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  • Pakistan Today – I: PML (N): In a Perfect Storm?
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   16 Nov, 2000    ·    #434    ·    Commentary    
    The Pakistan Muslim League (N) ever since the arrest of Sharif has been fighting to pose a united front. Though the party has not split formally, the danger of such an event cannot be ruled out.  Since the arrest of Nawaz Sharif an ...
  • Pakistan: The Latest Military Reshuffle
    Dr. Subhash Kapila.    ·   25 Sep, 2000    ·    #416    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan 's latest military reshuffle has been made much of in some Indian media reports. These reports basically focus on the moving out of Lt. Gen. Aziz Khan from the appointment of Chief of General Staff at Pak Army's General Headqu ...
  • Monitoring Pakistan
    .    ·   20 Aug, 2000    ·    #407    ·    Commentary    
    Some years ago a former defence official went to Pakistan . At Islamabad he was taken to the Regional Centre for Strategic in Islamabad by his Pakistani hosts. Here he was shown around the place and saw rows of newspaper clippi ...
  • Pakistan Today - III: The Myth of Talibanisation
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   27 Feb, 2001    ·    #473    ·    Commentary    
    Is Pakistan getting talibanised? What are the factors that underline such an assumption? Would the mere growth of the madrassas in numbers and the support received by the jihadi organisations from a section of the society be sufficient enough ...
  • 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 nation ...
  • Bush's Approach to Pakistan
    Dr. Chintamani Mahapatra.    ·   11 Aug, 2001    ·    #538    ·    Commentary    
    How would the new Bush Administration deal with Pakistan ? Will it be any different from the previous Clinton Administration? In fact, when President Bush assumed office in Washington, Pakistan was reeling under three layers of America ...
  • Future of US Policy in South Asia: Controlling Pakistan
    Parama Sinha Palit.    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #478    ·    Commentary    
    Prior to his departure for South Asia in March 2000, President Clinton summed up his views on the region by calling it ‘the most dangerous place’. South Asian observers could have hardly agreed more. After Pokhran and Chagai in 19 ...
  • Pakistan Army’s Changing Profile: Analysis
    Dr. Subhash Kapila.    ·   28 Aug, 2001    ·    #560    ·    Commentary    
    What is the present nature and character of the Pakistan Army and what are its attitudes towards the question of Indo-Pak relations? Surprisingly, many former senior officials in India , both civil and military, maintain that the Pakistan Army ...
  • A Meeting with Al Badr Group at Lahore
    .    ·   22 May, 2001    ·    #497    ·    Commentary    
    Al Badr was recognized in September 1999 as one of the nine major militant groups operating in the Valley. A delegation of retired soldiers from the India-Pakistan Soldiers’ Initiative for Peace, which had visited Pakistan recently, met ...
  • Jihad, Pakistan and Indo-Pak Dialogue
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   02 Mar, 2001    ·    #477    ·    Commentary    
    Ever since the military coup and acquiring power, General Musharraf has been continuously expressing his desire for a dialogue with India at various platforms. One significant condition for any such dialogue from India ’s side ha ...
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