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Articles 11321 through 11420 of 13380:
- Pakistan: Chickens Coming Home To Roost (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
The recent assassination attempts on Gen Musharraf can best be described as the wages of sin that Pakistan's rulers have inevitably to pay for the policies they have followed for over a decade. The ISI's inducting and training of terrorists and the ...
- ‘inshallah Kashmir Will See Peace This Year’ (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Jan 01, 2004)
Standing against the backdrop of the idyllic Dal Lake, Hurriyat Conference Chairman Maulvi Abbas Ansari points above—to the migratory birds who sail against the water currents. That’s who Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and President Pervez Musharraf have to
- Mother Prayer (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 01, 2004)
There is not a day someone does not lose a loved one here: Far from Saarc arclights, a Kashmiri mother prays for peace
- Attempts On Musharraf’s Life (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Jan 01, 2004)
THE chickens are coming home to roost for Pakistan’s military ruler. Just after he seized power in October 1999, Gen Pervez Musharraf became the first ruler in Pakistan to justify the violence unleashed by his jihadis in Kashmir as being a noble jihad
- Thank You, 2003! (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 31, 2003)
NORMALLY, on December 31, the excitement is all about the New Year. The only thought for the year that has been with us for the previous 12 months is usually a la Lord Tennyson in his famous poem, Ring out, Wild Bells: "The year is dying in the night, and
- Congress, Bjp And Coalition Politics (Hindu, NEENA VYAS , Dec 30, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party said today that the Congress ``had not learnt the correct lessons'' in conducting coalition politics. The party was reacting to the statements made by the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, at a press conference in Mumbai on...
- Saarc's Common Threat (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
WHEN SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) leaders discuss regional issues in Islamabad in the first week of January, one hopes they will place terrorism on top of their agenda. The menace has become a serious threat to stability in the
- Empower The Nhrc (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
THE state of human rights in a country determines how civilized it is. India can justifiably take pride in its human rights record. Few other countries have as efficient a body as India's National Human Rights Commission. This does not mean that there ...
- Indo-Pak: Breaking The Ice (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 30, 2003)
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing damage to the systems and structures of our respective societies...”
- A Moment For Kashmir (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
The new year tolls with new hopes. Certainly for India and Pakistan, but for the people of Kashmir as well. Talks between the Centre and the Hurriyat are slated for January 9, mere days after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee returns from the January
- To Strengthen Case For Talks, Pak ‘works’ On Militants To Cease Fire (Indian Express, HAMEEDULLAH ABID, Dec 30, 2003)
Leaders of major Kashmiri militant groups are considering a unilateral ceasefire in the Valley for two months to facilitate Pakistan and India in their talks during the SAARC summit next week, highly credible sources told Daily Times of Pakistan.
- Can The Congress Recover? (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 30, 2003)
Nationality is an artificial and irrational construct. The world is divided into nations, and nations have governments. They devise rules on nationality that they find politically convenient. But wherever there is a government, there must be the governed;
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Year Of A Small War Made Big (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Dec 29, 2003)
While truly historic regime-changes took place and an epidemic killed hundreds, the world remained obsessed with a minor war for most of 2003
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- Gen Spots Assailant: Jaish From Pok (Indian Express, UMAR CHEEMA, Dec 29, 2003)
Rawalpindi attack: One of the bombers was from PoK, so was a car used to target Musharraf
- Misplaced Analysis Of Intentions (Tribune, Sushant Sareen, Dec 29, 2003)
EVERY time somebody mentioned the need for third-party mediation between India and Pakistan, the then Indian External Affairs Minister, Mr Jaswant Singh, used to say that the two countries did not need a mediator because people on both sides speak the ...
- Fighting `Jehadis' At Home (Hindu, Inder Malhotra, Dec 28, 2003)
According to an old saying, no place is more remote and therefore more unfamiliar than that on the other side of the hill. To an extent this remains true even in this age of instant communication and round-the-clock television coverage. The intense ...
