Al-Ahram Weekly Online
3 - 9 January 2002
Issue No.567
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Going through the motions
India and Pakistan are noisily beating the war drums, but actual warfare may not be in the cards, writes Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Not too late
Pakistan's ambassador to Cairo, Anwar Kemal, said his country was willing to talk with India to solve their problems. But New Delhi should give up its language of threats and ultimatums first, he told Khaled Dawoud

Elementary, my dear Musharraf
The second "war on terror" in the space of a few months is gaining momentum, drawing in nuclear arch-rivals India and Pakistan. Beneath the rhetoric lies a classic murder-mystery. Who did it? Mukul Devichand puts on his detective hat

Keeping up the heat
US President George W Bush is beating his war drum all the way into the New Year, writes Anayat Durrani from Washington

To the bitter end
The ongoing hunt for an ever-elusive Osama Bin Laden and the latest round of US bombings prove one thing -- the war in Afghanistan is far from over, as Absar Alam writes from Islamabad

Passing on the torch?
Will Bin Laden's latest videotape aired by Al-Jazeera be his last? Khaled Dawoud reports


The fire this time
The resignation of Argentina's new president after barely nine days in office suggests Argentines are in no mood to be taken for granted by politicians, writes Hisham El-Naggar from Buenos Aires

Last straw
The attack on India's parliament building stretched India's patience to breaking point, Suresh Goel India's chargés d'affaires in Cairo told Gamal Nkrumah


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