Posted on 25 December 2009. Tags: Mumbai terroro
Manmohan’s Mumbai mess: Case has more holes than a sieve. Nothing makes sense. We have been reporting about Mumbai for months now. Mumbai militancy: Some inexplicable questions for Indian leaders. There a hundreds of unanswered questions on the attack. Now the “government” in Delhi faces more questions of credibility. Its dossier to Pakistan was based [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 25 December 2009.
Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 25 December 2009. Tags: Jaswant Singh, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan, Quaid e Azam, The Hindu
In the light of the controversy generated by Jaswant Singh’s book, ‘Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence’ (Rupa & Co., New Delhi, 669 pages), we reproduce The Hindu ’s editorial of September 13, 1948 titled ‘Mr. Jinnah .’ It was published two days after the death of the founder of Pakistan. The news of the sudden death of Mr. [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, Pak CA, S. Asia History
Posted on 25 December 2009. Tags: Shia, Sunni
May God forgive me if I have transgressed. Ashura is a divisive time for Islam, and vested interests exacerbate the differences between the two major sects. 90% of Muslims of the world are Sunni. 10% are Shia. The schism that developed between the two streams is mostly evident in Iran, Iraq and Yemen–there is a [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics
Posted on 25 December 2009.
More than 80% of Afghanistan is in the hands of the Afghan militant groups. At the same time a vitriolic campaign is waged in the US media by defeated American General about the so called “save havens”. It seems inane that the few hundred kilometers of FATA can defeat the mighty ISAF and NATO forces. [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 25 December 2009.
On the eve of a historic health care vote in the Senate, liberal Democrats in the House have launched a full-throated defense of the public option — a sign of battles to come when party leaders try to meld the two bills. “Now that the Senate is poised to pass its version of a health [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US CA, US Poli
Posted on 25 December 2009.
Moscow Sale to Delhi: Russian Mig 35s are simply Mig 29s with new decals More Duds: The fiasco of the IAFs Mig 29s More Flying coffins? December 24, 2009: Myanmar is buying twenty MiG-29s from Russia. Myanmar bought its first twelve MiG-29s in 2001. This new sale will earn Russia some criticism, because Myanmar (formerly [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 24 December 2009. Tags: Karbala, Sunni, Yazid
Dr. Zakir Naik discusses Karbala and calls it a political difference between the sahaba e karam. He was severely criticized for his comments on Yazid. However most Sunnis leaders have supported the brilliant authority on Islam. There is an overwhelming body of evidence that has been presented to support his point of view–which is prevalent [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 24 December 2009. Tags: Happy Birthday Quaid e Azam
What is strange about this entire discussion is the way it has shaken the Indian psyche. Challenging the historiography of the events of 1947 is a difficult task. Many have tried it. Rammanohar Lohia wrote a book titled “Guilty men of India’s partition” (Published by Kitabistan, 1960). However that earlier work was largely ignored by [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan, Independence movement
Posted on 24 December 2009. Tags: Jinnah
The Pakistanphobia against Pakistan plus the the paranoia against all Pakistanis is the root cause of the hatred emanating from Delhi. The history taught in Bharat is really the history of the Indian National Congress (INC). Thus all those who opposed the INC are put into a docket (Bose, Jinnah, Khan etc). Murtaza Razvi is [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, History, Pak CA, S. Asia History