- Our Terror, Now Theirs Too (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Dec 28, 2003)
The end of the year seems always to bring either war or peace between India and Pakistan. This time it is a hesitant, nervous sort of peace that appears to be breaking out. We talk of cross-border trains and flights, instead of terrorism, and hear words
- A Challenge To Pakistan Army (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 27, 2003)
The assassination attempt on the life of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, on Thursday has come as a challenge to the Pakistan Army. Known to be able to defend and look after its own, the twin suicide attacks on Christmas Day reveal that the
- No Ceasefire On This (Indian Express, SAIKAT DATTA, Dec 27, 2003)
Ahmedabad multiplex featuring movie site for Army’s show and tell, top brass line up too
- Missing Pieces In The Jigsaw (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 26, 2003)
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated life, whether it was the terror perpetrated by militants or by the police/army, that blood on the streets became as
- We Strongly Condemn, Says Delhi, Wary Of Saarc Security (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 26, 2003)
Within hours, New Delhi strongly condemned the second assassination bid on Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today amid mounting security concern among the planners for Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s forthcoming Saarc visit to Islamabad.
- On The Road To Islamabad (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Dec 26, 2003)
Can a major terrorist act derail this Indo-Pak peace process? Former US ambassadors Frank Wisher, Nicholas Platt and Dennis Kux, authors of the report of the Task Force on South Asia sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society, were
- Who Is Afraid Of India? (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 26, 2003)
Three days in Karachi and two in Lahore do not provide sufficient credentials for a summary statement on Pakistan. One impression is still overwhelming. Men and women at practically all levels could not be friendlier. Gestures of affection spilled over
- The Chinese Are Changing (Telegraph, Jairam Ramesh, Dec 25, 2003)
Bonhomie between India and Pakistan is in the air yet again. Somewhat unexpectedly, the rhetoric emanating from Islamabad is subdued, moderate and even statesmanlike. Many believe that American pressure is finally paying off and that Pakistan is, at last,
- Could Musharraf Be Right? (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Dec 25, 2003)
There are three things that Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf must not do if the process of normalization of ties with India is to proceed apace.
- General Need For A Reality Check (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Dec 24, 2003)
That Iran and Libya have opened their WMD programmes for US inspection should tell Musharraf a few things
- Pota Remains Self-Defeating (Tribune, Rajindar Sachar , Dec 24, 2003)
THE two-judge judgement upholding the validity of the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (POTA), will understandably cause disappointment. The verdict negatived the submission that legislative competence to pass POTA rests in the State (Public Order Entry)
- New Delhi De-Hypes January Summit (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
Announcing that the ceasefire was holding and infiltration across the border was down—as first reported by The Sunday Express—Prime Minister A B Vajpayee today led the charge to tone down expectations of a breakthrough at the January SAARC summit.
- Peace By Piece (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 24, 2003)
As India and Pakistan enter the final week in the run-up to the SAARC summit in Islamabad, little gestures that help to significantly improve at least the bilateral atmosphere if not the substance, seem to be the order of the day. Such as the courtesy ...
- Good For Now (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
In a situation of deadlock, if one side seems to shift a little, something is changing. That is the most positive way that Mr Pervez Musharraf’s suggestion can be viewed. He has said that Pakistan’s demand for a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir has been
- A Step Forward? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 22, 2003)
The departure from the extreme, maximal positions taken by India and Pakistan could be a helpful factor though, by itself, it would not bring an acceptable solution within sight.
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- The Shadow Over Musharraf (Indian Express, G Parthasarathy, Dec 22, 2003)
The last vehicle of General Musharraf’s convoy had barely crossed the Ammar Chowk Bridge in Rawalpindi on December 14, when five bombs placed under the bridge detonated simultaneously. General Musharraf was returning to his residence from the Islamabad...
- News Reel 14-12-03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Tikrit’s tyrant meets with an anti-climax as the US forces dig him out from a ‘‘spiderhole’’ in Iraq. White House hails Saddam Hussein’s capture as the moment in its war so far, but warns it might not be the end of violence in Iraq. Days after the event
- Cross-Border Terror Tap Is Now A Trickle (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 21, 2003)
Infiltration across border last month dips to double digits, first time in 3 years
- And In Valley, Taxman Tackles The New Gush (Indian Express, Tariq Mir, Dec 21, 2003)
This was the healing touch the state coffers badly needed. A militant diktat 14 years ago—forbidding payment of taxes—had seen the Income Tax collections in Jammu & Kashmir drop to Rs 5 crore by 2000. But as a wind of hope blows through the state, people
- A Change In Rhetoric (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
IN OFFERING to leave aside Pakistan's long-standing demand for the implementation of United Nations resolutions on a plebiscite in Kashmir, President Pervez Musharraf has changed the tone of his country's rhetoric on the subject. This departure ...
