As winter sets in, Jihadis separate (Deepak Sinha, South Asia Monitor)

For the uninitiated, the Entrepreneurship Development Institute building at Pampore seems like a magnet for the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, which has targeted it for the second time in less than eight months. Unfortunately, for them, success, if you can call it that, has completely eluded them this time.

http://southasiamonitor.org/news/as-winter-sets-in-jihadis-separate/emerging/19930

When judges become Generals.... (Deepak Sinha, South Asia Monitor)

The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is once again in the eye of the storm following the recent Supreme Court ruling by Justice Madan Lokur and Justice UU Lalit on alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur. The ruling though may lead to an unintended situation the honourable justices may never have imagined.

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=18153

IPS is well past its expiry date (Deepak Sinha, South Asia Monitor)

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=govd&nid=17580