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  • 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...
  • Kashmir: Coping with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs)
    S. S. Chandel    ·   14 Feb, 2001    ·    #463    ·    Commentary    
        Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are the most potent and intractable means of violence in the hands of terrorists in Kashmir. They have been able to cause maximum casualties on the security forces with these. The advantages...
  • Indo-Pak Relations and Prospects of Re-enaganement
       ·   10 Feb, 2001    ·    #462    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Maj. Gen. Mehmood Ali Durrani (retd.)      Former Military Secretary to Gen Zia, Former Chairman Pakistan Ordnance Factory.     General Durrani began with the statement that Indo- Pak re...
  • Why is China so Ambiguous?
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   10 Feb, 2001    ·    #461    ·    Commentary    
    For the last two years, one of the major foreign policy objectives  of India has  been to lobby  for permanent  membership of the Security Council. We have seen the top political leadership and the mandarins of the MEA in...
  • The peace process in Kashmir
       ·   10 Feb, 2001    ·    #460    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Prof. Riaz Punjabi     At the outset, the speaker wished to inform the group that his perceptions were based on interaction with the public and journalists in addition to the local media. His significant observation...
  • Peace in Kashmir
    Maj. Gen. Ashok Krishna (Retd)    ·   06 Feb, 2001    ·    #459    ·    Commentary    
    If we are to give a fillip to the peace process in Kashmir it is necessary to place more emphasis on the future than the past. In this context there is a need to correctly view a few issues which often get distorted in various writings and...
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