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Articles 16621 through 16720 of 27135:
- Pakistan's Pm Defends Role In Remote Regions (Reuters, John Poirier, Jan 23, 2006)
Pakistan's prime minister defended his country's efforts to control tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and said on Sunday that resistance against security forces and local authority had softened.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
- Woman Militant Among 3 Arrested (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 23, 2006)
A woman militant of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and her two associates were arrested while two militants killed and five top commanders of the Hizbul Mujahideen..
- Maoist Rebels, Nepal Security Clash Leaves 20 Dead (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 23, 2006)
A weekend clash between Maoist rebels and Nepalese security forces has left 14 rebels, five soldiers and one police officer dead, the army said on Sunday.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal: Wrinkles Remain (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jan 23, 2006)
A prominent Indian American is advising Mr Nicholas Burns as the US undersecretary of state works with his Indian counterparts to implement commitments made in a July 18 civilian nuclear agreement.
- China Delays Release Of Geisha’S Memoirs (Statesman, David Eimer, Jan 23, 2006)
Memoirs of a Geisha, the hit film based on a best-selling book, has run into trouble in China, home to its leading actresses.
- Aziz Urges Flexibility, Courage On Kashmir (Dawn, Masood Haider, Jan 23, 2006)
Reaffirming his belief that ‘courage, magnanimity, flexibility and a passion for peace’ were essential for resolving the Kashmir
- Coming Out With The Real Outcome (Business Line, P. V. Indiresan , Jan 23, 2006)
What exactly is `outcome' and how to measure it? Raising this question vis-à-vis the Outcome Budget, P. V. Indiresan suggests that, assuming cost-benefit can be measured, there are three ways the `outcome' can be deemed better than before.
- Afghan Suicide Bombings Worrying: Uk Official: ‘Pakistan Actively Fighting Al Qaeda’ (Dawn, Arshad Sharif, Jan 23, 2006)
The British defence ministry will try to ascertain if actions taken by Pakistani security agencies were pushing terrorists into Afghanistan and having a detrimental or positive effect on the security situation in the region.
- We Want Peaceful Relations With India But Kashmir Issue Impacted The Atmosphere (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Jan 23, 2006)
Declaring that Pakistan will always maintain minimum nuclear deterrence, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan is an anchor of peace and stability in South Asian region, has no aggressive designs but it won’t be bullied by anyone.
- Anti-Globalisation Protestors Gather In Mali (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 23, 2006)
A total of 150 journalists were killed last year in wars, assassinations, natural disasters and accidents while on duty, the International Federation of Journalists
- Across Loc, A Home Away From Home (Indian Express, BASHAARAT MASOOD, Jan 22, 2006)
Sajad Khan of Muzaffarabad is perhaps the youngest infiltrator into the Valley and the first intruder to receive a warm welcome from the police.
- Lahore Bus Returns On Road Of Hope (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
The first Lahore-Amritsar bus returned on Saturday. The 15 Pakistani officials on board promised a visa counter in Lahore.
- R-Day Parade: Out Of Step? (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 22, 2006)
I don't know if you have noticed but over the last four years or so, the run-up to the Republic Day parade is always marked by a certain amount of disgruntled muttering. This year has been no exception.
- D For Decision But In Govt It Stands For Dither, Delay, Defer, Dispute... (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jan 22, 2006)
D for decision but in govt it stands for dither, delay, defer, dispute...
...be it clearing a movie (the entire Defence top brass troop in to watch) to modernising our airports (where goalposts change every night), why the Govt loves not making . . .
- Gail Takes Security Measures After Ulfa Extortion Note To Ongc (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
The Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) has taken precautionary security measures in view of an ULFA extortion note to Oil and Natural Gas Corporation demanding Rs 500 crore.
- Monkeying Around (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jan 22, 2006)
The State of Jammu & Kashmir has been in turmoil for over last one and half decades. The economic climate was disturbed at the start of this terrorist made catastrophe that led to large-scale migration causing a great vacuum in the infrastructure . . .
- Rebels Call For Strike On R-Day In N-E, Bengal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
The ULFA has since 1979 been waging an armed rebellion against what it calls New Delhi’s “colonial rule” over Assam. The MPLF is a conglomeration of three militant organisations of Manipur — Revolutionary Peoples Front, Peoples Revolutionary Army . . .
- Us Business Body To Launch Awareness Programme On Indo-Us Deal (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
US Chamber of Commerce has applauded negotiations that would lead to implimentation of Indo-US civilian nuclear deal and announced the launch of a public advocacy programme to garner support for it.
- Aziz Calls For Progress On Kashmir Dispute (Dawn, Masood Haider, Jan 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday said India and Pakistan should now move forward from confidence-building measures towards substantive dispute resolution.
