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  • Pakistan Today - III: The Myth of Talibanisation
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #473    ·    Commentary    
    Is Pakistan getting talibanised? What are the factors that underline such an assumption? Would the mere growth of the madrassas in numbers and the support received by the jihadi organisations from a section of the society be sufficient eno...
  • Pakistan Today - II: Economy: Stupid?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #472    ·    Commentary    
    Many “political” and “security” analysts in India and elsewhere had been predicting an economic collapse of Pakistan for the last two years. Though the economy of Pakistan for the last couple of years had be...
  • Pakistan Today - I: Democracy: Chasing a Mirage?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #471    ·    Commentary    
    Since the army took over in October 1999, the widely discussed subject, inside and outside Pakistan , is the return of democracy. How long will the Army stay in power? The return of democracy to Pakistan depends on three factors: Fi...
  • Political Violence in Assam: Three Trends
    Anindita Dasgupta    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #470    ·    Commentary    
    The trend of rising violence in India 's North East demonstrates that Kashmir 's violence is minor compared to what is possible in this region. It is not Kashmir but Tripura which tops the country in terms of civilian cas...
  • Environment, Energy and Development
    Col. PK Gautam    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #469    ·    Commentary    
    The 21st century is now witness to a new and emergent regional, national and international security issue – that of the environment. Though the environment is a recent discipline in mainstream security studies, it had always affected life on...
  • Ganges and Irrawady: Points of Convergence
    N Manoharan    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #468    ·    Commentary    
    The visit of Indian Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh, to Myanmar in February 2001 has brought the lost neighbour into the radar screens of Indian foreign policy making. His visit was a major one after the one by Rajiv Gandhi in 1987. What i...
  • The 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty: Time to Revamp
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   26 Feb, 2001    ·    #467    ·    Commentary    
    The Indo-Nepalese relations, despite our protected history of cordial relationship have often waxed and waned and have even been under pressure, principally due to the 1950 Treaty.     The Nepalese are never tired of raking...
  • Armed Forces and natural disasters
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   14 Feb, 2001    ·    #466    ·    Commentary    
    Though India and the world rose in unison to provide succor to the extremely traumatized survivors of the severest earthquake in parts of Gujarat in the recent times, it was the military which rushed for help in the affected areas....
  • The Smearing of the Sacrificial Goat
       ·   14 Feb, 2001    ·    #465    ·    Commentary    
    Justice Anwarul Haq Hamoodur’s War Commission that Enquirer into the circumstances in which Lieut Gen A K Niazi surrendered former East Pakistan to the Indian Army in December 1971 is a clandestinely public document now. The butcher&...
  • Terrorist Threat to India: A Perspective
    Brig. SS Chandel    ·   14 Feb, 2001    ·    #464    ·    Commentary    
    The inheritors of the legacy of Mahmood Ghaznavi and Mohammed Ghauri continue to live in their make believe world that someday they will conquer Kashmir and then Hindu India if they persevere. They are told by their historians that their a...
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