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Articles 3321 through 3420 of 12768:
- Us Submits Nuclear Proposal To Congress (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
The Bush administration has already submitted a proposal to the US Congress, seeking to amend the laws for enabling India to acquire nuclear technology from the United States while a senior State Department official said he was . . .
- Us-India Nuclear Deal Not A Military Agreement: Boucher (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Mar 11, 2006)
Richard Boucher, the new head of South and Central Asia at the State Department, said on Thursday that the nuclear deal with India was “not a military agreement,” but one meant to “provide a clearly-demarcated, permanently . . .
- Another Shameful Day In The Life Of Lahore (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 11, 2006)
Until two days ago the Punjab government was insisting that Basant would be celebrated come hell or high water.
- Indian Left Has Little Hope For Iran Gas (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Mar 11, 2006)
As Indian officials braced to participate in next week’s crucial tripartite meeting with Iran and Pakistan to specifically discuss the price of gas that Tehran would supply, India’s leftist parties on Thursday expressed the fear . . .
- Playing With Fire In U.P. (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 11, 2006)
The last thing the boiling political cauldron of Uttar Pradesh needed was for the temple town of Varanasi to be hit by Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.
- Anatomy Of A Partnership (International Herald Tribune, Henry A. Kissinger, Mar 11, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India has brought relations between the United States and India to an unprecedented level of cooperation and interdependence.
- Balochistan Imbroglio (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 11, 2006)
AS violence between the security forces and local population has escalated in Balochistan the acts of terror and sabotage have almost become a daily occurrence. On Friday 26 people were killed and seven injured when a vehicle carrying a wedding . . .
- Yes, Minimum Deterrence Is A Must (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 11, 2006)
The address of President Pervez Musharraf at the inauguration of Centre of Excellence of NESCOM was mainly devoted to his vision of relations with India with focus on economic defence but he also vowed on the occasion to maintain a credible . . .
- Finally, General Says Kashmir Bilateral Issue (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
After the US publicly rejected its request for facilitation on the Kashmir problem, Pakistan today changed its decades-old stance, with President Pervez Musharraf saying the issue was a bilateral matter and he did not want it to become multilateral.
- Basant Cancelled Under Mullah Pressure (Daily Times, Khawaja Naseer, Mar 10, 2006)
The Punjab government buckled under pressure from religious parties on Thursday and imposed an immediate ban on kite flying in the province, effectively cancelling the Basant festival.
- Bush ‘Made Fatal Error’ By Signing N-Deal With India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
A leading nuclear and security expert has said that the deal signed by President George Bush in New Delhi “endorses and assists India’s nuclear weapons programme”.
- Mush Claims Bush Visit 'Extremely Successful' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said the visit of US President George W Bush to Pakistan was "extremely successful" in discussing issues like Kashmir, acquisition of F-16 fighter jets at cheaper cost and meeting Islamabad's defence . . .
- Critical Need For Consensus On Economic Issues (The Financial Express, SUMANT SINHA, Mar 10, 2006)
In my article at the same time last year, I called that year’s Budget a “deliberately non-dramatic” one. That same description could very well be applied to this year’s Budget. And in this lies a pattern.
- Positive Fallout (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Mar 10, 2006)
The US President, Mr George Bush's public denial of a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistan has led to a positive development that escaped many.
- Pak Sc Upholds Death Sentence To Sarbjit (Tribune, Varinder Walia, Mar 10, 2006)
Even as the Double Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has upheld the death sentence of Sarbjit Singh, alias Manjit Singh, his wife Sukhpreet Kaur
and sister Dalbir Kaur today sought immediate intervention of . . .
- Pak Apex Court Rejects Sarabjit's Plea (Times of India, Yudhvir Rana, Mar 10, 2006)
Sarabjit Singh's fate now lies in the hands of Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. In what has come as shocking news to Singh's family in Amritsar, the Pakistan supreme court on Thursday rejected his review petition.
- ‘Us Deal Won’T Stop India’S N-Arms Programme’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 10, 2006)
While most legislators at this time are keeping their options open, a flavour of the brewing opposition was evident from earlier television testimony by Congressman Hunter who appeared on ABC’s This Week talk show.
- Going Beyond Separation (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 10, 2006)
By making public the Government's plan for separating the civilian and military components of the India's nuclear energy programme, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has allayed many of the fears expressed inside and outside Parliament about the . . .
