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India-Pakistan Talks : A counter Productive Option
February 20 , 2010 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 8263
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 t...

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

Can't give in at this juncture
February 19 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 9517
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 hav...

Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Releasing Masood Azhar was a political decision
February 19 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 26611
At a time that fresh debate has broken over the handling of the IC-814 hijack, former IB Director AK Doval makes controversial revelations on the Kandahar deal and other crises in a candid interview t...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

Nuclear deal is an unmitigated disaster
February 11 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 11579
The India-US nuclear deal will stunt India's emergence as a genuine nuclear weapon state, cripple its strategic deterrence, and reduce it to a US satrapy. Government's motivations in pushing ahead with ...

Nuclear and Disarmament, National Security and Strategic Studies

Bangladeshi infiltration is the biggest threat
February 11 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 5212
He belongs to the 1968 batch of the Kerala cadre and retired as chief of the Intelligence Bureau in January 2005. Mr. Doval, who belongs to Garhwal, has outstanding credentials as an operations man. He ...

Bangladesh, Ilegal Immigration, National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies

Terrorist Strikes – Deny Space to the Terrorists
February 10 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 10429
Text of the article sent to Hindustan Times – Published in Hindustan Times on 16 April 2006 under the caption “We have not kept terrorists on the run”

National Security and Strategic Studies, Terrorism

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