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  • Internal Security Reform: Yet Another Opportunity
    Ali Ahmed   ·   12 Jul, 2011    ·    #3430    ·    Commentary    
    In a landmark judgment on a writ petition filed by Nandini Sundar, Ramchandra Guha, EAS Sarma and others, Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice Surinder Singh Nijjar have asked the Chhattisgarh government to discontinue the counter-insurgency emplo ...
  • Saxena Task Force: Farewell to the Chiefs
    Ali Ahmed   ·   06 Sep, 2011    ·    #3448    ·    Commentary    
    News reports have it that one of the last acts of the former Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee prior to retirement was a letter for the prime minister mentioning a longstanding grievance of the service chiefs that they feel left out of the ...
  • The Direction of India’s Deterrent
    Ali Ahmed   ·   30 Sep, 2011    ·    #3471    ·    Commentary    
    Vipin Narang’s timely reminder, ‘Indian Nuclear Posture: Confusing Signals from DRDO’, (http://bit.ly/qqpFSo) on discipline as an index of institutionalization of the nuclear deterrent is welcome. He takes umbrage at the DRDO&rsqu ...
  • AFSPA: The Renewed Debate
    Ali Ahmed   ·   11 Nov, 2011    ·    #3485    ·    Commentary    
    The chief minister in Kashmir has presciently identified that Kashmir is at a critical decision juncture. This involves decompression of the state in sync with the violence indicators. This would facilitate a switch from a military dominant strateg ...
  • Cold Start: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   20 Jan, 2012    ·    #3563    ·    Commentary    
    Speaking on the sidelines of an Army Day function, the Army chief has stepped back from his earlier stated position that ‘there is nothing called Cold Start’. The Times of India, that has kept a sharp eye on the meanderings of India&rsq ...
  • NCBMs: Scaremongering, But with a Purpose
    Ali Ahmed   ·   15 Feb, 2012    ·    #3575    ·    Commentary    
    In his probe as to why the two states, India and Pakistan, do not pursue Nuclear Confidence Building Measures (NCBMs) with a degree of urgency, D Suba Chandran (Indo-Pak Nuclear CBMs: The Road to Nowhere, http://www.ipcs.org/article/india/indo-pak- ...
  • India-Pakistan: Winds of Change?
    Ali Ahmed   ·   23 Apr, 2012    ·    #3611    ·    Commentary    
    General Kayani has finally got it right. Speaking to reporters, he said, “Peaceful coexistence between the two neighbours is very important so that everybody can concentrate on the well-being of the people.” The somber setting for this ...
  • The Missing Elements in the Counter-Naxal Strategy
    Ali Ahmed   ·   09 May, 2012    ·    #3617    ·    Commentary    
    The Home Ministry’s Annual Report states this about its counter-Maoist strategy: “While it is necessary for the State Governments to conduct proactive and sustained operations against the extremists, and put in place all measures requir ...
  • Civil-Military Relations: Questioning the VK Singh Thesis
    Ali Ahmed   ·   13 Jun, 2012    ·    #3638    ·    Commentary    
    General VK Singh’s perspective on civil-military relations needs interrogation for it can be expected to carry at least some subscription within the services. The general, now retired, outlined the perspective that in case civilian supremacy ...
  • India-Pakistan: Moving Beyond CBMs
    Ali Ahmed   ·   17 Jul, 2012    ·    #3680    ·    Commentary    
    In wake of the Abu Jindal revelations, not much could be expected from the Joint Statement at the end of the recently held meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan. For that reason perhaps the ‘one small step’ that ...