- Pak Peace Offensive Forced India On The Defensive: Durrani (News International, Asim Yasin, Jan 22, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf has taken a number of bold initiatives through diplomatic channels and this peace offensive has forced India to go on the defensive, said Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani.
- Iran Wants China In On Russian Nuclear Proposal: Der Spiegel (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
Iran wants China to be involved in possible enrichment of uranium with Russia aimed at ensuring Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons, according to the German weekly Der Spiegel.
- Anjali's Court Martial (Hindu, U.C. Jha, Jan 22, 2006)
The Indian military justice system in its current form is an anachronism
FLYING OFFICER Anjali has now moved the Delhi High Court for relief (The Hindu, December 21) against the judgment of the general court martial, which awarded her the punishment ....
- Burns Says Us To Continue To Provide All Possible Help (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
US Under-secretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns, called on President General Pervez Musharraf here Saturday at the Army House and exchanged views on regional issues, bilateral relations and American assistance to Pakistan in relief ..
- New Acquisitions By Army To Figure In Republic Day Parade (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
Marching teams to include Madras Regiment and Maratha Infantry
- Kashmiris, Pak, India Must Show Flexibility (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday stressed that India and Pakistan must move beyond simple confidence building measures to “substantive dispute resolution,” and resolve the Kashmir dispute for South Asia to achieve a “sustainable peace”.
- Pakistan Won’T Endorse N-Iran: Pm (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 22, 2006)
Vows to raise Bajaur bombing in tripartite commission meeting;
calls for moving beyond CBMs to settle Kashmir issue
- Cost Of Political Expediencies (Dawn, Kunwar Idris, Jan 22, 2006)
Be it the provision of relief for the victims of the earthquake or punishing defiant Baloch tribes, the only institution the president can call upon to help is the army. That amounts to terming a new political and administrative system, . . .
- Khokhrapar-Munabao Train To Run On Feb 4 (News International, Muhammad Khalid, Jan 22, 2006)
Rejecting Indian concerns regarding construction of an overhead shelter at the Zero Point railway station, the director-general of Pakistan Rangers, Maj-Gen Jawed Zia, has said that it is not a violation of the Border Ground Rule, 1962.
- Wmds-Free Middle East (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 22, 2006)
Iran and Syria have called for a WMDs-free Middle East. President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmedinejad told a joint Press conference after their talks that if the issue of WMDs is the West’s pretext for its . . .
- Attracting Foreign Investment (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 22, 2006)
One of the aims of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz’s current visit to the US is to seek American investment in Pakistan.
- Hard Road To Reconciliation (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Jan 22, 2006)
In the domain of public policy several of the major avenues are in disrepair and appear to be closed. More disconcerting is the probability that the policy makers do not know what it will take to fix them. We will focus today on an aspect of national . .
- A Leader And His Weight (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 22, 2006)
Everything was said that could be said about Ariel Sharon last week as he lay in a coma except the one thing that crossed the mind of every viewer watching newsreel footage of the prime minister, which was, “How much does that man weigh?
- Iran's Nuclear Ambition Threatens Peace (Daily Excelsior, M.A. Ansari, Jan 22, 2006)
The governing board of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet on February 2 to consider the Iranian nuclear tangle. But it is unlikely to refer the issue to the Security Council for action especially as Russia and China . . .
- We Should Strike Iran, But Not With Bombs (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jan 22, 2006)
Iran's decision to resume nuclear enrichment activities -- a key step in the process of making nuclear weapons -- is a direct challenge to the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. For more than two years now, Europe -- with Washington's . . .
- China, India Stay The Dialogue Course (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jan 21, 2006)
It will be "simplistic" to expect the two neighbours to "collide" as in conventional power politics.
- Safeguards For Breeder Reactors A Key Obstacle (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 21, 2006)
U.S. unwilling to accept Indian stand
As India and the United States concluded their third round of technical talks on the planned separation and safeguarding of Indian civilian nuclear facilities this week, the status of the country's fast . . .
- Don't Accept Court Notice: All-Party Meet (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jan 21, 2006)
An all-party meeting here on Friday unanimously felt that Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee should neither accept the Supreme Court's notice nor appear before it on the issue of expulsion of MPs in the wake of the cash-for-questions scandal.
- A Second Earth Needed To Sustain India And China (Business Line, D. Murali , Jan 21, 2006)
Do you know that India and China have as much population as that of "the next 20 largest countries combined"? Or that "some 80 per cent of the companies in Wal-Mart's database of suppliers are now Chinese"? China and India are the focus of State . . .
