Posted on 31 May 2009. Tags: Islam, President Barack Obama, Reach out to Muslims, USA
Its all about location, location and location. President Obama is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He should be in Dhaka, Islamabad, Kabul or Jakarata. He is going to speak in Cairo. He will be across the Gaza strip where millions of Palestinians remain incarcerated in the world biggest prison. If President Barack [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, S. Asia History, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 31 May 2009. Tags: Australia
The Indians call it “Curry bashing”. The “Dot Busting” Aussies tell the “Smelly Indians”–”Love it or leave it”. In a dramatic escalation in the war of words, the Indian diplomats have gone on a full scale offensive against Australia. Massive backlash against India: Why do Australians hate Indians? Australians are voicing anger at the Indians. Sydney is claiming [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 31 May 2009. Tags: Pakistani Nukes
There has a deluge of propaganda against Pakistan’s Nuclear program. This week, Pakistani defense officials made some low key statements. PM Gilani called the nuclear program a “cornerstone of Pakistani defense”. in answer to a question on retaliation a senior Pakistani soldier has told the world “Don’t Mess with us”. THIS TOO SHALL PASS! [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, US CA
Posted on 30 May 2009. Tags: Civil rights, Islamphobia, USA
There is a silver lining to the dark clouds spread by the hate mongers. A meeting of the White trash and scum of the earth Europeans was recently canceled in Nashville. The Rupert Murdock media aided by the Neocons constantly write negative pejoratives about Muslims and spread malicious lies. All this reminds one of the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: Imran Khan, Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf
Is Imran Khan a total crackpot or is he a combination of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Mahmud Ahmedinijad? There are a few things that are true about Imran Khan. He won the world Cup for Pakistan–no mean feat if one compares the Pakistani team to the countries which created the game. Australia, the UK and New [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: Jinnah was not secular, Mohmmad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan, Quaid e Azam
There is a new discussion going on in Pakistan. Actually, it is an old discussion which has been resurrected the progeny of Sr. Chutto Ram’s Zamindara Pary (renamed the Unionist Party). Backed by the cultural onslaught from Delhi, the Old Unionists have come out of the woodwork to challenge the Pakistan Ideology as enshriened in [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: General David Petraeus, Gitmo rape pictures
General David Petraeus has recently filed papers in the local US court claiming that Anti-Americanism in Pakistan is on the rise and would rise dramatically if the pictures of prisoner abuse are released. The exact opposite is true. There is no relationship between pictures of prisoner abuse and the drones. Drones kill civilians and increase [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: Afghan, General Stanley McChrystal', Torture, USA
The transfer of General Stanley McChrystal to Afghanistan is tantamount to duplicating of the worst war atrocities known to man. It remains to be seen if the ruthlessness in Iraq has been able to cap the activities of the insurgents or if the barbarity perpetuated in Afghanistan will bring some positive results in Afghanistan. This much is [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: Australia, Dot Busters, Indian students
Many Australians say that it takes two to tango. The Aussies believe that the carping in the Indian media is exaggerated and counterproductive. Australians react to 80,000 (what they call) “smelly” Indians on campuses with “Dot Busting”. Australia: Indian racism described by Mbongeni Ngema’s song “AmaNdiya” Indo-Aussie spat grows into full fledged war of words Indian students [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 29 May 2009. Tags: Anti-War in Afghnistan, Anti-War movement in USA, Moveon.org
We always considered Mr. Barack Obama as the war president. He has obfuscated on torture, banning it but allowing enough of a loophole to drive a Mac Truck through it. He promised to close down Gitmo but it now waffling on the issue. He promised to bring the war in Iraq to a close, but [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli