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089772
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2009.
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The defeat of the LTTE as a military force has not made the ethnic question in Sri Lanka go away. If anything, the need for political solution has become ever more urgent. The euphoria over the military victory must allow the debate on power sharing and devolution to die. While these discussions take place, it is useful to go back to power-sharing arrangements already in place, and examine where they fall short.
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089768
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2009.
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Naxalism is, undeniably, a law-and -order problem, but it is not that alone; the violence Naxalites often wreak is a virulent symptom, not the disease itself. And untill the government realises that, its remedies are doomed to failure. The state government's 22 June ban on the Naxalites following the outbreak in Bengal is a mere updating-the-books exercise, nothing more. Maoist groups had long been banned; it is only that the government had not taken cognisance of their merger into one group.
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089761
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2009.
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Like nationalist political parties the world over, those in Karachi have come to understand the power that can come from a fear-based agenda. Their bogey: Talibanisation
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089777
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2009.
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Since the formal end of the decade-long conflict in 2006, all Maoist combatants are supposed to be housed in seven major temporary UN-over-seen camps spread throughout the country. And there some 20,000 individuals have languished ever since, as political machinations have ground on in Kathmandu as politicians wrangle over what to do with them.
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089765
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2009.
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As everyone braces for a bloody summer, the new US administration has shaken up its top military command in Afghanistan. But is the continued focus on the military intervention still too predominant.
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089790
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2009.
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If heaven is a place of eternal peace, irrepressible joy and complete bliss, then it must remain somewhere in the imagination -that is the only place where in the imagination that is the only place where ideas need not reflect reality. But if it is an address where Gods and Angles live, it must be a place very similar to Tibet. Kailash, a mountain metaphorically higher than the Himalaya, and Mansarovar, a lake subliminally deeper than the pacific ocean, are both located on the Tibetan plateau. And biggest has to be heaven because some of the biggest river systems which sustain nearly half of the world's population, originate in its highlands,
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ID:
089763
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2009.
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After the massive success of people's movements during 2008, by mid-2009 Southasia seems to be burning under the pre-monsoon heat. To start in the West of region, US strategists have firsthand knowledge of what ferocious Taliban fighters are capable of doing. It was under the stewardship of the pacific Command that mujahideen warrors waged jihad against godless Marxists in Afghanistan. Now, some unconventional war will turn out to be President Barack Obama's Vietnam. Yet another set of Pentagon schemers fear that Pakistan too might fall apart, necessitating an Afghanistan-style takeoverof a failed state.
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ID:
089764
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2009.
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The Pakistan Army has forced the Taliban to flee Mingora, but nobody else wants to live there now.
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089766
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2009.
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The new coalition government in Kathmandu might be made up largely of the discredited old guard, but it has an opportunity to bring the country together through effective government and pushing the peace process. Its members just need to stop bickering amongst themselves.
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089762
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2009.
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Afghanistan's opium economy has been called the most serious problem facing the country today. The Taliban and other insurgent groups stand to make at least USD 100 million from the tax imposed on farmers in exchange for protecting the poppy fields. An additional USD 400 million is divided among others for their processing and transportation capabilities.
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089770
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2009.
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Democracy in Burma today is at a fledgling stage, and still requires patient care and attention. General Than Shwe told Burma in late March, during his annual speech to mark Armed Forces Day. He also warned, "Some parties look to foreign countries for guidance and inspiration; they follow imported ideologies and directives irrationally." But the general's carefully laid plans for next year's elections including insuring that the country's iconic pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains in detention- may have been derailed by own arrogance aand disregard for the people.
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089774
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2009.
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In the last three years, Bengal has had two elections-the State Assembly Elections in 2006 and the recently concluded elections to the national Parliament. In the former 294 seats were up for grabs; in the latter, 42. This time aroun, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the poster boy for India's Marxists, seemed to have lost the support of the proletariat and the middle class once and for all.
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ID:
089792
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2009.
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It is worth recalling these aspects of Sri Lanka's heritage as the country embarks on national integration and reconciliation after three decades of war. For the war not only devastated the economy and blighted the prospects of a generation; it also nurtured high level of insecurity, insularity and mutual suspicion.
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ID:
089795
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2009.
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Conflict inherently affect, even reshape, the social fabric of any society in ways both positive and negative. Apart from changing livelihoods and behavioural patterns, prolonged conflicts also affect the lexicon and language of particular society. Kashmir has now been witness to a bloody dispute for over two decades. Over that period, Indian military forces and Kashmiri militants have in turn employed new weapons and strategies, which were initially new and strange to the local Kashmiri-speaking populace.
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