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05/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - Our NCTC and Theirs
Another Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security will be convened on June 5, 2013, this time in the shadow of the slaughter of political leaders and cadres at Darbha (Chhattisgarh) by the Maoists.
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05/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Afghanistan - Pakistan- USA: Seeds of Uncertainty, and Pride -Ajai Sahni & Ajit Kumar Singh
Just as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commanders in Afghanistan began to sense some 'gains' in Afghanistan, observing that fatalities and 'enemy initiated attacks' had declined, for the first time in the war, through 2011, and that the trend appeared to be continuing into the early months of 2012, the Taliban declared their Spring Offensive 2012, codenamed Al Farouq, kicking up their operations dramatically.
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30/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - The Hostage State
A rolling crisis of high profile abductions, initiated with the kidnapping of two irresponsible Italians in Odisha on March 14, 2012, continues to hold the national attention, with Alex Paul Menon, the District Collector (DC) of the newly formed Sukma District in Chhattisgarh, still in the custody of the Maoist’s Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), since his abduction on April 21, 2012.
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20/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - Odisha: Fragile State
In an eventful weekend in Odisha, two Italians were discovered to have been abducted by the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist); two Policemen from the State’s Bomb Squad were killed, and a third was injured, while attempting to defuse a landmine planted by the Maoists at Alampada in the Koraput District; and a civil contractor was shot dead by the rebels in Bargarh District. Despite the many reverses the Maoists have suffered – especially in terms of loss of leadership – over the past years, their ability to plunge the State into a crisis of impotence appears to be undiminished.
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20/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - Odisha: Fragile State
In an eventful weekend in Odisha, two Italians were discovered to have been abducted by the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-Maoist); two Policemen from the State’s Bomb Squad were killed, and a third was injured, while attempting to defuse a landmine planted by the Maoists at Alampada in the Koraput District; and a civil contractor was shot dead by the rebels in Bargarh District. Despite the many reverses the Maoists have suffered – especially in terms of loss of leadership – over the past years, their ability to plunge the State into a crisis of impotence appears to be undiminished.
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05/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - The Maoists: Dance of the Tarantula
The trajectory of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) movement across India demonstrates conflicting trends which give, at once, great relief to the state and to affected populations across wide areas, even as assessments of the Maoist threat allow little scope for any measure of complacence.
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05/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - The Maoists: Dance of the Tarantula
The trajectory of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) movement across India demonstrates conflicting trends which give, at once, great relief to the state and to affected populations across wide areas, even as assessments of the Maoist threat allow little scope for any measure of complacence.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - NCTC: National Confusion on Terror by Centre
The crisis in India today is one of capacities, and this cannot be addressed by the reinvention of institutional forms. It doesn't matter if our responses are centralised or decentralised, as long as the executive agencies remain infirm, under-manned, under-trained and under-equipped.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - NCTC: National Confusion on Terror by Centre
The crisis in India today is one of capacities, and this cannot be addressed by the reinvention of institutional forms. It doesn't matter if our responses are centralised or decentralised, as long as the executive agencies remain infirm, under-manned, under-trained and under-equipped.
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27/02/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - NCTC: National Confusion on Terror by Centre
The crisis in India today is one of capacities, and this cannot be addressed by the reinvention of institutional forms. It doesn't matter if our responses are centralised or decentralised, as long as the executive agencies remain infirm, under-manned, under-trained and under-equipped.
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16/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - See no evil, hear no evil, do no good
On September 7, 2011, a reception area outside gate No. 5 of the Delhi High Court was targeted by a terrorist bombing, which killed 13 and injured some 89 persons.
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08/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Afghanistan - The Noise before Defeat
President Obama's AfPak strategy overwhelmingly concentrates on unrealistic short-term targets and goals, based on irrational settlements with the most dangerous elements in the region - the Pakistan Army, the 'moderate Taliban', and a powerless and unreliable political leadership in Pakistan. At the same time, the setting of hard deadlines for US withdrawal... encourages an extremist calculus within a protracted war framework that simply seeks to exhaust the political will of the Western leadership to remain engaged in the war. -- AfPak Cul de Sac, June 2009
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22/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mumbai: That Recurring Nightmare
18 persons were killed and 131 injured, as three near-simultaneous blasts rocked India’s financial Capital Mumbai (Maharashtra) on July 13, 2011 (13/7). The first of these explosions took place at Zaveri Bazaar in south Mumbai at 6.54pm; the second was at Kabutarkhana near the Dadar suburban railway station in Central Mumbai at 6.55pm; and the third was at Opera House, also in south Mumbai, at about 7.05pm. No group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack.
