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Articles 12521 through 12620 of 12768:
- China Is The Shopper's Stop (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Sep 10, 2001)
BEIJING, SEPT. 9. The Indian and Chinese governments may want to argue with each other on their contested border, Pakistan, and nuclear weapons for years to come.
- Caught Between Two Time-Streams (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Sep 09, 2001)
TWO time-streams move in opposite directions in South Asia. One towards the past and the other towards the future. The people are bewildered, caught between political mumbo-jumbo and rituals.
- India-Pakistan Intransigence (Business Line, B. S. Malik, Sep 08, 2001)
THE Agra Summit has been analysed ad nauseam.
- Get Rid Of The Pak Fixation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 07, 2001)
When the mind is crowded with petty thoughts, Ghalib said, step out of the house and travel so that the narrow vision ‘‘opens up with the abundance of the spectacle’’.
- Down-Sizing A Summit? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2001)
THE WILD FLUCTUATIONS of the diplomatic mood in both India and Pakistan about the prospects of a constructive meeting between their leaders in New York later this month seem to suggest a disturbing trend on the bilateral front.
- Round-Ii With Musharraf May Not Yield Much (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Sep 06, 2001)
Now that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the United Nations session in New York this month, and later at the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) meeting.
- China’s Missile Supplies To Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Sep 06, 2001)
CHINA’S unending supply to Pakistan of missiles as well as missile parts and technology has been a major problem for this country because it enhances Pakistan’s security challenge to it.
- Partners In Spite Of Themselves (Hindu, Teresita C. Schaffer, Sep 06, 2001)
AFTER SOME confusing signals, it now appears that Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf will meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- Usa’s Somersault On Non-Proliferation Could Unsettle India (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Sep 06, 2001)
Two important policy decisions taken by India now become subject to doubts in the context of the likely revival of nuclear and missiles tests by the US.
- Lahore: City Of Fading Gardens (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 05, 2001)
MUGHAL Emperor Shahjahan who built the Taj Mahal could never have imagined that 500 years after he constructed Lahore’s famous Shalimar Gardens, the latter would be on the World Heritage list as an endangered site.
- An Informal Chat With The Prime Minister (The Financial Express, Kuldip Nayar, Sep 05, 2001)
Summits have a devastating effect when they collapse. They evoke acrimony, recrimination, bitterness and all that.
- Delicate Balance (Telegraph, K.P. NAYAR , Sep 05, 2001)
Predictably, there has been elation in New Delhi over the Bush administration’s decision during the last weekend to impose sanctions on China and Pakistan for their bilateral cooperation in missile development.
- Immigration Blues (Business Line, B. S. Raghavan , Sep 05, 2001)
COMMENTATORS in the print and electronic media have been unanimous in their attack of Australia for its stubbornness in refusing entry into the country to the 450 and odd persons.
- Sanctions On Pak, China (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 04, 2001)
ANY rubbing of hands in glee or the expressing of "serves them right" smugness over the US sanctions imposed on China and Pakistan will be misplaced because the move is no more than symbolic.
- Why There Is So Much Poverty In Asia (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Sep 04, 2001)
WIDESPREAD POVERTY and excessive inequality remain the principal challenges to the legitimacy of the globalisation process that has been underway the last two decades.
- A Mere Cabinet Reshuffle Won’t Do (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Sep 03, 2001)
THE WORLD economy is in decline. The Indian industrial economy has been declining for some years and the economy as a whole has for almost two years been waiting for a magic wand to be waved by government to revive it.
- Silent Progress (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 03, 2001)
EVEN as the political relations between India and Pakistan have turned icy after the Agra summit, there has been an unmistakable increase in the warmth of the economic relations between the two countries.
- Time To Get Cracking (Indian Express, Anupreeta Das, Sep 03, 2001)
POOR Fardeen Khan. And now, poor Neeraj Wadhera.
- Safety First: Building Confidence During The Nuclear Transition (Hindu, Deepanshu Bagchee, Sep 03, 2001)
Amid all the post-Agra hand wringing, much has been made about Pakistan's intransigence on cross-border terrorism, India's inability to think creatively about solutions in Kashmir.
- Will Burqa Veil Kashmir? (Tribune, A.N. Dar, Sep 03, 2001)
WHATEVER pressure the Lashkar-e-Jabbar may put on the womenfolk of Kashmir, it cannot make them take to the burqa as a dress that will last long.
