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  • The US and the Taliban: Remembrance of Things Past
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   10 Nov, 2001    ·    #633    ·    Commentary    
    The slow progress of US military action against Afghanistan is causing embarrassment in Washington .  Poor strategic insight into the Afghan imbroglio accounts for this.  Over four weeks into the punitive air strik...
  • Afghanistan: Its Uncertain Future
       ·   10 Nov, 2001    ·    #632    ·    Commentary    
    Panel: Sreedhar Kalim Bahadur IP Khosla Sreedhar Taliban is a Pashtun movement and remains so even today....
  • C&BWs: Panic Poisons
       ·   10 Nov, 2001    ·    #631    ·    Commentary    
    The horrendous effects of gas attacks in trench-warfare during the First World War had a lasting effect on the conscience of nations. This led to chemical and biological weapons (CBWs) being proscribed under the Geneva Protocol of 1925. Nations ab...
  • Hydropower potential: Some concerns and issues
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   11 Nov, 2001    ·    #630    ·    Commentary    
    No study of water in the Indian and South Asian context can ignore its hydroelectric potential. One of its vital uses is the generation of electricity.  The region-wise potential along with its exploitation is given at Table1. The hydropower ...
  • Profile of Indian Paramilitary Forces – I Central Reserve Police Force
    Mallika Joseph    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #629    ·    Commentary    
    The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was originally raised as the “Crown Representative’s Police” on 27 July 1939 in Neemuch (Madhya Pradesh). The main function of the force was to preserve law and order in the princely states...
  • Pakistan Post-September 11, 2001: A Divided Nation
    Subhash Kapila    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #628    ·    Commentary    
    September 11, 2001 was a day of infamy when the world watched with horror the vivid images of the citadels of the United States being subjected to terrorist attacks. The global focus turned towards the locii of Islamic Jehadi terrorism, na...
  • Afghanistan: After Taliban What?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #627    ·    Commentary    
    It is believed that peace will be established once the Taliban regime is overthrown in Afghanistan . Formation of a broad-based national government, either under King Zahir Shah or under the UN, the West feels, would be the first step in th...
  • Japan: Assertive Step in Defence Policy
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #626    ·    Commentary    
    Japan continues to be governed by the ?Peace Constitution? imposed by the United States in the aftermath of World War II. Article 9 of this Constitution stipulated Japan ?s renunciation of war and the threat of using force t...
  • Terrorism - A Messiah Needed in the Arab World
    Lt. Gen. AM Vohra    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #625    ·    Commentary    
    The 11 September attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon were heinous, fiendish and abhorrent.   The reaction to punish the perpetrators who threaten to repeat their performance is natural.  The demand that Osama bin Lade...
  • Sri Lanka Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections and the Politics of LTTE
    K Sarveswaran    ·   31 Oct, 2001    ·    #624    ·    Commentary    
    Prabakaran, the supreme commander of the LTTE, has expressed readiness to ‘talk with the United National Party (UNP) without a facilitator, if it comes to power’. Reading between the lines would reveal the political calculation...
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