Posted on 10 February 2010. Tags: Iran
A spate of recent international conferences at Istanbul and London have signalled that the Western countries led by the United States are engaged in a serious reconsideration of their strategy and options in dealing with the Afghanistan situation by placing increased emphasis on opening channels of communication with the Taliban who are mostly Pashtuns, while continuing [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 10 February 2010.
There is much acrimony between Delhi and Maharashtra. They can’t even agree on the name. The Indian National Congress calls it by its old name Bombay, and the Shiv Sena leaders, the Thackarays insist on calling it by its older name. The Shiv Sena version of history tells them that the name of the city [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 10 February 2010.
Gandhi: Behind the Mask of Divinity By G. B. Singh Reviewed by Baldev Singh “Truth comes out breaking the walls of a fortress” is a Punjabi saying. For the lovers of truth G. B. Singh has exploded the Gandhi myth – apostle of peace, emancipator of untouchables and liberator of India by peaceful means from [...]
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Posted in Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Posted on 10 February 2010.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — There are more private security contractors from Xe, formerly Blackwater, operating in Islamabad than capital police, a religious leader said. A helicopter of the Xe (Blackwater) mercenary firm. There are more private security contractors from Xe, formerly Blackwater, operating in Islamabad than capital police, a religious leader said Monday.(AFP/Yuri Cortez) Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman, [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 10 February 2010.
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA’s “secret” battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — that is, pilot-less drones — shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 10 February 2010.
More Blackwater Contractors Than Cops In Islamabad Afghan War Self-Deception: America’s Greatest Danger “The deaths of three American soldiers in a Taliban suicide attack on Wednesday lifted the veil on United States military assistance to Pakistan.” So began a Feb 4th piece by Jane Perlez in the New York Times. But even all these days on, it’s [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel.
Posted on 10 February 2010. Tags: genocide
In India, we are going to witness another cataclysmic act against the original inhabitants or Adivasis of the Naxal-affected area. Under the pretext of eradicating Naxals, the state government declared the war against its own tribal people. There is every reason to doubt that ‘Operation Green Hunt’ aims at the tribal people of the Naxal [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Politics
Posted on 10 February 2010.
The Terror-Industrial Complex The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe. The [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 10 February 2010. Tags: Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years with the next Games taking place from 3-14 October 2010, in New Delhi, India. Bharat (aka India) is putting on a show for the Commonwealth Games. The great abuse of children and women has to be taken into account. Why is the Secretariat of the Commonwealth not taking [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 10 February 2010.
We hear about the song and dance from Pornywood on how great Bharat (aka India) is doing. Apologists of Bharat discuss the economic miracle. The fact remains that the anemic “hindu growth rate” has been the butt of jokes for the past 60 years–the lowest of all religions on the planet. Here are some facts [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Politics