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To: Nemer who wrote (45835)	3/31/2004 12:31:50 PM
From: Ira Player	Respond to of 50167

Nemer, Thank you for posting that great article. Sad as it is, the international organization, “United Nations” is broken when it comes to rouge states. Take over somebody’s home and the police step in to stop it. Take over a city and the State/Province steps in… Take over a State/Province and the Nation steps in… But if someone has the wherewithal to take over a Nation, the world just sits back and lets them do it, no matter how brutal. Worse, some nations help them build their defensive and offensive capabilities to make a little money and then actively interfere with an international effort to stop the brutality and threat to neighbors. Ira

To: Nemer who wrote (45835)	4/2/2004 6:25:58 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Musharraf to bowl, Vajpayee to bat in Lahore: TOI NEW DELHI: Pakistan and India will improve their burgeoning ties when their leaders face each other on the cricket pitch during next week’s second Test in Lahore, if the Times of India is to be believed. Given that the source for it’s front page story — that President Pervez Musharraf is to bowl a symbolic over to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee — is an April Fool, however, fans should probably hit the yarn for six. “Cricket is the single-most adhesive glue that can bring together India and Pakistan and this would be the most logical culmination. A gesture of course, but a profoundly effective one,” the TOI quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. The report said the idea originated when officials on both sides wondered how best to leverage the goodwill being generated on both sides of the border by India’s first full cricket tour of Pakistan in almost 15 years. Vajpayee at age 79 may find it more difficult to wield the willow than Musharraf, a fit military man, will find bowling bouncers and googlies to his counterpart, it added. “It is absolutely confirmed by both Islamabad and New Delhi. If Mr Vajpayee could take a bus to Lahore a few years ago, why can’t he walk to the crease at Gaddafi Stadium?” the TOI said, referring to a 1999 peace initiative by the Indian leader. —AFP