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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Special Article (Statesman, Salman Haidar , Jun 28, 2007)
Recent news from Afghanistan is not comforting. A revived Taliban has struck again and again. New tactics have been developed that borrow heavily from the Iraq insurgency, most lethal being the suicide bombings that have taken a heavy toll and . . .
- Ec For Action Against Jayalalithaa (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 27, 2007)
The Election Commission on Tuesday asked the Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer to register cases against AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa for giving false affidavits during Tamil Nadu Assembly elections in 2001, when she filed her nominations from four . .
- Generals Moment Of Triumph (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 26, 2007)
Question remains what is it that Pakistan may have conceded that Americans were anxious to have from it.
- America’S Vote (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Jun 23, 2007)
This week Annie Woods Patterson, the US ambassador-designate to Islamabad, told the Senate Foreign Relations committee: “I would be fairly confident to predict that no state of emergency is going to be imposed.
- Mqm, Opposition Launch War Of References (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 22, 2007)
Imran Khan, Shaukat Aziz targeted by rival camps
References against Imran sent to CEC
Plea to declare MQM terrorist outfit
- Kasuri Rules Out Imposition Of Martial Law (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2007)
"...I hope we will never resort to martial law. Martial law is unconstitutional. So when he (Musharraf) has repeatedly said he will work within the confines of the Constitution, I have no reason to doubt that," Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M . . .
- Kalam Ready To Contest If Victory Is ‘Certain’ (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Jun 21, 2007)
Even as President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam made it clear to the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) delegation here today that political consensus had been the defining factor for him to contest for a second term as the Head of State which had . . .
- Doing A Pratibha (Indian Express, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jun 21, 2007)
Notice the amusing eagerness with which women academics and journalists professing feminist ideas have leapt to defending Pratibha Patil’s nomination. With no other evidence of her suitability for the top job being adduced, it was almost as if the . . . .
- Kalam Is People's Choice (Pioneer, Hari Jaisingh, Jun 21, 2007)
On merit, APJ Abdul Kalam deserves a second term. The Opposition is backing him; he is 'willing'; and the people of India want him as their President. But the Congress and the Left don't want him because he has a mind of his own
- Tony Blair’S Legacy (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2007)
In 1997, Peter Hennessy, a highly respected British historian, wrote a few months before Tony Blair assumed power: “Command premiership of a highly personalised and driven kind usually ends in tears.
- The Call Of 1857 (Frontline, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2007)
Legends of the First War of Independence 150 years ago deserve to be recalled in these days of the global revival of Western-style neocolonialism.
- Chasing Safety And Freedom In Alien Lands (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Jun 20, 2007)
Sixty years after Indian independence, the occasion of World Refugees Day on 20 June is a reminder of the turbulent birth of the of three South Asian states - India and Pakistan in 1947, and Bangladesh in 1971 – and the large flows of refugees that . . .
- Piquant Situation (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jun 20, 2007)
Just when it was thought he was packing his little bag to return to the old tiny quarters in Chennai’s Anna University to resume guiding the students, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has landed, like a missile that skipped trajectory, upon 10, Janpath.
- Salaam Kalam (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 20, 2007)
In suggesting the name of President APJ Abdul Kalam for a second term, the Third Front - or the United National Progressive Alliance, as the new grouping of regional leaders is called - has said the right thing at the wrong time.
- A `Third' Aspect To The Presidential Race (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jun 20, 2007)
The Presidential race has acquired all the aspects that it should not have — religion, caste, regional and gender issues. An update from RASHEEDA BHAGAT in the context of the Third Front naming the incumbent, Mr Abdul Kalam, as its candidate.
- Kalam, An Ideal Man: Unpa (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2007)
Leaders of seven regional parties on Monday favoured President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for a second term in office “in the interest of the nation.”
- Kalam Backed For Second Term (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 19, 2007)
The Kalam factor bounced back to haunt the Congress-led UPA and the Left leadership after the third front group, christened as United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), in the face of limited options and divisions over their endorsement for the . . .
- Jaya Tosses Up Kalam Name (Asian Age, Venkatesh Kesari , Jun 19, 2007)
Vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Monday supported President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam for a second term as President a few hours after the newly-formed United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) of eight regional parties . . .
- Sectarian Challenge To Sikh Unity: The Dalit Question (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Jun 19, 2007)
Would Akali Dal and Akal Takht devote their attention and accord equal status to the Dalits in society?
