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Articles 8021 through 8120 of 12768:
- What Chance Ipi? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
Reports emanating from Islamabad suggest that Pakistan, Iran and India are expected to start trilateral negotiations on the IPI gas pipeline by November.
- Derailment At Malir (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 23, 2005)
Mercifully, the goods train derailment on Sunday at Malir in Karachi was not a catastrophic event like the July triple train collision in which over 150 people had died.
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (Telegraph, PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, Aug 23, 2005)
Image is all and hand-pulled rickshaws must go. But, asks Parimal Bhattacharya, what of the other sordid sights that Calcuttans must live with?
- Militancy Has Come Down In Valley, Says General (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Claiming that over 1500 militants were operating in Jammu and Kashmir, Lieut-Gen Hari Prasad, GOC-in-C, Northern Command, here today said that the level of militancy had drastically reduced by 50 per cent.
- Killed In The Line Of Duty (Dawn, Anwer Mooraj, Aug 22, 2005)
An American newspaperman once wrote that a reader can’t acquire complete knowledge of a happening, unless the report is accompanied by an illustration
- Vajpayee Reopens Jinnah Row (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 22, 2005)
Former prime minister A B Vajpayee has reopened the Jinnah controversy by praising the Pakistan founder for his secular outlook and obliquely approving the line BJP President L K Advani had taken.
- True Islam Or Islamic Formalism? (Dawn, Mansoor Alam, Aug 22, 2005)
Bernard Lewis, a western scholar of Islam recently wrote a book with the title “What went wrong?”
- Revitalising Micro-Finance Sector (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 22, 2005)
The concept of micro-financing has gained currency in the country providing a base for its expansion in the years ahead. The performance record of the sector reveals that the number of beneficiaries of the micro-financing facility has more than doubled in
- Orthodoxy Unveiled (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 22, 2005)
IT is unfortunate that immediately after the Supreme Court took cognizance of a petition against the practice of issuing “fatwa”, the authorities of Darul-Uloom, Deoband, have come out with one making wearing of veils mandatory for Muslim women entering p
- Power Play In Central Asia (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Aug 22, 2005)
While most of the world, and especially local analysts like us, have remained focused (for understandable reasons)
- The West And Asia's Perceived Dominance (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Aug 22, 2005)
Many observers of the global economy have noticed the rising importance of Asia in the global power equation.
- Security On Another Plane (Telegraph, N.K. Pant, Aug 22, 2005)
The Centre’s announcement last week that it was adopting a tough anti-hijack policy, which envisages no talking to hijackers and the shooting down of a hijacked plane, may be necessary in the light of what happened to the World Trade Center and the....
- This Is How We Perceive The Problem Of Kashmir-Iii (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 22, 2005)
We are reproducing the full text of the discussion between Muhammad Yasin Malik, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and Omar Abdullah,
- Enigma Of Emerging Ties (Dawn, Anwar Syed, Aug 21, 2005)
Listening to the politicians in power on the subject of our emerging relationship with India, and placing their declarations alongside the joint statements of the Indian and Pakistani officials,
- Indo-Us Strategic Alliance (Dawn, Talat Masood, Aug 21, 2005)
India and the United States are natural allies, but India’s Nehruvian philosophy of non-alignment and its aspirations to play a global role in exploiting the capitalist and communist blocs during the cold war kept them apart.
- Development Of Ajk (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 21, 2005)
A comprehensive plan has reportedly been prepared for all round socio-economic development of Azad Kashmir. For this purpose, Pakistan Government has pledged substantial assistance to the AJK Government.
- Pakistan Plans To Make 100 More Nuclear Bombs But India Is Ready With Missile Shields To Deflect All The Incoming Nukes Back To Pakistan (India Daily, Sonia Joshi, Aug 21, 2005)
Pakistan is planning to build 100 more nuke bombs to keep parity with India
- Indo-Us Agreement (Daily Excelsior, Samuel Baid, Aug 21, 2005)
Pakistan's disappointment at the India-United States agreement on defence relationship is quite understandable.
- Iran-The Next Entry-I (Greater Kashmir, Editorial, Greater Kashmir, Aug 20, 2005)
Considering the wishes of its people, we have to understand the complex Iranian political system. Iran’s political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy.
- Terrorist Menace (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 20, 2005)
Over the past one month, we have seen increasing attempts by Pakistan to push more terrorists across the LoC into Jammu and Kashmir
- Internal Security Jeopardised, Says Advani (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
Internal security has been jeopardised under the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president, L.K. Advani, said here on Friday.
- Not Forgetting The Gujarat Carnage (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 20, 2005)
A pakistan television network based in Dubai asked me whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would tender his apology to Indian Muslims as he had done in the case of Sikhs for the Delhi riots 21 years after the violence
- Natural Gas Pipeline May Energize Peace (Japan Times, B. GAUTAM, Aug 20, 2005)
It is being called the Peace Pipe. The natural gas pipeline running from Iran to India through Pakistan may be a reality in early 2006.
- Party Time For The Family (Telegraph, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 20, 2005)
The first and last time I was in the same room as any member of the Nehru-Gandhi family was back in the year 1971.
- Mishandling Iranian Crisis (Dawn, Afzaal Mahmood, Aug 20, 2005)
There is worldwide disappointment that the recent talks between the European Union and Iran have led nowhere.
- Ndia, China: Comrades In Oil (Asia Times, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 20, 2005)
Having gingerly circled around each other like two cautious pugilists for the past decades, India and China may be taking their first step in the creation of an Asian synergy that has much more to do with making real money than the rhetorical bombast. . .
- Pakistan Still Denies Terror Infrastructure In Pakistan – India Not To Let Them Get Away With It This Time (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
Indian intelligence has concrete proof to back what Indian Prime Minister has said.
- Plan To Talibanise Bangla Society? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
The dramatic country-wide blasts that ripped across Bangladesh has put the spotlight on the resurgence of Islamic militancy in the country and the nature of the threat it represents to India’s security interests in the region.
- Grave Threat (Asia Times, Editorial, Asian Times, Aug 20, 2005)
When the judiciary and law-enforcing agencies speak with same concern about a malady afflicting society there can only be one conclusion that the matter must be very serious.
- More Of Musharraf (Asia Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
There is more to the interview that Pakistan President
Pervez Musharraf has given to London's Daily Telegraph than just his highly-publicised assertion that a quicker movement on the Kashmir front was necessary.
- The Clever General Men, Matters & Memories (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Aug 20, 2005)
The ever clever Gen. Pervez Musharraf! He has finally discovered the linkage between the ''unresolved'' Kashmir issue and the West's war on terrorism of which Musharraf, by his own admission, is a major cog
- Taiwan And India To Jointly Expand And Dominate Information Technology Market Worldwide (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 20, 2005)
In IT India and Taiwan plans to grow heavily and tap the world markets.
- The Peace Tree (Tribune, Shivalli M. Chouhan, Aug 20, 2005)
It stands there firmly rooted in its own ground of convictions, unaffected by the outcomes of the Shimla agreement,
- Et Tu, Bangladesh! … (Daily Excelsior, Dr R L Bhat, Aug 20, 2005)
As a country Bangladesh is non-contiguous with the Muslim crescent in ways more than one.
- Rumble In The West (Tribune, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Aug 20, 2005)
Parliament's enthusiastic approval of the Bill on dual citizenship, the arrest of another London bombings suspect and the Irish Republican Army’s promise to lay down arms all bore out Eric Hobsbawm’s definition of the 21st century as the age of .....
- Vote-Bank Politics (Statesman, SUNANDA SANYAL, Aug 19, 2005)
Bangladeshis May Now Call The Shots
- India On World Stage (Tribune, K. Subrahmanyam, Aug 19, 2005)
In his second speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the Independence Day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a historic declaration which has not attracted adequate attention either in the domestic or foreign media.
- Khurana Renews Attack On Advani (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2005)
As the monsoon session of Parliament nears its end, Lal Krishna Advani’s problems have started afresh
- Tackling Religious Extremism (Dawn, Sohail Mahmood, Aug 19, 2005)
Undoubtedly, Pakistan has suffered tremendously because of the sectarian and Islamic extremist phenomenon. A number of extremist organizations grew out of the earlier jihad in Afghanistan during the 1980s. At the time, the war was strongly supported
- Trade Facilitation: India To Sign Revised Pact (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 19, 2005)
No compromise on security, says Kamal Nath
- Ball In Musharraf's Court (Deccan Herald, M B NAQVI, Aug 19, 2005)
Musharaff cannot afford to let the Hasba Bill become law. But if he stymies it, he will lose the MMA support.
- Hoodwinking Delhi (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Aug 19, 2005)
Khaleda’s self-destructive game
- The Jolt From Africa (Tribune, T.P. Sreenivasan, Aug 18, 2005)
The African Union has done India and its partners in the G-4 group a favour. It has given them a face-saving device to extricate themselves from a difficult situation.
- Pak Welcomes Pm’S Invite To Hurriyat (Greater Kashmir, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
Seeking a trilateral framework for dialogue on Kashmir, Pakistan on Monday guardedly welcomed India’s renewed offer of holding talks with Hurriyat Conference and held that division in Hurriyat ranks was the grouping’s internal matter.
- Us Opposition To Gas Pipeline (Dawn, Tayyab Siddiqui, Aug 18, 2005)
We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual and these interests, it is our duty to follow”.
- Wb Increases Assistance To Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 18, 2005)
Social progress not satisfactory'
- Hijack Drill (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
If strident policy pronouncement served as effective deterrent, it might have been worth roundly applauding government’s new formulation for dealing with hijacked aircraft.
- Silence, Race Hatred And Spiel (Indian Express, T V R Shenoy, Aug 18, 2005)
How could 62,040,606 Americans get it so wrong? So wailed a tee-shirt slogan last November.
- Four Terrorist Organisations Operating In The Country: Patil (Hindu, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 18, 2005)
These organisations are skilful and do not leave any evidence after strikes
India can host dignitaries despite threats
Publicity should not be given to confessional statements
Media should avoid identifying rape and molestation victims
- The Disintegration Of The Taliban (Deccan Herald, N C Aizenman, Aug 18, 2005)
Several former members of the Taliban have deserted insurgency. Some are even running for parliament
- Madressah Registration (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 18, 2005)
Fianlly, legal shape has been given to the directive to all madressahs to get themselves registered.
- Travel Restriction For Hurriyat Eased (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 18, 2005)
Signalling easing of travel restrictions on Kashmiri separatist leaders, the Government has allowed former Hurriyat Conference chairman Maulana Abbas Ansari to travel to Pakistan for attending a Shia Conference.
- Comrades In Oil: India, China See Synergy Over Energy (Asia Times, Jyoti Malhotra, Aug 18, 2005)
Having gingerly circled around each other like two cautious pugilists for the past decades, India and China may be taking their first step in the creation of an Asian synergy that has much more to do with making real money than the rhetorical . . .
- India And Pak Promoted Missile Race (Daily Excelsior, Uday Shankar Bajpai, Aug 18, 2005)
As a counterpoise to the Indo-US defence cooperation, Pakistan on August 11 test fired an "indigenously developed" cruise missile, named Babur, without any prior intimation to India.
- Bloody Month Of August (Times of India, MAHENDRA VED, Aug 17, 2005)
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, though a rambling orator, made many incisive observations. One was about his desire to work for a South Asian confederation wherein Indira Gandhi would be the premier,
- Challenge To Sustain Economic Growth (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 17, 2005)
Visiting World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has said that Pakistan’s over 8 per cent economic growth is quite impressive, but stressed that its sustainability and equitable distribution for benefit of the poor is a challenge.
- Any Doubt? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 17, 2005)
Although he is a leading light of Pakistan's fundamentalist Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and also leader of the opposition in the neighbouring country's National Assembly,
- The Extremes We Go To (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 17, 2005)
In the south of the Gaza Strip, there is a tiny Jewish settlement called Morag. Among its 40 inhabitants is 30-year-old Haim Gross, who has no sympathy with the evacuation scheme launched this week by Ariel Sharon’s government.
- Social Sector Flaws (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 17, 2005)
The Wordl Bank president, who is on a visit to Pakistan, has promised to provide a loan of $1.5 billion as against this year’s loan of $1.1 billion for physical infrastructure and human resource development.
