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China against encouraging Dalai Lama 11/21/2006 8:57:52 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, NOV. 21: India has, in a signifcant development, declined to oblige agitated Tibetan refugees and their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, had received written and verbal requests from the India-based Tibetan community, urging him to take up the Tibet issue with the Chinese President, Hu Jintao. But the Prime Minister scrupulously avoided taking up the matter with Hu Jintao. Chinese President, who arrived in New Delhi on Monday night on a three-day visit to India, was reported to have made clear, through diplomatic channels, his unwillingness to discuss Tibet and the Dalai Lama with Indian leaders. No wonder, New Delhi ensured that more important issues than the Tibetans' grievances and misgivings came up for discussions with the Chinese high-level delegation led by President Hu Jintao. Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, knows and understands the Chinese rulers, present and past. China, too, knows the Tibetan leader. In recent times, Beijing's attitude towards the Tibetan leader has shown a bit of softness. The two...   READ MORE

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Musharraf failed to acomplish his target Clinton saved Nawaz Sharif from being hanged 11/21/2006 8:57:14 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, NOV 21 Timely intervention by Bill Clinton averted a catastrophe in Pakistan when Gen. Parvez Musharraf deposed and imprisoned the then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif. Clinton had serious apprehensions about the life and safety of Nawaz Sharif and was afraid that those who had overthrown him might also hang him. Pakistan's English newspaper, Daily Times, reported on Tuesday that sources in the then Clinton administration in Washington was afraid that the deposed Premier of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, might not be permitted to live. The Pakistani publication quoted unidentified 'sources' in the Clinton administration as saying that Bill Clinton had quietly ta...   READ MORE

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