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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 NEW DELHI 002104 
 
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E.O. 12958:N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: INDIA/PAKISTAN, POTUS NOBEL 
AWARD, AFGHANISTAN, SINO-INDIA RELATIONS, NON- 
PROLIFERATION; 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. "PAKISTAN, PLEASE WAKE UP!" editorial in October 12 
Hindi daily, RASHTRIYA SAHARA: "The terrorist attack on 
Pakistan's military headquarters shows that it is 
reaping what it has sown. The strategy of nurturing 
terrorism against India has now become the biggest 
challenge for Pakistan's own existence. Suspicion in 
the Indian Embassy attack in Afghanistan is again 
pointing to the Pakistan Army and the ISI. Will 
Pakistan shed its terrorist strategy after this attack? 
It is still stuck to the same old Kashmir issue. It 
cannot break up Kashmir. Only time will tell if it can 
even save its own Balochistan, Sindh and tribal areas!" 
 
¶2. "BOMB BLASTS IN PAKISTAN," editorial in October 13 
right-of-center Urdu daily, MUNSIF: "The internal 
situation in Pakistan is horrendous, but the danger is 
for the entire South Asian region, including India. 
Pakistan is passing through its worst crisis. The 
political leadership has failed to influence the 
worsening internal situation." 
 
¶3. "A REALISTIC FOREIGN POLICY NEEDED," op-ed article 
in left-of-center Marathi daily, AAPLA MAHANAGAR: 
"Indian Prime Ministers have always paid importance to 
dialogue and bilateral relations with neighbors. Such a 
policy is welcome, but it has to be coupled with a 
strong agenda that serves India's national interest. 
India will have to consider its allies very 
consciously, knowing fully well that Pakistan cannot be 
trusted. China too is untrustworthy, especially 
considering its frequent threats and claims on Indian 
territory. India has to be in a state of permanent 
alert." 
 
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POTUS NOBEL AWARD 
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¶4. "AN ACT OF DECEPTION," editorial in October 13 
right-of-center Urdu daily, URDU TIMES: "The world is 
bewildered by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to 
Obama. But these simpletons do not know that the world 
has always been a place for tricksters. Here, those 
heads have been crowned who massacred thousands and 
thousands of innocent human beings. In this world, they 
are eulogized whose barbarism is more dangerous and 
horrible than those of wild beasts of the jungle. This 
award is a deception, which aims at proving great 
tyrants as gods of peace." 
 
¶5. "HASTE IN AWARDING OBAMA," editorial in October 12 
 
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Hindi daily, RASHTRIYA SAHARA: "The entire world, 
including President Barack Obama himself, is surprised 
at the Nobel award. His foreign policy initiatives on 
Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Guantanamo etc. have not 
been productive. The world wants to see how he will 
meet these expectations." 
 
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AFGHANISTAN 
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¶6. "ATTACK ON INDIAN EMBASSY IN KABUL," editorial in 
October 13 right-of-center Urdu daily, ETEMAAD: "India 
is playing a significant role in carrying out 
development projects in Afghanistan. Even then its 
engineers and authorities associated with these 
projects have been the targets of Taliban. World 
opinion is expressing its sense of defeatism due to an 
elongated fruitless war in Afghanistan. If India plays 
any sort of venture - some role, it should be ready to 
face the consequences thereof. Instead, India should 
maintain a balance in its bilateral relations with 
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Any imbalance may create an 
atmosphere of doubt and suspicion." 
 
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SINO-INDIA RELATIONS 
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¶7. "CHINA CREATING CONSTERNATION," editorial in October 
14 centrist Gujarati daily, DIVYA BHASKAR:  "China 
seems to be obsessed with lodging objections whenever 
Indian officials visit Arunachal Pradesh. China's 
recent objection over Indian prime minister Singh's 
visit is not new. China has been eyeing this region 
ever since the 1962 war with India when it captured 
major part of Arunachal Pradesh. It is high time Indian 
leaders got to brass tacks." 
 
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NON-PROLIFERATION 
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¶8. "NON-PROLIFERATION:  WHO WILL THINK?" editorial in 
October 14 right-of-center Gujarati daily, MUMBAI 
SAMACHAR: "While one of the important objectives of the 
UN was to rid the world from nuclear weapons, there has 
been no progress on this issue at all. The world's most 
powerful nations possess such dangerous and hazardous 
weapons that mere thought of it sends a shiver down the 
spine. On the other hand, African and Asian nations are 
spending such huge amounts of money procuring weapons 
that they are unable to fight their own poverty, 
healthcare, education, safe drinking water, etc. This 
can be stopped only when the taxpayers of these small 
nations impel their governments not to buy weapons from 
self-centered big and powerful nations and instead use 
these monies for developmental purposes." 
ROEMER