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Articles 11821 through 11920 of 13380:
- ‘war Against Terror Cannot Be Won Till Terror Against India Ends Permanently’ (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 28, 2003)
US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-chief, The Indian Express, on the security situation in the subcontinent and the rapid advancements in the Indo-US relations. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s ...
- Militant Ranks Swell Under Gen’s Nose (Indian Express, MOHAMMAD SHEHZAD, Jul 28, 2003)
Outlawed jehadi outfits are back in action despite General Pervez Musharraf’s efforts to rein them in. Jehadi publications — Ghazwa, Majalla, Zarb-e-Taiba, Shamsheer and Zarb-e-Momin — reveal that between January and June this year, various groups have
- Future Shock (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 27, 2003)
To save Islamabad any embarrassment during the fledgling peace process, New Delhi may have spared him the ignominy of a Kargil victory reminder but the Pak President has little reason for comfort. His fellow Kargil architect and coup plotter, General
- Blackwill Fires Parting Shot At Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
‘Terrorism across LoC still on, consequences if promises made to US President not kept’
- Newsreel: 27.07.03 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2003)
WHAT it took just a few hours to ground is costing the nation its age-old patience. After protracted debates over the hows and whys of building a Ram temple on the land where the Babri Masjid was brought down on December 6, 1992, the Parliament gets
- ‘they (Hurriyat) Want A Signal From Pm...There Is A Thaw ’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Jul 26, 2003)
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed is optimistic about the latest peace initiative. On a visit to the Capital this week, during which he met Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, he spoke to Neerja Chowdhury
- An Army, Media-Trained (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Jul 25, 2003)
The militant attack on the army camp in Tanda, Akhnoor, the killing of a deputy superintendent of police in Rajauri, the attack on piligrims at the base of the climb to the Vaishno Devi shrine — all happened in the space of 12 hours. I climbed up Vaishno
- The General’s Global Obsession (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jul 25, 2003)
One reason Pak is in such a mess today is that in the pursuit of an illusory international status, Pak Govts neglected domestic, regional affairs
- Omar Needs Encouragement (Indian Express, RAKESH KHAR, Jul 25, 2003)
It was in early 1998 that I first met Omar Abdullah, ahead of his first sit down television interview as a politician. He drove in all alone. It took one back to the early days of Farooq Abdullah, driving a motorbike unescorted in Srinagar. The similarity
- Spare A Thought For These Places As They Fell Off This Year’s Monsoon Map (Indian Express, Sonu Jain, Jul 25, 2003)
Yesterday when a Karnataka MP demanded that the Centre provide free grains for drought, heads turned, bewilderment written all over. Drought during the monsoon fury? How’s that possible?
- Fazal-Ur Was More Than Pr: ‘kashmiris Won’t Get Our Guns Forever’ (Indian Express, K J M Varma, Jul 25, 2003)
Returning home, Pakistan’s hardline Opposition leader Maulana Fazal-ur Rahman today raised hackles when he declined to retract from his remarks made in India and said, ‘‘we will not give guns to Kashmiris for ever and they should be given an opportunity
- Face-Off: Crossing The (Durand) Line (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 24, 2003)
Once the staunchest of allies, Pakistan and Afghanistan are beginning to fall out as Islamabad continues to look upon Kabul as its ‘fifth province’
- Learning From Terror (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, Jul 24, 2003)
The terrorist strikes at Tanda and a few more army facilities in the recent past in J&K, have raised pertinent questions concerning the security policy and the drills followed by security personnel in countering threats to their own establishments. Such
- When Hardliners Meet (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Jul 24, 2003)
Here's a nugget from the first ever meeting between Indian and Pakistani hardliners this week. Visiting Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman is believed to have bluntly asked VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Giriraj Kishore how many mosques they
- Terror: Centre Holds Its Nerve, Looks Ahead (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Jul 24, 2003)
Strongly reinforcing the ongoing Indo-Pak peace process, Defence Minister George Fernandes today made a distinction between Pakistan and infiltrating militants, saying the latter’s attempts to step up violence would not succeed in rolling back the peace
- Rocky Road To Peace (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 24, 2003)
THE ROAD TO India-Pakistan peace is as full of hidden mines and booby-traps as any stretch of the Line of Control. Aside from killing eight Army personnel, including a brigadier, and injuring two three-star generals, a two-star general, a ...
- When Boundaries Cease To Matter (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Jul 23, 2003)
INDIANS and Pakistanis who are susceptible to their respective governments' propaganda machinery develop an unexplained, unjustified antagonism, if not plain hatred and mistrust, for the people of the neighbouring country. This mistrust takes myriad forms
- Advani Silences Party Hawks, Stands Solidly Behind Mufti (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
Denying allegations of ‘‘lack of coordination’’ between the Centre and the J&K government and rebuffing charges made by BJP and Shiv Sena MPs against the role of the Mufti Sayeed government, Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani today asserted in the Lok Sabha
- Pilgrims As Target (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 23, 2003)
The fresh bout of violence in Jammu is a bid to derail significant normalcy in J&K
- Target: After Pilgrims, The Army (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Jul 23, 2003)
Brigadier dead, chief of Northern Army injured as they inspect camp where 7 were killed
- Why Was Top Brass Exposed? Question Raised At Army Hqs (Indian Express, Shishir Gupta, Jul 23, 2003)
It was a close call this afternoon for Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Hari Prasad and 16 Corps Commander Lt Gen T P S Brar but that didn’t prevent them from attending office later where they probably sat to ponder on the security lapse which gave militant
- Jehadis’ Lull In Pak May Be Temporary (Indian Express, M ILYAS KHAN, Jul 22, 2003)
Following US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage’s visit to Islamabad last May, most of the militants were herded out of PoK, mostly to camps in Tarbela and Mansehra areas. According to sources in Muzaffarabad, the facilities at Batrasi’s
- Terror Tests Truce, 5 Killed In Jammu Attack (Indian Express, Arun Sharma, Jul 22, 2003)
In a bid to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan, militants carried out their first major strike late Monday evening when they set off two explosive devices near Katra, the base camp for the Vaishno Devi shrine, killing five persons and ...
- Pakistan’s Anti-India Pathology (Indian Express, HAROLD A. GOULD, Jul 21, 2003)
Probably the most significant utterance made by General Pervez Musharraf made at his Camp David meeting with President George Bush last month went unnoticed by the press. At one point, after US President Bush declared that he is “hopeful that the two ...
- Rig Veda 1:1:1 (Indian Express, Renuka Narayanan, Jul 21, 2003)
It is generally accepted that the Rig Veda (more properly the Rg Veda) is the oldest book on the planet. Rig Vedic scholars are a select club, fighting furiously over each riddle in that mysterious old book. My prince among Vedic scholars is Professor
- A Forward-Looking Visit? (Hindu, K. K. Katyal , Jul 21, 2003)
The people are puzzled when the leader of a major politico-religious party from Pakistan chooses to visit India on a goodwill mission. Their bewilderment is all the greater when he speaks the language of moderation on Indo-Pakistan relations. Wide
- Pak Hawk Coos Like A Dove: Shimla Must Be Yardstick (Indian Express, Jyoti Malhotra, Jul 18, 2003)
Encouraged by the possibility of Pakistan’s religious hawks reinventing themselves, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has sent out the message that barring those elements who are ‘‘dangerous and hostile,’’ everyone’s welcome in India.
- ‘our Ties Mature, Will Continue To Climb’ (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jul 18, 2003)
US Ambassador Robert Blackwill today made it clear that New Delhi’s decision to keep its troops out of Iraq until there’s an explicit UN mandate would not invite any backlash from his country.
- Two Paths, 23 Members (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 18, 2003)
The Hurriyat needs to make itself more relevant to the politics and people of J&K
- Make It An Asian Century (Indian Express, JAGAT S. MEHTA, Jul 18, 2003)
By bureaucratic happenstance, I am the only Indian professional who witnessed all the four seasons that marked our ties with China. I accompanied S. Radhakrishnan, then vice president, on his official visit in September 1957. It was the High Summer of the
- Towards Positive Unilateralism (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Jul 17, 2003)
Taking unilateral steps on trade, economic cooperation and people-to-people contact will help India liberate itself from the limiting confines of the current negotiating framework with Pakistan.
