Internal Security: Centre Playing Politics?

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 April 2012

Individual States can control regional terrorism or insurgency with a limited spread. We have had success stories as in the case of Al Ummah in Tamil Nadu.

But terrorism or insurgency of a pan-Indian spread is a different kind of threat...

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Al Qaeda after the death of Laden

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 April 2012

There is an air of nervousness all over the world where there is a strong US presence regarding the dangers of Al Qaeda-inspired attacks on US nationals and interests coinciding with the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden by US...

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Maoist Tactics: Wanted cool thinking, not Bravado

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2012

The Maoists have been increasingly resorting to abduction as one of their tactics for cowing down the State and society and for demonstrating their ability to enforce their will on the State.

The recent incidents of abduction of two...

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China's surprise Military Strike Capability

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2012

We don’t need Agni-V, the intermediate range ballistic missile that we successfully tested on April 19, 2012, to give ourselves a deterrent capability against Pakistan. We need it only for a deterrent capability against China.

In...

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Is General Kayani's smile genuine?

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 April 2012

During a visit to the site of the devastating avalanche near Skardu in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) on April 18, 2012, which killed about 125 military personnel and 15 civilians, Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of...

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Afghanistan: All is not yet lost

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 March 2012

All is not yet lost in Afghanistan. The Taliban and its affiliates such as the so-called Haqqani Network are alive and active not only in the interior provinces, but even in Kabul. They still retain the surprise element in a large measure....

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Uncertain months ahead for Chinese Leadership

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 April 2012

Wang Lijun was the Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau in Tiefa in the  Liaoning province from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he held the same position in Tieling city, also inthe  Liaoning Province. In 2000, he was...

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One India & One China

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 April 2012

The strong economic relations between India and China and their co-operation in multilateral for a such as the recent Copenhagen summit on climate change should not blind one to the fact that the trust and comfort level between the two...

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Suu Kyi: What Next? Co option or Independence?

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 April 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has won a landslide victory in bye-elections to the Parliament.It is reported to have won at least 40 of the 45 seats for which the bye-elections were held. It had contested 44 of them. Suu...

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From an Islamic Bomb to a Jihadi Bomb

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 March 2012

The second Nuclear Security Summit currently being held in Seoul, South Korea, would make a fresh evaluation , inter alia, of the security of nuclear materials in the possession of many countries.

Threats to nuclear security arise from...

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