Posted on 24 September 2009. Tags: Bangladesh, RAW-DGFI alliance
Dhaka, Sept 24 (bdnews24.com)–Former Awami League general secretary Abdul Jalil has alleged that the party leaders who are now in the cabinet have links with the military’s intelligence. “Ninety nine percent Awami League leaders who are in the cabinet have connections with Directorate General of Forces Intelligence,” Jalil said in a brief interview with a [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US Poli
Posted on 24 September 2009. Tags: Awami League, Bangladesh, BNP, Jamaat e Islami
With a visible move towards the Indo-US axis, Bangladesh may find itself walking on a precarious tightrope A PROBE report Bangladesh is walking the tightrope, as far as its foreign policy is concerned. In recent years there has been a distinct shifting in the paradigms of the country’s foreign policy and the shift has become [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 24 September 2009. Tags: The India fear of China in the Northeast
Does China government have an eye on the troubled northeastern region of India — this is the question asked by hundred thousand habitants of the region in the last few weeks. In fact, the views of a recent essay in a Chinese website to break India into many pieces, whether it was linked to the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 24 September 2009. Tags: Quaid's Eid message to the nation Oct 1947
Eid-ul-Azha Message to the Nation, Karachi, 24th October 1947 God often tests and tries those whom He loves. He called upon Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice the object he loved most. Prophet Ibrahim answered the call and offered to sacrifice his son. Today too, God is testing and trying the Muslims of Pakistan and India. He [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement, Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: India sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan
“Yes, it is true the terrorists arrested from Swat and tribal areas of the country have confirmed Indian involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan,” Online news agency quoted Interior Minister Rehman Malik as telling a private TV channel. The remarks come on the heels of separate statements by President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 23 September 2009.
The Bharati Air Chief Marshal has once again admitted the battered status of the Bharati Air Force. He also repeated the Bharati paranoia about China and wished that the situation would be fixed within a few years. He however did not elaborate how the Mig 21s (aka Flying Coffins) would be replaced without a LCA/Tejas [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: Libya, Qadaffi welcomes the "son" Obama, UN
Muammar Gaddafi, in his first address to the United Nations in 40 years as Libya’s ruler, on Wednesday accused major powers on the Security Council of betraying the principles of the U.N. charter.
“The preamble (of the charter) says all nations are equal whether they are small or big,” Gaddafi said in a long, rambling speech during which he chastised his audience for falling asleep.
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: Candace Rondeaux, International Crisis Group
A Figment of Washington’s Imagination–the Afghan Army Neocons are back!–forcing the Afghan war Liberating the women of Afghanistan The European folly in Afghanistan “Genius,” — is “knowing when to stop.” McChrystal’s “clear, hold, build” is a rehash of Lyautey’s Algerian & Westmoreland’s Vietnam failed strategy Opinion polls in many European countries, including Britain, France and Germany, show clear majorities in favour [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: All India Muslim League, Dhaka, History of Bangladesh
Greater Brihot Bangladesh Plassey to Muslim Bengal to Bangistan to Bangladesh to Brihot Bangal The Bengali poet Tagore actively joined the movement for annulment of the partition of Bengal through his writings, poems, meetings, rallies, processions– with direct links with the active terrorists. The slogan of the terrorist in 1905-1906 was that they stood to preserve [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, S. Asia History
Posted on 23 September 2009. Tags: Afghan lessons
President Obama is being pushed by some, including General Stanley McChrystal, to quickly approve the deployment of more troops to Afghanistan. At the same time, others are demanding a plan for the speedy removal of U.S troops already there. So far, he has refused to be rushed into an important judgment that will have profound [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli