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India’s relentless fight against cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir is well known. However, what is not so well known is the pattern of terrorist activity and the tactics of the different tanzeems or organisations, particularly during the troubled decades from 1980 to 2000.This book is in two parts. Part one deals briefly with the origins of the Kashmir dispute and demystifies the pattern of terrorist incidents since 1989 up to the Assembly elections ...
In terms of time, if not ferocity and destruction, the on-going conflict in Afghanistan has outstripped Vietnam. Both nations suffered decades-long superpower interventions. But while Vietnam troubled the world’s conscience, people simply forgot Afghanistan. And while Vietnam hit the road to stability and progress once the US forces left, the Afghans, even after the Soviet quit, have continued to fight each other. A long tradition of fighting has sustained this ...
Some notable features of the quick-sands called Pakistan are: inability, even after half a century of its existence, to come to a clear conclusion about its own identity; open contempt for institutions of governance by the armed forces; intimidation of the judiciary; economic collapse; survival of the state on drug money; export of terrorism across the borders; grim ethnic divide; public disdain for state authority; lack of leadership, vision and strategy. ...