- New Logic For New India (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 10, 2006)
Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating t
- Bush - The Controversial (Daily Excelsior, Tanveer Jafri, Mar 10, 2006)
The president of United States of America, George w. Bush (2) may consider himself the most powerful and the best statesman of the world but in reality he stands at the top of the list of controversial leaders.
- House Adjourned For 2nd Day Without Any Business (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
The National Conference today forced adjournment of the Legislative Assembly without transaction of any business including discussion on the budget for second day today sticking to their demand for constitution of a House Committee . . .
- Fight It Out (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Mar 10, 2006)
It is just a coincidence that the reopening of educational institutions in the Valley has coincided with step-up in militant violence.
- Us Compulsion Brings (Daily Excelsior, R.S. Rangachary, Mar 10, 2006)
The self-appointed head prefect of the world has rewarded a bad boy of the class.
- Sabotaging The Soft Image (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
IT was disturbing to see the police lathi-charge a woman's rally organized by an NGO in Lahore on Wednesday to observe the International Women's Day.
- Pak Economic Superiority To Beat India: Musharraf (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday said Pakistan would get an edge over India by achieving economic superiority rather than indulging in an arms race.
- Rejecting Indian Claim (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
THE Indian government's opposition to the site of the Diamir-Bhasha Dam on the plea that it would not only infringe on its territory but also inundate large parts of northern Kashmir has been met with a firm rebuttal by Pakistan.
- The Great Deception (Statesman, D BANDYOPADHYAY, Mar 10, 2006)
Sunanda Sanyal’s “Fake ration cards” (28 February-1 March) is an eye-opener on the fraud perpetrated on genuine electors in West Bengal.
- Pakistan To Enhance Deterrence Capability (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Mar 10, 2006)
Indo-US nuclear deal and the subsequent alteration in strategic balance in South Asia has compelled Pakistan to expand its nuclear threshold and to enhance its detterence capability.
- Market Crash (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
Just as the government was taking solace in the capital market emerging as one of the world's best performing in the wake of the Finance Ministry's mid-year review that found faults with almost every other sector of the economy, it lost . . .
- Iran’S Nuclear Standoff And Pakistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 10, 2006)
With the United States nudging the International Atomic Energy Agency at every step, the IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has transmitted his report on Iran’s nuclear programme to the UN Security Council at the close of the Agency’s . . .
- Centcom Chief’S Assertion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 10, 2006)
The Karzai government must have been deeply disappointed by Gen. John Abizaid’s remarks in Islamabad on Wednesday.
- Why The Federation Is At Odds With Provinces? (Dawn, Zamir Ghumro, Mar 10, 2006)
Against the backdrop of a raging controversy and widespread protests in the country in general and in Sindh in particular over the construction of mega dams, the federal cabinet decided on January 1 to revive the Council of Common Interests under . . .
- It’S Actually The United States (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
The current row over militants’ movement across the Durand Line was discussed at a meeting between President Gen Pervez Musharraf and US CENTCOM chief Gen John Abizaid in Rawalpindi on Wednesday. Gen Musharraf is understood to have called for . . .
- Kashmir Involves India & Pakistan: Cbms Progressing: Musharraf (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that the issue of Kashmir was a bilateral matter involving Pakistan and India and neither party wanted it to become a trilateral or multilateral issue.
- Musharraf Says No Compromise On Deterrence (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf Thursday said that Pakistan is not into an arms race in the region but will never compromise on its strategy of defensive deterrence to safeguard its sovereignty
- Pak-Afghan Tension (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 10, 2006)
That the main issue during talks between General Musharraf and CENTCOM Commander Gen John Abizaid was the situation on Pakistan's western border indicates that differences between Pakistan and Afghanistan have reached a point where a third . . .
- Fast-Paced Development In Fata (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 10, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that additional funds will be made available for fast track development in the Tribal Areas. Talking to Tribal Maliks and elders, who called on him in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, he said that the Government . . .
- Horse-Trading And Legitimacy Of The Senate (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 09, 2006)
Appearing on a TV channel on Tuesday, opposition politicians complained of the buying and selling of votes in the provincial assemblies on the occasion of elections to the Senate on March 6, 2006.
- Blasts In Varanasi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 09, 2006)
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the three blasts in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi on Tuesday, but whosoever carried out this dastardly act deserves to be condemned.
- Shaukat’S Principled Stand On Iran (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan is opposed to military action against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme and called for diplomatic solution to the crisis over Iran’s uranium enrichment issue.
- Ard’S Undemocratic Demand (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 09, 2006)
Opposition parties’ conglomeration ARD has said that it will not accept elections under the present set-up and demanded formation of national or caretaker government to hold free, fair, transparent and honest polls.
- Easy Targets (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
The terrorist attack in Varanasi (including one on an important Hanuman temple on Tuesday, in which about 15 people died) does not leave much room for doubt that these attacks follow a pattern.
- Power Moves In Asia (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Mar 09, 2006)
The US pursues goals of nuclear non-proliferation and counter terrorism in South Asia
- Correct Approach (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
While talking to BBC Television at London on Tuesday, Mr Aziz has reiterated Pakistan’s stand on tackling the issue of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme that the West, mainly the US, wants wound up, suspecting it to be weapons-oriented, . . .
- A New South Asian Order In The Making (Dawn, Sherry Rehman, Mar 09, 2006)
Despite the concessions made by Pervez Musharraf for Washington, President Bush’s approach to South Asia indicates very clearly a major shift in US policy, refracted most sharply by his visit to the region.
- Pak Rejects Indian Protest On Construction Of Basha Dam (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan today rejected India's assertion that the construction of Bhasha Dam in Northern Areas would inundate large parts of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the dam was being built for welfare of the people of the area.
- Pleasures Of Separation (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 09, 2006)
The formal outline of the nuclear separation plan presented before Parliament seems to have been designed to keep virtually everyone happy.
- Musharraf Wants More Security On Afghan Border (Daily Times, Rana Qaisar, Mar 09, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday told US Central Command (Centcom) chief General John P Abizaid that there was an urgent need to reinforce security on the Afghan side of the border to stop “miscreants” sneaking into Pakistan’s tribal areas.
- Bush Visit To South Asia (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 09, 2006)
Some change in US thinking on Pakistan
NEVER before has the visit of an American President to South Asia created such a political storm as the recent one by President George W. Bush to Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
- Let Ultra Shot As Cops Probe Varanasi Blasts (Tribune, Shahira Naim, Mar 09, 2006)
Even after 24 hours the Special Task Force entrusted to crack the Varanasi serial blasts killing about 20 and injuring 100 could claim only leads.
- Indo-Us N-Deal: Good Or Bad? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
India tested nuclear bombs in 1974 and has remained outside the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since then.
- Pakistan Rejects Indian Protest Over Bhasha Dam (News International, Khalid Mustafa, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected the Indian protest against construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam saying it is building the reservoir within its water resources management policy.
- Remembering Golwalkar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 09, 2006)
Underplaying the big ticket items of the last week — Budget and Bush visit —the latest Organiser chooses to focus on the ‘‘scintillating launch’’ of the centenary celebrations of the second sarsanghchalak and premier ideologue of the RSS, M.S. Golwalkar.
- Pentagon Lauds Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 09, 2006)
The U.S. has said Pakistan's role is "critical" and "key" in matters concerning fighting the war on terror, securing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and instilling peace in the South Asian region.
- Pieces In Terror Jigsaw, Two Top Lashkar Men Shot In Up, Delhi (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Mar 09, 2006)
Within hours of the terror strike in Varanasi, two top-ranking Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were killed by the police in Lucknow and Delhi.
- In Islamabad, On A Turning Wicket (Indian Express, Husain Haqqani, Mar 09, 2006)
Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says Pakistan should not define its interests solely in terms of competing with a much larger neighbour, says HUSAIN HAQQANI
- Indo-Us N-Deal: Good Or Bad? (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
India tested nuclear bombs in 1974 and has remained outside the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) since then. US laws prohibit the export of nuclear technology to countries who have not signed NPT.
- N-Deal Doesn’T Recognise India As Nuclear Weapon State, Says Burns (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
The US has made it clear that the Indo-US nuclear deal does not amount to recognition of India as a nuclear weapon state.
- Kashmir Settlement Needs Sincerity: Cm (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Winding up the discussion on the resolution regarding roundtable conference in Legislative Council today, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said that persuasion of emotional slogans and beating about the bush, to led astray the people, who have shun . . .
- Angry Musharraf Is Bad News For Karzai (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 08, 2006)
The exiles, who do not want to be named, have taken their cue from Musharraf’s extraordinary and unseemly outburst on CNN last Sunday when he accused President Karzai of being “totally oblivious of what is happening in his own country”.
