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Articles 2721 through 2820 of 27135:
- Talks With India Could Resume Late October: Pak (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan said on Monday that peace talks with India could resume in late October, and offered to take action if proof was given that Pakistani spies and militants were involved in bomb attacks in Mumbai last July.
- Afzal's Friends (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 03, 2006)
As if the unofficial mercy petition filed by Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and the specious arguments being bandied about by usual busybody lawyer-activists in Delhi were not bad enough, Mr Farooq Abdullah has joined the "let's save Mohammed . . .
- Retired Army Chief Sworn In Thai Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Retired army commander General Surayud Chulanont was sworn in on Sunday as Thailand’s interim prime minister, saying he wanted to settle a bloody Muslim insurgency and heal a country divided by the policies of his predecessor, Thaksin Shinawatra.
- Old Must Give Way To New (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Oct 03, 2006)
There’s been undue delay in the finalisation of modernisation plans.
- Israel’S Lebanon Pullout Significant: Un (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Israel withdrew several hundred troops early in the morning but some soldiers remain in Ghajar, where agreement with the UN on security arrangements has not been achieved.
- Al-Qaeda Letter Gives Glimpse Into Leadership:report (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Information recovered from safe houses when al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq was killed six months ago placed the group’s leadership in the Waziristan region of Pakistan, The Washington Post reported today.
- Attacks On Religion: A One-Sided Affair (Dawn, Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Oct 03, 2006)
Muslims and European Christians have interacted now for more than 1,400 years in both war and peace, and it goes without saying that both sides have committed what we today call war crimes.
- Fratricide In Gaza (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
ANY pretext is good enough for Israel to send its troops into Gaza. This time the excuse was provided by the Palestinians as Hamas forces clashed with civil servants demanding wages.
- Fighting Terrorism Together (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 03, 2006)
For years charges have been levelled against Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, that it has been involved in the terrorism that has destabilised South Asia.
- Lankan Troops Exchange Gunfire With Ltte (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Government troops and separatist rebels exchanged gunfire overnight in eastern Sri Lanka, the military said on Monday, as a Norwegian envoy launched a fresh attempt at ending a seven-month deadlock in peace talks.
- The Isi, Once More (News International, Editorial, The News International, Oct 03, 2006)
The ISI is once again in the eye of a worldwide media storm. Over the last couple of weeks, the country's premier secret agency has repeatedly grabbed the headlines, being accused of a catalogue of alleged misdemeanours by a variety of familiar sources.
- Musharraf’S Book ‘Falls’ As Indians And Pakistanis Continue To Differ (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Oct 03, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf’s book has fallen from No 3 on Amazon to No 20, but reader reviews continue with Indians castigating the author and denouncing what he has written and Pakistanis springing to his defence.
- No Sarkari Education ! (Daily Excelsior, Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Oct 03, 2006)
Some leading educationists believe that the role of government in the field of education should be minimal.
- India, Sa For Global Action Against Terror (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
South Africa today strongly denounced the barbaric terror strikes in Mumbai and joined India in demanding a "global and comprehensive" fight against the scourge to eradicate it completely.
- Isi Mark (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 03, 2006)
The Mumbai Police naturally did not share with the media the details of the evidence regarding the ISI involvement collected by them.
- Ex-Isi Officers May Be Aiding Taliban, Admits Pervez On Tv (Asian Age, Masood Haider, Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said in an interview telecast here on Sunday that some retired Inter-Services Intelligence officials could be assisting Taliban insurgents, adding:
- Socialist Mona Lisa (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Oct 03, 2006)
Segolene Royal sometimes breaks into a "Mona Lisa" smile: Enigmatic, lips curved slightly.
- General In His Labyrinth (Pioneer, B Raman, Oct 03, 2006)
Pervez Musharraf's lies and antics have created fissures and unhappiness in Pakistan's Army
- When The Enemy Lies West (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Pankaj Mishra dredges up gigantic civilisations locking horns with the West in his ‘angry’ book.
- Russian Troops In Georgia Put On High Alert (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said Sunday that his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to shoot to kill to defend their bases, as the two ex-Soviet nations faced their worst bilateral crisis in years over the arrest . . .
- 2 Americans Share Nobel In Medicine (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Americans Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in controlling the flow of genetic information.
- Russian Blockade On Georgia (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Oct 03, 2006)
U.S. behind Tbilisi: Putin
- Musharraf’S Kargil Account Wrong: Aziz (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Rejecting President Pervez Musharraf’s claims on Kargil, Pakistan’s former foreign minister Sartaj Aziz has said the conflict disrupted the Lahore peace process.
- Let Militant Killed; Two Huji Men Arrested (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Security forces gunned down a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant in Poonch district and apprehended two top ultras of Hurkat-ul-Jehadi (HUJI) during an encounter in Doda district while arrested six over ground workers (OGWS) of the LeT in the past 24 hours.
- Centre Mulls Shortcut To Get Multi-Role Aircraft (Tribune, T.R. Ramachandran, Oct 03, 2006)
Considering the desperate need of the IAF to replace its ageing Russian inventory of fighter aircraft with 126 multi-role combat aircraft to meet its growing strategic needs, the government is actively considering overriding the “request for . . .
- An `Alternative History' (Hindu, C. T. Kurien, Oct 03, 2006)
A fervent plea to freedom-loving people to reject the logic of armed, competitive capitalism
- Stern Tests Ahead (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 03, 2006)
Just days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf announced the creation of a joint . . .
- Gujarat Madrasas: An Education In Terror? (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Oct 03, 2006)
Investigations into a Lashkar-e-Taiba cell in Gujarat cast new light on the Islamist networks that carried out the Mumbai serial bombings — and raise hard questions about the State's madrasas.
- Abe And Japan's Moment Of Choice (Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 03, 2006)
The new Prime Minister has a challenging task if he wants to reshape his country as a post-modern state.
- Isi: In The Firing Line (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 03, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's remarks against the intelligence agency have created a stir.
- Old Order (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Oct 03, 2006)
The Congress party’s plan to groom its young ones is a fine idea. Imagine a small army of national Youth Congress office-bearers shadowing party seniors while they go about their work as Union ministers.
- Breakdown Of Peace Process In Assam (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Unlike the Naga peace talks and the related ceasefire for more than a decade, the apparent lack of confidence and resultant absence of mutual trust between the Centre and the ULFA presumably led to the premature collapse of the peace process in . . .
- Ulfa Sends Out Threat To Cong Govt In E-Magazine (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
A week after New Delhi called off its informal ceasefire against the United Liberation Front of Asom and relaunched army operations against it, the outfit warning the . . .
- Another Tiger In The Cross-Hairs (Indian Express, Amar Farooqui, Oct 03, 2006)
Not much ingenuity is required to grasp the divisive political agenda that prompted D H Shankaramurthy, Karnataka Minister for Higher (!) Education, to declare recently that all references to Tipu Sultan should be deleted from school textbooks . . .
- Iraqis Take Up Security In Own Hands Amid Insurgency (Indian Express, Thomas E. Ricks, Oct 03, 2006)
The Strategy in Iraq, President George W Bush has said often over the past year, is to stand down the U.S. military as Iraq’s security forces stand up.
- Kabul Another Baghdad (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Oct 03, 2006)
US President George Bush’s dinner diplomacy between Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and Gen Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has not worked. But on the ground, NATO commanders are claiming success.
- Leadership Failure (Tribune, Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Oct 03, 2006)
The most prominent impression of Thailand as a country in the world is of a very popular tourist destination.
- Stories Of Grit And Gumption (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
The book highlights individuals, often ignored in studies of the violence in Assam.
- Israel’S Lebanon Pullout Almost Over (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Israel’s army withdrew from all of south Lebanon except a small border village today, as part of a handover to the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers under a ceasefire deal that ended a war with Hizbollah fighters.
- Challenge To World Peace (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Oct 03, 2006)
The South Block is drawing up a strategic road map to welcome the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, in November.
- A Strategy After Facts (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Oct 03, 2006)
Shiv Shankar Menon, the new Foreign Secretary, has given some needed perspective to the issue of the new joint consultative mechanism on terrorism with Pakistan. Pakistan, he has pointed out, needs to be judged by its actions, not words.
- N-Deal: A Setback To Indo-American Lobby (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Oct 03, 2006)
Indian diplomats in Washington are tight-lipped and South Block experts in Delhi are privately gnashing their teeth after the US Senate’s failure to move the civil nuclear deal with India.
