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Facing isolation, Delhi back peddles on Taliban

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This months saw a lot of reversals for Delhi’s foreign policy. Still reeling from its eviction from Tajikistan, Delhi once again faces an about face and U turn on the Taliban. For a decade Bharat (aka India) has been espousing a hardline stance on Afghanistan–no negotiation, continued, war, perpetual occupation, and rejection of the anti-occupation forces. Turkey did [...]

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World, Afghans reject India's position on Taliban

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LONDON: A one-day international conference on Afghanistan on Thursday rejected India’s argument that there were no degrees of Talibanism. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, hosting the conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, announced in his opening address the establishment of a $500 million ‘trust fund’ to buy “peace [...]

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'It seems that the Indian polity is divided, India is confused': Shah Mahmood Qureshi

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LONDON: Referring to the meeting between the two ministers in New York September last, Shah Mahmood Qureshi clarified: “I gave him (S M Krishna) a very crisp proposal, a roadmap for the future. He said he would get back to me, but he has not got back to me. That means he has nothing to [...]

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Post US Afghanistan

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After a brazen attack on Kabul, the Taliban and anti-occupation forces launched another attack on Helmund. These attacks are getting closer and closer to the nerve centers and indicate that the NATO and ISAF forces cannot defend even the cities. The surge itself will eventually supposed to reverse the insurgent gains–but other events are overtaking [...]

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High Speed trains in the US–finally!

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JOAN LOWY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants announced Thursday by the White House — the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era. [...]

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All Pakistanis welcome Chinese military base–make it Shamsi

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BEIJING: China has signaled it wants to go the US way and set up military bases in overseas locations that would possibly include Pakistan. The obvious purpose would be to exert pressure on India as well as counter US influence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. “(So) it is baseless to say that we will not set [...]

All Pakistanis welcome Chinese military base–make it Shamsi

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Pakistan is enabler of rising North Crescent

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According to the latest statistics available, Islam is spreading at a fast pace especially in America, Europe, India and Russia. The Crescent North refers to the rise of Islamic forces from Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, and Central Asia. Islamic conquerors like Tam-erlane, Sultan Bayazid Yild-irim, Khairuddin Barbarossa, Ghauri and Ghaznavi who changed the course of [...]

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Expediting import of 1000 MW power from Iran to Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD (APP) – Ambassador of Iran to Pakistan Masha’allah Shakeri and Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf Thursday agreed to expedite the process of importing 1000 MW power from Iran to Pakistan on fast track basis. The Iranian envoy Thursday called on Water and Power Minister and discussed matters of mutual interest and [...]

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Mohandas Gandhi dirty collaboration with the British

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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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Justifying defeat–Rationalizing withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Afghanistan summit: Why is the US backing talks with the Taliban? Heading into this week’s summit of Afghan allies in London, the top US general in Afghanistan said he supported President Hamid Karzai’s plan to reach out to the Taliban. Washington — Only the first few thousand “surge” forces have arrived in Afghanistan as part [...]

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