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Kashmir: Putting the right foot
forward
Gary
Fitleberg
One
small step for man…One giant leap for mankind. Amicable talks
between rivals are taking place between the Indian government and
separatists over hotly contested and disputed Kashmir. India’s
government and separatist leaders are forging forward to resolve a
conflict that has mired the regional stability in a positive move.
Both .......More >>>> |
Pak
army involved in nuke scam
What others
say..........
In spite of all the declamations of
Musharraf to the country, even the naive would not buy the general's
statement that only a few ``greedy'' scientists were involved in
selling nuclear expertise and equipment to Iran, Libya and North
Korea. Now that the father of the Pakistan bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan
has directly implicated three Pak army generals.......More >>>> |
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Pakistan:
Pioneers in nuclear proliferation
Gary
Fitleberg
Lately
Pakistan has been under the microscope for its involvement in
the development of nuclear weapons programs internationally.
Although others such “axis of evil” nations Iran and North Korea
actively purse weapons of mass destruction their success has largely
been dependent on Pakistan’s inadvertent assistance and
cooperation. The ......More >>>> |
Arrests of Pak scientists
Samuel
Baid
The
countries who promised Pakistan financial help in its nuclear
programme were, among others, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. There is
a hint that Iran was also among them. This has also been confirmed
by Thomas Woodrow, a senior official of the United States Defence
Intelligence Agency. In a research paper, Mr. Woodrow stated
that .......More >>>> |
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Dawood
might return on his own!
S Hussain
Zaidi
‘Drop Dawood
Ibrahim’s name from the list of 20 criminals India wants
extradited from Pakistan.’ This curious suggestion has been made
by various state agencies to the Union Home Ministry in a new
dossier on the underworld don. The dossier forms a part of the
briefing for Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani prior to his visit to
Pakistan. Advani is likely .....More >>>> |
Pak editor takes Musharraf to task
From SA Tribune
Pervez
Musharraf is a very unlucky man. The more he tries to extricate
himself from the densely clogged web of domestic and regional hot
wires, the more he sinks into the cesspool of uncertainty, despair
and hopelessness. Tragically all of this can easily be traced to his
sheer incompetence, his bloated ego, pointless arrogance and
needless ......More >>>> |
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A Q Khan: Father
of nuclear proliferation
Mohammad Shehzad
Will
Dr A Q Khan be tried for allegedly transferring
nuclear knowledge to Iran, Libya and North Korea? Should Musharraf
and Vajpayee be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize? Has India
acknowledged Kashmir as a disputed territory? These were hottest
topics of informal discussions at the 55th Republic Day of India.
The popular perception about .......More >>>> |
Middle-East:
Straddling the fence
Gary
Fitleberg
The International
Court of Justice (ICJ), the Hague-based principal judicia l organ of
the United Nations, began proceedings January 30 on the legality of
the security fence Israel is building. Israel has described the case
as a “political manipulation of the United Nations by the
Palestinians.” The United States has echoed Israel’s concerns.....More >>>> |
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The
nuclear Jihad
B Raman
Pakistan
is not the original birth place of the Islamic fundamentalist
and jihadi organizations. Islamic fundamentalism and jihadi
terrorism were born elsewhere in the Islamic Ummah and thereafter
spread to Pakistan after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. But,
Pakistan is the original birth place of the concept of the nuclear
jihad, which .......More >>>> |
Twelfth
SAARC Summit and Beyond
Yashwant
Sinha
Although
SAARC was formed eighteen years ago, it is really in the Twelfth
Summit at Islamabad that South Asia, as a region, awakened to the
benefits of regionalism and came together with a joint economic and
social agenda to effectively help in the integration of our seven
countries. The agreements and decisions of the Summit represent a .......More >>>> |
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