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Why is
Canada in Afghanistan?
Politics is always a queer
object. Yet Canadian politics these days looks queerer by the day.
Is not interesting to note that here no political party wants mid
term election and yet everyone is preparing for it. Ignored during
the last election battle which threw up a minority government,
foreign policy issues are back with a bullet. Though essentially
in the backwaters of America, Canada is taking itself to be an
important player on the chess board of world power games.
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E D I T O R I A L
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Let peace prevail in the sub continent
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ON April 20 a news agency report that appeared in most
newspapers in the Indian sub continent said 'Lot of ground
covered for agreement on Kashmir'. It gladdened all those who
wish peace between the two warring nations. It had quoted,
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri “Lot of ground has
been covered for an agreement on Kashmir and some areas of
differences are being sorted out… certain steps are needed to
create a conducive environment so that the two governments could
sell the "package to the people of Pakistan, India and Kashmir".
He also added that, “The two countries are moving towards a
settlement of the Kashmir issue that might not be the first best
choice for all the three parties (India, Pakistan and Kasmiris)
but it could be the second best”. This report was from a
responsible Pakistani daily newspaper. More
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| ANALYSIS |
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Rahul Gandhi's immature boast
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
FOR many of us on both sides of the
India-Pakistan border the emerging young Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi's boastful claim on April 15 in an election rally in Badaun,
UP. More
Punjab’s Troubled Financial Arithmetic
Gobind Thukral
Punjab’s
energetic finance minister Manpreet Singh Badal is indeed a man
in a tearing hurry. He wants Punjab to be once again a number
one state. More
China-Cuba Friendship Poses Growing Challenge to the West
Dr Sawraj Singh
IT is becoming increasingly clear that China is advancing fast
towards becoming the most powerful country in the world. The
recent happenings all over the world, particularly China's
growing friendship with Cuba, are showing that there is a
fundamental change in the Chinese policies. China has started
asserting its power and influence whether it is in the economic,
political or ideological fields. More
BANGLADESH: Military and the two Begums
Lurching from crisis to
crisis
WAY back in 1969-70
when Sheikh Mujiber Rehman trying hard to make the
politicians and the military in Pakistan realize that democracy
was the birth right of the people of the two parts of
Pakistan, he found little help there.
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A Brutal Truth about America: Gun Culture
and Shooting
Gobind Thukral
 ON the morning of April 16, Cho Seung-Hui,
23, massacred 32 fellow students and teachers on the sprawling campus
of Virginia Tech University, located next to Washington. It was the
deadliest shooting rampage in modern American history. Cho a student
from South Korea was later described a troubled loner whose behaviour
had sometimes alarmed those around him. More
Virginia Tech Tragedy Should Lead to
Introspection
Dr Sawraj Singh
 THE Virginia Tech tragedy has taken the biggest toll of all of the
similar tragedies, 33 students and teachers died and 15 were injured.
In 1966, Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother and then opened
fire from a tower on the campus of the University of Texas, killing 14
people and injuring 31. More
Is Loneliness Killing Young Students?
Khushwant Toor
ON April 16th, 2007 a student at the
Virginia Tech. University, Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A., killed 32
students before taking his own life. It was the worst gun rampage
in the U.S. history as this student rained death over his fellow
students, shooting at least 3 bullets in each person after
cornering most of them in a classroom. It was shocking news for
the entire nation which has a history of gunfire sprees in its
schools. All the major news agencies and TV channels of the world
described the news in chilling words; every one for a few days
forgot hundreds of people being killed in Iraq at the same time.
Indeed it was sad news to hear the loss of 33 bright lives that
were to brighten up the society after passing out of VT.
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Stories of Human Failings and
Flaws
Dr. Jaspal Singh
Mohinder Singh Ghagg is a peach
farmer at Live Oak, California, U.S.A. he takes keen interest in literary
activities also. First collection of his short stories titled ‘Asin Bhi Kujh
Han’ appeared in 1988 followed in quick succession by a collection of poems
– Har Swer Har Swer. Ghagg is one of the founder members of Sahit Sabha
California and even now in his mid-seventies he participates in literary
functions with the same old zeal that once attracted him to literature in his
younger days. His second collection of twentyone short stories Larrke Tum Kaun
appeared a few months back. Short story for Ghagg is a means to an end.