- Indo-Us Relations On An Even Keel (Tribune, N K Pant, Sep 03, 2001)
IT is now confirmed that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be meeting President George Bush and hold parleys with him when the former travels to New York to attend the UN General Assembly session.
- Riot Riddles (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 02, 2001)
There is bafflement how an incident of extortion could have sparked riots in Ahmedabad, writes Manas Dasgupta.
- Reality Check From Tehran (The Financial Express, Shekhar Gupta, Sep 02, 2001)
Get it right: entire Muslim world hasn’t ganged up on us.
- Pak’s Dirty Little Great Game Of Democracy (Indian Express, Najam Sethi, Sep 02, 2001)
A Recent newspaper photograph shows Makhdum Amin Fahim of the Peoples Party looking like a deferential prime minister-to-be, chatting amiably with a benevolent-looking General Pervez Musharraf. This has sent political pundits into raptures.
- Euphoria Over Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai Mood (Tribune, Rakshat Puri, Sep 02, 2001)
ZHU RONGJI, China’s Prime Minister is due in Delhi on an official visit shortly. Sino-Indian ties are in full swing now. One of the Shankaracharyas is due to visit China shortly to strengthen cultural relations.
- Kashmir, The Core Issue For Us Too (Tribune, Abu Abraham, Sep 02, 2001)
AT the time of the Bangladesh struggle for independence, when the Pakistani army was on a virtual orgy of genocide, burning villages, raping women and shooting young men and even children at random, the Pakistanis described them all as traitors.
- Digvijay’S Diplomatic Deeds (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 02, 2001)
AFTER the July Indo-Pak Agra summit, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Railways Digvijay Singh has got another international assignment having a diplomatic fallout.
- Thane Events, A Reminder Of Sena's Presence (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Sep 01, 2001)
MUMBAI, AUG. 31. Mumbai has still not fully recovered from the shocking events of Sunday last in neighbouring Thane following the death of the local Shiv Sena chief, Anand Dighe.
- ‘I Only Wanted The Afro-Asian Games Postponed’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 01, 2001)
Sports Minister Uma Bharati has been in the thick of things in recent times.
- The Poll Posturing In Kashmir (Indian Express, SANKARSHAN THAKUR, Sep 01, 2001)
National attention, or at least the attention of the Atal Behari Vajpayee establishment, is now getting focused on elections in Uttar Pradesh but there is another equally if not more key election round the corner — in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Why India Must Go To Doha (Business Line, R. Parthasarathy , Sep 01, 2001)
THE fourth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation is to take place at Doha from November 9 to 13.
- Disturbing Economic Situation (Tribune, Gobind Thukral, Sep 01, 2001)
PAKISTAN’S economy is in a total mess. This is hardly news. Yet the newspapers daily draw attention to this alarming situation.
- Vajpayee-Musharraf Meeting Again (Tribune, R. L. Bhatia, Sep 01, 2001)
THE decision of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to meet President Musharraf at the UN conference reopens the vainness of his first encounter with him.
- Us And China: Back To Courting (Business Line, B. Raman , Aug 31, 2001)
POLITICALLY hard and unyielding, but economically flexible and alluring. Those are the defining characteristics of the present Chinese leadership.
- Chronicling A ‘Strange’ Alliance (Indian Express, Amrita Abraham, Aug 31, 2001)
An honour guard of 6-foot-2 Pakistani cavalrymen greeted John Foster Dulles on his visit to Karachi in 1953 and made an indelible impression on the US secretary of state.
- An Ldc Trap At Doha? (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Aug 31, 2001)
THE SIGNALS signals sent out by the Least Developed Country members of SAARC last week have not quite received the attention they deserve.
- Weaknesses Of Musharraf Regime (Tribune, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
MANY people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for Gen Pervez Musharraf.
- Drugs Gain New Ground In The Sub-Continet (Business Line, Menka Shivdasani , Aug 30, 2001)
IN THE bylanes of Mumbai, the back alleys of Karachi, in the midst of the middle- and upper classes, there is a sub-culture that thrives.
- Other Side Of Victory (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
If India had at that particular time asked USPTO to strike down the patent, we probably wouldn’t be faced with the piquant situation that the recent ruling has created.
- Musharraf's Pakistan, Post-Agra (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Aug 30, 2001)
Most people saw the Agra Summit as a great triumph both domestically and internationally for General Pervez Musharraf.
