The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

February 14, 2004 00:00 IST
An Indian request to postpone the upcoming Pakistani cricket tour till after the general elections will not be entertained by the Pakistan C...
Sat, Feb 14, 2004
February 12, 2004 00:00 IST
Detailing Pakistan’s ‘‘A Q Khan network’’ which driven by ‘‘greed, fanaticism or both,’’ fed ro...
Thu, Feb 12, 2004
February 11, 2004 00:00 IST
The American Jewish Committee, a powerful Washington-based NGO devoted to enlarging the compact between the US and Israel via still virgin t...
Wed, Feb 11, 2004
February 07, 2004 00:00 IST
Having conducted India’s strategic dialogue with US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott for nearly four years after the May 1998 n...
Sat, Feb 07, 2004
February 06, 2004 00:00 IST
Washington saw Pakistan, “by precipitating the Kargil crisis, as potentially blundering into a nuclear war on the sub-continent.” ...
Fri, Feb 06, 2004
February 06, 2004 00:00 IST
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao did not conduct nuclear tests in December 1995 after the US ‘‘found out’’ and Pr...
Fri, Feb 06, 2004
February 04, 2004 00:00 IST
From the high American mountains of Aspen, Colorado, via Washington DC, to the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi, a growing strategic relationshi...
Wed, Feb 04, 2004
February 04, 2004 00:00 IST
The National Security Advisory Board, an organisation that self-describedly advises the National Security Council from outside, will now wit...
Wed, Feb 04, 2004
February 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Election year sabre-rattling in the US over outsourcing of jobs to India is leading to election year prickliness in India, with External Aff...
Tue, Feb 03, 2004
February 03, 2004 00:00 IST
India and China are taking small but significant steps to wards building confidence, with the Chinese foreign ministry ordering the ‘&#...
Tue, Feb 03, 2004
January 28, 2004 00:00 IST
Ask External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha which beat he prefers — finance or foreign affairs — and without batting an eyelid he...
Wed, Jan 28, 2004
January 26, 2004 00:00 IST
An invitation from President Pervez Musharraf should spread the cheer in this season of feel-good and January Spring. But this one had a sli...
Mon, Jan 26, 2004
January 22, 2004 00:00 IST
Having issued an appeal for an amicable resolution of the Ayodhya dispute barely a fortnight ago, the Dalai Lama’s first public appeara...
Thu, Jan 22, 2004
January 21, 2004 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan seem determined to restart the cross-border bus from Munabao in Rajasthan to Khokhrapar in Sind, what with talks slated f...
Wed, Jan 21, 2004
January 20, 2004 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan have decided to take their renewed bonhomie forward by holding likely talks about the promised ‘‘composite dial...
Tue, Jan 20, 2004
January 14, 2004 00:00 IST
Barely had the PM touched down in Delhi, when his principal aide and confidante Brajesh Mishra was catching the flight to Beijing for the se...
Wed, Jan 14, 2004
January 14, 2004 00:00 IST
In identically worded statements issued today by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and US President George W Bush in New Delhi and Monterr...
Wed, Jan 14, 2004
January 13, 2004 00:00 IST
The past as a stumbling block in high technology cooperation is set to be finally laid to rest tonight as India and the US get ready to issu...
Tue, Jan 13, 2004
January 11, 2004 00:00 IST
WHEN a handful of journalists determined to set government agenda, wrote soon after the BJP came to power in March 1998 that it had decided ...
Sun, Jan 11, 2004
January 07, 2004 00:00 IST
It began last April in Srinagar when Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee offered a hand of friendship to Pakistan. And today, over a histori...
Wed, Jan 07, 2004
January 07, 2004 00:00 IST
It’s such a long journey from Agra to Islamabad, especially when there’s a terrorist attack on Parliament and a 10-month-long eyeb...
Wed, Jan 07, 2004
January 06, 2004 00:00 IST
The possibility of a breakthrough between India and Pakistan loomed large tonight as the two sides worked on creating the contours of a peac...
Tue, Jan 06, 2004
January 06, 2004 00:00 IST
If ever Prime Minister A B Vajpayee wanted to contest elections from Islamabad rather than his beloved Lucknow, remarked a wag here, winning...
Tue, Jan 06, 2004
January 05, 2004 00:00 IST
While he refrained from mentioning Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf tonight called for an amendment to the SAARC chart...
Mon, Jan 05, 2004
January 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Two years ago, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee remarked at the SAARC summit inaugural ceremony this morning, the organisation was 16 years old ...
Mon, Jan 05, 2004