- Greenpeace Activists Meet French Officials (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 21, 2006)
Presidential advisers were "utterly amateurish, knew nothing"; Government "not interested"
- One Party, Two Visions (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jan 21, 2006)
The Advani era, pundits proclaimed, had ended with the advent of Rajnath Singh as the Bharatiya Janata Party's new helmsman. But Lal Krishna Advani, 78, is in no mood to walk into the sunset.
- Iisc New Palm-Top: Spy Plane (Indian Express, AMBA B BAKSHI, Jan 21, 2006)
A new innovative addition to the palm top genre is going to be the palm-top aircraft. The Aerospace Engineering department at the Indian Institute for Sciences (IISc), Bangalore, is currently working on unmanned miniature planes that could assist . . .
- Man's True Identity (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
As long as a person is attached to the objects of sensory gratification, he cannot experience his true nature — the Self (Atman). Spiritual progress primarily involves developing dispassion (Vairagya) towards the world. How does one develop detachment?
- The Slippery Slope Of Stings (Hindustan Times, Vir Sanghvi, Jan 21, 2006)
After the success of the Aaj Tak–Cobrapost sting, nearly everybody in the media has got used to the concept of the sting operation-for-hire.
- Beyond Sensationalism (Deccan Herald, Avijit Pathak, Jan 21, 2006)
Feminism is not content with women serving liquor in hotels. It strives for realisation of their full potential
- Burns Sees Roadblocks Ahead Of Nuclear Deal (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
India and the United States still face difficulties before a landmark nuclear deal giving the South Asian giant access to previously forbidden technology can be sealed, a senior US official said on Friday.
- Will Sonia And Deve Gowda Meet? (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The Congress central leadership will firm up its response to the situation facing its coalition government in Karnataka following a split in the Janata Dal (Secular) after gauging first hand the mood of its State leaders.
- ``Iaea Inspections Will Compromise Breeder Research'' (Hindu, Siddharth Varadarajan, Jan 21, 2006)
U.S. reluctance to accept India as a nuclear arms state is the heart of the matter
- India Must Engage, Not Sermonise (Indian Express, P.R. KUMARASWAMY, Jan 21, 2006)
Having slept through Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last August, India was rather quick to recognise the unfolding drama in that country following the hospitalisation of Ariel Sharon. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s quick message ....
- Himalayan Tyranny (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
As King Gyanendra runs amuck, India holds the key to bringing Nepal back to democracy.
- A New Kind Of Leader (Indian Express, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jan 21, 2006)
In Liberia, Germany and Chile, women didn’t pick up the standard of a murdered father or husband
- Us Diplomat Sees ‘Complexity’ In India-Us N-Talks (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The United States and India face difficult negotiations on a landmark civilian nuclear pact, but officials said they remain hopeful of reaching an agreement on the deal that leaders of both countries have hailed as a centrepiece of their emerging alliance
- Indo-Us N-Deal Faces Rough Weather (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The India-US efforts to work out an agreement on a separation plan for India’s civil and military nuclear facilities hit a roadblock on Friday, raising serious doubts whether the two sides would be able to wrap up the landmark nuclear deal . . .
- Nepal Curfew Thwarts Planned Rally As Many Held (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Jan 21, 2006)
Soldiers and armed police enforced a curfew in the Nepali capital on Friday and placed leading politicians under house arrest, thwarting a planned protest against the king, who seized absolute power last year.
- Clemenceau Stirs The Environment (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The workers at Gujarat's Alang ship-breaking yard are waiting with bated breath for the Supreme Court verdict on whether the decommissioned French warship Clemenceau would be allowed into Indian waters.
- U.N. Reports Sri Lankan Refugees Landing In India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
About 50 Sri Lankans have fled to southern India aboard fishing boats because of deteriorating security on the island, the United Nations said on Friday.
- Old Enemy, Older Friend (Daily Excelsior, RAMACHANDRA GUHA , Jan 21, 2006)
In a lifetime as a cricket fan, my most depressing experience was watching the World Cup quarter-final played between India and Pakistan in Bangalore in March 1996.
- Talks Augur Well For Indo-Us N-Pact (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The USA today expressed hope that the civil nuclear cooperation agreement with India would be implemented as New Delhi readied to roll out the red carpet to welcome US President George W Bush in the first week of March.
- Speaker To Return Notice (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
The legislature and the judiciary is heading on a collision course with the all-party meeting convened by the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee decided to “return” the notice issued by the courts in cash-for-query scam.
- Us Praises India’S N-Programme (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 21, 2006)
The US today showered praise on India for its non-proliferation record and rubbished Iran’s imputation of putting the Iranian and Indian nuclear programme in the same basket.
- Amritsar-Lahore Bus (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Road is still not smooth enough
It is not enough to just utter sweet nothings on the need for warming up India-Pakistan relations or roll out a ceremonial red carpet when the bus from Lahore arrives in Amritsar.
