Articles By B Raman
Possible Misuse of New TECHINT Capabilities
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Dec , 2011
Since the Indo-Pakistan conflict in the Kargil heights in 1999, there has been a major increase in the Technical Intelligence (TECHINT) capabilities of the Indian security community, which...
Avoidable Unpleasantness in India-China Relations
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Nov , 2011
Avoidable unpleasantness has recently crept into India-China relations over issues which should not have been over-dramatised by China thereby injecting a certain distrust into the relations...
Police killed Ishrat Jahan in Cold Blood
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2011
A three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Rajiv Ranjan Verma, a senior officer of the Bihar IPS cadre, has concluded that Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old girl from Maharashtra, and...
Three Years After 26/11 New Delhi unable to control terror
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2011
The 26/11 terrorist strikes led to five important decisions by the Government of India— to decentralise the deployment of the National Security Guards (NSG) by setting up regional hubs,...
Investigations in Malegaon blasts go for a six!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2011
The politicisation and communalisation of the investigation process since 2006 in terrorism-related cases has led to a paralysis of the investigation machinery in the States and the Government of...
Tibetan unrest spreads
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Nov , 2011
The unrest of Tibetan monks, which has so far led to 10 attempts to commit self-immolation — seven of them successful resulting in deaths — in Western Sichuan, is now showing signs of spreading...
Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
No right-thinking person would shed tears over the death of Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, but any well-informed analyst with his feet firmly on the ground would be nervous over the likely sequel...
U.S. Needs a Bold Strategy on Pakistan
By: B Raman | Date: 16 Oct , 2011
The indicators from reliable sources in Pakistan are that the just-concluded visit ( October 21,2011) of Mrs.Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, to Pakistan at the head of a high-power...
What does recovery of explosives in Ambala portend?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2011
Acting on an alert from the Delhi Police, the Haryana Police are reported to have seized a car containing concealed explosives ( about 5 KGs), five detonators and two timers which had been...
India expands its strategic presence
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2011
Slowly, but steadily and unrelentingly, India has been expanding its strategic presence. One dimension of this became evident during the recent visit of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to...
CIA successes mounting against Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has kept up its run of successes against Al Qaeda with the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen of Yemeni origin, and Samir Khan, a US citizen of...
US-Pakistan Tensions: China's Cautious Stance
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2011
The Chinese media have started informing the Chinese people of the tensions in Pakistan’s ties with the US without any editorial comment so far.There have been no comments from the spokesperson...
US-Pakistan: Search for Mutually Face-Saving Option Continues
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The search for a mutually face-saving option in the dramatic turn of events in the relations between the US and Pakistan has continued over the week-end. The dramatic turn came following the...
Beijing Irked by Myanmar Decision to Suspend Dam Construction in Kachin State
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2011
The Government of Myanmar announced on September 30,2011, the suspension of its plans to build, with Chinese assistance, a massive dam on the Irrawaddy River in the Northern Kachin State. The...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - II
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 23 Sep , 2011
The HUM: The Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA) of Pakistan was started in central Punjab in Pakistan in the early 1980s by certain religious elements under the name the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) with...
How Pakistan's Proxy War Began - III
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpts: A Terrorist State as a Frontline Ally | Date: 22 Sep , 2011
The Markaz and its Lashkar: The Markaz Oawa al Irshad (MOI) was founded in 1987, at the inspiration of Osama bin Laden, by Zafar Iqbal and Hafiz Mohammed Saeed of the University of Engineering...
China: Checkmating India in Afghanistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Sep , 2011
China has shown interest in the construction of two railway lines—-one in Pakistan via the Gilgit-Baltistan region and the other in Afghanistan. While the railway line through Gilgit-Baltistan,...
South China Sea: India should avoid rushing in where even US exercises caution
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2011
China has reacted — moderately through a spokesperson of its Foreign Office and somewhat virulently through the Party-controlled “Global Times” — to reports that India has been...
Mumbai 26/11 repeated by Taliban in Kabul
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
According to an analysis by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Afghan Taliban and its affiliates such as the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe-Islami (HI) attempted...
Hazaras Massacred in Balochistan by Al Qaeda
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2011
Twenty-six Shia pilgrims belonging to the Hazara community were dragged out of a bus in which they were travelling at Mastung in Balochistan on September 20,2011, lined up and shot dead by...