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  • Future Threats: Challenges and Collective Actions
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   19 Apr, 2004    ·    #1373    ·    Commentary    
    Nature of Future Threats and Challenges Thank you for this wonderful opportunity to address this meeting. What are the principal threats and challenges to peace and security in today’s world? An immediate response would be: all...
  • Sri Lanka: Election Outcome and Its Impact on the Peace Process
    N Manoharan    ·   17 Apr, 2004    ·    #1372    ·    Commentary    
                Panelists: P. Sahadevan N. Manoharan N. Manoharan â€&ac...
  • Bangladesh: Turning into another Afghanistan?
       ·   17 Apr, 2004    ·    #1371    ·    Commentary    
    Amra Sobai Hobo Taliban, Bangla Hobe Afghanistan (We would all be Taliban, and Bangladesh would be Afghanistan). This slogan of the Bangladesh’s main Islamist extremist group, Harkat-ul-Jehad-ul-Islami (HuJI) has to be taken seriously by I...
  • Pakistan and MNNA – Issues and Implications: An Indian Perspective
    D Suba Chandran    ·   17 Apr, 2004    ·    #1370    ·    Commentary    
    What are the likely implications for India of the MNNA status to Pakistan, especially the ongoing Indo-Pak rapprochement? What are its likely implications for Pakistan? Finally, would there be any implications for the US in granting this status ...
  • Politics of Agitation in Nepal
    Sangeeta Thapliyal    ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1369    ·    Commentary    
    The disarray among political parties since the sacking of the Deuba government on 4 October 2002 seems to be coming to an end.  A new phase of collective proactive action in support of reintroducing democracy seems to be developing since 2 ...
  • Indo-Pak Rapprochement 2004: An Update
    B Rajeshwari    ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1368    ·    Commentary    
    31 December 2003 India proposes the opening of a road between Munnabao in Barmer district of Rajasthan and Khokharpar in Sind province of Pakistan. (Hindustan Times, 1 January 2004) 1 January 2004 India and Pakistan resume a...
  • With Friends Like These
       ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1367    ·    Commentary    
    George Bush’s game-plan for terrorism has had its bizarre moments: stalling on the 9-11 investigation was one; standing up Osama to tango with Saddam was another. But when, on 18  March 2004,  Secretary Powell made Paki...
  • The Great Taiwanese Vote Trick
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1366    ·    Commentary    
    A lot has been read into the results of the Taiwanese presidential election and the “defensive” referendum held on 20 March 2004. The referendum fell flat because the required numbers failed to turn up to vote. Instead, the President...
  • Cricket, People-to-People Contacts and Indo-Pak Rapprochement: A Pakistani Perspective
       ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1365    ·    Commentary    
    Indian and Pakistani people-to-people contacts in the past few months have been phenomenal.  Indian cricket fans crossing the border in larger numbers, to witness the-first-in-15-years one-day cricket and test series, have been overwhelmed ...
  • Nagaland: Is Economic Sovereignty an Answer?
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   15 Apr, 2004    ·    #1364    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 April 2004, the Nagaland Chief Minister, N Rio, said that the Nagas should settle for economic sovereignty if political sovereignty remained elusive. There has been no comment on this statement by the influential power centers in the state....
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