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Articles 9021 through 9120 of 21681:
- Waste Not, Want Not (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 21, 2006)
Technical issues coupled with heavy usage have made unannounced loadshedding an unwelcome fact of life for most residents of the otherwise booming city of Karachi. But the past week has been particularly trying, what with summer cranking it up . . .
- 7 Pak Troops Die In Border Area Ambush (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
Militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border Thursday, killing seven and wounding 22, the army spokesman said, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on security forces.
- 7 Troops Killed In Miranshah (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
Eight militants also killed
* Militants attack paramilitary convoy, injure 22 troops
- Us Wanted Qaeda Man Killed (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
One Levies soldier and a suspected Al Qaeda operative were killed and two Levies men seriously injured during a shootout in Bajaur Agency on Thursday.
- Musharraf Asks Pml, Ppp-S To Patch Up (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday asked the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and its ally the Sherpao-led Pakistan People’s Party (PPP-S) to end their differences after PPP-S leaders complained that the PML was stealing its members.
- Saffron Demography (Times of India, Mohan Rao, Apr 21, 2006)
At a public meeting attended by thousands, the leader of the Madhya Pradesh unit of RSS claimed recently that the Muslim population was increasing at a rapid pace, and that this combined with infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh portended . . .
- Sbp’S Timely Warning (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 21, 2006)
The second quarterly report of the State Bank of Pakistan has identified a number of economic concerns needing urgent policy responses from the government.
- Why That Many Power Failures? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 21, 2006)
Karachi is again in the grip of prolonged power outages and unannounced loadshedding. According to reports, residents in all parts of the city are experiencing long power breakdowns, which in many cases happen more than once a day.
- Russia And Turkey Engage The Muslim World (Hindu, M.K. Bhadrakumar, Apr 21, 2006)
The two powers, archrivals for centuries in the vast region stretching from the Balkans to the Caucasus, are responding with agility to the complex Anglo-American manoeuvring in their backyard.
- Without Kashmir, Mr Mukherjee? (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
Indian Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday that the Indo-Pakistan peace process hadn't "failed or slowed down." The coincidence of Pakistan's cautious welcome the same day of India's offer to alter its Kishanganga Dam project . . .
- Sbp Report (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 21, 2006)
The State Bank of Pakistan has pointed out a number of measures to further reduce inflation, improve savings and investment, and bring down the current account deficit. In its second quarterly report for FY 06 released on Wednesday,
- Sbp’S Apprehensions (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 21, 2006)
THE State Bank of Pakistan has said that the GDP growth in the current financial year is likely to fall below seven per cent. In its second quarterly report for the year 2005-06 released on Wednesday, the SBP has attributed it to the . . .
- Brushing Up Ppp (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 21, 2006)
Organizational changes recently introduced in the PPP indicate the party is being geared up to brace for the forthcoming elections, or alternately prepare itself for a . . .
- Ignoring Implications (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 21, 2006)
The Tripartite Commission, comprising senior military commanders and diplomatic representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US-led Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, gave NATO-ISAF full member status of the Commission at its meeting in Rawalpindi . .
- 20,000 ‘Infected’ Chickens Culled (News International, Rizwan Ehsan Ali, Apr 21, 2006)
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Livestock culled around 20,000 chickens in the two poultry farms in Tarlai on Thursday due to suspected outbreak of the bird flu virus.
- For A Democratic Future (Dawn, Imran Khan, Apr 21, 2006)
MICHAEL SCHUEUR, former head of the CIA’s Al Qaeda Unit, warned in an opinion piece in the Washington Times that if the US keeps pushing Gen Musharraf to “do US’s dirty work against his country’s national interest”, he could be toppled and . . .
- India Rules Out Third Party Mediation To Solve Issues With Pak (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
India on Thursday ruled out third party mediation to resolve its differences with Pakistan, a day after Saudi Arabia claimed that its King Abdullah was trying to do so.
- Gilgit: Villagers Affected By Project Seek Relief (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
More than 400 villagers affected by the Naltar hydel power project have demanded compensation and said that without government’s support they and their children would be forced to live like refugees.
- Restructuring Intelligence Apparatus (Daily Excelsior, Surendra Sharma, Apr 21, 2006)
The government of Indiais in the process of setting up a high-powered coordination committee to monitor functioning of intelligence agencies. We have half-a-dozen intelligence agencies to keep the government informed about the external and . . .
