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Articles 5321 through 5420 of 19042:
- Bush Says Muslim Welcome To Head Un (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
US President George W Bush said he would expect an Asian candidate for being the next UN secretary-general as long as he was willing to "blow the whistle" on human rights abuses.
- Terror Bombs Cause Mayhem On Mumbai’S Lifeline: •Over 160 Killed, . . . (Dawn, Anand Kumar, Jul 12, 2006)
Bombs ripped through seven packed commuter trains and stations during rush hour in Mumbai on Tuesday evening, killing at least 163 passengers and injuring about 600.
- Message From The Mumbai Blasts: Don't Get Close To The Us (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
If ever there was a demonstration that cross-border terrorism remains a pertinent threat to freedom-loving people everywhere, it happened on 7/11 in Mumbai, the financial capital of India.
- Dawood Is In Waziristan (Pioneer, B Raman, Jul 12, 2006)
With US mounting pressure on Islamabad to reveal underworld don's whereabouts, Pervez Musharraf has shifted him to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border ---- Mafia don and wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim was living in Karachi with a Pakistani passport . . .
- Communal Riots Would Be Precisely What The Terrorists Want (Rediff on the Net, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Having just returned from a 'Peace Delegation' visit from Karachi, one had a sense of foreboding about coming events. Exploding population, rampant religious fundamentalism, spiralling prices, unemployment, a money order economy, violence in . . .
- Pakistani Minister Says Bombs Show Need For Talks (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Bombings which killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, India on Tuesday showed that Pakistan and India need to resolve disputes that can be exploited by extremists, Pakistan's foreign minister said.
- Lashkar-E-Taiba Denies Hand (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Inhuman, barbaric blasts: LeT spokesman
- A Tragedy Foretold (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 12, 2006)
It could take months to identify the perpetrators of the Mumbai bombings, but the recent past holds some clues.
- Domestic Imperatives In Iran's Foreign Policy (Hindu, Hamid Ansari, Jul 12, 2006)
A new exercise in consensus building is under way. The purpose is to present a unified approach and deny the interlocutor space to exploit internal disagreements.
- Police Pick Through Bomb-Hit Mumbai (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jul 12, 2006)
Investigators picked through the mangled wreckage of trains and stations in Mumbai on Wednesday as millions of people commuted to work and school following a string of bomb blasts that killed at least 179.
- The Taliban's Hidden Masters (Pioneer, Anil Bhat, Jul 12, 2006)
It is becoming increasingly clear that the kind of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) used against the coalition forces in Afghanistan is similar to the ones used in the Kashmir Valley, pointing as strongly to the Pakistani connection as the suicide . . .
- Politics Overtakes Secretary General's Contest (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Jul 12, 2006)
India seems to have raised many hackles by announcing that Shashi Tharoor, UN under secretary general for communications and public . . .
- J & K Government And Common Man's Self-Determination (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 12, 2006)
Ghulam Nabi Azad sat patient as per the power-sharing agreement reached between the PDP and the Congress after the Assembly polls in 2002.
- Terror Tuesday: Let, Simi Hands In Mumbai Serial Blasts (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The terror attack on Mumbai trains was carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and local Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists and was designed to trigger communal conflagration in the country’s financial capital, intelligence sources said.
- Sena Packs A Punch At Pak & Cong (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Bloody Tuesday drew a dreary roar from Bal Thackeray, with the Shiv Sena supremo blaming the serial blasts on the pusillanimous policy of the Congress-led Centre towards Pakistan.
- India, Pak In $25-M Quake Aid Pact (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) setting out the modalities of releasing $25 million from India to assist Pakistan's earthquake victims to source reconstruction material from India.
- Do Aur Do Paanch (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 12, 2006)
The suggestion of the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) to make mathematics and English optional so that they do not count for promotion in secondary school would be music to many an ear. The recommendation is not baseless.
- A Worrying Domestic Situation (News International, M B NAQVI, Jul 12, 2006)
These were two or three incidents that were quite unrelated to each other. They were symptomatic. In the first, a posse of ISI officials picked up a retired brigadier, his daughter-in-law and his grandsons from their Islamabad home and took them to . . .
- Spilling Palestinian Blood (News International, IMTIAZ GUL, Jul 12, 2006)
If somebody believes they can force us militarily, they are befooling themselves. We defeated them in the past and we will defeat them again.
- One Year On And What Has Changed? (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 12, 2006)
One year ago, between 9am and 10am on July 7, 2005 four suicide bombers detonated their deadly bombs on a packed London transport system. 52 people lost their lives.
