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Editorials
Unaddressed concerns
THE VAJPAYEE GOVERNMENT'S evident reluctance to take a categorical position against a U.S.-led war on Iraq and its marked hesitation in articulating a clear policy before the country's Parliament on a matter of grave international importance and ...
Budget Tidings
THE NEED FOR fiscal consolidation has been a constant requirement and in this budget season it is back on centre stage. Reform of the tax system including the toning up of the administration has been another recurrent consideration. This year ...


Leader Page Articles
Women's rights in Afghanistan
By Apratim Mukarji

In Afghanistan, forces opposed to constitutionally guaranteeing women's rights have put up a stiff resistance.
LAW AND SOCIETY
Auctioning Ayodhya
By Rajeev Dhavan

What we are faced with is a game of legal cowardice, communal complicity and breach of trust by the Union Government.


News Analysis
KABUL NOTEBOOK
Afghanistan army and the warlords
By C. Raja Mohan

KABUL, FEB. 20. As Afghan leaders struggle to reinvent the basic structures of state power, the creation of an effective national army is at the top of the agenda here. Amidst great odds, the Afghan National Army is taking shape slowly. But ...


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