It is the first book by a serving insider based upon direct experience as a Brigadier General Staff of 15 Corps in the Valley from November 1993 to 30 September 1995. All existing books address the socio-political issues about Kashmir. This deals with the psychology or mentality of political violence. What drives a common citizen to pick up on the gun, how a terrorist thinks and how violence …
Half-a-Century ago on 15th August 1947, India attained freedom from the British rule. This volume three contains chronology of events from 1947 to 1997 and gives a bird's eye view of India's land and people and all important events in India during the first 50 years of this nascent democracy.
The peculiar demographic landscape of J&K consists of three distinct geographical and ethnic groups with conflicting political aspirations. The solution must fulfill the legitimate economic, ethnic, social and political aspirations or people in different regions-Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Kashmir continues to cause concern. Over the years, the problems have assumed dangerous proportions. A Pred…
The Sri Lankan pot continues to boil. Although the ceasefire agreement of February 2002 between the government in Colombo and the LTTE has helped bring down temperatures, a permanent political settlement remains, at best, a hope with more complexities entering the arena with each passing day. To take stock of the situation and to draw lessons for the future, the chennai chapter of the observer …
Since 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq, the West has been fighting a 'War on Terror', through force and through the building of new societies in the region. In this clear and devastating account, with unparalleled access and intimate knowledge of the political players, Descent into Chaos chronicles our failure. Having reported from central Asia for a quarter of a century…
The islamic development bank is an international financial institution established in pursuance of the declaration of intent issued by the conference of finance ministers of muslims countries held in Jeddah in Dhul Q'adah 1393 H.
This volume is a series of studies that ICES has commissioned and publications it has sponsored over the years on devolution. Its focus of attention consists of the most recent body of proposals made by the P Government for constitutional reform, whose direction is the transformation of the Sri Lankan political structure into a "Union of Regions." The contributors to this symposium have in comm…
Buku ini menghimpun UU no.9/1990 beserta peraturan pelaksanaannya, dengan maksud membantu dalam memberi informasi bidang kepariwisataan secara lengkap dan akurat.
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogues gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistans involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blam…
Contents: 1. The land and the people 2. The government 3. The economy: The atoll and island economies the economy of the country 4. Fisheries 5. Agriculture 6. Education 7. Health