COMMENTARIES
  • Ballistic Missile Stability in Southern Asia
       ·   04 Jul, 2003    ·    #1073    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: PR Chari Director, IPCS Sp...
  • A Difficult Waste
    Gargi    ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1072    ·    Commentary    
    India’s nuclear programme is facing its toughest challenge: how to dispose off its huge amount of radioactive wastes? There is no safe method to dispose off them permanently. Not a single count...
  • Small Arms and Lawlessness in Bangladesh
    Anand Verma    ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1071    ·    Commentary    
    The spread of small arms has become a major challenge for the maintenance of law and order in Bangladesh. The country’s association with small arms is not new; what is new is its large scale us...
  • Sri Lankan Peace Process: Tough Road Ahead
       ·   01 Jul, 2003    ·    #1070    ·    Commentary    
    The Norwegian facilitated Sri Lankan peace process faces a critical test after the Tokyo Donors’ conference. After six round of talks, followed by LTTE's exclusion from the Washington Semin...
  • Should the Indian Military Go to Post War Iraq?
    Atul Bharadwaj    ·   04 Jul, 2003    ·    #1069    ·    Commentary    
    The US is losing one solider a day on the average in Iraq. The battle is continuing and is likely to intensify in the near future. Pentagon’s latest operation, named Desert Scorpion, is aimed to ‘De-Baathise’ Iraq. The purging ...
  • Will LTTE Give Peace a Chance?
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   25 Jun, 2003    ·    #1068    ·    Commentary    
    On 14 June 2003, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) oil tanker Shoshin blew up and sank. According to the Sri Lanka navy, warning shots were fired but the vessel failed to stop. Its 12-member crew then destroyed the vessel before it cou...
  • Building Hope on Indo-Pak Dialogue (Survey of Urdu media in Kashmir Valley 8-15 June 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   25 Jun, 2003    ·    #1067    ·    Commentary    
    Developments in Indo-Pak relations and the recent peace diplomacy continued to dominate the Urdu press in the Valley. Growing Indo-American friendly relations, especially after Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani’s visit to the US, received pr...
  • Drug Trafficking in Punjab: An ISI Game Plan to Revive Militancy
    Nihar Nayak    ·   24 Jun, 2003    ·    #1066    ·    Commentary    
    After its crusade against militancy, Punjab is now facing the peril of drug trafficking. As a transit route for drug trafficking, Punjab has slowly become a victim of drug abuse, which weakens the morale, physique and character of its youth. Dru...
  • Hoping for Dialogue (Survey of Urdu media in Kashmir Valley 15 – 31 May 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   24 Jun, 2003    ·    #1065    ·    Commentary    
    Two issues dominated the Urdu media in the Valley in the last fortnight of May. One, the Mufti Government’s failure to eradicate the menace of large -scale corruption. And, two, the thaw in Indo-Pak relations and consequent developments in...
  • PWG in Andhra Pradesh: Revived Kidnapping Strategy
       ·   18 Jun, 2003    ·    #1064    ·    Commentary    
    The Peoples War Group (PWG) in Andhra Pradesh has gone back to its old strategy of kidnapping prominent local leaders and policemen to pressurize the government into fulfilling its demands. On 2 April 2003, the PWG kidnapped four policemen in Pr...
POPULAR COMMENTARIES