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March Month Articles
- Dialogue the only way,
but Pak must control terror machine: PM
- by The Pioneer
Asserting that dialogue was the only way forward, Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh Friday said that not talking to Pakistan will not isolate
it but made it clear that "the terror machine has to be controlled
by Pakistan, even if non-state actors are at work" for any meaningful
dialogue to progress. ....
- Shut 42 terror camps, India
tells Pakistan
- by The Times of India
Defence minister A K Antony on Saturday asked Pakistan to shut down 42
terrorist camps he said were functioning in its territory if India-Pakistan
talks were to succeed. ....
- Them and US
- by Shekhar Gupta
There was nothing un-Holbrooke-like about his utterly insensitive statement
that the Kabul attack had not particularly targeted Indians. ....
- 'ISI knows where Osama
hiding'
- by The Indian Express
Pakistan's ISI knows the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden but is keeping
his location a secret and wants to use the al-Qaeda chief as leverage
over the United States as it is wary of America's closer ties with India,
noted military historian Stephen Tanner has said. ....
- 11 Mumbai accused figure
in Pak red book
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
A list of wanted persons prepared by Pakistan's Federal Investigation
Agency (FIA) names 119 individuals - including the 11 persons accused
in the Mumbai attacks on November 26, 2008, but there are no details on
the bounty in case of their arrests. ....
- Politicians making most
of Govt-sponsored Haj trip
- by Arunima
The pilgrimage to Haj is what every pious Muslim lives for. The expense
for a trip to Haj comes close to Rs 2 lakh. However, if you're well connected
and powerful, you can go on a Haj pilgrimage for free.' ....
- Outsourcing jihad
- by Shashi Shekhar
It is clear that David Coleman Headley and his associate Tahawwur Rana
represent a new breed of jihadi freelancers willing to offer their services
to multiple sponsors of Islamist terror, while Lashkar-e-Tayyeba is playing
the role of a 'global jihad facilitator' ....
- Maoists will overthrow
govt much before 2050: Kishenji
- by The Pioneer
A day after Union Home Secretary GK Pillai said Maoists had plans to overthrow
the Indian state by 2050, top Naxal leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji
tonight claimed it would be achieved much before that date. ....
- Shut 42 terror camps, India
tells Pakistan
- by The Pioneer
Defence Minister AK Antony on Saturday asked Pakistan to shut down 42
terrorist camps he said were functioning in its territory if India-Pakistan
talks were to succeed. ....
- Delhi blasts accused arrested
in U.P.
- by The Hindu
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the U.P. police arrested an Indian Mujahideen
operative and accused in the Delhi serial bomb blasts, Salman alias Chhotu,
in Siddhartnagar district on Friday night. ....
- Nepal running out of time
- by Dhruba Adhikary
Nepal's transition from a Hindu monarchy to a secular republic is not
going smoothly, and not just over the fast-approaching May 28 deadline
for the nation's new constitution. ....
- Why Bombs Explode
- by Prem Shankar Jha, Senior Journalist
Last Week, relations between India and Pakistan touched a nadir not seen
since Operation Parakram, launched eight years ago following the attack
on Parliament. ....
- US behind Centre's U-turn
on Indo-Pak talks, says Advani
- by The Indian Express
Describing the UPA government's approach to Indo-Pak talks as a "self-inflicted
insult," chairman of the BJP Parliamentary Party L K Advani on Tuesday
reiterated that India's U-turn on the issue of "dialogue with Pakistan
seemed to be the upshot of Washington's nudge". ....
- Not soft, Bharat is the
chosen target
- by Dr Pravin Togadia
RECENTLY, there was a jehadi attack on Pune and the same cliché
word was used to describe places like Pune, Bengaluru, Jaipur etc-that
is "soft target". ....
- Dismantle Devaswom Boards
- by Ravi Varma
The newly created statutory bodies-Travancore Devaswom Board, Cochin Devaswom
Board, Religious Endowment Board and Guruvayoor Temple Committee-mainly
and only consist of those nominated by the elected legislators and ministers
having Hindu names. ....
- Kashmir's Unceasing Secessionist
Moves
- by Dr TH Chowdary
India has lost over 40,000 civilians, soldiers and para military personnel,
trying to prevent Kashmir from seceding from India; India has given over
Rs. 2,00,000 crore in "packages" ....
- Selection of new chief
kicks off a row
- by Prof Dilip K Chakrabarti
The whole hype about handing over the leadership of the Archaeological
Survey of India to a professional was nothing but a charade. ....
- The Mind Is With Fear
- by Behroz Khan
It's February 21, Sunday, and an impenetrable fog of sorrow seems to have
enveloped Mohala Jogan Shah, in the heart of Peshawar's old city. ....
- Rekindle Vedic knowledge
- by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Whatever we see in nature has a perfect mathematical structure. The rotation
of the Earth, the movement of the stars, the growth of trees, etc, all
have perfect underlying mathematical structures. ....
- Husain in a pickle
- by Anuradha Dutt
The news that painter in exile MF Husain has been given Qatar nationality
by that nation's ruling family has triggered sentimental pleas from his
admirers here to return home. ....
