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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 NEW DELHI 001917 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR NP, AC, PM 
 
STATE FOR INR/MR 
 
STATE FOR SCA/INS, PM/CBM, PM/PRO 
 
STATE FOR SCA/PPD, PA/RRU 
 
STATE FOR AID/APRE-A 
 
USDOC FOR 4530/IEP/ANESA/OSA FOR BILL MURPHY 
 
E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN, INDIA-CHINA, 
ECONOMY; NEW DELHI. 
 
This countrywide cable reports on relevant media 
reaction/opinion from India's large non-English press. 
The Mission reports on English-language media via email 
through the daily "Early Edition" summary. 
 
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INDIA-PAKISTAN 
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¶1. "EXPECTATION FROM PAKISTAN," editorial in September 
14 Hindi daily, DAINIK HINDUSTAN: "Home Minister P. 
Chidambaram's U.S. visit has yielded something, in that 
the U.S. has now at least asked Pakistan to bring the 
perpetrators of 26/11 to justice. Despite providing all 
the evidences, Pakistan is avoiding action against 
Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed....  India should 
keep up the pressure on Pakistan and also hold 
productive talks with the latter. Neither extreme 
aggressiveness, nor softness, will work." 
 
¶2. "MUSHARAF'S CONFESSION" editorial in September 15 
right of center Marathi Daily, SAAMNA: "Rulers before 
Musharaf have done it and present rulers are following 
suit. But while the others kept mum, Musharraf has 
revealed an open secret. Spreading hatred against India 
and Hindus is a political capital for elected as well 
as military rulers of Pakistan. Their political 
enterprise runs on this capital. Whenever Pakistan has 
received military or any other kind of aid from the 
U.S. a large portion of it has always been used against 
India. The cannons which should have been facing 
militants in Afghanistan are facing the borders of 
Jammu and Kashmir. But America's policy of not taking 
any Indian allegation against Pakistan seriously is 
very old." 
 
¶3. "PAKISTAN'S LIES," editorial in September 15 left of 
center Marathi daily, LOKMAT:  "India has given ample 
evidence to the world that in many terrorist incursions 
on the western border of India, Pakistan has used 
American military equipment.... Musharaf has achieved 
multiple objectives by doing this. First he has proved 
that the current rulers in Pakistan are misleading 
America and the world. Secondly, he has also brought 
this to the notice of the world as to how Pakistan is 
not fighting the war against terror with its full 
might. " 
 
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INDIA-CHINA 
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¶4. "NEIGHBORS' ATITUDE," editorial in September 14 
Hindi daily, AMAR UJALA: "The latest rocket attack on 
the Attari-Wagah border is yet another proof of 
Pakistan's anti-India gland. At the same time, a China 
that is worried about close U.S.-India relations has 
stepped up its activities in Arunachal Pradesh and 
Ladakh... Now Bangladesh's refusal to deport ULFA chief 
Anup Chetia, who is creating uproar in India's 
northeastern states, has raised questions on its 
 
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intentions. India needs some astute diplomacy to tackle 
its neighbors." 
 
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ECONOMY 
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¶5. "AMERICAN BROTHERHOOD" editorial in September 15 
left of center Marathi Daily, MAHARASHTRA TIMES: 
"Investment companies like Merrill Lynch, Morgan 
Stanley and Goldman Sachs keep advising India on what 
it should do to boost its economy. Now one year after 
the economic downturn began one wonders whether the 
economic downturn was real. Or was it just that some 
American companies who had established an economic 
empire globally felt the brunt of their own mistakes 
and faced economic problems which resulted into an 
economic crisis in America." 
 
¶6. "OBAMA'S MEDICINES TURNED AGAINST HIM," editorial in 
September 15 centrist Marathi Daily, SAKAL: "The 
journey of America's social and economic policies seems 
to have arrived at a decisive turn. The opposition to 
health policies goes on to represent just that. So on 
one hand you can see President Obama intending to take 
care of the disadvantaged classes and on the other 
youth refusing this socialistic system. In America, 45 
million citizens are deprived of any kind of insurance. 
2.5 million people have insurance that is not 
sufficient. By reducing the insurance installments the 
Senate financial affairs committee president, Max 
Baucus, wants to fill this gap. But some people within 
the Democratic Party fold are opposing this as they 
allege that this scheme would reduce the profits of 
private insurance companies." 
ROEMER