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Articles 3221 through 3320 of 12768:
- Musharraf Versus Karzai (Deccan Herald, PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA, Mar 15, 2006)
Some analysts feel that Americans have weighed Musharraf and found him wanting
- Fears Over N-Deal Misplaced: Pm (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday refuted the charge by the Left allies and the Opposition that India was compromising its national interests while forging new ties with the United States, and said the country had to take advantage of . . .
- Overcoming The Energy Squeeze (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 15, 2006)
The visit to Islamabad of the US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to discuss how his country can help Pakistan meet its energy needs has made one thing clear: that Washington is not going to supply any nuclear technology for civilian use. It has also . . .
- One Nuclear Deal, Two Narratives (Hindu, VIDYA SUBRAHMANIAM, Mar 15, 2006)
That the Western media have savaged the Bush visit and the nuclear deal shows India acted in its national interest. Yet looked at another way, India is befriending a world leader seen to pursue an agenda against Muslim countries.
- ‘Us Gave Too Much To India’ (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 15, 2006)
One of the most trenchant critics of the nuclear deal says he believes it will be approved by the US Congress.
- Manmohan: Not Kowtowing To U.S. (Hindu, Crisil Marketwire, Mar 15, 2006)
"Nuclear agreement is not a surrender "
Judge us by our results
It is in national interest to engage with U.S.
Pro-active role to be pursued with neighbours
- No Investment Without Security (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 15, 2006)
Us Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman, visiting Pakistan for consultation on non-nuclear energy resources, made a profound statement on Monday:
- Crackdown In Bangladesh (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Mar 15, 2006)
IN quick succession, Bangladesh’s crack anti-crime force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), arrested Sheikh Abdur Rahman and Saddiqul Rahman, alias Bangla Bhai. Each carried a reward of 50 lakh takka on his head as they were the . . .
- In Quest For Justice (Business Standard, Rashid Shaz, Mar 15, 2006)
That the Supreme Court had to intervene to ensure justice in the Best Bakery is indicative of a systemic failure that needs to be addressed without any further delay. Else, how will justice be delivered to victims of terror where the perpetrators . . .
- Us Versus Them (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 15, 2006)
Paranoia has no place in FDI policy
- Canada Will Review N-Deal With India (Business Standard, Shahzad Raza, Mar 15, 2006)
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that his country will review the civil nuclear agreement reached with India by the previous Canadian government.
- Man Rejected By India And Pakistan Stews In Prison (Daily Times, Iftikhar Gilani, Mar 15, 2006)
Khawaja Omar Alam alias Mohammad Owais Ali wants to live on the Zero Line given that both India and Pakistan do not accept him as a citizen.
- Security Forces Arrest Lashkar Terrorist In J&k (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir have averted a major tragedy by detecting and defusing two powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs), official sources said in Jammu on Tuesday.
- Meeting Energy Needs (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 15, 2006)
US Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman had, we believe, been duly briefed while in Washington not to mince his words about restating its position on Pakistan's request for cooperation in civilian nuclear technology as well as the proposed Iranian gas . . .
- Iraq Unravelling (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
The American game plan in Iraq seems to be coming badly unstuck. Sectarian violence has grown in frequency and scale, and there is talk increasingly of the country heading for civil war between rival militias.
- Once A Pest, India Vultures Now Face Extinction (International Herald Tribune, Amelia Gentleman, Mar 15, 2006)
Until recently, the vulture was an integral part of the Indian landscape. Vultures were so abundant that ornithologists never even thought to monitor their population.
- This Is Terrorism (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Mar 15, 2006)
Talk terrorism in India and it’s about the usual suspects: Pakistani infiltrators, Kashmiri militants and North-east insurgents. For a peculiar reason that defies any logic, both public perception and government policy see it fit to treat Naxals . . .
- Bodman’S Non-Productive Visit (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 15, 2006)
US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmud Kasuri and discussed Pakistan’s energy requirements with them. At a Press conference later he ruled out any prospects of provision of India-style ...
- Sugar Crisis Inquiry (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 15, 2006)
IT bears noting that in an action that defies common logic, NAB has opted to close investigation into the ongoing sugar crisis apparently "to avoid further instability" in the market.
- Staying Engaged (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 15, 2006)
Terrorist acts across India and continuing infiltration across the Line of Control would suggest that prospects for a solution to the Kashmir issue are bleak.
- Strike Hard (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Mar 15, 2006)
Only the naïve will be surprised by Pakistan's move to arrest Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin (real name Moulvi Yususf Shah) during a demonstration in Muzaffarabad.
