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Articles 2921 through 3020 of 27135:
- Lanka Says Tigers Ready For Peace Talks (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has told the Sri Lankan government that he is committed to resuming talks on ending decades of ethnic bloodshed, a government minister said today.
- What Clinton Didn’T Do. . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 28, 2006)
Bill Clinton's outburst on Fox News was something of a public service, launching a debate about the antiterror policies of his administration.
- General Observations (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 28, 2006)
Does our political class have the bipartisan spirit to stand up against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s brazen distortion of the nature and outcome of the Kargil war?
- Palestine Deputy Pm Released By Israel (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
An Israeli court on Wednesday released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking Hamas official to be freed following a crackdown on the Islamic militant group. But the court temporarily banned him from going to his government . . .
- Winning The Pr War (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 28, 2006)
Much has been made -- some of it on valid grounds -- of a sitting head of state writing a memoir and in the process leaking state secrets, casting allegations against former prime ministers and embarrassing foreign governments in the process.
- Ex-Mp’S Ordeal (Tribune, S. Raghunath, Sep 28, 2006)
Mr Era Anbarasu, a former Member of Parliament from Tamil Nadu, has been put through the wringer by monkeys.
- Indian Too Responsible For Terrorism In Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 28, 2006)
Indian Defence Minister Mukherjee has accused Pakistan of being ‘nursery of global terrorism’ and lamented that it has done very little to dismantle, what he called, terrorists’ infrastructure on its eastern border – a reference to Kashmir where . . .
- Musings Of An Anglicised Punjabi (Tribune, Mulk Raj Anand, Sep 28, 2006)
I was just a child of ten when, one day, I boasted to my silversmith uncle Chacha Piaru that I had obtained ten-out-of-ten marks for reciting an Urdu poem from my textbook.
- Opposition Accuses Musharraf Of Disclosing State Secrets (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Major Opposition parties on Tuesday lashed out at President Pervez Musharraf, saying he used national resources for the launch of his book and disclosed state secrets to increase its sale.
- Us Amphibious Navy Ship For India (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
With military ties growing, the US is transferring one of its amphibious ships “USS Trenten” to India to give the Indian Navy the capability to move troops and equipment to greater distances, a top American Commander has said.
- War Crime | Bosnian Serb Leader Jailed (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
The UN tribunal sentenced the former head of the Bosnian Serb parliament to 27 years in prison on Wednesday for a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
- Four Securitymen Among Six Killed (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Four security personnel, including two policemen, and two ultras were killed and scores wounded in separate militancy-related incidents across Jammu and Kashmir during the past 24 hours, an official spokesman said today.
- Who Needs The Military To Muddle Through? (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Sep 28, 2006)
Army rule is believed to strengthen a nation through stability. Not in Pakistan, as recent events and the latest Transparency International survey confirm .
- Mush Memoir May Increase Trust Deficit (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 28, 2006)
Pakistan's trust deficit with India might have gotten just a little wider again, going by the fervent defence of terrorism aka freedom struggle by Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and his unrepentant, thigh-slapping account of Kargil . . .
- Cbi Wanted Four Cops Probed (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
The CBI informed the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it had recommended disciplinary inquiry against four Delhi police officers who had failed to conduct proper investigation into the rape and murder of Priyadarshini Mattoo when the case was under them
- The Lebanon Offensive (Dawn, Mahjabeen Islam, Sep 28, 2006)
WHO started this madness in the Middle East depends on who you talk to. Factually though, Israel killed a family picnicking in Gaza.
- Jolts Of ‘In The Line Of Fire’ (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 28, 2006)
President Musharraf’s book ‘In the Line of Fire’ has hit the best seller list as it popularity surged to number 11 on actual sale from 122 in the pre-release sales at Amazon.com. The 350-page book was launched on Monday.
- Waziristan Accord Is The Way To Deal With Taliban (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 28, 2006)
Security situation is deteriorating in Afghanistan as a result of mounting Taliban insurgency. Suicide attacks, bomb blasts and clashes between Taliban and NATO forces have become a regular feature in the war ravaged country. Over 20 . . .
- Pakistan Won’T Allow Its Sovereignty Violated: Musharraf (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Pakistan does not want its sovereignty violated by letting U.S. troops hunt for Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda associates on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf has said.