- Indian Unification (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Mr Vajpayee’s call for a common currency is more than an economic agenda. It looks towards a deeper unification
- Acknowledging Realities (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
A LOT of water has flowed down the Jhelum during the five decades and much has changed in the subcontinent and the world. Of late, President Pervez Musharraf has been taking into account these changes. He is trying to be realistic when he expresses his...
- ‘what Are The Issues Between Us Minus Kashmir? Even I Would Want To Ask People. Nobody Knows’ (Indian Express, Simon Denyer, Dec 20, 2003)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told Simon Denyer of Reuters that he had "left aside" the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and was willing to meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for peace: Excerpts from the interview:
- The Golden Bilateral? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 20, 2003)
Why peace with Pak could be the PM’s dream project as he steps into a poll year and a changed world
- Welcome, Say Delhi And Washington (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Musharraf’s UN rethink: It’s constructive to relinquish referendum demand: US State Department
- Uri’s Winter Wish: Road To Reunion (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Dec 20, 2003)
With the latest thaw in Indo-Pak relations silencing the guns here, this ceasefire has come with a new hope. Prospects have risen of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, once linking the two parts of Kashmir, re-opening and uniting a people divided by history.
- General Shift (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 20, 2003)
Before we take Musharraf’s new stance on Kashmir seriously it must have wider domestic support
- Despair Of The Jobless (Tribune, H. K. Dua, Dec 19, 2003)
IT is a pity that because of the excitement of the recent Assembly elections and the making and unmaking of ministries, the violence in Mumbai, Bihar and Assam has not received serious attention in the country.
- And Islamabad Plays Footsie With Islamism (Indian Express, ZAFFAR ABBAS , Dec 19, 2003)
It’s ‘inaction replay’. Pakistan’s fresh ban on jehadi groups is as much a dead letter as the January 2002 one
- Not Quite Right (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Dec 19, 2003)
Let me admit at the very outset that on this count I am in a minuscule minority in Lutyens’s Delhi, in Hampstead and Islington, in Manhattan’s Upper West side and in all the watering holes of radical cosmopolitanism.
- Attack On Musharraf (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
SUNDAY'S unsuccessful attempt on General Musharraf’s life near Rawalpindi’s Chaklala airbase was shocking. This was the second such incident during the past two years. The latest blast is believed to be the handiwork of Al-Qaida, which continues to exist
- Us Foreign Policy — Is There An India Tilt? (Business Line, G Parthasarathy, Dec 19, 2003)
There has been a sea-change in the US foreign policy approach to India since the Nixon-Kissinger days. If Washington sees India as a vibrant democracy, pursuing accelerated economic growth, it views Pakistan as a problem child; it cannot afford to allow
- ‘flexible’ Musharraf Ready To Bend On His Un Kashmir Baggage (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
As Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf today offered the tantalising possibility of new beginnings with India by saying he had ‘‘left aside’’ the 50-year-old demand for a UN-mandated plebiscite in Kashmir and meet India ‘‘halfway’’ in a bid for...
- Bhutan: No To Ulfa, Captives To India (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Dec 19, 2003)
CRACKDOWN:Baruah’s ceasefire call rejected, his key men trapped
- American Tilt Towards India (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Dec 18, 2003)
Dr Henry Kissinger proclaimed at the height of the Bangladesh conflict that it was the intention of the Nixon Administration to “tilt” in favour of Pakistan and against India. Ever since the 1971 conflict, policies of successive US Administrations have...
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- Punishment With A Human Touch (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
- Cheating Is Bane Of Indian Elections: Lyngdoh (Tribune, Tarun Basu , Dec 17, 2003)
THE Election Commission is finding it more and more difficult to conduct elections in India because the “kind of cheating that goes on today is stupendous”, the Chief Election Commissioner says. Mr James Michael Lyngdoh said in an interview: “The ...
- With Eyes Open (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 16, 2003)
Yashwant is doing his job better than Jaswant is doing his
- Govt: Pak Protest Over Loc Fencing Meaningless (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Dec 15, 2003)
India has dismissed Pakistan’s charge that the fencing along the Line of Control (LoC) was ‘‘violative of UN resolutions’’.