- Musharraf Cracks Down On J-K Militants (Indian Express, Muzamil Jaleel, Mar 14, 2006)
As General Pervez Musharraf discussed a possible solution to the Kashmir problem with National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in Islamabad last Friday, Pakistani authorities silently cracked down on Kashmiri militant groups, including Hizbul Mujahideen,
- Call To Abandon Diamer-Bhasha Dam Project (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Speakers at a conference here on Monday asked the government to stop work on the “controversial project”, and sought UN intervention as according to them the dam site falls in the terrotory of the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region.
- U.S. Wants To Help Pakistan On Energy, But Not Nuclear (Reuters, SIMON CAMERON-MOORE, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the United States wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said on Monday.
- Us To Pak: Try Coal, No N-Power (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the US wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, US energy secretary Samuel W. Bodman said today.
- Advani At It Again (Tribune, S. Nihal Singh, Mar 14, 2006)
Yatras will harm party’s interests
- Strike Hard (Daily Excelsior, Editorial, Dailyexcelsior, Mar 14, 2006)
Only the naïve will be surprised by Pakistan's move to arrest Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin (real name Moulvi Yususf Shah) during a demonstration in Muzaffarabad.
- Coach Or Poach? (Tribune, I.M. Soni, Mar 14, 2006)
Abbas Ali Baig, young, fair and debonair, was returning to the dressing-room after hitting a ton against a visiting cricket team.
- Will Bush Visit Trigger New Thinking? (Deccan Herald, Shyam Bhatia, Mar 14, 2006)
A military dictatorship in Islamabad will always come out worse compared with the flourishing democracy in India
- The Road Less Travelled (Deccan Herald, B G Verghese, Mar 14, 2006)
India should not be tied to America’s apron strings, it should repair ties with its neighbours
- Not Enough Money For Armed Forces (Tribune, P.K. Vasudeva, Mar 14, 2006)
The modernisation programmes that have been kick-started by the armed forces are set to continue as the defence budget for 2006-07 has been hiked by 8.9 per cent (Rs. 7,300 crore) to Rs. 89,000, as against Rs. 81,700 crore in 2005-06 on expected lines.
- Country Facing Internal Threats, Says Musharraf (Daily Times, Ali Waqar, Mar 14, 2006)
President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he feared only internal threats to Pakistan.
- A Condemnable Attack (The Nation, Editorial, The Nation, Mar 14, 2006)
The cowardly attempt on the life of Afghan Senate Chairman Sibghatullah Mujaddedi by unidentified suicide bombers in Kabul on Sunday deserves severest condemnation.
- Attack On Mujaddedi (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 14, 2006)
The law and order situation in Afghanistan, which was never very satisfactory, is taking a turn for the worse.
- Visiting China Again (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
President Hu Jintao has sent a formal letter to President Pervez Musharraf inviting him to attend the sixth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Pakistan enjoys observer’s status with the organization that seeks to . . .
- Senators Should Be Role Models (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 14, 2006)
Rumpus stemming from the exchange of hot words between Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro and PPPP Senator Safdar Abbasi and Opposition’s walk-out marked the first session of the Upper House of Parliament on Sunday. Rowdyism, chaos and . . .
- Us Wants To Help Pakistan On Energy, But Not Nuclear (The Financial Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Barring nuclear power, or a gas pipeline from Iran, the United States wants to help its ally Pakistan develop potential energy sources, U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel W Bodman said on Monday
- Citizen First — Sampark Centres In India — Ishtiaq Ahmed (Daily Times, Editorial, Daily Times, Mar 14, 2006)
Under the old bureaucratic system the individual was treated more as a subject on whom state functionaries exercised power to extract taxes, levies and other charges. In return some public services were provided, but since the state . . .
- Bush In South Asia — Raising A Political Storm (Business Line, G. Parthasarathy, Mar 14, 2006)
As the US President moved from Afghanistan to India and then Pakistan, he raised political storm clouds. If India was obsessed with the nuclear deal, Pakistan wanted similar treatment and Afghanistan worried about the . . .
- Imperialism Redux (Statesman, SUBROTO ROY, Mar 14, 2006)
Business, Energy, Weapons And Foreign Policy
- Consensus Eludes Pugwash Meet (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 13, 2006)
But unanimity on need to carry forward peace process
Self-governance, de-militarisation and terrorism were sticky points
Divergence pertains to priorities: Talat Masood
Time New Delhi responded to Musharraf's pro-active approach: Omar
New Delhi an
- Qazi Criticises Musharraf’S Proposal On Kashmir (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Ameer Jama'at-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that a proposal by General Pervez Musharraf to divide Kashmir into seven autonomous regions and give their joint control to India and Pakistan is a prelude to "United India" which the people on . . .
