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  • Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons and Militancy in Kashmir
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1277    ·    Commentary    
    How severe is the linkage between Pakistan’s nuclear programme and Kashmir? The report believes: While that (nuclear) programme (of Pakistan) was originally a response to India’s, confrontation over Kashmir has had much to do with the p ...
  • Pakistan’s Defence Expenditure and Kashmir
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1276    ·    Commentary    
    An important observation of the report is the linkages between defence expenditure and Kashmir conflict. The report comments: “The Kashmir conflict is also used by the military to justify high defence expenditures, including Pakistan’s ...
  • Can Musharraf be Trusted?: Pakistan’s Military and Kashmir
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1275    ·    Commentary    
    General Musharraf in his famous 12 January speech mentioned that Kashmir runs in Pakistan’s blood. A small correction is necessary. It runs in Pakistani military’s blood. The report is candid on the importance of Kashmir for Pakistan&rs ...
  • Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy: Internal Aspects
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1274    ·    Commentary    
    The International Crisis Group brought out a series of reports in Kashmir from different perspectives. The ICG should be commended especially for its report expressing Pakistan’s perceptions titled Kashmir: the View from Islamabad (ICG Asia R ...
  • Pakistan’s Nuclear Linkages with Iran
    Reshmi Kazi.    ·   15 Jan, 2004    ·    #1273    ·    Commentary    
    Islamabad’s nuclear linkages with Iran and its clandestine exports have featured in the world’s media in recent weeks. These have included links to North Korea and Libya’s clandestine activities as well. The latest evidence on Ira ...
  • The Stranded Pakistanis: Statelessness in Bangladesh
    R Ramasubramanian.    ·   13 Dec, 2003    ·    #1246    ·    Commentary    
    The Biharis or ‘stranded Pakistanis’ as they are sometimes called, were an Urdu-speaking Muslim minority living in the majority Hindu region of Bihar in pre-independence India. With the breakup of India in 1947, a large group fled to Ea ...
  • Pakistan Bangladesh Free Trade Agreement
    Anand Kumar.    ·   08 Dec, 2003    ·    #1237    ·    Commentary    
    Trade liberalization seems to be the buzzword in the subcontinent right now. Latest in the series of talks for bilateral free trade agreements has been the one between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Dhaka (November 16-17). Pakistan’s delegation w ...
  • New Initiatives: The “Other” Perception
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   12 Nov, 2003    ·    #1207    ·    Commentary    
    How do the Pakistanis see the Indian proposals and Pakistan’s response? The popular response could be broadly categorized into two – the moderat ...
  • Responding to a Response – I: Pakistan’s Counter Proposals: An Analysis
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   06 Nov, 2003    ·    #1201    ·    Commentary    
    India announced a dozen proposals to Pakistan during the third week of October including restoration of sports ties, air, road and rail links; a bus service from Srinagar to Muzaffarabad and a ferry service from Mumbai to Karachi; visas in more cit ...
  • Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The compound crisis of 1990
    .    ·   09 Sep, 2003    ·    #1132    ·    Commentary    
    ACM S K Mehra Appreciated the book as being crisp and readable. ACM Mehra called it a welcome addition to the debate over what happened in 1990. While Yakub Khan may have threatened using nuclear weapons, the ACM believed that there was no ...
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