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A TEST OF CHARACTER
INDIA MAY HAVE rewritten the record books by registering its first Test match win on Pakistani soil, but the import of the victory goes well beyond its much talked about "historic" nature. The real significance of `Multan' is that it strengthens ...

THE SECOND ROUND
ONE ACADEMIC DEFINITION of war is a conflict that claims over 1,000 battlefield fatalities a year. According to Union Ministry of Home Affairs data, 2,711 people were killed in violence in Jammu and Kashmir in 2003 — a figure that ...

Leader Page Articles
LAW AND SOCIETY
Election without discipline
By Rajeev Dhavan

The Election Commission is trying its best to discipline an unruly, often unscrupulous, class of power-hungry parties bent on a win at all costs.

Towards export-oriented growth
By Jorge Heine

The abysmally low volumes of trade and investment extant between South Asia and Latin America cry out for action. The time is now.

News Analysis
Beware of negative ads
By Harish Khare

NEW DELHI, APRIL 1. On Wednesday (March 31), The Washington Post published a story on how the Bush campaign had used negative advertisements against the Democratic Party nominee, John Kerry, to deflate the Massachusetts Senator's rising ...

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