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| Level of violence registers big increase | | And conflict zones now exist everywhere | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI NOV 26
If the level of violence of various types including terrorist violence, sectarian violence and violence between Islamic organisations and the United States has, in recent times, increased, the number of conflict zones have also registered a phenomenal increase across the world. Nuclear countries, particularly the US, Britain, China and Russia, are also engaged in the task of containing fires of conflict of one kind or another in their respective territories.
More serious conflicts than the much-debated conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir have engulfed more countries in recent years. There is only one absolute certainty about every one of the civil conflicts, including the one in Iraq, which are raging in various parts of the world today. That certainty is that at some point, each of them will end.
The only question is: When? Often ignored by those parts of the world that are strangers to violent internal discord is that it takes a major dislocation in relations between different parts of a united country, before the ultimate horror of... | |
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| Hardliners versus moderates in Pak Army | | Fundamentalists rank next only to military establishment | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV 26
Pakistan military is confronted with a serious challenge from trhe home-made Islamic fundamentalism. The Pakistani Army, of course, holds the key to power. But fundamentalists have become so powerful that they are now ranked next only to the Army in muscle power.
These and other details of the enhanced menace of fundamentalism and sectarianism are contained in a report purported to have been prepared by Pakistan-watchers for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
According to the report, if the meeting of religous parties and groups recently convened by Pakistan's Interior Ministry was to seek their cooperation to create a tolerant society, the tone and t... | |
| | | | Defence Service Chiefs don't decide policies | | Ministry of Defence is responsible, not accountable | | |
B L KAK
NEW DELHI, NOV 26
The high-voltage Ministry of Defence is a unique institution by itself since it has under its umbrella a vast apparatus, including defence production, defence researtch and development and the three armed services. But there is a type of dichotomy which makes the Ministry of Defence (MoD) responsible but not accountable, invariably on grounds of public interest.
The MoD controls access to all information on defence production, procurement, acquisitions, research and development, and the general structural organisation of the armed services. On the operational side, the Defence Headquarters of all the three services remain segregated and even if armed fo... | |
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