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  • 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...
  • Between Monarchy and the Maoists (Nepal Media Survey, December, 2004)
    P G Rajamohan    ·   03 Feb, 2005    ·    #1630    ·    Commentary    
    Nepal at crossroads Himal (1-15 December) said that Nepal has been at the crossroads because the ideas of the King, political parties and the Maoists for a way out of the present crisis have only complicated matters. Expressing difficulties...
  • Post-tsunami Sri Lanka: Divisions Remain
    Mohan K Tikku    ·   02 Feb, 2005    ·    #1629    ·    Commentary    
    When the tsunami waves struck Sri Lanka on the morning after Christmas, it was felt that the sheer magnitude of the tragedy might help bring the two estranged parties in the ethnic imbroglio closer together. Such expectations were further enhanc...
  • Robots Enter Iraq War
    Ajay Lele    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1628    ·    Commentary    
    The ever increasing number of war casualties in Iraq is fast becoming increasingly unacceptable to many in the United States. However, Bush does not have much choice because no new nations are coming forward to deploy their troops in Iraq and ex...
  • India's Tsunami diplomacy
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1627    ·    Commentary    
    "Nature cried in the wrath of waves. Flowers, withered, fell to the fathomless sea. The injured seagull wailing to the sky... Sleep well, my friends! We cherish for you a memory. We build for your progeny a life," wrote a Chinese leade...
  • Norway in Sri Lanka: A 'Soft Superpower' Syndrome?
    N Manoharan    ·   01 Feb, 2005    ·    #1626    ·    Commentary    
    Norway's Carvings Norway has now emerged as a 'peace superpower' involved in brokering peace in some 15 conflicts across the world stretching from Columbia to the Philippines. Despite being a small Scandinavian state, what makes...
  • Assam Accord: Politicking Continues
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   29 Jan, 2005    ·    #1625    ·    Commentary    
    On 15 August 1985, a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) was entered into between the All Assam Students' Union (AASU), the State of Assam and the Union of India. The MoS, better known as the 'Assam Accord' put an end to the six-yea...
  • Tsunamis and the War on Terror
    Mathew Angus    ·   29 Jan, 2005    ·    #1624    ·    Commentary    
    Is it possible to make a link between Tsunamis and the war on terror? Ostensibly there is no link at all - one is a natural disaster, the other entirely man-made. However, at a political level it is arguable that the Tsunami may well have an imp...
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