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Intelligence in India’s Internal Security
March 17 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 10812
As an instrumentality of the state, a seemingly simple doctrine that security interests of a state are best served when addressed from a position of knowledge dominance is the mother of intelligence. Un...

National Security and Strategic Studies

A Strategic Setback for India - Reg. Havana Statement India - Pakistan
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 7678
Pakistan’s military leadership may consider Havana statement a dividend for the terror attacks in India

Terrorism, Pakistan, National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies

No More Marching Orders
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6240
Many are seeing Friday’s supreme court directive on police reforms as the beginning of an era of good policing. Will it show India’s colonial cop the door?

National Security and Strategic Studies

If Sharif Comes Back
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6023
For Musharraf, the Supreme Court decision allowing the return of the exiled Nawaz Sharif could mean a disaster. It turns upside down the delicately nuanced American-backed rescue plan to bail out Mushar...

Pakistan, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Needed: War on Error
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6126
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 det...

Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Growth of Maoists Fuelled by Politicians
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 7658
In November 2004 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Left Wing extremism constituted “an even greater threat to India than militancy in Jammu & Kashmir and the North East”, the country took...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

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