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Articles 4821 through 4920 of 20249:
- Taleban 'Kill Woman For Spying' (British Broadcasting Corporation, bbc correspondent, Aug 09, 2006)
Taleban fighters have killed an Afghan woman and her son and then hung their bodies in public for spying for foreign forces, a senior Afghan official says.
- Can The Revolution Outlive Castro? (Daily Times, Mahir Ali, Aug 09, 2006)
It probably would not be considered particularly ageist to contend that no nation’s fortunes ought to be linked to a supreme leader having been in office for several decades.
- Israel Threatens To Extend Offensive (Pakistan Observer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 09, 2006)
Hezbollah fighters and Israeli ground troops were battling in south Lebanon as diplomats bickered at the United Nations over moves to end four weeks of bloodshed and destruction.
- The War Of Terrorisation (News International, Shireen M Mazari, Aug 09, 2006)
Five years on from 9/11, what the Muslim World is beginning to witness is the transformation of the war against terror into a War of Terrorisation of Muslim polities and Muslim civil societies -- and all this under the continuing guise of the war against
- Dalai Lama "Unworthy" Of Being Called A Religious Leader (Press Trust of India, Anil K Joseph, Aug 09, 2006)
Tibet's Communist Party chief has accused the Dalai Lama of being a "double dealer" who is engaged in separatist activities in collusion with anti-China forces, making him an "unworthy" religious leader for devout Tibetans.
- The 60-40 Ratio (News International, Naeem Sadiq, Aug 09, 2006)
As a citizen of Pakistan, I would like to have the right not to hand over my mobile phone to every other kid who rides a motor bike and keeps a TT in his pocket to facilitate negotiations.
- Towards A Nuclear-Free South Asia (News International, M B NAQVI, Aug 09, 2006)
The writer is a veteran journalist and freelance columnist.
- When Gentlemen Turn Boors (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Aug 09, 2006)
The slip of the tongue that cost former Australian batsman Dean Jones his job as a TV commentator for TenSports may have been unintended, but there can be little quibble with the consequences that he has had to face.
- In Reverse Gear? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Daily Excelsior, Aug 09, 2006)
Not very long ago three journalists belonging to this city had participated in a lively debate organised by a leading private television channel of Pakistan. It was at the peak of bonhomie between India and Pakistan.
- All Is Not Well In Balochistan (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 09, 2006)
According to Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao's statement given to the Senate on Monday, the government is of the view that everything is hunky-dory in Balochistan. In his speech, the minister had said that the government had regained . . .
- Us Acknowledges Existence Of Anti-India Terror Groups In Pak (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The US on Monday acknowledged that certain terrorist groups having “designs” against India exist in Pakistan, virtually lending support to New Delhi's contention.
- Three Soldiers Killed In Separate J&k Encounters (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Three soldiers were killed, and three jawans injured, in separate encounters in Jammu and Kashmir since Sunday night.
- No Need To Get Mushy (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Aug 08, 2006)
All over the world, but notably in the Islamic countries and Europe, the ongoing conflict in Lebanon has become the occasion for another outburst of visceral anti-Americanism.
- When Self-Defence Becomes Lawlessness (Hindu, Hasan Suroor, Aug 08, 2006)
Israel's right to self-defence has never been the issue. The issue is whether its response has been proportionate.
- This Terrorist Has Got A Wicket, Says Dean Jones, Loses His Job (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Former Australian Test player Dean Jones was sacked from his job as a Ten Sports commentator today after he called South Africa’s Muslim cricketer Hashim Amla a “terrorist”.
- Cob Cornucopia (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 08, 2006)
As the cloudy skies break into a shy shower I creak open the refrigerator, putting a stubby cob of corn upon the gas grill.
- Now, Police Focus On Blasts Suspect’S Dance Bar Visits (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Faizal Ataur Rehman Sheikh, the man police claim is Lashkar-e-Toiba’s Mumbai chief, spent a lot of time at dance bars, say sources.
- Filters Of American Objectivity (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
You neither need to work in an American newsroom nor need to visit this country to understand its media's objectivity. Here is a simple formula. Just read what its press wrote after 9/11 and before the Iraq war.
- Us Alters Tune On Pak Proof (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Backtracking on its claim that India does not have enough evidence to link Pakistan with the July 11 Mumbai blasts, the US today acknowledged that anti-India terror groups were operating in that country.
- Continental Strike Against Inflation (Business Line, BATUK GATHANI, Aug 08, 2006)
The central banks' move is widely interpreted as an unexpected pre-emptive strike against inflation.
- Contradictions Galore (Daily Excelsior, Sarla Handoo, Aug 08, 2006)
For a long time we have been witnessing conflicting reports and contradictions between the security agencies at work in Jammu and Kashmir - almost ever since Militancy broke out in the state in 1989.
- J&k: 3 Jem Militants Gunned Down In Encounters (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants, two of whom were tasked to create trouble on the eve of Independence Day, were shot dead by police in fierce gunfights early today and a cache of arms and ammunitions recovered from them, a senior police official said.
- Nuclear Blackmail (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 08, 2006)
The Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Mr Mahmud Ali Durrani, has made it clear that the new plutonium-producing reactor coming up at the Khushab complex in Pakistan is intended to increase Pakistan’s arsenal. Pakistan’s repeated . . .
- The Enemy Within (Tribune, Amulya Ganguli, Aug 08, 2006)
India is perhaps the only country where two forms of fanaticism is currently prevalent.
- Boucher Wiser On Pak Terror Tap (Hindustan Times, Nilova Roy Chaudhury, Aug 08, 2006)
Hours of intensive talks with senior officials appears to have convinced US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, that India’s concerns on terrorism emanating from Pakistan were justified.
- Diplomats’ Expulsion (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 08, 2006)
Well-wishers of South Asia the world over must now seriously doubt whether the normalisation process between Pakistan and India will continue.
- What’S Israel Up To In Lebanon? (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Aug 08, 2006)
Well-wishers of South Asia the world over must now seriously doubt whether the normalisation process between Pakistan and India will continue.
- Folly In High Places (Telegraph, Malvika Singh, Aug 08, 2006)
Two erudite men, both former ministers of external affairs, both authors, both from Rajasthan, albeit from different communities — Natwar Singh and Jaswant Singh — have hogged the headlines these last two weeks for all the wrong reasons.
- Unadulterated Lies (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 08, 2006)
'The attendant propaganda -the abuse of language and eternal hypocrisy - has reached its nadir in recent weeks,' says John Pilger of the undiluted lies discharged daily by the western media since the beginning of the Lebanon crisis.
- Withering ‘Kali’ Of Kashmir? (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Aug 08, 2006)
Sometimes certain songs have lyrics that turn out to be nearly prophetic. Superhit "Junglee" readily comes to mind in this behalf. Saira Bano playing a Kashmiri belle had moved the millions while portraying Lata . . .
- Time To Look Back Without Anger (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Aug 08, 2006)
The tit-for-tat expulsion of an Indian and Pakistani diplomat each over the weekend clearly signifies a new low in the bilateral relationship. What is worse is the media spin being put on the story, which, in fact, makes out the situation to be . . .
- Anti-India Terror Groups Exist In Pak, Admits Us (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The US on Monday agreed with India that there were anti-India terrorist elements in Pakistan, but at the same time reiterated the stand that Pakistan had turned its back on terrorism.
- 'Yet To See India's Passion For Peace' (OutLook, SABA NAQVI BHAUMIK, Aug 08, 2006)
A long and winding drive takes us to the residence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, located on an elevation in Islamabad. The elegant residence is far more sophisticated and plush than the home of his Indian counterpart. Over a cup of tea . . .
- Five Washed Away In Ch'garh Flood: Collector » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
At least five persons were feared dead after they were washed away in floods at Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, officials said on Sunday.
- Mumbai: Probe Muslims Who Travel (Asian Age, Seema Mustafa, Aug 08, 2006)
The Maharash-tra government has issued a directive to the state police to thoroughly investigate every Muslim who travels abroad.
- Upa Regime Has Abdicated Power (Pioneer, Vivek Gumaste, Aug 08, 2006)
In a short span of two years, the Congress-led UPA Government has efficiently dismantled any semblance of security the country had.
- 15 Aid Workers, Top Anti-Terror Officer Killed In Sri Lanka (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Fifteen Tamil civilians working for a French aid agency were found slain in north-eastern Sri Lanka after fierce battles between rebels and the Government in a dispute over water supplies, relief agency officials said on Monday.
- Fighting External And Internal Enemies (Pioneer, Asheesh Shah, Aug 08, 2006)
All political and social organisations should review their policies in the interest of the nation to keep India ahead, says Asheesh Shah.
- 'No Favour If You Agree To Talk' (OutLook, SABA NAQVI BHAUMIK, Aug 08, 2006)
Pakistan foreign minister speaks to Outlook on his deep disappointment over Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's decision not to visit Islamabad.
- 15 Aid Workers Slain In Lanka (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Fifteen Tamils working for a French aid agency were found slain in north-eastern Sri Lanka following fierce battles between Tamil rebels and the government in a reservoir dispute, relief agency officials said on Monday.
- Israel Will Not Capitulate (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Ben Caspit proposes the text of a speech by the Prime Minister that would explain to the world what exactly Tel Aviv is fighting for
- Blood Over Water (Pioneer, Amantha Perera, Aug 08, 2006)
The peace process notwithstanding, war in Sri Lanka has intensified with little to hope from international efforts at mediation, says Amantha Perera.
- Law-Governed Solution (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 08, 2006)
The voices of the innocent must be heard above the din of war.
- Uk’S Top Cop Flays Anti-Terrorism Laws (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Britain’s senior most Muslim police officer today claimed that the country’s anti-terrorism laws and enforcement agencies run a “real risk of criminalising” minority communities.
Mr Tarique Ghaffur, the assistant commissioner of . . .
- 15 Tamil Aid Workers Slain In Lanka (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Fifteen Tamil civilians working for a French aid agency were found slain in north-eastern Sri Lanka after fierce battles between rebels and the government in a dispute over water supplies, relief agency officials said today.
- Defang Hizbullah (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 08, 2006)
Mere UNSC resolution will not do ---- It is possible that the US and France will be able to convince the UN Security Council to adopt the proposed resolution calling for "full cessation of hostilities" between Israel and Hizbullah as a first step . . .
- Pm To Visit Helsinki For India-Eu Summit In Oct » (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki for the seventh India-EU summit on October 13 during which the two sides are expected to discuss a range of issues including fight against terrorism and . . .
- Pakistan Army Uses Fundamentalists, But Scorns Them, Says Cohen (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
“The fundamentalists are not really that strong in Pakistan; the army has contempt for them, but uses them.
- Kashmir, Terrorism Not Linked: Boucher (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Aug 08, 2006)
US Under Secretary of State Richard Boucher said on Monday that Kashmir and terrorism are not linked.
- Expulsion Of Envoys Won’T Hurt Peace: Fo (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 08, 2006)
The tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats by Pakistan and India will not affect the peace process between the two countries, the Foreign Office said on Monday.
- Indian Consulate Involved In Terror Acts, Iran Told (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Islamabad has conveyed its concern to Tehran that the Indian consulate in Zahidan is involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan.
- A Congress Mole In The Bjp? (OutLook, Salman Khurshid, Aug 07, 2006)
Jaswant Singh seems to have had the better of the call of BJP culture but gaps remain in his tell-all
- Speak Turkish To Syrians (Pioneer, Daniel Pipes, Aug 07, 2006)
There will be an international force (in Lebanon), because all the key players want it," a US official asserted recently. He appears to be right, as even the Israeli Government embraced the plan, announcing it "would agree to consider stationing . . .
- Division In The House (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Aug 07, 2006)
UPA will face trouble on the Indo-US nuclear deal in Parliament, with combined opposition pressure mounting against it, says CP Bhambhri.
- Is Terror In India Becoming Home Grown? (Daily Excelsior, Sarla Handoo, Aug 07, 2006)
Till the Mumbai blasts took place on 11/7, one would have perhaps rejected out of hand, the view that terror in India is home grown. That is because New Delhi has sufficient reason to believe that Pakistan is behind our terror trouble.
- Colombo Rejects Deal To End `Water War' (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Aug 07, 2006)
Brief prospects of an early end to the `water war' between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to nought on Sunday evening after Colombo rejected a deal negotiated by Norway and bombed LTTE positions . . .
- Israel Captures Hamas Speaker (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Israel seized the Hamas speaker of the Palestinian parliament at his West Bank home and continued its deadly incursions into the Gaza Strip on Sunday with a sustained assault on the city of Rafah on the Egyptian border.
- Welcome, The Old World Order (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Aug 07, 2006)
It is ironic that even the leaders who call for the new world order and who, one would think, have the power to make it happen, are complicit in perpetuating the old world. From the various pulls and pressures around the world, mainly by the US and . ..
- Tit-For-Tat Pantomime That No One Buys (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Aug 07, 2006)
Pakistan has declared counsellor Deepak Kaul at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad persona non grata and asked him to leave Pakistan within 48 hours.
- Simi Activist Arrested For Mumbai Blasts (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The police arrested a suspected SIMI activist from Phulwari Sharif in the city for questioning in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts.
- China Increases Pressure On Tibet (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 07, 2006)
Beijing – China’s Communist Party has been tightening its grip on Tibet in recent months, resorting to language and measures not seen since the repression of the late 1990s.
- Pm To Visit Helsinki For India-Eu Summit In Oct (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Finnish counterpart Matti Vanhanen in Helsinki for the seventh India-EU summit on October 13 during which the two sides are expected to discuss a range of issues including fight against terrorism and . . .
- Rhetoric, Atomised (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
Parliament this week, like last week, is likely to see plenty of “nationalist” criticism of the India-US nuclear deal. In the US, as the nuclear bill goes to the Senate, “nonproliferation” advocates are talking it down again.
- Natwar Singh Gives Privilege Notice Against Manmohan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Alleged "leak" of Justice Pathak report
- Dmk, Aiadmk `War' Over Farmers' Security Scheme Intensifies (Hindu, S. Dorairaj , Aug 07, 2006)
AIADMK activists hold protest meetings throughout the State
DMK, some farmers' associations term the AIADMK protest `political stunt'
"AIADMK opposed move to revive farm labourers board with an eye on polls"
DMK, some farmers' associations . . .
- What We Still Don't Understand About Hizbollah (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Aug 07, 2006)
A terrorism expert, who has studied 462 suicide bombings, says such acts have little to do with religious extremism and that the West must engage politically to halt the slaughter.
- Pm, Sonia Woo Lalu & Paswan (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi are both banking heavily on railway minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan to dilute and fragment the 27 per cent reservation for the OBCs in educational institutions.
- Tit For Tat (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Aug 07, 2006)
Expulsions and counter-expulsions of diplomats, which were a routine in India-Pakistan relations until a few years ago, have become a reality again. It was Pakistan which started the process by . . .
- The Train Over River Time (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Aug 07, 2006)
Before the Chinese thought of building a rail line to connect Quinhai, province in the southwest of China, to Lhasa, the idea would have been fantasy.
- Brinda Karat Joins Issue With Pawar (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
Wheat import leading nation into `food insecurity' trap
- Mumbai Threat Has Govt On Toes (Times of India, Vishwa Mohan, Aug 07, 2006)
With fresh intelligence inputs coming its way about terrorists' gameplan to hit some "big targets" in Mumbai around Independence Day and the Ganapati festival, the Centre has convened a high-level meeting here on Monday to discuss security . . .
- Landslides And Deforestation (News International, Editorial, The News International, Aug 07, 2006)
Over 110 people have died in the earthquake-hit areas of NWFP and Kashmir since heavy monsoon rains hit the region in recent days.
- Questions For Karat (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Aug 07, 2006)
When extreme malleability threatens political morals we still tend to look at the CPM to see if someone cares for the straight and the narrow.
- The Global Battle For Ideas Cannot Be Fought With Guns (Guardian (UK), Jackie Ashley , Aug 07, 2006)
Bush and Blair's belief that Islamism could be bombed into submission was deluded. We need to find a middle way
- `Indo-Us Nuclear Deal On Track' (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 07, 2006)
The Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement is on track and slated to be taken up by the US Senate in September this year, the US Assistant-Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Mr Richard Boucher, said on Monday.
- India, Pakistan Trade Expulsions (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
In a relapse to the tit-for-tat phase in bilateral relations, India on Saturday evening declared senior Pakistani diplomat Syed Mohammad Rafiq Ahmed persona non grata within hours of Pakistan deciding to expel his counterpart in the Indian High . . .
- Indian Gang Strikes Terror In Nepal (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Stone walls do not a prison make, especially if they harbour Bihar’s notorious gang lords.
- Israeli Forces Step Up Bombardment (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Israel on Saturday launched its heaviest bombardment of the nearly month-long conflict in southern Lebanon, carrying out 250 air raids and firing 4,000 shells...
- Upa Accused Of Dumping Proposal For 6 New Aiims (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
The BJP today accused the Congress-led UPA of putting to cold storage the proposal of the previous NDA government for opening six new AIIMS and upgradation of six existing hospitals to the level of AIIMS.
- India Should Not Remain Silent On Israeli Bombings: Mulayam (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Aug 06, 2006)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today expressed serious concern over increasing terrorism in the world and also lamented "the death of innocent citizens" in Israeli bombings on Lebanon, saying that India should not remain "silent" . . .
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