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07/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Virtue of Perseverance
After an unrelenting effort spanning more than a decade, Osama bin Laden, the amir and ideological fountainhead of al Qaeda, its founder, and the architect of the 9/11 attacks in the US, was killed in the intervening night of May 1-2, 2011, in a US operation in the garrison town of Abbottabad, less than 62 kilometres from Islamabad, and a stone's throw from the Pakistan Military Academy, the country's top training established for officers, and the local Army Brigade Headquarters.
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07/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Virtue of Perseverance
After an unrelenting effort spanning more than a decade, Osama bin Laden, the amir and ideological fountainhead of al Qaeda, its founder, and the architect of the 9/11 attacks in the US, was killed in the intervening night of May 1-2, 2011, in a US operation in the garrison town of Abbottabad, less than 62 kilometres from Islamabad, and a stone's throw from the Pakistan Military Academy, the country's top training established for officers, and the local Army Brigade Headquarters.
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28/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Dampened Tinderbox
As repressive regimes of long standing crumble across the Arab world, raising the spectre of anarchy, there is rising concern among leaderships in South Asia that the ‘jasmine revolution’ may waft across parts of this long troubled region as well.
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21/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
West Bengal: A Year of Failure
Police claimed that at least 12 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres were killed, and ‘many others’ were injured, in an encounter with the Security Forces (SFs) at Duli village near Ranja Forest in the Salboni Police Station area of West Midnapore District of West Bengal on June 16, 2010. Eight bodies were actually recovered, though senior Police officials said they had "information that four of the bodies were carried away by Maoists".
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24/03/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
South Asia - Blind Destinies
In Sri Lanka, one of the world’s most lethal and pitiless terrorist organizations, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has been comprehensively defeated, bringing to an end a relentless 33-year long conflict, and 26 years of full scale civil war.
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27/01/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India- Uncertain Respite
The good news first. Under a new leadership, a moribund Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been galvanized into unprecedented action by the shock of the November 26, 2008, Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist outrage in Mumbai.
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15/09/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Package Dramas in a Theatre of Despair
Gilgit-Baltistan ranks among the most beautiful places in the world. It is, however, a region of the most enduring oppression and despair. This dark corner of Jammu & Kashmir, illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, has largely remained outside the spectrum of international attention and concern.
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03/09/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - Jharkhand: Paralysis and Drift
Without preparedness superiority is not real superiority and there can be no initiative either. Having grasped this point, a force which is inferior but prepared can often defeat a superior enemy by surprise attack. Mao Tse Tung, "On Protracted War", May 1938
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20/08/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Sri Lanka - Attrition in the North
With the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE) eviction from Batticaloa after a succession of reverses , and their eventual collapse at Thoppigala on July 11, 2007, the expulsion of the rebels from their strongholds in the Eastern Province was complete. Well before these successes, outlining the Sri Lanka Army’s (SLA) strategy, on January 4, 2007, the Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, had declared, "After eradicating the Tigers from the East, full strength would be used to rescue the North."
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19/12/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistan- Balochistan: The Province of Fear
For the past months, there has been a continuous stream of reports of massive troop movement and ‘anti-terrorist’ operations in Balochistan, and a parallel flow of denials by Government authorities.
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31/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Shadow over the Festival of Lights
The serial bombings at Delhi on October 29, 2005, were described by one commentator as an ‘attack on the spirit of the nation’. Three days before the Hindu ‘festival of lights’, Diwali, days traditionally reserved for shopping for the celebrations, terrorists planted three bombs in crowded public places – the Sarojini Nagar Market, the Paharganj Market, and a public transport bus in Govindpuri – killing at least 59 persons and seriously injuring over 155.
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31/10/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistan- Gilgit-Baltistan: Hidden Tremors
In the shadow of the great and natural disaster that has struck Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and parts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), another tragedy, in this case, fashioned by men, is being played out in the hidden Gilgit-Baltistan region (Northern Areas).
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19/09/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India & Pakistan - They Said, We Said - Realities beyond a Delusional Discourse
Another media circus around a non-event has ended, with no tangible outcome to show from the high-profile meetings variously between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, General Pervez Musharraf and President George Bush in New York. Positions well-known have been reiterated, though pundits distinguish 'subtle shifts' and apparent hardening or softening of perspectives reflected in nuance and suggestions, otherwise unnoticeable to the uninitiated.
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08/09/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Nepal: War by Other Means
The shift in Maoist strategy that had been emerging since June this year has now crystallized in what is evidently a tactical and – for Kathmandu – deeply unsettling unilateral declaration of ceasefire.
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