- Get off your high horses
- by Rudroneel Ghosh
Over the last week or so a lot has been said regarding MF Husain's acceptance
of Qatari citizenship. In effect, this would mean that the 95-year-old
artist would be surrendering his Indian passport. ....
- Tumbledown Dick
- by Editorial
The US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr Richard
Holbrooke, has come up with the preposterous idea that this past week's
terror attacks in Kabul were not directed at Indians. ....
- Indian missions under fresh
terror threat
- by The Pioneer
Indian missions in Afghanistan are under fresh threat from terror outfits
as intelligence inputs suggest that such groups are planning new attacks.
....
- How India lost the plot
in talks
- by M J Akbar
Delhi lost its own plot one day before foreign secretaries Nirupama Rao
and Salman Bashir sat down at Hyderabad House to reopen the dialogue between
India and Pakistan. ....
- Like 26/11, gunmen went
from room to room, killed
- by Pranab Dhal Samanta
A day after the attack on Indians in Kabul, the government has the Lashkar-e-Toiba
on its radar of prime suspects given that the previous attempt on the
embassy last October was eventually traced to this outfit. ....
- Any new IM attack to feature
Batla runaway Junaid: Shahzad
- by Neeraj Chauhan
Alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shahzad Ahmad, who is in the
custody of Delhi Police for the past 20 days now, has reportedly told
the Special Cell officers that his another accomplice, Ariz Khan alias
Junaid, who had escaped along with him from Batla House on September 19,
2008, is in touch with the IM bosses in Pakistan. ....
- Holbrooke's comments on
Kabul attack surprises India
- by Ptinews.com
The contention by US Special Envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard
Holbrooke that Indians were not the target of the latest Kabul attack
has come as a surprise to the government here. ....
- Indian team to question
Jaish man in Dhaka net
- by The Indian Express
Bombers in Kabul blow a hole in India's largest overseas aid programme.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the country that provides most of
India's imported petroleum. ....
- Shaking off Islamabad
- by The Hindustan Times
Bombers in Kabul blow a hole in India's largest overseas aid programme.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits the country that provides most of
India's imported petroleum. ....
- India - 18th century
- by New-Diaspora.com
Aurangzeb's successor, Bahadur Shah I, died in 1712. Wars of succession
followed and culminated in the accession of Mohammed Shah. ....
- Lashkar-e-Taiba: The Next
Al Qaeda?
- by Jeremy Kahn
While the U.S. remains focused on hunting down Al Qaeda's original leadership
along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a lesser-known Islamic militant
group has emerged as potentially the most dangerous terrorist outfit on
the planet. ....
- India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
& the US
- by B. Raman
Is the Indian government growing increasingly frustrated over the Obama
administration's policy of reconciliation with the so called good Taliban?
....
- Sikhs in Pakistan: Citizen
'Alien'
- by Omer Farooq Khan
But for his blue turban and flowing beard there's almost nothing to distinguish
Charanjit Singh, 78, from other residents of this northwestern Pakistani
city. ....
- 42 terror camps still active
in Pak: Antony
- by The Pioneer
India on Sunday said 42 terror camps are "still active" in Pakistan
and that lack of a serious attempt or effort by that country to dismantle
them is the "main cause of concern for us." ....
- Morocco dismantles active
terror cell
- by USA Today
Authorities have dismantled a six-member terror cell that was planning
attacks in the North African kingdom, Morocco's official news agency says.
....
- Women detained for not
wearing veil in Bangladesh
- by Weeklyblitz.net
Golam Minhaz, an inspector with Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police
at Rangpur district [northern part of the country] detained 19 women in
various areas in the city for 'not wearing veils'. ....
- Something's seriously wrong
at York University
- by David Frum
Next week, York University will once again open its halls and classrooms
to "Israel Apartheid Week," so-called. This year as every year,
militants and activists will use the taxpayer-funded facilities of York
to vilify the Jewish state. ....
- Life term for blasphemy
accused
- by Ishaq Tanoli
A blasphemy accused was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday by
a sessions court for outraging religious feelings of Muslims while a co-accused
was acquitted for want of evidence. ....
- The warning that we ignored
- by Miranda Devine
The latest headache for NSW prison authorities is how to safely house
the five terrorists convicted this month of plotting bomb attacks in Sydney.
....
- Lessons in hate on streets,
in books
- by Farah Zia
My son's birthday that falls on February 4 is like a weekend every year,
because the next day - February 5 - is a national holiday, declared as
"Kashmir Day" (instituted by Nawaz Sharif when he was the prime
minister of Pakistan) ostensibly in support of the Kashmiris. ....
- One more time: Tharoor,
clarification, controversy
- by IBN Live.com
Opposition parties criticized Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi
Tharoor for saying Saudi Arabia could be a potential interlocutor in India's
ties with Pakistan and the Congress tried to explain his statement. ....
- Tharoor's remark utterly
irresponsible: Opposition parties
- by Rediff News
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday condemned as 'utterly irresponsible'
Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's remark that Saudi
Arabia could act as an interlocutor between India and Pakistan, saying
it will seek a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Parliament.
.....
- Pak will have to fight war
if India doesn't talk: Saeed
- by The Pioneer
Notwithstanding the recent Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level meeting for
which India took initiative, JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed has said Pakistan
will have to "fight a war at all costs" if New Delhi is not
prepared to hold talks. .....
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