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Challenging but not daunting
BY FAR THE most satisfying aspect of the first phase of polling in the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir completed on Monday is that the exercise had been strikingly smooth and peaceful, given the context of the stepped up violence during ...
Agenda for tax reform
THE CONSTITUTION OF two high-level task forces to make recommendations on reform of direct and indirect taxes fulfils one promise made by the Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, soon after he assumed office in July. The bigger and more ...


Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
Modi versus Vajpayee
By Harish Khare

Mr. Vajpayee has only a few weeks to decide whether he wants Mr. Modi to disfigure permanently his prime ministerial legacy.
Pakistan's Afghan policy comeback
By M.K. Bhadrakumar

The locus of the new phase of Pakistani intervention in Afghanistan lies in the Pashtun frustrations over the post-Taliban power structure.


News Analysis
Rethink on reliance on U.S.?
By Amit Baruah

ZURICH, SEPT. 17. As the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and his entourage savoured the sights of Zurich, the Swiss city, there was a moment to stop and ponder on his just-completed visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New ...
CAPITAL TALK
Can't PM speak home truths to Modi?
By Inder Malhotra

Like most capitals, New Delhi is rather self-centred, if not egocentric. In recent days, however, almost everyone here has been focussed on, and talking about, distant New York. Strange this may be, surprising it is not. After all, who could ...
POLAND TODAY - I
National security, the chief concern
By K. K. Katyal

"Back to Europe'' has been the dominant sentiment, of late, in Poland and this manifests itself in the move, now at the final stage, to join the European Union. It will be the culmination of a process that began with the country's entry into ...


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