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Articles 16821 through 16920 of 27135:
- Us Must Facilitate Kashmir, Palestine Solutions: Pm (News International, Salim Bokhari, Jan 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan and the United States have evolved a transformed relationship and there is a strategic convergence between the two countries on regional and international objectives.
- 'Top Al-Qaeda Bomb-Maker Killed In Bajaur Attack’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
A top Al-Qaeda bomb maker with a $5 million reward on his head was killed in the last week’s CIA missile strike in Bajaur, ABC News reported Wednesday.
- Balochistan: Yes, Nation Shouldn’T Be Hostage (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jan 19, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has reiterated that only paramilitary forces are engaged in dealing with the miscreants in Balochistan, indulging in sabotage and terrorist acts at the behest of some Sardars
- Preventing Power Losses (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jan 19, 2006)
Talk to a Japanese official and he invariably comes up with a reply that Pakistan is potentially a very rich country with large natural resources, unlike Japan with its narrow strip of hilly land. All we have to do, he says, is to develop those . . .
- Weapons Seized In Held Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Indian security forces seized two weapons caches in held Kashmir, the army said on Wednesday.
- Economic Implications Of Terrorism (Business Line, Asuri Vasudevan, Jan 19, 2006)
To counter terrorism, governments and businesses have to incur additional expenditure on arrangements for safety and security, insurance payments, surveillance and intelligence gathering and training and equipping anti-terror squads.
- Russia To Fly Fifth-Generation Fighter Next Year (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Russia will fly its futuristic fifth-generation fighter next year, a top military official today said.
- The Illusive Us Arms Bazaar (Daily Excelsior, Atul Cowshish, Jan 19, 2006)
Two roadblocks await the forward move in the Indo-US bilateral relations early in 2006.
- Basic Difference (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jan 19, 2006)
What would have happened had India not been partitioned in 1947? The question was raised during an enlightening discussion at a book release function in Lahore recently.
- Burns In India To Discuss N-Deal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Less than a week after a meeting of the Indo-US ‘Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group’ here, U S Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R Nicholas Burns today said implementing the deal of nuclear cooperation between the two countries is . . .
- Lessons In The Pipeline (Telegraph, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Jan 19, 2006)
The author is a former ambassador and is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi
- Additional Troops Deployed In Sri Lanka's Trincomalee District (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Sri Lanka today deployed additional security forces in the strategic Trincomalee port district which was put on maximum alert amid fears of more 'spectacular' attacks by Tamil tigers, as Scandinavian truce monitors indefinitely suspended work in the troub
- Army In "Full Action" In Balochistan, Claims Pak Oppn (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
Rejecting President Pervez Musharraf's assertions that only paramilitary forces were conducting operations against nationalist rebels in Balochistan, Pakistan's opposition parties have claimed that the army was in "full action" in the southwestern provinc
- Terrorists Would Be Targetted "Wherever They Are": Us (Press Trust of India, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Jan 19, 2006)
The Bush administration remained silent on details of the botched missile attack in Pakistani tribal region purpotedly targetting al-Qaeda number 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri which killed 18 villagers, but said the US would continue to pursue terrorists . . .
- Pakistan Names 3 Al Qaeda Believed Killed In Strike (Reuters, Simon Cameron, Jan 19, 2006)
Pakistani intelligence sources on Thursday identified three of four al Qaeda members believed to have been killed by a U.S. airstrike last week, though they have yet to recover the bodies.
- U.S. Upbeat On India Nuclear Deal Despite Problems (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 19, 2006)
The United States is confident of reaching a deal with India on nuclear cooperation even though differences remain over plans to separate India's civil and military programmes, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday.
- India, Pakistan Agree On Peace, Differ On Process (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jan 19, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Wednesday made a fresh commitment to push forward a fragile peace process but the nuclear-armed neighbours reiterated their differences over ways to end nearly 60 years of enmity.
- Defusing Iran With Democracy (Los Angeles Times, Shirin Ebadi, Jan 19, 2006)
Lost in the international fury over Iran's partial restart of its nuclear energy program, and the deplorable statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regarding Israel, has been the fact that respect for human rights and a democratic political . . . .
- Have A Brisk Walk (Deccan Herald, M K RATHISH, Jan 18, 2006)
A walk every day is enough to keep us healthy, but, as a culture, do we like the idea?
- Space A Battlefield (Deccan Herald, U R RAO, Jan 18, 2006)
Despite high costs and danger involved, the US is still determined to go ahead with space weaponisation
- India And Taiwan: Moving Closer (Deccan Herald, Bidanda M Chengappa, Jan 18, 2006)
India should reconsider its approach to Taiwan in terms of foreign
India has been developing ties with Taiwan ever since the two countries established unofficial linkages with each other a decade ago.
