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A new beginning
24 July, 2010
Pakistan and Afghanistan have signed a broad-based record note – a prelude to a formal Transit Trade Agreement between the two countries – allowing export of Afghan goods to India through Wagah border and other destinations through Pakistani seaports via designated routes with a reciprocal concession by Afghanistan to facilitate export of Pakistani merchandise to [...]
The peace chimera by Cyril Almeida
23 July, 2010The hawks on both sides have won, again. At some point the minutiae becomes irrelevant. Did Pillai sink the talks between Krishna and Qureshi by blaming the ISI for the Mumbai attacks a day before the foreign ministers were to meet? Did Krishna’s inflexibility during the talks and the joint press conference with Qureshi torpedo [...]
Hate overtakes tolerance by Kuldip Nayar
23 July, 2010THE escalating violence in India frightens me. Still more frightening is the shape it is taking. It has turned communal, regional and ideological in various places. Whatever its direction, it indicates a trend where the rule of law is lessening and force is gaining recognition. I had imagined that political parties would not stoke fires [...]
The gathering rage of the virtue brigades by Ayaz Amir
23 July, 2010Islamabad diary Friday, July 23, 2010 Ayaz Amir Brigades is just a metaphor. What we have now is a veritable army of the enraged middle classes inveighing day in and day out against the evil of the times in which they live and hoping somehow for a miracle to stop what in their minds is [...]
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