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Afghanistan: Pakistan’s Kashmir Blackmail
December 7 , 2010 Indranil Banerjie
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US President Barack Obama has kept his promise to begin pulling out American soldiers from Afghanistan by 2011. At the recently concluded Lisbon summit (19-20 November 2010), he suggested that 2014 woul...

Afghanistan

Indian Options in Afghanistan
December 3 , 2010 Lt General Shontanu Choudhary
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President Obama, while agreeing to the ‘surge’ as suggested by General Stanley A. McCrystal announced in 2009 that US Army will start pulling out of Afghanistan after July 2011. This has resulted in a ...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Is the Red Star shadowing the Rising Sun?
December 3 , 2010 Jaideep Saikia
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When Manipuri insurgent organisation PLA’s commander-in-chief, Manohar Mayum met journalists in Myanmar’s Somra Tracts (opposite Ukhrul) and proclaimed his group’s alliance with CPI (Maoist) to fight th...

North-East Insurgency

National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) : Tryst with Terror
December 3 , 2010 Jaideep Saikia
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The killing of 24 people in Assam by NDFB—with a definitive accent on Hindi-speaking targets—has proven not only the futility of prolongation of ceasefires with insurgent organisations, but also the fac...

North-East Insurgency

Whither Nuclear Japan?
December 3 , 2010 D. Gnanagurunathan
Views: 3758
Not a million dollar question. Nonetheless it has come to occupy the minds of policy makers, strategists and academics alike of late. Let us set aside the usual details for the sake of space and brevity...

Indo-Pacific

Abstracts of Speakers International Seminar on “How Deep are the Roots of Indian Civilization? An Archaeological and Historical Perspective”
December 3 , 2010
Views: 5651
Keynote Address delivered by Professor B. B. Lal (Former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India) For quite some time a series of postulates have been distorting our vision of India's past. Som...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

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