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In her column, 8216;8216;A General warning8217;8217;, Tavleen Singh has echoed our fear that Pervez Musharraf will outwit our 8216;8216;good doctor8217;8217;, as he did former prime minister A B Vajpayee. Tavleen rightly points out that Musharraf has no right to decide our troop deployment. Manmohan Singh has also made the mistake of talking to the Hurriyat who boycotted the democratic process in Kashmir, in preference to other Kashmiri groups.
D K Sen, Kolkata
Vivek Prahladan, Delhi
The Kashmir solution is now beyond our scope. Discussions will need to be held with various political organisations which have mushroomed in the Valley, most of which are pro-Pakistan. The Pakistani government will also have to drawn into these talks. It is evident that the CBMs have not yielded the desired results. Musharraf still finds common cause between Palestine and Kashmir issues. Whatever concessions we make on J038;K will hurt our national pride.
V P Damodar, Pune
In his column, 8216;8216;Time to repeal small cess Acts8217;8217;, N K Singh shows the right path for a simplified tax regime. Besides cess, even surcharges should be merged in basic tax rates. The corrupt chain of VAT and other local taxes on goods should be merged with the excise duty at the manufacturing level. Excise collection can be distributed between the Centre, manufacturing State and consuming State.
Madhu Agrawal, Delhi
With reference to Coomi Kapoor8217;s column, 8216;8216;Inside Track8217;8217;, BJP should realise that it cannot come back to power until it resolves its internal conflict.
Mahesh Kumar, Delhi
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