Table of contents for The Afghanistan crisis : issues and perspectives / edited by K. Warikoo.

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Preface                                           ix
Acknowledgements                               xxvii
Contributors                                   xxix
1. Afghanistan and India: Historico-Cultural Perspective  1
   Lokesh Chandra
2. Ethnicity and Politics in Afghanistan            16
   Manmath Narayan Singh
3. Afghanistan and the Quest for Central Asian Resources 47
   Frederic Grare
4. The Afghan Conundrum: Light Weapons and State
   Collapse                                         62
   Ajay Darshan Behera
5. Refugee Situation in Afghanistan                 83
   Yahya Maroofi
6. Position of Women in Afghanistan                 99
   Arpita Basu Roy
7. The Taliban View of Jihad and the Islamic Precepts  118
   Sultan Shahin
8. The Taliban Phenomenon and the Security
   Environment                                     135
   Afsir Karim
9. The Pakistan-Afghanistan Cauldron: The Global
   Perspective                                     144
   Vinod Saighal



10. Afghanistan: Source of Religious Extremism and
    Terrorism for Central Asia                      160
    Alexander Knyasev
11. The Taliban Phenomenon: Regional Security
    Implications for Central Asia                   185
    Leonid Kusmenovich Bakayev
12. Afghanistan Problem: Russian and Central Asian
    Responses                                       199
    Devendra Kaushik
13. Afghanistan and Cross-border Terrorism in the CIS  211
    Mahendra Ved
14. An International Approach to Afghanistan's Future  231
    Marvin G. Weinbaum
15. The Role of Outside Actors in Afghanistan       245
    Amin Saikal
16. Confronting Creeping Invasions: Afghanistan,
    the UN and the World Community                  256
    William Maley
17. Taliban and External Powers                     275
    Sreedhar
18. United States, Taliban and Crisis in Afghanistan  290
    B.K. Shrivastava
19. United Nations and the Afghanistan Situation:
    The Taliban Era                                 310
    C.S.R. Murthy
20. India's Afghan Policy: Emerging from the Cold   333
    S.D. Muni
21. Shadow ot Afghanistan over Kashmir              351
    K. Warikoo
22. Pakistan's Policy in Afghanistan                382
    Kalim Bahadur
23. Pakistan-Afghan Relations, 1994-2000            392
    Mutahir Ahmed
24. China's Afghan Policy: Limitations versus Leverages  406
    Swaran Singh



25. Iran and Afghanistan: Conflict of Strategic Interest and
    Perception                                     423
    Smruti S. Pattanaik
26. Osama bin Laden, International Terrorism and
    Afghanistan                                    446
    Savita Pandey
Appendices
I. UN Security Council Resolution 1267 (1999) of
   15 October 1999                              461
II. UN Security Council Resolution 1333 (2000) of
    19 December 2000                             466
III. UN Security Council Resolution 1363 (2001) of
     30 July 2001                                 475
IV. UN Security Council Resolution 1368 (2001) of
    12 September 2001                            478
V. UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001) of
   28 September 2001                            480
VI. UN Security Council Resolution 1378 (2001) of
    14 November 2001                             485
VII. Bonn Agreement of 5 December 2001           488
VIII. UN Security Council Resolution 1383 (2001) of
    6 December 2001                              500
IX. UN Security Council Resolution 1386 (2001) of
    20 December 2001                             502
X. UN Security Council Resolution 1390 (2002) of
   16 January 2002                              505
XI. UN Security Council Resolution 1401 (2002) of
    28 March 2002                                510
XII. UN Security Council Resolution 1413 (2002) of
    23 May 2002      -513
XIII. UN Security Council Resolution 1419 (2002) of
    26 June 2002                                 515
Index                                          518