India may review moratorium
The news from Chagai helped the BJP government deflect the debate over Pokharan II in the Lok Sabha yesterday with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee saying that "we should stay united in the new situation" and that India was prepared to meet any eventuality.
Unforgiving Clinton slaps sanctions
Deploring Pakistan's multiple nuclear tests, President Clinton yesterday announced that the US would impose sanctions against Islamabad under the Glenn Amendment, the same law under which India was censured for its tests. He also said that by failing to exercise restraint, Pakistan has lost a truly priceless opportunity to strengthen its own security and improve its political standing in the eyes of the world.
N-dimension to proxy war: Advani
Minutes after the Government announced the explosion of nuclear devices by Pakistan in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister L K Advani hardened his line on Kashmir and said that he expected an intensification of the "proxy war" in the state. He also said that the real threat now came not so much from "pseudo secularists" as from "pseudo liberals" in the country who wanted to hand over Kashmir to Pakistan.

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BUSINESS
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