The vernacular idiom expresses emotion far better than it does reason.
Indian and Pakistani media were state-dominated to begin with. Since most of the population is not yet literate, it
It would have been a revolutionary bill and a first for this part of the world. But whoever heard of parliamentarians voluntarily giving up their privileges? The Women´s Bill,
The leaders of India and Pakistan have now appropriated to themselves, as others had done before, the power that was God’s alone – to kill mountains, make the earth quake, bring the sea to boil, and destroy humanity.
EXCERPTED FROM DAWN, KARACHI, 21 MAY 1998
We can only hope that this nuclear explosion does not start an intense arms race between India and Pakistan – not to speak of
I saw on television a picture more awesome than the familiar mushroom cloud of nuclear explosion. The mountain had turned white. I wondered how much pain had been felt by
The BJP´s nuclear misad venture is proving in comparably costlier than earlier imagined. After the worst-ever buffeting at the Conference on Disarmament, P-5 meeting and Security Council, New Delhi
ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY, BOMBAY, 30 MAY, 1998
After the recent round of nuclear explosions, a top nuclear scientist reportedly said that until the tests Indians had to read their
THE HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI, 14 MAY 1998
India's bomb tests are morally shameful and politically foolish. Any act which legitimises or promotes the production or deployment of
The nuclear nightmare has come true. Taunted, jeered, and threatened by BJP India until it could resist no more, Pakistan too has gone nuclear. Understandably, as of the time of
THE TELEGRAPH, CALCUTTA, 16 MAY 1998
What caused India to test five nuclear devices and why at this time? The government and its spokesmen have made three claims. One, that
Dear Pakistanis,
THE NEWS ON SUNDAY, LAHORE, 14 JUNE 1998
I am sickened – sickened to my stomach – at the sight of these jubilant faces ´celebrating´ Pakistan´s nuclear tests. These
