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1. The Iron Grip Tightens Yet Again was posted on an Indian military discussion forum on 15-11-1999. The source of the article is unknown, but its author is MK Narayanan, former chief of the Intelligence Bureau of India, an agency which focuses on internal intelligence gathering and counter-terror, and plays some of the roles taken up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US. 2.
The Deadly Game was published in the ‘London
Times’ of August 6, 1999. It had
the sub-headline: Foreign interference
is destabilising Afghanistan. 3.
Pakistan’s Compulsions for the Kargil Misadventure is a paper by
Bidanda M. Chengappa, published in ‘Strategic Analysis’, a publication of
the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), based in New Delhi, and
associated with the Ministry of Defence. It was published in the second half of
1999. Mr. Chengappa is a Senior Fellow at IDSA. 4. India-Pakistan: End of zero-sum game? This article is by Ejaz Haider in The Friday Times of Pakistan, dated Feb 4-10, 2000. In the article, Haider asks whether Pakistan's pro-active Kashmir policy based on the forces of jihad is compatible with other more compelling interests. 5.
Dagestan: Focus On Pakistan's Tablighi Jamaat is by B. Raman, Additional
Secretary (Retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and at present Director,
Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). He can be reachedby
e-mail at: corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 15/9/1999 and published at the
website of South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org
6.
This extract on Tablighi Jamaat’s Activities in the US is from an
article by B. Raman, Additional Secretary (Retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of
India, and at present Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai (former
Madras). The article is titled ‘Dagestan:
Focus On Pakistan's Tablighi Jamaat’. Mr. Raman can be reached by
e-mail at: corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 15/9/1999 and published at the
website of South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org
7.
This extract on Tablighi Jamaat’s Activities in the
Central Asian Republics, Chechnya
& Dagestan is from an article by B. Raman, Additional Secretary (Retd),
Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and at present Director, Institute for
Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). The article is titled ‘Dagestan:
Focus On Pakistan's Tablighi Jamaat’. Mr. Raman can be reached by
e-mail at: corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 15/9/1999 and published at the
website of South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org.
8.
Turn-the-Other-Cheek
Diplomacy is by noted columnist Jim Hoagland of the
Washington Post. This article was published on Thursday, January 27, 2000 (Page
A27). It takes the State Department to task for engaging Pakistan without
tangible results. 9. Proxy War in Kashmir: Jehad or State-Sponsored Terrorism? This is a paper by Gurmeet Kanwal, Senior Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. It was published in April 1999, just one month before the “Kargil crisis” erupted with the insertion of Pakistani troops into the Indian sector of the high Himalayas. 10.
U.S. Pressures Pakistan to Cut Ties With Extremist Groups - Indian
Airlines Hijackers Linked to Islamabad Intelligence is
by John Lancaster, Washington Post Staff Writer. It was published on Wednesday,
January 26, 2000; Page A02 11.
The
Road to Holy Terror
is by M. Ilyas Khan. It was a brief Note in ‘The Herald’ magazine of
Pakistan, January 2000 issue, datelined Kabul 12.
The New Threat of Nuclear Terrorism is from the June 8 issue of Jerusalem
Post’s online edition. It is by Yonah Alexander, professor and director,
Terrorism Studies Program, The George Washington University and senior fellow at
the Morris E. Curiel Center for International Studies, Tel Aviv University. The
article is located at: http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/08.Jun.1998/Opinion/Article-1.html
13. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan is by Maj Gen Ashok Krishna AVSM (Retd) Deputy Director, IPCS. This is Article No: 191, dated 25 May 1999, at the website of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), which is at www.ipcs.org.in 14.
US Foreign Policy and Rogue States is by Barry Rubin, Deputy Director of
the BESA Center for Strategic Studies and Editor of The Journal of Turkish
Politics and Foreign Policy and The Middle East Review of International Affairs.
This article gives an understanding of the bases on which the US determines
which countries are “rogue states”.
15.
Pakistan—The Chief Patron-Promoter of Islamic Militancy and Terrorism
is by P.B. Sinha. This paper was published by the Institute for Defence Studies
and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The article is accessible through the IDSA site:
www.idsa-india.org 16.
A Foreign Policy that Can’t Be Changed is by Khaled Ahmed, Executive
Editor of the Friday Times, a Pakistani newspaper. It was dated Jan28-Feb.3,
2000. The URL at which it was located - http://www.thefridaytimes.com/news9.htm
is no longer valid. 17.
