ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Mr Chairperson, no, it is not, in fact it might be closer to a limpet mine, because it is a charge, which is simply encased in a box.  It is not a mine as in a landmine in the ordinary sense that if you step on it, it would go off, or in the case of an anti-tank mine, if a heavy vehicle went over it, it would then be set off.  It is basically just explosives that are packed in and for ease of use, it has the holes in it, etc, so that people then don't have to handle ordinary explosives, but it is an explosive that is encased.  All of these are encased explosives.   The one point I think that we should just take note of, is that all grenades, landmines, etc, all of those things, do have a shrapnel affect.  In fact if you took an F1 grenade, the bulk of it is the metal part around it, and you know, you have a small core of high explosives inside of it.  When it explodes on the inside, it will send out shrapnel.