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Sleeping with the Nuclear Snake

Kaushik Kapisthalam

In the furor following the surreal nuclear drama in Islamabad culminating with Pakistan’s dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s “pardon” of Dr.A.Q.Khan, the world media missed another, more farcical event. It was US President George W. Bush and his administration spinning the Khan episode as a “major success” in cracking down on global nuclear proliferation activities. As the famous boxing promoter  .......More >>>>

Huge aid for Pak, scarce credit for India

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After putting India and Pakistan on a par for many years, the US justification for allocating $700 million (of which $ 300 million in military aid) to Pakistan in the coming fiscal and a paltry $85 million to India defies logic. But the ambidextrous US state department officials have neatly explained the disparity away, though some senators have raised the obvious ham-handedness in US  .......More >>>>

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J&K: Shifting Strategy of Subversion

K P S Gill

There are dramatic signs of shifting strategies in the covert war in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), as Pakistan reorients its position to take advantage of the rising sentiment in favour of peace, even as it seeks to sustain terrorism on Indian soil. The Muttahida (United) Jehad Council (MJC), which was shifted from Islamabad to Muzzafarabad in ......More >>>>

Pakistan: Bloody Sectarian Legacies

B Raman

To understand the anti-Shia massacres at Karbala and Baghdad in Iraq (about 180 fatal casualties) and at Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan (41 killed ) during the Muhurrum procession on March 2, 2004, one has to go back to the creation of Pakistan in 1947. When Pakistan was formed in 1947, the Shias were amongst the major land-owners of .......More >>>>

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India: Who is a minority?
Ram Puniyani

The debate around the concept of minorities has been an ongoing one, and it keeps propping up especially in the context of anti minority violence occurring so frequently in India. Opining on the concept of minority, and of course giving a baggage of advice to them, Mr. K. Sudarshan, the RSS Sarsanghchalak, said that Muslims .......More >>>>

Iran Admits Nuclear Program Successful
Gary Fitleberg

Iran has finally admitted having achieved "big success" in nuclear fuel technology, saying the covert program revealed a day earlier by diplomats in Vienna was a means to meet the nation's energy requirements. But Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi refused to acknowledge that inspectors from the International Atomic  .....More >>>>

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Nepal & Bush Administration: Into thin air

Conn Hallinan 

Tucked into the upper stories of the Himalayas, Nepal hardly seems ground zero for the Bush administration's next crusade against “terrorism,” but an aggressive American ambassador, a strategic locale, and a flood of U.S. weaponry threatens to turn the tiny country of 25 million into a counter-insurgency bloodbath. More than 8,000 .......More >>>>

BPO Backlash and Elections Year Politics

Hari Sud

The leading Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean has entered the anti BPO wave, joining what previously were only a media campaign in USA and a Union's backlash in UK.  The election year in USA and possible elections in UK (after unpopular UK’s participation of invasion of Iraq) has breathed a fresh life into the anti BPO lobby........More >>>>

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