Articles in Net Edition
A vision for India
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2010
Vision for India means setting a goal, what India should be at the end of a specified period, say 20 years. It will be an all encompassing vision. Strategic vision for India will be located...
Extension to Gen Kayani: Dangerous Portends
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2010
When Gen Kayani took over the reigns of the Pakistan Army, he exhorted the rank and file to keep away from politics. He initiated moves to revert 152 military personnel on deputation to public...
Wikileaks: The Implications for the Obama Administration
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2010
The leakage of nearly 90,000 documents relating to the Afghan war for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 by Wikileaks, a US web site which disseminates secret information of...
Radicalization of Pakistan will increase threat to India
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jul , 2010
Pakistan is a state deep in turmoil. Contributory causes are some historical and some current. Historical causes can be summed up as follows: No single overpowering identity has emerged in...
Xinjiang: Chinese on the Guard, but Friday Prayers Allowed
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2010
Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, is tense a day before the first anniversary of the outbreak of anti-Han violence by some Uighurs of the city on July 5 last year....
The White-Collared Jihadis: Role of Pakistani Returnees from US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2010
As part of the investigation into the attempt by Faisal Shahzad, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, to cause an incendiary car bomb explosion in the Times Square of New York on May 1, 2010,...
Need to Strengthen Protective Security in Chattisgarh
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2010
About thirty innocent civilians and 20 other civilians serving as Special Police Officers (SPOs) are reported to have been killed on May 17,2010, when a group of Maoists (Naxals) blew up a...
Maldives to Re-Settle Two Terrorism Suspects from Guantanamo Bay
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2010
In a controversial decision, which should be of concern to India’s national security managers, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives has accepted a request from the US Government...
Indian Dependence on Chinese Equipment & Technology
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 May , 2010
The Pakistan Railways is reportedly facing a crisis because of the unserviceability of 32 of the 69 locomotives bought from a Chinese company. It has been alleged that the Railways were forced to...
SAARC - Expect no miracles
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2010
The 16th summit of the eight-nation South Asian Regional Cooperation (SAARC) concluded on March 29 in Bhutanese capital Thimphu, vowing to plant “10 million trees over the next five years”...
Thimpu talks: Downgrading terrorism as core issue once again
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2010
“Both Prime Ministers recognized that dialogue is the only way forward. Action on terrorism should not be linked to the Composite Dialogue process and these should not be bracketed. Prime...
Unsuccessful Attempt in NY for an Incendiary Attack
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May , 2010
An unsuccessful attempt was made by an unidentified element or elements to cause an incendiary attack in the Times Square of New York on the evening of May 1, 2010. The attempt involved causing...
Marshall or Martial aid for Pakistan?
By: Subhash Chopra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2009
Almost since its birth Pakistan has been lucky in finding friends who have been generous with supplies of oil, armaments and hard currency to keep its ruling classes live life in style and the...
FDI in Defence Industry
By: Maj Gen Mrinal Suman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2007
The Government of India has been taking a number of steps to achieve the target of procuring 70 per cent of its defence requirements from indigenous sources by 2010. Despite its best efforts over...