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Contents - October 2003

Overseer of an Exit Strategy?
Air Cdre (Retd) KHALID IQBAL looks at the causes for Gen McChrystal's
sacking that he says will also continue to haunt his successor.

It would be naive to assume that General McChrystal was unaware of the consequences of the ‘Rolling Stone’ saga. He wilfully committed professional suicide by stepping on a media equivalent of WMD. Probably he could clearly see his Waterloo approaching fast.

The Obama administration had given him almost all the resources that he had asked for. Now was the time for accountability. It is not the fall of a General; it is indeed the fall of a strategy which was constructed in vacuum, based on denial of ground realities. Fixations and oversimplifications had effectively blocked the way of healthy inputs, which have all along been plenty, from within American intelligentsia as well as from the well wishers of America the world over........more


Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s
New Geo-Political and Geo-Strategic
Columnist MEHMOOD-UL-HASSAN KHAN has praise for SCO.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is emerging as yet another player in a crowded web of diplomatic and military ties. For many in the region, particularly the smaller nations, this jockeying promises benefits of all sorts, whether measured in aid, security guarantees or energy investments
(The Institute of strategic studies, London)

The 10th annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was recently held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The leaders who gathered discussed the development of joint projects in energy, transport, telecommunications and high technology and also showed great concerns on the deteriorating geo-political situation in Kyrgyzstan. They all pledged to build an effective and open multilateral organization dedicated to regional security, peace, stability and socio-economic prosperity.........more

Tracing The Right
to Development
Dr IMRAN NASEEM looks for answers about the practice and practicability
of the Right to Development.

An attempt is being made to find answers to three main queries below related to the right to development.

1. What is the Right to Development (RTD)?
2. What is origin of the RTD?
3. Are there any treaties pertaining to RTD?

Prior to the Declaration on RTD in 1986 one failed to find any precise definition of RTD however, the Commission on Human Rights and the General Assembly provided the closest approximation which stated, “Equality of prerogative of nations as of individuals within nations.”1

Another definition or explanation of the RTD was given by the United Nations Secretary General, Kurt Waldheim when in an annual report he told the world body that general consensus existed on the following elements being parts of the concept..................more

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