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Destabilising step: Pakistan

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Hindu - By Nirupama Subramanian - Jul. 28 (News Report) - INS Arihant, India’s newly inducted nuclear-powered submarine, has drawn a sharp reaction from Pakistan.

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Why the United States got it wrong

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Hindu - By P. Sainath - Dec. 11 (Opinion) - It is worth learning this: Al-Qaeda was the biggest beneficiary of the “response” of the United States to 9/11 alongside U.S. corporations. America’s “War on Terror” produced far more terrorism in the world than there had been prior to that response.

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One emotional, incandescent moment

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Hindu - By P.Sainath - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - The impact of Barack Obama’s win on the sentiments and aspirations of millions of Americans from the minorities, particularly African Americans, is enormous and impossible to measure.

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Metro terrorism

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Hindu - Jul. 28 (Editorial) - The serial bombings in Ahmedabad and Bangalore, which have taken a toll of over 50 lives and injured more than 150 people, form part of a sequence of attacks that have demonstrated just how dangerous the terrorist threat to India's major cities continues to be.

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Dastardly attack

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Hindu - Jul. 09 (Editorial) - The resurgent Islamist movement, which is vigorously pursuing a policy of destabilisation on both sides of the Durand Line, would always fancy a strike against the assets of a country that is among the largest donors to Afghanistan's reconstruction efforts.

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Managing Pakistan-U.S. relations

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Hindu - By Talat Masood - Jun. 25 (Opinion) - Supporting military rulers and simultaneously passing legislation that requires the U.S. President to certify that Pakistan is making progress in its democratic evolution exemplify Washington's mixed and contradictory policies. Nonetheless, owing to a Democrat-dominated Congress and the likelihood of a Democratic President at the White House, there could be greater support for democracy in Pakistan.

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Will war lead to peace in Sri Lanka?

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Hindu - By Ram Manikkalingam - Jan. 22 (Opinion) - Sri Lanka's phoney peace is over. By abrogating the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Sri Lankan government has finally proclaimed what has been a reality for two years -- the effective end of the ceasefire brokered by the Norwegians six years ago.

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Musharraf's second coup

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:55:36 -0800

The Hindu - By Rasheeda Bhagat - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - The unanimous view is that Gen Musharraf took the drastic step of imposing Emergency in Pakistan because he was sure that the Supreme Court would give an adverse judgment on his election as President.

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Musharraf clamps emergency in Pakistan

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:12:22 -0700

The Hindu - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Embattled President Pervez Musharraf on Satuday night clamped a state of emergency in Pakistan ahead of a crucial Supreme Court ruling on the legality of his re-election, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis. An eight-member Supreme Court bench immediately set aside the Emergency order which suspended the current Constitution amid reports that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who has been at loggerheads with Musharraf, has been asked to go.

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Why we oppose the Indo-U.S. military ties

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:20:42 -0700

The Hindu - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - Since the 1990s, the U.S. government made overtures to the Indian Government for a military alliance. When the Bush administration came to power it wanted India to be a part of its missile defence shield. Since 9/11, the Indian and U.S. navies and Special Forces have conducted a number of joint exercises in the Indian Ocean and in the hills of India's Northeast. U.S. State Department official Christian Rocca said (in 2002), "Military-to-military cooperation is now producing tangible progress towards [the] objective [of] strategic, diplomatic and political cooperation as well as sound economic ties."

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A U.S. rethink on support to Musharraf?

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:30:00 -0700

The Hindu - By Nirupama Subramanian - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The Bush administration has thus far backed President Musharraf in return for his support on the "war on terror," and has stood by him despite criticism from several quarters including the U.S. media that he was not doing enough. But it is bound to be worried that the Pakistan leader's grip over his country has weakened substantially since his March 9 action to remove Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary backfired and triggered widespread protests.

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Military Inc. -- it's big business in Pakistan

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:25:34 -0700

The Hindu - By Nirupama Subramanian - Apr. 19 (Special Report) - General Musharraf may or may not make the transition to plain Mr. Musharraf. But a new book by a Pakistani writer argues that irrespective of whether it is a civilian or a general at the helm, so deep has the military sunk roots in the national economy, and so vast are its business dealings, that in order to protect this empire and its associated vested interests, the army, especially, will continue to have an important say in how Pakistan is run. Military Inc. -- Inside Pakistan's Military Economy by Ayesha Siddiqa (Pluto Press, London; Oxford University Press, Pakistan) is a detailed exposition of the business and commercial empire run by the armed forces.

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Malegaon: the road to perdition

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:29:51 -0700

The Hindu - By Praveen Swami, Anupama Katakam - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - Islamist violence has scarred much of India, but the Malegaon bombings were preceded by a series of Hindutva terrorist attacks on mosques. A FILTHY stream runs through the middle of Malegaon, sundering the town's Hindu homes from its Muslim quarter. A battered bridge is the only link between them. The small Maharashtra town is a living example of the apartheid nation Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists alike have long sought to create.

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The youth: their thoughts and aspirations

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:38:13 -0700

The Hindu - By Yogendra Yadav, Sanjay Kumar - Aug. 16 (Poll) - Independence Day speeches make ritual references to the youth. They are seen as the country's future, as the carriers of new values and attitudes, and as the agents of social, economic and political change. What does this body of people, which bears the burden of these expectations, think about the state of the nation? On issues such as education, family, social mobility, citizenship and so on?

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World leaders head for Beirut as conflict spirals

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:20:05 -0700

The Hindu - By Atul Aneja - Jul. 18 (News Report) - With the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group, Hizbollah, continuing to spiral, an energetic diplomatic effort has been mounted to address the crisis.

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