- ‘smuggled’ Heater, 3 Years In Jail, And Counting (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 17, 2003)
Police, Customs now pin ‘explosive’ charge on Kashmiri youth languishing in Bihar jail
- Over 35 Workers Washed Away In Kullu Flash Floods (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 17, 2003)
At least 35 people were washed away and property worth lakhs of rupees damaged when a cloudburst flash-flooded Shilagarh village in Gursa Valley of Kullu district in Himachal Pradesh early Wednesday morning. However, Deputy Police Commissioner R D Nazeem
- Growing Up With Violence (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Jul 17, 2003)
What was associated with "normal" college and university life in India was totally absent in Kashmir over these last 13 years.
- High Risks, Low Benefits (Indian Express, Ajai Shukla, Jul 16, 2003)
At the end of 1992, the US had asked India to quickly send a brigade group — over 4000 soldiers — to control the situation spiraling out of control in Somalia. Although there was already a UN Observer Group under a Pakistani commander in Somalia, there
- Small Steps, But Long Road Ahead (Indian Express, Michael Krepon , Jul 16, 2003)
Risk takers can make big messes or big successes, especially when they lead nuclear-armed rivals and when they have little in common except their fondness for bold maneuvers and impatience with diplomacy. Think of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev,
- Us, India Aur Woh (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Jul 16, 2003)
There was some irrational gloating in India when Musharraf did not get the F-16s from the United States. The general assessment here was that the general’s visit to Washington was only a partial success. Wishful thinking is all very well but some ...
- Hawks Caged, Delhi Opens Hurriyat Door (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 16, 2003)
Encouraged by the recent ‘‘rise of doves’’ within the separatist conglomerate, especially the election of Moulvi Abbas Ansari as its new chairman, the Centre is all set to extend a dialogue offer to the Hurriyat Conference. Sources told The Indian Exp
- The Politics Of Pull-Out (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 16, 2003)
THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE'S decision to pull out of the ruling National Democratic Alliance has been a long time coming. The eventual rupture may have been the result of a slew of causes, but the principal reason for the withdrawal is the looming ...
- Not Our War (Hindu, V.R. Krishna Iyer, Jul 14, 2003)
If India had sent troops to Iraq, the soldiers would have lost their lives in vain -- they would have died not defending their own country's freedom but in place of U.S. soldiers as targets of desperate Iraqis.
- Omar Breaks Free, Of Father And Nda (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jul 13, 2003)
Rattled by the consolidation of Mufti Mohammad Syed’s People’s Democratic Party and the steady rise of doves within the separatist Hurriyat, the National Conference today snapped its ties with BJP-led National Democratic Alliance in a bid to position
- Is A Storm Brewing In The Valley? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 13, 2003)
The 'Healing Touch' policy of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed Government in Jammu and Kashmir could soon be tested by sterner challenges than it has had to face so far, writes PRAVEEN SWAMI.
- "A People's Movement Against Violence" (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 13, 2003)
Interviews with the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, used to be a journalist's delight. Dramatic polemic and theatrical political gestures were abundant, peppered liberally with invective against Pakistan. The style ...
- Demographic Demonology (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Jul 10, 2003)
Spectres of demographic pollution and inundation inhabit all modern right-wing ideologies. They kindle fears of conversion, miscegenation, the blurring of identities and, above all, in a democratic age where numbers matter in politics, the swamping of ...
- Many A Slip (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 04, 2003)
A new wave of uncertainty is gripping Jammu and Kashmir. Although the state has attracted a large number of tourists this year, there are genuine fears that violence could once again engulf Kashmir in the weeks to come. This sense of uncertainty is accent
- To Help The Army Fight Better (Telegraph, P.K. Vasudeva, Jul 02, 2003)
Operation SarpVinash has indisputably been the most high-profile counter-insurgency operation being conducted at the level of Jammu Corps. According to army sources, it has also been one of the most successful. The operation, of building a road to Hill
- Road Too Far (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 01, 2003)
India’s foreign policy is clearly unprepared to meet the aggressive diplomacy unleashed by Pakistan’s president, Mr Pervez Musharraf, in Washington. Although the Indian prime minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was responsible for initiating the latest ...
