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Volume 1, No. 6 - November 2001 |
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Featured Articles For a flamboyant Chief of Army Staff used to displaying his ‘commando’ and gung-ho images, these are uptight days indeed. Epaulettes are being brought back with the wishful hope of rallying the General’s plummeting domestic popularity. The genesis of Musharraf’s headaches can minimally be traced back to “quick and unconditional support” demanded by Wendy Chamberlain, US Ambassador to Pakistan, after the September 11th jihadi terrorist attacks on the polestars of American economic and military power.
Complete Renunciation of
Terrorism is Critical August 24, 1990 is a day that is forever etched in my mind. On this sunny morning, my father was teaching in his school, just two blocks from his house in the state of Kashmir, India. On the pretense of discussing school issues, two fundamentalist Islamic terrorists asked my father to meet them outside the school. When he came out, at gunpoint they took him to an alley behind the school. He was asked to kneel down and two bullets were put in his head at point blank range. He fell to the ground and just lay there. Nobody, Hindu or Muslim, who was watching this scene from the barely opened windows of their houses, dared to come to his help.
The Defense of Afghanistan:
Learning From the Kashmir Model The latest from the Afghanistan war suggests that the US campaign against the Taliban is faltering. Three weeks of high-tech bombing with 3,000 bombs have not shaken the Taliban or its paid guests, the Al Qaida. The defenders of Afghanistan are dug in, with reinforcements waiting across the border in Pakistan. The long-range prospects are less than certain, with US officials acknowledging that Bin Laden may never be captured and that the war could last for years. |
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