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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4956)	7/6/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

The existence of a broader, encompassing ''India'' is also a reality; it is not for nothing that soldiers fighting and dying to recapture the snow-bound peaks in the far north evoke emotions everywhere. Everywhere? What "everywhere"? Everywhere on the internet? Everywhere in the urban newspapers? Everywhere among the Indians comfortably settled in the USA? The reality is, the vast majority of Indians don't give a damn about the soldiers fighting and dying on some faraway peaks. Assuming that the vast majority of Indians know about it, that is.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4956)	7/6/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: Satish C. Shah	Respond to of 12475

Hello Mohan: That is a very interesting article. Just printed it out and will take awhile to make comments on it. Thx. Regards, Satish

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4956)	7/6/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Doing their bit. From convicts to corporates to teenagers, they all want to play a part in the war or just help. Even the political parties have joined the competitive philanthropy race. india-today.com

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4956)	7/6/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

PAKISTAN'S DILEMMA- Sharif in a jam. There is increasing opposition within Pakistan to the military excercises its army is engaged in. But prime minister Nawaz Sharif is caught in a cleft stick - on the one hand domestic and international pressure is on him to withdraw. At the same time, though, the Pakistani army and militant groups oppose any backing down,'.. writes Mariana Baabar from Islamabad... Is Nawaz Sharif in a jam over the Kargil operation? No one is smiling in Pakistan. Least of all Nawaz Sharif, whose recent photographs betray a very gloomy, worried and dejected prime minister. It is for the first time in over two years that the house of Ittefaq (the Sharif family-owned conglomerate) has been completely bypassed in one of the most vital defence policy decisions since the test of a nuclear bomb last May. Sharif—who's also the defence minister of Pakistan—is not amused. This is despite the fact that Raiwind (as Nawaz's family estate is known) had ensured a handpicked chief of the isi, General Ziauddin, who was to act as the eyes and ears of Sharif...... outlookindia.com