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| April 29, 2008 | |
Prachanda: From radical Maoist to lovable mascot
There are two possible scenarios -- these fears turn out to be baseless and Prachanda turns out to be a genuine democrat and a genuine friend of India or Prachanda after the elections turns out to be different from Prachanda before the elections and takes Nepal on a road, which would be detrimental to our national interests. While hoping for the first scenario, we must be prepared for the second.
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| April 03, 2008 | |
An open letter to Aamir Khan
The question is not what you think and said about your participation. The question is how your participation is projected by Beijing to the suppressed Buddhists of Tibet and Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang, who have risen in revolt against what they consider as the Han colonisation of their homelands and what the Dalai Lama has described as a cultural genocide of the Tibetans.
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| March 26, 2008 | |
The radicalisation of Tibetan youth
Large sections of the Tibetan youth felt that even while pretending to keep the door open for a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, the Chinese were undermining his political and spiritual authority, encouraged by the silence of the Indian authorities.
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| March 17, 2008 | |
Revolt in Tibet: Implications for India
Our aim should be not to embarrass and humiliate China, but to persuade it to change its policy on Tibet and enter into a dialogue with the Dalai Lama on mutually agreed terms. India should play the role of a facilitator of such a dialogue.
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| March 12, 2008 | |
Terror threats to the Olympics
While there is so far no specific evidence that these two groups are planning to stage Olympics-related incidents, the possibility of such incidents has to be factored in any security plan for the Olympics. The possibilities are incidents not involving the use of violence by the pro-Western Uighurs and incidents amounting to acts of terrorism by pro-Al Qaeda Uighurs.
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| February 17, 2008 | |
Pakistan elections: Keeping fingers crossed
Gen Kiyani has already withdrawn regular army troops from South Waziristan as demanded by Baitullah and has lifted the economic blocade imposed against the Mehsuds.
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| January 30, 2008 | |
HuJI and the Indian connection
To divert part of the international attention away from it and project the increase in jihadi terrorism as a sub-continental and not a purely Pakistani phenomenon, the ISI is likely to accelerate this process of giving Al Qaeda-inspired International Islamic Front, of which all these organisationals are members, a sub-continental visage and clothing and project the so-called Kashmir issue as a root cause of this expanding phenomenon.
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| January 11, 2008 | |
China, India still suspicious of each other
If one concentrates solely on areas of concern, one will develop an unduly pessimistic attitude. If one looks only at the galloping trade and proliferating exchanges of visits, there could be unwarranted over-optimism. There is a need for a balanced perspective.
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| January 02, 2008 | |
UP attack: Rise of the homegrown jihadi?
From the indications available so far, the November strikes in UP appear to have been carried out by Indian cells of the HuJI. If this is proved by further investigation, the HuJI possibly now has an Indian branch with operatives, capable of carrying out terrorist strikes autonomously without too much dependence on their counterparts in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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| December 28, 2007 | |
Al Qaeda is right under Musharraf's nose
'They have succeeded in killing Benazir. They will now step up their efforts to eliminate Musharraf. Whoever was responsible for killing her could not have done it without inside complicity.'
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| December 27, 2007 | |
Anti-Bhutto army factions behind murder?
Benazir Bhutto had too many elements against her -- anti-US, pro-Al Qaeda jihadi elements, the Zia-ul Haq loyalists, junior members of the Pakistan army and, possibly, the Pakistan air force.
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| December 24, 2007 | |
Why Modi appeals to Hindus
'For large sections of Hindus he gave them a sense of pride in their identity as Hindus.'
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| December 07, 2007 | |
Why Malaysian Hindus are angry
Unlike in India or even Pakistan, where the Hindu elite rushes to voice its discontent whenever Muslims are ill-treated and vice-versa, the Malaysian Mulsim elite has done nothing in the current unrest.
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| November 30, 2007 | |
A hero of Indian intelligence passes away
Ranjan was a lovable individual and officer. He left this world without ever having made an enemy. His contribution to the protection of our national security was immense. He is one of the heroes of the Indian intelligence, who chose to live and die unsung and unknown outside a very small circle of the cognoscenti.
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| November 28, 2007 | |
Musharraf minus his uniform
Will Kiyani be able to deliver, if not bin Laden and Zawahiri, at least others such as Mulla Mohammad Omar, the amir of the neo Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, who is the de facto ruler of South Waziristan, and Maulana FM Radio Fazlullah, the de facto ruler of the Swat Valley?
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| November 04, 2007 | |
Musharraf's deadly endgame
Will his calculation be proved right? Unlikely. He has created so many pockets of anger in Pakistan against himself and the US that it would be highly improbable that he would succeed in extinguishing the jihadi fire of his own creation. Musharraf proposes, bin Laden disposes. That may be the ultimate denouement in Pakistan.
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| October 19, 2007 | |
Osama’s officer was in charge of Benazir’s security
Brig Ejaz Shah has been strongly criticised by Benazir and her supporters for the security failure and they have demanded his removal and arrest. When he was in the ISI, he used to be the handling officer of Osama bin Laden and Mulla Omar
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| October 15, 2007 | |
Fallujah '03-04 replay in Pak Pashtun belt
The tribals, many of whose children, particularly girls, were killed during the raid, have hit back with ferocious vengeance at the Pakistan Army, paramilitary forces and the police deployed in the Pashtun belt as well as outside.
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| October 10, 2007 | |
What sparked Pakistan's deadly clashes
Reports from the NATO forces in Afghanistan of the presence of increasing numbers of Uzbeks, Chechens and Uighurs with the Neo Taliban forces operating in Afghan territory added to the pressure for action. Responding to these pressures, the Pakistani government started sending further reinforcements to the area
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| September 26, 2007 | |
Myanmar: India and China's dilemma
Their policy of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries is cited as the ostensible reason for their reluctance to exercise pressure on the Myanmar junta.
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| September 11, 2007 | |
9/11: Looking back and moving forward
'The international community needs to show determination and stamina against jihadi terrorists. The fight is not for the faint-hearted, feeble-minded and impatient
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| August 19, 2007 | |
‘China’s interest is our interest’
It is not without significance that the vigorous campaign of the leftist parties has coincided with the beginning of the Chinese campaign against the so-called quadrilateral strategic interaction involving India, Japan, the US and Australia
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| August 10, 2007 | |
Musharraf: The growing siege mentality
Musharraf is no longer a leader of the future. He is increasingly a leader of the past, who is desperately clinging to the present in order to avoid a fate similar to what befell Gen Ayub Khan and Gen Yahya Khan.
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| July 26, 2007 | |
A nation with no memory
This is why we face national security disasters again and again and again. A nation, which has no memory for the past, is bound to repeat its mistakes in the future.
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| July 11, 2007 | |
The Lal Masjid fallout
'Escalation of violence in the tribal areas and Musharraf's increased physical vulnerability to another terrorist attack would be the inevitable outcome of the operation.'
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| July 04, 2007 | |
Why should Al Qaeda be interested in India?
Al Qaeda not only looks upon India as a close associate of the US similar to the UK, but also as providing favourable conditions for its overseas operations directed against US nationals and interests in Indian territory.
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Al Qaeda and the global Indian
'The majority of Indian Muslims abroad -- like their counterparts in India -- have kept a distance from extremist and jihadi activities.'
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| June 22, 2007 | |
Tawang: Some Indian plain-speaking at last!
'Signals without strength will serve little purpose. Strength can come only from concrete action on the ground to strengthen our intelligence and military-related capabilities in Arunachal Pradesh.'
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| May 23, 2007 | |
The citizen jihadi
'The citizen jihadis see no television, Internet and video players which they regard as evil. They are being influenced by what they hear on the hundreds of FM radio stations operating in the tribal areas.'
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| May 18, 2007 | |
Attempt to intimidate Indian Muslims
Indian Muslims should refuse to be intimidated by such elements and the government should give them all the protection they need to enable them to resist these jihadi elements
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| May 08, 2007 | |
Why this campaign against Manekshaw?
'The fierce competition for viewership among television channels has made them willing to disseminate such stories for a few minutes of sensation.'
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| April 17, 2007 | |
The Jundullah phenomenon
For Bosnia and Chechnya, the 'Army of Allah' has spread around the Muslim world.
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| March 08, 2007 | |
India walks into Pak anti-terror trap
One feels disturbed by the spins by the government and analysts projecting the first meeting of the joint anti-terror mechanism in a positive light.
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| February 23, 2007 | |
An open letter to Kasuri
All Pakistan has to do to demonstrate its sincerity is to hand over some of the terrorists from India living in Pakistani territory before the first meeting of the Joint Counter-Terrorism Mechanism.
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| February 21, 2007 | |
Laden associates may be behind train blasts
It seems that while the majority of the 68 passengers killed in the explosions-cum-fire in two coaches of the Samjhauta Express at Deewana, near Panipat, on February 18 were Pakistani nationals, more Hindus than Muslims were killed.
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| January 02, 2007 | |
Saddam's execution: What next?
While the chances of an Al Qaeda-mounted operation outside Iraq to avenge Saddam's execution are thus minimal, there is a greater danger of individual Muslims in the overseas diaspora carrying out acts of terrorism to avenge his execution
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| November 27, 2006 | |
Why Sri Lanka is sidelining India
Bolstered by American and Pakistani support, Colombo is increasingly insensitive to Indian concerns over the plight of the Tamils.
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| November 14, 2006 | |
Why I remain wary of China
If there is instability in Tibet after the death of the Dalai Lama, the Chinese Army would not hesitate to launch a pre-emptive strike and occupy Tawang, if not the whole of Arunachal Pradesh.
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| November 13, 2006 | |
We've forgotten the past. China hasn't
Our over-fondness for China and over-faith in its protestations of good will in the 1950s landed us in 1962. We should not repeat that mistake.
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| October 26, 2006 | |
These ISI spies are not the last
'Even in the unlikely event of an improvement in India's relations with
Pakistan, the ISI's penetration operations for intelligence collection
will continue.'
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| October 10, 2006 | |
Osama's horoscope
Osama carefully chooses the dates and days for his operations and certain numbers have a deep religious significance for him.
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