- Us And Uk Can Only Support Efforts To Resolve Kashmir: Blair (Press Trust of India, H S RAO, Mar 08, 2006)
Britain has said that Washington and London could only support the efforts of India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue.
- Low-Intensity War In Balochistan (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Mar 08, 2006)
"Don't push us," President Pervez Musharraf warned in January last year, after an attack by Baloch insurgents on a gas refinery in Sui disrupted steel and fertiliser production across Pakistan for more than a month.
- Tackling Al-Qaeda (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Mar 08, 2006)
Over four years have passed since 9/11. According to dependable intelligence sources Osama bin Laden throughout this period remained holed up in the tribal belt that lies between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Breaking The Mould? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 08, 2006)
Among the points raised by President Pervez Musharraf during his talk with editors on Monday and earlier in his CNN interview was his criticism of the ‘India-centric’ attitude in Pakistan.
- Self-Correction Is In National Interest Now (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 08, 2006)
In his meeting with the editors of Pakistan’s leading newspapers and electronic media on Monday, President Pervez Musharraf used the word “Indiacentric” to describe a foreign policy stance that he intends to shun in the future.
- Iaea Meets Amid Rift Over Iranian Nuclear Programme (The Nation, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Iran will not agree to a compromise over its nuclear programme that involves suspending full-scale uranium enrichment for any longer than two years, a diplomat told AFP Tuesday.
- Pakistan To Pursue Pipeline With Or Without India: Pm (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Says Pakistan will oppose military action against Iran
- The Indian Factor Mma’S Ajk Chapter Formed (Daily Times, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mar 08, 2006)
“The US does not oppose a natural gas pipeline from Iran. Our beef with Iran is not the pipeline; our beef with Iran is the fact that they want to develop a nuclear weapon.”
- Pakistan And India Agree To Expand Air Service Agreement (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 08, 2006)
Pakistan and India have agreed to expand the scope of the existing air service agreement between them.
- Bush Visit To Pakistan, India May Have Done Harm: Nyt (Dawn, Masood Haider, Mar 08, 2006)
Saying that President Bush’s visit to “Pakistan and India may have done real harm”, the New York Times chided Mr Bush for “sticking” President Musharraf with the unwelcome task of explaining to Pakistanis why his friend and ally, Mr Bush, had . . .
- Was Gandhi Hindu? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 08, 2006)
Gandhiji was born of Hindu parents and was cremated by Hindu rites; but was he Hindu in any narrow sense? India has had an assassinated former prime minister born of a Zoroastrian father who was also cremated by Hindu rites.
- Side Trips On A Visit To India (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Mar 08, 2006)
More than four years after a US-led invasion force delivered to Afghanistan the gifts of freedom and democracy, the man behind the enterprise finally plucked up the courage for a quick trip to Kabul.
- India: An Emerging Power — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Mar 07, 2006)
In material terms, India has embarked, in a very determined way, upon the path taken by Japan and Germany after World War II to find their fortune in world affairs by developing their industrial strength and technological base.
- General Musharraf’S Salvo On Afghanistan (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 07, 2006)
On the touchstone of newsworthiness, the US cable news channel CNN could not have caught General Pervez Musharraf for an interview at a more opportune time.
- Us ‘Trapped’ India Into Signing Nuclear Deal: Rashid (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid has said India has been "trapped" by the US into signing a nuclear deal and that the deal will not effect Pakistan.
- Talks With Bush Positive: Musharraf (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 07, 2006)
President not for judging outcome of the visit through an "Indo-centric approach"
- Avoid Too Many Fronts (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 07, 2006)
AT least 46 militants and five Pakistani soldiers were killed in one of the heaviest clashes in North Waziristan Agency. It’s reported that fighting erupted Saturday afternoon when the militants occupied some government buildings in Miranshah . . .
- Pm For Acceptable Iran Nuke Solution (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Hours before the crucial IAEA meeting on Iran, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday tried to assuage the Left by saying that he did not favour sanctions against Tehran nor participation in any effort towards a regime change in that country.
- Indo-Pak Talks Schedule Announced (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Pakistan on Monday announced the dates for the third round of talks with India on various subjects.
- Shaukat, Blair Discuss Trade, Kashmir And Terrorism (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had extensive talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair here on Monday on terrorism, Kashmir, Afghanistan and means to spur trade relations between the two countries.
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