Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: Bashkortostan, Russia
These are the Turkish Muslim lands of the Urals. Muslims of these Russian republics have been forgotten by the rest of the world. The brave people of Bashkortostan stood up against Catherine the Great who had bequeathed her progeny to seek out and extend Russian boundaries to the warm oceans of the Arabian sea. The [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: Afghan Precipice, Obama's disaster
THE most intriguing, and possibly most fateful, news of last week could not be found in the health care horse-trading in Congress, or in the international zoo at the United Nations, or in the Iran slapdown in Pittsburgh. It was an item tucked into a blog at ABCNews.com. George Stephanopoulos reported that the new “must-read [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: Anti-war protests surge, Obama's Afghan policy
The conflict in Afghanistan used to be called the ‘forgotten war’. But with the number of soldiers dying there outstripping casualties in Iraq, support – for the fighting and for President Obama – is melting away At his home in Richmond, Virginia, Larry Syverson spends part of every day worrying there will be an unwanted [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: British Raj, How Gandhi collaborated with the British Raj, Mohandas Gandhi
Almost two centuries of the British colonial rule is a fact of our history. An alien power can resort to two tactics to strengthen its hold over the conquered people: it can either resort to coercion by brutal use of superior force or can resort to persuasive means to co-opt the natives in the process [...]
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Posted in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: large untested Nukes
Military experts expressed scepticism about whether such a powerful weapon could be successfully deployed without greater testing. Indian Army chief Malik unsure about Nukes doubts Kalam Indian claims of military prowess are usually embellished and sometimes outright lies. Indian duds in Pokhran: Dr. Santhanam exposes nuclear fizzle France conducted more than 600 nuclear tests, and [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: Iran, Israel, USA
Sheepishly the Western spooks are now claiming that they have known about Iran’s secret Nuclear enrichment facility. The truth is that the CIA did not have a clue about the Qom facility. Iran, suspecting a leak informed the IAEA that it had a facility in Qom. Most analysts believe that this is only one of [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: 11th August 1947, Karachi, Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi, 11th August 1947 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I cordially thank you with the utmost sincerity for the honour you have conferred upon me – the greatest honour that is possible for this Sovereign Assembly to confer – by electing me as your first President. I [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement, Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Posted on 28 September 2009. Tags: Rape of Indian women
Rape and the ugly Indian: Barbarism in a country that dreams to be a world power If only India’s other stats – on economy, poverty alleviation, healthcare – grew at the rate crimes against women are climbing up in this country. At an increase of 31% it is exponential. It is also shocking, amazing and ridiculous. [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 27 September 2009. Tags: Israel, The Plan to attack Iran, USA
The Iran Attack Plan Iran’s acknowledgment that it is developing a second uranium-enrichment facility does little to dispel the view that the regime is developing a weapons program. Israel must consider not just whether to proceed with a strike against Iran—but how. By Anthony H. Cordesman By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 When the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 27 September 2009. Tags: India Pakistan talks fail
Deals with Bharat are not worth the paper they are written on We have often written about the futility of discussions with Hindustan about anything. For the past 60 years, none of Bharat’s neighbors have been able to resolve any border or water dispute with Delhi. This includes, Sikkim, Bhutan, Nepal, Lanka, China, Myanmar and [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA