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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- Talks Held For Caretaker Govt: Bhutto (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto on Monday said the Government had held discussions with her on forming a caretaker Government as a precursor to the upcoming general elections. But there had been no parleys on choosing the . . . . .
- 'Musharraf Had Run Proxy War In J&k' (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, commander of 4 Corps (Lahore), Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz, and Chief of General Staff, Gen Mohammed Yusuf, had run the proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
- Nuclear Nightmares (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
According to a new book by two British journalists, Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Pakistan readied nuclear missiles for use against India during the Kargil war.
- Youths Willing To Surrender: Militant (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
As a majority of local youths, engaged in blood and destruction, have been desperately trying to lay down their arms, foreign mercenaries are creating hurdles in their surrender.
- Kashmir Soldiers Told To Move Out (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have been told to move out of schools and hospitals which they have occupied in the region.
- Many Colours Of Imperialism (Times of India, SWAGATO GANGULY, Oct 30, 2007)
Integration into the global nuclear order has been a long-standing Indian demand. However, New Delhi is dropping out just at the moment when — following lengthy and arduous negotiations and activism — the prize is within its grasp.
- Pakistan-India Trade From Porters To Trucks (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan and India have entered into mutual arrangement for cross-border movement of trucks transporting import and export cargo through Wagha. First Indian truck carrying import cargo crossed the border on October 1, 2007 under this arrangement.
- Dollar Link Should Be Consigned To The Sands Of Time (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Should the Gulf states depeg from the dollar? This may seem like a technical question but it is, potentially, the most consequential economic issue arising from a resurgent Arab world. And, more importantly, it is live: senior officials in Abu . . . . .
- Consumers Will Have To Pay More For New Channels (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Get ready to shell out more for your direct-to-home (DTH) service if you want to watch the new and upcoming channels. DTH players will charge you extra if you want channels such as Neo Sports, NDTV Good times and Bindaas.
- Developing Labour Skills Critical For Vision 2030 (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Kenya is currently working on a development strategy for the next 25 years or so.
- Pak Vows To Go Ahead With Iran Gas Pipeline F.P. Report (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan said Monday that it would go ahead with the multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project.
- ‘Musharraf Ran Proxy J-K War’ (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, commander of 4 Corps (Lahore), Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz, and Chief of General Staff, Gen Mohammed Yusuf, had run the proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
- Inflation, Current Account Deficit To Trouble Economy (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Curbing inflation and bringing down the current account deficit will be the biggest challenges for the country’s economic managers in the current fiscal year, but the targeted economic growth rate of 7 percent or more is likely to be . . . .
- What Happens When You ‘Talk’ To Terrorists? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 30, 2007)
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, finally committed on Sunday in Larkana that she “would not talk to extremists who had shed the blood of innocent Muslims”.
- Indian Islamic Group Attacks Bbc Film For Bin Laden Link (Guardian (UK), Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
A BBC documentary shown last night came under attack from one of India's largest Islamic groups for linking their movement to Osama bin Laden and "extremist" Muslim groups around the world.
- India-Usa Interests (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible military threat . . .
- Special (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
If there is a “natural alliance” between India and the United States, it arises to the extent that both are large democracies and more or less free societies that happen to be placed half way across the globe and pose no perceptible . . . . .
- The Original Sin Of Politics (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 30, 2007)
Some political scientists consider violence to be the ‘original sin’ of politics. Political leadership ritualises death as sacrifice — for a cause and higher purpose.
- ‘Truce With Sharif Possible’ (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that reconciliation was possible with former Premier Nawaz Sharif, the arch rival of President General Pervez Musharraf.
- Pakistan Militants Agree To Cease-Fire (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 30, 2007)
Pro-Taliban militants and security forces reached a cease-fire in a troubled district of northwest Pakistan early today after the deaths of another 35 rebel fighters and 16 troops, officials said.
- Unaware Of Gold (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 29, 2007)
Britannia has long ceased to rule the waves. No matter, thanks to the American century, English has retained its dominance on the global stage.
- ‘In ’99, Pak Planned To Nuke India’ (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan intended to use nuclear missiles against India during the 1999 Kargil war, but was sternly dissuaded by then US President Bill Clinton from doing so, claims a recently published book by two British journalists.
- For First Time, Pak Accepts Indian Dossier On Terror In J&k (Indian Express, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Oct 29, 2007)
The Indo-Pak anti terror meeting last week may not have led to any major breakthrough, but for the first time Pakistan has accepted a dossier on terror in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Ltte’S Growing Air Power (Tribune, Gurmeet Kanwal, Oct 29, 2007)
Sri Lankan soldiers carry the coffin of an officer who was among the servicemen killed in the LTTE’s air attacks on a military air base.
- Pak Wanted To Nuke India: Book (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan was preparing to use nuclear missiles against India during the Kargil war, a new book has claimed, citing a conversation between US President Bill Clinton and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif eight years ago.
- Pak Army Gets First Sikh Officer (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
One person stood out among the latest batch of smartly turned out cadets which graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy — the country's first Sikh army officer Harcharan Singh.
- Indo-Pak Strategy Soon (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan will join hands with India to combat extremism and work with other SAARC countries to develop a mechanism for exchanging information to curb terrorism and drug trafficking, interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has said.
- Kargil: The Aborted Pak Nuke War (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan was preparing to use nuclear missiles during the Kargil war, a new book has claimed, citing a conversation between President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif eight years back.
- Baseless And Prejudiced (Pioneer, KR Phanda, Oct 29, 2007)
To write critically about a religion and its community is one thing, but to denigrate them deliberately is quite another.
- 80 Taliban Killed In Afghan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said on Sunday.
- Isi-Backed Terror Camps Being Rationalised To Export Violence In J&k: Ib (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Latest intelligence assessments suggest a shift in Pakistan's strategy of exporting terror by seeking a "united political voice in Jammu and Kashmir and extend the arc of violence to the hinterland."
- Drawing The Line Of Distrust (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
For observers and students of international politics, the final quarter of the 20th century was truly overwhelming.
- Be Practical On Burma (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Oct 29, 2007)
In stormy street protests in 1988 all across Burma that brought down the one-party Socialist regime of Gen Ne Win, over 3,000 people perished when the Army opened fire on peaceful demonstrators.
- Pak Army Planned 'Use Of N-Arms' During Kargil War (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan was preparing to use nuclear missiles against India during the Kargil war, a new book has claimed, citing a conversation between US President Bill Clinton and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif eight years back.
- Kayani: Army Will Fight Terror (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
The Pakistan Army will fight out the menace of extremism and terrorism from the country, the Vice-Chief of Pakistan Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, said.
- A Troubled Pakistan In A Troubled Region (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 29, 2007)
Faced with Russian and Chinese opposition to Chapter Seven sanctions at the UN Security Council, the United States has moved unilaterally to impose them on Iran to deter it from making a nuclear bomb which the IAEA says could be eight years away.
- A Flagging Political Spirit (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
APPEARANCES can be deceptive, and it is easy to misinterpret public enthusiasm for political leaders or parties, as witnessed during the PPP’s grand show of Oct 18 in Karachi, as a sign of political participation.
- Romancing The Dragon (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Those who see India's growing closeness to the US as an indication that New Delhi has mortgaged the independence of its foreign policy should feel reassured by Sonia Gandhi's visit to China, which followed close on the heels of . . . . .
- ‘Israel Planned To Hit Kahuta From India’S Jamnagar Base’ (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India and Israel secretly planned to hit nuclear facility in Kahuta near Islamabad in 1983-84 but backed off when the CIA tipped off Pakistan’s then president Gen Ziaul Haq.
- Indian Sleuths Framed Two Muslims, Says Report (Dawn, Jawed Naqvi, Oct 29, 2007)
India’s federal police are investigating elite sleuths for apparently faking the identities of two police informers as Kashmiri militants because the police were required to produce results in the aftermath of a major bombing spree in this city.
- Code Of Conduct For Polls (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
ON Oct 24, the Election Commission circulated a document entitled ‘Draft Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Contesting Candidates for General Elections, 2007’ to all political parties for comments.
- Pak Army Gets First Sikh Officer (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
One person stood out among the latest batch of cadets that graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy — the country’s first Sikh Army officer Harcharan Singh.
- The Best And Worst Of Khushwant Singh (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
These books are handsomely hardbound and easy on the eye, but except 'Train to Pakistan', some of the matter has lost relevance today.
- Healthcare For All (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
THE health of the nation may be dismal but the health of around 18 parliamentarians and government officials is stable thanks to the prime minister using his discretionary powers and lifting the ban on certain public officials’ medical treatment abroad.
- Food Security Concerns (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race…levelling the population with the food of the world.”
- Academia And The Energy Sector (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 29, 2007)
OVER the last couple of decades, the global energy scenario has been substantially transformed.
- ‘India, Israel Planned To Hit Kahuta In 1980s’ (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
India and Israel had secretly planned to hit Pakistan’s nuclear facility in Kahuta in 1983-84, but backed off when the CIA tipped off then president General Ziaul Haq.
- 'Pak Planned N-Attack Against India' (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Pakistan was preparing to use nuclear missiles against India during the Kargil war, a new book has claimed citing an eight year old conversation between the former US president Bill Clinton and Pakistans former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
- Thousands Flee Tense Northwest Pak Town (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 29, 2007)
Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
- Around Midnight (OutLook, Mushirul Hasan, Oct 27, 2007)
Phillips Talbot, president emeritus of the Asia Society in the United States, is the latest author to add his voice to the complex debates on India’s Partition. He saw it all—the progress and impact of the Second World War on the subcontinent . . . .
- And Now It's Maulana Fm Radio's Turn (OutLook, B. Raman , Oct 27, 2007)
The tribal anger against President General Pervez Musharraf, which was already running high after the Pakistan Army's commando raid into the Lal Masjid in Islamabad from July 10 to 13, 2007, has further escalated in the wake of the air strikes . . . .
- Uk To Fight Forced Asian Marriages (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
After years of finding itself unable to deal with the phenomenon of South Asian families in Britain forcing their children to marry people from the Indian sub-continent, the British government has now stepped up measures to tackle the problem.
- Despair And Despondence (Pioneer, JS Rajput, Oct 27, 2007)
The Prime Minister is sad, and competitive politics and fractured mandate have been formally identified as the culprits.
- Saudis Ok Sharif's Pakistan Return (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Saudi Arabian government has given its approval to former PM Nawaz Sharif to go back to Pakistan and modalities are being worked out for his return in November, a senior leader of his PML-N party said on Friday.
- Planning Demise Of Civil Service (Dawn, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 27, 2007)
NOT content with the self-created decay in bureaucracy, is the present government working for the demise of the civil service? If it is, it is doing so with the subtlety and craft that only a successful corporate leader can possess.
- Pak Troops Take On Radical Cleric’S Fighters (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
A fierce gunbattle erupted on Friday between security forces and pro-Taliban militants near the stronghold of a radical cleric in the Swat region of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
- Saudi Approves Sharif’S Return To Pak (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Saudi Arabian government has given its approval to former premier Nawaz Sharif to go back to Pakistan and modalities are being worked out for his return in November, a senior leader of his PML-N party said on Friday.
- India Should Not Be Cynical (Pioneer, Radha Kumar, Oct 27, 2007)
There was solid basis for New Delhi's response to the blasts in Karachi. The two countries are in the process of evolving a mechanism for police cooperation against terrorism and it is in India's interest to make Benazir conform to the . . . .
- Merkel For Closer Ties With Asia (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 27, 2007)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday called upon the West to acknowledge “different structures” for resolving conflicts and be “open-minded” about religions from Asia. Calling on the West to be “more than willing to learn from . . . .
- Radical Preacher Hideout Attacked (Hindu, Nirupama Subramanian , Oct 27, 2007)
Pakistani security forces used helicopter gunships and heavy weapons to blast a hideout of a radical preacher in Swat district of the North West Frontier Province on Friday.
- Sharif Free To Go Home: Saudi Govt (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Saudi Arabian government has given its approval to former premier Nawaz Sharif to go back to Pakistan and modalities are being worked out for his return in November, a senior leader of his PML-N party said ...
- Indian Police Warn Suicide Bombers Planning Attacks In Mumbai (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Three suicide bombers are roaming Mumbai looking for new targets just over a year after a series of explosions tore through the city’s commuter rail network killing 188 people, police warned on Friday.
- Al Qaeda Comes To Town (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
THIRTEEN hours into the carnival-like atmosphere at the rally celebrating Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming, the enthusiastic teeming masses were enjoying themselves.
- The Swat Carnage (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
THE anachronistic idea which Fata represents — that the tribal area is beyond the jurisdiction of Pakistani laws — is expanding instead of shrinking.
- Cda’S Failure To Manage Its Sewers (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 27, 2007)
NOT much functions in Pakistan’s capital, not even its sewers. Years of neglected maintenance and upgrading means that human excreta fails to reach the treatment plant.
- Set It Right Now (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 27, 2007)
Why should the Indian Government and the national Opposition lose sleep if Pakistanis are getting killed in jihadi strikes? Well, isolationism is out of fashion now.
- Gandhi On Goodwill Visit To China (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The leader of India's governing Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has met the Chinese president and prime minister in Beijing.
- Indian Army Detains 17 (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Indian army detained 17 people for entering the Indian portion of Kashmir from the Pakistani side without valid travel documents, the army and police said Friday.
- Indian Police Warn Of Suicide Attacks (Frontier Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Three suicide bombers are roaming Mumbai looking for new targets just over a year after a series of explosions tore through the city’s commuter rail network killing 188 people, police warned Friday.
- How The Kashmir Crisis Began (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
It's 60 years exactly since one of the world's most enduring conflict zones, the Kashmir valley, first erupted in violence. The BBC's former Delhi correspondent, Andrew Whitehead, looks back on how the Kashmir crisis started.
- No Move To Reduce Crpf Troops In J&k (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
As the terrorist network in the state is still strong, the government is no mood to reduce force deployment in Jammu and Kashmir, said the Central Reserve Police Force.
- Pak Forces Attack Cleric Stronghold (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Troops and helicopter gunships attacked the village stronghold of a militant cleric on Friday, a day after a suicide bombing killed 20, as the conflict between Government and pro-Taliban forces intensified in Pakistan.
- Pro-Taliban Militants, Troops Clash In Pakistan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
A fierce gunbattle erupted on Friday between security forces and pro-Taliban militants near the stronghold of a radical cleric in the Swat region of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
- Saudi Arabia Approves Sharif Return To Pakistan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
The Saudi Arabian government has given its approval to former premier Nawaz Sharif to go back to Pakistan and modalities are being worked out for his return in November, a senior leader of his PML(N) party said on Friday.
- Aziz: No Ban On Political Activity (Asian Age, Shafqat Ali, Oct 27, 2007)
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government has no plans to ban any political activity ahead of the general elections to be held in January.
- Pak Attacks Radical Cleric Base (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Security forces backed by helicopters attacked a militant cleric’s stronghold in northwestern Pakistan today, killing one of his supporters, while militants kidnapped eleven people, police and a cleric aide said.
- Know Your Benazir (Pioneer, Wilson John, Oct 27, 2007)
After last week's suicide bombing in Karachi, a sympathy wave is sought to be manufactured in favour of the 'daughter of the East' even here in India. But does the lady deserve a second chance?
- Lal Masjid And Fazlullah (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Oct 27, 2007)
The naib-imam of Islamabad’s controversial Lal Masjid, Amir Siddiqi, appointed to his job by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, held a press conference at the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club on Thursday and said the 30 troops killed by . . . .
- India Threatened By 'Failed States': Nsa (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 27, 2007)
Intelligence inputs available with the Government indicate the possibility of imminent jihadi attacks on country's "economic and iconic targets".
- Sino-India Border: Beijing Favours Mutual Concessions, Adjustments (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 26, 2007)
China on Thursday for the first time publicly said “mutual concessions and adjustments” were a must to reach an early deal on the vexed boundary issue with India for which the two governments have set up a Working Group to prepare a framework agreement.
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