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	<title>Separated At Birth</title>
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		<title>Kuttey ki Maut: Pakistan’s poetry of angst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be no end to terror strikes within Pakistan. The Taliban’s retributive violence hasn’t spared any institution, city or region, the North West Frontier Province taking the brunt of it all with bombs and bombers blowing up in army cantonments, hotels, crowded bazaars, police stations and outposts.But the most spectacular &#8212;in terms of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/11/16/kuttey-ki-maut-pakistan%e2%80%99s-poetry-of-angst/</link>
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		<title>Indian military action will help Pakistan play the Pavitra Paapi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a question for those who oppose dialogue with Pakistan and are votaries of military solutions to our problems with that country: Sir, if you know not with whom to talk in Pakistan, then how’d you know with whom to fight in a country ravaged by terrorist violence?
The question needn’t be dismissed lightly. From the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/11/09/indian-military-action-will-help-pakistan-play-the-pavitra-paapi/</link>
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		<title>Congress must help BJP fend off the Karnataka crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no admirer of B S Yeddyurappa. But I respect the fact that he&#8217;s an elected Chief Minister who cannot be trifled around by moneybags and mining mafias.
There indeed is a factional dimension to the crisis arising out of the Bellary mining syndicate&#8217;s rebellion against the Karnataka CM.
If the dissidents&#8217; succeed, they&#8217;d inflict on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/11/02/congress-must-help-bjp-fend-off-the-karnataka-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Pakistan at war on many fronts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friends in Pakistan tell me that careers of two key figures are at stake in their country:  President Asif Ali Zardari and Army Chief Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. The latter’s future will be determined by the outcome of the South Waziristan operation and the former’s on the view Parliament and the judiciary take on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/10/26/pakistan-at-war-on-many-fronts/</link>
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		<title>Pak debate on US assistance targets India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barak Obama has signed the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill named after its sponsors and passed by the US Congress. In the statute book, it’s titled Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009.
The new law triples non-military US aid to Pakistan to $ 7.5 billion over the next five years at the rate of 1.5 billion dollars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/10/19/pak-debate-on-us-assistance-targets-india/</link>
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		<title>Rawalpindi attack is a lesson for Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wouldn’t say that nemesis caught up with the Pakistan Army when its Rawalpindi-based General Headquarters, better known as GHQ, came under terrorist fire followed by a siege that lasted nearly twenty hours. It might be true but one must desist mocking when an adversary is at the receiving end of a common enemy. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/10/12/rawalpindi-attack-is-a-lesson-for-pakistan/</link>
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		<title>War mongering a sales pitch for US weapons?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree broadly with the CPM’s Prakash Karat’s interpretation of reactions in India to reports of border incursions by Chinese troops.  His charge of a US hand in the exaggerated response &#8212; bordering on jingoism—by a section of the media and security experts has about it a ring of certainty. My reading of the situation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/10/05/war-mongering-a-sales-pitch-for-us-weapons/</link>
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		<title>Hafiz Saeed is Pakistan’s Bhindranwale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan met and bid adieu in New York without promise of a future date or resumption of the stalled composite dialogue. So much so that S M Krishna rejected reactivation of back channel talks that had worked so well till before Mumbai happened. 
The January 6, 2004 Islamabad joint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/09/28/hafiz-saeed-is-pakistan%e2%80%99s-bhindranwale/</link>
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		<title>The Danny Denzongpa Model for the North East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met Meghalaya Chief Minister DD Lapang at a dinner reception in Delhi the other night. He’s a good listener who put up with my monologue for quite a while as I held forth on ways to open up opportunities in the rest of India for youth from the seven northeastern states.
Lapang left with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/09/21/the-danny-denzongpa-model-for-the-north-east/</link>
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		<title>Dateline Pakistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have known Pakistan&#8217;s Ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani since 1991-92 when he was spokesperson and special assistant to Nawaz Sharif. He performed similar duties for Benazir Bhutto when she replaced Sharif as Prime Minister after the 1993 polls. The first PM he served was Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi. 
An erudite man who writes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/separated-at-birth/2009/09/14/dateline-pakistan/</link>
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