Posted on 30 August 2009. Tags: 000 more Troops to Fight Taliban, 20, General McChrystal wants 20
The demand from General Stanley McChrystal will almost certainly lead to more British soldiers being sent to the increasingly treacherous battlegrounds of Helmand, the Taliban heartland, despite growing opposition to the war. General McChrystal, tasked with turning the tide in the battle against the insurgency on the ground, has given a presentation of his draft [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel.
Posted on 30 August 2009. Tags: Afghan, Afghan exit strategy, UK, UKs Exit strategy: Talks & reconciliation with Taliban
Gordon Brown unveiled a fresh strategy for the war in Afghanistan yesterday, including a controversial “reconciliation” process for Taliban elements and speedier training of an Afghan army to replace Nato troops. Amid waning public support for the conflict, the prime minister used a visit to a British military base in Helmand province to give the [...]
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Posted on 30 August 2009. Tags: Is India exterminating Sikhs with poisoned Uranium?
Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these are the children it appears that India would rather the world did not see, the victims of a scandal with potential [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, S. Asia History
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: 1947, Seeds of Pakistan
”Tis the season of mellow fruitfulness, close bosom friend of the conspiring sun–and “til the season of the breakup of the BJP and the season of the ascendancy of Jinnah’s stature in the land of Ganges. ‘Tis the season for writing about Mohammad Ali Jinnah and discussing the events of 1947. The newspapers are full [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, India CA, Pak CA, S. Asia History
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: Muslim rule in "India": Myth and reality
The noted Indian scholar and historian, Dr Bishambhar Nath Pande, ranked among the very few Indians and fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be little careful when dealing with the Muslim rule in India that lasted for almost 1000 years. Dr Pande passed away on 1 June 1998 and Impact International of London (July [...]
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Posted in History, S. Asia History
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: Pakistan's missile program
As usual, right before the passage of an aid bill to Pakistan, a plethora of lobbies begin their disinformation campaigns. This latest one is pretty absurd. According to the Pakistanphobes that want to derail the aid package to Pakistan Islamabad has supposedly modified vintage Anti-ship US Harpoon missiles. This silly argument is as stupid as [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel.
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: There was no "partition"
Jaswant Singh is going from pillar to post in an endeavor to sell his books, but also to propagate his vision of “Akhand Bharat” (Greater India). By personifying the glorious struggle of for independence into the body of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he is trying to convert the ideology of Pakistan into a Greek tragedy–complete with heroes [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, India CA, Pak CA, S. Asia History
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: "Gilgit Baltistan", Norhtern Areas
Northern Areas are part of Pakistan, were never part of Indian occupied Kashmir One of the best decisions made the PPPP in the past year is the formalization of the provincial status of of the Northern Areas as “Gilgit Baltistan”. The nomenclature change and the setup of a Governor, Chief Minister and a legislative council is [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: Pakistan regoinal power in Central Asia, The Pakistani perspective on Central Asia, US endgame in Afghanistan
President Zardari recently visited Tajikistan and agreed to build a rail and road network from Dushambe to Gwader. This surely did rankle feathers in Delhi. The Bharati defense establishment is in a tizzy. Unable to come up with a proper reply, they are going through the motions of a diplomatic response. Since Russia brokered the [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, History, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, S. Asia History, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 29 August 2009. Tags: History of Kashmir free of Hinduist dogma
Kashmir map: Kashmir is part of Pakistan http://rupeenews.com/nD4 http://rupeenews.com/74 http://rupeenews.com/2x http://rupeenews.com/nD4polls-on-kashmir-tehrik-e-ilhaq-e-pakistan/ http://rupeenews.com/l1o http://rupeenews.com/Qb Kashmir and the subcontinent has a rich and tumultuous history. We can pick up the pieces in the nineteenth century, but the actual history of Kashmir begins much much much earlier, before Islam or Hinduism was present on the soil of our [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, India CA, Pak CA, S. Asia History