The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

January 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Hardly had the opening session of the friendliest SAARC summit in years ended at the resplendent Jinnah Convention Centre here this afternoo...
Mon, Jan 05, 2004
January 04, 2004 00:00 IST
Seeking to put the bitterness and hostility of the past behind him, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived in Islamabad this afternoon ...
Sun, Jan 04, 2004
January 03, 2004 00:00 IST
The SAARC political theatre at the foreign ministers-level got underway today by underscoring the breakthrough accord reached yesterday on a...
Sat, Jan 03, 2004
January 02, 2004 00:00 IST
Ringing in the New Year with a call for free trade by 2006, all seven Foreign Ministers, including Yashwant Sinha, his Pak counterpart Khurs...
Fri, Jan 02, 2004
January 01, 2004 00:00 IST
As part of its new year gift to the sub-continent, India today proposed to hold talks with Pakistan on starting bus routes across the Line o...
Thu, Jan 01, 2004
December 29, 2003 00:00 IST
With Samjhauta Express shown the green light to run between Lahore and Amritsar again from January 15, New Delhi plans to shut down the Waga...
Mon, Dec 29, 2003
December 28, 2003 00:00 IST
If and when Messrs Vajpayee and Musharraf get together in a quiet corner in Islamabad, they will refuse to look over their shoulder at the m...
Sun, Dec 28, 2003
December 27, 2003 00:00 IST
As the aftershock of yesterday’s terrorist attack on General Musharraf reverberated across New Delhi, Prime Minister Vajpayee sent a me...
Sat, Dec 27, 2003
December 24, 2003 00:00 IST
As India and Pakistan enter the final week in the run-up to the SAARC summit in Islamabad, little gestures that help to significantly improv...
Wed, Dec 24, 2003
December 24, 2003 00:00 IST
Announcing that the ceasefire was holding and infiltration across the border was down—as first reported by The Sunday Express—Prim...
Wed, Dec 24, 2003
December 18, 2003 00:00 IST
India and the US will finally emerge from their decades-old restrictive box on high-technology cooperation when Deputy National Security Adv...
Thu, Dec 18, 2003
December 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Francis Fukuyama was supposed to have at least set the Yamuna on fire during his reincarnated sessions in the capital these past few days. I...
Wed, Dec 17, 2003
December 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Neelam, the river that divides Kashmir from Kashmir, did not end Shahnaz’s life when she threw herself into its swirling waters to esca...
Tue, Dec 16, 2003
December 14, 2003 00:00 IST
The woman India most loved to hate at the time of its nuclear tests five years ago was back today, defending her belief that it was wrong fo...
Sun, Dec 14, 2003
December 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Peace seems to be definitely breaking out between India and Pakistan, even if the two bureaucracies seem to enjoy taking turns at lassoing t...
Thu, Dec 11, 2003
December 11, 2003 00:00 IST
As a battle-scarred West Asia once again searches for signs of peace, Israeli Interior Minister Avraham Poraz has said that Hezbollah is not...
Thu, Dec 11, 2003
December 10, 2003 00:00 IST
As the stage is set for another meeting of the leaderships of India and Pakistan, three high-profile former US diplomats with inside access ...
Wed, Dec 10, 2003
December 09, 2003 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan have entered the final lap that precedes the SAARC summit in Islamabad in January with a short telephone call this evenin...
Tue, Dec 09, 2003
December 03, 2003 00:00 IST
BJP ideologue K.R. Malkani, who died recently, will surely be missed by many but none more so than the Pakistan-headquartered South Asia Fre...
Wed, Dec 03, 2003
December 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Ending a two-year-old impasse, Pakistan threw open its airspace from January 1 to allow Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to fly directly to the S...
Tue, Dec 02, 2003
November 26, 2003 00:00 IST
For decades, the Sheikhs and Princes of Arabia carved up the Pakistani countryside to hunt the Houbara bustard with an unrivalled passion. F...
Wed, Nov 26, 2003
November 26, 2003 00:00 IST
The power principle has been in overdrive between the Ministries of External Affairs and Human Resource Development for some time now, inclu...
Wed, Nov 26, 2003
November 25, 2003 00:00 IST
Weeks before Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee travels to Islamabad to participate in the SAARC summit, India today announced it would rec...
Tue, Nov 25, 2003
November 22, 2003 00:00 IST
India has taken an unusual step in the fast-changing Iraq theatre by inviting key Kurdish leaders Jalal Talebani and Masoud Barzani, besides...
Sat, Nov 22, 2003
November 19, 2003 00:00 IST
There’s something fishy in the budding romance between India and Iran, and methinks it’s got to do with the gas pipeline that Tehe...
Wed, Nov 19, 2003


