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  • Elections in Kashmir-VIII: “There will be larger participation: Prof Riyaz Punjabi”
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #823    ·    Commentary    
    How do you see foresee the forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir? Foresee in what sense? Whether we are really in a position to conduct free and fair elections, given the fact that the electoral rolls have not been r...
  • Pakistan Constitutional Proposals – I: A Puppet Prime Minister and a Powerless Parliament
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #822    ·    Commentary    
         Of the proposed amendments to the Pakistani Constitution, the most important is the one empowering the President to appoint and remove the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. This proposal seeks to provide the President with...
  • Center-NSCN(IM) Talks: Hurdles and Prospects – I
    Paolienlal Haokip    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #821    ·    Commentary    
         Beginning with the 1997 ceasefire, the peace process between the Government of India (GOI) and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim–Isak-Muivah faction (NSCN-IM) h...
  • ‘Terrorism’ and Intellectual Responsibility
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #820    ·    Commentary    
         The conceptual contestation over ‘terrorism’, as a term in the strategist’s glossary, has been furious. There is little argument over what constitutes terrorism, but it is widely accepted as being the u...
  • Unified response can defeat PWG ‘paper tigers’
    P V Ramana    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #819    ·    Commentary    
         Direct peace talks between the Andhra Pradesh (AP) government and left-wing extremists of the People’s War Group (PWG) have been stillborn as expected; the PWG was buying time to recoup by proposing these talks. ...
  • ISI in the Northeast: Need to tie the loose ends
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   05 Aug, 2002    ·    #818    ·    Commentary    
         The recent arrest of an Assam Rifles (AR) employee in Shillong for his alleged nexus with the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan raises basic questions about how subversion is being handled by the Indian gover...
  • Inference from Kasim Nagar Massacre
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #817    ·    Commentary    
         A few months after the Kaluchak massacre the terrorists have struck yet again at Kasim Nagar, killing 33 people including women and children who were poor Hindu labourers from UP and Bihar. The purpose, as stated by the ...
  • The Need to Revisit Conventional Doctrine
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #816    ·    Commentary    
         Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures have rightly attracted considerable attention, energized by the standoff between the two South Asian nuclear powers. While technical means to emplace them have been the preoccupation, thes...
  • Prospects and Problems of J & K's Trifurcation
       ·   15 Aug, 2002    ·    #815    ·    Commentary    
       The RSS has demanded the trifurcation of J & K into a Hindu dominated Jammu region, Muslim majority Kashmir valley and the Buddhist Ladakh area. The VHP has gone one step ahead by demanding a separate administrative unit for Kas...
  • Chinese Submarines and Taiwan Friction
    Atul Bharadwaj    ·   11 Aug, 2003    ·    #814    ·    Commentary    
         China is not only the most populous country in the world but is also the leading arms importer. According to SIPRI, China bought ships, aircrafts and other combat systems worth $3 billion last year. Chinese arms purchase...
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