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  • The SAARC Summit and After
    Maj. Gen. Dipankar Banerjee    ·   14 Jan, 2004    ·    #1270    ·    Commentary    
    The 12th SAARC Summit in the first week of January 2004 at Islamabad can rightly claim to be the best ever.. It was held after a gap of one year, following an intense period of tension between India and Pakistan and several other major developme...
  • SAARC Summit – A Growing Hope among Kashmiris
    Amin Masoodi    ·   14 Jan, 2004    ·    #1269    ·    Commentary    
    As the whole world looks forward to the forthcoming SAARC summit, the same has generated a tide of emotions amongst beleaguered Kashmiris. People in the valley hope for a further fillip in the ongoing peace process paving way to a broad based di...
  • Indo Pak Dialogue (Urdu Media Survey 16-31 December 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   14 Jan, 2004    ·    #1268    ·    Commentary    
    Resolution of the Kashmir Issue In its editorial daily, Srinagar Times (27 December 2003) commented on the attack on Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf. "The attack on Musharraf has come only a day after his announcement that...
  • Kashmir and Human Rights (Urdu Media Survey 1-15 December 2003)
    Amin Masoodi    ·   13 Jan, 2004    ·    #1267    ·    Commentary    
    Besides gross human rights violations in the valley, the growing Indo-Pak relations reinforcing possibility of a dialogue between the two shared prominent space in the Urdu Media in Kashmir valley. Human Rights Violations In it...
  • Afghanistan: The Forgotten Front against War on Terror
    Niraj Kumar    ·   07 Jan, 2004    ·    #1266    ·    Commentary    
    The capture of Saddam Hussein by coalition soldiers brought smiles on the faces in the American camp on the eve of Christmas and New Year. However, there is an absence of similar mood of optimism on the second front against terrorism. Afghanistan ...
  • Bhutan launches military operations (North East Regional Media Survey, 16-31 December 2003)
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   03 Jan, 2004    ·    #1265    ·    Commentary    
    Bhutan launches military operations The launch of military operations by the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) on the camps of the terrorist outfits like the ULFA, the NDFB and the KLO on 15 December dominated the media headlines through out the regi...
  • Disarmament and the Afghan Dilemma
       ·   02 Jan, 2004    ·    #1264    ·    Commentary    
    Some 502 delegates are attending the ‘Loya Jirga’ (grand assembly) in Kabul to ratify the draft constitution. Even as divisive issues could spoil th...
  • Rogue’s Day Out: Libya sets standard by renouncing WMD programs
    Animesh Roul    ·   31 Dec, 2003    ·    #1263    ·    Commentary    
    Once viewed in the 1980s as the center of global terrorism by the Reagan administration Libya, along with its dictator, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, is all set to create history in the sphere of arms control and non-proliferation. Often called a &At...
  • Indian Presence in Afghanistan
       ·   31 Dec, 2003    ·    #1262    ·    Commentary    
    The two Indian workers, P. Murali and G. Vardharai, kidnapped on 9 December 2003, were released by their captors, believed to be either Taliban militia or local armed gangs, on 24 December. The abductors had earlier demanded release of some 50 i...
  • The Price of Misgovernance
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   31 Dec, 2003    ·    #1261    ·    Commentary    
    The young state of Chhatisgarh witnessed two ‘sting’ operations recently revealing the rot in its politics. In the first, a prospective Chief Ministerial candidate was selling mining rights for a consideration. While corruption was r...
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