The writer is Consulting Editor, The Indian Express.

June 19, 2002 00:00 IST
India and Pakistan could undertake their most significant confidence-building measure yet by soon beginning military-level talks towards de-...
Wed, Jun 19, 2002
June 18, 2002 00:00 IST
Did the West use the threat of imminent nuclear war between India and Pakistan to pull most of their citizens — embassy staff, business...
Tue, Jun 18, 2002
June 13, 2002 00:00 IST
Asking India to take steps to reduce military tension so that its Army is not perceived as a ‘‘threat’’ across the borde...
Thu, Jun 13, 2002
June 12, 2002 00:00 IST
What was the name of the king who lost Hindustan to the Uzbek warlord Babur in 1526? Who is Pakistan’s urbane and very sophisticated am...
Wed, Jun 12, 2002
June 12, 2002 00:00 IST
Having succeeded in lowering the temperature between India and Pakistan last week, the US sent its Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld here to...
Wed, Jun 12, 2002
June 11, 2002 00:00 IST
On the eve of the visit of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, India responded today to General Pervez Musharraf’s assurance to perma...
Tue, Jun 11, 2002
June 09, 2002 00:00 IST
The US would like India to move towards some sort of diplomatic dialogue with Pakistan now that Islamabad has promised a permanent end to in...
Sun, Jun 09, 2002
June 08, 2002 00:00 IST
If General Musharraf, President of Pakistan, a former chief of staff and author of the Kargil conflict, ever got a short, unofficial bio to ...
Sat, Jun 08, 2002
June 07, 2002 00:00 IST
India is ready to move beyond its offer to jointly patrol the Line of Control with Pakistan, by proposing a ‘‘verification mechani...
Fri, Jun 07, 2002
June 06, 2002 00:00 IST
Signalling a possible lowering of temperature after the heated sparring at Almaty, Prime Minister A B Vajpayee said today that there was roo...
Thu, Jun 06, 2002
June 05, 2002 00:00 IST
They are the political weather vanes of Pakistan, its hardline and mostly right-wing Urdu press, and diplomatic circles here indicate they m...
Wed, Jun 05, 2002
June 04, 2002 00:00 IST
You wouldn’t think there was a war on with Pakistan, the way ministers in government seem so desperate to travel abroad. On the other h...
Tue, Jun 04, 2002
June 04, 2002 00:00 IST
India will consider a ‘‘diplomatic de-escalation’’ of the current stand-off with Pakistan, if it obtains evidence on the...
Tue, Jun 04, 2002
May 30, 2002 00:00 IST
The international community could soon take a second look at the generous economic aid it began to pour into Pakistan after September 11 as ...
Thu, May 30, 2002
May 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Minister for External Affairs Jaswant Singh at his press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday while British Foreign Secy JackStraw in Isla...
Wed, May 29, 2002
May 28, 2002 00:00 IST
Stripped of the rhetoric of his anger against India and his attempt to show to his people that he’s not acting under any threat or pres...
Tue, May 28, 2002
May 28, 2002 00:00 IST
‘‘Soldier to soldier, General to General, I’ve told him that action must be taken.’’ So, who’s ‘‘him...
Tue, May 28, 2002
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
General Pervez Musharraf may have tested the Ghauri missile today but the face he put up later was far from brave.International pressure on ...
Sun, May 26, 2002
May 25, 2002 00:00 IST
Pressure continues to build on Pak President General Pervez Musharraf with the international community weighing in with New Delhi, one by on...
Sat, May 25, 2002
May 24, 2002 00:00 IST
India’s high-risk strategy of coercive diplomacy may just be working, with the world finally beginning to acknowledge that New Delhi ha...
Fri, May 24, 2002
May 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Moderate Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Lone’s assassination in Srinagar may force the US to play a proactive role in helping solve the Kas...
Wed, May 22, 2002
May 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Just how many ways are there of saying ‘No’? Ask the MEA, they seem to have perfected the art of politely telling people off. Seem...
Tue, May 21, 2002
May 21, 2002 00:00 IST
India's decision to keep up the diplomatic and military pressure on Pakistan seems to be paying off, with the European Union’s external...
Tue, May 21, 2002
May 12, 2002 00:00 IST
As the snows in Kashmir begin to melt and the world, so far distracted by the crisis in the Middle East, begins to refocus attention on New ...
Sun, May 12, 2002
May 07, 2002 00:00 IST
King Gyanendra is coming to India next month. Nepal’s monarch, who inherited the throne after most of his clan was massacred by Prince ...
Tue, May 07, 2002