- Recognising Us Duplicity (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Jul 12, 2006)
It is difficult to understand how the US expects the Pakistani state to continue giving it unflinching support on the war against terrorism when it uses every opportunity to challenge its . . .
- 7 Serial Blasts Rock Mumbai Killing 142 (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Seven bombs hit Bombay’s commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing 142 people and wounding more than 300 in what authorities called a well-coordinated terrorist attack.
- India, Pak Sign Mou For $ 25m Quake Aid (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
India and Pakistan today signed a memorandum of understanding specifying modalities for the release of reconstruction material worth $ 25 million to Islamabad for affected areas of the Pakistan occupied Kashmir devastated by a powerful earthquake . . .
- Pak Rakes Up Kashmir Issue At Saarc Meet (Tribune, K J M Varma, Jul 12, 2006)
Pakistan today raked up the Kashmir issue at the SAARC Finance Ministers' meeting here with India hitting back by voicing concerns on terrorism and stressing the need to remove "double standards" in mounting a collective challenge to "eliminate the . . .
- 7 Bombs, 10 Minutes, 160 Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Thousands of commuters fled the carnage into the monsoon rains while others helped the injured and mutilated to hospitals.
- Opening Up Trade With India To Benefit Pak More, Says Study (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
Debunking Pakistan’s arguments that the normalisation of trade relations with India benefited only the bigger partner, a study by the country’s State Bank has said the move actually favoured Islamabad.
- Ruling Pok Party Set To Form Govt Again (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
The ruling Muslim Conference party in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), headed by former President Sardar Qayyum Khan, is all set to form government again as it has won simple majority in the just-concluded Assembly elections, according to unofficial . . .
- Israeli Air Strikes On Gaza Continue (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 12, 2006)
In the latest action in the Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militants transporting and setting up rockets near the northern town of Beit Hanoun, the Israeli army said.
- A Taliban-Coloured Dawn In Kashmir (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 11, 2006)
Resurgent Islamists have used the prostitution scandal to subvert democratic institutions and processes.
- Praful Bidwai: Ready To Collude With Empire? (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Jul 11, 2006)
The Indian elite's lovefest with the U.S. amidst the Iraq quagmire bodes ill for this country's future.
- Indian Civilisation: A Thematic Approach (Hindu, NALINI RAJAN, Jul 11, 2006)
When the editor of a publication lucidly anticipates and provides a rationale for its shortcomings, the enterprise may be deemed a `success'.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Moving Ahead (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Jul 11, 2006)
During the past twelve months an intense debate went on in India on two nuclear related issues.
- Why Afghanistan Remains A Dust Bowl Of Violence (Hindu, Peter Preston, Jul 11, 2006)
Afghanistan has never been a `successful' state, and we can't create a new civil society at gunpoint.
The particular difficulty with Afghanistan is that there is no structure in place to build on
Democracy has no roots on Afghan soil
Kabul, . . .
- India, Pak, Iran To Discuss Pricing Of Gas For Pipeline In Aug (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Officials of India, Pakistan and Iran will meet in the first week of August to resolve the imbroglio over pricing of natural gas that Tehran wants to sell to the energy-hungry south Asian countries through a tri-nation pipeline.
- The Seminary Of Suicide Bombers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 11, 2006)
Israel's incursion into Gaza is a resistance war against jihadi terrorism abetted by Palestinian Government, writes Priyadarsi Dutta.
- 45 Killed In Pak Plane Crash (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crashed into a field shortly after takeoff from Multan on Monday, killing all 45 people on board, including two senior army officers and two judges of the Lahore High court.
- 45 Killed In Pia Fokker Plane Crash (Pakistan Observer, Hussain Kashif, Jul 11, 2006)
All 45 people aboard PIA Fokker plane, PK-688, which was on its way from Multan to Lahore were killed in an air crash near here at 12.10 pm on Monday.
- 45 Die In Fokker Crash Near Multan (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A Pakistan International Airlines’ Fokker passenger plane crashed into a field shortly after take-off on Monday, killing all 45 passengers and crew, near Suraj Miani on the outskirts of Multan about four-five kilometres away from the . . .
- ‘Saarc Countries Must Work Together’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Secretary General of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Chenkyab Dorji on Monday asked the member countries to work together and initiate joint projects.
- Pakistan Plane Crash Kills 45 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane crashed in fields on the outskirts of the central city of Multan on Monday, killing all 45 people on board, the local police chief said.
- Kashmiri Ultra Gets A Doctorate From Prison (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 11, 2006)
A top Kashmiri militant serving a life sentence in the Srinagar Central Jail has been awarded a doctorate in Islamic Studies by the Kashmir University.
- The Gaza Blitzkrieg (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 11, 2006)
And a gross violation of human rights
The sad irony of the first anniversary of the 7 July bombings in London is that a state-sponsored blitzkrieg has been launched in another part of the world.
- Sri Lankan Multi-Ethnic Panel Meet Today (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Jul 11, 2006)
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Tuesday morning would preside over the first meeting of the 15-member multi-ethnic committee to advise him on power sharing in the Tamil dominated north and east.
- Fokker Crashes; 45 On Board Killed :High Court Judges, University Vc, Brigadiers Among Dead (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
A Lahore-bound Fokker of PIA crashed into a field here only a few minutes after taking off on Monday. There were no survivors among the 45 people, including five crew members, aboard the ill-fated flight Pk-688.
- How ‘Azad’ These Kashmir Polls? (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 11, 2006)
The election for the eighth ‘Azad’ Jammu and Kashmir National (‘A’JK) Assembly are scheduled to be held on Tuesday.
- Request Against Shield Around Ayodhya Declined (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The BJP on Monday attacked the campaign mounted by muslim organisations to force the Centre to drop its plans, to fortify the area around the make-shift temple in Ayodhya, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refused to re-visit the proposal.
- Have Terrorists Declared War On India? (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jul 11, 2006)
Muslim President, Sikh Prime Minister, Hindu Thugs and Criminals likes of Lalloo Prasad as MPs, An Italian Au Pair Girl as the POWER PIVOT, these are the people in charge.
- After Unprecedented Tv Series, Pakistan Rethinks Rape, Sex Laws (Christian Science Monitor, Ashraf Khan, Jul 11, 2006)
More than 1,000 female prisoners are expected to be released this week on bail in Pakistan following a decision by President Pervez Musharraf to review a controversial set of laws affecting women.
- 45 Dead As Pia Fokker Crashes In Multan (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
Plane crashes shortly after take off, no survivors
Two high court judges, two brigadiers, vice chancellor killed
Engineer rules out technical fault
- Alleged Al Qaeda Operative Charged With Murder Of Jordanian Driver (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The State Security Court (SSC) prosecutor on Monday officially charged Ziyad Khalaf Karbouli and 13 other Iraqi nationals with the murder of a Jordanian citizen in Iraq in September 2005.
- Hamas Ties Israeli's Fate To Exchange Of Prisoners (International Herald Tribune, Greg Myre, Jul 11, 2006)
In dueling press conferences, the top Hamas leader said Monday that a captured Israeli soldier would not be freed without the release of Palestinian prisoners, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel ruled out negotiations with the radical Islamic . . .
- Israel Anxious To Avoid Sinking Into ‘Gaza Swamp’ (Jordan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
By wasting little time withdrawing troops from northern Gaza over the weekend after a two-day operation, Israel made clear it did not want to get bogged down in territory it quit less than a year ago.
- Pak Spending $30m On Restoring Temple (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
This is perhaps for the first time in the history of Pakistan that the government is spending close to $30 million for the restoration of a Hindu temple. India is believed to have chipped in $3 million for the project.
- California Dropout Masterminded The Tapes For Al-Qaeda (Times Online (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 11, 2006)
The accomplished hand of al-Qaeda’s own in-house production team appears to be behind the videos made by two of the July 7 bombers.
- Experiments With Terror (OutLook, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jul 10, 2006)
The peace process resembles nothing so much as an arch without its keystone – in this case, an end to killing. Now as before, though, the keystone is stored in Islamabad, not New Delhi or Srinagar.
- The Reoccupation Of Gaza (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 10, 2006)
There is arguably no modern state that more shamelessly employs the propaganda technique of the Big Lie than Israel. Since July 6, Israel has been deploying its military forces in an operation to reoccupy Northern Gaza, killing dozens of . . .
- Poverty In Pakistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 10, 2006)
Poverty is an ethical concept, not a statistical one. Inherent in the term “poverty”, when applied to human beings, is the notion of a life situation that should not exist. It is not only lack of roti, kapra aur makan—food, cloth and shelter.
- A Little “Excess”, A Little “Technique” (Tribune, Robert Fisk, Jul 10, 2006)
Lord Blair is always being completely and absolutely honest with us. He is always absolutely convinced he was right to invade Iraq (even when the rest of the world completely realises the opposite). He is always completely and absolutely certain . . .
- Handicap At 7, Race Course (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Jul 10, 2006)
The central fact of our politics is that since 1971 no prime minister has got re-elected. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in 1999, was the only exception, but his first term had lasted less than a year and he rode to an even greater majority on a wave of . . .
- Allegations Yet Again (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 10, 2006)
It seems that no amount of assurance or effort on the part of Islamabad can convince Kabul that Pakistan is doing its best to curb cross-border terrorism.
- Pakistan’S Democratic Predicament (Dawn, Talat Masood, Jul 10, 2006)
As during most part of its chequered history, Pakistan stands once again at the crossroads and the 2007 elections could be a landmark event that could shape the future destiny of the nation.
- Lessons From A Tragedy (Pioneer, Pyotr Romanov, Jul 10, 2006)
Who is to blame for the death of Russian diplomats in Iraq? Mere deliberations about the ruthlessness of Islamist terrorists are not enough. We must analyse the tragedy and draw lessons from it.
- Kashmiri Ultra Gets A Doctorate From Prison (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 10, 2006)
A top Kashmiri militant serving a life sentence in the Srinagar Central Jail has been awarded a doctorate in Islamic Studies by the Kashmir University.
- Sainiks Shut Down Maharashtra (Pioneer, TN Raghunatha, Jul 10, 2006)
Widespread protests after Meenatai statue desecrated ---- Angry Shiv Sainiks went on a rampage after unidentified miscreants desecrated the statue of Sena chief Bal Thackeray's late wife Meenatai at Shivaji Park in north-central Mumbai early on . . .
- Pyongyang's Warped Geo-Politics (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 10, 2006)
If US is serious about non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, it must deal firmly with AQ Khan's illicit network and his Pakistani masters, says Cecil Victor.
- Musharraf’S Kashmir Vision Evokes Popular Support: Attique (Pakistan Observer, Hameed Shaheen, Jul 10, 2006)
Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan, president ruling All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, (AJKMC) has said that President General Pervez Musharraf’s Kashmir Vision has evoked popular support in Kashmir.
- Jaded India Takes Deep Breath, Tunes In For Salvation (Reuters, Krittivas Mukherjee, Jul 10, 2006)
Early one summer morning in the holy town of Haridwar, on the banks of the sacred Ganges, about 500 people sit on mats facing their saffron-clad Hindu guru, following his every word.
- Getting Ready For Poll Battle (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jul 10, 2006)
With the UP assembly elections due anytime next year, political parties are getting ready to win the prized ‘trophy’ in that politically vital state.
- U.S. Congress To Question Pakistan Jet Deal (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
The Bush administration has pushed to conclude a landmark $5 billion sale of F-16 jets to Pakistan before completing traditional consultations with the U.S. Congress and fully answering security concerns, a congressman and other congressional sources say.
- A Travel To The People's Republic Of China Through A Book (Hindu, G. Srinivasan , Jul 10, 2006)
Kamal Batcha has come out with another Tamil book "Islamiya Ilakkiyamum and Panpadum"
- Monsoon Hits North India (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
26 people killed in house collapse incidents in Uttar Pradesh
- Distant Goal (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Jul 10, 2006)
Pak’s notice will push the two nations from free trade
- Maharashtra Faces The Wrath Of Shiv Sena (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 10, 2006)
Shiv Sainiks went on a rampage in Mumbai and other parts of the state on Sunday . . .
- Welcome Change, But No Cause For Complacency (Hindu, Bill Kirkman, Jul 10, 2006)
The treatment of Seretse and Ruth by successive British governments in the 1940s and early 1950s is one of the most disgraceful episodes in British colonial history.
- Dangerous Dilution (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Jul 10, 2006)
The National Commission for Minority Education Institutions (NCMEI) has suggested that passing in English and mathematics should not be compulsory for promotion in secondary school.
- Killing Of Poor Palestinians (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 10, 2006)
Israel is on a killing spree. Six Palestinians were killed on Friday as Israel pressed on with its bloody offensive in Gaza, a day after reoccupying land in the deadliest 24 hours in the Palestinian territories for four years.
- The New Myth Of India (Deccan Herald, Pankaj Mishra, Jul 10, 2006)
India is a roaring capitalist success story, says the latest issue of 'Foreign Affairs'. Last week, many leading business executives and politicians in the country celebrated as Lakshmi Mittal, the fifth richest man in the world, finally succeeded . . .
- Violent Islamic Radicals Know They Are Heretical (Hindu, Karen Armstrong, Jul 10, 2006)
Extremists are proud of their deviance, and moderate Muslims can't be held responsible.
- A Gripping Season (Hindu, Mike Marqusee, Jul 10, 2006)
It will be a pleasure to return to the majesty of Test cricket after the frenzy of the football.
- India Permits Screening Of Pak Movies: Minister (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 08, 2006)
India has agreed to screen Pakistani movies on commercial basis in its theatres, Pakistan Culture Minister has said.
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