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Articles 5021 through 5120 of 21681:
- A Common Stance In Wto For South Asia (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 29, 2006)
Regions such as Asean, Mercosur have gained from such a strategy; is the same possible for South Asia?
- Israel Disgraces Itself (News International, Praful Bidwai, Jul 29, 2006)
The writer, a former newspaper editor, is a researcher and peace and human-rights activist based in Delhi
- Terrorists And Fellow Travellers (Pioneer, AJAI SAHNI, Jul 29, 2006)
There are, it is often remarked, none so blind as those who will not see.
- Handicaps To Education (News International, Hafizur Rahman, Jul 29, 2006)
A friend was saying the other day that but for frequent cataclysmic changes in our politics and in the country's constitution, the problems of education might have been taken more seriously by successive governments.
- The Quota Issue (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jul 29, 2006)
In a previous editorial denouncing the principle of state-imposed quotas for hiring in private firms, we noted that this had, however, become a live political issue.
- Grabbers Keepers (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 29, 2006)
That's what Dhaka believes ---- Adverse possession, those acquainted with the daunting and near impossible task of evicting squatters from their property will aver, is nine-tenths of the law.
- Pakistan Is Not Lebanon (Pioneer, Prafull Goradia, Jul 29, 2006)
When one thinks of terrorism and Pakistan, one is reminded of the husband who complains against a neighbour for making eyes at his wife. It never occurs to him that it is his own responsibility to command the loyalty of his spouse.
- Congress Follows The Us Establishment (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
Ignoring voices of sanity, the US House of Representatives has voted to allow shipments of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India.
- Indian Muslim Student Body In Eye Of Terror Storm (Daily Times, Kamil Zaheer, Jul 29, 2006)
A Muslim paediatrician says it seems like educated Muslim youth are being targeted as part of a conspiracy to demoralise them as they try to do well and improve their position in Indian society
- The Sindh Crisis (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
Not handled carefully by the two sides, the MQM’s decision to quit the provincial and federal governments could be the precursor to a crisis greater than what appears to be the case at present.
- Missing Education Targets (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
Given how the education sector has always been neglected as a low-priority area, it is clear that Pakistan will not be able to achieve the 80 per cent literacy rate by 2015 set out as one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Just how far . . .
- Power-Sharing Among The Provinces (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 29, 2006)
The question of Pakistan’s constitutional make-up and power-sharing among the country’s four provinces and ethnic minorities is once again coming under intense debate.
- Peace Process Sidelined (Dawn, Tariq Fatemi, Jul 29, 2006)
The multiple bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 11 resulted in the death of nearly 200 people.
- President Rejects Mqm Ministers’ Resignations (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Jul 29, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday rejecting the resignations submitted to him by the MQM federal ministers has asked them to continue to work with the government for strengthening the political and democratic institutions in the country.
- Lt Planning Strike On India’S Nuclear Facilities (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
India has been warned by its intelligence agencies that militant group Lashkar-e-Taiaba (LeT) could target its nuclear installations, National Security Adviser MK Narayanan said on Friday.
- Mqm Should Let The System Work (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 29, 2006)
In a dramatic move, one of the allies of the Government – the MQM has directed all its Federal and Provincial Ministers, advisors and special assistants to immediately send their resignations to the Sindh Governor and the President.
- J&k Top Cop Proud Of Muslims In Force (Asian Age, M.R. Narayan Swamy, Jul 29, 2006)
The chief of the Jammu and Kashmir police is all praise for his Muslim colleagues, saying the detention of just two of them for suspected terror links is no commentary on the entire community.
- Mqm Resignations (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 29, 2006)
Sindh has always been a province that has been difficult to govern. It has seen unwieldy and sometimes unnatural coalitions cobbled together by the centre to prop up governments and keep out the province's single largest party -- the PPP.
- Us House Vote (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 29, 2006)
The overwhelming vote in the US House of Representatives ratifying the India-US nuclear deal is a reflection of America's blatant double standards.
- Musharraf For Taking Advantage From Pak Geo-Strategic Importance (Pakistan Observer, Aroosa Alam, Jul 29, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf has said that concerted efforts need to be made on a fast track to translate the geo-strategic importance of Pakistan into economic opportunities for the country. He made this observation at a high-level meeting . . .
- Former Intelligence Official Says Secrets Were Leaked To Us (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 29, 2006)
A former Chief of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) has alleged that top security secrets were leaked to the US during the P V Narasimha Rao regime.
- Let Planning Major Assault On Atomic Energy Plants: Nsa (Pioneer, PTI, Jul 29, 2006)
Indian security and nuclear installations are under "very serious threat" from Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba which may be planning a "major assault", National Security Adviser MK Narayanan said on Friday.
- Government’S Dilemma In Fata (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 29, 2006)
Major General Shaukat Sultan, the Inter-Services Public Relations director general, has said that the extension of adult franchise in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has created the problem of Talibanisation.
- Q&a: Options Against Pakistan (OutLook, B Raman, Jul 28, 2006)
Is hot pursuit an option? Targeted killings of jihadi terrorist leaders? Air strikes on training camps in Pakistan? US and Israel models? Why does US not act on evidence against Pakistan? And many more questions - is cover action the only practical . . .
- Cops Arrest Mumbai Lashkar Chief, He’S ‘Brother’ Of Bangalore Techie (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Anti-Terrorist Squad tonight arrested Faizal Atur Rehman Sheikh (27), who Crime Branch officials say heads the Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai operations. ATS officers are now investigating how involved he is in the serial blasts of Terrible Tuesday.
- Clearing The Cloud Around The N-Deal (Indian Express, C Raja Mohan, Jul 28, 2006)
After the thumping vote on Wednesday night in favour of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the House of Representatives, you might think a happy ending is at hand.
- Calibrated Incursion Attempts: Army (Statesman, Kavita Suri, Jul 28, 2006)
A day after the Union home minister Mr Shivraj Patil said that infiltration from across the Line of Control had picked up in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army in the terrorism-hit state today said that there were ‘‘calibrated’’ attempts of infiltration . . .
- Taliban Returning Via Pakistan: Un Envoy (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is backed by foreign money, terror networks and fighters coming over the border from Pakistan, the top UN envoy in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
- Do Not Derail The Dialogue (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Jul 28, 2006)
Is it correct to blame Pakistan for the recent 7/11 Mumbai serial blasts without hard evidence to back it up?
- Nuclear Deal Wins Washington As It Continues To Battle New Delhi (Indian Express, LALIT K JHA, Jul 28, 2006)
Surprising even many of the Indian supporters and those in the State Department, the House of Representatives last night passed the civilian nuclear agreement between India and the United States with an overwhelming majority.
- Much Heat, Little Light On Nuclear Deal (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 28, 2006)
While New Delhi can say it is not bound by any "Sense of the Congress" provisions in the legislation, it must recognise that nuclear cooperation with the US will end if it tests a `nuclear device'. Therefore there is merit in the criticism that . . .
- ‘Pak Has 25 To 50 Modest Nukes’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan currently has between 25 and 50 nuclear weapons, mostly relatively simple uranium arms with ‘‘modest’’ yields—around the size of the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the journal Nature claimed on Thursday.
- Foreign Policy Tangles (News International, Shafqat Mahmood, Jul 28, 2006)
The writer is a former member of parliament and a freelance columnist based in Lahore
- My Book Is Not Meant To Be Sensational (Asian Age, Sanjay Basak, Jul 28, 2006)
"Sensationalism has no place in it. I never sought sensationalism. Therefore it disappoints me," former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh said in an indirect reference to the controversy being generated by his just published memoir, A Call To . . .
- Pakistan Asks West Bengal To Help Reform Madrasas (Reuters, BAPPA MAJUMDAR, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan has sought the help of a West Bengal to revamp its system of madrasas after accusations some of the Islamic schools teach religious hatred and are breeding grounds for militancy.
- Mole On The Nose (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Jul 28, 2006)
Jaswant Singh is a gentleman fallen among politicians. We have been waiting for his memoirs ever since a south-east Asian summit when the post-banquet entertainment took the form of a skit that was a witty take-off of Lewis Carroll’s “You are Old . . .
- The Us And Muslims (News International, Rahimullah Yusufzai, Jul 28, 2006)
If the United States of America still hoped it would be able to win the hearts of minds of Muslims worldwide, its reaction to the events of the past few weeks in the Middle East should make it realise the futility of the exercise.
- Fill The Vacancies In The Courts (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 28, 2006)
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the chief justice of Pakistan, has breathed new life into the apex court by exercising its dormant suo motu powers to redress wrong and dispense justice.
- Us-India Nuclear Deal Wins Big Vote Despite Dissent (Daily Times, Khalid Hasan, Jul 28, 2006)
The US House of Representatives voted by 359 votes to 68 to approve the controversial US-India nuclear cooperation agreement despite several dissenting voices, with one member calling the deal a “historic failure” that “pours nuclear fuel on the . . .
- A Major Setback (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
The world, especially the developing world, has been extremely concerned, at least since the Doha round of July 2003, over the way the global trade talks had progressed.
- Disturbing Trend (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
The message inherent in President Pervez Musharraf’s assertion in Karachi on Wednesday is that a change at the top provincial or federal executive level will not be allowed.
- Mqm Quits Centre And Sindh Cabinets (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Contact established between MQM and President House
* MQM upset at Musharraf’s support to Sindh CM
* MQM ministers return to Karachi
- J&k Announces Reward For Nabbing Grenade-Throwers (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Jammu and Kashmir police has announced a reward of Rs one lakh besides a government job for anyone who will catch a grenade-thrower.
- Organ Sale Racket (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 28, 2006)
While our legislators delay the passage of an organ donation bill that has been lying with them for years, illegal kidney sales in the country are acquiring alarming proportions.
- President Debunks Rumours. Good (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 28, 2006)
President Gen Pervez Musharraf has categorically said that no change in the Government is imminent at the Centre and in the Sindh Province.
- Horrifying Tale Of Sepoy Maqbool. (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 28, 2006)
After braving forty years of torture and cruelties at the hands of Indian forces, Sepoy Maqbool Hussain is finally back home but with paralyzed body and a cut tongue.
- ‘President Against Accepting Resignations’ (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani Thursday night said that resignations of the Muttahida ministers had been received by the respective governments.
- How Not To Promote Tourism (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 28, 2006)
Simply declaring such and such year as the 'year of tourism' does not bring in thousands of foreign tourists.
- Flames Of War In West Asia (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Jul 28, 2006)
Even at the best of times, this country is heavily polarised and therefore in a confrontational mood.
- Present Musharraf With Evidence (Pioneer, Anil Narendra, Jul 28, 2006)
Rather belatedly, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appears to have become aware of Pakistan's treachery.
- Indo-Us Nuclear Deal Just A Senate Nod Away (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 28, 2006)
The overwhelming approval of the Indo-US nuclear deal in the House of Representatives came after several hours of debate. It saw many legislators backing the pact saying " it would strengthen global nonsproliferation regime", while some expressed . . .
- Rotten Apples (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2006)
Defence forces must get rid of them --- It is extremely disconcerting to learn that three soldiers attached to the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry have been found to have links with the Pakistan-based Islamic terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Tayyeba.
- Protestations Of The Credulous (Pioneer, Balbir K Punj, Jul 28, 2006)
It might appear preposterous to the rest of the country, but two Ministers from the Congress, a CPI(M) top brass and one Muslim maulana distinguished themselves by offering alternate theories on 7/11.
- Long Haul In J&k (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Jul 28, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf recently suggested a solution for peace in Jammu & Kashmir: De-militarise the Valley and give the right of self-governance to the State, with joint administration on the top.
- Nuke Deal Gets Us House Nod (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Jul 28, 2006)
India’s supporters are celebrating the House of Representatives’ decision to back the controversial nuclear deal that permits US nuclear fuel exports without requiring New Delhi to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
- ‘This Secret Will Perish Along With Me’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Jul 28, 2006)
Tell me of your experience in dealing with (Bill) Clinton.
- 12 More Hardcore Detenues Being Shifted From J&k (Daily Excelsior, Mohinder Verma , Jul 27, 2006)
About a dozen more foreign mercenaries lodged in highly fortified Central Jail at Kot Bhalwal here are being shifted outside Jammu and Kashmir within next some days for being potentially dangerous ones.
- An Honours List For The Media? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Jul 27, 2006)
The government of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has prepared a list of about 30 columnists, writers and reporters in the English and Urdu print media and directed its spin-doctors to discreetly “soften” them up.
- After Serial Blast (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 27, 2006)
After Srinagar-Bombay serial blasts, it is becoming increasingly clear that the terrorist organizations based in Pakistan have played the key role in planning and executing the serial blasts.
- Saving Hingol National Park (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Jul 27, 2006)
Human disdain for nature knows no bounds in an age where even wildlife sanctuaries are seen as fair game.
- Pak N-Stockpiles (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Jul 27, 2006)
The report that Pakistan is building a new 1000-MW plutonium-based nuclear reactor at Khushab is a very alarming development.
- What Ails Our Intelligence? (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Jul 27, 2006)
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has become "a state within a state", answerable neither to the leadership of the Army, nor to the President or the Prime Minister, says the Federation of Americal scientists in its report.
- Terrorists Make Inroads Into Army (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
In the first incident of its type in the 17 years’ history of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, three Army jawans have been arrested in the border district of Poonch on the charges of operating as over ground workers (OWGs) of the . . .
- After The Nuclear Deal (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Jul 27, 2006)
President George W. Bush and Dr Manmohan Singh signed an agreement on July 18, 2005, under which the US leader pledged he would work to achieve “full nuclear energy cooperation” with India.
- Musharraf Rules Out Political Change (News International, Azfar-ul-Ashfaque, Jul 27, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out any change at the Centre and provincial level and declared that the current political set-up would continue working till the holding of 2007 general elections.
- Tourism, Not Extremism (Dawn, Sultan Ahmed, Jul 27, 2006)
President Musharraf has appealed to people to shun extremism and promote tourism.
- No Change In Federal Or Sindh Setup (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
President tells Sindh PML members to get behind Arbab
* Says united PML would rout ARD and MMA in elections
- Big Achievement Of Karachi Police (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Jul 27, 2006)
In a breakthrough, Anti-Crime Violent Cell of the Karachi Cell has arrested three culprits who engineered the suicide attack on Allama Hasan Turabi. They used 16-year-old Abdul Karim, a Bengali, to carry out the heinous crime.
- Tariq Sees Foreign Hand In Balochistan Unres (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem on Wednesday said that there were strong indications of involvement of foreign hand in creating law and order situation in Balochistan.
- The Oppressed Of The World (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
Like most Muslims around the world, one, after 9/11, had become convinced of the existence of a well-conceived international conspiracy to destroy Muslim states, subjugate Muslim populations mentally and economically, poison Muslim youth by . . .
- Improving Pakistan's Image (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
When Pakistan emerged on the world map, it had the image of a modern, liberal and progressive Muslim state founded by a leader who was educated in England and whose lifestyle too was that of a British gentleman.
- Pawns In A Game Of Giants (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor
- Offence Against Israel (Pioneer, B Raman, Jul 27, 2006)
If India's anger against Pakistan is justified, so is Israel's ire against Iran, Syria and their surrogates ----
- An Outlandish Option (News International, Editorial, The News International, Jul 27, 2006)
It is highly irresponsible for a sovereign state to be talking of 'hot pursuit' options of striking another country to take out suspected, or should one say imagined, enemies.
- Little Light On Nuclear Deal (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Jul 27, 2006)
President George Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed an agreement on July 18, 2005, under which President Bush pledged he would work to achieve "full nuclear energy cooperation" with India.
- Defence Minister Gives Offence (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice on Wednesday morning after Janata Dal (United) MP Digvijay Singh raised this newspaper’s report on the Pakistan nuclear reactor and defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee responded that "there cannot be an instant . . .
- Militants Escape After Killing 3 Soldiers In Shopian Gunbattle (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Jul 27, 2006)
Even as two Army personnel and a constable of SOG Pulwama got killed in an encounter at Renipora in Shopian area today, eight persons---including the grenade throwing militant---sustained injuries in a blast at Magam on Srinagar-Gulmarg Road.
- 3 Jawans In Terror Link (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
For the first time in 16 years of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, the Army has arrested three of its soldiers in Jammu for their alleged links with pan-Islamic terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba.
- Plot Thickens: More Mole Sightings (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
More evidence has emerged of the existence of a mole in the upper echelons of the Government of India during the PV Narasimha Rao regime.
- Soldiers From Border Areas Under Scanner (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Jul 27, 2006)
Following detention of three jawans of Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI) for their suspected links with field commanders of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba in Jammu and Kashmir, security forces have been asked to launch intensive screening of jawans . . .
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