- Musharraf-Blair Meeting Today (News International, Rauf Klasra, Sep 28, 2006)
The recent peace deal between the Pakistan Army and local Taliban in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, is set to get a centre stage during crucial talks between President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Tony Blair as the president reaches . . .
- Bin Laden Alive In Afghanistan: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, reported last week to have died, is alive and hiding in Afghanistan, a British magazine reported President Pervez Musharraf as saying on Thursday.
- Kargil Army Chief Malik To Govt: Debunk Musharraf Claims (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 28, 2006)
Describing Pakistan President Musharraf’s new book In the Line of Fire as an exercise in “megalomanical self-promotion” that has partly “turned the Kargil war on its head”, former Army chief General V P Malik, Musharraf’s Indian counterpart . . . .
- Savagery Of Israeli Attacks (Dawn, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 28, 2006)
“What they really need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over,” said President George W. Bush over an unnoticed open microphone at . . .
- Economic Links With India (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Sep 28, 2006)
The freezing of the composite dialogue between India and Pakistan which was to resume this week has come at a time when Pakistan was proposing to enlarge the range of goods importable from India in its ‘positive list.’
- Pretexts, Provocations And Consequences (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Sep 28, 2006)
When a series of bomb blasts ripped through seven commuter trains, causing mayhem in Mumbai nine days ago, it was hardly surprising that suspicion immediately fell on Islamist militants, with Lashkar-i-Taiba becoming the main focus of attention on . . .
- Seven Years Later, The Tale Of Two Generals (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 28, 2006)
Four months before Gen. Musharraf’s In the Line of Fire, one chapter of which deals with Kargil, India’s army chief during the conflict, Gen. V P Malik, published Kargil: From Surprise to Victory. Gen. Malik, it seems, had anticipated Gen Musharraf’s . .
- Creating A Good Image (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 28, 2006)
Governments seem to believe that the image of a country is created by either having a press which does not report anything negative or by an efficient advertisement lobby.
- Armed For Democracy? (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Sep 27, 2006)
Unwilling to give up their arms, Maoists insist they’ll organise a ‘people’s revolt’ in Kathmandu. Their tactic is to project the pro-democracy coalition and judiciary as anti-people, and the security forces as violators of human rights
- India Joins War Of Words With Musharraf (Times of India, Indrani Bagchi, Sep 27, 2006)
The India-Pakistan battle of words is now fairly joined. Barely 24 hours after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's creative take on current history hit the stands, the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA), a talk shop of the foreign office, . . .
- Heights Of Deception (Indian Express, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 27, 2006)
It has taken seven years after the event for General Pervez Musharraf to come out with his version of the Kargil war. What an imaginative version! He tells us now that it was a great victory.
- Malegaon: Fractured Truths (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 27, 2006)
Weeks after the Malegaon terror strikes, the police struggle to determine the identity of the perpetrators.
- Festive Fair (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
With special poojas on every single day of Navarathri, Dasara is celebrated with great pomp and show in the Durga Parameshwari Temple of Kateel, says Kamala Vasudevan.
- Coffee With The Enemy (Indian Express, RICHARD N. HAASS, Sep 27, 2006)
Chatting with Ahmadinejad in New York wasn’t about bestowing him legitimacy. Exchange doesn’t mean endorsement.
- Anti-Terror Mechanism In Trouble Before Its Launch (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
With Pakistan drawing red lines on the proposed anti-terror mechanism with India, the new arrangement is in existential danger even before it has been launched.
- Nepal Monarchy, Arms On Thursday Meeting Agenda (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Sep 27, 2006)
The status of monarchy and management of the Maoists’ “Peoples Liberation Army” are likely to dominate the meeting on Thursday in which top leaders of eight political parties and the Maoists are to participate.
- In Assam, The Guns Open Up Again (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Sep 27, 2006)
There is renewed pressure on both sides to return to the negotiating table.
- South Asia's Most Militarised Society (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 27, 2006)
A study details the effects on Sri Lanka of the 23-year-old ethnic conflict.
- A Boost For Osama (Hindu, Richard Norton-Taylor, Sep 27, 2006)
It is absurd for our leaders to go on denying that the Iraq invasion increased the terrorist threat.
- Australia Mulling Civilian Nuclear Deal With India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Tuesday said the Australian Government was considering entering into a deal with India similar to the United States-India civilian nuclear agreement.
- Lack Of Funds Impeding Iraq War, Army Tells Bush (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
United States President George W. Bush suffered a serious rebuke of his wartime leadership on Monday when his Army Chief said he did not have enough money to fight the war in Iraq.
- Fact And Fiction (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Sep 27, 2006)
So far, Nazi leader Josef Goebbels was considered the ultimate propagandist, who could project black as white and vice versa.
- Mumbai Blasts: Flawed Justice (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 27, 2006)
A Mumbai court convicts some of the accused in the March 1993 serial bombings, but the key perpetrators are still safe in Pakistan.
- Special Article (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Sep 27, 2006)
A newspaper report sourced to French intelligence quoting Saudi sources claimed that Osama bin Laden died of typhoid on August 23 in Pakistan.
- Is Osama Dead? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 27, 2006)
A newspaper report sourced to French intelligence quoting Saudi sources claimed that Osama bin Laden died of typhoid on August 23 in Pakistan.
- Line Of Fire, Circle Of Unreason (Indian Express, Murtaza Razvi, Sep 27, 2006)
Everyone in Pakistan has high expectations of General Musharraf’s In the Line of Fire: the liberal urban minority, the silent majority, the religious fanatics. The book will be interpreted variously as coming from a prophet of boon or of doom, . . .
- Iran-Russia Pact On Nuclear Fuel (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Russia will ship fuel to a controversial atomic power plant it is building in Iran by March under an agreement signed today ~ a deal that should allay Iranian suspicions that Moscow is dragging its feet but adds to Western fears over Teheran’s . . .
- Pervez For Joint Control Bodies (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Sep 27, 2006)
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has proposed to make the Line of Control (LoC) irrelevant and set up join management bodies in Kashmir.
- N-Deal Vote Likely To Be Delayed Even Further (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 27, 2006)
The India-US civilian nuclear energy deal is not likely to come up for a vote before the US Senate breaks for the Congressional elections at the end of this week.
- Mush Memoir May Increase Trust Deficit (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 27, 2006)
Pakistan's trust deficit with India might have gotten just a little wider again, going by the fervent defence of terrorism aka freedom struggle by Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and his unrepentant, thigh-slapping account of . . .
- Saddam, Accused Absent At Trial (Asian Age, SAMEER N YACOUB, Sep 27, 2006)
Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial resumed without the ex-President and his six co-defendants present in the courtroom after a one-hour recess forced by a shouting match. Mr Husseins, and one of defendants were ejected from the courtroom in the . . .
- Return Of Nam (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Sep 27, 2006)
The Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana comes out with a robust response to U.S. hegemony in a unipolar world.
- Sideline Summits (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Sep 27, 2006)
The India, Brazil and South Africa Trilateral Cooperation Forum has helped the three democracies in trade and international politics.
- Trade Triangle Of India, Brazil, South Africa (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Sep 27, 2006)
The India, Brazil and South Africa Trilateral Cooperation Forum has helped the three democracies in trade and international politics.
- Bush Seeks Mush's Advice On Kashmir (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
US President George W Bush has sought advice on how he could contribute towards resolution of the India-Pakistan disputes, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf has said.
- Made In Cuba, Unmade In Pak (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Islamabad’s assertion that those wanted by India have a ‘different status’ in Pakistan has put serious question marks on the proposed joint anti-terror institutional mechanism.
- Pak Remains Nursery Of Global Terrorism: Pranab (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 27, 2006)
Pakistan “remains a nursery of global terrorism” and has done “precious little to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism,” Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday.
- Ulfa Accuses Pm Of Launching False Propaganda (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
The ULFA has accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of launching a "false propaganda" against the ULFA and blamed the Centre of adopting double standards on the issue of talks.
- Balochistan Geopolitics (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 27, 2006)
Much of the nineties was spent by global oil companies trying to design how to provide accessible markets to the newly exposed Central Asian Republics. Gas resources in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan are estimated to equal . . .
- The Burden Of Inequity (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Sep 27, 2006)
Despite the deck being stacked against her, the Pakistani woman shows her true mettle whenever an opportunity is presented.
- In The Line Of Fire And Dr A Q Khan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 27, 2006)
In his book, In the line of fire, President Musharraf makes some very serious allegations regarding Dr A Q Khan's network. He says that Dr Khan had advised his daughter, who lives in the UK, to disclose the country's nuclear secrets to the British media.
- Terming Pak Bomb 'Islamic' Is Racist: Musharraf (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Terming the Islamic tag given to Pakistan's nuclear bomb as "racist", President Pervez Musharraf has said nuclear testing by his country evoked a stronger protest from the global community as compared to India's test just because it was the first . . .
- Centre's Decision To End Ceasefire Against Ulfa Opposed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
People's Committee for Peace Initiative seeks direct talks, end to Army operations.
- Working On The French Connection (Pioneer, Seema Sarin, Sep 27, 2006)
India can look forward to enhanced nuclear cooperation with France once the Indo-US Agreement is through, says Seema Sarin
- 'India Should Integrate With The Global Economy' (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
India's aspiration for continuing growth would depend on a secure and stable environment and its own ability to integrate with the global economy, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said.
- Senate Unlikely To Take Up Nuke Deal This Week (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
With the US Senate winding down its legislative business at the end of this week, the chances of it taking up the Indo-US nuclear deal for debate and vote are dim, but some lawmakers are of the view that there may be a faint chance that it may be . . .
- Trial By Fire (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Sep 27, 2006)
I have confronted death and defied it several times in the past because destiny and fate have always smiled on me.” “… unlike most leaders, I am also a soldier, Chief of the Army Staff and Supreme Commander of my . . .
- Deep Strike At Sea (Tribune, Girja Shankar Kaura, Sep 27, 2006)
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to arm its Jaguar deep penetration strike aircraft with long range anti-ship missiles, to boost its maritime warfare capability.
- Mumbai Blasts: 5 Cops Convicted (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
A sacked sub-inspector of the Maharashtra Police and four constables under his charge have been found guilty in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
- Sunk- Cost Fallacy (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 27, 2006)
You've paid a lot of money to get into the movie and it just plain stinks. The plot is ridiculous, the acting is terrible, the violence is excessive. But you've already watched half of it. Do you sit through the movie to the end or do you leave?
- Infallibility And The Pope (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 27, 2006)
The Church’s absolutist approach explains why Benedict XVI doesn’t want to ask forgiveness.
- Maharashtra: Review Panels For Counter-Terrorism (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
The Maharashtra Government has set up a civil-police-military standing committee to review the counter-terrorism programme and recommend changes.
- Fighting Again (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 27, 2006)
The truce between the Government and the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has ended even before it could take root. Barely six weeks after the Centre announced a ceasefire, the truce has been called off and military operations have been . . .
- Hawkish Shinzo Abe Elected Japan Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Shinzo Abe, an advocate of tighter ties with Washington and a bigger say for Japan in world affairs, was elected Japan's prime minister by parliament on Tuesday, becoming at 52 the youngest Japanese leader since World War II.
- `Integrated Approach Must To Take Technology From Laboratory . . . (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Effective technology transfer from the laboratory to the market requires interaction between scientists, technologists, economists, sociologists, public administrators, entrepreneurs and customers.
- Taliban Bombs In Afghanistan Kill 20 (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
A suicide attack tore through a crowded southern Afghan town, killing 18 people, while a powerful bomb blast in Kabul killed an Italian soldier and a child in a new wave of Taliban violence.
- But Even Then Take People Along, Mr President (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 27, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that there are no differences in the Pakistan Army and it fully supports him. ‘The army likes me, follows me and is with me’, he said while addressing the annual Pehla Qadam gala organised by the National . . .
- The General And His Book Will Come In The Line Of Fire (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 27, 2006)
In his memoir, In the Line of Fire, General-President Pervez Musharraf has said things that may be credible, even remarkable, in terms of barrack-room achievement; but his spin on some events of the recent past can be challenged easily.
- Australia Terms Nuclear Deal With India ‘Good Idea’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Australia is considering whether to match a controversial US nuclear deal with India to allow Canberra to sell uranium to the New Delhi government, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday.
- India Accuses Pakistan Of Being ‘Nursery Of Global Terrorism’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 27, 2006)
Accusing Pakistan of being a “nursery of global terrorism”, India has asked Pakistan once again to stop all cross-border terrorism as promised and dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism still intact on its soil.
- Former Indian Army Chief Calls Musharraf ‘Timed General’ (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Sep 27, 2006)
Former India Army chief Gen VP Malik called Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf a “timed general” in his response to the latter’s book ‘In the Line of Fire’.
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