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| Editor
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Dear
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| HandShake
That Charmed SAARC |
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Gen
Musharraf's speech and Vajpayee's response marked their first
meeting since the failed Agra summit when the Indian leader
did not even come out to see him off on July 16 as he flew
home with little to show for their efforts to end a bloody
dispute on Kashmir. He did not mention Kashmir by name in
his speech on Saturday.
...........Issues
& Views
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| Exploiting
Opportunities |
Managing
the incomming financial aid is a test of the sagacity and skill
of our economic managers to make maximum use of this opportunity.
By Rabia Nisar..........Issues
& Views |
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| Slaughter
of Pakistani |
They
died from natural causes; they died in alphabetical order."
This was an official entry in a record about deaths in a nazi
concentration camp. Nobody is keeping such records, even fake
ones, about Pakistan now being machine-gunned and bombed to
smithereens in Afghanistan.
By Zain Nisar.......Issues &
Views |
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| What
Reason? |
An
American businessman, when traveling the Afghan camps, was asked
by a Afghan girl who could barely cobble her English sentences
together: How do you(the Americans) justify the bombing of our
country for just one man.'
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Challenges For Afghan Friends |
The
international interest in reconstruction of Afghanistan offers
the best hope in a quarter of a century for a shattered country
to run tragedy into opportunity.The trouble is that the interest
may not last.
By Kevin Rudd.......Open Forum
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| Defenders
of Islam or OPEC? |
While
American Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's recent visit to
Azerbaijan underscored the importance of the south Caucacus
to U.S security,it is also focused attention of the Caucacus/Caspian
Sea region,an area that will only gain importance in geopolitical
terms in the future.
By Susan Smith Nash.......Open
Forum |