- Beyond The Fence (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Apr 21, 2006)
The election schedule has not yet been finalised. It is likely to be done in the first week of May.
- Qaida Man Shot In Pak (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 21, 2006)
Pakistani security forces today shot dead a militant named by officials as an al Qaida member believed to have escaped a US air strike in January.
- Indian Alleges Threat By Us Agents (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
- Musharraf Had Fired Dr Khan For Keeping Secrets (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has disclosed that he fired his country’s father of nuclear programme, Dr A.Q. Khan, in 2001 after the latter refused to divulge details of his scheduled secret visit to Iran.
- Ksa Arbitrating Between Pakistan, India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Saudi Arabia has started an arbitration process between Pakistan and India, Geo television quoted Saudi Deputy Prime Minister Prince Sultan as saying to an Arab news agency.
- Pak Spanner In Safta Works (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Apr 20, 2006)
It is not entirely surprising that Pakistan is proving to be the most reluctant to follow the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta) in letter and spirit.
- Now Pakistan, China Under Yoga’S Spell (Deccan Herald, Shishir Prashant , Apr 20, 2006)
The magic of Yoga has had the western nations spellbound all these years. It is now the turn of Islamic Pakistan and Communist China to come under the spell of Yoga, thanks to Baba Ramdev.
- Saffron Demography (Times of India, Mohan Rao, Apr 20, 2006)
At a public meeting attended by thousands, the leader of the Madhya Pradesh unit of RSS claimed recently that the Muslim population was increasing at a rapid pace, and that this combined with infiltration of Muslims from Bangladesh portended doom . . .
- India Can Get Top Un Job (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Apr 20, 2006)
Secretary-general Kofi Annan has, in an unusual move, made three high-level appointments, despite having less than a year in his second term at the UN.
- Will India ‘Give’ On The Dams? (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Apr 20, 2006)
The Indian science and technology minister, Kapil Sibal, told reporters in New Delhi on Tuesday that the Indian government had decided to convert the Kishanganga Dam project in Kashmir into a run-of-the-river scheme in the wake of Pakistan’s . . .
- Now Domestic Money (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 20, 2006)
With the Sensex once again hitting a new high point on Wednesday, falling only marginally short of the 12,000-point mark, bulls are back in business after a brief fright last week.
- Mushahid’S Ill-Advice To Ministers (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 20, 2006)
Pml Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed is perceived to be a man of reconciliatory and statesmanship like approach. This is the right kind of attitude as Pakistan can ill-afford confrontation.
- Nuclear Threat (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 20, 2006)
President Bush has sent a highly negative message to the world by not ruling out a nuclear strike on Iran in case it was not dissuaded from pursuing its nuclear programme. Iran has taken the stand that it had a right to pursue a peaceful programme . . .
- Four-Star’ Question (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 20, 2006)
As the Bush administration’s Iraq-war-related downturn worsens, the ex-generals’ revolt against defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld raises just as important questions as how it is dealt with will set precedents.
- Are They Bird Flu Patients? (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 20, 2006)
Three patients from Sihala suffering from fever and sneezes have been admitted in Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.
- Government Likely To Barter Wheat For Sugar With India (Daily Times, Irfan Ghauri, Apr 20, 2006)
Ban on importing wheat expected soon
- India Not Clarified Change In Kgpp Design: Jamaat (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
Reacting to the Indian indication to change design of Kishan Ganga Power Project (KGPP), Indus Water Commissioner Jamaat Ali Shah said the objections raised by Pakistan under Indus Water Treaty were right and India after accepting them “has agreed . . .
- Pakistan’S Principled Stand On Iran (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 20, 2006)
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has called for peaceful and diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear stand-off and said Pakistan is opposed in principle to military action against Iran.
- Judges As Guardians Of Human Rights (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 20, 2006)
The day this paper reported the proceedings of a workshop in Peshawar in which speakers called on the judiciary to play a proactive role in upholding the rights of individuals, two cases of judicial activism were also brought to light by the media.
- Higher Return On Deposits (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 20, 2006)
The president’s suggestion in an address at the State Bank of Pakistan that commercial banks should offer higher rates of return on deposits merits serious consideration because of the benefit it could have for millions of account-holders and . . .
- The Future Of Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Dawn, Ali Sarwar Naqvi, Apr 20, 2006)
The objective of nuclear non-proliferation, which essentially means non-diversion of nuclear material to military uses, is enshrined in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which is now adhered to by 188 countries.
- China Using Export Controls To Manage International Trade (Hindu, R. GOPALAKRISHNAN, Apr 20, 2006)
WTO report cites widening disparities between domestic regions
Trade Policy Review highlights feverish pace of economic growth China maintains export restraints on certain textiles Twelve large sectors in GATS list
- Pakistani-Born Architect Denies Australian Terror Charges (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
A Pakistani-born architect pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court in Sydney today to planning a "jihad" bombing campaign in Australia.
- Building Bridges With Myanmar (Pioneer, G Parthasarathy, Apr 20, 2006)
India's determination to follow an independent policy on issues of its national security was clearly manifested when President APJ Abdul Kalam undertook a State visit to Myanmar within a week of the visit of President George Bush to India.
- Myanmar Deserves Attention (Tribune, G. Parthasarathy, Apr 20, 2006)
India’s determination to follow an independent policy on issues of national security was amply demonstrated by the visit of President Abdul Kalam to Myanmar within a week of the visit of President George Bush to India.
- Iron Ore Exports From Goa Go Up (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 20, 2006)
It is attributed to year-end spurt in intake from Chinese steel companies
Ore export to China increased to 25.7 million tonnes
The minor port of Panaji handling 11 million tonnes of ore
Mormugao Port Trust handled 24.7 million tonnes of Goan iron or
- The Next Steps To Peace (Frontline, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 20, 2006)
The dialogue process is reaching an impasse. Should India now resort to a grand gesture, or take gradated steps to sustain it?
- Minding Those Who Meddle With Money (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Apr 20, 2006)
Papers of a new customer are before you. Your deputies in the bank have already interviewed him and done all the prescribed due diligence.
- Cabinet Clears Indo-Us Aviation Agreement (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
The Union Cabinet today approved a far-reaching agreement with USA that envisages assistance by American civil aviation bodies to their Indian counterparts in modernising airports, aviation infrastructure, technology and procedures, besides . . .
- India Ready For Modification: Kishanganga Project (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
In an effort to end the long-standing dispute over the Kishanganga project, India will now propose to Pakistan modifications in the 330 MW hydro-electric power plant in Jammu and Kashmir to convert it into a run-of-the-river project, instead . . .
- India's Ultimatum To Nepal King: Set Up Interim Govt (Pioneer, Rahul Dutta, Apr 19, 2006)
India on Tuesday decided to dispatch Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) president Karan Singh as Special Envoy to Kathmandu on Wednesday with a simple brief:
- Islam And Democracy (Pioneer, Kishan Bhatia, Apr 19, 2006)
Abdul Rahman Al-Habib's article, "Why Arabs curse West?" (April 17), makes interesting read.
- 1,400 Indian Workers Stop Work In Bahrain (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Over 2,000 employees of a contracting company, mostly Indians, have stopped work protesting poor living conditions and lack of an allowance for working in a high-risk work environment in the Bahraini firm.
- Reconciliation, The Only Way (Pioneer, Ashok K Mehta, Apr 19, 2006)
Nepal's Lali Guras (rhododendron) Revolution has entered its 14th day, well beyond the original four days.
- India Will Re-Design Kishanganga Dam (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Apr 19, 2006)
The Indian Union Cabinet has decided to convert the Kishanganga dam project into a run-of-the-river scheme in the wake of Pakistan’s objection to New Delhi storing 220 million cubic metres of Indus River water in the reservoir to produce electricity.
- Blight Of Bonded Labour (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Apr 19, 2006)
An international conference on bonded labour has called on the Pakistan government to appoint a judicial commission to eliminate private jails and take measures to rehabilitate freed haris.
- Key Economic Issues (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 19, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf raised a number of key economic issues during a meeting with the senior officers of the State Bank of Pakistan on Monday.
- Needed Media Policy (News International, Editorial, The News International, Apr 19, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf raised a number of key economic issues during a meeting with the senior officers of the State Bank of Pakistan on Monday. Inflation, he said, should be controlled, trade deficit reduced, micro-finance made . . .
- Bird Flu: A Dreaded Virus (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Apr 19, 2006)
Accprding to Press reports, four workers of the Sihala poultry farm, where traces of H5N1 bird flu virus have been found, were on Monday restricted to their homes as a protective measure.
- India's Casual Attitude (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Apr 19, 2006)
BY postponing talks on Wullar Barrage scheduled for yesterday and today under the pretext of "other commitments" by the Indian Water and Power Secretary, New Delhi has once again demonstrated how casually it takes the basic premise of the peace process:
- Pakistan Allows Import Of Iron Sheets From India (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 19, 2006)
Pakistan on Tuesday allowed import of iron sheets from India up to May 30, via land route as well, for exclusive use in the reconstruction of earthquake affected areas in Pak occupied Kashmir (PoK) and parts of North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
- Kishanganga Project To Be Reconfigured (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Cabinet clears change to address Pakistani objections
Power generation capacity not to be affected
Nod for reconstruction plan for Jammu and Kashmir
Pact with U.S. in civil aviation sector approved
- Spiralling Out Of Control (Deccan Herald, Sushant Sareen, Apr 19, 2006)
The choices before the Pakistan army is limited when it comes to dealing with the jihadis
- Reliance Ipo Demand Soars As Books Set To Close (Reuters, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Reliance Petroleum Ltd. (RPL) has attracted orders worth 12.5 times the value of its $620 million IPO, a source familiar with the deal said on Wednesday, as investors flock to India's hot stock market.
- Indian Says He Was Terrorised By Us Federal Agents (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
- Musharraf Woos Investors To Pak (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Claiming the economy was doing well, President Pervez Musharraf has invited potential investors to Pakistan asking them to reap the benefits of liberalisation and cheap labour.
- Govt To Answer Every Gun With A Gun: Duggal (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- 80 Indian Prisoners In Pak Jails Identified (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- Karan Singh To Visit Nepal (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Signalling a tough posture against militancy, the Government today said it would answer "every gun with a gun" in Jammu and Kashmir and end of cross-border terrorism would be an important Confidence Building Measure.
- Pak Army Over-Stretched, Says Expert (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Observing that Pakistan was witnessing "vicious" insurgencies which had the potential to lead to its breakup, a strategic expert has said army has got over-stretched due to its internal security duties and the "anti-India catalyst" that . . .
- Scam In Iccr (Daily Excelsior, Joginder Singh, Apr 19, 2006)
A CBI enquiry has been ordered into the recent ''irregularities'' alleged to have been committed at the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) under former director general Rakesh Kumar.
- I Was Terrorized By Dogs, Threatened By Us Agents: Indian (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months following the 9/11 terror attacks.
- Pm Should Categorically Come Out On N-Agreement: Naidu (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should make a categorical statement on the nuclear agreement with the US as various reports emnating on the issue were "creating doubts in peoples' minds", former BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu today said.
- Indian Tortured, Seeks Us Apology (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Mr Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada, still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by US agents and held for months with hundreds of foreigners in the months after the 9/11 attacks.
- Scuffle After Singh Salve (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today told a delegation of Muslim representatives, led by the shahi imam of Jama Masjid, that his government had not “succumbed” to any external pressure on foreign policy and that improved relations with the US . . .
- Ndmc Inks Deal With E-Government Foundation (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 19, 2006)
To facilitate better decision-making within the Council
Will provide a double entry fund-based financial accounting system
Aims at improving internal financial controls to promote greater transparency and accountability
- India Keen To Step Up Tea Exports To Pakistan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Talks on to work out a zero import duty structure
- Talks On Wullar Barrage Put Off, Says Pakistan (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Apr 18, 2006)
Composite dialogue will go on The talks have to be postponed due to pre-occupation of Indian Water Resources Secretary with other business.
Talks postponed due to pre-occupation of Indian Water Resources Secretary with other business
- Nepal On Knife's Edge (Deccan Herald, Ashok Kumar Mehta, Apr 18, 2006)
It seems certain that the King will be unable to implement his plan for the restoration of absolute monarchy. True, Kathmandu may not have collected 500,000 pro-democracy activists as predicted by UML leader Madhav Nepal.
- Serious Threat To Pakistan's Civil Society (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Apr 18, 2006)
Last week's terror bombing in Karachi points to one of the least-examined faultlines in Pakistan: the war for power between Barelvi and Deobandi clerics.
- Terrorism In Name Of Religion Not To Be Tolerated: Mush (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 18, 2006)
Peeved by the persistent sectarian violence in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf has said he will not allow any religious party to indulge in terrorism.
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