- Pak Floats A New One To India: Let Strike Forces Not Be Eyeball To Eyeball (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Jan 18, 2006)
suggestion that has set South Block thinking, Pakistan today proposed that military strike formations on either side should not be ‘‘permanently relocated’’ to forward locations.
- Bullet-Proof ‘Monks’ (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Jan 18, 2006)
Even by Jammu and Kashmir standards, this is an alarming turn in the battle against militancy. For the first time in 15 years, investigations into fidayeen attacks in the state are increasingly pointing at the involvement of elected representatives . . .
- West, China Split On Iran (Hindu, Ewen MacAskill, Jan 18, 2006)
Beijing says referring nuclear issue to U.N. will complicate the crisis
- India Requires A Creative Leader: Kalam (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
In another appeal to CII, President Kalam urged the organisation to create a directory of existing partnerships commencing from 2000 and publish it giving all details of scope and progressive financial performance. c
- Clemenceau: Egypt Didn't Consult India (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jan 18, 2006)
No effort made to get fresh certificates that would have highlighted the present situation
Old certificates issued by the Indian authorities and sent by a tugboat company relied upon
- ‘Quattrocchi Accounts Defrozen’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of Britain has informed the CBI that the accounts of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, having nearly Rs 21 crore, have been defrozen...
- Israel Will Not Allow Iran To Obtain Wmds: Olmert (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Iran on Tuesday that Israel would not let anyone who threatened its existence obtain weapons of mass destruction as officials headed to Moscow for talks over Tehran's nuclear programme.
- Pakistan, India Say Peace Process Yielding Dividends (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday said a two-year-old peace process had helped build trust between the nuclear-armed rivals after their senior officials met to review progress.
- Crossfire Kills 2 Civilians In Lanka (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Unknown gunmen shot dead Batticaloa district representative Joseph Pararajasingham when he was attending the Christmas mass in the town.
- Kashmir Violence Claims Seven Lives (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Suspected militants shot dead two members of a pro-India communist party in occupied Kashmir, while Indian troops killed five militants in two separate gunbattles, police and the army said on Tuesday.
- India, Pakistan Forward Proposals To Avoid War (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Jan 18, 2006)
The Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries kick-started the third round of the composite dialogue process on Tuesday and forwarded several new proposals to avoid risks of nuclear and conventional war and also to increase people centric . . .
- Iranian Nuclear Crisis: Russia And China Favour Negotiations, Not Sanctions (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
* Powell describes situation in Iran as ‘potentially very dangerous’
* Blair’s spokesman says Britain still open to negotiated solution with Iran
- Kashmir Toughest Challenge In Talks (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Jan 18, 2006)
Pakistan and India began their third round of composite dialogue here on Tuesday reasonably pleased with the gains from their outings so far, but watchful of what Islamabad believes to be the toughest challenge ahead — unravelling the Gordian knot . . .
- Iran’S Growing N-Crisis (Dawn, Najmuddin A, Shaikh, Jan 18, 2006)
Earlier this month the Iranians, in the presence of IAEA inspectors, broke the seals on some of the equipment in the Natanz facility to recommence what they said was research activity on the nuclear fuel cycle.
- Spirit Of Sacrifice (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 18, 2006)
A friend, who is a devout Muslim otherwise, has made a bizarre comment on the ritual of sacrifice performed on the Eid-ul-Azha. He says, “I think the poor goats, sheep and other animals give their lives on Eid day for nothing.
- The Afghan Mess (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Imagine a 15-year-old blowing himself up for a cause he had no idea of. He was one of the two suicide bombers whose attacks in Kandahar and Spin Boldak on Monday killed 26 people in what was one of the worst days for Afghanistan in terms of death
- No Nukes, But No War Either (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jan 18, 2006)
In the short term, the worst-case scenario in the context of nuclear brinkmanship between Iran and the West could unfold thus. The war of words between the two sides escalates.
- Russian-Made Missile Brought Down Us Chopper In Iraq: Report (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
A Russian-made surface-to-air missile launched by anti-American insurgents brought down a US military helicopter that crashed in Iraq on Monday, US Media reported Tuesday, citing unnamed Pentagon officials.
- India To Send Troops Along Israeli-Syrian Border (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
India plans for the first time to send soldiers to the UN peacekeeping mission along the disputed Israeli-Syrian frontier, an Indian army spokesman said on Tuesday.
- Accounts Of Quattrocchi Defreezed (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
We can only make a request to the British authorities: Pranab
Two London bank accounts of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, a key accused in the Rs. 64-crore Bofors payoffs case, have been defreezed.
- A Working Mother, At The Head Of A New Chile (Indian Express, Patrick J. McDonnell, Jan 18, 2006)
Michelle Bachelet, a socialist who was jailed and went into exile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was elected the first female president of Chile on Sunday in a historic vote that underscored a leftward drift in the region.
