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A Strategic Setback for India - Reg. Havana Statement India - Pakistan

Pakistan’s military leadership may consider Havana statement a dividend for the terror attacks in India

India has suffered its first strategic setback in the fight against terrorism by certifying that Pakistan is not an aggressor but

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, National Security and Strategic Studies

Needed: War on Error

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Hyderabad blasts were waiting to happen; why they weren’t prevented is a longer story of deliberate diversion.

For nations, it matters what happens to them; but the course of their history is often determined less by what happened and m

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Impending Storm

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

THE ENEMIES, both within and without, use bullets and bombs, not to kill people. They are collateral damages. The real objective is to subdue the enemy by breaking its will and dictating its terms of peace.

So far as emigrants go, accordin

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies

Islamic Terrorism in South Asia and India’s Strategic Response

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

This article discusses a new convergence developing among Jihadi groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh and the security implications of this for both the Indian subcontinent and the world at large.

The world is nowhere near conta

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan

Terrorists Changing Tactics, but are We?

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

A small island of shopkeepers dominated the largest part of the world for the longest period with Genghis Khan, the brute, being a distant runner-up. The two, separated by several centuries, had nothing in common except their genius for innovation

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Change of Tactics

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Instead of an episodic response, we need stronger laws and proactive intelligence backed by political will

Having decided that India is their prime target, Pakistan and its out¬sourced networks in and around India only have to choo

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Bleeding From Within

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

The country’s internal security environment, which suffered steady deterioration during UPA’s earlier five-year rule, continues to remain a cause of serious concern. Now that the government is no more fettered by pulls and pressures of coaliti

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, Leftwing Extremism, Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies

Abject Surrender at Sharm-el-Sheikh

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Whatever the mode of engagement — war or diplomacy — nations interact to maximise their national interest. In adverse conditions, like defeat in war, they work to minimise their losses. The icing of ideology, morality, justice, global and huma

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, National Security and Strategic Studies

India-Pakistan Talks : A counter Productive Option

Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Government’s recent decision to seek talks with Pakistan, contrary to its own commitment to the nation that it will engage in this exercise only if the latter provides satisfaction in bringing to book the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack, is a

February 20, 2010 Terrorism, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, National Security and Strategic Studies

Can't give in at this juncture

Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF

Let political considerations and communal pressures not weaken our resolve to the outrage in Mumbai. And let us not sugarcoat our response lest it sends an ambiguous signal to India's enemies. They have sent a message to us loud and clear in 200

February 11, 2010 Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies