COMMENTARIES
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Evaluating India-China Border Talks
· 16 Aug, 2004 · #1463 · Commentary
Chair :
Amb C V Ranganathan
Panelists
:
Amb Vijay Nambiar
Lt Gen R K Sawhney
Prof G P Deshpande...
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Tigers After a Tiger: Why the LTTE Wants to Eliminate Karuna?
N Manoharan · 16 Aug, 2004 · #1462 · Commentary
Since March 2004, the Karuna factor has emerged as a new dimension in the
messy ethnic conflict in
Sri Lanka. The LTTE is hunting
for Karuna, but the Sri Lankan government is covertly shielding him. For Tigers,
eliminating Karuna is vita...
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US-Pakistan Alliance: Implications for South Asia
Parama Sinha Palit · 16 Aug, 2004 · #1461 · Commentary
In
early August 2004, the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror alert
to 'Orange', the second highest level, for financial landmarks in New York and
Washington. This was subsequent to intelligence reports on al Qaeda...
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Calling for Change (Nepal Media Survey, July 2004)
PG Rajamohan · 13 Aug, 2004 · #1460 · Commentary
Contemplating the Constituent Assembly
In Kantipur
(18 July), one of the framers of the 1990 Constitution of Nepal, Laxman Prasad
Aryal, said, â€Å...
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Modernizing the Armed Forces and the Defence Budget
Vinod Patney · 13 Aug, 2004 · #1459 · Commentary
The current yearâ??s defence budget has shown a significant increase in
allotment on capital account implying the Governmentâ??s willingness to spend more
money on fresh purchases or &Atild...
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Engaging Pakistan - The Composite Dialogue Process
Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee · 12 Aug, 2004 · #1458 · Commentary
The
composite dialogue process agreed between India and Pakistan in 1997 took off
again in June 2004. After seven years and much tension and conflict, an
agreement was reached at Islamabad at the SAARC summit in January this year to
resu...
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Change but Continuity: The Indian Navy Marches Ahead
Vijay Sakhuja · 10 Aug, 2004 · #1457 · Commentary
The outgoing Chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral Madhvendra Singh, handed
over the traditional naval telescope to his successor Admiral Arun Prakash on
31July 2004. Soon after taking over, Admiral Prakash announced his priority
areas for str...
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Manipur and the Paradox of Security
Bidhan S Laishram · 12 Aug, 2004 · #1456 · Commentary
A strange security paradox presents itself in Manipur: the state is disturbed
over "Disturbed Area". Barely one and half months after the state
government notified the whole of the state to be a Disturbed Area to extend
the Ar...
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Dominance of China in the post-MFA World Raises Concern
Sanjay Kumar · 10 Aug, 2004 · #1455 · Commentary
The
New Year will bring an end to the Agreement, Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA),
which at present is governing the world trade in textiles and clothing. It is
likely to have huge implications for the global trade system and affect both the ...
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Suicide Attack on Shaukat Aziz: Some Preliminary Questions
D Suba Chandran · 06 Aug, 2004 · #1454 · Commentary
On 30 July 2004, a
suicide bomb attack was carried out against Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan's Finance
Minister and Prime Minister-in-waiting. The attack occurred when Aziz was
finishing his election campaign in Jabbar, a village ten kilomete...
