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Articles 6021 through 6120 of 19042:
- 'Govt Pursuing Divisive Policies For Political Gain' (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Terming the Centre's 15-point programme for welfare of minorities as a "gimmick", BJP on Thursday accused government of pursuing "divisive policies" to divert public attention from its failures.
- Pakistanis Hold Negative View Of Westerners (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Support for Osama bin Laden has declined but remains relatively high in Pakistan, where many people regard Westerners as intolerant, cheap and dishonest, according to the results of a global poll released on Thursday.
- Hashish Flows From Afghanistan (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 23, 2006)
About 900 kilograms of hashish concealed in fruit crates loaded on a truck from Afghanistan was seized by the Customs authorities in Quetta on Wednesday.
- Friday Feature: Values Laid Down By Islam (Dawn, Haider Zaman, Jun 23, 2006)
According to a recent news report, the Muslim Imams of Europe have pledged to work hard to prove that Islam is compatible with western values of democracy and human rights.
- France And L'affaire Dreyfus Revisited (Hindu, VAIJU NARAVANE, Jun 23, 2006)
The 100th anniversary of the rehabilitation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus is an occasion for an analysis of past wrongs. This can be salutary at a time when France is in the process of re-examining its criminal justice system.
- Whose Khan Is The Real Khan? (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Jun 23, 2006)
MI5 and CIA fall out over a case of a "mistaken" identity.
- Sez Status To Entire N-E Soon: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has assured the apex students’ body of the North-East that the entire region would be declared as a special economic zone (SEZ) in the near future
- Hamas U-Turn On Recognising Israel (Hindu, Chris McGreal, Jun 23, 2006)
Hamas has made a major political climb down by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders.
- 2007 Assembly Polls: ‘Power Axis’ Of Up Polity (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Power has become a major poll issue in the run up to the 2007 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, even as the severe electricity crisis refuses to subside any time soon.
- India's Missiles Defence Capability (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 23, 2006)
All technical snags and geostrategic fallouts of test firing of India's ambitious indigenously developed intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM), the Agni III, have been identified, and it would be put in orbit in August-September.
- Dastardly Attempt (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 23, 2006)
Photographs of a batch of Amarnath pilgrims shakily looking out of the shattered window panes of their bus have disturbed many.
- Bjp To Hold National Executive Of Sc Morcha (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
The Bharatiya Janata Party will hold its two-day national executive meeting of BJP SC morcha in the city from June 24, with the demand for reservation to Scheduled Castes in private sector and minority educational institutes high on its agenda.
- Indo-Pak Devotees Meet At 300 Yr Old Shrine (Daily Excelsior, Gopal Sharma, Jun 23, 2006)
Boundaries drawn between India and Pakistan and three full scale wars fought between the two countries failed to shatter belief of the people on both the sides towards 300-year- old shrine of Hindu deity, Baba Dalip Singh Manhas as thousands . . .
- Narayanan Does Tough Talking On Security (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Concerned at the continued increase of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, the Centre has asked police, paramilitary forces and the Army to get their act together and make concerted efforts to counter militant groups in the State.
- Talk Boldly With Iran (Washington Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 23, 2006)
Sometime in the next several months, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or a senior colleague is likely to sit down at a negotiating table with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran. As she prepares for these meetings, I suspect Rice . . .
- Has Europe Lost Its Way? (Dawn, Shadaba Islam, Jun 22, 2006)
Suddenly, it all seems to be going wrong. Just a few years ago, the European Union was aspiring to bigger and better things: a new constitution, more member states, a revamped economy and global power status to rival the United States.
- Slow And Steady (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Jun 22, 2006)
The launch of a second bus service between Poonch and Rawalkot by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday is a good indication that the India-Pakistan peace process is on track.
- Malaysia Hindus Want Shrines Saved (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Minority Hindus staged a peaceful protest today to appeal to Malaysia’s king to halt the demolition of temples and shrines by local authorities.
- Bullish On Bangladesh (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jun 22, 2006)
In spite of sporadic unrest, rampant corruption and a polarized political system that’s all but dysfunctional, Bangladesh finds itself in the midst of a sustained boom. The main drivers: surging export growth and a robust service sector
- The New Middle East (Daily Excelsior, V.N. Paranjape, Jun 22, 2006)
One dividend of the peace process is the positive regional ramifications in the "New Middle East", a term that denotes the post-Madrid and . . .
