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Wednesday 1 October 2008 (30 Ramadan 1429)

Editorial: Cynicism rules in Washington

The Bush presidency is ending in the chaos that so many people predicted it would. The US administration’s failure to get the $700-billion financial rescue through US House of Representatives is symbolic... Full Story


Indo-US N-deal: Implications

President George W.Bush has correctly chosen to build a new relationship with India, erred in making the nuclear deal the centerpiece of that relationship, said The New York Times in an editorial yesterday.... Full Story


The second time as farce

This is not the Crash of 1929 revisited, and we are not heading into a second Great Depression. No developed country this time round is going to face the 25 percent unemployment rate that the United... Full Story




Forecasting peace

President George W. Bush sounded much less uncertain of his peace "vision" when he received Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on Sept. 25. Certainly much has changed since... Full Story


The fighting women of Afghanistan

Killing Malalai Kakar was an unmanly thing to do, said a UN official in Kandahar after Afghanistan’s most famous policewoman was murdered this week. Ordinarily in Afghanistan, the shooting of a woman... Full Story


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