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 TERRORISM 2005: OVERCOMING THE FAILURE OF IMAGINATION
Posted by: M.Faisal on Monday, September 12, 2005 - 10:49 AM

Pakistan by Stephen Gale

Over the nearly four years since 9/11, a vast body of literature and countless words has been devoted to Islamist terrorism. Much of this has been ill-informed chatter about "symbolic targets," terrorists' receiving financial support from rogue states, "hating us for our freedoms," and the rest. However, concentrating on the defense of symbolic targets and being alert for potential bombers on trolleys and buses only diverts resources from more useful counterterrorism measures.

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 New Anti-Terror Steps
Posted by: fskhan on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 11:36 AM

Pakistan Editorial

The National Security Council meeting on Thursday reportedly decided to take some new measures to deal with terrorism. Even though no information was given on what precisely those "new" measures would be, the announcement serves to underline not only the government's determination to pursue the war on terror but the gravity of the situation created by it.



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 Pakistanisation of Al Qaeda
Posted by: fskhan on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 11:28 AM

Pakistan by Khaled Ahmed

Although few in Pakistan believe the official version of the Wana Operation, external observers merely see in it the confirmation of what they had known earlier. The adoption of Al Qaeda by a vast number of people in Pakistan, including the MMA government of the NWFP whose ministers at times swear by the Taliban brand of Islam, cannot be ignored. Senators and MNAs from the Tribal Areas pretend to be on the side of the government and pose as mediators but are clearly loyal to the worldview of Al Qaeda; and some of them have benefited financially from this loya

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 An Intelligent War on Terror
Posted by: fskhan on Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 11:27 AM

Pakistan by Javier Solana

The military option alone cannot defeat terror. Judicial, police, and intelligence cooperation should be the focal point for action. We must also address the factors that contribute to support for and recruitment by terrorist groups. The EU will be tough on terrorism. But it must also be tough on the causes of terrorism. These are not two fights, but one

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 Do guns speak a new language?
Posted by: Saha on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 09:42 AM

India By ANIL BHAT

The earlier distinction made between militant groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir and those active in the Northeast, the former being termed as terrorists and the latter as insurgents, does not hold any longer.


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 Jehad is like a credit card
Posted by: Saha on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 09:41 AM

India By Ghazanfar Butt

When the militants struck at a restaurant in Pahalgam on June 12, the tourist industry in Jammu and Kashmir was literally shell-shocked. They were hitherto under the belief that the ‘militants’ will not do anything to harm the tourist industry, which was run by their own kith and kin. They were proved wrong. Five tourists were killed and over two score were injured. The violence was promoted by the mercenaries who are in the State from across the border, and do not want normalcy and prosperity to return to the State.


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 Seeds of terrorism
Posted by: Saha on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:23 PM

India By Bulbul Roy Mishra

The controversy over the June 15 encounter-killing of four suspected terrorists with alleged LeT links is owing entirely to the middle class background of two of them - Ishrat Jahan, a 19-year-old Mumbai college girl, and Javed Mohammed Sheikh, a Pune-based Malyali taxi driver. On the other hand, the finger-pointing at the Gujarat police is entirely based on the media findings that neither the parents nor the neighbours, and nor even acquaintances of the two victims, ever suspected them of having any link with the terrorists, directly, circumstantially or temperamentally.


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 Law vs terrorism
Posted by: Saha on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:19 PM

India Editorial

Controversy over killing of suspected terrorists and assailants erupts from time to time with one set of opinion questioning the basis of suspicion and another section seeking the justification behind it. As such there is nothing new in the latest controversy over the shooting down of alleged terrorists involved in the attempt of killing Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi.

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 Enemies of progress
Posted by: Saha on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:18 PM

India Editorial

By carrying out the brutal killings of the kidnapped IRCON engineer Sudhir Pundir and his younger brother and dumping their mauled bodies in a pit in Pulwama district the terrorists have only proved their beastly instincts. They have no respect for those who are working for the progress and development of the Kashmir Valley.

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 Stop this violence
Posted by: Saha on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:16 PM

India Editorial

The escalating anti-Bihari violence in the State is taking a turn from bad to worse with atleast 25 persons losing their lives in different incidents rocking the State. Curfew has already been clamped in the Upper Assam industrial towns of Tinsukia, Duliajan and Namrup following mob violence even as the Army has been called out to tackle the situation.


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Other Stories
· TERRORISM 2005: OVERCOMING THE FAILURE OF IMAGINATION (Sep 12, 2005)
· New Anti-Terror Steps (Mar 20, 2005)
· Peace in Wana? (Mar 20, 2005)
· Army casualties in Waziristan disturbingly high (Mar 20, 2005)
· Who was Amjad Farooqi? (Mar 20, 2005)
·  Expect more sectarian violence (Mar 20, 2005)
· Politicisation of Wana Operation (Mar 20, 2005)
· Pakistanisation of Al Qaeda (Mar 20, 2005)
· An Intelligent War on Terror (Mar 20, 2005)
· Reinforce the grid (Mar 05, 2005)
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