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  • Thinking Beyond the Line of Control
    Ali Ahmed   ·   11 Aug, 2008    ·    #2646    ·    Commentary    
    The Line of Control (LOC) is critical to the India-Pakistan peace process as is evident from the views of the two sides. The LOC is unacceptable to Pakistan as a permanent border as the Kashmir Valley would remain on the Indian side. India's st ...
  • The Pay Commission Outcome as Opportunity
    Ali Ahmed   ·   16 Oct, 2008    ·    #2710    ·    Commentary    
    There has been an attempt to generate a controversy around the military's propositioning the government on raising its emoluments and addressing the perceived decline in status. Inspired leaks have tried to bring into question the sense of prop ...
  • Post 26/11 Strategy Recomendation For India
    Ali Ahmed   ·   22 Dec, 2008    ·    #2758    ·    Commentary    
    The 'proactive' school of thought believes that India should respond rigorously to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. The argument is that the attackers need to be punished and future attacks deterred. India's credibility is also at stake. I ...
  • Engaging a Reluctant Pakistan
    Ali Ahmed   ·   26 Jan, 2009    ·    #2789    ·    Commentary    
    Pakistan's security predicament has been attributed to the definition of national interest being usurped by its Army. The Army in seeking to preserve its institutional interest has conflated its corporate interest with the national interest. Th ...
  • Questioning ‘Compellence’ as Answer to India’s Pakistan Dilemma
    Ali Ahmed   ·   02 Mar, 2009    ·    #2824    ·    Commentary    
    Strategic commentary in India is generally in favour of compelling Pakistan to end its recourse to terror in its dealings with India. The underlying logic is that deterrence not having proven effective enough to prevent Pakistan from adopting a proxy ...
  • The ‘Context’ of Islamism
    Ali Ahmed   ·   06 Apr, 2009    ·    #2844    ·    Commentary    
    The GWOT is a classic example in which the ‘cause’ has been completely eclipsed by the manner of execution of the terror act of 9/11. Foreign presence in and control of regimes in Arab states, for reasons of energy security, furnished the ...
  • Tackling Insurgency In Assam
    Ali Ahmed   ·   05 May, 2009    ·    #2862    ·    Commentary    
    News of bomb blasts appear to be the only manner in which the Northeast enters the consciousness of the nation. The inattention is apparent from the fact that J&K commandeers double the number of pages in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Annual ...
  • Nuclear Trajectory in South Asia
    Ali Ahmed   ·   04 Jun, 2009    ·    #2885    ·    Commentary    
    David Sanger has routinely raised concerns about Pakistan’s nuclear program. In his latest article in the New York Times, he talks of Adm. Mullen’s confirmation to a Congressional committee of the expansion of Pakistan’s nuclear com ...
  • The Illogic of ‘Massive’ Punitive Retaliation
    Ali Ahmed   ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2905    ·    Commentary    
    The latest CRS Report for the US Congress, ‘Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues’, estimates that there are plans to increase Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal beyond its estimated current holding of 60 weapo ...
  • Talks As Strategy
    Ali Ahmed   ·   07 Aug, 2009    ·    #2935    ·    Commentary    
    India has engaged Pakistan through dialogue in the six rounds of talks in 1963-64, in the seven rounds of talks in 1990-1994, in initiating the Composite Dialogue process in 1997 and in five rounds since its resumption in 2004. The aim has been to ...