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Articles 1521 through 1620 of 12768:
- Need For Debate On Defence Budget (Dawn, Talat Masood, Jun 05, 2006)
The demand for opening up the defence budget and giving more details of it to parliament has grown over the years.
- Loan Spending Priorities (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 05, 2006)
The $6.5 billion loan approved by the World Bank for Pakistan for spending on infrastructure building over the next four years has come with well-defined priorities laid down by the bank.
- Getting Out Of The Trap (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 05, 2006)
Whether or not it was the work of a suicide bomber, the result of Friday’s attack on an army convoy near Bakakhel was the death of five more soldiers.
- Pakistan Blames India (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jun 05, 2006)
We have had legitimate security concerns, says General Ehsan-ul-Haq
Islamabad "did not introduce nuclear weapons into South Asia"
JCSC did not name India "to maintain sanctity of summit atmosphere"
"Don't build CBMs on top of underlying Kashmir . .
- Tension Across Loc (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 05, 2006)
It’s difficult but life must go on. This old adage has come true in the case of "Azad" Kashmir as the occupied territory across the Line of Control is locally known.
- Pakistan’S Allies~ii (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Jun 05, 2006)
The budding US-China détente brokered by Pakistan came into full bloom here. NBC News on 7 January 1980 said “for the first time in history (a senior State Department . . .
- Before Pervez, Karamat Had Thought Of A Coup (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the US and former army chief Jahangir Karamat has said he could have overthrown former premier Nawaz Sharif's government but decided against it as he felt it was not in "national interest" to topple a democratically . . .
- Bjp To Hold Satyagraha Against Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
BJP would organise an eight-day long nation-wide Satyagraha from June 7 to protest the spurt in terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir and "expose the UPA Government’s failure" to check the growing menace.
- Securing Ties (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 05, 2006)
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s three-nation tour to Japan, China and Singapore is not merely a symbolic exercise or the usual summer tour.
- With Tears And Roses, Kashmiri Hindus Pray For Return (Reuters, Sheikh Mushtaq, Jun 05, 2006)
Thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, who fled an Islamic insurgency in the Himalayan state years ago, gathered on Sunday at a holy shrine in the strife-torn region to pray for an early return to their homes.
- 'Nri' Part Of Plot To Blow Up Canadian Parliament (Hindustan Times, S Rajagopalan, Jun 05, 2006)
One of the 17 suspects rounded up by Canadian authorities while uncovering the country's first major terrorist bomb plot goes by the name Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur.
- Dawood Reach In Consulate (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 05, 2006)
The United States has designated India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and his organisation as drug traffickers under the Kingpin Act. But this will have little effect in the Mumbai bomb blast mastermind’s former hunting grounds.
- Murli Deora To Attend Sco Summit (Hindu, Amit Baruah, Jun 04, 2006)
India has observer status in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
- This Way To Paradise (Hindu, PALLAVI AIYAR, Jun 04, 2006)
As tourism brings in the dollars, Shangri-La is discovering anew the value of its Tibetan heritage.
This is Shangri-La. Given the visceral punch of the area's beauty, this is one marketing ploy that's easy to fall for.
- Pakistani Christians Hail "Code" Decision (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Jun 04, 2006)
Pakistan on Saturday banned cinemas from showing the movie ``The Da Vinci Code'' following protests by the minority Christian community.
- Aesthetics Of Resistance (Hindu, M. ASADUDDIN, Jun 04, 2006)
Anthems chronicles the achievements of the Urdu Progressive Writers' Movement.
- Talks On Siachen Not Dialogue Of The Deaf: Pak Defence Secy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Jun 04, 2006)
Pakistan Defence Secretary Lt-Gen Tariq Waseem Ghazi (retd) visited New Delhi for the tenth round of Defence Secretary-level India-Pakistan talks on Siachen and Sir Creek. He agreed for an interview but could not find time. On his return to Islamabad . .
- Rumsfeld Warns China On Defence Modernisation (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Jun 04, 2006)
Musharraf "key ally" in war against terror
- Taliban-Ii More Lethal (Pioneer, B Raman, Jun 04, 2006)
Afghanistan continues to boil in the jihadi cauldron while Pakistan stokes the fire below ---- The upsurge in violence - partly conventional strikes, partly acts of terrorism - which one has been seeing in southern and eastern Afghanistan since the . . .
- Demilitarisation Of Siachen (Tribune, Maj-Gen Ashok K. Mehta (retd), Jun 04, 2006)
The Siachen breakthrough did not materialise. We are closer to resolving any of the other outstanding issues with Pakistan.
- Successes And Failures (OutLook, B. Raman , Jun 04, 2006)
Every time the State denies a tactical victory to the terrorists, it takes one step forward for achieving a strategic victory over terrorism. That is the way to look at the foiled terrorist attack on RSS headquarters at Nagpur.
- Pakistan, India Dialogue Process In A State Of Impasse: Shujaat (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2006)
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that the composite dialogue process between Pakistan and India has gone into a state of impasse, Geo television reported.
- President’S Re-Election: Legal Aspects (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 04, 2006)
It may be recalled that the last general elections in Pakistan were held during the fourth quarter of the year 2002.
- 35 Die In Afghan Unrest As District Retaken (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2006)
Nearly 35 Taliban rebels were killed in the latest strikes in Afghanistan as Afghan and coalition troops took back a district that had been in rebel hands for days, officials said.
- Our Pattern Of Budget-Making (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 04, 2006)
Successive governments in Pakistan have tended to use the annual budgets to gain political mileage rather than promote any particular economic plan or strategy.
- Pakistan Not In Arms Race: Pm (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 04, 2006)
Pakistan is a peaceful country and its defence doctrine is based on minimum credible deterrence for maintaining peace in the region, according to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
- Combined Arms Warfare Vs Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Jun 04, 2006)
The series of killings by terrorists before and during the roundtable conference called by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Jammu and Kashmir and the military exercises conducted by the Indian armed forces to hone combined operations techniques . . .
- Choices Are With The Community (Tribune, Kiran Bedi, Jun 04, 2006)
Most of my air travels are by national carrier. This time, as the flight timing suited the commitment I had, I decided to travel by one of new-non-national airline.
- In A New Light (Hindu, A.J. THOMAS, Jun 04, 2006)
"I would not be surprised if this novel turns out to be his magnum opus eventually."
- Who Needs Checks & Balances? (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jun 04, 2006)
That’s what our politicians, left and right, seem to be saying as they take on the Election Commission, the SC, and now the President
- Pakistan’S Allies~i (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Jun 04, 2006)
From the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar creating the State of Jammu & Kashmir until the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Britain and later the USA becoming increasingly interested in the subcontinent’s Northwest.
- Disquiet On The Western Front (Pioneer, Kanchan Lakshman, Jun 04, 2006)
The biggest problem for the Hamid Karzai regime is that it does not have any control over regions bordering Pakistan, the hotbed of terrorism. Worse, Musharraf would rather aggravate insurgency ---- President Pervez Musharraf said after talks with . . .
- ‘No Politician’ Pm (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Jun 03, 2006)
Remember Manmohan Singh, the man of impeccable credentials, of utmost humility, a do-gooder who will do no wrong, not knowingly, his admirers will tell you.
- Siachen Is Strategically Important (Daily Excelsior, J N Raina, Jun 03, 2006)
India will be deluding itself if it feels sanguine that Siachen conflict will be negotiated with Pakistan amicably.
- Demerits Of Demilitarisation (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Jun 03, 2006)
If Pak violates the agreement it implies an end to peace process, not affordable diplomatically or militarily
- Stability Depends On Cmp Implementation: Mufti (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Although he does not foresee any immediate threat to the Government headed by Ghulam Nabi Azad, patron of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and former Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed today, however, observed that stability of Congress-PDP . . .
- Picturing Pakistan (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Jun 03, 2006)
A book explains why Pakistan goes back and forth between democracy and military dictatorship.
- Dr Ghamdi Is Right, Mr Aziz Is Wrong (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
On Wednesday, at the National Education Conference in Islamabad, we heard an interesting argument.
- Benazir, Nawaz Discuss Govt’S ‘Overtures’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif met in Dubai on Friday and discussed the prevailing political situation in Pakistan, particularly after the May 14 signing of the Charter of . . .
- Dealing With Drug Menace (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 03, 2006)
A number of speakers at a recent seminar in Karachi stressed the role of the media in creating awareness about drug abuse in the country.
- Disquiet On The Western Front (Pioneer, Kanchan Lakshman, Jun 03, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf said after talks with visiting Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in Islamabad on February 15 that terrorism was a common enemy and the two countries had to combat it together.
- "There Is A Very Deep-Rooted Prejudice" (Hindu, Siddharth Narrain , Jun 03, 2006)
Anuradha Mohit, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Special Rapporteur on Disability, says the academic sector has been the most insensitive in affirmative action for the disabled.
- U.S. Action Against Dawood Overdue: Cbi (Hindu, VINAY KUMAR, Jun 03, 2006)
Pakistan under pressure: CBI chief
Pakistan flouting U.N. resolution against sheltering "global terrorists," says former Director of Intelligence Bureau
Dawood should not be given shelter, should be deported immediately, he says
- India To Host Ipi Pipeline Talks To Break Impasse (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
India will host the next round of secretary-level talks on the Iran pipeline on July 3 with no consensus having emerged during the Islamabad trilateral meeting last month on the gas price and project framework.
- Too Much Reliance On Speedster Shoaib (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 03, 2006)
Shoaib Akhtar, the fastest bowler of the country, out of action since January following surgery on both knees, twisted an ankle last week and has been told to rest.
- Will India Run Aground Or Muddle Through? (The Financial Express, V ANANTHA NAGESWARAN, Jun 03, 2006)
Either way, India’s future seems flawed; eternal optimists should tone down expectations from it.
- Panel Wants Nuke States To Ratify Ctbt (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 03, 2006)
An independent commission seeking ways to end the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction has recommended that all nuclear weapon states, including India, Pakistan, USA and China, ratify the CTBT which prohibits all nuclear weapon testing.
- Ppp, Mma Strike Seat Deal For Ajk Election (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The People’s Party Parliamentarians and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have reached a seat adjustment agreement for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council elections to be held on July 11.
- Indo-Pak Talks On Friendly Exchanges Begin (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Thursday started parleys at secretary-level meeting on promotion of friendly exchange under the third round of Composite Dialogue.
- World Bank Comes Up With Lending Prog For Pakistan (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
The World Bank has come up with a flexible three-year USD 6.5 billion lending programme for Pakistan beginning 2006 with a view to helping the country achieve its development goals.
- Manmohan, Patil Condemn Terrorist Bid (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 02, 2006)
Soft policies of the government encouraging militancy, say BJP leaders Advani and Rajnath Singh
Remain united, Manmohan tells nation
Government will defeat terrorist designs: Patil
- Opting Out Of The System? (Dawn, Tahir Mirza, Jun 02, 2006)
When you retire after almost 50 years in active journalism, are you also in some way perhaps opting out of the whole system in which you have been involved, have written about and reported on?
- Gujarat Communalised (Deccan Herald, Kuldip Nayar, Jun 02, 2006)
The BJP attempted to make Gujarat chauvinism synonymous with Hindutva for better poll prospects
- National Assembly, Senate Begin Stormy Budget Sessions Today (Dawn, Raja Asghar, Jun 02, 2006)
Both houses of parliament will meet on Friday to begin what are likely to be tense budget sessions that will be keenly watched for government-promised relief in the face of one of the severest price hikes prevailing in the country.
- Who Killed Munir Sangi? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 02, 2006)
International media watchdog organisations are correct in asking the Pakistan government to investigate the death of a TV cameraman, Munir Sangi, who was shot dead on Monday while covering clashes in Larkana.
- Ib Harassment Of Newspapermen (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 02, 2006)
Pakistan and India have been engaged in a peace process since January 2004; top officials on the two sides meet regularly and promise to enhance people-to-people contact; they are talking about trade and other exchanges and so on.
- Jihadis Hit Again (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 02, 2006)
There is no denying the fact that had the terrorists who set out on Thursday morning to blow up the RSS headquarters in Nagpur succeeded in their mission, jihadis both in India and abroad would have celebrated while the Government and its security . . .
- Opening Doors To Islamists (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jun 02, 2006)
After sealing the fate of Indian academics with 27 per cent reservation, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is off on a nine-day trip to the Gulf to explore possibilities of cooperation in academics between the two countries.
- Sudan Is The Most Failed (Deccan Herald, MICHAEL JANSEN, Jun 02, 2006)
The recently released annual global “failed states index” covered 146 states from all continents. Each country was scored from one to ten according to a dozen criteria and was ranked according to its score. Those scoring highest were rated the most . . .
- Why Pakistan Should Look At Nigeria, Nepal (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Jun 02, 2006)
Recent developments in Nepal and Nigeria offer an example for Pakistan on how to overcome entrenched authoritarian structures through popular mobilisation and thoughtful political action.
- Salahuddin Rejects Singh’S ‘Come Home’ Call (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
The Pakistan-based commander of Kashmir’s biggest militant group rejected on Wednesday an appeal by India’s prime minister for militants to return to their homes, saying New Delhi must first leave the territory.
- New Delhi Submits List Of 35 Wanted Fugitives To Islamabad (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 01, 2006)
Home Secretary-level talks represented a sincere commitment to resolve all issues"
Islamabad has agreed to go through the wanted list with all its seriousness
Pakistan handed over a list of 58 fugitives it wants traced by India
- Pakistan Blocks Full Nam Support For Afghan Moves To Curb Taliban (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
An objection from Pakistan has prevented the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) from throwing its full support behind Afghanistan’s efforts to prevent former Taliban from taking refuge in neighbouring countries.
- The Stock Market Slump (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 01, 2006)
A report carried in Wednesday’s Dawn says that a hefty amount of Rs600 billion has been wiped out by plummeting share prices and falling KSE-100 index between April 17 and May 30.
- Pakistan And India To Trade 500 Prisoners (Daily Times, Shahzad Raza, Jun 01, 2006)
Pakistan and India agreed on Wednesday to exchange 500 civilian prisoners and fishermen by June 30, 2006 during the third round of Pak-India secretary-level talks on terrorism, drug trafficking and civilian prisoners.
- Reversing The Drop-Out Trend (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 01, 2006)
Just how elusive the goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015 proved to be for Pakistan was underscored by Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi the other day when he admitted that 45 per cent of students drop out of school at some stage.
- Indian Civilians In Pak Jails To Be Freed By June-End (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Indian civilians, including fishermen, in Pakistani jails who have completed their sentence will be released by June 30. India will do the same with Pakistani civilians who have completed their term.
- An Unrealistic Deadline For Indus Dams (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 01, 2006)
The ground-breaking of the Diamer-Basha dam performed by President General Pervez Musharraf on April 26 caused my memory to recall the ground-breaking for the construction of the Tarbela Dam performed nearly 38 years ago on November 4, 1968 by the . . .
- Indo-Pak Vow To End Terrorism (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
On a day that a tourist bus was attacked by militants in Srinagar, the home secretaries of India and Pakistan today iterated the need for “effective” steps to eliminate terrorism.
- Credit It To ‘‘Condi’’ Law Makers (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 01, 2006)
After all that was said and done by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George Bush last month, the real person who is pushing the nuclear deal is Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
- Pak Assures Complete Elimination Of Terrorism (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Pakistan today assured India of working towards "complete elimination" of terrorism and fighting the menace in all its forms and manifestations.
- J&k Terrorist Groups Finding New Recruits (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 01, 2006)
Maharashtra, Gujarat residents training with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
Resident of Maharashtra village killed in encounter in J&K
Was most likely being trained on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba
Hizb may be seeking to enhance its own pan-India capabilities
- India-Us Economic Relations On A High (Business Line, S. Majumder , Jun 01, 2006)
Given the instances of bounce-back of the US interests in India, it would not be over-optimistic to foresee a paradigm shift in the relations between the two countries. With China figuring as the hot topic of debate in board rooms of several . . .
- Kashmir Rebel Chief Rejects Indian "Come Home" Call (Reuters, Kamran Haider, Jun 01, 2006)
The Pakistan-based commander of Kashmir's biggest guerrilla group rejected on Wednesday an appeal by India's prime minister for militants to return to their homes, saying New Delhi must first leave the territory.
- Five Years After (OutLook, B. Raman , Jun 01, 2006)
Large sections of the people of Kabul, who had welcomed the entry of the Northern Alliance and US troops into Kabul in 2001 with flowers, song and dance, shouted the most abusive slogans against the US and Mr Karzai on May 29, 2006. What gives?
- Valley Of Rising Expectations (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Jun 01, 2006)
The Roundtable Conference has provided the Kashmiris with an opportunity to suggest sustainable self-rule, says Ghazanfur Butt
- Pranab, Wen Review Boundary Issue (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 01, 2006)
Efforts to find a political settlement to the vexed Sino-Indian boundary dispute by their Special Representatives were reviewed during a meeting between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, official sources . . .
- Fears Of Senator Prof Khurshid (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 01, 2006)
Senator Khurshid Ahmed has said that Dr A Q Khan has been further isolated and even his daughter is not being allowed to meet him.
- Pak-Uae Ties Scaling New Heights (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 01, 2006)
Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, who came to Pakistan for the first time in his present capacity, stayed here for a few hours but his visit has brought the two countries still closer in different sectors.
- Is The Indo-Pak Nuke Deal In Trouble? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jun 01, 2006)
Delhi wants watertight assurances from Washington that the nuclear fuel it agrees to supply for India's civil reactors will never be suspended for political reasons
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