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Pakistan's Islamic Odyssey: Dangers Ahead
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
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The movement for Pakistan, as envisaged by its chief promoter Mohammed Ali Jinnah, was not intended to produce a religion dominated theocratic state. No doubt he engaged in communal tactics and success...

Pakistan

Religion Needs Fresh Look in Pakistan
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
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The nuclear threat in the subcontinent has led to renewed and redoubled efforts to find a solution to the antagonism between India and Pakistan. One is led to believe that if cross border terrorism cea...

Pakistan

Islam’s Dilemmas: Perspectives From a Non Islamic Angle
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
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Islam encompasses all the nobilities that every other religion has, compassion, love, justice, brotherhood, equality etc. but it also poses several dilemmas. The dilemmas arise, as the values instilled...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Islam and its many Trends
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Views: 6486
Except the war zones, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan and the proxy war zones Kashmir and India, for quite sometime the rest of the world has not witnessed a major terrorist incident. The credit for thi...

Historical and Civilisational Studies

Indian Intelligence: Awaiting Still Its Tryst with Destiny
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Views: 8830
Indian Intelligence is frequently in the news, often for the wrong reasons. It is a favourite kicking target for a large number of those who compulsively articulate, like the media, political leaders, a...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Asian Security Environment and India’s Options
August 29 , 2010 A K Verma (Member, VIF Advisory Board)
Views: 7202
Asian security environment is in a state of deep turmoil. The single event which has occasioned it is the giant rise of China during the past couple of decades, reaching higher and higher levels of econ...

International Relations and Diplomacy

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