- Mujaddedi Survives Suicide Attack (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Former Afghan president Sibghatullah Mujaddedi was slightly wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on Sunday that officials said killed two bombers and two civilians.
- Separatists' Shenanigans In J And K (Daily Excelsior, Vinod Vedi, Mar 13, 2006)
Current events in Jammu and Kashmir appear to be in consonance with Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf’s game plan for a regional splintering of the former princely State.
- Indian Hindus, Muslims Seek To Rise Above Conflict (Reuters, Y.P. Rajesh, Mar 13, 2006)
Starting bloody riots between India's majority Hindus and minority, but large, Muslim population usually doesn't take much doing.
- U.S. Ties With India, Pakistan On Divergent Paths (Reuters, Carol Giacomo, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W. Bush's visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent U.S. approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- India Slow To Wake Up To Growing Maoist Menace (Reuters, Simon Denyer, Mar 13, 2006)
Kanker, India (Reuters) - Shouting "commando", police in camouflage uniform and black bandanas pour down from the sky on ropes. Others clamber over rocks, shooting from the shoulder as targets pop up all around them.
- No Uranium Sales To India: Australia (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Australia will maintain its ban on uranium exports to India and other countries which have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Sunday.
- Neighbours Trade Charges (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The head of Afghanistan’s upper house of parliament accused Pakistani intelligence of plotting a suicide attack that lightly wounded him and killed four other people in Kabul today.
- Hizb, Let Leaders On Hunger-Strike (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
18 militant commanders stage protest in POK
Eighteen top jihadi commanders are staging a hunger strike in Muzaffarabad against "the betrayal of the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir by President Pervez Musharraf," a Hizbul- Mujahideen spokesperson told . . .
- Nuclear Deal: Benefits For India (Business Line, Ranabir Ray Choudhury , Mar 13, 2006)
The US-India deal will lead to more efficient import of nuclear technology and equipment, translating into higher nuclear power generation, which, in these pollution-conscious times, ought not to be written off hastily on grounds of higher . . .
- The Road Less Travelled (Tribune, B.G. Verghese, Mar 13, 2006)
The Indo-US agreement should see a turning point not only in India’s position in the world but also in its perception of itself.
- Blast Suspects Test Negative (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The special task force (STF) probe into the Varanasi blasts suffered a setback with witnesses saying that two suspects arrested from Hardoi were not the persons about whom they had told police.
- Karzai Behind Bush Plainspeak To Musharraf: Report (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
With the Taliban staging a gradual resurgence in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai was able to convince US President George W Bush, during their recent summit, that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was not doing enough to defeat . . .
- Afghan Leader Sees Pakistan Hand (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
Ex-President Mujaddedi hurt in bid on life; Islamabad denies role
- Blind Arrests Of Basant Violators (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 13, 2006)
Police registered 61 cases and arrested 82 people for violating the ban on kite-flying besides seizing 150 glass coated and iron coated string rolls on Saturay.
- Mind-Boggling Mars Explorer (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 13, 2006)
A us spacecraft with potential of revolutionizing the understanding of Mars has moved into a ‘perfect’ orbit around the Red Planet, NASA announced on Saturday.
- Mayhem In The Menagerie (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 13, 2006)
New conflict between the United Jihad Council and President Pervez Musharraf reflects a crisis in Pakistan's political life.
- Nature Of Us Relations With India And Pakistan Different (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
President George W Bush’s visit to India and Pakistan this month underscored dramatically the increasingly divergent US approaches to the South Asian nuclear rivals.
- Spillover Of Waziristan Unrest (Pakistan Observer, Editorial, Pakistan Observer, Mar 13, 2006)
Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao has said that the unrest in North Waziristan Agency is spreading to surrounding districts including Tank and DIKhan. Speaking in the National Assembly on Saturday he, however, vowed to continue action . . .
- Bush Visit: Not Just A Stopover (Dawn, Iqbal Akhund, Mar 13, 2006)
Invidious comparison is virtually built into an American president’s visit to the subcontinent. So it has been again, as President Bush has come and gone. As a foreign journalist put it, India got a hug, Pakistan a pat on the back.
- Pakistan’S Energy Needs (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 13, 2006)
Us energy secretary Samuel Bodman is to visit Pakistan in the near future to discuss the country’s energy needs.
