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Pakistan and the Killings across the LoC: Tactical Offensive or a Strategic Defensive?
Lt. Gen. Arvinder S Lamba. · 08 Aug, 2013 · #4079 · Commentary
The recent killing of five soldiers in Poonch has reverberated the calculated and tested strategy of the Pakistan Army once again. Pakistan’s dubious track record of such events since the killing of C ...
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Half Yearly Review
J&K: Declining Violence, But Challenges Galore
Ashok Bhan. · 08 Aug, 2013 · #4078 · Commentary
The first half of the year 2013 in Jammu and Kashmir was marked by continued ceasefire violations and infiltration attempts from across, targeting by terrorists of security forces and police personnel, targeted attacks on civilians including Pancha ...
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J&K: The Classic Fight
Shujaat Bukhari. · 07 Aug, 2013 · #4072 · Commentary
In Jammu and Kashmir, a fight has been taking place to seek classical language status for Kashmiri. It is a tough challenge to convince the Government of India to grant it, though Kashmiri is undoubtedly an old language in the subcontinent. Histori ...
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Cross-LoC interactions in J&K: So Far, Yet Much More
D Suba Chandran. · 01 Aug, 2013 · #4062 · Commentary
In the recent years, no initiative between India and Pakistan, especially between the two parts of J&K evoked so much of enthusiasm, expectation along with dismay and disappointment, as the cross-LoC interactions have. The bus service for the d ...
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J&K Bank: Credibility at stake
Shujaat Bukhari. · 31 Jul, 2013 · #4061 · Commentary
“Rs 1,00000 Crore business”, this self-speaking hoarding in the premises of Jammu and Kashmir Bank’s zonal office on Moulana Azad Road stands out in the business highlights of the state. Being a banker to the state government, J&a ...
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India: Al Qaeda's Call to Muslim Youth
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4052 · Commentary
Its appellation bears close resemblance to a pre-existing evangelical video. On July 23, Al Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab, released the English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling upon the Indian Muslims to join th ...
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J&K: Land grab of a different kind
Shujaat Bukhari. · 24 Jul, 2013 · #4050 · Commentary
A high-level panel of state Legislative Council headed by its chairman Amrit Malhotra was in Delhi last week. On the face of it, it was not a pleasure trip as is attributed to all such committees of state legislature that take up visits outside the s ...
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J&K
Shun Seige Mentality
Shujaat Bukhari. · 17 Jul, 2013 · #4040 · Commentary
Two important developments are taking place in the month of August vis-a-vis the otherwise “dead” peace process aimed at bringing the stakeholders from both the sides of Line of Control (LoC) at the table and to revive the linkages aime ...
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Kashmir falls off the Global Radar
Shujaat Bukhari. · 10 Jul, 2013 · #4032 · Commentary
When German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner made his country ...
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J&K: Mr PM you failed to talk peace
Shujaat Bukhari. · 26 Jun, 2013 · #4013 · Commentary
After taking stock of the developments of Tuesday, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s sixth visit to Jammu and Kashmir was ill timed. On the face of it, the visit is to “celebrate” the co ...
