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Articles 2821 through 2920 of 53943:
- India Should Retain Nuclear Test Option, Says Joshi (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Making a pitch for India retaining the option of conducting nuclear tests, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi today accused the UPA Government of compromising the country’s strategic and food security under US influence.
- Pak Remains A Nursery Of Global Terrorism: Pranab (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Stating that Pakistan "remains a nursery" of global terrorism, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today asserted that Islamabad has done "precious little" to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its eastern borders with India and many . . .
- Cool It (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 26, 2006)
New signs of strain have surfaced in the Washington-Islamabad relationship. General Musharraf has revealed that the US threatened to bomb Pakistan into the Stone Age soon after 9/11, while President Bush declared at a press conference that Washington . .
- After The Lebanese War (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Sep 26, 2006)
There are two ways of looking at Lebanon after the 34-day savage Israeli conflict with Hezbollah.
- To Be More Democratic, Pak Needed Me In Uniform: Pervez (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf admits he is still “struggling” to convince the West that Pakistan is more democratic today than it ever was in the past.
- If Pak Did Not Join Usa, India Would, Says Musharraf (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, determined to see a “final resolution” of the Kashmir issue, has suggested an “out-of-the-box” solution to the bilateral dispute.
- Bush’S Bushy Deal (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 26, 2006)
Despondency hardly learns from experience: quite rightly so in case of Mr George W Bush, the all times hawkish, bullying and flamboyant President of the USA.
- Bangladesh Succumbing To Jihadis (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Sep 26, 2006)
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia has taken one more retrograde step that will be under the scrutiny of international jihad watchers across the globe and have a far-reaching impact on her country’s future.
- ‘Initial Signs Of Flexibility’ Sensed In Manmohan ‘Withering Away’ (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Sep 26, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, determined to see a “final resolution” of the Kashmir issue, has suggested an “out-of-the-box” solution to the bilateral dispute.
- Ex-Wto Boss Supachai To Be New Thai Pm - Papers (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Former World Trade Organisation (WTO) head Supachai Panitchpakdi has tentatively accepted an invitation from Thailand's new military rulers to be interim Prime Minister, newspapers said on Tuesday.
- No Al-Qaeda Or Taliban Leader In Pakistan: F (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 26, 2006)
Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam at a weekly briefing on Monday dismissed reports about the presence of Taliban leadership in Pakistan.
- More Stress On Positives (Dawn, Shahid Javed Burki, Sep 26, 2006)
I have written this article and the few that will follow in response to a request from a senior official of a development agency based in Washington.
- General Admits: Pak Army Fought Kargil, Aq Khan Helped Iran (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Sep 26, 2006)
There may still be differences over the extent to which Pakistani regulars were involved in the Kargil conflict but for the first time in seven years Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has admitted — in an effusive tone — that the Pakistan Army . . .
- Musharraf Book Says Manmohan Singh’S Sincerity Ebbing Away (Indian Express, LALIT K JHA, Sep 26, 2006)
In unusually frank words used by a serving head of state for an incumbent head of government, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that the initial sign of sincerity and flexibility that he sensed in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to . . .
- Coups: An Addiction To Power (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 26, 2006)
When Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin seized power in Thailand last week, he joined a long list of military leaders to have succumbed to the lure of the coup.
- Back To Square One (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 25, 2006)
Thailand's lightning military coup d'etat on September 19 against the government of Thaksin Shinawatra was unexpected but unsurprising.
- Air Unworthy (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 25, 2006)
So the government wants to create a clutch of world-class international airports on the lines of Schiphol, Changi and Dubai by the time the Commonwealth Games roll around in 2010.
- Let's Call A Spade A Spade (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 25, 2006)
The average Delhiite does not have a sparkling reputation and we all know it.
- It's A Very Warped View (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Sep 25, 2006)
Arnold Parzer, a very senior diplomat at the Royal Netherlands embassy in Delhi, recently told a Dutch newspaper that New Delhi is the most miserable place he had ever lived in.
- India Is Online But Most Indians Are Not (Hindu, C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR, Sep 25, 2006)
The diffusion of Internet technology in India can take one of two routes, one elite-oriented, the other democratic. The Government seems to want to promote the second but the minimum requirement for this is credible information.
- Musharraf And The Truth About Kargil (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Sep 25, 2006)
General Musharraf's account of the Kargil war is a feisty defence of Pakistan's military — but sits ill with well-established facts.
- An Incomplete Account Of A "Most Embarrassing Moment" (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
General Musharraf's memoirs assert Dr. A.Q. Khan was "self-centred," "abrasive," and greedy; that his proliferation was a "one-man act."