- France's First Woman President? (Hindu, Jon Henley, Jan 18, 2006)
Segolene Royal is suddenly looking like the obvious Socialist challenger to Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential poll.
- India For Freeze On Setting Up Of Defence Posts Along Loc (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Seeking to further consolidate the Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs), India today proposed a freeze on setting up of new defence posts and defence works along the Line of Control (LoC) and announced its intention to extend the Munnabao-Khokrapar rail li
- Baloch Rebels Getting Outside Aid: Musharraf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jan 18, 2006)
Says they are engaged in terror activities
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday reiterated his allegation that people of a country from "outside" were aiding and abetting subversive elements in Balochistan province and declared . . .
- United States Of Jammu & Kashmir And Self Rule (Daily Excelsior, O P Modi, Jan 18, 2006)
Readers may recall that around third week of November 2004 an article titled "United States of Jammu & Kashmir; A resolution" written by me was published in these columns. The idea of a unified federal J&K was mooted for the first time in this paper.
- Five Militants Among Seven Killed In Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Government soldiers killed five suspected militants in two separate shoot-outs in held Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. Meanwhile suspected militants shot dead two members of a pro-India communist party.
- India Raises Terrorism Issue (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jan 18, 2006)
Interference in internal affairs, says Pakistan; wants Kashmir issue addressed
India raises issue of terrorist infrastructure
Seeks agreement on extradition, legal assistance
Presents "non-papers" on border posts, flag meetings
- Foreign Secretaries May Take Up Kashmir Today (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Talks confined to peace and security
Indian and Pakistan Foreign Secretaries Shyam Saran and Riaz Muhammad Khan are expected to take up the Kashmir issue for discussions here on Wednesday.
- Pakistan Wants South Asia Free Of Abms (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
"Take steps to avert arms race in region"
Pakistan has suggested that South Asia be declared an "anti-ballistic missile free zone," the Pakistan Foreign Office spokeswoman said after talks between Indian and Pakistani Foreign Secretaries . . .
- Iran: India Reacts With Caution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
India a responsible nuclear weapons state: New Delhi
Four days after top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani made a reference to India during a CNN interview, the External Affairs Ministry spokesman on Monday regretted the comments.
- From Sri Lanka With Tears (Hindu, C. Jaishankar, Jan 18, 2006)
For 29-year-old Kalyani, there just does not seem to be an end for the sorrows. She and her two children landed at Thankatchimadam near here on Tuesday as refugees from Sri Lanka.
- Terror Reaches South (Daily Excelsior, Tukoji R Pandit, Jan 18, 2006)
The dastardly attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on December 28, 2005 which took the life of a mathematician from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has drawn attention to the fact that after north and western India, . . .
- Threatened Peace (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The politics of violence has a tendency to degenerate into banditry. Their professed political creeds notwithstanding, several insurgent groups in the North-east often function like criminal bands.
- Coming To Terms With A Disturbing Past (Telegraph, Sanjib Baruah, Jan 18, 2006)
Ordinary Cambodians as well as members of the international community have mixed feelings about the trial of the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders beginning this year, writes Sanjib Baruah The author is visiting professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delh
- Alarums & Excursions (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jan 18, 2006)
Iran’s removal of UN seals from the uranium enrichment plant at Natanz has sparked an international outcry, with a predictably knee-jerk reaction from the White House.
- Musharraf’S Demilitarisation Balloon (Tribune, Gen V.P. Malik (retd), Jan 18, 2006)
Disappointed at the lack of progress in resolving the Kashmir issue through the Indo-Pak composite dialogue, Gen Pervez Musharraf is reported to have said, “Let me give another bombshell, I propose, one way of moving forward.... Take three towns, . . .
- Good Press Is A Legitimate Weapon (Tribune, Michael Schrage, Jan 18, 2006)
Precision-guided munitions and night vision are terrific military technologies, and no one would deny them to our soldiers in Iraq.
- India, Pak Offer New Military Cbms (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jan 18, 2006)
Pak says Balochistan refrain can wreck peace process
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammed Khan today confronted his Indian counterpart Shyam Saran on New Delhi’s reaction on developments in Balochistan and categorically . . .
- Sri Lanka Military Ambushed As Envoys Visit Rebels (Reuters, Peter Apps, Jan 18, 2006)
Suspected Tamil Tigers ambushed military vehicles in north and east Sri Lanka on Tuesday, the army said, killing one soldier as Nordic envoys visited the rebels ahead of key peace meetings next week.
- India For Freeze On Setting Up Of Defence Posts Along Loc (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
Seeking to further consolidate the confidence-building measures (CBMs), India today proposed a freeze on setting up of new defence posts and defence works along the Line of Control (LoC) and announced its intention to extend the Munnabao-Khokrapar. . .