- ‘Musharraf’S Not A General For I Sacked Him, And Not A President For He Subverted Constitution To Become One’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 18, 2007)
He (Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf) was charging you with hijacking?
- The Pettiness Of The Race (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 18, 2007)
I had a feeling that this was going to happen. And I guess you did too; at some level, we all did. Two months ago, I wrote on this page, about the search for India’s next President.
- Meeting Baloch Grievances (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 18, 2007)
TEN months after Nawab Akbar Bugti’s death in the military operation in Bhambore hills, the militancy in Balochistan shows no signs of abating.
- Looking At Afghanistan (Telegraph, S.L. Rao, Jun 18, 2007)
Afghanistan has become bracketed with Iraq and its instabilities. In Afghanistan, the mujahedin ousted the Soviet occupiers and then lapsed into civil war.
- Threat From Northern Areas (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jun 18, 2007)
The Northern Areas (Gilgit and Baltistan) under Pakistan’s control are a dark corner of Jammu and Kashmir.
- United States Not Brokering Political Deal In Pakistan: Free Elections Bigger Issue Than Uniform: Boucher (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 16, 2007)
US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher said on Friday that holding of free and transparent elections in Pakistan was a bigger problem than the issue of President General Pervez Musharraf’s uniform, Online reported.
- Pratibha Is Surprise Patil (Asian Age, Venkatesh Kesari , Jun 15, 2007)
Rajasthan governor Pratibha Patil on Thursday emerged as the unanimous choice of the UPA, the Left parties and BSP for the presidency, surprising many not only in the ruling coalition and its supporting parties but in the Opposition as well.
- U.S. Seeks To Keep Eu And Russia Apart (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jun 13, 2007)
American efforts have centred on rolling back Europe's emerging energy alliance with Russia, and widening EU rifts using its allies in "new Europe."
- Ferment In Muslim World (Dawn, Najmuddin A. Shaikh, Jun 13, 2007)
THE examples of Muslims killing Muslims that were contained in the partial survey of the Muslim world in my last article are dwarfed by the current carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Glimpses Of Iran (Frontline, Hamid Ansari, Jun 13, 2007)
AMERICAN scholarship on Iran is persistent, at times enlightening, at others misleading. Ray Takeyh's purpose is specific: to decipher the "hidden" Iran so that the true challenge posed by the Islamic republic can be addressed.
- Supreme Court Reserves Order On Plea Against Mayawati (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 12, 2007)
The Supreme Court on Monday reserved verdict on a petition questioning the appointment of Mayawati as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister without her resigning her Rajya Sabha membership.
- Losing Friends, Fast (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 12, 2007)
It is true that there are no real friends in politics. By definition, political friendships are fickle, feeble and fleeting.
- Benazirs Return To Power (Deccan Herald, Carlotta Gall, Jun 12, 2007)
Bhutto may well be in a position to form the next government and serve again as PM.
- Another Front Is Forged (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Jun 11, 2007)
With the emergence of a new political front comprising a motley group of regional parties, yet another bloc has been created in our increasingly fractured polity. Can the old political certainties prevail over emerging uncertainties?
- Musharraf For Re-Election In Uniform (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2007)
Mr Musharraf, in an interview with Al-Arabia TV, said he would not shed his uniform for the forthcoming presidential election. He said he won the election in uniform, and he would again contest it in uniform.
- They The People (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jun 11, 2007)
Of the many pages from my reporting years scrapbook, which I really treasure, several have a Pakistan connection.
- Pervez To Seek Re-Election In Uniform (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 11, 2007)
Ruling out the possibility of quitting as the Army Chief, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said he would seek his re-election in uniform even as he insisted that he would not enter into any deal with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
- The West Must Accept There Is No Military Solution (Hindu, Jonathan Steele, Jun 09, 2007)
The way forward in Afghanistan is to understand the south is lost and refocus efforts on Kabul and the north.
- Cia Rendition Trial Opens (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 09, 2007)
The first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme opened in Italy on Friday in the absence of all 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terrorist suspect.
- They The People (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jun 09, 2007)
Of the many pages from my reporting years scrapbook, which I really treasure, several have a Pakistan connection.
- There Is No Military Solution (Dawn, Jonathan Steele, Jun 09, 2007)
THE team that wrote President Bush's Prague speech on democracy this week have clearly never visited Afghanistan. Otherwise they would not have had the president quoting a Soviet dissident who compared "a tyrannical state to a soldier who . . . .