- Seize The Favourable Moment (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The recent Brussels statement of the co-chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference — Norway, the European Union, the United States, and Japan — announcing the "willingness" of the Mahinda Rajapaksa Government and the LTTE "to come to talks . . .
- Rain Hampers Search For Missing Nepal Chopper (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Heavy rain and fog over forested mountains in eastern Nepal hampered the search on Sunday for 24 people whose helicopter disappeared in the area a day earlier, officials said.
- ‘For A Safer City’ (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 25, 2006)
'Bangalore can be vibrant even without late nights. If you extend the deadline then the consumption of liquor also goes up. But may be on one day, it could be extended...’
- Nepal Copter Missing With 24 On Board (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
A private helicopter carrying 24 people including a junior minister and at least seven foreigners went missing in a remote region of eastern Nepal on Saturday, a conservation group and authorities said.
- Heart Of Terror (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Sep 25, 2006)
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in his address to the UN General Assembly on September 20, made it abundantly clear that US and NATO troops in Afghanistan would not be able to end attacks by Taliban militants unless steps were also taken to . . .
- Parliamentary Rhetoric (Tribune, Devi Cherian, Sep 25, 2006)
NOW that the Prime Minister, President and sundry Chief Ministers like Narendra Modi have had their say about the Mumbai blasts, it is now the turn of the MPs.
- South Asian Power Play (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
FOR decades now, New Delhi and Kathmandu have been talking about — and around — joint power projects in Nepal, which invariably get spooked by one obstacle or another.
- Cry Reform (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 25, 2006)
The recently concluded meeting of the IMF-World Bank in Singapore has been special in more ways than one. It was the first such meeting held in the region after the Asian crisis.
- Those Terrible Twins (Telegraph, GWYNNE DYER, Sep 25, 2006)
“I am afraid that with Jaroslaw Kaczynski as prime minister, Poland will become more extreme, more anti-European and a more xenophobic country”, warned Bronislaw Komorowski, a member of the opposition Civic Platform party, when the . . .
- A Zero For All The Effort (Telegraph, Shuma Raha, Sep 25, 2006)
“A woman can never be too rich or too thin,” the Duchess of Windsor had once remarked.
- Hide The Gap (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 25, 2006)
Corruption and inefficiency in India are crippling hundreds of children in the country and in the rest of the world. So far, the shameful rebuke, from the United Nations and the World Health Organization to India’s health bureaucrats, for . . .
- One Small Step (News International, Chris Cork, Sep 25, 2006)
Two books are shortly to hit the shelves in the world’s bookshops. One is by General Musharraf, and is called ‘In the line of fire’ — to be launched on his current tour of the wests’ best hotels, and the other which could well have had the . . .
- Russia Warns Against Iraq-Style ‘Proof’ In Iran Nuclear Standoff (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The United Nations must not rely on the kind of evidence used to justify slapping sanctions on Iraq ahead of the 2003 US-led invasion when considering Iran’s nuclear programme, Russia said Saturday.
- Washington Summit And Its Outcome (News International, Nasim Zehra, Sep 25, 2006)
Other elements of the relationship notwithstanding, for now the key defining factor of the Pakistan-US relationship is the tackling of the “terrorist threat,” which was yet again underscored at the Musharraf-Bush Washington summit.
- Delhi Invites Three Parties From Sri Lanka (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Sep 25, 2006)
For interaction to determine possible role for India in crisis resolution The invitation is believed to be part of the exercise by New Delhi for sustained interaction with Sri Lankan political parties.
- Now When World Oil Prices Have Slided! (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Sep 25, 2006)
AS the international oil prices have gone down considerably, the prices of gas will also hopefully come down.
- Be With Us Or Be Bombed (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 25, 2006)
Is it any surprise that the Bush administration issued crude threats to Pakistan immediately after 9/11? In his 368-page memoir, In The Line of Fire, which is being launched today, President Pervez Musharraf narrates how, on September 12, 2001, U.S. . . .
- Disinformation International? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Sep 25, 2006)
Transparency International’s Islamabad office has sent out a press note disputing a story in this paper about the results of a recent TI survey about perceptions of government corruption in Pakistan.
- Us-Pakistan Partnership (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Sep 25, 2006)
Reaffirming their firm commitment to a US-Pakistan strategic partnership, President George Bush and President Musharraf discussed on Friday issues relating to bilateral investment and trade arrangements — so far unresolved because of the differing . . .
- State Goes All Out To Woo Tourists To Mysore (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The multimedia campaign will be on throughout the year across the country
Campaign has been intensive in Bangalore
- General's Grand Theory Of `Enlightened Moderation' (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 25, 2006)
In his book, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Pakistan's military ruler locates his "out of the box" Kashmir solution within the larger context of having to respond to 9/11 and a vastly more violent and volatile post-9/11 world.
