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WSJ: March 11, 2004:
For U.S., Support Of Musharraf Is Delicate Balance
U.S. officials say they are increasingly concerned for Gen. Musharraf's life as he cracks down on Kashmiri militants and widens the bin Laden hunt. Among those arrested in the attempted assassination on the general in December was a Kashmiri member of an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group.
And U.S. officials say they don't want to press him too hard on the nuclear question, for fear of further undermining his political base. "There is only so hard or so fast that we can push him," says one U.S. official. A Pakistan without Gen. Musharraf running it, he says, would be even more frightening.
Very Hot Nuclear Items In The India News
Karni, 50, has pleaded innocent. Federal agents arrested him on New Year's Day when he arrived in Denver for a ski vacation.
Karl Note: How interesting that he was undoubtedly on some sort of "list" of people who we had gobs of evidence on, but we carefully kept it secret so that he would not be suspicious -- then he placed himself into our hands! Those with a guilty conscious are going to begin to think it may not be safe for them to travel within any US jurisdiction.
During Clinton's Watch: Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan sold centrifuge parts to Iran for its nuclear programme in the mid-1990s for $3 million in cash, Malaysian police said on Friday, citing the deal's middleman.
During Clinton's Watch: Libya received enriched uranium from Pakistan in 2001 for use in nuclear programmes, police said on Friday, citing the alleged chief financier of an international trafficking network.
US should ask Pak to account for proliferated N-material
Speaking at the second trilateral Indo-US-Israel conference jointly organised by Washington-based think tank Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Vice Admiral KK Nayyar said the US should ask Pakistan to account for the fissile material to check proliferation.
WSJ, Feb. 18, 2004: Case closed? End of story? That's what the American administration, falling oddly in step with the official Pakistani doctrine, would have us believe. But knowing something of the case--and being the first French observer, to my knowledge, to have tried to alert public opinion to the extreme gravity of the situation--I believe that we are only at the very beginning this story.
Scared Dawood gets new face surgically?
The name of Dawood has not so far been mentioned as one of the underworld links of Dr Khan but the fact that Dubai was the main channel for leaking the N-technology and for sending out and receiving material surfaced quite early in the investigations about Dr Khan's activities.
How can the non-potty-trained Democratic Candidates for the presidency come close to comprehending the magnitude of what is "out there?" They may, but they certainly don't talk about THESE issues.
Why?
Because of the deadened perception of the citizenry and the accurate perception these politicians have that Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction is more important than Khan's nuclear leak.
Israel agrees to participate in India's moon mission
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved his country's participation in India's moon mission - Chandrayaan I.
Karl Note: This note is a harbinger of things to come. My friend in India predicted this to me many months ago -- that the new global power group would be the US, India and Israel. This is published this 11th day of February 2004. You will see lots more announcements along this line.
India: Anti-Christian 'nationalism' creates debilitating fissures in Lankan society
No right thinking person will dispute that a revival of the extremely rich Sinhala-Buddhist culture will rekindle in Sri Lankans a sense of pride in their country at a time when this is wearing thin. But what Sri Lanka is witnessing today is not the revival of pristine Buddhism. It is an aggressive and violent communalism of the Hindutva variety. Such a movement will be self-defeating if its main objective is to unify and strengthen Sri Lanka, a country already in tatters for a variety of reasons.
Feb. 4, 2004, India: Khan accepts responsibility for N-leaks, seeks clemency
Comment From Babu in India:
This appears to be a big cover up of the involvement of Pak Military --- as nothing can happen in Pakistan without their endorsement. Musharraf is very much involved in the whole game. Now he is trying to save himself by making a scapegoat of -- Abdul Qadeer Khan. The confession is stage managed. American screws are very tight on Musharraf -- but they want to let him escape in return for his implicit obedience on all matters of interest to USA.
WSJ, January 27, 3004: For India's Youth, New Money Fuels A Revolution
[Karl Note: There is far more going on than meets the eye about India -- when the WSJ carries frequent articles, even front page stories, about something that hasn't been featured for years, you know there is something.
India is becoming a much closer ally than most people would ever think -- just one of the many plans which President Bush has implemented -- look for much more news.]
BOMBAY, India -- Late at night, Nisha Kalro goes to work dialing Americans and urging them to pay their overdue credit-card bills. Her family finds her career choice unsettling. "There are still people who do not know what a call center is and have the wrong impression," says Ms. Kalro's mother, Sheela, adjusting her red-and-black sari. In her day, she says, women who worked at night were presumed to be call girls, not call-center workers.
To Nisha, 25 years old, her family is stuck in an outdated India of arranged marriages, excessive deference and rigid notions of fate. "What my parents want is simple; it's for me to get married," says Ms. Kalro. "But marriage and me will never mix."
Scientists and officials working on Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme have admitted for the first time that they provided crucial technical information to Iran on building an atomic bomb, media reported on Sunday.
According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph on Sunday, three of the eight people detained in Karachi last weekend over allegations that nuclear secrets were sold abroad have admitted that they helped in passing secret nuclear know-how to their counterparts in Iran.
"The medical school in New Delhi is now perhaps the best in the world. And the technical graduates of the Indian Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore are as good as any in the world. Also India has 150 million people for whom English is their main language. So India is indeed becoming a knowledge centre," said the 94-year-old guru Peter Drucker in an interview to the latest issue of Fortune magazine.
Karl Note: The story linked here may be completely accurate, or mostly created to push some hidden agenda. Which might be the news issue here is not important to MY point -- that the haggle of children who are not yet even potty-trained, but who think they are equipped to take over the reins of power and control over world affairs is frightening to behold.
Now, China hands over list of terrorists to Pakistan
In a significant move, China, the strategic ally of Pakistan has forwarded a list of Chinese terrorists and outfits linked to Al-Qaeda to Pakistan and asked Islamabad to initiate action against these groups.
Indo-US ties will sour after 2008, says ex-Army chief
Contrary to very common opinion, a "marriage" is not done once, but must be constantly "created" by the couple. Humans or countries.A marriage done last year is dead today, old history, past stuff. The true marriage is re-created every instant.The Indo-US relations will sour if they are not kept alive by re-creation.If there are those who WANT them to sour, they will remark about how easy it is to live in the past, be disappointed, but deliberately avoid participating in any re-creation.
WSJ, January 15, 2004: 'Animal Spirits' in India
NEW DELHI -- For the past decade, Western media attention has focused on India's potential . . . to disappoint. Now the economy is buoyant, but those who've been burned before argue that the country lacks some of the economic fundamentals needed for sustainable growth. These doomsayers, however, may be overlooking a new and hard-to-quantify asset. What John Maynard Keynes called "animal spirits" are infusing the Indian business culture.
The level of confidence is extraordinary. The same phrases are repeated over and over: "It is time for the Indian to find his place in the sun." "We are on the cusp of major change." "We can compete!" Of course, some ask if this is more of the irrational exuberance that the country has seen before. No one disputes that India had a fantastic year, sparked by an excellent monsoon that set off a cycle of rising demand and consumption in India's largely agricultural economy. Foreign-exchange reserves have passed the $100 billion mark, last month India reported 8.4% GDP growth rate for the July-through-September quarter, and the stock market recently hit a record high. In the past few weeks, even relations with Pakistan have been looking better.
Bush unveils deeper US-India space, nuke cooperation plan
Relations between India and the United States took a transformational turn on Tuesday with Washington agreeing to give New Delhi access to hitherto denied civilian nuclear and space technologies and hi-tech products.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced the agreement in a statement in New Delhi after President George W. Bush made an identical statement at a Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico.
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