COMMENTARIES
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Preparing for ‘Limited Nuclear War’
Firdaus Ahmed · 07 Mar, 2003 · #982 · Commentary
Competitive rhetoric that currently substitutes for Indo-Pak dialogue heralded the turn of the year. In the dying moments of the previous year, President Musharraf let on that he had contemplated “unconventional” war had India made g...
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Space Terrorism: Is it a Possibility?
Ajay Lele · 07 Mar, 2003 · #981 · Commentary
Post-9/11, the US administration has become paranoid with terrorism. The Columbia space shuttle disaster is a case in point. Since, neither the hundreds of nuclear weapons nor the missile defence shield are capable of saving the US from potentia...
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Nuclear stand-off: the US quagmire in Far East
Niraj Kumar · 06 Mar, 2003 · #980 · Commentary
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The North Korean intention to “unfreeze” a sealed plutonium reactor at Yongbyon sparked off an international crisis involving US, R...
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International Law and the current US-Iraq Crisis
Vivek Shankar Mathur · 06 Mar, 2003 · #979 · Commentary
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We are slowly inching towards another p...
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The Two Victims of Iraq Crisis
Atul Bharadwaj · 06 Mar, 2003 · #978 · Commentary
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The US has both the military might and the will to achieve its objectives, yet it is unable to force the outcome in Iraq. The international and...
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MDF: A Whirlwind in Formation
Nihar Nayak · 04 Mar, 2003 · #977 · Commentary
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The hitherto unknown Tamil Nadu based Islamist extremist outfit, (MDF), has hogged the limelight with 16 arrests of its cadres in 2002. The mos...
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Managing Bangladeshi Migrants: Crisis Resolved, Problem Remains
Prafulla Ketkar · 04 Mar, 2003 · #976 · Commentary
A weeklong crisis about the 213 illegal Bangladeshi migrants has finally been resolved for the time being. Illegal migration from Bangladesh is not a new security threat; in fact, it is continuously on the rise. Though the tension dissipated aft...
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Who Steers Al Qaeda’s Fleet?
Vijay Sakhuja · 04 Mar, 2003 · #975 · Commentary
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US intelligence has linked fifteen merchant vessels to al Qaeda that are being used to ferry operatives, weapons, money and supplies over the h...
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Organized Criminal Networks: A Challenge to Indian Democracy
Prafulla Ketkar · 06 Mar, 2003 · #974 · Commentary
In the last fifty-five years, Indian polity has faced many challenges in maintaining its democratic system and in recent times, sophisticated criminal networks have emerged as the latest threat. Though organized crime, characterised by non-ideol...
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Terrorism and Organized Crime in India
D Suba Chandran · 03 Mar, 2003 · #973 · Commentary
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Organized crime and terrorism result from ineffective governance and have developed a symbiotic relat...