Basically, he is a social critic who uses the literary medium for exposing
corruption, superstition, hypocrisy and sychophancy unserupulous politicians,
immoral priests and religious masters, perverted writers and corrupted
bureaucrats all are targeted in his stories.
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LAW & JUSTICE |
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The General and the Judiciary
Building Crisis in Pakistan
Joginder Singh Toor
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Pakistan judicial overtures have political implications is a question bothering
many minds. There is a clear indication from reports in newspapers including the
one from executive editor Rahimullah Yusufazai of the News giving an account of
Chief Justice Iftikhar Khan Chaudhry, getting hero’s welcome at all places he is
visiting. More
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FEATURES |
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Democracy yes, democracy no
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
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week I weigh the pros and cons of democracy in Pakistan. We
can agree in principle that civilian rule should be restored
in Pakistan, and the standard way to do that is to hold free
and fair elections on a multi-party basis. More
Making small agriculture viable and competitive
Umendra Dutt
 Today of big corporations along with their subsidiaries are
dictating and directing everything about farming. These
entities come with three main weapons -- technology,
corporate structures which allow for bigger fish to eat up
smaller fish and throw out competition.
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Growing Divide between Russia and America in Europe
Dr Sawraj Singh
President
Vladimir Putin, in his recent address to the Russian
Parliament, strongly criticized America and its NATO allies
of increasing tensions in Europe and threatening the
stability and security of Europe. He has reacted bitterly to
the American plan of deployment of interceptor missiles and
radar systems in Central Europe. More
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Jammu and Kashmir:
From political intrigue to economic emancipation
By Maj Gen. Raj Kaushal (Retd.)
After six decades of turmoil
and tribulations at the national and international levels and yet the
conflict in Jammu and Kashmir defies a solution. The problem has spelled
untold misery on the people of the state and has been a virtual battle
ground between the two South Asian Giants, and of late a Nuclear Flash Point
in the International strategic parlance. More
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ENVIRONMENT |
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First the Eagles disappeared now the Honeybees – What’s
next? – Are cell phones to be blamed?
Khushwant Singh
ONLY a few years ago worries about disappearing Eagles form
the sky caused concern among the people of India and in particular of Punjab and
Haryana region. Now a similar concern of disappearing Honeybees is worrying
agriculturists, scientists and environmentalists all over the world, in
particular North America. The main cause for the disappearing of the eagles was
the dairy farmers were injecting their livestock with a non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drug.
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MEDIA |
MEDIA
 LAST fortnight two well known Indian editors
talked about journalism. They have spent lifetime in the profession of their
choice and have left an indelible mark. While H.K.Dua editor in chief of the
Tribune spoke about how to cover conflicts, war and violence at a seminar in
New Delhi, Chaitanya Kalbag, editor in chief of the Hindustan Times wrote
about the 21st century media and what his newspaper was doing about it.
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Gandhi and Special
Economic Zones
S.N. Sahu
I read the article on SEZ in
www.southasiapost.org . It was
indeed illuminating and moving. The story a farmer becoming a labourer in
his own land sums up the grim issue faced by those whose lands are being
used for the cause of so called development. The sensitive portrayal of the
issue really captures the mood of the millions of people who are in the
forefront of the movement against the development of the SEZs. The reference
to China in your piece is indeed very apt. More
Liquor and
Punjab go Hand in Hand
 Punjab
was once land of milk and honey. No longer now. It is liquor that
leads. While some experts assert that liquor consumption has
increased at least by 50 per cent, others peg it higher. There are
two ways you get it in this land now more known for Tandoori
chicken’s leg and Whisky peg. One is bribe and brew your own and
second is to get it from thekas. In any case the business of
liquor is booming.
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Right Mind at the
Right Place
PAU Ludhiana Gets a New VC
Dr. Jaspal Singh
 THE
Board of Management of Punjabi Agricultural University, Ludhiana has
selected Prof. Manjit Singh Kang as the Vice-Chancellor of the prestigious PAU Ludhiana. Which has been accepted by the Governor in his capacity as the
Chancellor of the University. Consequently, Dr. Kang has joined his new
assignment today (April 30, 2007). Till now Dr. Kang has been a professor of
Quantitative Genetics at the Louisiana State University (USA) and is a
fellow of American Society of Agronomy and Crop Science Society of America. More
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