Q3 - 2008
| S. No. | Title | Author | Description | Link | Link |
| 001 | Annual Report 2007 | RAND NATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DIVISION | For more than 20 years, the RAND National Security Research Division (NSRD) has addressed key issues at the top of the national and international security policy agenda. None is currently more important than the continuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have placed increased stress on U.S. military personnel and their families. NSRD research this year has helped support their efforts with timely and effective analysis of some of the critical problems they face. |
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| 002 | Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan |
RAND Seth G. Jones |
The research described in this report was prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The research was conducted in the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community under Contract W74V8H-06-C-0002. |
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| 003 | Analytic Support to Intelligence in Counterinsurgencies |
RAND Walter L. Perry, John Gordon IV |
The research described in this report was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community under Contract W74V8H-06-C-0002. |
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| 004 | The Maritime Dimension of International Security Terrorism, Piracy, and Challenges for the United States |
RAND PROJECT AIR FORCE Peter Chalk |
The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Air Force under Contract FA7014-06-C-0001. Further information may be obtained from the Strategic Planning Division, Directorate of Plans, Hq USAF. |
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| 005 | Pakistan external vital statistics |
Muzammil Aslam Economist KASB Securities |
Macro headwinds driven by the oil price storm and global credit squeeze clearly indicate a tough time ahead. And uncertain domestic politics aren’t helping to mitigate the external account vulnerability. Liquidity conditions have massively deteriorated lately due to the sustained surge in trade deficit and in turn high current account deficit. To ensure medium-term macro stability, Pakistan must reduce domestic demand pressures, fiscal deficit, and top up foreign exchange reserves through aggressive privatization and FDI inflow. We expect pressure on the rupee exchange in the absence of foreign inflows and hence expect an average exchange rate of PRs70-72/US$ in FY09, compared with our earlier estimate of PRs64.70/US$. |
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| 006 | Balochistan in the 21st Century | An address given to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on August 6, 2007 by His Excellency Owais Ahmed Ghani Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan |
I want to explain something which I’ve been trying to explain for the past four years without any measure degree of success. Pakistan is generally known as an important frontier on the global war on terrorism. I have [some differences] with the phrase “global war on terrorism,” I think it needs to be rephrased. I think it is a misnomer, it is inaccurate and it is misleading and I will explain why. It does not cater to situations such as exist or existed in, say, Ireland, the IRA; Basque, Spain; East Timor, Sri Lanka, or Rwanda. There is this confusion which has, in my opinion, prevented the global community coming up with an appropriate strategy whereby, six years after 9/11, we should have had some measure of success. I feel we don’t have that. |
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| 007 | Pakistan: A Select Political Chronology, 1947-2008 | by Vinay Lal | 1947 -- (August 14th) Birth of Pakistan; Muhammad Ali Jinnah becomes the first head of state; Fighting erupts between Pakistan and India 1948 – Agreement signed between Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, to protect minorities; (September) Death of Jinnah; Dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir goes to the United Nations |
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| 008 | Are Muslims Enemies of Peace? | By Dr Javed Jamil, Director, International Centre for Applied Islamics, India |
The Western Media have been aggressively singling out Muslims as the source of violence, but the facts speak to the contrary. It has already been seen that the level of almost all crimes is much less in Muslim countries than in most of the other countries. Let us now glance through the history of last 100-150 years to find, which countries indulged in biggest massacres, wars and civil wars. According to the website copyrighted by Pierie Scruff, which gives the statistics of wars and civil wars, about 160 million people died in wars in the 20th century. | |
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