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  • Fundamentalism and the ISI in Northeast Insurgency
    P G Rajamohan    ·   11 Aug, 2003    ·    #1090    ·    Commentary    
    The insurgency in Northeast India has resulted in 13,500 killings during 1992-2003. The growing bond between the native militants of the Northeast, and the ISI and other foreign-based Islamist organizations encourages not only terrorist activiti...
  • Peacekeeping in Iraq: India Chooses to play safe
    Anand Kumar    ·   11 Aug, 2003    ·    #1089    ·    Commentary    
    After months of agonizing debate regarding participation in the stabilization force operating in Iraq, India has finally decided not to participate in this force. Its immediate aim was to restore law and order. Once this was achieved it wo...
  • Is the Hurriyat a Political Force?
    Amin Masoodi    ·   11 Aug, 2003    ·    #1088    ·    Commentary    
    Has the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) been able to sustain itself as a political force in its struggle for resolving the Kashmir issue, and what is its future? An analysis reveals that it has more weaknesses than strengths, especially a...
  • GM Food: To be or not to be…
    Ajay Lele    ·   08 Aug, 2003    ·    #1087    ·    Commentary    
    The European Union is emerging as a new pressure group on the global geopolitical scene during the last few years. They have successfully managed to emerge out of the US shadow. The opposition to the American war on Iraq by the EU is a case in p...
  • Kalam assures peaceful return to Kashmiri Migrants
    R Ramasubramanian    ·   06 Aug, 2003    ·    #1086    ·    Commentary    
    “Sharnarthi Apne Desh Meinâ€Â...
  • Suicide Terrorism in South Asia: From Promised Land to Presumed Land
    D Suba Chandran    ·   26 Jul, 2003    ·    #1085    ·    Commentary    
    In South Asia, three countries have been the principal victims of suicide terrorism: Sri Lanka, India ? in Jammu and Kashmir, and Pakistan. While Sri Lanka has been witnessing suicide attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ever sin...
  • Reaping the Whirlwind – III: Not America vs Army, but America and Army
    D Suba Chandran    ·   18 Jul, 2003    ·    #1084    ·    Commentary    
    (Article Review: Stephen Cohen, "The Jihadist threat to Pakistan," The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2003, 26;3, pp.7-25.) Cohen addresses another important fear, which plagues both India and the US. How far is the military u...
  • Reaping the Whirlwind – II: Allah vs Army
    D Suba Chandran    ·   18 Jul, 2003    ·    #1083    ·    Commentary    
    (Article Review: Stephen Cohen, "The Jihadist threat to Pakistan," The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2003, 26;3, pp.7-25.) Elsewhere, Cohen emphasizes that "unless Pakistan is defeated in a war or undergoes an internal split o...
  • Reaping the Whirlwind – I: Jihadis vs Pakistan
    D Suba Chandran    ·   18 Jul, 2003    ·    #1082    ·    Commentary    
    (Article Review: Stephen Cohen, "The Jihadist threat to Pakistan," The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2003, 26;3, pp.7-25.) One of the major concerns in both India and elsewhere about Pakistan has been the increasing rol...
  • Challenges to Naga Integration
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   16 Jul, 2003    ·    #1081    ·    Commentary    
    The ceasefire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland–Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) is poised for another extension beyond July 31, amidst lingering hopes and aspirations that the solution to t...
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