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A fresh start
The meeting in Yekaterinburg between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari has provided a fresh impetus to the process of India-Pakistan engagement. To be sure, there was no dramatic breakthrough but Dr. Singh displayed ...

New thinking on J&K security
Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram recently laid out a road map for reforming Jammu and Kashmir’s security architecture. In the coming years, he announced, the J&K police will be given primary responsibility for counter-terrorism ...

Leader Page Articles
Environment: some thoughts for the new Minister
By Ramaswamy R. Iyer

Environmental concerns have tended to be segmented, focussing on one theme at a time. It is necessary to ensure a holistic view encompassing all the themes and the vital nature-wildlife-human inter-relationships.

News Analysis
Obama’s bulldozer risks turning the Taliban into Pakistan’s Khmer Rouge
By Pankaj Mishra

Unless the U.S. President can break his hardline posture, the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan could prove his Vietnam.

Iran: fear of foreign plotters may be justified
By Simon Tisdall

The paranoia about interference from the West is worrying — but it may also be justified.

When rival rallies divided Tehran city
By Iason Athanasiadis and Saeed Kamali Dehghan

“What you’re seeing is the result of 30 years of pressure and strangling,” said Hossein Rahmati, a 68-year-old carpet seller who was wearing an old-fashioned 1980s suit to attend the march. “Iran is like a dam about to ...

Empty tombs up for auction
By Fiona Windward

For sale: classical-style building, marble interior, wrought iron gates, peaceful location, sleeps 10 comfortably, quiet previous owners. This isn’t the description of a country villa, but one of 34 luxury family tombs which Rome ...

Corrections and clarifications
The fifth paragraph of an article “A triumph for Russian diplomacy” (Op-Ed, June 15, 2009) said: “… After it joined the SCO as observer in 2005 India was twice represented at the organisation’s annual summits ...

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