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New Delhi: File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav who is on death row in Pakistan on charges of 'espionage'. International Court of Justice has asked Pakistan to stay his death sentence. PTI Photo (PTI5_18_2017_000105B)

India’s secret war

The implications of the questions raised by the Kulbhushan Jadhav case go far beyond Jadhav’s fate. It is time India reflects seriously on its expandi
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The body of a suspected terrorist inside the Nariman House building.-REUTERS

Lethal lapse

Had Indias strategic establishment heeded the warning signs, the Mumbai attack could, perhaps, have been averted.
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Srinagar, August 22: The gathering at Idgah maidan for Friday prayers and a rally that was addressed by leaders of the separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference.-NISSAR AHMAD

State of divide

Competing fundamentalisms use the Amarnath land issue to push Jammu and Kashmir to the edge.
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Flawed all the way

How New Delhis well-meaning but ill-conceived peace process communalised Jammu and Kashmir.
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Driven by hate

The terrorist attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad form part of a jehadist campaign that has its roots in communal hatred.
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Hubris and downfall

Jammu and Kashmir: The collapse of the Congress-PDP alliance government is the end result of playing the communal card.
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Mohammed Yahya Kamakutty (face covered), a computer engineer and allegedly a key operative in a terror cell that planned bomb explosions in Bangalore, Mumbai and other cities, being brought back to Bangalore from Dharwad for further questioning on February 28. The police say he has links with SIMI.-K. GOPINATHAN

Tussle within

Members of the Students Islamic Movement of India are rethinking the organisations future.
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Jamaat in retreat

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sheikh Mohammad Hassan startles observers by refusing to participate in a secessionist anti-election campaign.
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Buddhist Prayer flags on the Khardung glacier, which supplies water to Leh.-

Melting away

Glacial retreat in Jammu and Kashmir could plunge South Asia into a crisis.
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Security forces patrolling the waterfront in Male as part of stepped-up security measures following the Sultan Park bombing.-LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP

Uneasy in paradise

The Maldives sees a rising tide of violent Islamism as growing numbers of young men answer the jehadi call.
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In Lucknow, police officers inspect the site of the blast at the civil court complex on November 23. On that day, near-simultaneous explosions at court complexes in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad, in Uttar Pradesh, killed at least 13 people, including four lawyers. Islamist militants were suspected to be behind the attacks.-NAND KUMAR/PTI

Terror links

Frontline examines the emergence and growth of SIMI and the rise of Islamist fundamentalism across the country.
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A group of Khalistani terrorists after their surrender in Bhikiwind in 1992.-ASIT JOLLY

Fading memories of a promised land

Fifteen years after the end of the war for Khalistan, have the ghosts of the past been put to rest?
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