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Peace Process, Spoilers and Indo-Pak Conflict
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Rizwan Zeb
Published: September 29, 2009
Pakistan has been engaged in a peace process with India since April 2003 which has been termed irreversible by the leadership of the two countries. Despite a number of pitfalls, it has survived many threats of stalemates.Cynics believe that post-9/11 Islamabad is under............ More>>
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Mumbai Attacks: Time to Reassess Pakistan’s Policy towards India
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Syed Adnan Ali Shah
Published: December 30, 2008
The tragic Mumbai terrorist attacks, while shocking for the entire world, have upset the delicate peace that prevailed over the South Asian subcontinent since January 2004. The attacks have the intended consequences of putting the snail pace and largely ceremonial peace............ More>>
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The Rising Wave of Domestic Terrorism: Time for New Delhi to Face Reality
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Ryan Clarke
Published: December 5, 2008
India’s official refusal to acknowledge that many of its most recent attacks, including the Mumbai outrage, were largely carried out by Indians is fatally undermining any efforts to form an effective counter-terrorism strategy and develop functional partnerships with its neighbours........... More>>
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Mumbai Terror: Blaming External Connection will Mislead Indian Counter-terrorism Discourse
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Khuram Iqbal
Published: December 1, 2008
The terror episode unfolded in Mumbai on the night of 26 November finally came to an end on 29 November. The multiple and diversified terrorist attacks extended into a wide range of time and space left more than 150 dead and hundreds injured. In addition to many........... More>>
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Indian Terrorism: An Indigenous Phenomenon
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Abdul Mateen
Published: September 8, 2008
Following series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad (Gujrat) and Banglore (Karnataka) in July 2008, blast in Kanpur on August 24, in which Rajiv Mishra and Bhupinder Singh activists of Bajrang Dal were killed, has uncovered those elements that are propagating terrorism in India........... More>>
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Will Parliament take up Kashmir Policy?
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SouthAsiaNet
Published: April 25, 2008
The political elite of the new ruling coalition, particularly the PPP-P co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, the PML-N head Mian Nawaz Sharif and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, have repeatedly vowed to make the parliament sovereign. Sovereignty of parliament translates into taking........... More>>
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Indian Demagogues take on Prisoners’ issue
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Saba Noor
Published: April 7, 2008
India has a strong political system where every political party is seen vying to win hearts of the people by employing diversified tactics, especially on the eve of new elections, and political exploitation of religion has mostly taken lead in this context. We have seen in the........... More>>
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Bhutan: From Monarchy to Democracy
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Itrat Zahra
Published: April 1, 2008
Bhutan held its first general election on March 24, 2008, for the National Assembly. Only two parties, registered with the Election Commission of Bhutan, contested the election: the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party (DPT) and the People's Democratic Party (PDP). The third........... More>>
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Nepal: The Road Ahead to Peace and Democracy
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Khuram Iqbal
Published: March 5, 2008
Located between the two rising powers, India and China, Nepal is undergoing a crucial phase of its centuries old history. After successful orange revolution in April 2006, country has witnessed many landmark changes that provide an optimistic picture of a democratic........... More>>
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Sri Lanka: The official end of Peace Ceasefire
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Ranga Kalansooriya and Namal Perera
Published: January 16, 2008
The much talked-about ceasefire (CFA) of Sri Lanka officially ends today (January 16) at 7.00pm. It was signed on Feb 22, 2002. At least 200 militants and six army men have been killed since the decision to scrap the six year-old Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) was taken by the........... More>>
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IPI: Energy Security & Strategic Conflicts
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Safdar Sial
Published: June 20, 2007
Progress on Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, also known as ‘Peace Pipeline’, has been inching forward since its inception in the early 1990s though much ambitious and dynamic rhetoric has been in action after the revival of negotiations in February 2004. The US$ 7 billion........... More>>
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Sri Lanka: The 'Hot-Spot' of Conflict
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Ranga Kalansooriya
Published: July 17, 2007
The Sri Lankan government on July 11 announced that it had captured therebel stronghold in the Eastern jungles of Sri Lanka, Thoppigala. Capturing the training and partly logistic bastian of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the eastern jungles of Sri Lanka is........... More>>
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Nuclear Deal: Would the US Yield to Indian Conditions?
