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Editorials
Leading the alliance
IF SONIA GANDHI came tantalisingly close, last Sunday, to suggesting that the Congress party would not make her prime ministerial candidature a necessary condition for a pre-electoral alliance, a day later the party's spokesman came close to ...
Get SAARC going
EVERY SUMMIT OF the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) raises the same question: can this grouping of seven nations ever get its act together to achieve any of its goals? In the nearly two decades of its existence, SAARC has ...


Leader Page Articles
Vajpayee's challenge
By Harish Khare

While Mr. Vajpayee may be able to lead the NDA back to power, this may not be enough for him to leave a permanent stamp on history.
The shattered European dream
By Vaiju Naravane

The year gone by saw the masks of unity and integration torn off to reveal an E.U. rife with fragmentation, infighting and personal rivalry.


News Analysis
NEW TERROR HUBS - I
No longer the stereotype terrorist
By Praveen Swami

NEW DELHI, DEC. 31. Indian intelligence officials are increasingly concerned over the emergence of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as new hubs for the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The organisation is known to have been recruiting energetically among Indian ...
Engaging in talk about talks
By K.K. Katyal

NEW DELHI, DEC. 31. New Delhi's thinking on the nature of contacts with Pakistan's leadership, at the time of next week's SAARC summit, is crystallising in the light of the flow of signals from Islamabad. The meaning and implications of each word ...


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