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  • Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) ?: An Overview
    N Manoharan    ·   27 Jul, 2004    ·    #1440    ·    Commentary    
    It is generally assumed that refugees and IDPs (internally displaced persons) are one and the same and that the only distinctions between them are bureaucratic and legal. But, though both categories are displaced from their traditional hom...
  • Communalizing a Killing
    R Radhakrishnan    ·   23 Jul, 2004    ·    #1439    ·    Commentary    
    The news report in the Lahore-based Ghazwa Times about Ishrat Jahan Raza, killed in a police encounter last month in Ahmedabad, being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba seems to be the culmination of a soap opera. This incident...
  • The 91st Constitutional Amendment and the NE States
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Jul, 2004    ·    #1438    ·    Commentary    
    The 91st constitutional amendment, passed in 2003, that requires restricting the size of the ministry to 15 per cent of the total size of the State legislative assemblies, has created a political upheaval in some of the north-eastern Sta...
  • Pakistan Two-Times the United States in the War Against Terror
       ·   17 Jul, 2004    ·    #1437    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan post-9/11 stands extolled generously by the United States as a steadfast ally in America’s global war on terrorism. But Pakistan’s record in terms of implementation of the campaign against al Qaeda and the Taliban indi...
  • CBMs in South Asia and Northeast Asia: The Sum of Two Parts
    Mohammed Badrul Alam    ·   16 Jul, 2004    ·    #1436    ·    Commentary    
    In spite of the seemingly difficult terrain in generating and implementing confidence-building measures in South Asia and Northeast Asia, all is not doomed or gloomy as it appears from a realist perspective. Based on existing regional an...
  • Political Changes in Nepal (Nepal Media Survey, June 2004)
    PG Rajamohan    ·   16 Jul, 2004    ·    #1435    ·    Commentary    
    Sher Bahadur Deuba’s Reappointment The appointment of the Nepali Congress (Democratic) leader, Sher Bahadur Deuba to the Prime Ministerial post after 20 months on 2 June has been widely appreciated in the Nepali media. Deuba&r...
  • Ideological Incompatibility: The Arbitrary Removal of Governors
    P G Rajamohan    ·   12 Jul, 2004    ·    #1434    ·    Commentary    
    History is being repeated now though the axe has fallen only on four governors so far. The assumption that the Centre which is the appointment authority has the right to dismiss a governor without giving him the reasons for it or following...
  • India, US and Israel: Setting up Tri-national Fund
    Beryl Anand    ·   12 Jul, 2004    ·    #1433    ·    Commentary    
    Continuing a long-standing relationship among India, United States, and Israel, Tel Aviv is planning to host a first ever annual meeting of a Tri-National Accord on important sectors. Emphasizing the need for greater cooperation between In...
  • Northeast’s Anguish and Bliss (Regional Media Survey, June 2004)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   09 Jul, 2004    ·    #1432    ·    Commentary    
    Resurgent ULFA The militant outfit, United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)’s repeated attacks in various districts of upper Assam dominated the headlines of the newspapers in Ass...
  • The Co-Existence of Globalization and Unipolarity
       ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1431    ·    Commentary    
    In the emerging security environment, there is recognition by many of an abiding tension between globalization and unipolarity. Primacists in the United States highlight the lead-role of the United States as the common denominator. Critics...
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