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Editorial
 
Editorial
How golden is the handshake?
Create job opportunities rather than closing them
While presenting the national budget recently, finance and planning advisor Mirza Azizul Islam had focused on creation of employment opportunities as one of the interim government's prime goals.
 
Editorial
Curbing corruption
Social resistance is key
WE fully agree with Chief Justice Mohammad Ruhul Amin's observation that law alone is not enough to curb corruption; we do need a resurrection of moral values to banish this social ill.

Post Editorial
 
Perspectives
Pakistan's 'milbus' under assault
M Abdul Hafiz
Even a country virtually under military siege can, at times, catalyse events of historic proportion. An apt example is Pakistan which has recently witnessed an open revolt against the manner in which the chief justice was suspended and put under detention by General Pervez Musharraf, the president of the country.
 
Byline
A Nilgiri diary
MJ Akbar
My name Kennedy, sir!" exclaimed the chauffeur of the black Ambassador driving me up to the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington, from Coimbatore airport through blaring city, quiet woods and picture postcard valleys to a 6,000-feet high perch in the Blue Mountains. He glanced back to confirm my curiosity.
 
Bottom Line
The row with Russia
Harun ur Rashid
The recent expulsion of four Russian diplomats from Britain and the tit-for-tat from Russia indicate the widening rift between Gordon Brown's Britain and Vladimir Putin's Russia.
 

 
   
 
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