- A Welcome Promise (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 17, 2005)
One must welcome Dr Manmohan Singh’s promise to curb human rights violations in occupied Kashmir.
- Race, Islam, And Terrorism (Hindu, Robert Beckford, Aug 17, 2005)
Most African-Caribbean men who become Muslims do so because it gives their lives hope and meaning.
- Infrastructure Priority For Govt: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
Dr Singh argued against free distribution of power and said we have to get used to paying a reasonable price for electricity.
- The Great Nuclear Handshake (Times of India, K SUBRAHMANYAM, Aug 16, 2005)
Many people in India charge that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did not get all that he should have in the Washington summit. Similarly, there are voices in Washington which complain that India got all it wanted without giving anything worthwhile in return
- Kashmir: The Missed Opportunities (Dawn, Javed Hussain, Aug 16, 2005)
Flushed with victory in the Rann of Kutch in April 1965, Field Marshal Ayub Khan and his confidants thought that the time was ripe for wresting Kashmir . . . .
- Us Threat To Iran: Empty Or Real? (Dawn, Dan Plesch, Aug 16, 2005)
President Bush has reminded us that he is prepared to take military action to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. On Israeli television recently, he declared that “all options are on the table” if Tehran doesn’t comply with international demands.
- The Iranian Assertion (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Aug 16, 2005)
Irans challenge to the West is simple and complex at the same time. At one level, it is asserting its right under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
- Urgency Of Reform (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 16, 2005)
Since 9/11 and 7/7 the focus of the powers waging a war on terror — the US and Britain — has been on the madressahs in Pakistan. It is generally believed that these institutions have a very narrow focus and some of them even preach hatred and violence. .
- Minimum Deterrence Is Must (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 16, 2005)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the successful test firing of first Cruise Missile Babur manifests Pakistan’s resolve to maintain balance of power in the region to ward off any threat to its sovereignty and security. Speaking at the Corps....
- Change In Saudi Arabia (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 16, 2005)
Saudi Arabia has been one of Pakistan’s closest allies, especially after Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king in 1964.
- Pm Warns Ultras Of ‘hard Response’ (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised full assistance to the flood-hit states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Manmohan: Half-Hearted Steps By Pakistan Won't Do (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 16, 2005)
Our vision is growth that would improve the life of common man
Golden Quadrilateral to be six-laned
Corruption in government not to be tolerated
Pay reasonable price for electricity
No child to be deprived of primary education
- Inspiring Words (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 16, 2005)
There is a measure of convergence in the speeches of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the occasion of Independence Day.
- Last Train From Pakistan (Deccan Herald, Dinesh Kumar, Aug 14, 2005)
14 August, 1947. 11:00 hours. My parents, my siblings and I boarded a tonga with a bare trunk under our feet.
- Pakistan Was Not The End In Itself (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 14, 2005)
The nation is celebrating its 58th Independence anniversary today amidst mixed feelings of success and failure on different counts during the last six decades.
- Shaukat Markets Pakistan Well (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 14, 2005)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has concluded his visit to Japan and Hong Kong with a grand success in marketing Pakistan for trade and investment.
- Troubled Times (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 14, 2005)
The monster of terrorism stalks the land as Pakistan celebrates the 58th anniversary of its independence today.
- Bush’S Threat To Iran (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 14, 2005)
As the impasse between Iran and the European Union on uranium enrichment intensifies,
- Need For Strategy (Statesman, JR MUKHERJEE, Aug 14, 2005)
Increasing people to people contact between India and Pakistan, talk shows on the electronic media, articles in the media and pressure from countries across the globe are steadily creating an influential group of our citizens that favour a peaceful . . .
- Black Gold Becomes More Gold (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Aug 14, 2005)
Oil prices have raced to record highs of about 67 dollars on Friday a barrel due to increasing demand and lack of spare capacity cushion to production and refinery. The International Energy Agency has cut its estimates of non-Open supply growth while . .
- A Forgotten Hero (Hindu, RAMACHANDRA GUHA, Aug 14, 2005)
K. Kamaraj is now almost overlooked.
This column is about a once mighty politician, a nurturer of Indian democracy who — outside of Tamil Nadu, at any rate — is now almost wholly forgotten.
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