PAKISTAN IS ready to fight the menace of terrorism in our own national interest using our own resources - PAKISTAN MILITARY after suspension of $800 m military aid from US
THIS IS second independence for the people of West Bengal - MAMTA BANERJEE after defeating the Left and coming to power.
WE NEED to see to it that we prevent this (nuclear proliferation) from spreading. Iran is a particularly a topical case - ANGELA MERKEL after receiving the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in New Delhi
THIS issue of Osama bin Laden is of the past - SALMAN BASHIR, Pakistan Foreign Minister
IT IS inconceivable that Bin Laden did not have a support system in Pakistan - JOHN BRENNEN, White House counter terrorism advisor.
PEOPLE DON'T seem to equate, liberalise both products and services. If you are talking about global trade -- it is products and services. You cannot have one standards of opening up economy for emerging countries to products and contrary (for the others) particularly the US, which has put all sorts of restrictions on services. This cannot be one way traffic - AZIM PREMJI, WIPRO Chairman
IT (WIKILEAKS) is an attack on the international community, the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations, that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity - HILLARY CLINTON, US Secretary of State
I DON'T care if they (US) do it (carry out drone attacks) as long as they get the right people. We’ll protest in the National Assembly and then ignore it - YUSUF REZA GILANI, Pakistan Prime Minister. Source: The News, 2nd Dec., 2010, Pakistan
LIFE IS a celebration, even death is a celebration - M.F. HUSSAIN, painter
JO HUA theek hua (whatever happened was good) - KAPIL SIBAL, on Ramlila Ground police brutality.
Ullas Sharma, 46, MBA, publisher of academic books. Online journalist with yellowtimes.org (now defunct) for two years. Contributed to Foreign Policy Research Center Journal, Issue 9 ( http://www.fprc.in/pdf/J-9.pdf ). FPRC is a New Delhi based think tank.
Lives with his wife and two sons in Bangalore, India
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