- Quizzing The General (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jul 01, 2003)
The rumpus over the answers of the Pakistani president, Pervez Musharraf, to Prannoy Roy’s googlies only serves to underline the imperative of isolating the proposed India-Pakistan dialogue from the volatility and amplitude of the inevitable oscillations
- One More Kargil (Telegraph, V.R. RAGHAVAN, Jun 24, 2003)
General Pervez Musharraf has threatened another Kargil if India does not engage his government on Jammu and Kashmir. That is the crux of his now famous and recent interview to a television channel. His subsequent denials, clarifications and obfuscations
- Politics Of Bat And Ball (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2003)
If sports is war minus the shooting as George Orwell had quipped, then Indo-Pak cricket is both war and peace-making rolled into one. It is a proxy war because jingoism during the matches between India and Pakistan touches a note of hysteria. It is peace-
- Just Be Practical (Telegraph, Kaushik Roy, Jun 20, 2003)
General K. Sundarji was not only India’s most flamboyant chief of staff but also one of the most brilliant theoreticians the Indian army has ever had. During the Rajiv Gandhi regime, he propounded his own theory of involving mechanized force in warfare.
- Great Dictator (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 17, 2003)
Making peace is always more arduous than making war. Parleys across a table demand more patience and tact than shelling borders and bombing towns. It is impossible for a military leader to fully appreciate the difficulties involved in a peace process. He
- As Real As A Handshake (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Jun 14, 2003)
John Ashcroft is not someone who is easily impressed. George W. Bush’s attorney-general would easily bond with those in the Bharatiya Janata Party, including some personal friends of the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who rightly argue that ...
- It Is Still Cold Beyond The Wall (Telegraph, M.L. Sondhi, Jun 10, 2003)
China must think beyond Sikkim in framing its India policy given the new warmth between India and the US
- Make Haste Slowly (Telegraph, J. N. Dixit , Jun 10, 2003)
Six weeks have gone by since the offer of the Indian prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to resume the dialogue with Pakistan. It has got a reticently positive response from Pakistan. The media, as usual, proceeded to be enthusiastic about break-through
- Indian Airlines: To Get It Off Ground (Danish A. Hashim) (Business Line, Danish A. Hashim, Jun 10, 2003)
The state-owned Indian Airlines is on the verge of completing 50 years of its journey.
- Globalisation: The Great Leveller (Jayanthi Iyengar) (Business Line, Jayanthi Iyengar, Jun 09, 2003)
Business process outsourcing is the best thing that could have happened to globalisation. It is a test that the developed world will have to pass if it wants to see the continuation of free markets.
- The General’S Musharraf) Problems (M B Naqvi) (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Jun 08, 2003)
After getting himself elected as Pakistan’s President, amending the Constitution and holding a bogus election, General Musharraf should have been firmly in the saddle of power. But, his troubles are only beginning
- A Merry Rout At Baboo Rammohun’s (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 06, 2003)
Begums, Thugs & Englishmen: The journals of Fanny Parkes (Penguin, Rs 395) selected by William Dalrymple is a delightful and substantial account of a spirited Englishwoman’s residencies and journeys in India in the 1820s and 30s. Fanny was married to a
- Beyond The Hyphenated Perspective (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Jun 05, 2003)
India has often complained of being bracketed with Pakistan by the international community. The “India-Pakistan” hyphenated perspective of south Asia has led to a sense of frustration in New Delhi. Pakistan is seen as a shackle that prevents India from...
- An Indian In Pakistan (Telegraph, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Jun 04, 2003)
Back in Pakistan last week after a gap of two years, I found myself back again on the familiar terrain of everyone wanting to know whether this time it is for real — or whether we are once again chasing chimeras. To demonstrate national solidarity, I
- Ajai Singh Is Governor (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2003)
The President today appointed Lt. Gen (retd.) Ajai Singh as the Governor of Assam, with effect from the date he assumes charge of his office,
- Time For A Reality Check (Hindu, Asma Khan, Jul 11, 2002)
Kashmir is back on the world consciousness and is the focus of major world powers. This is a welcome albeit late development; nonetheless, it encompasses great scope for ending the protracted impasse in Kashmir.
