Archive | September, 2009

After failing to take over Bangladesh on Dec 16th 1971, India unleashed the Rakhi Bahni on the Bangladeshis. It then tried to impose a Treaty of Friendship which would have converted into an Indian province. On August 14th 1975 Bangladeshi patriots killed the Indian agent Shaikh Mujib and liberated Bangladesh from the Indian grip. Today India is forcing a transit policy on defenseless Bangladesh that is fighting for her existence. The Transit facilites that Bharat is asking would clog existing Balgladeshi roads and pose a security threat to Bangladesh. It would also exacerbate the situation in Northeast "India" where the sevean Assamese states want freedom from Delhi. The Transit agreement poses a mortal threat to Bangladesh

Experts oppose Indian road building in Bangladesh

Experts oppose Indian support for transport. Call for domestic resources for regional connectivity Allowing India to build infrastructures in Bangladesh for transit purposes might invite New Delhi’s unwarranted control over transport system here, foreign policy experts feel, suggesting the country should rather mobilise its own resources to invest in road, railway and ports. New Delhi [...]

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India China proxy war in Nepal

NEW DELHI: Incursions by the Chinese army into Indian territory may have dominated news space in the past few months but India’s external intelligence agency RAW has warned that a more serious issue at hand is the mushrooming of rather innocuously named Nepal-China study centres in Nepal which are being used by the Chinese to [...]

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Talibanistan: 2009 Afghan map showing Taliban control

Total collapse in Afghanistan:-Chasing the ghosts of the "Ho Chi Minh" trail in Quetta

There is much talk of “Safe Havens” in Pakistan and how the USA must eliminate them in Quetta and other places. Toto we are not in Kansas anymore, but Alice we may be in La La land. Does the US Ambassador really believe that the world is as naive as that–blaming the “Ho Chi Minh” trail [...]

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Talibanistan: 2007 Afghan map showing Taliban control

ISOC: Taliban control "virtually all" of Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan is indeed grim. The vignette emerging from various reports shows the map of Afghanistan totally covered with the the Taliban. Two years ago the areas adjoining Pakistan were in the control of the 37 insurgent groups known as the “Taliban” in the West. Today the areas farthest away from the Pakistani [...]

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Who assassinated Liaqat Ali Khan?

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Islam in Russia

What is the present position of Islam in contemporary Russia and China? In order to provide a perspective answer to this vital question this article presents a summary of an up to date history of Islam in these two famed states of the world. History of Islam in Russia The long history of Islam in [...]

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1857: Muslims led the war of the independence but their names have been erased from "Indian" history

One hundred and fifty years have passed since Lord Dalhousie annexed Oudh (Awadh) in 1856. It aroused mass resentment against the British. Muslim elite realised that Delhi would be the next target as the Mughal empire was already in the throes of death. With its easy annexation by the East India Company, India would be [...]

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Rule of Muslims in "India": Fact & fiction

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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UK Indians outsourcing murder to India

Some say up to 100 overseas Indians are killed every year in Punjab A BBC investigation has uncovered the deadly practice of British Asians travelling to India to hire contract killers. Family and business associates, who are lured to the sub-continent, are often the targets. In a country where murder is cheaper and less fraught [...]

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Pakistan manifest destiny

ECO: Building a Muslim Union in West Asia through small but firm steps

There is a huge movement around the world for bringing about a Muslim Union. The ECO is one such attempt to materialize the dream of Alama Iqbal, the vision of Liaqat Ali Khan, the world of Jamaluddin Afghani and the writings of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali– Many in the ECO want to consolidate a Muslim Common [...]

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