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Articles 4321 through 4420 of 27135:
- U.S.-Led Havoc The World Over (Hindu, Jonathan Freedland, Sep 07, 2006)
The British Prime Minister sealed his fate by signing up in full to a policy now recognised by most Americans as a disaster.
- ‘Pakistan Committed To Bringing Osama To Justice’ (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Pakistan said today it will capture Osama bin Laden if he’s found in the country, despite the government’s recent peace deal with Islamic militants in a remote, violence-battered region on the Afghan border.
- Naxal's Mother To Receive Interest On Compensation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 07, 2006)
Twenty nine years after her son Seeralan, a naxalite, died in police custody, 75-year-old Baggiam Duraisamy is set to get Rs. 1.2 lakh towards interest for the compensation paid by the government.
- More Stringent Laws Needed To Tackle Naxalism: Chauhan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Tuesday demanded that the amount sanctioned under the National Backward District initiative should be trebled from the present Rs. 45 crore and laws made more stringent while dealing with naxalites.
- Indo-Pak Dialogue Likely To Get Boost In Havana (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf will breathe new life into the peace process in Havana next week, with back channels active to work out a common meeting ground to give new impetus to the talks.
- Pm: States Need To Act On Security (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked chief ministers on Tuesday to become proactive in toning up internal security all over the country.
- Iran: Remove Liberal Teachers (Asian Age, Nasser Karimi, Sep 06, 2006)
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country’s universities, urging students to lead the step back to the 1980s-style radicalism.
- Israeli Air Strikes Kill Four Hamas Activists (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Two Israeli air strikes in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip killed four members of the military wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas including a local commander, the reports said.
- India Trying To Destabilise Pakistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 06, 2006)
Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has accused India of trying to destabilise Pakistan by using the Afghan territory for its nefarious activities.
- Govt-Local Taliban Sign Peace Accord (Pakistan Observer, Tariq Saeed, Sep 06, 2006)
The peace and tranquillity is hoped to be returning fast to the violence-stricken Waziristan agencies as the much orchestrated peace accord between the government and the militants, oftenly dubbed as local Taliban by the Western . . .
- Afghanistan: No Ray Of Hope (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Sep 06, 2006)
The main groups of ... conspiratorial paramilitary organisations are fighting against the Afghan people from bases and strongholds in Pakistan and Iran...”
- Priming The Private Sector (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 06, 2006)
The Government seeks to combine public sector expertise in Defence R&D with proven private sector managerial skills.
- Mr Bugti’S Killing Shows Fault-Lines In Political Opposition (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 06, 2006)
The general comment since Akbar Bugti’s death has focused on how the event has impacted the political scene in the country and how it might have served to bring the opposition political parties together.
- Where Blair Has Gone (Indian Express, Anita Inder Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
Thanks to Prime Minister Tony Blair, ill-equipped and overstretched British troops are involved, along with the American armed forces, in an illegal and unwinnable war in Iraq.
- Grecian Impressions (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Wander through enchanted, poppy-animated landscapes of Greece, steeped in myth, culture and history.
- All About Our Neighbours (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 06, 2006)
Sometime ago, reports appeared stating that there had been a rethink within the Government on how to conduct economic ties with Pakistan, the burden of the effort being that the time had now come to tighten the screws on Islamabad a turn or . . .
- Pm Sounds Terror Alert (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday shared with state chief minister’s intelligence inputs warning of an escalation in terrorist activities across the country.
- A Lethal Triad (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 06, 2006)
A horrendous disaster has been averted in Siliguri and the involvement of two CID personnel - one has been released for lack of evidence ~ in planting explosives in a briefcase in a petrol pump should set alarm bells ringing.
- Terror: Pm For Closer Co-Op Between Centre And States (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
With intelligence warning further intensification of terror attacks, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought closer cooperation between the Centre and states and asked Chief Ministers to personally monitor steps to improve intelligence generation . . .
- Pm Talks Tough On Terror (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
With Intelligence warning further intensification of terror attacks, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today sought closer cooperation between the Centre and states and asked chief ministers to personally monitor steps to improve intelligence . . .
- A Taste Of Its Own Medicine (Pioneer, A N Sudarsan Rao , Sep 06, 2006)
In eliminating Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Pakistan may have scored a tactical victory but it has, in the process, jeopardised its long-term interests.
- The Fall Of Sampor (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Sep 06, 2006)
The capture of Sampor by Sri Lankan Security Forces (SLSF) marks the end of the current phase of the war in Sri Lanka. It is a big triumph for the Government and a defeat for the LTTE.
- Pak, Pro-Taliban Tribals Sign No Hostility Pact (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Pakistan's Government and pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday signed an agreement to ensure "permanent peace" in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, a move hoped to end five years of violent unrest in the region.
- Reliance Comm Launches Falcon Submarine Cable (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Reliance Communications Ltd, top-ranked CDMA-mobile services carrier, inaugurated an undersea cable on Tuesday aimed at providing cheaper bandwidth to retail and commercial users.
- A Litany Of Disasters (Pioneer, Irfan Husain, Sep 06, 2006)
If ever proof was required that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms, the Pakistan Government's handling of the Bugti killing should be sufficient
- Bugti's Death And Musharraf (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Sep 06, 2006)
True to his own prediction (an NDTV interview in April), the 79-year-old Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti met his end, tragically, at the hands of the Pakistani military, which had launched a fierce attack, complete with heavy weapons and helicopters . . .
- Oops! Ramadoss Plea May Not Stand Legal Test (Pioneer, Abraham Thomas, Sep 06, 2006)
The main thrust of Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss' defence before the Election Commission on a disqualification petition for holding an office of profit as president of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) governing body may not . . .
- Pm Echoes Nsa's Fears On India's Internal Security (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday conceded that the internal security situation was grim and warned that it was going to get worse as Intelligence reports feared further intensification in fidayeen attacks on the country's vital . . .
- Accept N-Deal, Don’T Keep Bomb’ (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Hailing New Delhi’s track record as a non-proliferator, former US secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Tuesday expressed support to the civil Nuclear deal but indicated her disapproval to India’s possessing Nuclear weapon capability.
- Pm Alerts Cms On Possibilities Of More 'Fidayeen' Attacks (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday alerted the Chief Ministers of further intensification of violent activities in the country, with the possibility of more "fidayeen" attacks, use of suicide bombers, attacks on economic and religious . . .
- Signing Of Indo-French Missile Pact Put Off (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The signing of a crucial Indo-French agreement on transfer of technology for production of French cruise missiles by India was put off due to last minute hitches, official sources said on Tuesday.
- Row Over New Nepal Army Chief (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
A controversial general, who has received both bouquets and brick bats, was named the new chief of Nepal’s army today even as human rights activists sent an SOS to UN secretary-general Mr Kofi Annan, asking him to call for the officer’s ouster.
- Stymied In Nepal (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 06, 2006)
But for the enterprise of Jana Aastha, a Nepali weekly, which managed to skim the cream off Nepal’s seemingly “secret bid” to acquire anti-aircraft missiles, the story would perhaps have stayed untold.
- Arab League, Time To Fold? (Deccan Herald, P R KUMARASWAMY, Sep 06, 2006)
Just days before the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 in a rare public outburst, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, castrated the UN for it’s “foot-dragging and impotence” in failing to enforce a ceasefire in Lebanon.
- Train To Lhasa (Pioneer, Claude Arpi, Sep 06, 2006)
China has adopted draconian security measures on the newly inaugurated Qinghai-Tibet railway, despite no cases of sabotage en route, says Claude Arpi.
- Bush, Quoting Bin Laden, Warns Of Iraqi Caliphate (Reuters, Steve Holland, Sep 06, 2006)
In a speech laced with quotes from Osama bin Laden, U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, al Qaeda wants to set up a violent, radical Islamic caliphate based in Iraq and vowed he would . . .
- Blow For Justice (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Sep 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court has dealt a blow for justice by shifting the trial of 14 accused in Srinagar's high-profile "sex scandal" to Chandigarh. This will come as a major relief to those who feel that they have been wrongly implicated.
- Signing Of Indo-French Missile Pact Put Off (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
The signing of a crucial Indo- French agreement on transfer of technology for production of French cruise missiles by India was put off due to last minute hitches, official sources said today.
- Bush Vows To Persist With Fighting Terror (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Sep 06, 2006)
Asserting that the US will persist in tracking down terrorists and never bow down to tyrants, President George W Bush today released a document containing strategies that his Administration has been using since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
- Iraqi President Sees Uk Troops Gone By 2007 (Reuters, Alastair Macdonald, Sep 06, 2006)
Iraq's president forecast on Tuesday that British troops could go home by the end of next year but, on another day of killings, Britain's visiting foreign minister cautioned against leaving a "security vacuum".
- Pm Warns Of Possible Terrorist Attacks (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Sep 06, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that intelligence agencies had warned more terrorist attacks were likely, possibly on economic and religious targets as well as on nuclear installations.
- Raje Provoked Bjp Men To Disturb Sonia Visit: Gehlot (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot has accused Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje of provoking her party workers to create a scene during Congress president Sonia Gandhi's visit to flood-affected areas in Barmer district.
- Pakistan, Local Taliban Sign Peace Agreement (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Pakistan on Tuesday signed a deal with local Taliban militants in North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan aiming at ending years of unrest in the restive tribal belt.
- Style, Substance, And Character (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2006)
When, in 1986, Andre Agassi burst on the tennis scene with pigeon-toed gait, peroxide blond hair, and clothes that glowed in the dark, hardened tennis writers were unanimous that this image-obsessed teenage rebel of Armenian-Iranian, Assyrian, and . . .
- Transparency In Defence Procurement (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2006)
The Central Government has made a serious effort to streamline the procedures for the acquisition of weapons, equipment, and material by the armed forces.
- The Forgotten Aam Aadmi (Indian Express, Tavleen Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
When this government came to power the one thing I liked about its Common Minimum Programme was the promise of reforms with a ‘‘human face’’.
- Eyeless In Gaza (Times of India, GEORGE SOROS, Sep 06, 2006)
Israel's failure to subdue Hezbollah demonstrates the many weaknesses of the war-on-terror concept.
- Waziristan Taliban Sign Peace Deal With Government (Daily Times, Iqbal Khattak, Sep 06, 2006)
Militants agree not to launch cross-border raids, shelter foreigners
Govt to remove checkpoints, free prisoners and return weapons.
- India Links Partnership To Arms Sales By France (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Sep 06, 2006)
India and France are keen on jointly developing cruise missiles, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told presspersons after talks with his French counterpart, Michele Alliot-Marie, here on Monday.
- Indo-French Missile Pact Signing Put Off (Daily Excelsior, A.N. Dar, Sep 06, 2006)
The signing of a crucial Indo-French agreement on transfer of technology for production of French cruise missiles by India was put off owing to last-minute hitches, official sources said today.
- Sri Lankan Mps Seek Meeting With Manmohan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 06, 2006)
Want a more active Indian role in finding a solution to the ethnic problem
More MPs likely to join team once meeting is fixed
Delegation banking on political channels to fix interaction.
- Leader Of Banned Manipur Outfit Held (Hindu, V.S. Palaniappan, Sep 06, 2006)
General secretary of the UNLF was in Coimbatore for medical treatment.
- War Ends But Not Lebanon's Misery (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Sep 06, 2006)
Unexploded ordnance and bombed out power stations make life miserable.
- Nepalis Seek News Of Missing (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Hundreds of people protested in the Nepali capital for the second straight day today demanding information about friends and relatives they say disappeared during a decade-old fight against Maoist rebels.
- Nuclear Establishments, Army Camps Face Terror Threat: Pm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Admitting that vital installations like nuclear establishments and army camps were facing grave threat from fidayeen, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today called for greater alertness by intelligence agencies and involving public in the war against . . .
- Thinking The Unthinkable: A New Map For Middle East And Pakistan! (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Sep 06, 2006)
As Pakistan raises the decibel level in accusing India of supporting the Baloch insurgency, the idea of a “Free Balochistan” is beginning to gain ground, if only in the American academic circles
- Pakistan Signs Peace Pact With Taliban (Deccan Herald, Arif Jamal, Sep 06, 2006)
The political administration and local Taliban on Tuesday signed a peace agreement in Miran Shah, the agency headquarters of North Waziristan, to restore peace in the strife-torn tribal agency.
- India’S N-Power Status ‘Troubles’ Albright (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Tuesday expressed support for the Indo-US civil nuclear energy cooperation deal despite being troubled by India’s de facto nuclear power status.
- In Touch With Time (Deccan Herald, ROGER COHEN, Sep 06, 2006)
Italy has an ambivalent relationship with modernity, which is to say with time. Whereas the United States is about constant reinvention, Italy is about preserving the threads that weave continuity's strange patterns...
- Troops To Stay In Lebanon (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
As the United Nations redoubles its endeavours to restore a durable cease-fire along the 70-mile "Blue Line" between Israel and Lebanon, India in all probability will not pull out from the strengthened UN force in Lebanon or the . . .
- Supreme Intervention (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 06, 2006)
The Supreme Court’s decision to transfer the so-called Kashmir sex scandal case to Chandigarh upholds the vital right of every person, regardless of the nature of the crime, to a free and fair trial.
