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  • Indo-US Space Collaboration
    Ajay Lele    ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1430    ·    Commentary    
    This year, India and the United States of America commemorate forty years of cooperation in space science. In the days to come, significant cooperation between these two countries is expected in civil nuclear, civil space, and high-techn...
  • Shaping Nuclear Confidence
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1429    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan got involved in a broad-based engagement on 19-20 June 2004 for evolving nuclear CBMs aimed at reducing the risk of nuclear confrontation. Tariq Osman Haider, Pakistan’s additional secretary in the Foreign Office, ...
  • Perspectives on the Kashmir Conflict - Part II: Future Options
       ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1428    ·    Commentary    
    A general approach to future options regarding the Kashmir conflict should recognize that negotiations will be lengthy, that there is no “Grand Solution,” and that the final resolution will have to be based on geography and not...
  • Perspectives on the Kashmir Conflict - Part I: Current Situation
    Maj. Gen. Ramesh C Chopra (Retd.)    ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1427    ·    Commentary    
    The genesis of the Kashmir problem, of late termed “dispute,” is over fifty years old.  Indo-Pak relations have been characterized by wars in 1947-48, 1965, 1971 and 1999.  Since Pakistan’s efforts using convent...
  • Can the Indo-Pak Peace Process be Saved?
    Rizwan Zeb    ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1426    ·    Commentary    
    People in Gah, a village few miles away from the Pakistani city of Chakwal, are happy that a “son of the soil” has become the Prime Minister of India. Manmohan Singh and his family used to live here before Partition. Even in Is...
  • Military Operation in South Waziristan: International Dimensions and Fallout (Part IV)
       ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1425    ·    Commentary    
    The commander of the American coalition forces in Afghanistan David Barno has sent messages of felicitation to the authorities in Pakistan after the killing of Nek Mohammad who had emerged as the supreme leader of tribal militants. Even du...
  • Military Operation in South Waziristan: Internal Dimensions (Part III)
       ·   07 Jul, 2004    ·    #1424    ·    Commentary    
    Saner elements among the authorities and a huge constituency of peace-loving tribals  and other citizens of Pakistan kept their fingers cross for the sustainability and durability of the Shakai agreement (24 April-11 June 2004) which ...
  • Iran and the IAEA: New Tensions
    Manish Srivastava    ·   28 Jun, 2004    ·    #1423    ·    Commentary    
    The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a resolution on 18 June 2004 calling upon Iran to accelerate its cooperation with the Agency and reveal the scope and extent of its “secret” nuclear program. The resolution ...
  • Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD): An Endeavour for Solving Common Problems
    Mukul Kumar    ·   28 Jun, 2004    ·    #1422    ·    Commentary    
    Asia is the largest continent in the world, and its problems are numerous. To solve these gigantic socio-economic problems, some Asian nations have decided to adopt a regional approach and cooperate among themselves. The regional group und...
  • NRRCs and Nuclear Stability in South Asia – II: Structure, Goals, Functions of the NRRCs
    Arun Vishwanathan    ·   26 Jun, 2004    ·    #1421    ·    Commentary    
    The 1999 Lahore Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) envisaged measures that could prevent any nuclear accident, detonation by state or non-state actors from escalating into a situation that could result in a nuclear exchange.   ...
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