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  • Sri Lanka: Lions, Tigers and an Elephant
    N Manoharan    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #360    ·    Commentary    
    New Mahout     With the fall of Elephant Pass (EP) rapidly and surprisingly on April 22, the LTTE stands to achieve victory over the Sri Lankan army. Its fall was imminent since December 1999, when government troops started...
  • Intelligence Process and Kargil
    Bhashyam Kasturi    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #359    ·    Commentary    
    The Kargil intrusions in 1999 must be seen in the context of the Lahore bus ride and its impact on Indo-Pak relations. While information was available on possible "infiltration" as opposed to "intrusion", India missed the woo...
  • Prospects of 'Third Side' Interventions in Sri Lanka
    Prof. RVR Chandrasekhara Rao    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #358    ·    Commentary    
    The Sri Lankan civil war has acquired crisis prepertions. The fact that evacuation of the government forces is on the cards, with New Delhi agreeing to do this, is a pointer to recurrence of a Dien Bien Phu .    ...
  • Jaffna: Action Replay
    Maj. Gen. Yashwant Deva (Retd)    ·   08 Jun, 2000    ·    #357    ·    Commentary    
    The ( Jaffna ) town, when we drove through, was more or less empty with the few people we saw, looking on with anguished faces, no doubt dreading the tomorrow, which had  promised to be different but was in fact, turning out to be just ...
  • Clinton Visit and the US-Bangladesh Relations
    Kanchan Lakshman    ·   17 May, 2000    ·    #356    ·    Commentary    
    The recent visit by U.S. President Bill Clinton to Bangladesh , the first of its kind, is a landmark in the history of United States-Bangladesh relations. It is an indication that Bangladesh figures high in U.S. policy towar...
  • Hostage Negotiations: Flaws at Kandhahar
    Kanchan Lakshman    ·   17 May, 2000    ·    #355    ·    Commentary    
    Hostage negotiations are not normal negotiating processes. The response towards hostage-taking terrorism involves issues credibility, prestige, and reputation that differentiate hostage negotiations and normal bargaining. The Kandahar incide...
  • Kashmir: Need for an Internal Dialogue
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 May, 2000    ·    #354    ·    Commentary    
    In recent weeks there have been some positive signs that the Central government and All Party Hurriyet Conference (APHC) might enter a dialogue on resolving the crisis in Kashmir . There has been no official confirmation, but it is believed...
  • The First Suicide Bomb in Kashmir
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 May, 2000    ·    #353    ·    Commentary    
    When Afaq Ahmad Shah, a 12th class student blew himself up along with his Maruti car to attack the 15 Corps Head Quarters in Badamibagh Cantonment during the third week of May, he became the first suicide bomber in the twelve year old militancy in...
  • Proxy War in Kashmir & Pakistan's Economy
    Dr. Subhash Kapila    ·   10 May, 2000    ·    #352    ·    Commentary    
    General Background Pakistan  has always faced economic difficulties due to several  reasons – a basically agrarian economy, lack of industrial infrastructure and the sizeable diversion of  financial resources to ...
  • India's Border Management
       ·   01 May, 2000    ·    #351    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: T. Ananthachari     Former Director General, Border Security Force     Analysts and policymakers tend to treat specific issues of national security in isolation, with the result that the tota...
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