Volume 4 Number 338 Wed. May 12, 2004       Home  News Today's Index Front Page Business Sports Point-counterpoint National International Culture General Views Editorial Letters to Editor Write to Editor Sections StarTech Star Chittagong Others About Us Contact Advertisement Supplements Archives Editorial   Editorial Rethink and reform politics The compelling message from BDF This year's BDF meeting stood out from the previous ones. There has been a marked stridency in the development partners' positioning on issues.   Editorial Search body at last Let's have a truly independent anti-graft commission The government has moved closer to setting up the much-awaited independent anti-corruption commission by forming a selection committee that will pick up the commissioners for it. Post Editorial   Bottom line Iraq war gets dirtier with sadistic torture of prisoners Harun ur Rashid President Bush launched the Iraq war with a promise to Iraqi people of "no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone.   The horizon this week The Bush White House: Is it unravelling? Arshad-uz Zaman The world has just witnessed on live TV the astonishing spectacle of the appearance of Bush White House heavyweight Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before a Senate Committee.   Why Palestine is burning: Apartheid by another name Praful Bidwai writes from New Delhi The 60-percent negative vote in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party referendum has upset his plan for Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.     Advertisement