Lessons from the 9/11 Commission The unprecedented scale of the terror attacks in Mumbai and the fact that citizens from more than 20-plus countries were killed or injured in the attacks have evoked an international... Cherian Samuel | December 10, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Train to Lhasa The Olympics are over. The tourists and sportspersons from all over the world who flew to Beijing are back after being dazzled by the massive sporting infrastructure of a new... Shailender Arya | Winter 2008 | Journal of Defence Studies
The Pakistan Link to the Mumbai Terror Attacks Investigations into the attacks in Mumbai and subsequent developments point to the role of the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) as the key player that orchestrated the well coordinated attacks. The... Shanthie Mariet D'Souza | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Fishing in Troubled Waters Investigations into the Mumbai attacks have revealed that the terrorists came in from the sea. It has been reported that in the course of their journey from Karachi they had... Pushpita Das | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Mumbai Attacks: A Deadly “Performance” For 62 hours, from the night of November 26 to the morning of November 29, the city of Mumbai was held hostage to terror attacks. A significant element in these... Namrata Goswami | December 05, 2008 | IDSA Comments
China and the Global Financial Crisis The global financial crisis which had been brewing for some time began to unfold in the middle of 2008. Stock markets around the world have nosedived, large financial institutions have... Gunjan Singh | December 04, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Need to Refine India’s Response to Terrorist Incidents The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai which left more than 170 people killed and close to 300 injured did not conform to the pattern to which Indian security agencies... Satinder K. Saini | December 03, 2008 | IDSA Comments
The Post 26/11 Regional Strategic Predicament Evidence gathered in the aftermath of by far the most deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai indicates conclusively that the attack was planned by the Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Toiba. The attack on... Ali Ahmed | December 03, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Violence in Pakistan: Trend Analysis, October 2008 The number of violent incidents in Pakistan increased from 309 in September 2008 to 346 in October 2008. Yet, casualty figures decreased from 1342 to 1081.1 This shows that Pakistan’s... T. Khurshchev Singh , Alok Bansal | December 02, 2008 | IDSA Comments
Indian PM’s Visit to Oman and Qatar During his November 2008 visit to Oman and Qatar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed two memoranda of understanding with Oman and three with Qatar. The MOUs with Qatar were on... Zakir Hussain | December 02, 2008 | IDSA Comments