- Hate Lessons In Saudi, Pak Textbooks (Daily Excelsior, Allabaksh, Jun 22, 2006)
Even as the so-called war on terror continues with little success and the fool hardy attempts by the US to transport ‘democracy’ to reluctant shores make the Americans even less liked in the Muslim world, one of the main worries in the West remains . . .
- Courting Peace (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jun 22, 2006)
How can a brother aid a terrorist to kill another brother on this side of the Line of Control?"
- Life And Letters (Tribune, Sanjeev Gaur, Jun 22, 2006)
Letters are half-meetings. This is the beautiful thought of great Asadullh Khan Ghalib, more famous as Mirza Ghalib.
- No Direct Questioning Of Nuclear Scientist Khan By Us: Musharraf (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Voicing concern over the US reopening investigations into the proliferation network of disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, President Pervez Musharraf has said he will not permit any direct questioning of the scientist.
- Hizb "Distt Commdr", Civilian Killed (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Five Amarnathji pilgrims from Rajasthan sustained splinter injuries when militants lobbed a grenade on their carriage at Ganderbal, on Srinagar-Leh Highway today. Meanwhile, Police and security forces have killed a "District Commander" of Hizbul . . .
- Hc Strikes Down Govt Order Banning ‘Da Vinci Code’ (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The Andhra Pradesh High Court today struck down the government order banning the screening of 'Da Vinci Code' in the state.
- No Plans To Acquire Air Sahara: Mallya (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Air Sahara has filed a caveat in the Allahabad High Court regarding the Rs 2,300 crore buy-out deal with Jet Airways, sources familiar with the development said Wednesday.
- Central Asia - A Cockpit Of Conflict (Daily Excelsior, N.B. Menon , Jun 22, 2006)
The three day meeting of the heads of the states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) beginning June 15 is significant as the member countries - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajiskistan and Uzbekistan - try to hammer out a . . .
- The Zarqawis Among Us (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 22, 2006)
With accurate intelligence locating Abu Musab Al Zarqawi and some of his aides in a hut in Baquba, a US aircraft successfully targeted the most wanted terrorist in Iraq with two 225 lbs bombs.
- Will The General Retreat? (Pioneer, Wilson John, Jun 22, 2006)
With Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif making common cause in opposing Pervez Musharraf, democracy is back in reckoning in Pakistan------- Will democracy return to Pakistan?
- Shameful Scandal (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 22, 2006)
By rapidly unravelling the crime of forcing 43 young Kashmiri women, some of them teenaged girls, into prostitution for the perverse pleasure of senior politicians, bureaucrats . . .
- Alarm Over Afghan ‘Guidelines’ For Journalists (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The document bars intervals of Taliban Leaders and criticism of foreign troops
* Media guidelines are not officially stamped; they are thought to be derived by intelligence service
- Balochistan's Shaky Finances (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 22, 2006)
Balochistan's budget indicates the province's precarious financial condition and shows just how harmful violence and conflict have been to economic activity.
- Outsourced To Chennai (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 22, 2006)
Does DMK dictate Sri Lanka policy? ---- If nothing else, the Ministry of External Affairs can end its speculation as to the contours of the UPA Government's Sri Lanka policy.
- Thank God For Arab Investment! (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 22, 2006)
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz inaugurated the Pak-Kuwait Investment Conference in Islamabad Tuesday and invited “all investors in the world to take full advantage of liberal economic and investment-friendly . . .
- Resentment Over Budget Procedures (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Say parliament becoming ‘rubber stamp’
- Both The Haves And The Nots (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Jun 22, 2006)
The snap beside the masthead of Karnataka’s Vijay Times daily says it all. It shows a saffron-draped sadhu at Allahabad’s Sangam ghat, balancing not the world but a football on his head.
- Death Of A Soldier (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 22, 2006)
Sir, ~ Lieutenant Sushmita Chakraborty’s suicide reveals that even 60 years after independence, all is not well in the army ~ not even for women. Brigadier KK Chopra of the Northern Command is reported to have told a press conference that “she had . . .
- Pak, India Talks On Wullar Barrage (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
The third round of two-day secretary level talks between Pakistan and India on Wullar Barrage will start here today (Thursday).
- Palestine In Crisis (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jun 22, 2006)
Palestine is embroiled in a very serious and most dangerous crisis since its people rightly or wrongly elected the radical party Hamas ousting Fatah for the first time since the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) set foot on the Israeli . . .
- Zawahri Urges Afghans To Fight Foreign Troops (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Afghans in an Internet video to fight foreign troops in their country whom he said had a history of denigrating Islam.
- Pakistan Offers Level Playing Field For Business: Pm (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that Pakistan has an excellent infrastructure in IT sector and environment is conducive for investment and development in this sector.
- Society Gets More Brutalised (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 22, 2006)
A factory worker on Tuesday killed his three minor daughters in cold blood that prompted a policeman to shoot him dead in the lock-up in Lahore on Tuesday. Tension caused by poverty, according to the worker, forced him to take the extreme step.
- Musharraf Disallows Us To Question Khan (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 22, 2006)
Voicing concern over the US reopening investigations into the proliferation network of disgraced Pakistan nuclear scientist the A.Q. Khan, President Pervez Musharraf has said he would not permit any direct questioning of the scientist.
- Wasting Kalam's Time (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2006)
On Monday, June 19, the Left-liberal rent-a-cause mafia outdid itself by marching into Rasthrapati Bhawan and demanding of the President of India that film-maker Mahesh Bhatt be made a protected monument.
- Infantile Protest (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2006)
We have rued ad infinitum the historic incapacity of Indians to deal with the enemy within - to speak nothing of invaders. But what we are witnessing in the instance of the organised misrepresentation of the Salwa Judum movement is truly unbelievable.
- Kashmir Solution Still A Long Way Off, Says Us Crisis Group (Tribune, Priscilla Huff, Jun 21, 2006)
The Washington-based International Crisis Group (ICG) feels that a full and final solution to the decades-long dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan is a long way off, but suggests that small progress has been made with the introduction . . .
- Peace Is Elusive In Jammu & Kashmir (Pioneer, Ghazanfar Butt, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan must not talk about the rights of Kashmiris till it gives those in its control in PoK basic human dignity, says Ghazanfur Butt.
- A Charlatan As Jihad's Butcher (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Jun 21, 2006)
The grimmest of situations has its lighter side that can raise a laugh or two. So it was with the slaying of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi by American forces on June 7.
- Journey Gone Wrong (Pioneer, Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Jun 21, 2006)
When Bangladesh was liberated with generous Indian help, it was a beacon of secularism; today, it's a hotbed of hate and intolerance
- 2nd Kashmir Bus Service Is Launched Across Loc (Asian Age, Yusuf Jameel and Shafqat Ali, Jun 21, 2006)
India and Pakistan on Tuesday started a new trans-Kashmir bus service between Poonch, in Jammu and Kashmir, and Rawalkot in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
- Socialism Without Marx (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jun 21, 2006)
In order to see why Blairite Labour has been such a hit, it is necessary to understand the attraction of socialism-without-Marx, says Janet Daley.
- Missing Us Soldiers Found Dead In Iraq (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The new leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq killed two US soldiers who it abducted last week, an umbrella group for Iraqi insurgents said in a Web statement posted on Tuesday.
- Naxal Tit For Islamic Tat: Sena (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Marking the 40th anniversary of Shiv Sena, its chief Mr Bal Thackeray last night said he was ready to seek cooperation of Naxalites to fight Islamic terrorism in the country.
- The Death Of Al- Zarqawi (Daily Excelsior, SREEDHAR, Jun 21, 2006)
The June 7 killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, by the US forces brings to an end one of the most wanted ‘terrorists’ story during the ongoing war on terrorism.
- Targetting Migrant Workers (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Jun 21, 2006)
Sixteen agricultural workers of Nepali origin are the latest victims of terror.
- Three-Handed Cut-Throat (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Jun 21, 2006)
Congress, BJP And Left Hold Cards Close To Chests!
- All Quiet In Balochistan? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 21, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that life was returning to normal in Dera Bugti and nearby areas because “terrorists have been eliminated from Balochistan”.
- No Enthusiasm As Pok ‘Pm’ Flags Off Bus (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The first service of the Poonch-Rawalakot bus was today flagged off by Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) ‘Prime Minister’ Hayat Khan with 57 passengers on board.
- Pak-Kuwait Ties Further Deepened (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday under which the latter will set up an oil refinery at Port Qasim.
- Fata Alliance Threatens Violence If Hayat’S Killers Not Arrested (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jun 21, 2006)
The Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Grand Alliance has told the government to arrest the alleged killers of journalists Hayatullah Khan by June 24 otherwise they will began a violent movement to press their demand.
- Pakistan, India’S Positions On Kashmir Unchanged (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan’s official position on Kashmir, as that of India, remains unchanged more than two years after the composite dialogue between the two countries got underway, according to the International Crisis Group’s (ICG) Dr Samina . . .
- India Urged To Let Oic Team Visit Kashmir (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 21, 2006)
The Organisation of Islamic Conference’s contact group on Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday called for early resolution of the dispute and urged India to allow visit of its special representative to occupied Kashmir.
- Pakistan, Kuwait To Explore New Avenues Of Cooperation (Pakistan Observer, Sharafat Kazmi, Jun 21, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait Tuesday while vowing to expand economic ties agreed to explore new avenues of cooperation with a focus on increasing investments and mutual trade flow.
- Turkey’S Eu Prospects (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jun 21, 2006)
Given the tough way in which Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked the other day on the Cyprus question, the prospects of Turkey’s membership of the European Union do not seem very bright.
- Iraq: Some Damning Statistics (Dawn, Mahir Ali, Jun 21, 2006)
Within a couple of days of George W. Bush’s return from his extraordinarily surreptitious foray into Baghdad’s green zone, his nation’s self-proclaimed newspaper of record, The New York Times, had a bit of bad news for the president.
- Hidden 'Enemies' (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Jun 21, 2006)
It is seldom that two events take place almost simultaneously pointing to hidden wars and enemies plaguing the social order at large.
- A Damascus Diary (Daily Excelsior, M.J. Akbar, Jun 21, 2006)
The sun rises at 4.30. It is already high by 7.30 and will fade only at 7.45 in the evening.
- Challenges In Kashmir (Deccan Herald, Balraj Puri, Jun 21, 2006)
Power devolution to J&K and its regions is a logical step forward within constitution
- This Tail Wags The Dog (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Jun 21, 2006)
The Israel lobby selectively pumps in funds to distort US elections
- Russia Calls For Release Of Diplomats (Hindu, Vladimir Radyuhin , Jun 21, 2006)
Russia has called for the immediate release of four Russian diplomats abducted in Iraq as a group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
- Army Commander Says Waziristan Under Control (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jun 21, 2006)
The Pakistan Army has put militants in Waziristan “on the defensive” and the situation in the Waziristan tribal areas has “cooled down tremendously”, Commander 11 Corps Lt Gen Mohammed Hamid Khan has said. Others disagree.
- Not The Destination, Says Pok Leader (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Jun 21, 2006)
56 cross the Line of Control from Rawalakot to Poonch by bus on Tuesday
"A bus service or a truck service cannot solve the problem of Kashmir"
Demand for inclusion of Kashmiri leaders in India-Pakistan talks.
- Pakistan, India Relations Prone To Deterioration’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri warned on Monday that history had shown that relations between Pakistan and India were prone to sudden deterioration.
- India Arrests 30 Pakistani Fishermen (Daily Times, Aayan Ali, Jun 20, 2006)
Indian security forces last week arrested 30 Pakistani fishermen after they violated India’s fishing zones, sources told Daily Times on Monday.
- Sc Notice To Delhi Govt, Police On Militant’S Plea Over Judicial Propriety (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
The Supreme Court today sought replies from the Delhi Government and the Delhi police on a petition of Kashmiri militant Gulam Mohammad Dar, raising the question of judicial propriety while hearing his bail plea in a case of hatching a conspiracy . . .
- Real Threat (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Jun 20, 2006)
A functional relationship between the government and the opposition is a crucial sign of a mature democracy.
- Tipton Three Treated Worse Than Animals At Guantanamo (Tribune, Ashish Kumar Sen, Jun 20, 2006)
Three young British Muslims, Ruhal Ahmed and his two friends — Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul — were arrested by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
- India, Pak To Write New Chapter Of Friendship Today (Daily Excelsior, Dinesh Manhotra, Jun 20, 2006)
Initiating one more step in the direction of further strengthening heart to heart relations on two sides of the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan are all set to launch second Karvan-e-Aman bus service tomorrow.
- Kuwait To Set Up Refinery At Port Qasim: Musharraf, Sabah Hold Talks (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Jun 20, 2006)
Pakistan and Kuwait on Monday signed several agreements and memoranda of understanding to enhance economic relations, including an MoU for setting up an oil refinery at Port Qasim.
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