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  • 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...
  • Agni-II: A watered down response from China
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   02 Feb, 2001    ·    #458    ·    Commentary    
    On 16 January, 2000 India successfully test-fired its 2000 km range Intermediate Range Ballistic  Missile (IRBM) Agni II. It has the capability to strike  targets upto 3000 km using specific  payloads. The  test was hig...
  • Talibanization of Afghanistan
    Brig Chandra B Khanduri    ·   25 Jan, 2001    ·    #457    ·    Commentary    
    In October 1994, a large  mobile and armed to-the-teeth force of young Muslim guerrillas, numbering approximately 3000, appeared on the outskirts of Kandhar. Soon it launched what it called a Rescue Operation and cleared and secured the town....
  • US Sanctions Regime and Defence Preparedness
    Wg.Cdr. NK Pant (Retd.)    ·   25 Jan, 2001    ·    #456    ·    Commentary    
    New Delhi must take up strongly with the new administration in Washington the issue of lifting sanctions slapped by the US and its European allies after the Pokhran II underground nuclear tests in May 1998. These measures have adve...
  • Pakistan-Taliban Nexus
    Parama Sinha Palit    ·   25 Jan, 2001    ·    #455    ·    Commentary    
    Indians would remember the last week of the last millennium for several years to come. The hijacking of a New Delhi-bound Indian Airlines aircraft from Kathmandu by the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) on the eve of Christmas, subjected the nati...
  • Government’s Stand on CTBT - Cavalier Approach to National Security
    Sarath Ramkumar    ·   30 Jul, 2000    ·    #454    ·    Commentary    
    Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh, while intervening in a debate in the Rajya Sabha on November 23, said that India had placed a voluntary moratorium on conducting further tests, but the inherent right to conduct them was ââ‚...
  • Japan: The Emerging Defence Debate
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   23 Jan, 2001    ·    #453    ·    Commentary    
    Japan had a ?Peace Constitution? imposed on it by the United States in the aftermath of World War II.? Article 9 of this Constitution banned Japan from waging war to settle international disputes.? Japan was also no...
  • Li Peng's Visit to India
    Sonika Gupta    ·   18 Jan, 2001    ·    #452    ·    Commentary    
    The visit of China ’s National People’s Congress Chairman, Mr. Li Peng, to India is essentially a feel good exercise. However, in view of recent tension between the two countries, this exercise is significant. Li Peng ha...
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