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SAN Report
Published: June 14, 2007
The deal for civilian nuclear co-operation between India and the US i.e. “123 Agreement” was dubbed as a ‘mere formality’ last year. It was assumed that mere paper work was left to strike this deal and, certainly, this would have been the case if both the Indian military and........... More>>
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Armed Conflicts in South Asia: Overview and New Dimensions
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Khuram Iqbal & Safdar Sial
Published: June 7, 2007
Caught in various Intera-state and inter-state armed conflicts, South Asia is considered to be the most volatile part of the world. It represents around one and a half billion people or one quarter of the world’s population. The region comprising India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,........... More>>
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Corruption: The Common Factor between the Politicians of India & Pakistan
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Nazir Naji
Published: May 24, 2007
Nazir Naji is a senior Urdu columnist, associated with Daily Jang. Recently, he wrote a piece on Indian State, Uttar Pradesh’s election. SoutAsiaNet is presenting translation of his column. Neither the population of Pakistan and Uttar Pradesh (UP) is much different in number........... More>>
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Sri Lanka: Peace Process needs new Approach
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SAN Report
Published: May 10, 2007
Sri Lanka appears like a mango on the map and a 20-miles wide gulf separates it from India. Around 65,000 people have died in the three decades old civil war and another 500,000 have been rendered homeless. Tamils in the North and North East of the island want a........... More>>
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India: Rahul’s Statements Creating Hullabaloo on the Political Scene
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Azhar Hassan
Published: May 7, 2007
The involvement of Rahul Gandhi-son of Congress president Sonia Gandhi- in the election campaign for the polls of Uttar Pardesh (UP) assembly has given a new direction to this election combat. Three of the seven phases of the UP election have been completed. Last phase of the election........... More>>
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Kashmir: Hizb on Crucial Juncture
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Muhammad Amir Rana
Published: May 3, 2007
The government officials in India and Pakistan are claiming that the peace process between the two countries is about to yield a solution of Kashmir issue. The demilitarization and militancy in Kashmir were the major difference areas in the peace process between Pakistan and........... More>>
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Conflict Resolution: Demilitarization of Kashmir
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Ahmed Yar Ranjha
Published: March 14, 2007
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s visit to India was a very difficult and delicate matter amid Pakistan Railways minister Sh. Rashid Ahmed’s nude criticism on Indian government after Samjhota Express tragedy who was trying to trace the roots of this heinous act........... More>>
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Islam: Role of Religious Parties in Bangladesh
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Mujtaba Rathoor
Published: 00 00, 2007
Until the 1990s, Bangladesh was considered a liberal society but that concept has changed rapidly since then. In the last general elections held in 2001, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islamic Oikya Jote won 20 seats jointly. They joined the Bangladesh National Party (BNP)........... More>>
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Extremism: The Nexus in Southern Nepal
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Khuram Iqbal
Published: 00 00, 2007
On January 13, 2007, South Asia Net published a report on Nepal, which perceived that after the accomplishment of People revolt in Nepal, Hindu extremist groups in the country backed by the Hardliner Hindu outfits in India would react as the anti-revolutionary forces........... More>>
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Conflict: The lingering Threat in Nepal
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Khuram Iqbal
Published: 00 00, 2007
According to the latest reports, 19 members delegation of United Nation’s Nepal Arms Monitors has (been) reached Nepal and in the first phase the two teams will proceed with the inspection of seven camps recently established in Kathmandu and the western city of Nepalganj to........... More>>
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Indo-Pak Peace: Questions over out of the Box Solutions
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Sushant Sareen
Published: 00 00, 2007
The last few days have seen plenty of ‘out of the box’ talk on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir. First, in an interview to an Indian TV channel, General Pervez Musharraf ‘unveiled’ his four-point formula for resolving the Kashmir issue and said that if these proposals were........... More>>
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Indo-Pak Peace: Dialogue back on Track, Enter Complex Phase
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Sushant Sareen
Published: 00 00, 2007
The meeting between the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan has put the composite dialogue process between the two countries back on track. But no one, except perhaps those working overtime in the ‘back-channel’, seems to really have any clear idea as to where the track is........... More>>
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Kashmir: Talks on Kashmir Dispute are in Final Stage?
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Mujtaba Rathoor
Published: 00 00, 2007
Progress in Talks over Kashmir: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Pakistan in the beginning of 2007. Prior to his visit, many rounds of talks between the two countries have been held and a couple of meetings between officials from both sides are expected........... More>>
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Bangladesh: Two parties dominate the Bangladesh politics
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Mujtaba Rathoor
Published: 00 00, 2007
Bangladesh teetered on the brink of more trouble after President Iajuddin Ahmed's talks with top advisers failed to resolve a stand-off between the country's two feuding political groups. Over the weekend, there were violent street clashes between the activists of the two major........... More>>
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Bangladesh: Bangladesh Politics at Critical Juncture
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Mujtaba Rathoor
Published: November 11, 2006
Bangladesh is once again in the grip of a political crisis. Although an interim government under President Iajuddin Ahmed has assumed control in Dhaka, the atmosphere continues to be tense. Opposition parties in Bangladesh are holding back from further violent protests for........... More>>
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Sri Lanka: No way for peace in Sri Lanka as talks with Tigers failed
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Jamshed Ahmed
Published: November 6, 2006
Talks between Sri Lanka and rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Geneva over the weekend, Oct 28 and 29, failed as the latter stick to their demand for immediate opening of strategic highway to the Jaffna peninsula and the government asked for more time to........... More>>
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Sri Lanka: India behind the assassination attempt on Pakistani High Commissioner
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Jamshed Ahmed
Published: August 19, 2006
On August 14, suicide attack in Colombo on Pakistan’s high commissioner in Sri Lanka, Bashir Wali Mohmand, seems to be a sign that the Tamil Tigers wanted to widen their battle fronts. The explosion took place (On the Pakistan’s Independence Day) near the official........... More>>
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Bangladesh: Political Equilibrium in Bangladesh at Jeopardy
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Mujtaba Rathore
Published: August 16, 2006
A sudden change in the political situation of Bangladesh has left a ripple effect in the country’s politics. All political and religious parties have started grouping, and are trying to cobble alliance with the two biggest parties – Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party........... More>>
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India: Another Opportunity for Peace in Northeastern India
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SAN Report
Published: August 16, 2006
India has once again suspended anti-insurgency operations in North Eastern state of Assam for 10 days despite a week-long wave of bombings that left 10 dead and wounded 50. This is a positive move to bring about peace in Assam. The Indian Union government has contained........... More>>
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India: Ignoring Rise of Militant Islam within India
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Sushant Sareen
Published: July 14, 2006
The arrest of a pesh imam (prayer leader) from Phulpur for his involvement in the Varanasi bomb blasts, and the letters written by Muslim ulema to the prime minister asking him to solve the Kashmir issue if he wants the votes of the Indian Muslims have shattered the two........... More>>
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India: US Legitimizes Indian Nuclear Status
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Sushant Sareen
Published: March 14, 2006
The focus on the civilian nuclear deal reached between India and the United States during the visit of the US president, George W Bush to India, is quite naturally considered the historical breakthrough that the deal represents in Indo-US relations. But rather than the........... More>>
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