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Saudi King’S Visit Starts On A Sour
Note
Human rights, arms trade protesters
line up the route, raise slogans
Hu's China - Vii
One lesson which
India
learnt from its experience of dealing
with
China
before the Sino-Indian war of
1962 was the folly of treating Chinese
transgressions as unintended. And
there have been two
recently.
Saudi King Raps U.K. On Terrorism
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on
Monday accused Britain of failing to
act on intelligence supplied by
his government that may have averted
the July 7 London bombings in which at
least 52 persons were
killed and hundreds injured.
Muslim Problem Is About Justice
The day we realise that our Muslim
problem is not about secularism and
communalism but about
justice we will come closer to dealing
with it. But, as we saw from reactions
to Tehelka’s sting
operation, we are still a long way
from understanding . . . .
Royal Member, Victim Of Blackmail
The police were on Sunday
investigating allegations that a
member of the royal family was the
victim
of a sex-and-drugs blackmail plot.
Be Practical On Burma
In stormy street protests in 1988 all
across Burma that brought down the
one-party Socialist regime
of Gen Ne Win, over 3,000 people
perished when the Army opened fire on
peaceful demonstrators.
Gujarat Has Outgrown Riot
A decade ago, during President
Clinton's embarrassment over his
relationship with Monica Lewinsky,
the White House spin doctors excelled
themselves.
How The Kashmir Crisis Began
It's 60 years exactly since one of the
world's most enduring conflict zones,
the Kashmir valley, first
erupted in violence. The BBC's former
Delhi
correspondent, Andrew Whitehead, looks
back on how the
Kashmir crisis started.
Hu's China - Iii
In a despatch on October 21, 2007, the
state-owned Hsinhua news agency of
China
reported as
follows:
And Now It's Maulana Fm Radio's Turn
The tribal anger against President
General Pervez Musharraf, which was
already running high after the
Pakistan Army's commando raid into the
Lal Masjid in Islamabad from July 10
to 13, 2007, has further
escalated in the wake of the air
strikes . . . .
Britain At Sixes And Sevens Over Eu
Treaty
The debate on the EU Reform Treaty in
Parliament is expected to be very
stormy. But the agonising
debate on
Europe will not end until
Britain is able to shed the historical
baggage that fuels so much of
the Euro-scepticism in the country.
When Blair Felt Like A “Bullied Wife”
Out Of London
A new book reveals that tensions
between the Tony Blair and Gordon
Brown camps were far more
serious than
Downing Street watchers suspected.
Taliban Must Be Checked: Brown
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on
Thursday voiced Britain’s frustration
over its allies’ lack of enthusiasm
in meeting their military commitment
to Afghanistan.
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