- No Time To Talk (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 30, 2001)
General Pervez Musharraf's recent address to the newly-'elected' members of Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK's) 'legislative assembly' clearly indicates that his scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in New York.
- Rich China, Poor Subcontinent (Hindu, C. Raja Mohan, Aug 30, 2001)
THE CHINESE prosper by finessing political differences. South Asians stay poor rather than compromise on principles.
- Ups And Downs Of The Poverty Line (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 30, 2001)
In east Asia, poverty declined most rapidly during the 1990s, falling sharply in China.
- Will China Change For The Better? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Aug 30, 2001)
CHINA’S impending accession to the World Trade Organisation has raised huge expectations that the Chinese will become more rule-bound and transparent in their behaviour.
- Bumpy Road To Doha (The Economic Times, Veena Jha, Aug 30, 2001)
SO far there is no consensus on launching a new round of trade negotiations at the Doha Ministerial Conference.
- At Home With Chinua Achebe In Exile (Indian Express, Abhik Siddiqui, Aug 29, 2001)
In his collection of essays, Edward Said wrote about his encounter with the great Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, who was exiled from Pakistan by General Zia’s regime.
- Can Tehri Dam Withstand A Quake? (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 29, 2001)
HERE'S news that will send tremors up your spine.
- Campaign Against Discrimination (Tribune, Amar Chandel, Aug 29, 2001)
AFTER heated deliberations, it has been finalised that the caste question will indeed be raised forcefully at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held at Durban (South Africa).
- Not By Peace Talks Alone (Indian Express, Bharat Wariavwalla, Aug 29, 2001)
Diplomacy seldom resolves conflicts between deeply righteous nations.
- Wages Of War Paid By The Weak (Pioneer, Ajoy Bagchi, Aug 28, 2001)
Bharat Jhunjhunwala, in his article "Unjust peace" (August 14), raves against the United Nations' Decade of Peace and Non-violence and advances a convoluted thesis against peace.
- It Outsourcing: Can India Continue To Lead? (Business Line, D. K. Sareen, Aug 28, 2001)
THE good news is IT outsourcing is fast becoming an innovative business model, despite the severe slowdown in the US and the stiff resistance by the labour unions against this model.
- Terrorism: Glossing Over The Real Issues (Business Line, Premen Addy , Aug 28, 2001)
``GANGSTERS, not freedom fighters'' was the excoriating title of the Sunday Telegraph report on the arrest, recently, of three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Colombia.
- Muivah Is A Safe Bet (Indian Express, Kuldip Nayar, Aug 28, 2001)
IF it is transparency to which the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is sworn, it should have made public the joint statement signed between former home secretary K. Padmanabhaiah on its behalf and Isak Muivah.
- Power Play (Pioneer, Bharat Jhunjhunwala, Aug 28, 2001)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Murasoli Maran should be congratulated on their bold and forthright stand that a new round of trade negotiations will be acceded to only after the built-in agenda of the Uruguay round has been satisfactorily addressed.
- The Need To Go Ballistic On Basmati Patent (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Aug 27, 2001)
BASMATI rice is again in the news. And for the wrong reasons too.
- Every Prime Minister Must Have His Own Dream Team (The Economic Times, S. L. Rao, Aug 27, 2001)
EVERY incoming President of the United States of America since Kennedy has entered office with policy papers on the major issues of the day.
- Squaring A Round (Indian Express, Sanjaya Baru, Aug 27, 2001)
LAST week turned out to be important for India’s foreign trade policy calendar.
- What Will Be The Powell Effect? (Indian Express, Himmat Singh Gill, Aug 27, 2001)
THIS writer cannot claim to know US Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in the conventional sense of the word.
- Suspicious Growth (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 27, 2001)
The mushrooming of a number of madarsas along the India-Nepal border, particularly in the States of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, has been understandably causing concern for quite some time.
- Third Year Is Come Atalji, But Not Gone (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Aug 27, 2001)
What is it that people of this country desire most today? Is it ideology that guides preference for one party over another?
- Change And Continuity (Pioneer, Shubha Singh, Aug 27, 2001)
External Affairs and Defence Minister Jaswant Singh's short two-day visit to Kathmandu was aimed at establishing the initial political contact with the new Nepalese establishment that brings a generational change in the Himalayan kingdom.
- There Is Life After Poonch! (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 27, 2001)
THE account of the death and disability written brazenly on Friday night by Pakistani militants in Poonch city cannot be routinely added to the current year’s black book of terror in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Stop Press (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 26, 2001)
The Bharatiya Janata Party, which never gets tires of talking about its concern for a free media and the right to information, has a different view when it comes to implementing its ideals.
- Money In The Honey Trap (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Aug 26, 2001)
Another quake appears currently to be rocking Parliament, and to the credit of the engineers and contractors who built it, the edifice has withstood the latest of the many 'Tehelkas' that have struck with accelerating frequency.
- Cry Of A Patriotic Pakistani (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Aug 26, 2001)
Pakistani military ruler leader, General Pervez Musharraf, has promulgated an ordinance ostensible to regulate Deeni Madaris (madarsas or religious seminaries) in the country.
- Call Me ‘Mad’, But Tejpal Is Right (Tribune, L. H. Naqvi, Aug 26, 2001)
PROVE me mad or prove me wrong. Otherwise, go along with my line of argument in defending Tarun Tejpal, the controversial Chief Executive Officer of the equally controversial Tehelka.com.
- Towards Controlled Democracy (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Aug 25, 2001)
IT is now clear that Pakistan is on the way to a military-controlled democracy. This may have a constitutional sanction too if President Pervez Musharraf succeeds in implementing his scheme of things.
- Money In The Honey Trap (Pioneer, K P S Gill, Aug 25, 2001)
Another quake appears currently to be rocking Parliament, and to the credit of the engineers and contractors who built it, the edifice has withstood the latest of the many 'Tehelkas' that have struck with accelerating frequency.
- Kashmir And The Prisoners’ Dilemma (The Financial Express, Sandeep M. Kunte, Aug 25, 2001)
The Indo-Pak stand-off can be usefully analysed by the Game Theory which economists call “the prisoners’ dilemma”.
- Cry Of A Patriotic Pakistani (Pioneer, M L Kotru, Aug 25, 2001)
Pakistani military ruler leader, General Pervez Musharraf, has promulgated an ordinance ostensible to regulate Deeni Madaris (madarsas or religious seminaries) in the country.
- Saffronisation And Textbooks (Hindu, Amrik Singh , Aug 25, 2001)
TO UNDERSTAND the issue of saffronisation in the right perspective, we have to look at the decline of the Congress as a ruling party and the rise of the BJP as a rival.
- Putting Conflict Before Cricket (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 25, 2001)
THE CENTRE'S REFUSAL to allow the Indian cricket team to play the Asian Test Championship in Pakistan seems driven by excessive paranoia and reflexive bellicosity towards Pakistan.
- General Window Dressing (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 24, 2001)
Pakistan’s ‘‘crackdown’’ on militants is pure PR.
- Is Intolerance Overtaking Us? (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Aug 24, 2001)
THE other day, at a farewell party for a western diplomat, I was holding forth on religious tolerance and composite culture when the diplomat placed his hand on my shoulder and walked with me to the far corner of the room.
- Such A Long Journey (Indian Express, Indra Mohan Sahai, Aug 24, 2001)
When will Sakina Begum reach her final resting place?
- Pakistan In The Dock For Rights Violations (Pioneer, ADNI, Aug 24, 2001)
The 53rd session of the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva was occasion for speakers to detail evidence of suborning of the Pakistani judiciary, regional inequities perpetrated by the military regime.
- Is India A Failed State? (Pioneer, Ranjit B Rai and P K Jain, Aug 24, 2001)
Many feathers may get ruffled by this provocative heading but it is prompted by Minister of Planning Arun Shourie's bold statement in Parliament on 20 August that if steps are not taken fast.
- Basmati Patent -- Going Against The Grain (Business Line, Devinder Sharma , Aug 24, 2001)
NOTWITHSTANDING the controversy, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruling that upholds the patent granted to the American food company, RiceTec, is in reality a `back-door' patent on basmati rice.
- Changing Colours Of The Media (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Aug 24, 2001)
There has of late been considerable criticism of the way the Indian media has conducted itself on various matters of vital importance, especially during and after the flop show of the India-Pakistan summit at Agra.
- Pak Move Against Militants (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 24, 2001)
When the successive regimes in Pakistan encouraged the setting up of terrorist training camps for the proxy war in India's Jammu and Kashmir, they did not realise that they were patronising a two-edged weapon.
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