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  • Should India give up its NFU Doctrine?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   25 Jun, 2010    ·    #3170    ·    Commentary    
    Suba Chandran has on this website made out a case for jettisoning the No First Use. In order for readers to make up their own minds, this article lays out a case for retaining the pillar of the doctrine as hither-to-fore. No First Use, simply s ...
  • General Kayani: Implications of Extension
    Ali Ahmed   ·   23 Jul, 2010    ·    #3200    ·    Commentary    
    The ‘great man’ school of history would not consider it amiss that General Kayani has got his long-expected extension as Pakistan Army Chief for another three years. Continuity in the appointment, critical to the culminating war in the ...
  • J&K: Implement the Working Group Recommendations
    Ali Ahmed   ·   17 Aug, 2010    ·    #3217    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister from the Red Fort ramparts has once again reiterated the well worn stipulation that India is willing to talk in case people in Kashmir and the North East advance their causes through democratic means, stating, “I would like ...
  • AFSPA: A Practical Approach
    Ali Ahmed   ·   28 Sep, 2010    ·    #3244    ·    Commentary    
    Even as the battle against the AFSPA is set to continue, it is equally clear that the Act is not going to be amended any time soon. The Air Chief in his capacity of Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee has seconded the earlier statement of the Army C ...
  • Capping the ‘Volcano’: Indian Military Action against Pakistan?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   13 Oct, 2010    ·    #3257    ·    Commentary    
    No exception need be taken for an Indian Air Chief to liken the regional security situation to a ‘volcano’ in his speech at the Air Force Day parade. He said, ‘“(The) current security scenario is like a volcano and may test ...
  • WikiWrecks: The US Perspective on Cold Start
    Ali Ahmed   ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3288    ·    Commentary    
    The Guardian, recipient of the second tranche of documents from WikiLeaks, ran the US Ambassador’s take on Cold Start as recorded in cables to the US: “US embassy cables: India ‘unlikely' to deploy Cold Start against Pakistan& ...
  • Kashmir: A Hot Summer Ahead?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   28 Jan, 2011    ·    #3321    ·    Commentary    
    Events in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon have drawn widespread surprise since for the first time Arabs have turned out on the streets. After decades of domination by authoritarian regimes, supported by the West in most cases, democratic stirrings have ...
  • Implications of Indian BMD developments
    Ali Ahmed   ·   08 Mar, 2011    ·    #3341    ·    Commentary    
    Indian technologists have yet again demonstrated their increasing abilities to furnish India with a ‘credible’ deterrent. The latest has been the destruction mid-air of a Prithvi II missile that depicted an incoming hostile missile with ...
  • The Sense in Networking with Kayani
    Ali Ahmed   ·   25 Apr, 2011    ·    #3362    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister’s Office recently denied the authenticity of a report published in the Times from London, stating that the PM opened ‘secret’ talks with Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Kayani.  The report mentions that cont ...
  • After Osama - III: Is Pakistan’s Army on a Tighter Rope?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3367    ·    Commentary    
    That a military operation by the US in the vicinity of military barracks has occurred to such effect as elimination of the world’s most wanted terrorist indicates either that the Pakistan Army was caught napping or was on board. If the former ...