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Making the General blink
While the intensifying movement against military rule took President Pervez Musharraf to emergency-brink, the apprehension that it might be explosively unpopular has made him defer the decision. As talk of an imminent clampdown swelled by the ...

Harmonising monetary goals
Recent developments in India and several other Asian countries provide a ringside view of the dilemmas that policy-makers sometimes face in pursuing monetary policy objectives that have inflation as the primary focus. The strong connection ...

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Defending the liberal voice
By Jyotirmaya Sharma

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Humanitarian crisis in Iraq
By John Holmes

Some eight million people need urgent protection and assistance.

Finding the good news from Iraq
By Marina Hyde

George W. Bush is a true glass-half-full kind of guy. He won’t let a mere 190,000 weapons missing in Iraq break his stride.

Diversity and historical anniversaries
By Ian Jack

In India in 1947 or in Britain after Diana’s death, the truth is there was no united response.

On the verge of financial meltdown
By Gavyn Davies

We’ve been here before. The financial crisis is spreading and central banks must act to halt it.

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