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Kashmir
Sell-out: Indian black-sheep in US
Yatindra
Bhatnagar
San
Francisco Bay Area is unique in some respects and the so-called
“intellectuals and secular” big wigs more so. That was amply
demonstrated here, sometime back, when some prominent Kashmiri
activists, including those whose families have suffered as a result
of the ongoing terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir State of India, were
kept .......More >>>> |
India
/ Pakistan: After the New York spat
What others
say..........
Tit
for tat at UN and later is all in the diplomatic game. Since
wars of words are only peripherals, the two countries have to start
in earnest to restart the peace process and restore some kind of
normalcy. Vajpayee's “step-by-step” approach does not evoke any
response in Islamabad. But what Musharraf has in mind is not
practical.
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4th anniversary of
military coup
Brad Adams
Human
Rights Watch is concerned that in the years since the coup, the
Pakistani government has systematically violated the fundamental
rights of members of the political opposition and former government
officials. It has harassed, threatened, and arbitrarily arrested
them. Many have been detained without charge, mistreated and ......More >>>> |
'APHC
serves the policy reflex of Pakistan'
Press
Briefing
APHC
pre and post split, has remained an undemocratic and an
unconstitutional body. It has sent over 70,000 souls to death and
continues to subscribe to a politics of violence, causing a heavy
loss of life on a daily basis. It has precipitated, for its private
and commercial reasons, multiple violence, of security forces,
militants, renegade .......More >>>> |
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Resurgent
India in Asia
Yashwant
Sinha
Over
the past fifty-six years since our independence in 1947, India
has established a sound and stable liberal democracy. It has done so
by successfully conducting free and fair elections, by ensuring
repeatedly peaceful transfer of political authority, by empowering
women and by devolving powers to elected local authorities
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Jammu
lawyer turns 'judge,' orders killing
Sanjeev
Pargal
Advocate Mehmood Qureshi did more than take the law into his own
hands when he joined a militant outfit in the Valley. The
43-year-old lawyer crowned himself a judge and since he quit the
bar, has declared ‘judgement’ on numerous civilians, who are
then killed by militants. More than a dozen civilians including
three women have allegedly been ......More >>>> |
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Arafat.
Should he stay? Should he go?
Gary Fitleberg
Defense
Force unit prepared to snatch the Palestinian Authority
president from his headquarters in the city of Ramallah during
Operation Defensive Shield in March and April, 2002, the Jerusalem
Post quoted Israel Army Radio as reporting. Soldiers were prepared
to storm Arafat´s building and remove him to a North African
country .......More >>>> |
U.S policy predicaments in Pakistan
Subhash
Kapila
Pakistan
has traditionally presented predicaments to the United States in
policy formulations specific to Pakistan and more largely to
American policies in South Asia arising from schisms in mutual
perceptions. The United States has pandered to Pakistan’s military
needs in the past as a ‘quid-pro-quo’ for use of Pakistan .....More >>>> |
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UN:
A reality check!
Swaraj
Singh
During
the recent meeting of the United Nations, one trend became
obvious that there was a clash between unilateral and multilateral
approaches to the world’s problems. President Bush emerged as the
champion of the unilateralist approach, while the French President
Jaques Chirac emerged as the leader of the multilateralist approach.......More >>>> |
Israel:
The
occupation blues
Robert
Jensen
The Arabs living in the "disputed
territories" want the right of "self-determination" and their own
statehood. But they also want to have freedom to be able to send
their various terrorists utilizing many names, including but not
limited to, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, et.al.,
to travel into what is what is proclaimed as .......More >>>> |
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