- A Footstool In The World (Deccan Herald, Sunanda K Datta-Ray, Mar 13, 2006)
The Indo-US nuclear deal has exposed inconsistencies in India’s position
- Bush’S Pak Visit A ‘Failure’, Let Raises Jihad Pitch (Express India, RIYAZ WANI, Mar 12, 2006)
Lashkar-e-Toiba idealogue Hafiz Muhammad Sayeed has said the high-profile visit of the US President to Pakistan has strengthened their call for jihad. “Bush visit has failed, undermining the pro-US lobby in the country. But Mujahideens are happy.
- Bush’S Pak Visit A ‘Failure’, Let Raises Jihad Pitch (Indian Express, RIYAZ WANI, Mar 12, 2006)
Lashkar-e-Toiba idealogue Hafiz Muhammad Sayeed has said the high-profile visit of the US President to Pakistan has strengthened their call for jihad.
- Musharraf Blasts ‘Anti-Democracy’ Baloch Tribal Chiefs (News International, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 12, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf has said that only a handful of "anti-development and anti-democracy" tribal chiefs are creating a law and order situation in Balochistan.
- Leaders Want To Forget Past, Think Of Future (Dawn, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
A dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri for participants of the Pugwash-sponsored International Conference on Kashmir here on Friday ended on a frenzied note.
- On Record (Statesman, Editorial, Statesman, Mar 11, 2006)
We (Pakistan and India) are into a bilateral dialogue. We don’t want to make it trilateral or multilateral. — General Pervez Musharraf.
- Understanding The Harvest Of Hate (Hindu, PRAVEEN SWAMI, Mar 11, 2006)
Varanasi was just an exclamation mark in Islamist terror groups' war against India. Learning from it needs an understanding not of each outrage, but the whole.
- The Morning After (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Mar 11, 2006)
The benefits we know. Time, now, to consider the costs of India's new relationship with the US.
- Musharraf Rules Out Independent Kashmir (Daily Times, Mohammad Imran, Mar 11, 2006)
President Pervez Musharraf ruled out on Friday the possibility of an independent Kashmir and said that the idea of self-governance was applicable in the present political scenario.
- Pakistan Will Collaborate With India To Fight Mental Sickness (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Visiting Indian psychiatrists offered low cost medicines from India for psychiatric patients in Pakistan during a meeting with Saba Sadiq, adviser to the chief minister on Friday.
- Nepali Families Fight Poverty With Condoms, Pills (Reuters, Gopal Sharma, Mar 11, 2006)
One of the biggest-selling items in the tiny chemists in the rebel-held Nepali hill town of Tila are condoms -- several hundred a month for a total population of just 2,000.
- Musharraf For Roundtable Of Kashmir Representatives (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 11, 2006)
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf today suggested a round table conference of representatives of both sides of Kashmir either in Srinagar or Muzzafarabad and said he was ready to attend it with Prime Minister Manmohan . . .
- It Is Time To Flex Political Muscles (Daily Excelsior, M L Kotru, Mar 11, 2006)
With elections to several state assemblies due in about a year's time it is understandable for political parties to be seen flexing their muscles, breaking old alliances, forging new ones and generally creating an atmosphere which . . .
- Unholy War On Holy City (Daily Excelsior, Fazal Mehmood, Mar 11, 2006)
In an outrageous serial terrorist strike on the holy city of Varanasi, the ancient Sankat Mochan temple packed with Tuesday worshippers of Lord Hanuman was rocked by a huge blast and two bombs exploded soon after at Cantonment railway . . .
- Balancing Game (Telegraph, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Mar 11, 2006)
By exposing the limits of nuclear muscle-flexing, the Varanasi explosions should have pricked the balloon of euphoria generated by George W. Bush’s visit.
- "Even Musharraf Has No Power To Pardon Sarabjit" (Hindu, B. MURALIDHAR REDDY, Mar 11, 2006)
Puzzle over Minister's contention
Article 45 of Pakistan's Constitution vests President with power to grant pardon in such cases
Gen. Musharraf had invoked this clause to pardon Nawaz Sharif
- Challenges Ahead In Sino-Pakistan Ties (Dawn, Ziad Haider, Mar 11, 2006)
Last month, President Musharraf visited China to celebrate 55 years of Pakistan’s diplomatic relations with its most valued ally. His focus was on securing energy assistance and bringing “our economic ties in consonance with our excellent political and...
- Oil Pricing: A Correct Decision (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Mar 11, 2006)
The government’s decision to take away the pricing of petroleum products away from the Oil Companies’ Advisory Committee (OCAC) from April 1 and hand it to the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) is the correct thing to do, though the . . .
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