COMMENTARIES
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Kashmiri Response to Pakistani Scribes' Visit to the Valley
Noor Ahmad Baba · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1560 · Commentary
The political experiences of the Kashmiris for the last more than five decades has moulded their psychological attitudes towards India and Pakistan. The division of the state and thereby the division of its people, has only helped to promote a f...
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News from the Northeast (Regional Media Survey, October 2004)
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1559 · Commentary
Ceasefire with NDFB
Commenting on the decision of the NDFB to observe a unilateral ceasefire with effect from 15 October, The Assam Tribune (11 October) in its editorial 'Welcome Move' said, "With the NDFB expressing its willin...
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Merger of Naxal Groups: Threat or Opportunity
· 13 Nov, 2004 · #1558 · Commentary
On the eve of the peace talks with the Andhra Pradesh government the two largest Naxalite groups in the country, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (People's War) and the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) merged to create the co...
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F-22: The Next Generation Fighter
Ajay Lele · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1557 · Commentary
The American Air Force is scheduled to fly one of the costliest aircraft in the history of airpower. The F/A-22 (or F-22) fighter, priced at $258 million, and codenamed 'Raptor', is being inducted into the US Air Force (USAF). Lockheed M...
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What Would be Acceptable in Jammu and Kashmir?: A Kashmiri Perspective
Arjimand Hussain Talib · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1556 · Commentary
The latest statement of the Pakistani President General Parvez Musharraf, proposing a way for solving the Kashmir problem, has predictably sparked public and private debates in Kashmir about his unilateral offer. There is both disquiet and amuse...
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NDFB: Talking For a Truce, Then What?
Wasbir Hussain · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1555 · Commentary
It's a breakthrough of sorts in so far as the Assam Government is concerned – the outlawed National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) responding positively to Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi&#...
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Air Power No Solution to Iraqi Insurgency
Eric Koo Peng Kuan · 13 Nov, 2004 · #1554 · Commentary
In October 2004, in an effort to weed out the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an air strike in Fallujah, Iraq, which killed 11 and wounded 17, simultaneously also smashed a house where a joyous wedding occasion had just been held. It i...
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Nepal - India Relations: Current Issues
· 13 Nov, 2004 · #1553 · Commentary
Speaker: Amb. Karna Dhoj
AdhikariChair: Amb. K V Rajan
Ambassador's
Opening Remarks
Nepal-India relations are 'unique' for reasons ranging from
geographical contiguity to close cultural ties, and extensive instituti...
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Revisiting the tragedy of 1984
PR Chari · 05 Nov, 2004 · #1552 · Commentary
No, this isn't about George Orwell's Brave New World and critique of totalitarianism.
Orwell was concerned then with the menace of fascism and communism in Europe.
History has revealed they were false gods. But State control over the...
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Options in Nepal
Anju Grover · 05 Nov, 2004 · #1551 · Commentary
Even as April 2005, the deadline set to hold elections draws closer, Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has begun making serious efforts to resume peace talks with the Maoists as well as strengthen the Royal Nepal Army. Will his twin str...
