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		<title>Harrowing Times for Indian Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/foreign-policy/harrowing-times-for-indian-diplomacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[terror attack in Delhi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One minor blast in a country which has witnessed a series of violent terrorist attacks, blasts and mayhem has sent the country on a tizzy and brought it to the centre of the raging conflict between Israel, duly supported by the west, and Iran. If anything, the attack on the Israel diplomatic car denotes the fragility of India to terror manipulations severely restricting its ability to chose a pragmatic diplomatic path.]]></description>
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		<title>Bravery Personified: Lt Navdeep Singh, Ashoka Chakra</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/internal-security/bravery-personified-lt-navdeep-singh-ashoka-chakra/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/internal-security/bravery-personified-lt-navdeep-singh-ashoka-chakra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internal security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of Thermopylae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Raj Mehta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gurais Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kashmir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maratha Light Infantry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conferring the Ashok Chakra on Lt Navdeep Singh is the latest but not the last episode of gallantry in the long and chequered history of the Indian Armed Forces. His actions speak of military professionalism and placing duty, honour and selflessness above personal needs. ]]></description>
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		<title>Coups in South Asia : Strategic Underpinnings</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/coups-in-south-asia-strategic-underpinnings/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/coups-in-south-asia-strategic-underpinnings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maldives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maldivian Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maumoon Abdul Gayoom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Nasheed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohammed Waheed Hassan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasheed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Alliance (Maldives)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheikh Hasina]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Maldives other games may be afoot. China, which has opened a diplomatic office in Male, the fifth country to do so, may be strategically inclined to support the regime change. Its plans to open a billion dollar casino and resort were held back by the Nasheed government. While the casino may be a ploy to increase Chinese footprint in Maldives the ultimate Chinese interest would be to exploit the strategic location of Maldives for its Navy.]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis: China and Russia&#8217;s Veto on Syria</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/china-and-russias-veto-on-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/china-and-russias-veto-on-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Russian and Chinese veto, used for their partisan interests have reopened the debate on the efficacy of UN as a peacemaker of the world. They may be right about a unipolar world and its definition but at a time and moment like this putting the interests of the Syrian people above their own would have won them more respectability from the international community.]]></description>
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		<title>Preponing Afghanistan to 2013: Cause and Effect</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/geopolitics/preponing-afghanistan-to-2013-cause-and-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/geopolitics/preponing-afghanistan-to-2013-cause-and-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[geopolitics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war on terror]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inter-Services Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Panetta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defence Secretary Panetta's airborne disclosure of a 2013 winding down of combat operations in Afghanistan, one year ahead of schedule, has baffled political and military analysts world over. While it appears to be a political judgement in the election year, it has much wider ramifications for the region.]]></description>
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		<title>Go, Navdeep, Go!</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/internal-security/go-navdeep-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internal security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashok Chakra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Raj Mehta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Army]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lt Navdeep Singh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Navdeep Singh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syed Ata Hasnain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://southasianidea.com/?p=3886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take home, dear reader, the overriding thought that Navdeep actually lives in all of us. In these desperate times when all seems to be falling apart, there is help at hand to resurrect; reconstruct…That help is within us…Jiva is Shiva. God and godliness live within ourselves and all we need to do is to evoke him and sincerely. We need to do ordinary things with extraordinary zeal and dedication and accountability as well as probity to invoke the Lt Navdeep Singh, Ashoka Chakra inside us. Start now.]]></description>
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		<title>Au Revoir, Lieutenant Navdeep Singh..</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/internal-security/au-revoir-lieutenant-navdeep-singh/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/internal-security/au-revoir-lieutenant-navdeep-singh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[internal security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Raj Mehta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gurais]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The soldier, who has taken position behind a boulder, simulating the terrorist who shot Navdeep, is just five meters away. This was the distance at which Navdeep was fired at, pulling in his buddy to safety as he fell dying. There could not have been a nobler death. Let us join in saluting this bravest of brave men who gave his today for our tomorrow.

I did at Bagtor. You should salute him, man or woman, from wherever you are.
]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s National Defense Guidance: Forward to the Past</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/president-obamas-national-defense-guidance-forward-to-the-past/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/president-obamas-national-defense-guidance-forward-to-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general Dempsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama's defence guidelines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama's defence strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panetta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://southasianidea.com/?p=3862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long War Journal (Editor&#8217;s Note: This is the way US intends fighting wars of the future. We had put this strategy in context in our earlier post Obama&#8217;s New Defence Strategy and Asia. The guidelines add to some clarity and we shall look forward to the nuts and bolts of these guidelines in February 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Soft Coup Appears Imminent</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/pakistan-soft-coup-appears-imminent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coup in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imran Khan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No democratic government has survived the full term in Pakistan. Something which the Pakistan Army takes great pride in having ruled Pakistan for half of its existence directly and the rest indirectly. In the worst face off between the civil government and the military, both of which are suffering legitimacy crisis in Pakistan, the scales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Equal than others in Death</title>
		<link>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/more-equal-than-others-in-death-2/</link>
		<comments>http://southasianidea.com/analysis/more-equal-than-others-in-death-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Team SAI</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tazeen Javed In the wake of the cross-border Nato attack in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in Salala, the whole country was up in arms against the aggression of the allied forces. From the political parties to lawyers associations, from banned militant outfits to student organisations, from the head of the armed forces [...]]]></description>
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