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    Army aviation: does the army need its own air force?

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Within the context of the Indian Army, many defence commentators and analysts have emphasised the need to develop and define the role of the Army Aviation Corps.
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    Six years after Mumbai: the LeT threat

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) is a trans-national terrorist group based in Lahore, Pakistan, with a cadre-strength of over 500,000, a number which makes it the largest terrorist group in the world. With the active support of Pakistan military, LeT carried out the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008.
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    Post-election challenges for the new government in Kabul

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    With a new President (Ashraf Ghani) finally in place in Kabul, attention can shift from the protracted electoral process to the challenges likely to confront the new government. The ability of this government to deal with various political and security challenges will depend to a large extent on how it manages its relations with a variety of stakeholders.
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    Mumbai blasts: time to act

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2006
    The Mumbai serial train blasts that killed over 200 persons and left more than 700 injured within a span of 11 minutes on July 11, 2006 is the most serious attack on the Indian state and its people since the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001.
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    Concerted international action needed to rein in Pakistan terror groups

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2009
    Notwithstanding the partial admission of the allegations made by India about the Mumbai attackers, Pakistan's complicity in allowing Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT), the terrorist group behind the 2008 Mumbai attack, to retain most of its extensive infrastructure and capability to pursue its terrorist activities calls for an intense global scrutiny.
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    The teaching of Pashto: identity versus employment

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    Pashto was associated with Pashtun identity in British times, this was seen as an anti-British and antinon-Muslim tendency. It was anti-British because the British official policy was to favour the teaching of Urdu. It was anti non-Muslim, at least in the eyes of Hindus and Sikhs, because they felt that their language and culture would be under threat.
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    Anatomy of ethnic militancy: case of Karachi, Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The crux of the problem is that the Pakistan is facing a constitutional crisis. The 1973 Constitution was framed in the aftermath of the rupture of Islamabad-Dacca relations and the secession of East Pakistan. The constitution paid considerable attention to Centre-province and inter-provincial relations.
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    Fractured narratives, totalizing violence: notes on women in conflict of Sri Lanka and Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2003
    Force was used by the British in both Sri Lanka and India to quell anti-colonial dissent. Once independence was won, the nationalist leaders used these same structures of state coercion to police, regulate and contain their own citizens.
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    The linkages between scholarship and advocacy: from a feminist analysis of research on the Karachi conflict

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    Feminist movement in Pakistan has a strong core of political and social activism. Feminist research, in turn, must confront the tension between advocacy and scholarship goals during the research process.
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    The language of employment: the case of Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1999
    One cannot find employment in a modern state without being able to read, write and speak (in that order) a certain, standardised, written language. In short, to be part of the salariat in Pakistan one must know a certain language the characteristics of which are investigated in this paper.

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