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Editorials
INCOMPLETE INVESTIGATIONS
A POLITICAL COMPROMISE in one case and bureaucratic reticence in the other saved United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair from being held responsible for invading Iraq on false pretences. After separate ...

TESTING THE WATERS
IN GIVING THE district units in Andhra Pradesh a free hand in deciding whether or not to have an electoral understanding with the Telugu Desam Party for the local body polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party has sought to use these low-stake elections ...

Leader Page Articles
Peace on the guillotine, again
By Praveen Swami

Dialogue in Jammu and Kashmir cannot succeed unless the central precondition for democracy exists: a commitment by all parties to resolve differences through discourse, not military means.

Intelligence loses its reputation
By William Pfaff

The findings of the British and American intelligence services on Iraq were edited to deliver the conclusions Tony Blair and George W. Bush wanted.

News Analysis
DIPLOMATIC NOTEBOOK
China and SAARC
By C. Raja Mohan

NEW DELHI, JULY 18. As the South Asian Foreign Ministers meet this week in Islamabad, the idea of associating China with the plans for economic integration in the subcontinent should get some serious attention. Any proposal to bring China ...

AICC revamp: reward and punishment
By K.V. Prasad

NEW DELHI, JULY 18.Nearly two months after the Congress came to power at the Centre via the coalition route, the party president, Sonia Gandhi, set herself to the task of re-building a team to run the affairs of the All-India Congress ...

Continuity in foreign policy
By K.K. Katyal

There are various ways of looking at the recent discussions in New Delhi of the two visiting dignitaries — the German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, but one point was ...

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