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  • Pakistan Army’s Changing Profile: Analysis
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #560    ·    Commentary    
    What is the present nature and character of the Pakistan Army and what are its attitudes towards the question of Indo-Pak relations? Surprisingly, many former senior officials in India , both civil and military, maintain that the Pakistan A...
  • Implications of the Sino-Russian Friendship Treaty
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #559    ·    Commentary    
    A twenty years Treaty of Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation was signed between the Russian Federation and the Peoples Republic of China on 16 July 2001. Russia and China have signed a number of protocols and agreements in th...
  • Need to mend fences with neighbours
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #558    ·    Commentary    
    India , perhaps, is the only country in the world that inherited from its colonial history, unsettled borders with all its neighbours. While the feud with China and Pakistan is enormously complicated and has defied solution due t...
  • Nagaland: Opportunity to Exploit Fortuitous Advantages
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #557    ·    Commentary    
    The apprehensions underlying the government’s July 27, 2001 decision to restrict the cease-fire with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) only to Nagaland was the prospect of renewed insurgency. Statements from va...
  • Northeastern Insurgents in Bhutan: Time for a Pro-active Action
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #556    ·    Commentary    
    It is a classic case of protracted insurgency overflowing into the territory of India 's neighbour. The July 31, 2001 attack on a truck carrying Bhutanese forest officials by unidentified terrorists, apart from evoking sympa...
  • A Border Guards Organization for Anti-Terrorist Operations
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #555    ·    Commentary    
    Indian intelligence has chosen to remain myopic, both in terms of space (neighours, relevant nations and superpowers) and time (present and future); all our wars in 1947, 1962, 1965 1971 and 1999 bear testimony of this statement. We did not have f...
  • Does the US non-proliferation policy make any difference in South Asia?
       ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #554    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Raju G. C. Thomas     Allia Chalmers Professor of International Affairs, Marquette University     The two general purposes of the US non-proliferation policy are: ...
  • Kashmir: The Way Ahead – Part II
       ·   24 Aug, 2001    ·    #553    ·    Commentary    
        Interview with G Parthasarthy, Former High Commissioner of India at Pakistan     At the summit in Agra and before, Pakistan has been insisting that Kashmir ...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM : From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 2
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #552    ·    Commentary    
    The four-year ceasefire between the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the Union government has failed because it has not yielded any negotiated political settlement. While it has satisfied the short-term goal of brin...
  • Talking with the NSCN-IM: From Paris to Bangkok to Amsterdam – Part 1
    Shivaji Mukherjee    ·   21 Aug, 2001    ·    #551    ·    Commentary    
    In tackling the threat from the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM), the Union government seems trapped in a contradictory strategy of its own making.      One horn of this strategy is the gov...
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