhra: An accident or a conspiracy?
       ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1637    ·    Commentary    
    The findings of the Justice U C Banerjee Committee on the Godhra fire tragedy that occurred on 27 February 2002 has not been able to quell the debate of whether Godhra was an accident or a planned conspiracy. Though the Banerjee Railway Inquiry ...
  • A NATO- India Strategic Dialogue
       ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1636    ·    Commentary    
    Members of the NATO delegation: Dr Karl-Heinz Kamp, Dr Karl Lamers, Dr Micheal Ruehle, Mr James Appathurai, Lt Gen Klaus Olshausen Session I: NATO Out of Area Operations - Views and Perspectives Karl-Heinz Kamp 'Out of Area' is a dubiou...
  • Revisiting Kargil: Was it a Failure for Pakistan's Military?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1635    ·    Commentary    
    Was Kargil a failure for Pakistan's military? It is widely believed that Kargil war ended in a disaster for Pakistan for several reasons. The international community condemned Pakistan for initiating hostilities; no one believed that those w...
  • Pugwash International Conference on Kashmir
       ·   03 Feb, 2005    ·    #1634    ·    Commentary    
    In the second week of December 2004, Pugwash International organized a conference at Kathmandu, Nepal, with a view to find common grounds for a resolution of the Kashmir dispute. It was the first time that Kashmiri representatives from both side...
  • Pakistan's Nuclear Weapon Posture
    AM Vohra    ·   03 Feb, 2005    ·    #1633    ·    Commentary    
    The Dawn of 5 October 1999 published an article authored jointly by Agha Shahi, Zulfigar Ali Khan and Abdul Sattar which discussed the exigency under which Islamabad may consider the use of nuclear weapons. They state, "if the enemy launche...
  • Second Round of India-Pakistan Composite Dialogue - 2004: A Status Report
    N Manoharan    ·   08 Feb, 2005    ·    #1632    ·    Commentary    
    According to the agreement reached between the Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan in September 2004 following the first round of talks on the Composite Dialogue, the second round was held in December 2004. New Delhi , Rawalpindi ...
  • From 'Look East' to 'Think East'
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   03 Feb, 2005    ·    #1631    ·    Commentary    
    Alexander the Great met his "Final Frontier" in the Indian subcontinent; it was, however, the start of several incursions from the West leading to the spread of Islam, the rise of the Mughals, arrival of the Portuguese, and takeover by...
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