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  • Asia Pacific Security: Australia’s Security Re-Defined
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   22 May, 2001    ·    #498    ·    Commentary    
    General Background     Australia ’s threat perceptions and security architecture is predominantly determined by the overall security environment prevailing in the Asia Pacific.  It also needs to be recalle...
  • A Meeting with Al Badr Group at Lahore
       ·   22 May, 2001    ·    #497    ·    Commentary    
    Al Badr was recognized in September 1999 as one of the nine major militant groups operating in the Valley. A delegation of retired soldiers from the India-Pakistan Soldiers’ Initiative for Peace, which had visited Pakistan recently, ...
  • Land Reclamation: Indo-Bangladesh Maritime Dispute
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   22 May, 2001    ·    #496    ·    Commentary    
    Land reclamation is the process of claiming back submerged land from water bodies like oceans, sea, bays and rivers. The emergence of land is a natural phenomenon in water bodies through siltation and sedimentation over the years. It leads to disp...
  • Impressions of a Visit to Pakistan
       ·   23 May, 2001    ·    #495    ·    Commentary    
    Panel Adml. L. Ramdas,  Air Marshal Kuldip Rai,  Col. VS Verma  Lt. Gen MM Walia     The speakers were part of the India-Pakistan Soldiers&Atild...
  • Border Clash between India and Bangladesh: Analysing the Bangladeshi Reaction
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   11 May, 2001    ·    #494    ·    Commentary    
    Elections in South Asian countries bring out jingoism in the masses, the ruling and opposition parties. It provides the nation an opportunity to commit itself to a host of basic issues, whilst some of them are utilized to whip up patriotic passion...
  • India and Bangladesh: Enclaves Dispute
    Alok Kumar Gupta    ·   06 May, 2001    ·    #493    ·    Commentary    
    India and Bangladesh share a 4096 km-long border. Of this, 180 kms lies along the river line. The delimitation of the Indo-Bangladesh border is not complete as 6.5km stretch near Comilla in on the Tripura border is yet to be demarc...
  • Defence Budget: More Money Less Hardware
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   06 May, 2001    ·    #492    ·    Commentary    
    This year’s budgetary allocation of Rs 62,000 crores for the armed forces is 14 per cent higher than last year’s revised allocations. Adjusted against an inflation rate of 8 per cent, the allocation show a real time hike of 7.9 per cen...
  • India and China: Will the Taliban turn foes into Friends?
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   06 May, 2001    ·    #491    ·    Commentary    
    Since 1962, India and China have not been the best of friends. Chinese military support to Pakistan has placed a greater distance between them. However, the importance of breaking the ice  is realised by  them. Th...
  • Nepal under Maoist Threat
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   20 Apr, 2001    ·    #490    ·    Commentary    
    "Why can’t we use the army here,” said the Nepalese Prime Minister GP Koirala on April 10, "when it can serve in different countries as peace keeper?” Koirala was reacting to the recent Maoist guerilla attacks at Police...
  • International Terrorism: Osama bin Laden and Weapons of Mass Destruction
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   12 Apr, 2001    ·    #489    ·    Commentary    
    The United States and Western Countries have been haunted ever since the disintegration of the Soviet Union with the prospect of WMDs falling into the hands of terrorist groups.  Their fears have turned out true with informati...
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