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Articles of the author Alistair Scrutton
Religious card in Indian elections
Asked when he thought attacks by Hindu mobs against Christians would end in this remote part of eastern India, local Christian leader Ranjit Nayak replied immediately, and with a resigned smile. “March,” Nayak said, referring to a general election (...)

14 - 10 - 2008
Attacks on aid challenge Afghan reconstruction
FOOD convoys hit by rocket propelled grenades along major highways. A UN polio vaccination team targeted by a suicide bomber. A spurt in kidnaps. Attacks on aid agencies in Afghanistan have spiraled this year, hampering reconstruction efforts just (...)

19 - 09 - 2008
Kashmir's new generation seethes with freedom fire
The protesters organise with Facebook, YouTube as well as via messages from local mosques. They eschew violence, but are seething with anger. They are Indian Kashmir's new generation of radicalized separatists who are proving a huge challenge to (...)

05 - 09 - 2008
India fears Musharraf exit will unleash new tensions
COINCIDENCE or not, as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's influence waned this year, there was a spike in firing across the Indian border, a bomb attack on India's Kabul embassy and diplomatic spats over Kashmir. Now he has been forced to (...)

19 - 08 - 2008
Protests, killings could be Kashmir's tipping point
A LAND row in Kashmir may have achieved what years of militant violence largely failed to do - fuse Muslim separatist sentiment into mass protests that seriously challenge Indian rule and South Asia's stability. The dispute over land for a Hindu (...)

15 - 08 - 2008
India confidence vote goes down to the wire
in for the ruling coalition, a parliamentary vote of confidence that will determine the fate of India's government and a civilian nuclear deal with the United States is going down to the wire. Weak party discipline, backroom deals and possible (...)

18 - 07 - 2008
Cracks of doom for India's Congress
WITH Hindu nationalists winning power in India's “silicon valley” state, the ruling Congress party's chances of holding onto national office are dimming. India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won an election in the southern state of (...)

27 - 05 - 2008
India risks religious violence – UN envoy
The UN freedom of religion investigator warned on Thursday that India risks more religious violence, like Gujarat's 2002 riots that killed 2,500 people, as delays to bring justice encouraged an atmosphere of impunity. “All these incidents continue (...)

21 - 03 - 2008
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