Comment - Himal Southasian (Page 130)

Voices

What the reaction of the so-called liberal and prodemocracy elements in Pakistan towards General Pervez Musharraf reveals, is that this important section does not consider democracy to be a process

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

SAF IN THE TIME OF CRICKET

If you didn't know, the eighth edition of the South Asian Federation (SAF) Games was held in Kathmandu in October-November; and as expected, there were no earth-shattering performances.

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

MILITARY DEMOCRACY?

The commonwealth team that visited Pakistan at the end of October to make an on-the-spot assessment of the official, political and public opinion in the country, will have found that

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

The emperor’s new fatigues

Even generals have to be accountable, and should depart if they cannot perform. It is an insufferable irony. A nation anticipates that decentralised participatory rule will be delivered by those

By Kazim Saeed

/ 1 Nov 1999

SHE’S EARLY

Political circles in Colombo couldn't resist the joke. "This time she's early," they chuckled when Sri Lanka's notoriously unpunctual president, Chandrika Bandaranaike

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

DEBASING DEATH

By ballot and bullet, the Indian and Pakistani states have committed themselves to the forces of the Right by late 1999. In India, an election returns a vast alliance dominated

By The Editors

/ 1 Nov 1999

SABOTAGED SUMMIT

The Indian government led by the hard-line Bharatiya Janata Party has put a spoke in the wheel of SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation), by forcing a postponement of

By Praful Bidwai

/ 1 Nov 1999

Return of the khaki

Pakistan's military coup truncated a democratic process that would have thrown out Nawaz Sharif as decisively as Benazir Bhutto was rejected in the last election.

By Zia Mian and A H Nayyar

/ 1 Nov 1999

Voices

They worked as I stared at the mutilated corpses in their blood-soaked clothes. Their entrails were exposed, their faces, unrecognisable. That evening, I could not eat. I couldn't

By The Editors

/ 1 Oct 1999

BRUTE MAJORITY

It took New Delhi two days to respond to the sharp rebuke administered in September by the US State Department to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its militant

By S.N.M. Abdi

/ 1 Oct 1999

KASHTIMOR

What does the fate of a small island in the Pacific Ocean have to do with the conflict in Kashmir? If the island is East Timor, the answer is everything

By Farhan Haq

/ 1 Oct 1999

Intrusions, infiltrations and Surinder Singh

Much after the fighting in Kargil had ended, came press reports that the intrusions happened because the warnings of the Kargil sector Brigade Commander Surinder Singh had been ignored by

By Ashok K. Mehta

/ 1 Oct 1999