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Significance of Putin’s Visit to India by Kanwal Sibal
March 13 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Vladimir Putin deserves our esteem. On assuming power in 2000 he reversed the Yeltsin era drift in India-Russia relations and established a strategic partnership with India. His current visit is his fif...

Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy

Djinn is out of Pak bottle
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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India must immediately upgrade its capabilities and keep a close vigil on the developments to its west Writing in these columns over a year ago, I mentioned that Pervez Musharraf has “domestically lost...

Pakistan, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Terrorists Changing Tactics, but are We?
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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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...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Change of Tactics
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6290
Instead of an episodic response, we need stronger laws and proactive intelligence backed by political will

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Only unsettled Issue is Continued Occupation
March 12 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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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 pe...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Religious Terrorism: Civilisational Context and Contemporary Manifestations
March 11 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 7155
Transcending time and space, religions have influenced civilisations-in cultural, social, material and spiritual arenas- more profoundly than any other single factor. Tangible achievements of man’s poss...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

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