- Stress On ‘Happiness’ Index (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
Thailand’s military rulers unveiled a stopgap prime minister and constitution today, fulfilling a promise to step back in favour of civilians within two weeks of their coup against Thaksin Shinawatra.
- South Africa Backs Nuclear Deal (Hindu, Harish Khare , Oct 03, 2006)
It will help India seek access to advanced civilian nuclear technology from the NSG
- ‘Vajpayee Was Aware Of Pervez’S Kargil Plans’ (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 03, 2006)
General Pervez Musharraf overthrew the Nawaz Sharif Government in 1999 to escape a possible court martial over Kargil “misadventure” after an inquiry commission held him guilty of it, says an associate of the deposed prime minister in a new book.
- New Storm Brewing (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Oct 03, 2006)
“We just ignore them”, said the man at the think -tank in Beijing, a senior adviser to the Chinese foreign ministry, and burst out laughing.
- Sallekhana And Suicide (Pioneer, Sandhya Jain, Oct 03, 2006)
Jains who have compromised their spiritual honour by demanding minority status must explain why 'fellow minorities' did not support 'Jain personal law' when two women recently undertook 'sallekhana', one of whom is alive at the time of writing this piece.
- Russia Pulls Out Embassy Staff From Georgia (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2006)
Following the ongoing row due to the arrest of five Russian military officials on charges of spying earlier this week, Russia on Saturday withdrew all its embassy staff from Tbsilisi, capital of former Soviet Republic of Georgia.
- Afghan Blast Kills 12, Wounds 42 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 01, 2006)
A suicide bomber today blew himself up in front of the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing 12 people and wounding 42, the Afghan government said.
- Congress Restricts Bush From Building Mily Basis In Iraq (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country’s oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Arms Imbalances In The Subcontinent (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
The supply of non-nuclear technology to India under the Indo- US Agreement on Nuclear Cooperation gives India access to hundreds of nuclear labs and nuclear R&D institutions in the United States. The significance should be obvious.
- Cii’S Ruffled Feathers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
The government would find itself in quite a predicament were the members of the Council of Islamic Ideology to carry out their threat to resign collectively unless their reservations are addressed.
- London’S Embarrassment And Pakistan’S Isi (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 30, 2006)
A paper written by an officer of the British MI6 for the Defence Academy, a British Ministry of Defence think-tank, has alleged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is indirectly supporting . . .
- Brazil Confirms Plane Crashed, 155 On Board (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Brazilian authorities have confirmed the reports of national airline plane crash with 155 passengers on board but no details of fatalities have been announced.
- Georgia Trying To Provoke Conflict, Says Russia (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Plans afoot to evacuate Russian diplomats
- The Harsh Realities (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2006)
We have to concede that our friendly, neighbourhood military dictator sure knows how to sell a book. In the days preceding the release of his autobiography last week he made headlines across the world as he dropped one bombshell after the next.
- Pak Abducted A Lot Of Terror Suspects, Says Amnesty Intl (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Pakistan has abducted hundreds of people as part of the US-led war on terror, often secretly holding them for months while they are interrogated , the human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday.
- Failure Of Both Engines Led To Mig Crash (Deccan Herald, Vijay Mohan, Sep 30, 2006)
Failure of both engines in the IAF MiG-29 fighter aircraft led to its crash near Ambala yesterday.
- India Should Not Join Race For Biological Weapons (Hindu, Sujatha Byravan, Sep 30, 2006)
New Delhi has the opportunity to step up as the global leader it aspires to be by taking a practical approach and the moral high road on the subject.
- ‘Doubt Is The Way In Which You Change Things’ (Indian Express, Mini Kapoor, Sep 30, 2006)
John Ralston Saul’s immensely popular books are in persistent battle against today’s slide towards technocracy.
- Us To Help Set Up 100 Outposts On Pak-Afghan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 30, 2006)
The United States is providing funding for setting up 100 outposts on the Pak-Afghan border, President George Bush revealed on Friday as he lavishly praised General Pervez Musharraf for saving American lives by fully cooperating in the war against terror.
- More Than Friends (Indian Express, Rajeev Shukla, Sep 30, 2006)
Mulayam Singh Yadav owes the public an explanation over his growing intimacy with George Fernandes.
