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  • Financial Fodder - External Sources of LTTE Funds
    N Manoharan    ·   20 Oct, 2004    ·    #1530    ·    Commentary    
    It is the volume of funds from overseas that sustains Tiger activities. These external funds, constituting about four-fifths of the total revenue of the LTTE, come from three main sources: diaspora contributions, profits from commercial ventures...
  • Resolving Kashmir Conflict: A View from Kashmir
    Noor Ahmad Baba    ·   16 Oct, 2004    ·    #1529    ·    Commentary    
    Kashmir is a very complex problem in terms of its origin, dimensions and manifestations. It is rooted in the multiplicity of objective historical factors and there are different layers of its manifestations. Internally, it is a problem of its pe...
  • Chen's October 10th Proposal: Mired in Controversy
    Sonika Gupta    ·   16 Oct, 2004    ·    #1528    ·    Commentary    
    On 10 October, Taiwan's National Day, President Chen Shui-bian laid out a framework for resuming cross-Strait talks which had been suspended since 1999 when former Taiwanese President, Lee Teng Hui referred to cross-Strait relations as "...
  • Financial Fodder - Internal Sources of LTTE Funds
    N Manoharan    ·   16 Oct, 2004    ·    #1527    ·    Commentary    
    Like any other activity, terrorism requires resources to function. Terrorists require money for recruitment, training and upkeep of its members, purchase of arms, propaganda, social welfare programmes, and so on. Indeed terrorist acts can be com...
  • The Iraq Survey (Duelfer) Report
    PR Chari    ·   15 Oct, 2004    ·    #1526    ·    Commentary    
    Ken Bingley's inhuman beheading in Iraq and the Presidential gladiatorial debates in the United States has deflected attention from the 1200 page Iraq Survey Report submitted by the CIA weapons inspector Charles Duelfer after a 17-mont...
  • China's Armed Forces in 2003: An Assessment
       ·   13 Oct, 2004    ·    #1525    ·    Commentary    
    Srikanth Kondapalli, a Research Fellow at the IDSA has been studying China's armed forces, military and defence posture and national security related issues for many years. Reviewing the state of China's armed forces in the past year, Kondap...
  • Issues before Northeast Travails (Regional Media Survey, September 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   13 Oct, 2004    ·    #1524    ·    Commentary    
    Talks with the ULFA The youth organisation, Assam Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chhatra Parishad (AJYCP), organised a two-day meet (mahasabha) in Guwahati to deliberate on a possible dialogue with the ULFA. The meet concluded with an overwhelming opini...
  • The Hope Continues (Kashmir Urdu Media Survey 1-30 September 2004)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   13 Oct, 2004    ·    #1523    ·    Commentary    
    Alsafa (24 September) gave prominence to the statement of Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf that "For a bright future, Past must not be recalled."  After addressing the UN General Assembly, Musharraf, in an interview with...
  • Suicide Attacks in September 2004 - The Asian Ring of Fire
    D Suba Chandran    ·   13 Oct, 2004    ·    #1522    ·    Commentary    
    Suicide attacks in September 2004 continued with the same intensity as witnessed in the previous two months. There were six suicide attacks spanning over three countries - Israel, Iraq and Indonesia. Available data suggests that suicide te...
  • For a Paradigm Shift
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   08 Oct, 2004    ·    #1521    ·    Commentary    
    In a recent article 'Securing India' in the EPW, a noted critic of the defense establishment, Gautam Naulakha pegs the budget allocation for 'defence' at Rs. 101,128 crores after adding a proportion earmarked for space, atomic en...
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