EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 25.06.10
Mr Dennis MacShane, a Labour MP and former Foreign Office Minister in the Tony Blair Government, noted in a British broadsheet how Pakistan has to put up with condescension and patronising sneers from a pro-Indian... The President kept his promise and arrived in Patna to unveil JPs statue before a crowd of a few lakhs... The fact is that the total number of people eventually affected are more than five times that number but were never fully compensated.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 01.12.09
HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. NO PARTY ON THE FARM. There is enough in the second-quarter government growth estimates to cheer but policy makers cannot escape the rising skew against agriculture and its implications.. Yes, after two decades in which US foreign policy has been largely dedicated to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny - in Bosnia, Darfur, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Kurdistan, post-earthquake Pakistan, post-tsunami��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 21.12.10
C��NEYT ��LSEVER; PLAYING LEAP-FROG WITH THE POLICE - TU��BA TANYER��-ERDEM��R; TOUGH YEAR AHEAD FOR TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY - SEM��H ��D��Z; AKP WATCHING, ��CALAN PRODUCING POLITICS - MEHMET AL�� B��RAND; TURKEY: THE NEW INDISPENSABLE... UNITED Progressive Alliance Chairperson, Sonia Gandhis five- tier plan to tackle corruption looks nice on paper, but she must know that the time for talking about corruption is over.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 18.06.11
Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy, David Malone, Canadas former high commissioner in Delhi, says our foreign policy remains reactive and lacks a grand vision. He believes pragmatism and economic interests will guide��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 05.12.09
However, if there is an agreement at Copenhagen by developed countries to finance mitigation action in developing countries, according to Mr Ramesh, the Government might be more open to international checks and monitoring... According to a December 1 New York Times report, Between the Lines: An Expansion in Pakistan by David A Sanger and Eric Schmitt, besides providing the White House with classified information about Afghanistan, the Central��.
Haqs Musings: Pakistan on Goldmans BRIC+ N11 Growth.
Pakistans main stock market ended 2010 with a 28 percent annual gain, driven by foreign buying mainly in the energy sector, despite concerns about the countrys macroeconomic indicators after summer floods, according to.. With US support, these centers will promote the development of Pakistans water, energy, and agriculture sectors through applied research, training for specialists, university linkages, and the contributions towards policy formulation, said in a��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.05.11
Thankfully a three-judge Bench saw through the folly of such an argument and decided instead that the children of oustees are not entitled to any more land as it was not part of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy. The Judges. A retired Pakistan-born Anglican bishop Michael Nazir Ali, in an article in The Times, writes of the need to force India to the negotiating table on Kashmir since this was no longer a bilateral issue but a matter of international concern.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 09.05.11
HINDUSTAN TIMES. AN AIRLINE HIJACKED. PC SEN. Air India (AI) is in an ICU and there are strident voices demanding its demise. Governments and most people have short memories. AI in the 1950s and 1960s was... And in a larger sense, by dismantling old, static ideas about itself, the Congress can take credit for the long way it has come in economics and foreign policy, for instance... I could see the motormans eyes as he saw me sprawled on the tracks.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 20.01.11
On foreign policy, they have a freer hand - more and more retired diplomats and military officers as well as party leaders are now taking recourse to online discourse.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. WERE NOT PAKISTAN. HARBANS MUKHIA. Samar Halarnkars concern in his article, Terror has a religion (Maha Bharat, January 13), that India may have to encounter radicalisation of two religious communities - even as Pakistan is threatened by the radicalisation of just one��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 13.05.10
Its no secret that Pakistani foreign policy, particularly India policy, continues to be driven by its powerful military and security establishment. Parallel to formal talks with the civilian establishment, therefore, efforts also need to��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.03.11
They say cricket is religion in India (and Pakistan) but when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh fashions the game into a legitimate foreign policy tool, he is pushing the ridiculous. On Friday, Mr.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. JAITLEY DOES IT. The BJP was never as dumb as it looks. So why deny Hindutva being an opportunistic issue? Heres another editorial courtesy those fine folks of WikiLeaks... In our country cricket has become an elixir for the masses.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 19.10.09
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who camped in Washington, DC, this past week to rid the new aid package of its restrictive clauses, has returned to Islamabad triumphant... HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. PAWAR MAY HAVE SOME ACES UP HIS SLEEVE. IN THE BJP, THE LEADERSHIP TUSSLE IS LIKELY TO BECOME SHARPER. BAL THACKERAY WILL WANT THE CORONATION OF UDDHAV.. There is obviously no magic elixir.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 02.04.11
HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE. OUR GIRLS, INTERRUPTED. The 2011 Census is a rude wake-up call for policy makers, activists and the general public. Despite plenty of schemes and significant monetary incentives, the child sex ratio of the second-most populous.. The interior secretaries meet, coupled with cricket diplomacy and Pakistans remission of the remaining sentence of a convict accused of espionage injected some warmth into the Indo-Pak equation.
With eye on Pakistan, BJP unveils five-elixir foreign policy formula
The BJP announced on Friday a Panchamrit or five elixirs formula on foreign policy and pitched for peaceful engagements with Pakistan to gain the neighbours cooperation to root out terrorism in the region. A resolution passed at the BJPs national.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.05.11
Nor should the US, of which Pakistan is a pampered major non-Nato ally whose manifest vices miraculously transmogrify into virtues when perceived by American eyes, have reason to feel upset. After all, to paraphrase a.. Delhi also needs a serious conversation between the government, private sector and the foreign policy community on how best to manage the risks and rewards of Indias massive foreign investments in Africa and beyond. Unlike China which has��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 03.08.10
His party, the BJP, turns a blind eye to his actions and his impetuosity... At a time when the BJP was raising a hue and cry over Sonia Gandhis foreign origins, Mahajans son wooing a foreigner would have taken away the wind from BJPs sails.. Policy reviews of the US strategy show that Washington feels its best bet to prevent the long-term threat of a radicalised Pakistan is to maintain a consistent relationship, backing the civilian government in Islamabad while at��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 24.06.10
In recent times, The New York Times and other international publications have published extensive narratives on how the LeT has been working at the behest of Pakistani agencies to hurt Indian interests in Afghanistan... We are asking where Gilad stands in this equation. We are asking.. At a time when everybody wants more money for their state coffers, the Bihar CM has returned the Rs 5 crore Kosi flood relief money given by the Gujarat BJP government.