- The Border Confrontation (Hindu, P. R. Chari , Jul 11, 2002)
The test of success in the present coercive diplomacy is not the discomfiture of Pakistan but the resolution of the Kashmir problem.
- Cabinet Reshuffle -- Check, Checkmate (Business Line, Harihar Swarup , Jul 11, 2002)
Establishing Mr L. K. Advani's supremacy both in the government and the party, and the indication that the BJP would henceforth adopt hard line functioning, were obviously the twin objectives of the recent Cabinet and organisational changes.
- Partition Revisited (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Jul 11, 2002)
Gone is the surreptitious manner in which the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had been projecting trifurcation of Kashmir in the past.
- Letting Kashmir Simmer (National Post, Editorial, National Post, Jul 08, 2002)
Following a brief period of what seemed like progress, relations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir have returned to their normal state of brewing animosity.
- The Moderate Deputy Pm (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jul 06, 2002)
As reshuffles go, it is hard to deny that last week’s effort was a bit of a dud.
- Nuclear Brinkmanship (Providence Journal, Editorial, Providence Journal, Jun 03, 2002)
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could cost 10 million lives or more. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf engages in such provocative activities as testing missiles and implying that his nation might use nuclear weapons first.
- Nuclear High-Wire Act (Washington Times, Jed Babin, May 30, 2002)
Some wars are avoidable. It appears that the coming war between India and Pakistan over the disputed Kashmir region is not. We may not be able to act soon enough to stop war from breaking out, but we must take action to prevent nuclear escalation.
- The Most Dangerous Place In The World (New York Times, Salman Rushdie, May 30, 2002)
The present Kashmir crisis feels like a déjà vu replay of the last one. Will the outcome also be a replay of three years ago? Will the conflict be contained again?
- Caution On Kashmir (Boston Globe, Editorial, Boston Globe, May 30, 2002)
In the present circumstances the United States has no choice but to use all its influence with India and Pakistan to compel those nuclear-armed neighbors to back down from the brink of war.
- Pakistan Cannot Expect The Support Of India's Muslims (Independent (UK), M.J. Akbar, May 30, 2002)
A revealing but rarely revealed fact is that Muslims in the rest of India give no support whatsoever to the separatist insurgency in the Muslim-majority valley of Kashmir, that charming bit of paradise that could trigger off history's first nuclear war.
- Time To Think Things Out (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Apr 25, 2002)
The closest the US has come to distancing itself from the referendum is to suggest that the process should be open to review by the courts, a review that is now in progress.
- Our Long-Term Enemy (Guardian (UK), Peter Preston, Apr 22, 2002)
General Pervez Musharraf has summoned Pakistanis to a wholly spurious referendum on April 30 so that they may vote to keep him as head of state, head of the army and head of anything meaningful for the next five years.
- Musharraf Opens A New Political Front (Gulf News, Nasim Zehra, Apr 12, 2002)
Wearing army fatigues and throwing caution to the wind, Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf launched his political career at the Lahore referendum rally.
- Baker’s Attitude Can’t But Prejudice Indo-Uk Relations: Nehru (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2002)
As early as 1 February 1948, Patrick Gordon-Walker, the junior minister in the Commonwealth Relations Office, had warned that the ‘‘Indians will be mortally offended if we put forward the idea (of admitting Pakistani troops into Kashmir) publicly’’.
- New Great Guessing Game: Where’s Osama? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 05, 2002)
WHEN Osama bin Laden seemed to melt into the snow-capped mountains of in eastern Afghanistan more than a week ago, many speculated that he had made a simple escape, taking an obvious route.
- Ivanov’s Cold War Comfort For India (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Feb 05, 2002)
As the stakes rise in the subcontinent, the Washington Wizards are scoring over Moscow. New Delhi, for now, is cheering on the winning side.
- Mr. Bush's Gesture Towards India (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 05, 2002)
THE U.S. PRESIDENT, Mr. George W. Bush, has adopted a cautious yet proactive approach to exert political pressure on Islamabad to address India's spiralling security concerns about the activities of some of the Pakistan-encouraged terrorist organisations.
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