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  • Indian Peacekeeping in Iraq?
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   16 Jun, 2003    ·    #1053    ·    Commentary    
    That a trial balloon could be floated on whether India should send its troops to Iraq for peacekeeping to replace the hard pressed soldiers of the Coalition of the Willing is indicative of the changed thinking in India’s Establishment. Pol...
  • Shock and Awe in Iraq: Revolution in Military Affairs
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   16 Jun, 2003    ·    #1052    ·    Commentary    
    The coalition Iraq operation in March-April 2003, fashionably called as Shock & Awe, had several unique factors. The conflict had never ceased after the 1991 Gulf War, when the country was virtually divided into three parts â&ac...
  • Pakistan and Terrorism: High time the US calls a Spade a Spade
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   16 Jun, 2003    ·    #1051    ·    Commentary    
    The US President’s triumphant affirmation - “Al Qaida is on the run… they are not a problem any longer…we have seen the turning of the tide...
  • Defending the Environment
    Ajay Lele    ·   13 Jun, 2003    ·    #1050    ·    Commentary    
    Apparently, the world order has not changed after the American invasion of Iraq. France, Germany, EU and America may do a “kiss and makeup” act, but they would be having a hidden agenda to promote a multipolar world. The invitation t...
  • Who Bells the Cats? (Survey of Urdu Media in Kashmir Valley: 1-15 May 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   06 Jun, 2003    ·    #1049    ·    Commentary    
    In the first fortnight of May 2003, two issues dominated reports and analyses in the Urdu media in Kashmir: the recent developments vis-à-vis Indo-Pak peace diplomacy and the six weeks time granted by the NHRC to the Mu...
  • Child combatants in the People's War Group
    P V Ramana    ·   06 Jun, 2003    ·    #1048    ·    Commentary    
    On May 29, 2003 the vernacular Telugu media reported from Karimnagar district, Andhra Pradesh, that left-wing extremists of the People’s War Group (PWG) had, on May 24, abducted a minor girl, N...
  • China's own GPS
    Ajay Lele    ·   31 May, 2003    ·    #1047    ·    Commentary    
    On 25 May 2003 China launched a locally made navigation and positioning satellite. A Long March 3-A rocket carried this Beidou satellite, which is the third in the series of navigational satellite launches. This latest launch was the 28th consec...
  • LTTE's Demand for Interim Administration
    Ram Kumar    ·   28 May, 2003    ·    #1046    ·    Commentary    
    The cat is out of the bag. After a month long stalemate in the Sri Lankan Peace process, the LTTE has come out openly with the demand for an interim administration in North-East Sri Lanka. The LTTE announced its decision to review its participat...
  • Sri Lankan Peace Talks – IX: Deadlock over Dead Claims and Locked Commitments
    N Manoharan    ·   27 May, 2003    ·    #1045    ·    Commentary    
    There was war. With the change of government in December 2001, there was a ceasefire, and the hope for peace. Consequently, with Norwegian mediation and sustained international pressure, there were peace talks. Six rounds were held till March 20...
  • George Fernandes and Sino-Indian Relations
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   27 May, 2003    ·    #1044    ·    Commentary    
    The recent visit to China by George Fernandes got good media coverage both within and outside India, despite the international focus on Iraq. The reason lay not in his being the first Defence Minister of India to have visited China in a decade, ...
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