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India Taliban talks: Can 'U-turn' fix Delhi's failed policies?

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For the best part of the last decade India has criticized Pakistan for having relations with the Taliban. It has risked international isolation and and almost war with Pakistan on the issue. Now the news from the East side of the Radcliffe Line is that Delhi is holding talks with the Taliban. After a failed [...]

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Lockheed's song and dance for India: Did Delhi buy it?

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Like a snake oil vendor who is selling second hand used cars, the Lockheed representatives are busy trying to convince the Indians that they US will not upgrade the Pakistani F-16s to the Block 60 version being marketed as F-16IN Super Viper. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has ben flying Lockheed planes since 1963 and [...]

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India-China war: Inevitable?

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The pace of Chinese development in the past 60 years is one of the wonders of the world. Not long ago the entire Chinese nation was kept in bondage by the East India Company which forced the country to continue to import opium. When the patriots revolted, Britain forced two wars on them. Finally Mao Ze Dung led the country to freedom from the machinations of Imperial Japan, Colonial Britain and a US which was supporting others in the civil war. In the past century the Chinese have walked softly and hidden the Big stick. It has whispered where others have shouted. The leadership in Beijing has bitten its lip on Taiwan and Arunchal Pradesh. It has kept quiet on the boundary line South of Tibet and kept quiet on international issues that it felt strongly about. Now the results are evident for all to see.

India-China war: Inevitable?

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Beijing's $2.5 to extend Iran Pakistan pipeline to China

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The IPI project was conceived in 1995 and after almost 13 years India finally decided to quit the project in 2008. India walked out of the 2,775 km pipeline project due mainly to the hefty transit fee demanded by Islamabad.
Mootaki blamed the US for trying to sabotage the gas pipeline project and said, “Growing relations between US and India should not affect the relations of India with other countries of the region.”

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Rise in Kashmiri militancy without infiltration baffles India

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The spring in Kashmir has one again brought pain for the occupiers from Delhi. The freedom fighters are getting tired of the occupation and want Delhi to leave. More than 800,000 Bharati (aka Indian) soldiers cannot keep the lid down. News reports emanating from Srinagar say that a jittery army has stopped the announced withdrawal [...]

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Courting America to help it make a 'face saving' exit from Afghanistan

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The “Strategic Dialogue” with Pakistan was declared a success even before it was over. After the fiasco in the Middle East, and the total defeat in its aims in Afghanistan, the US needed some good news. The casualties have doubled in the Hindu Kush, and the US needs a face saving exit. President Obama’s team needed a success in Pakistan. The meeting in Washington provided the necessary smiles that could then be taken to the American electorate to be cashed at the next elections.

The post-dialogue analysis in the Pakistani media is not kind either to the government in Islamabad or the cryptic statements emanating out of Washington. Pundits in Pakistan are saying that the US wants instant results from Pakistan, and promises things in the future. This could have worked in the past, but today the Pakistani population and its vibrant media remains extremely skeptical of any US moves. “Once bitten, twice shy”, the Pakistani media and elite want instant results from America–if the results are not delivered quickly–the US may face an abyss in the Khyber–from which it may not be able to recover.

Courting America to help it make a 'face saving' exit from Afghanistan

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India a Vedic Psephocracy? Field Notes on Delhi's Nehrustocracy

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Focus India: Beyond Psephocracy: Is the “land of the Ganges” the epitome of democracy, or is it a Plutocratic  Kleptocracy imposed on 7% of the population that lives below $2 per day–a system imposed to keep the power away from the Muslims, Sikhs, Dalits and Maoists. If it is a democracy it should adhere to the [...]

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Delhi's genocide of indigenous Tribals across the Indravati River in 'India'

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Across the river Indiravati is a no mans land over which Delhi has no power. More than 200 districts are governed by the Indigenous people who control huge swathes of territory which accounts for 40% of the land mass of Bharat. The police will “shoot to kill” across the river–and they call this tribal land [...]

Delhi's genocide of indigenous Tribals across the Indravati River in 'India'

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How Gandhi profited from collaborating 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 [...]

How Gandhi profited from collaborating with the British

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Tightened US ties with Pakistan

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Pakistan’s much-anticipated strategic dialogue with the US aimed at presented a multi-pronged strategy to redefine US-Pakistan ties, as reported by the Pakistani press. Military issues gained centrestage, however, with the army chief General Ashfaq Kayani being seen as the “chief guest” of the meeting. India’s dilemma: Avoiding being taken for granted US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue: Can the [...]

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