- Us Strike Damages Musharraf’S Image (Tribune, James Rupert, Jan 18, 2006)
Friday’s U.S. airstrike on a Pakistani village has disrupted America’s efforts to improve its image in this country, one of its most important Muslim allies, and has turned glaring publicity on a part of the “global war on terror” that the . . .
- India, Pakistan Hold Talks To Push Peace Process (Reuters, Kamil Zaheer, Jan 18, 2006)
India and Pakistan talked on Tuesday to try to breathe new life into a two-year-old peace process bedevilled by mistrust and guerrilla violence in Kashmir.
- Un Closes Units In Pak (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
A threatening phone call that forced the United Nations to temporarily close offices in southwestern Pakistan, said al-Qaida would attack the world body’s offices there, the top UN official in Pakistan said today.
- Lanka Attacks Amidst Peace Moves (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
One Sri Lankan soldier was killed and 20 people, including 10 sailors, were wounded today in two land-mine attacks triggered by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels even as peace broker Norway launched a fresh bid to save the tottering ceasefire in the . . .
- Wise King, But Foolish Subjects (Indian Express, Ananya Vajpeyi, Jan 18, 2006)
Time was when I was proud to own a copy of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, given how much furore the book occasioned in the life not just of its author, but of India, Iran, the UK, and of the larger world of Islam.
- A Few Good Men (Indian Express, SUBHASH GATADE, Jan 18, 2006)
Remembering Hugh Thompson, who spoke up against the My Lai massacre
- ‘Pakistan Lost 2,600 Armymen In Quake’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
The earthquake on October 8 last year in J-K was not only a huge tragedy for the civilians of Pakistan and PoK, but also for that country’s army. Although the Pakistan Army has not so far come out with any official toll, Indian military . . .
- The Iran Charade, Part Ii (Washington Post, Editorial, Washington Post, Jan 18, 2006)
"It was what made this E.U. Three approach so successful. They [Britain, France and Germany] stood together and they had one uniform position."
- The West Has Picked A Fight With Iran That It Cannot Win (Guardian (UK), Simon Jenkins, Jan 18, 2006)
Never pick a fight you know you cannot win. Or so I was told. Pick an argument if you must, but not a fight. Nothing I have read or heard in recent weeks suggests that fighting Iran over its nuclear enrichment programme makes any sense at all.
- Doing Nothing In Iran Is Not An Option (Telegraph (UK), editorial, telegraph UK, Jan 18, 2006)
As we survey, with appropriate unease and foreboding, the events now unfolding in Iran, we might like to reflect on one of Enoch Powell's less well-known, but most universal, obiter dicta. "The supreme function of statesmanship," he once wrote, "i . . .
- What The Constitution Really Says (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 18, 2006)
While I'm here in the opposite hemisphere, The Debate is going to be a little more free form. Today, we have a thought-provoking post from Guest Blogger Jason Scorse, a professor who decided to take a closer look at the document that provides the. . . . .
- Delhi Points To Npt As Tehran Pulls Up Indo-Us Nuke Deal (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
Upset over Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani’s reference to the Indo-US nuclear deal as a case of US ‘‘dual standards’’ compared to Tehran’s nuclear programme, India today said as a ‘‘responsible nuclear power’’, it adhered to . . .
- Canadian Envoy Killed In Afghan Attack (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 17, 2006)
A senior Canadian diplomat died in Afghanistan on Sunday in a suicide bomb attack which also killed two others and injured 12, Canada's Foreign Affairs Department said.
- West To Blame For Iran Crisis: Riyadh (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jan 17, 2006)
As representatives from America, Russia, China, France and Germany gathered here on Monday to formulate a common response to the controversy over Iran's nuclear programme, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said it was for Teheran to assure the . . .
- Another Push For Sri Lankan Peace (Hindu, V.S. Sambandan, Jan 17, 2006)
Three Tamil women shot dead in Jaffna
Sri Lanka will receive three high-profile visitors soon as part of the continued international efforts to restart the peace process.
- Little Hope Ahead Of India-Pakistan Peace Talks (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Jan 17, 2006)
India and Pakistan begin a new round of peace talks this week but the nuclear-armed rivals are unlikely to end a stalemate that has tarnished the process, analysts say.
- In The Hush After The Bombing (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 17, 2006)
The US must face up to it: in Pakistan the quarry escaped and innocents died, again
- Hrd Instinct (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jan 17, 2006)
Murli Manohar Joshi and Arjun Singh have more in common than you would imagine
- Nepal Blues (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Jan 17, 2006)
All too soon it is back to square one in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. The Maoist rebels have announced the end of the (extended) ceasefire unilaterally announced by them four months ago, leading to fears of eruption of violence that has already . . .
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