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Canada at odds with itself in Afghanistan
Canada’s two leading political parties have joined those forces and committed Canada to another three years of military intervention in support of a puppet Afghan government. More

Afghanistan: short on performances
Canada promised Afghanistan $1.3 billion in aid, and by and large it has been delivering. Yet sadly, the same can not be said for the broader $25 billion promised international aid. More

Make peace not war
Protesters who took to Toronto streets in early March in unison with anti-war activists in 20 other Canadian cities spoke courageously against Canada's combat mission in Afghanistan. More

Is royal blood special?
Gurpreet Singh reports from Vancouver
AS the Canadian parliament has decided to extend the Afghan mission until 2011 and there is no possibility of the troops returning home soon. More

The Legacy of Tejinder Sibia
Dr. Amrik Singh writes from Sacramento
Isabel Garcia, 73, was expecting a phone call from Tejinder Singh Sibia (Ted Sibia) when she noticed his obituary in Sacramento Bee on March 9, 2008. More
 

ANALYSIS

Punjab slowest moving state in India
Gobind Thukral
IF the present rate of growth continues, Punjab would be laggard state India, far behind the bemaroo states like Bihar and Orissa. More

Iraq War: Five Years Later, No End in Sight
Sawraj Singh
FIVE years have passed since the start of the Iraq war yet no end seems to be in sight. President Bush’s claim of victory in the war looks completely false. More

Sri Lanka burns and burns
Micky Sharma
THE month of March, just like all the other months of this year has been a bloody one for Sri Lanka. Violence has risen and frequent attacks by the Sri Lankan Army on LTTE camps have resulted in ever-rising death toll. More

Finally military dictatorship in Pakistan is over. Pakistan People’s Party leader fifty five year old Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani is the new prime minister of Pakistan. A member of an influential political family of Multan that had been in politics since 1920, Gilani has sent strong messages. He has promised to strengthen democracy, rule of law under 1973 constitution and independence of judiciary and media. His first action was the release of judges of Supreme Court and high courts from detention. More
 

Pakistan: Text of Six-point Murree Declaration
MURREE: Following is the text of the six-point summit declaration regarding the formation of the government finalized between the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) at Murree on Sunday. PML (N) leader Mian Nawaz Sahrif and co-chairman PPP Asif Ali Zardari signed this declaration in Bhurban on Sunday. More

Procrastination defines leaders in Punjab
Gobind Thukral
THE present Akali- BJP Punjab government is frightened. It is acutely aware of the financial mess in which the state has been pushed into. It knows that Punjab may not even achieve its 6 per cent projected growth rate. It knows well that the debt burden currently at 57,369 crore shall  rise further, eroding state’s fiscal well being and increasing its back breaking debt servicing to the tune of 4817 crore as projected in the budget estimates for 2008-2009. More

2008 Beijing Olympics: Torch-Raining fire on its way
Khushwant Toor writes from Toronto
ON March 24, 2008, the Olympic Torch was lit at the Olympia stadium, the 2800-year-old birthplace of the ancient games in southern Greece. Instead of crying the message of peace, unification around the word, this year the torch seems to be setting up fire on its route to Beijing, due to agitation against Chinese suppression of the Tibetan uprising. More

Tumult in Tibet
Micky Sharma
THE demonstrations and consequent violence have once again focused the world's attention on the Chinese government’s rule in Tibet. This in spite of tremendous development that has taken place in that Himalayan region. No country challenges that Tibet is not part of China, yet the concern from various quarters is how the Tibetans are being ruled over. More
 

Reconciliation
Ishtiaq Ahmed
Benazir Bhutto's book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West (London: Simon and Schuster, 2008) published posthumously is very different from her Daughter of the East, in which, besides saying some sensible things, she freely boasted, and exaggerated her paternal ancestors' landed property and high station in Sindhi feudal society. This time round, we meet a woman who is devoted to her idea of reconciliation between Islam, democracy and the West. More

Review
SPOTS OF TIME
[A novel by Manju Jaidka]
WHEN Priyadarshini Pannu, erstwhile editor and creative writer, decides to settle down in the outskirts of Chandigarh, she anticipates a quiet life with little excitement. This is the place where she hopes to resume her creative writing and produce another bestseller. However, as she works in a study overlooking a busy residential colony, she is inadvertently sucked into the lives of the people surrounding her. In particular, she finds herself drawn to Anamika Mehra who lives in Twitter House just across the road. More

A Unique “Kirtan Darbar”
Harjap Singh Aujla
LATE Giani Gurdip Singh ji, former head priest of Gurdwara Richmond Hill, New York was a very knowledgeable connoisseur of “Gurbani Kirtan”. He liked Bibi Amarjit Kaur’s style of rendition of “Gurmat Kirtan”. Bibi Amarjit Kaur honed her skills in “Gurmat Sangeet” under the guidance of Late Bhai Santa Singh. Giani Gurdip Singh told me, “Whenever you invite Bibi Amarjit Kaur for “Shabad Kirtan” at Gurdwara Bridgewater, please invite me too. So one day Bibi Amarjit Kaur performed the Kirtan and Giani Gurdip Singh was a listener. More
 

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