- The Army Mindset (Tribune, Brig A.C. Prem (retd), Jan 21, 2006)
Janowitz, a management guru, once remarked: “The contemporary military establishment has for some time tended more and more to display characteristics typical of any large-scale non-military bureaucracy”.
- Difficulties Ahead Of Nuclear Pact With India: U.S. (Reuters, Palash Kumar, Jan 21, 2006)
The United States said on Friday there were difficulties in realising a landmark agreement on cooperation in civil nuclear energy with India but it was hopeful of clinching the deal.
- Court & Parliament At Loggerheads (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Jan 21, 2006)
It is ironical that the biggest challenge to the Indian constitution has come in January, the month in which the country introduced it, as far back as 1950, to become a republic. Unfortunately, the challenge is developing into some sort of a . . .
- The New Republic (Times of India, ARCHANA JAHAGIRDAR, Jan 21, 2006)
You must have watched the Republic Day parade last year. And the year before that. And the year before that as well.
- Centre Can Consider Corporatising The Iims (The Financial Express, YRK REDDY, Jan 21, 2006)
If the previous government’s move against the hike in fee was lambasted as being hawkish, intrusive and much more, the stand of the current government on IIM Bangalore’s move for an offshore facility has met a similar fate.
- Al Qaeda Meeting Was Planning Attacks: Official (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Pakistani authorities suspect that Al Qaeda operatives had gathered last week to plan attacks early this year in Afghanistan and Pakistan when the meeting was torn apart by a US missile strike, an intelligence official said on Friday.
- Us Missile Attack (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
It is hard to say how many people would have mourned Ayman al-Zawahiri if he had indeed been killed last week by the US missiles that hit a Pashtun area near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
- Defreezing Accounts (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jan 21, 2006)
First it was the Law Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj, not strictly a man of law given his past track record in other capacities. A lawyer he may have been but he has always been a loyal servant of the Gandhi parivar.
- India Wishes Democracy In Nepal (Daily Excelsior, Krishna Pradhan, Jan 21, 2006)
The Indian ambassador to Nepal, Mr. Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, is in Delhi for consultations as the situation in the Himalayan Kingdom deteriorates day by day, and the Maoist violence against the government has increased and rallies . . .
- Bin Laden Trying To Silence Rumours Of Death: Analysts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
A recording from Osama bin Laden, his first message for over a year, is aimed at quashing rumours of his death and warning the Western world that its most wanted man remains a major threat, analysts said on Friday.
- No Evidence Qaeda Men Dead In Bajaur Airstrike: Aziz (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
No evidence has yet turned up of Al Qaeda figures among the dead when a US missile killed at least 18 people in a remote part of Pakistan, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday.
- No Alarm’ At Nato Over Chirac’S Nuclear Warning (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
NATO is “not alarmed” by French President Jacques Chirac’s threat of nuclear retaliation to a “terrorist” attack on France, an alliance source said on Friday.
- Insecurity In Waziristan (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 21, 2006)
Reports from our correspondents that insecurity is forcing people in Waziristan to migrate are highly disturbing.
- Peace Process Grinds On (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Jan 21, 2006)
Some recent developments have dealt a hefty blow to the ongoing Pakistan-India peace process. If the decision makers in Islamabad and New Delhi do not act quickly to restore the health of bilateral relations, the peace process will soon find itself . . .
- Nuke Deal: India, Us Look Forward But Admit It’S Long Haul (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jan 21, 2006)
Faced with a tight deadline before US President George W Bush arrives in early March, Indian and US negotiators on the nuclear deal parted on a positive note today agreeing that a lot needs to be done and aware that a political push on either side could s
- Sustained Dialogue (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
Both countries must take each other’s concerns seriously
The third round of the India-Pakistan composite dialogue has concluded with the two sides reiterating their commitment to dialogue as the means to resolve contentious issues.
- Target Al-Qaeda Misfires (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jan 21, 2006)
The US government’s refusal to accept formal responsibility for last Friday’s missile attack on the Pakistani village of Damadola is only one of the unexplained elements of the latest attempt to identify and kill the top echelons of Al-Qaeda hiding along
- Nuclear Agreement: India And Us Stick To Their Guns (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 21, 2006)
An Indo-US understanding on the implementation of the July 18 bilateral civilian nuclear energy cooperation agreement eluded top negotiators from the two sides as New Delhi appeared determined to insulate its would-be military nuclear facilities . . .
- Why Threats Against Iran Will Not Work (Hindu, Atul Aneja , Jan 20, 2006)
Threats to haul Iran to the Security Council on the nuclear issue could see Teheran harden its stand.
- "The Clemenceau Is A Scandal" (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 20, 2006)
Two men who worked on board the French warship and now have asbestosis speak out.
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