INDIAN FEARS

Indian writers, analysts and researchers as well as their media take a lot of interest in Pakistan—in fact it is an obsession of sorts. Rather strange for a country that is showcasing itself as a major power.

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If terrorism will not compel India to settle outstanding disputes with Pakistan, keeping the dialogue process suspended indefinitely is not going to force Islamabad to be more mindful of New Delhi's concerns either.

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" Sri Lanka has responded to mounting international criticisms of its wartime conduct by announcing it will appoint a "homegrown" committee to probe alleged human rights abuses.

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Sri Lanka under fire for lack of Tamil reconciliation After defeating the Tamil Tigers this spring, the country has delayed the return of more than 250,000 displaced Tamils, citing concerns about mines and potential terrorists.

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'LTTE had links with jihadi groups' By Frances Bulathsinghala Monday, 14 Sep, 2009 | 09:59 AM PST |

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Incredible India

India has a booming trade relationship with Myanmar. India has a massive insurgency problem in its north east that can be exploited from Myanmar. India therefore remains silent as the world condemns Myanmar for its treatment of Aung Sun Kyi.

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India's Maoist guerrillas on Tuesday threatened to kill the country's prime minister and ruling party leader in what analysts said was the most aggressive threat yet from an increasingly lethal and widespread insurgency.

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The desperate battle for Lalgarh might recapture land for the Left, but the hearts and minds of its denizens are lost to them. SHANTANU GUHA RAY reports from the battle zone...

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The Tamil Tigers were no ordinary insurgency. Built on the ethnic hatred of the minority Hindu Tamils against the majority Sinhalese Buddhists, the movement was among the best organized and most ruthless to have emerged anywhere since the Second World War.

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SRI LANKA THANX PAKISTAN. Friends need no thanks. Friendship is one of the most precious passions which can never be weighed and estimated in worldly terms. Lucky are the friends who have a common enemy; because this common enemy strengthens the depth of their relation.

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In the early-1990s when gunbattles between terrorists and security forces were a commonplace occurrence in Jammu & Kashmir, a British newspaper ran a bizarre story.

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The Americans do not want Pakistanis to capture Baitullah Mehsud alive, and they cannot eliminate him with an air strike anymore since Pakistan Army is advancing towards him already.

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The term 'Kafkaian' could be very well applied to today's politics in India, for things have gone to such a pitch of absurd, unfair, blatant and outrageous illogical state, that it baffles the mind.

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Last week, after more than 25 years of conflict, the Tamil separatists of Sri Lanka admitted defeat in their war for an independent homeland.

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Sri Lankan government is obtrusively insisting on the death of LTTE leader Prabhakaran, but its acceptance has not gone down well with the Sinhalese-Tamilian community around the world. The rest of the civil Tamilians still believe that he is alive.

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As Ban Ki-moon heads to Sri Lanka, the government admits for the first time it suffered heavy military casualties in the last phase of its war with the Tamil Tigers.

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At the turn of the millennium and till 2004, India in terms of its foreign policy achievements stood on a promising threshold. The nuclear weaponisation tests of 1998 had endowed India's foreign policy with boldness and assertiveness.

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A couple of years back I happened to come across four Sri Lankan's Army officers who reveled that their country is passing through a Indian sponsored war with Tamils .

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India and Sri Lanka have both been holding elections.

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The Sri Lankan Army is celebrating victory as its elite forces occupy the Tamil Tigers' last refuge at the Mulathive Lagoon, thanks to Chinese military aid. Since 2007 China has equipped the Sri Lankan Government with all the weapons and support the rest of the world had denied …

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The leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has been killed along with his son and other rebel commanders, according to reports today.

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The army rescued more than 210,000 civilians held hostage by the rebels, Rajapaksa said. The LTTE said the civilians were staying on their own free will and that 1,700 civilians had been killed by army artillery in a two-day period this week.

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International staff working in Sri Lanka have been warned to avoid careless talk amid concern that the government in Colombo is going to extraordinary lengths to suppress dissent.

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Hundreds of seriously wounded or ill patients are waiting for medical care in north-eastern Sri Lanka but the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that for the third consecutive day it could not evacuate them due to heavy fighting.

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