- Rs.140 Crore For Giving Facelift To Rural Delhi (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
Rural board to make 25 model villages in the run-up to Games
- Sri Lanka Says Sinks 11 Rebel Boats In Naval Clash (Reuters, Simon Gardner, Sep 25, 2006)
Sri Lanka's navy sank 11 Tamil Tiger vessels and killed dozens of rebels in a fierce five-hour battle overnight, the military said on Monday, a fortnight after the foes agreed to resume peace talks to halt renewed civil war.
- Rape Law Reform Lays Bare Pakistan's Political Morass (Reuters, SIMON CAMERON-MOORE, Sep 25, 2006)
The 24-year-old Pakistani woman has medical reports saying she's been raped. What she hasn't got is four male witnesses that the country's Islamic law says she needs to prove it.
- Manmohan In Havana (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Sep 25, 2006)
Upsetting Israel, meeting Fidel Ignoring for the moment the rabbit our PM pulled out of a hat with General Musharraf in Havana, we had some weeks ago asked in these pages whether the Dr Singh we would see at the NAM summit would be the old . . .
- Australia Says No Change In Uranium Ban For India (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
The Australian government said on Monday it was considering a new push by New Delhi to buy Australian uranium but it had not changed a policy that bans uranium sales to India.
- Pok Marks On Islamabad (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Sep 25, 2006)
There has always been an element of chutzpah in Islamabad’s relationship to ‘Azad’ Kashmir aka Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
- Is The Railways Turnaround For Real? (The Economic Times, SHANTI NARAIN, Sep 25, 2006)
A Review of the traditional efficiency, productivity and financial parameters shows a remarkable upswing in the fortunes of Indian Railways. Over the past two completed years revenue-earning tonnage increased by over 20%, freight tonne km by over . . .
- Musharraf Unveils His Kashmir Solution (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
His book, "In the Line of Fire," presents four elements of his "out of the box" idea .
- Imf Quota Shuffle: India's Missed Opportunities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
But no real setback as the world body's relevance is declining
It is the ad hocism and lack of transparency of IMF rather than its failure to win recognition by way of enhanced quotas that India and other COUNTRIES campaigned against and lost.
- Bluff And Bluster (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Sep 25, 2006)
Is too much being read into Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's belligerent posturing prior to his meeting with US President George W Bush in Washington, DC on Friday?
- Anti-Terror Pledge Is Musharraf's Final Chance: Pm (Times of India, BHASKAR ROY, Sep 25, 2006)
With the Havana formulation on a joint mechanism to monitor terrorism under fire, PM Manmohan Singh said on Sunday that India's approach to terrorism was unchanged and asserted that Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf had been given a final chance . . .
- Great Wall Of India (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 25, 2006)
Ports, as a revealing surrender earlier this year by US President George W. Bush to his Congress proved, can breed paranoia.
- Cops And Rubber Stamps (Indian Express, K P S Gill, Sep 25, 2006)
In recent months we have seen increasing focus on a succession of internal security crises. These have brought, sometimes sympathetic, attention to bear upon the capacities of the police force, and the conditions under which they work, over the past . . .
- ‘Our Young Country Needs New Jobs, And Sezs Are A Major Engine . . . (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 25, 2006)
Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I’m in a small factory in a special economic zone in NOIDA, on the outskirts of Delhi, and my guest today is one of the most visible faces of the UPA cabinet. Kamal Nath, welcome to Walk the Talk.
- Belgian Embassy Woman Murdered (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
In a gruesome murder at south Delhi's plush Vasant Vihar, a 47-year-old Belgian woman was stabbed 22 times with a kitchen knife allegedly by her driver after she had fired him for his reckless driving.
- Anti-Terror Pledge Is Musharraf's Final Chance: Pm (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
With the Havana formulation on a joint mechanism to monitor terrorism under fire, PM Manmohan Singh said on Sunday that India's approach to terrorism was unchanged and asserted that Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf had been given a final . . .
- Why Exclude Army From Security-Think? (Indian Express, Vijay Oberoi, Sep 25, 2006)
Let me start this piece with a statement that is certain to earn the ire of all military leaders of India.
- Fund-Bank Meet: Asia's Growth Is Sustainable (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Sep 25, 2006)
The high point of the recent annual Fund-Bank meet in Singapore was the endorsement by the World Economic Outlook that Asia's growth is sustainable and its recognition that a strong policy framework has been key in enabling the Asian success story.
