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  • Inside Pakistan IV: Return of the Daughter
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   31 Aug, 2002    ·    #845    ·    Commentary    
         A major question during the last week (19-25 August 2002) was whether Benazir Bhutto would return to Pakistan and lead her party in the forthcoming elections. The military regime has categorically stated that Benazir would ...
  • Pakistan Navy and Nuclear Deterrence
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   09 Sep, 2002    ·    #844    ·    Commentary    
         Eight countries possess nuclear weapons (US, Russia, UK, France, China, Israel, India and Pakistan) and three (Iraq, Iran and DPRK) are seeking them. Among them, the US, Russia, UK, France and China have experience in opera ...
  • Inside Pakistan III: Grand National Alliance
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   26 Aug, 2002    ·    #843    ·    Commentary    
         A major event inside Pakistan during the week 12-18 August 2002 was the formation of a Grand National Alliance (GNA). It is on open secret that the GNA was formed with the full backing of the military regime. It was also in ...
  • Tale of two elections (Pak Media Survey 12-18 Aug 2002)
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   26 Aug, 2002    ·    #842    ·    Commentary    
         The English media of Pakistan during the week 12-18 August 2002 focused primarily on two election processes. The first, their own, which is scheduled in October and the second to be held in Jammu and Kashmir by India, sched ...
  • Military Sales and Terrorism: The French Connection
    Vijay Sakhuja.    ·   27 Aug, 2002    ·    #836    ·    Commentary    
         The second Agosta 90-B submarine being built in Karachi for the Pakistan Navy was launched on 24 August 2002. In 1994, Paris and Islamabad concluded a contract for the construction of three submarines at a total cost of US ...
  • Bangladesh-Pakistan Relations: The Dawn of a New Era
    Alok Kumar Gupta.    ·   15 Aug, 2002    ·    #826    ·    Commentary    
         The three-day much acclaimed but widely criticized visit by the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to Bangladesh, his expression of regrets for the excesses committed by the Pakistani army during the 1971 Liberation war, ...
  • Pakistan Constitutional Proposals – I: A Puppet Prime Minister and a Powerless Parliament
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #822    ·    Commentary    
         Of the proposed amendments to the Pakistani Constitution, the most important is the one empowering the President to appoint and remove the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. This proposal seeks to provide the President with &l ...
  • The Need to Revisit Conventional Doctrine
    Firdaus Ahmed.    ·   11 Aug, 2002    ·    #816    ·    Commentary    
         Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures have rightly attracted considerable attention, energized by the standoff between the two South Asian nuclear powers. While technical means to emplace them have been the preoccupation, these p ...
  • Constitutional Proposals: The Debate Continues (Pak Media Survey, 22-28 July 2002)
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   28 Jul, 2002    ·    #811    ·    Commentary    
         The focus in the media this week has continued to be the constitutional proposals with special emphasis on the National Security Council (NSC) despite General Musharraf announcing that the proposed NSC would be non-intrusiv ...
  • Inside Pakistan-II: Political Parties Gear for Elections
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   28 Jul, 2002    ·    #810    ·    Commentary    
         Reconciliation of the political parties to the fact that the constitution is going to be amended and elections would be held in October 2002 has been the major event last week (22-28 July 2002). The parties’ decision ...
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