Friday, October 16, 1998
A foot-long reform agenda
While the President of the United States may lose his job for having committed perjury (and not for having committed adultery), our legal system has shown an apparent tolerance of perjury or willful lying under oath during a legal proceeding.
The never-ending Balkan story
When NATO air strikes against Serbia were imminent, the Indian embassy in Belgrade did a smart thing. The embassy ordered a bus to be on stand by. In case bombs started to fall, the seven Indian families associated with the mission would drive away to neigbouring Hungary.
Sharif's law, not the Prophet's
A Six-Year-Old girl is raped in Pakistan. The culprit is apprehended. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visits the distraught family. He listens to the lamentations of the child's mother. ``Will we get justice?'', she asks.
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