- Faiths At War (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 08, 2007)
PAST the gates of the Sachcha Sauda complex at Bathinda, the bleak south Punjab landscape transforms into a world designed to appear as a peasant might imagine paradise: hundreds of acres of lush green fields, dotted by woods.
- Bet On Pakistan Is Another U.S. Error (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 07, 2007)
It must be recalled that it all rather started in Pakistan. Requiring a strategic staging area from which to lash back at the Taliban, which harbored al-Qaida, for the vicious attack on the Twin Towers of Manhattan, the Bush administration pitched . . .
- Time To Step Back From The Precipice (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 07, 2007)
After promulgating a draconian anti-press law, the government has gone and registered cases against 200 journalists under Section 144 for protesting against it.
- Nationality And Religion: The Muslim Question (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jun 07, 2007)
Justice Sachar Commission’s report on Muslims has opened up a new chapter of debate in India, both on the question of minority rights and reservations.
- The May 12 Carnage And Afterwards (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 07, 2007)
KARACHI is not new to civil strife and violence. Decades ago, scores died in consecutive hours of shooting at Sohrab Goth while the law enforcement agencies were bystanders.
- Musharraf For Ban On Display Of Arms (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2007)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has directed the four provincial Chief Ministers and the heads of law enforcement agencies to fully enforce the ban on public display of weapons and locate and block illegal FM radio stations being run by . . . .
- A Slow-Down With India? (Dawn, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Jun 04, 2007)
THERE are growing fears that a new factor is insidiously creeping into the India-Pakistan peace process which may impact negatively on its substance if not the form.
- Politics, Religion, And Resistance (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 04, 2007)
Unravelling the clerical crusade against heresy, and the politics of the Sacha Sauda controversy.
- Power Play (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2007)
...it is not just conservative forces, sordid power games and personality cults which sabotage political and legal institutions and bring down secular leaders within oil-rich or strategically important Islamic countries.
- Un Criticises Us Role In Fighting Terrorism (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
An independent United Nations expert expressed concern over US holding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq, Afghanistan and classified locations, and the permitting military tribunals and "enhanced interrogation techniques".
- Mayawati's Appointment As Chief Minister Unconstitutional: Pil (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2007)
"An MP cannot be appointed CM unless he or she quits Parliament"
Such appointments also offend office of profit law Mayawati, colleague "usurped" office
- Who Will Be President? (Tribune, G.S. Bhargava, May 30, 2007)
LOSING A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as Head of State will be like shedding one’s soul. In 1939, when the British Labour Party expelled Sir Stafford Cripps for supporting a ‘united front’ with the Communists, it was said that the party had blown its brains out.
- Talibanisation Of Sikhism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 30, 2007)
The Sikh fundoos have distorted out of all recognition the militant order of Khalsa that Guru Gobind Singh instituted in 1699. It is incomprehensible how anyone can project nine years of Khalsa as theraison d'êtreof Sikhism and give it . . . .
- Caste Stalls Communalism (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, May 30, 2007)
When I said in the Rajya Sabha a few years ago that caste was bound to stall the spread of communalism one day, I did not know that this would happen in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
- Legal Issues Won’T Allow Bb To Contest Polls: Aziz (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, May 28, 2007)
Prime Minister Shuakat Aziz told CNN in an interview on Sunday that exiled leaders will need to take legal advice as to their return to Pakistan and participation in the coming elections.
- India's Himalayan Blunder-Ii (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, May 26, 2007)
The fault lines that run through Nepal's body politic have caused the country much distress since 1990. Up to a certain point, the main debating point was whether democracy would have a ghost of a chance in Nepal.
- A Certain Ruthlessness (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , May 26, 2007)
The day the Uttar Pradesh election results came in, I was having lunch with a friend in Mumbai. “Mayavati appears to be the Jayalalithaa of the North,” he said, before passing on to other matters. But his remark stayed with me; the more I thought . . .
- Central Asia Is Vital (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), May 25, 2007)
A recent visit to Uzbekistan showed how the dice has been rolled in this geostrategic and resource-rich junction of the East and the West.
- The Only Way Out Of The Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, May 24, 2007)
THERE is no cut and dry formula for taking the country out of the current crisis, but if there is one that could help lower tensions and perhaps bail the government out it lies in a firm announcement of the date for the next general election.
- Uk Government Broke Law Over Chagos Exiles (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, May 24, 2007)
Chagos islanders expelled from their homelands by the British to make way for the US airbase on Diego Garcia today won their legal appeal for the right to return home.
