Pakistan : Musharraf gone what now?
“ President Pervez Musharraf, who often vowed never to run away from a fight, surrendered to his political foes on Monday by tendering his resignation from office to escape the humiliation of impeachment, making way for Pakistan”.
Musharraf’s impeachment, also demanded by all the four provincial [...]
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ASEAN, India to sign free trade pact in December
8 Aug 2008, 2024 hrs IST,AFP
BANGKOK: Southeast Asian nations will sign a free trade pact with India in December on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bangkok, an official said on Friday.
Talks in Brunei removed the remaining obstacles to the pact, which will liberalise trade [...]
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Diesel pumps run dry across state, except in Mumbai
Prafulla Marpakwar | TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The unprecedented power crisis in Maharashtra has another significant fallout. The entire state, barring Mumbai, is facing an acute shortage of diesel ever since a large number of commercial and industrial establishments switched over to diesel to make up for [...]
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ISI has been the cash cow for the generals running Pakistan army.
No one is aware of its international beneficiaries.
Suffice to say that ISI has international protection in its operations.
US $ are funded through ISI. Moolah is raked in through opium trade and gun running. All this has official sanction. Pakistan is not USA. Iran-Contra [...]
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Came across ‘Taking Heat ‘ by Ari Fleischer, an unabashed Bush admirer.
It made for a pleasantly different reading, so different from the books and articles dedicated to Bush Bashing. In fact the media and the internet are full of talk shows and articles highlighting Bush as ‘the problem guy ‘ nationally and internationally.
Am looking for [...]
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WTO fails but Kamal Nath won’t backtrack
Pankaj Vohra/Gauray Choudhury
New DelhiB y declining to be overwhelmed by the US trade representative Susan Schwab and her colleagues during the failed World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva, Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath by his consistent and firm stand demonstrated that India stood for its own self [...]
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SIMI men let off by Kerala cops behind Bangalore blasts?
Ananthakrishnan G | TNN
Thiruvananthapuram:
Could precious lives have been saved in Jaipur and Bangalore had Kerala cops not ‘‘bungled’’ in a case involving some senior SIMI activists arrested by them in 2006? If the sloppy manner in which the police handled the issue involving hardline [...]
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A little late in the day, US is asking questions about ISI, answers to which have been in public knowledge since decades.
Who is ISI’s boss? Bush asks Pak PM
Islamabad: Accusing members of ISI of tipping off militants before US attacks on terror targets in Pakistan’s tribal areas, an “annoyed” President Bush confronted the visiting [...]
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