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No More Marching Orders
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
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Many are seeing Friday’s supreme court directive on police reforms as the beginning of an era of good policing. Will it show India’s colonial cop the door?

National Security and Strategic Studies

If Sharif Comes Back
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 5979
For Musharraf, the Supreme Court decision allowing the return of the exiled Nawaz Sharif could mean a disaster. It turns upside down the delicately nuanced American-backed rescue plan to bail out Mushar...

Pakistan, International Relations and Diplomacy, Neighbourhood Studies

Needed: War on Error
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 6069
Hyderabad blasts were waiting to happen; why they weren’t prevented is a longer story of deliberate diversion. For nations, it matters what happens to them; but the course of their history is often det...

Terrorism, National Security and Strategic Studies

Growth of Maoists Fuelled by Politicians
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 7586
In November 2004 when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Left Wing extremism constituted “an even greater threat to India than militancy in Jammu & Kashmir and the North East”, the country took...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Leftwing Extremism

Changing Paradigms of National Security – Need to Transform and not Reform Intelligence Apparatus
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 8350
Ever since the Chinese debacle of 1962, whenever the nation suffered any serious security setback there has been a clamoring for intelligence reforms. As if following a well rehearsed drill, Government...

National Security and Strategic Studies

Impending Storm
March 16 , 2010 Ajit Doval, KC - Former Director, VIF
Views: 8063
THE ENEMIES, both within and without, use bullets and bombs, not to kill people. They are collateral damages. The real objective is to subdue the enemy by breaking its will and dictating its terms of pe...

Terrorism, North-East Insurgency, National Security and Strategic Studies

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