- Sikh Schisms (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, May 23, 2007)
Even though the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, who is at the centre of a violent controversy for reportedly dressing up as Guru Gobind Singh at a public function, has already said he didn't mean any disrespect to Sikhs, passions haven't cooled . . .
- A Rising Tide Of Hate (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 22, 2007)
"I finish only those who are enemies of the Sikh faith like policemen, government officials, and Hindus," thundered Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale in 1984.
- Why This Silence On Kanishka? (Pioneer, Rajeev Srinivasan, May 22, 2007)
Here are the bare facts. On June 23, 1985, Air India's flight 182, a Boeing 747 named Kanishka, blew up over the Atlantic off Ireland en route to India from Canada, killing all 329 aboard.
- Cbi Team Takes Over Dinakaran Attack Probe (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, May 21, 2007)
A CBI team led by special crime branch superintendent of police T S C Bose, now in Madurai, has obtained records and CDs pertaining to the case from the office of the superintendent of police T S Anbu.
- Democracy And Realpolitik (Dawn, Zafar Iqbal, May 21, 2007)
WHEN Pakistan was created it was assumed that it would be a democracy. Some people criticise Mr Jinnah for becoming the governor-general and place the blame on him for what happened subsequently, the assumption being that the only form of . . . .
- Mush Should Go, But What Of Bush? (Pioneer, Wilson John, May 19, 2007)
Musharraf, caught between a rock and a hard place, may salvage his image by resigning. But the Americans still want him on the hot seat because they are afraid of the alternative - a loosening grip over Pakistan
- Regional Parties Will Occupy Centre Stage (Asian Age, Arun Nehru, May 19, 2007)
Mayawati wins Uttar Pradesh and creates many records in the process. Few had credited her with a majority.
- Examples Of Realpolitik (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, May 19, 2007)
Last week two events of significance attracted the attention of the whole country. First, the BSP leader Mayawati organised a multi-caste and multi-community coalition and won the UP elections with an absolute majority.
- What Is Behind Sikh Protests? (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 19, 2007)
Clashes between India's long-established Sikh community and a religious sect in the northern Indian state of Punjab have left one person dead and dozens others injured. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appealed for calm.
- Us Support For Pervez (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2007)
Embattled Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf got a big boost with the US reinforcing its backing to the General saying he has not yet reached the “end of his line” and that he would get “more support”.
- Preachers, Politics, Primordial Passions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2007)
In times less driven by primordial religious passions, Saturday's kitsch-laden re-enactment of Guru Gobind Singh's baptism of the first Khalsa Sikhs might have provoked nothing but wry humour.
- Cultures & Vultures: Wake-Up Call From Vadodara (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, May 18, 2007)
These `fundoos,' self-appointed custodians of Indian culture, may start chipping away at temple murals, breaking down monuments, and eventually targeting the temples at Khajuraho, Konarak, and Bhubaneswar — until they succeed in effacing the . . . . .
- Mush Has Not Yet Reached The End Of His Line: Us (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, May 18, 2007)
Embattled Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf got a big boost with US reinforcing its backing to the General saying he has not yet reached the "end of his line" and that he would get "more support".
- Rising Tensions In Sri Lanka (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, May 17, 2007)
While India and the international community have an abiding interest in the unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka, they equally have a responsibility to encourage Sri Lanka to seek abiding political solutions to the ethnic conflict.
- Indian Artists Fear Intolerance (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2007)
A sudden increase in the number of legal cases being filed against artists, actors and writers for "offending" people has caused great concern in India's art community.
- High Court Orders Notice To State In Case Against Azhagiri (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, May 17, 2007)
Judge tells Additional Advocate-General to file reply or go to Supreme Court
- Benazir’S Short Cut To Power (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, May 16, 2007)
Pakistan’s former foreign minister Asif Ali and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan were in Delhi a few days ago.
- West Asks If Musharraf Is Dispensable (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2007)
Seven years after General Musharraf seized control, Pakistan's continuing unrest and political turmoil may have set the clock ticking for the military dictator with Western capitals finally asking the loaded question: "Is Musharraf dispensable?"
- Bhairon Gaining Ground, Upa Still Looks For Nominee (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, May 16, 2007)
The NDA candidate for President, vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, is gaining ground within the regional parties whose leaders have made it clear that if the choice is between the different candidates projected by the Congress and the . . . .
- Oic Discusses New Charter And Name (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, May 16, 2007)
It is being billed as the most important meeting in the history of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
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