- Strike Hits Normal Life In Kashmir (Hindu, Shujaat Bukhari , Sep 30, 2006)
Protest against court order to execute Afzal in Parliament attack case; 60 injured in clashes.
- "The Goalposts Haven't Been Shifted And They Will Not Be Shifted" (Hindu, T.S. Subramanian, Sep 30, 2006)
With the congressional elections scheduled to take place in November 2006, time appears to be running out for the passage of the legislation that will give effect to the nuclear co-operation deal between India and the United States.
- Al- Qaeda’S New Offensive In Iraq (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Sep 30, 2006)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq proclaimed a new offensive on Friday, the first day of prayer and reflection in the fasting month of Ramadan.
- Pervez Reveals Bengali Love (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Pervez Musharraf fell in love with a Bengali girl in Karachi while in his teens but, alas, she had to go off to East Pakistan with her family and that was it.
- U.N. Envoy For Tsunami Recovery Seeks Revival Of Talks In Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 30, 2006)
"Recovery process has ground to a halt in parts of north and east"
Reported Defence Ministry letter asks journalists not to disseminate news without confirmation from Media Centre for National Security
Move unnecessary and tantamount to . . .
- South Korean Leads Race For Un Secretary General’S Post (Deccan Herald, COLUM LYNCH, Sep 30, 2006)
The leading candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, South Korea’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, has at least one potential advantage over his rivals in the election race for the world’s top . . .
- Putting News First (Deccan Herald, Lieut-Gen Baljit Singh (retd), Sep 30, 2006)
Till very recently, the BBC used to briefly flash a visual to acquaint TV viewers with the worldwide presence of its reporters for “putting news first”. And at a more modest level, there is the broadcast on the FM Radio proclaiming that, “no one . . .
- Mumbai-Malegaon Blasts (Deccan Herald, P.C. Dogra, Sep 30, 2006)
O July 11, seven blasts in seven suburban trains of Western Railway, Mumbai, killed over 229 persons and wounded over 700. Then came Malegaon blasts in a mosque, killing 37 Muslims and injuring many more, who were in the congregation of the devouts . . .
- Patch-Up At White House (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 30, 2006)
It has happened many times in the past. Presidents Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai have met, pledged to bury the hatchet and fight terrorism jointly.
- Feeling Grounded? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
What would you do when your kid chooses to be anything but cooing and cute on board an aircraft?
- Memories Of The Dasara (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 30, 2006)
Invariably for every old Mysorean, Dasara forms a crucial part of their lives. So is the case with acclaimed photographer T.S. Satyan. In his autobiography, In Love with Life: A Journey Through Life in Photographs, he recounts the grandeur of the . . .
- Musharraf, Karzai Break Ice (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Sep 30, 2006)
Despite a tense White House dinner that ended without their even shaking hands, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan have agreed to meet three times in the coming weeks on each side of their mutual border.
- Osama Is In Afghanistan: Musharraf (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
Brushing aside a French intelligence report that Osama bin Laden has died of typhoid, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says intelligence input suggests the al-Qaeda leader is hiding in the eastern Afghan province of Kunar, possibly with the help . . .
- A Stretch Teeming With Life (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 29, 2006)
There are two ways of looking at K Kamaraj Road or Cavalry Road as it was known earlier. Depending upon one perspective, it could be a road full of intense traffic and choc-a-block shops or you can treat this as a stretch full of life.
- 'Us Paying Pak $70-80 Million A Month' (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 29, 2006)
A British analyst has stirred a hornet's nest by revealing that the United States is bankrolling Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf to the extent of $70-80 million a month, adding fuel to the dictator's incendiary visit to the west this month.
- India`s Ambassadors In The Us (Business Standard, T Thomas, Sep 29, 2006)
If we can get American students to study here, it will prove to be a major advancement in diplomacy.
- Musharraf Slams Bbc Over Isi Report (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Sep 29, 2006)
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf arrived here on Thursday fuming with rage over a BBC report that a research paper, written by a British intelligence official for the Ministry of Defence, had accused the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI, of . . .
- Indian Defence Minister Refutes Musharraf’S Kargil Claim (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Sep 29, 2006)
Indian defence minister Pranab Mukherjee told a group of reporters in New York on Wednesday that it was wrong of President Pervez Musharraf to claim in his book that India had been outclassed and outgunned in the Kargil conflict.
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