Archive | September, 2009

Flags of the Turkish states: The Muslims of these states are forgotten--but these Muslims have not forgotten Islam

The Muslims of Bashkortostan in 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 CA5 Comments

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 Poli0 Comments

Anti-war protests surge against 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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How Gandhi collaborated with the British Raj

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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World skeptical about Delhi's unproven claims of 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 CA2 Comments

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Iran reveals one of many secret Nuclear facilities

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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Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Karachi, 11th August 1947

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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Gujarat woman raped and then burnt alive by Hindu mobs in spate of ethnic cleansing that continues to this date. Thousands of refugees are too scared to return

Rape and the ugly Indian: Barbarism in a country that dreams to be a world power

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 CA5 Comments

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The Plan to attack Iran

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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Thre  is no need to kowtow to vested interests. Stand tall

India Pakistan meet fails as expected. Why talk?

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 CA8 Comments

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