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Safta
Meet To Discuss Pakistan Stand
Islamabad not offering India trading rights under a
sensitive list as mandated under SAFTA.
``Manmohan,
Musharraf Can Meet On Nam Sidelines''
Meeting between Foreign
Secretaries a "positive
development,'' says Kasuri We will
join your probe if there is evidence:
Kasuri No stalemate in bilateral
relations; evidence already provided
to Pakistan about terrorism, says
Saran .
Tackle
Terror Sternly
The Government has no
clearcut policies to fight terrorism
sponsored by neighbouring
nations.
The
Mole Letter: Disinformation
Curiouser and curiouser. The Mole letter contains Indian
spellings and many other curiosities:
'Shri Jaswant Singh may like to advise
his publishers to suspend the sale of
this book till the authenticity of the
letter is established'.
Kashmiri
Women Lift The Veil In Silent
Awakening
Twenty-five-year-old Saima
Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has
shunned the veil and set out to
discuss dating in a region where
cinemas showing Bollywood romances are
hard to find and beauty parlours
scorned upon.
India
Raises Differential Treatment Issue
Domestic notification does
not contravene the letter and spirit
of the SAFTA Agreement, says
Pakistan.
Give
Specific Information On Mumbai Blasts:
Pakistan
We reject Indian attitude of
instinctive reactions: Riaz Mohammad
Khan.
Mole
Still Wrapped In Intrigue
The identity of the alleged
American informers in the P V
Narasimha Rao regime continues to
remain a matter of speculation but the
identity of the American official who
authored the secret letter based on
which BJP leader Jaswant Singh claimed
he . . .
Changing
Goalposts
IN principle I am against the
bomb. When India exploded it, I
paraded on the streets of Delhi, along
with 5,000 people, to register
protest.
"Battle
Of Brick Lane" Fizzles Out
Out ofLondon The campaign
against British-Asian writer Monica
Ali's bookappears to be down to just
two businessmen.
New
Evidence On Mumbai Blasts Shows Up
Rahil Abdul Rehman Sheikh may have developed transnational
terror networks after a visit to
J&K Ghaswala joined jihad against
India after Gujarat pogrom Conference
a cover for meeting with top J &
K-based terrorists.
India
Talks Tough On Safta
India-Pakistan differences on
SAFTA dominate first day of Foreign
Secretaries meet Pakistan's decision
to take bilateral trading route is
negation of SAFTA Lot of time and
effort invested in good faith while
negotiating SAFTA: Saran.
China’s
Israel Arms
Prakash Karat, the General
Secretary of the CPI(M), has seized
upon the current Israeli attacks on
Hezbollah in Lebanon to target New
Delhi’s defence relationship with
Tel Aviv.
Karthikeyan
Nurtures Indian F1 Dreams
When Narain Karthikeyan was
chasing his dream of joining Formula
One's elite, many in India felt he was
being over ambitious.
Kashmiri
Women Lift The Veil In Silent
Awakening
Twenty-five-year-old Saima
Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has
shunned the veil and set out to
discuss dating in a region where
cinemas showing Bollywood romances are
hard to find and beauty parlours
scorned upon.
Qana
Massacre And The Security Council
The primary role of any
Chapter VII resolution or expanded
U.N. peacekeeping force must be to
protect Lebanon from Israeli
aggression.
A
Multi-Dimensional Monetary Policy
The Monetary Policy is not
one-dimensional but is seen more as a
vehicle that enhances various segments
of the financial market, improves
credit delivery, nurtures credit
culture and enhances the quality of
financial services.
Making
Monitors Obey Their Own Standards
There appears to be a regulation gap of many independent
entities with fiduciary
responsibility.
Yet,
Sonia Defended Them In Parliament,
Salman In Courts
It was founded in the year
1977. Not by a religious leader, but
by an English-educated academic,
Mohammed Ahamadullah Siddiqui.
Not
One Mole, Mr Prime Minister And Mr
Jaswant, But Two!
First, the Kandahar pay-off
issue and next, the ‘mole' in PMO.
Mr Jaswant Singh's new book seems to
have opened a can of worms.
A
Leadership Vacuum
Here are some moments in the
life of a nation when people eschew
individualism and look for
leadership.
Perils
Of Alienating Honest Tax Payers
Consider this. When Osama Bin
Laden’s crack suicide team brought
down the twin towers of the World
Trade Centre, President George W. Bush
urged people to go about their
business as usual. He asked people to
‘resume shopping, do you business,
get . . .
India
To Tell Pak: Act Against Terror
Foreign Secys Meet: First
contact after 7/11, Saran meets Khan
in Dhaka today.
India
To Raise Safta Issues In Dhaka
"Pakistan move goes
against the very essence of the
agreement" Trade will be governed
by existing bilateral agreements:
Pakistan Such conditionalities would
be a derogation of the pact:
India.
Talks
With Pakistan Unlikely For Some Time
Foreign Secretaries to meet
on SAARC sidelines Details of meeting
being worked out Islamabad favours
top-level meeting to end impasse in
ties Manmohan may not attend U.N.
General Assembly meeting.
Iranian
Trail To Pakistan
That the the two arrested for suspected role in terror
attacks on Mumbai clandestinely
travelled to Pakistan through Iran to
undergo a training course in a jihadi
training camp, putting the Iran angle
under the scanner.
The
Mole And The Fox
Did someone in Rao’s PMO
leak nuclear secrets to the US? Or
were Americans told what Rao wanted
them to hear?
While
Talking West Asia, Watch North Korea
The fires of West Asia must
not be allowed to distract the
world’s attention from the threat
posed by North Korea’s nuclear
ambitions, which it demonstrated by
its recent test of a long-range
missile.
White
House To Hill: Delink N-Deal From
India-Iran Ties
As the Left and Right here
object to the prospect of the US
shifting the nuclear goalposts, the
Bush Administration has underlined its
own interests in resisting any attempt
by the American Congress to reframe
the bilateral nuclear agreement with
India.
Sinister
Thoughts
PRIYA Ranjan Dasmunshi was a hatchet man during the
Emergency in India.
India
Losing Out On N-Deal
In principle I am against the
bomb. When India exploded it, I
paraded on the streets of Delhi, along
with 5,000 people, to register my
protest.
Gauntlet
Thrown At Media
Efforts are on to muzzle the
media and this must be fought and the
freedom of the press must be
defended.
Clearing
The Cloud Around The N-Deal
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.
Questions
Arise On Reprocessing Restrictions
Spent fuel treatment will
require separate U.S. consent.
Much
Heat, Little Light On Nuclear Deal
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 . . .
The
Biggest Threat
In the dominant political
culture of India, citizens are
encouraged to treat terrorism as an
unavoidable feature of modern
existence and undertake no independent
initiatives to counter it.
When
A "Loyal" Guest Rounded On
Blair
The Iraqi Prime Minister's
recent outburst against Mr. Blair over
his refusal to condemn the Israeli
actions in Lebanon has reinforced Mr.
Blair's image as a cheerleader for
George W. Bush.
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