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Manmohan Singh is real tough guy UPA Govt reached its half way mark Nov. 22 11/23/2006 12:24:37 AM B L KAK NEW DELHI, NOV. 22 'Mr Clean', who was two and a half years ago reluctant to become the Prime Minister of India, is now at ease with the job. Manmohan Singh had strong reasons to wear a genuine smile on Wednesday (November 22). The UPA government he is heading reached its half way mark--two and a half years in office--on Wednesday. Soon after the two Houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day before noon on Wednesday, several Congress leaders, MPs and Ministers felicitated him on sucessfully completing two and a half years in the office. The smiling Prime Minister warmly reciprocated the feelings of all those who congratulatred him on the occasion. How has Manmohan Singh changed in this period? As he defended the Indo-US nuclear deal, Prime Minister was almost ballistic. "I have in my blood, the feelings of freedom fighter's family", he said. His opponents stared open-mouthed, clearly shocked. But the Prime Minister's friends and family were not. According to them, underneath the unassuming turban, he is a real tough guy. Prithviraj Chavan, Mini...   READ MORE

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Kashmir not part of joint anti-terror mechanism Pak Foreign Minister embarrased by PoK activists 11/22/2006 11:42:58 PM B L KAK NEW DELHI, NOV. 22 Jamaat-e-Islami and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have dropped the brick on Pakistani Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, and his Foreign Secretary in Islamabad. Indeed, Ijaz Afzal of Jamaat-e-Islami and Amanullah Khan of J&K Liberation Front (JKLF) walked out of the briefing session on Kashmir convened by Kasuri on Tuesday. Media reports from Islamabad divulged that the expression of anger and dissatisfaction by the leaders of the two parties became too evident to be missed immediately after Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said that he "recognised" the President and Prime Minister of the PoK and Dr Ghulam N...   READ MORE

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