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Indian Express, October 27, 2008
Lahore: Cultural capital to Taliban territory?
: Lahore was the scene of at least three massive bomb attacks on security establishments earlier this year, but people in Pakistan’s second largest city, routinely hailed as the nation’s ‘cultural capital’, appear far more anxious about two relatively minor incidents which occurred earlier this month.
The first was on the evening of October 7, when a cluster of fruit juice parlours — which also serve as (…)

The Times of India, 26 October 2008
When bands of lumpen goons, armed with knives, guns, kerosene cans and shouts of "Jai Sri Ram" rule the streets, hunting those who belong to other faiths, they strut like warriors re-living a historical role. Serial bombers, who maim and kill anyone and everyone within the range of the pellets packed in their crude bombs, celebrate death and destruction in the belief that Islamic history is on their side.
The anatomy of religious hate, which is (…)

The New, October 26, 2008
An open letter to Barack Obama & John McCain
Dear Barak Obama and John McCain,
Whichever one of you wins this election, I wish you success and I hope from the depths of my heart that you will transform the image of America into what it should be. I pray that you are able to show the true face of America to the rest of the world — a face which reflects the values of your ordinary citizens, many of whom I met in a recent trip abroad and which was an (…)

Lakbimanews, 26 October 2008
Peace in Lanka? You got a hope!
With the Sri Lankan armed forces inching towards Kilinochchi, the question arises: what next? Spokesmen of the government have assured us that just as peace returned to the South once the JVP was defeated in 1989, so peace will return to Sri Lanka once the LTTE has been defeated. But they forget two important facts. One, the killings in the South continued after the JVP was defeated, and democracy returned only when a new (…)

Reports on the anti-terror action by the ‘Special Cell’ of the Delhi Police in the Batla House area of Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, on September 19 are shocking indeed and have provoked a public and political outcry.