- Fresh Setback To Doha Round (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Sep 25, 2006)
It is disappointing to note that the trend of progress in the Doha Round negotiations has been reversed once again, in the process strengthening the hands of those who have always held that the Doha Round (and perhaps also the WTO) is terminally ill.
- Agra: Thousands Of Dead Fish, Reptiles Discovered (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 25, 2006)
After thousands of dead sea horses, snakes, turtles, scorpions and alligator babies spilled out of formaline-filled containers at a godown in Agra, authorities have offered a Rs.10,000 reward for information on a man believed to be running . . .
- Muddled Thinking About Language (Business Line, S. Ramachander, Sep 25, 2006)
The Karnataka Government has just announced that it has shot itself in the foot.
- Sonia Rules Out Deputy Pm (Asian Age, Venkatesh Kesari , Sep 25, 2006)
Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi made it crystal clear here on Sunday that there would be no deputy prime minister in the UPA government.
- Glass Houses Are Fragile (Pioneer, Shailaja Chandra, Sep 25, 2006)
RTI has emerged as an effective tool to make governance transparent but it is misused by contractors and bidders. There should be a limit to complaints or else it will affect bureaucratic decision-making
- Cost Conundrums (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 25, 2006)
That full cost airlines are reporting losses is no surprise, given the mounting pressures to offer price discounts in a market that’s seeing intensified competition, coupled with the high costs of aviation turbine fuel and rising manpower costs . . .
- Fresh Print (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Cartoon, primarily is a media tool functioning in the realm of social science and politics. The social reality of the Westerner is simpler and straight forward in comparison to ours. Even a doctor in Houston will not have to encounter the . . .
- Kashmir Issue Has To Be Resolved Between India And Pakistan: Bush (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Making it clear that the issue of Kashmir has to be resolved between India and Pakistan, President George W Bush on Friday said US can only help create conditions for peace and cannot "force" nations to reach agreements.
- Indo-Pak Talks Should Never Break Down: Musharraf (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said the Indo-Pak dialogue process, which is going to resume soon, should never break down as result of any kind of terrorist activities as that would mean playing into the hands of terrorists.
- Nato Seeks To Widen Strategic Contacts (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Formed to contain the might of the erstwhile Soviet Union-led communist alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is now focussing its efforts to fight terrorism and was seeking to widen its "strategic contacts", including that with India.
- Polio Botch-Up Blame At Delhi Door (Telegraph, G.S. Mudur, Sep 24, 2006)
India’s health bureaucracy ignored scientific advice about flaws in the polio immunisation programme for nearly 20 years and suppressed research that might have led to faster eradication, doctors have said.
- In Quest Of Improving The Quality Of Life (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Sep 24, 2006)
One wonders why Indians rise like meteor, outshine others, when they go abroad; some of them emerge as prodigy in any sphere they choose.
- Turmoil In West Asia (Tribune, Shelley Walia, Sep 24, 2006)
The recent ceasefire followed by a missile attack on Lebanon by the Israeli air force unmistakably indicates a posturing that the western interests lie in finding no immediate solution for bringing the Israeli blitz to an end, but rather in . . .
- Man Who Made Pak Fall In Line (Times of India, Chidanand Rajghatta, Sep 24, 2006)
The man at the centre of the controversy over the threat to bomb Pakistan back to the stone age if it did not support the United States in the war on terrorism is often spoken as having sinews of steel and a heart of gold.
- Police Reform On Table: Bhardwaj (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Union Law Minister HR Bhardwaj said that the Government has completed the process of reforms to ensure that the police are free from political and other external influences. He also stated that the Centre would shortly hold a meeting of all . . .
- Baluchistan Uprising (New Indian Express, Swapan Dasgupta, Sep 24, 2006)
The extent to which the so-called ‘‘second War of Independence’’ in Baluchistan has been galvanised in the aftermath of the octogenarian Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s ‘‘martyrdom’’ on August 26 can be gleaned from three developments.
- Israel To Be Tech Partner For Awacs (Indian Express, Shiv Aroor, Sep 24, 2006)
Taking bilateral defence ties a step further, India is set to appoint Israel as the principal technical partner for the indigenous Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) programme being developed by DRDO.
- Oil’S Well Between Manmohan And Left (Indian Express, ANANDA MAJUMDAR, Sep 24, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken note of a positive offer from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of supplying oil to India at a stable price during a meeting the two leaders had in Havana, and suggested to Left leaders that relations with . . .
- ``No Paper Given To Musharraf'' (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Sep 24, 2006)
Authoritative sources in the Manmohan Singh establishment have denied reports that Prime Minister handed over any "non-paper" on Jammu and Kashmir to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf during their recent meeting in Havana.
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