- Of Hindutva And Governance (Hindu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 15, 2003)
Signs of Hindutva were unmistakable in the elections... [But] we are so used to equating it with belligerence that we do not notice it when it takes subtler forms.
- Pak Open To Pm’s Dream (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Pakistan today termed as ‘‘not unrealistic’’ PM A.B. Vajpayee’s suggestion of open borders and common currency in South Asia, but said the objectives could be achieved if problems like Kashmir were settled amicably. It took a long time for the EU to ...
- Bright Idea: Ask People (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 14, 2003)
Call it plebiscite or referendum, Albright wants people to resolve the Kashmir issue
- Hyper Move (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 14, 2003)
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto admitted today that she had ‘‘hyped up’’ the Kashmir issue during her tenure and that it had been a joint decision with the military establishment to introduce a ‘‘low-intensity’’ conflict into the Valley.
- This Cross-Loc Intruder No One Has The Heart To Stop (Indian Express, Mufti Islah, Dec 14, 2003)
Two rival armies let 85-yr-old mother walk across, meet son
- A Question Of Honour (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Dec 13, 2003)
Since its birth, the Indian nation-state has been challenged by rebellion and insurgency. In the late Forties, it was the Communist Party of India, who launched a countrywide insurrection claiming that the freedom we got from the British was false (in the
- Economics Of Detente (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 13, 2003)
If the Indo-Pak winter thaw can last till summer, there will be reason for hope
- A First Find In J&k: Pistol With Nerve Gas In Bullets (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Dec 13, 2003)
kupwara: Officer falls ill, IGP says possible use: targeted killing
- The Great Indian Tragedy (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Dec 12, 2003)
Jawaharlal Nehru was without question one of the principal architects of India’s freedom movement. While Gandhi Maharaj was the inspiring deity, Nehru was, to the millions, the prince charming. Nehru was also the independent nation’s first prime ministery
- Rising Expectations (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Dec 11, 2003)
For the India-Pakistan dialogue to succeed it must entail private engagement and public agreement, backed at the highest level.
- Time To Consolidate Process (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Dec 10, 2003)
In diplomacy, process is often the product. Engagement between adversarial governments is generally seen as a mere instrument to achieve certain outcomes. But the interaction between them is a reward in itself. It allows small steps of cooperation ...
- Has Democracy Arrived? (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Dec 10, 2003)
ONE of the arguments the white colonial die-hards, notable or notorious among whom was Winston Churchill, used against quitting India was that the country steeped in feudalism and fragmented along ethnic, linguistic, sectarian, caste and religious lines..
- The Strategies That Win Elections (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 10, 2003)
IN response to the article "Introspection time for Congress-I" (Business Line, December 6) by his author urging the Congress(I) to introspect on its poor performance in the Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland, a couple of readers wrote to say that..
- ‘muslims Don’t Provoke. They’re Scared. This Scared Indian Muslim Is A Big Threat To The Unity Of Our Country’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 10, 2003)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, at his native village Saifi in Etawah.Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk:
- Indo-Pak Ties: ‘stove, Several Frontburners, Many Meals Cooking, Including Kashmir’ (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 10, 2003)
As the stage is set for another meeting of the leaderships of India and Pakistan, three high-profile former US diplomats with inside access into the Bush administration are offering new solutions to regional tensions, especially on Kashmir.
- An Uncertain Ceasefire (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Dec 10, 2003)
Both New Delhi and Srinagar will have to keep a keener eye open for whatever Pakistan may lob up across the Line of Control.
- Warming Up For Summit: Both Pms Say Hello, See You Soon (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Dec 09, 2003)
India and Pakistan have entered the final lap that precedes the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January with a short telephone call this evening by Pakistan PM Mir Zafarullah Jamali to Prime Minister A B Vajpayee at 7.30 pm this evening.
- Minorities In South Asia Live In Fear (Tribune, Kuldip Nayar, Dec 09, 2003)
THE SAHR literally means dawn. This abbreviation is of the South Asian for Human Rights. The two-year-old organisation met informally the other day at Delhi. It could not meet formally nor invite the Press because the Indian mission at Islamabad issued...
- Saving Saarc (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Dec 09, 2003)
There is no ambiguity about the steps India and Pakistan need to take to save SAARC. Will they muster the required political will?
- What Those Numbers Stand For (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 09, 2003)
From the Asian Centre for Human Rights’ alternate report to India’s first periodic report for the UN committee on the rights of the child
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