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War or peace on the Indus? by John Briscoeo
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nrqazi
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17/Mar/2012
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Anyone foolish enough to write on war or peace in the Indus needs to first banish a set of immediate suspicions. I am neither Indian nor Pakistani. I am a South African who has worked on water issues in the subcontinent for 35 years and who has lived in Bangladesh (in the 1970s) and Delhi (in the 2000s). In 2006 I published, with fine Indian colleagues, an Oxford University Press book titled India
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Pass the Books. Hold the Oil. by THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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Posted By:
nrqazi
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15/Mar/2012
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EVERY so often someone asks me: “What’s your favorite country, other than your own?” I’ve always had the same answer: Taiwan. “Taiwan? Why Taiwan?” people askVery simple: Because Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China for construction — yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world.
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India may never be a super power: LSE study
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Posted By:
nrqazi
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11/Mar/2012
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Despite India’s "impressive" rise, its ambition to be a super power may remain just that—an ambition, according to an authoritative new study by the London School of Economics to which several Indian scholars have contributed.It pointedly dismisses what it calls the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s "unequivocal verdict" during her India visit in 2009 that "India is not just a regional power
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Israel’s Last Chance to Strike Iran by AMOS YADLIN
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Posted By:
nrqazi
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4/Mar/2012
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ON June 7, 1981, I was one of eight Israeli fighter pilots who bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak. As we sat in the briefing room listening to the army chief of staff, Rafael Eitan, before starting our planes’ engines, I recalled a conversation a week earlier when he’d asked us to voice any concerns about our mission.We told him about the risks we foresaw: running out of fuel, Iraqi retal
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Are we wrong about Pakistan? by Peter Oborne
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Posted By:
nrqazi
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29/Feb/2012
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When Peter Oborne first arrived in Pakistan, he expected a 'savage' backwater scarred by terrorism.Years later, he describes the Pakistan that is barely documented - and that he came to fall in love with It was my first evening in Pakistan. My hosts, a Lahore banker and his charming wife, wanted to show me the sights, so they took me to a restaurant on the roof of a town house in the Old City.
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