Testimony by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet Before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on The Worldwide Threat in 2000: Global
Realities of Our National Security. The testimony is located at: http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/dci_speech_020200.html
18. Killers in Their Midst was published in Newsweek International, February 14, 2000. It was written by Steve LeVine and Zahid Hussain with support from Ismail Khan in Peshawar and Munir Ahmed in Lahore. 19. The Muridke Terrorist Gathering and its geo-political environment is examined in an article was published in Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 14-16, of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, January/February 2000. It was written by Mohammed Ahmedullah, a special correspondent with the Business Standard in New Delhi. He was a Bulletin visiting fellow in 1999. The article can be found at: http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2000/jf00/jf00ahmedullah.html 20. Pakistan’s Kashmir Strategy is a research paper by Yossef Bodansky. At the time of writing the paper, he was the Director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the U.S. Congress, as well as the World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston TX). Mr. Bodansky is a contributing editor of Defense and Foreign Affairs; Strategic Policy, the author of three books (Target America, Terror, and Crisis in Korea), several book chapters, and numerous articles in several periodicals including Global Affairs, JANE's Defence Weekly,Defense and Foreign Affairs; Strategic Policy, Business Week. In the 1980s, he acted as a senior consultant for the Department of Defense and the Department of State. The paper can be found on line through: http://freeman.io.com 21. Islamabad’s Road Warriors is a research paper by Yossef Bodansky, World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston TX). See above. 22. Pakistan’s Nuclear Brinkmanship is a research paper by Yossef Bodansky, World Terrorism Analyst with the Freeman Center for Strategic Studies (Houston TX). See above 23.
Pakistan's Assertive Regional Strategy --
[From The Task Force On Terrorism And Unconventional Warfare, House Republican
Research Committee, House Of Representatives, Washington, Dc, Aug. 24, 1994].
Extension of Remarks - September 12, 1994, by Hon.
Bill McCollum in
the House of Representatives. Dated
Monday, September 12, 1994. 24.
Musharraf Showing Afghan-based Militants the Way to Kashmir was published
in mid-February 2000 at the website of Stratfor, a leading web-based analysis
centre of strategic and intelligence grade information. Stratfor is based in the
United States of America. The article is located at: http://www.stratfor.com/asia/commentary/c0002150226.htm
25.
Hands Tied, India Caves in to Hijackers is by Tony Karon, for TIME
Magazine, of 01/01/00. It shows how the Afghan authorities, the Pakistani
handlers and the hijackers co-ordinated the approach to force New Delhi’s hand
in the hijacking of Indian Airlines jet IC 814. 26. US has evidence about ISI involvement in Indian Airlines Hijacking is by B.L. Kak, published in the ‘Daily Excelsior’, a newspaper in Jammu & Kashmir. It is dated Jan. 2, 2000. 27.
Freed Militants in Pakistan is
a report dated 5 January, 2000, 19:51 GMT, by the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC). The title refers to the fact that the Islamic militants freed
by India in exchange for the hostages of the Indian Airlines IC 814 hijacking
had surfaced on Pakistani territory. The article was sourced from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_591000/591660.stm
28. Destroy India and US is by Zahid Hussain of the Associated Press. It was published at the following website on Jan. 6, 2000. http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/06/international/KASHMIR06.htm 29.
UK Asks Pakistan to Curb Militant Groups is by Aamir Ghauri, published in
‘The News’ daily of Pakistan on Jan. 28, 2000. It refers to the growing
international pressure on Pakistan to end its backing for terrorist groups. 30.
Reviewing
Foreign Policy was published in The News daily of Pakistan, of the Jang
newspaper group, on Feb. 19, 2000. It is written by Imtiaz Alam and was featured
in the Op-Ed section. It examines the dire straits in which Pakistani foreign
policy finds itself today. Readers may note that Mr. Alam takes for granted that
Pakistan has become a state sponsor of violence in other countries. The article
is located at: http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2000-daily/19-02-2000/oped/o3.htm
31.
Pakistani Sponsorship of Terrorism is by by
B. Raman, Additional Secretary (Retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and
at present Director, Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai (former Madras). He
can be reached by e-mail at: corde@vsnl.com. The article was dated 25/2/2000 and
published at the website of South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) at: www.saag.org.
32.
Onslaught by Taliban Leaves Many Afghans Dead or Homeless was published
in The New York Times of Oct. 18, 1999. It is written by Barry Bearak, datelined
Azarak, Afghanistan. It details the involvement of Pakistani irregulars in
massacres on Afghan territory.
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