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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The life of an exile can never be made whole
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/yasmin_alibhai_brown/story.jsp?story=385493

Mary Dejevsky: Turkey gives Europe a lesson in democracy
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/mary_dejevsky/story.jsp?story=383671

Robert Fisk: How the news will be censored in this war
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=381438

Robert Fisk: Gilbert and Sullivan in war on terror
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=383299

Donald Macintyre: It is always too early to debate war until it is too
late
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/donald_macintyre/story.jsp?story=381442

Deborah Orr: Don't laugh at Americans for not seeing the joke
http://argument.independent.co.uk/regular_columnists/deborah_orr/story.jsp?story=381440

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India isolated at NAM over terrorism definition
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Staff Reporter
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: India has failed to get a Pakistan- specific
paragraph on the terrorism issue included in the final document to
be issued at the end of non-aligned summit on Tuesday.

Instead, the foreign ministers have approved for adoption a
crucial paragraph that expects NAM to make a difference between
terrorism and national liberation struggles and condemns state
terrorism on a people struggling to achieve their right of self-
determination.....

http://www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl?file=top13.htm&date=20030225

US lawmakers ask India to open Kashmir to world
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Staff Reporter
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 26: A six-member delegation of legislators from
the northeastern US state of New Hampshire on Wednesday called
upon the Indian government to open occupied Kashmir to the outside
world and stop shelling of the civilians along the Line of
Control.

"I call upon the government of India to open to world what is
happening in occupied Kashmir. I also call upon it to cease
shelling at random or regularly of innocent civilians in Azad
Kashmir," leader of the delegation Rep Robert J. Giuda said while
speaking to reporters at the local press club.....

http://www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl?file=top8.htm&date=20030227

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Pope warns against Iraq war
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ROME, March 9: Pope John Paul II issued another urgent warning
against a war on Iraq Sunday, declaring it was time "to clear
one's conscience and to convert to real peace".....(DPA)

http://www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl?file=top12.htm&date=20030310

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It won't be a just war, says Carter
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WASHINGTON, March 9: Former US president Jimmy Carter criticized
the US march toward war on Sunday, saying in an opinion piece in
the New York Times that an attack on Iraq would fall short of the
ethical standard for "just war."....(AFP)

http://www.dawn.com/cgi-bin/dina.pl?file=top13.htm&date=20030310