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PMs visit to Bangladesh
Boycott by Mamata hit Indias interests
by B.Z. Khasru
During the Indo-Pak talks in New Delhi on February 8, 1974, the Pakistani delegation leader suggested the inclusion of a phrase on the basis of sovereign equality in the agreement they were about to sign, which reiterated the two nations resolve to work toward achieving durable peace in the subcontinent.
In marking the proposal, Aziz Ahmed, then Pakistans State Minister for Foreign Affairs, pointed out that sovereign equality was the phrase India used repeatedly when it raised the subject of possible discussions between Pakistan and newly independent Bangladesh.
To Pakistans surprise, Kewal Singh, then Indias Foreign Secretary, brushed off the idea, saying that he was sick of hearing this phrase. Swaran Singh, then Indias External Affairs Minister, dismissed it as mere platitude.
Pakistan, which negotiated from a point of weakness just after suffering a crushing d
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As cosmopolitan as his name, Juliano Mer-Khamis was the son of a Jewish mother who had fought with the elite Palmach force during the 1948 war that created Israel, and a Christian Arab prominent in the Israeli Communist Party. When he was shot and killed by masked men on Monday, he was sitting in his car outside the theater he had …
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Muammar Gaddafi
Leader of Libya from 1969 to 2011
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Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[pron 1] (c. 1942 – 20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by the rebel forces of the National Liberation Army in 2011. He came to power through a military coup, first becoming Revolutionary Chairman of the Libyan Arab Republic from 1969 to 1977 and then the 'Brotherly Leader' of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 1977 to 2011. Initially ideologically committed to Arab nationalism and Nasserism, Gaddafi later ruled according to his own Third International Theory.
Born near Sirte, Italian Libya, to a poor Bedouin Arab family, Gaddafi became an Arab nationalist while at school in Sabha, later enrolling in the Royal Military Academy, Benghazi. He founded a revolutionary gro