- Start Adapting To Climate Change (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2006)
Almost all the discussion of climate change up to now has been about prevention, which, though important, is not enough. Climate change is going to happen, and we need to think more about adapting to it.
- Philippines On Alert Over Possible Terror Attacks (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 06, 2006)
A regional military commander said on Wednesday he has alerted key southern Philippine cities to intelligence reports indicating Al-Qaeda-linked militants could be plotting bomb attacks.
- No End To Terrorism (Tribune, Anita Inder Singh, Sep 06, 2006)
At first it may seem surprising that extremists inspired by Pakistan had a hand in the London bombings of 7/7 last year and the recent attempts to blow up aeroplanes leaving British airports for the United States.
- Peace Caught In Arms Tug-Of-War (Telegraph, Bharat Bhushan, Sep 06, 2006)
The peace process in Nepal is stuck over “managing” the weapons of the two armies — the Nepal Army and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of the Maoists — during the proposed Constituent Assembly elections.
- Tolerance Unlimited (Tribune, A.J. Philip, Sep 06, 2006)
Legal luminary Fali S. Nariman was the chief guest at a seminar on secularism on a sultry Sunday at St. Columba’s School in New Delhi where I, too, was called upon to speak.
- Pak Should Shut Down Terror Camps: Paper (Tribune, Arun Kumar Jain, Sep 06, 2006)
Saying there were ‘‘dangerous international terrorists’’ hiding in Pakistan, the New York Times has suggested that among the ‘‘crucial things’’ that Islamabad could do was to ‘‘permanently shut down’’ Kashmiri terrorist groups based on its soil.
- Nepal Govt To Review Secret Arms Purchase (Indian Express, YUBARAJ GHIMIRE, Sep 05, 2006)
A $1.4 million arms deal that King Gyanendra’s regime struck with an Israeli group to fight “terrorism’’ will now be reviewed by the government in Nepal, Home Minister K P Sitaula said on Monday.
- ‘Formulate Comprehensive Plan To Counter Terrorism’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Charging the UPA government of neglecting security issues, the BJP today demanded an integrated action plan to be drawn by the police, the military and development administration experts to combat terrorism.
- Captain Killed In Valley Encounter, Four Skeletons Found Near Loc (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
Four army personnel, including a Captain, and eight militants were among 13 persons killed in Jammu and Kashmir since last night, officials said today.
- When Napoleon Won At Waterloo (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
Napoleon won the battle of Waterloo. The German Wehrmacht won World War II. The United States won in Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Zealots won against the Romans, and Ehud Olmert won the Second Lebanon War.
- The Great American Oligarchy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
I never thought I'd ever hear the United States of America called an "oligarchy”. But now I have. My dictionary says an oligarchy is a form of government where most or all political power effectively rests with a small segment of the society.
- The Balochistan Problem (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
A new map published in the US Armed Forces Journal and prepared by one Ralph Peters delineates the boundaries of a free Balochistan.
- More Equal Than Others (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
At our airports now there is a separate check-in counter for 'Parliamentarians', ostensibly to make life easier for 'ordinary' passengers.
- Blair Says Britain Must 'Stand Firm' Against Terror Threat (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday that Britain must "stand firm" against a global terrorist threat amid news that three British soldiers had been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main battlegrounds of the US-led war on terror.
- Who Is Playing Politics? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Sep 05, 2006)
Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani's remarks at a press conference in Islamabad that the opposition should "stop playing politics" with Nawab Akbar Bugti's dead body are in bad taste.
- Worsening Situation In Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 05, 2006)
Nato’s military spokesman in Kabul has said that about 200 suspected Taliban and four Canadian soldiers were killed in a major operation in southern Afghanistan. Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman said that air strikes and ground offensive have been . . .
- Shift In Us Public Opinion (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Sep 05, 2006)
America has returned to 1968. On August 31, a vital deadline at the very top of George Bush’s agenda passed, and no one died at the deadline. Instead, the intended victim was frisky to the point of being cocky.
- Before It Is Too Late (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 05, 2006)
Pakistan seems to have reached the edge of the precipice. The political rumpus that has erupted in the country in the aftermath of Nawab Akbar Bugti’s killing signals a national crisis of grave proportions.
- Bae To Sell 20% In Airbus To Eads (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 05, 2006)
BAE Systems will agree to sell its 20% stake in Airbus to the Franco-German aerospace firm EADS for £1.9bn. Unnamed sources from London’s financial district told The Observer newspaper that the British defence group’s chief executive Mike Turner . . .
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