Military - Himal Southasian (Page 7)

The table waits

Though militant groups in Kashmir have rejected the unilateral ceasefire announced by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as a conspiracy to "sabotage the movement", the 11-year-old armed

By Kousar Bukhari

/ 31 Dec 2000

Opening old wounds

A Decade of Confrontation: Sri Lanka and India in the 1980s by John Gooneratne Stamford Lake Publication Sri Lanka, 2000 Sri Lanka's side of the story on the

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Nov 2000

Present tense; future imperfect

The Chief Executive of Pakistan has decided to stop courting the West and focus on internal politics, but this brings him squarely up against the religious right. Meanwhile, the liberals

By Adnan Rehmat

/ 1 Nov 2000

War and pain

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga´s "war for peace" has gone awry in recent weeks. Stark reality dawned on Colombo only after the 23 April fall of the Elephant

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Long view from new Delhi

However earnest her intention to end the 17-year-old ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, President Chandrika Kumaratunga´s strategy of "war for peace" has backfired. Armed with a huge

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Jun 2000

Sri Lanka’s Petition

The Dynamics among the countries of South Asia has changed dramatically with Sri Lanka´s open and unabashed call for New Delhi´s help for military and, failing that, humanitarian

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 2000

Disinvesting loss-making entities

Half a century ago, India was partitioned. With the Muslim League violently pressing its demand, the Congress saw the inevitability, and agreed. One proposed, the other accepted. Partition, then, became

By Subir Bhaumik

/ 31 May 2000

NO STOPPING THE TIGERS

The peace initiative in Sri Lanka was dealt a deathly blow on 10 March, when the Tamil Tigers launched an explosive attack on the ceremonial state drive leading to Parliament

By The Editors

/ 31 Mar 2000

The lone watchdog

Ever since coming to power, Pakistan´s Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf has gone out of his way to constantly reassure Pakistanis and the world that civil liberties will be

By Beena Sarwar

/ 1 Mar 2000

CRACKDOWN

The suspense mounted as 16 November drew near. A month earlier, the new military ruler of Pakistan, Gen Pervez Musharraf, had warned all "willful" loan defaulters to repay

By Zaigham Khan

/ 30 Nov 1999

‘The Muslim Buddhist’

Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) The death of Akhtar Hameed Khan came as an ominous portent on the eve of Pakistan's military takeover. While the rest of the country

By Tarik Ali Khan

/ 1 Nov 1999

The Netaji Files

Fifty-four years after his mysterious disappearance in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, controversy continues over the 'death' of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Generation after generation of

By Sujoy Dhar

/ 31 Oct 1999