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  • Indo-US Naval Cooperation
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   25 Oct, 2002    ·    #898    ·    Commentary    
      Admiral Madhvendra Singh, Indian Navy Chief, visited the United States in September 2002 and held talks with several US government and military officials on global and regional security issues. The visit was aimed at consolidating th...
  • Globalism, Regionalism and the War on Terror in South Asia
       ·   25 Oct, 2002    ·    #897    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker:  Jim Rolfe Associate Professor, Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu Chair:  ...
  • India’s case for a Limited Missile Defence
    D Suba Chandran    ·   23 Oct, 2002    ·    #894    ·    Commentary    
      The continuing brinkmanship of India and Pakistan reflects the incessant need to raise the ante to gain advantage in their bilateral nuclear and missile competition. India contends an unpredictable Pakistan needs to repeatedly test i...
  • Countdown to Pakistan Elections: (October 1999 - September 2002)
    Raja Mohan    ·   08 Oct, 2002    ·    #893    ·    Commentary    
    12 Oct 1999 The Pakistan Army deposed on Oct.12. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who had earlier dismissed the Chief of the Army staff, Gen. Pervez Musharraf and replaced him with ISI chief Lt. Gen. Zi...
  • Elections in Pakistan
    D Suba Chandran    ·   08 Oct, 2002    ·    #892    ·    Commentary    
      Four factors will prove to be crucial in deciding the outcome of elections in Pakistan. First is the level of popular participation in the forthcoming elections. There has been a considerable decline in the voting percentage, ever si...
  • Elections in Pakistan: A Survey
       ·   08 Oct, 2002    ·    #891    ·    Commentary    
    1988 Elections   Gen Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, the then Chief of Armed Forces overthrew the elected government on 15 July 1977, and later became the President of Pakistan. He amended the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan, organized a...
  • The Story of Successes: The Journey from 9/11 to October Election
    Rizwan Zeb    ·   08 Oct, 2002    ·    #890    ·    Commentary    
      "All is changed utterly,” wrote the Irish critic, playwright and poet of the modern age, WB Yeats, some seventy years ago.    A year has passed since September 11, which changed the world and the...
  • (W)here Lies the Solution? - Pointers from the Recent Surveys
    N Manoharan    ·   22 Oct, 2002    ·    #889    ·    Commentary    
    What is the appropriate solution to the Kashmir issue? Is it through militancy or through negotiations? Is it through independence, or enjoying greater autonomy within India, or joining Pakistan? Would trifurcation solve the communal problem? Wh...
  • MiG Accidents - Causes and Remedies
    PR Chari    ·   04 Oct, 2002    ·    #888    ·    Commentary    
      The website “globalsecurity.org” informs us that the Indian Air Force possessed 55 MiG-21 MF/PFMA, 66 MiG-21FL/U and 165 MiG-21 bis/U fighter/ ground attack aircraft in 2002. They were down to these numbers from 69, 66 an...
  • Alliances among the Outfits: Necessity of a quid pro quo
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   08 Oct, 2002    ·    #887    ·    Commentary    
      Of late, a number of insurgent outfits, fighting for homelands of different types are building alliances in India’s north-east. A commonality of views and resolve to carry on fighting, have replaced any clash of interests among...
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