Posted on 22 March 2010. Tags: Bangladesh
Tajuddin, a fellow Awami Leaguer warned Mujib, the head of the new state not to impose the one party system to have more power when he is already the most powerful person in the government. M. A. S. Molla records the Mujib-Tajuddin encounter from Abu Said Chowdhury records. Molla says keeping Mr Syed by his [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 22 March 2010. Tags: Ambassador Bhadrakumar, Indo-US Nuclear deal
The US, the UK, Europe, the Muslim countries, Pakistan, and Mr. Karzai want to end the war in Afghanistan and bring peace to West Asia. Bharat wants to continue the war against the Taliban, and it yearns for the days when Mr. Karzai used to be in the Bharati pocket. The Bharati (aka Indian) establishment [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 22 March 2010. Tags: M. A. Jinnah was not secular
Barrister Muhammad All Jinnah after financially securing himself entered the political field in 1905 at the age of 30 years as a staunch nationalist from the platform of the Indian National Congress. He was soon reckoned as an aggressive, bold and a forthright speaker for the cause of the Indian independence. In his speech in [...]
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Posted in History of Pakistan
Posted on 22 March 2010. Tags: Badshah Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
ANP is up to its old tricks–trying to blackmail the Federal government and attempting impose its will not only on all the people of Sarhad (Pakhtuns and Non-Pakhtuns) but all of Pakistan. The progeny of Badshah Khan (the Frontier Gandhi) does not have a majority in Sarhad or anywhere else. The ANP, like its predecessor [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 22 March 2010.
Several things stuck out for me in the NYT’s big story about DOD’s PsyOp contractors-as-assassination-flunkies. First, the degree to which DOD allegedly hid its assassination program inside a PsyOp venture. As the story reports, Michael Furlong, the guy running this show, was ostensibly engaged in strategic information, collecting information on Afghanistan’s social structure. But in fact, he was using that money to employ freelancers who, at a minimum, were targeting Afghans for assassination.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 21 March 2010. Tags: Bangladesh, India poisoned Bangladesh
Canada faced “Acid Rain”. Despite an overwhelming body of evidence for decades the American industry refused to accept any responsibility. Today a Bangladeshis face a similar denial and stone walling from Delhi. The tube wells are only the tip of the iceberg. The arsenic laced rivers flowing into Bangladesh from India have contaminated the entire [...]
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Posted on 21 March 2010. Tags: Indian nukes, Pakistani Nukes
The source of this information are Mr. Norris and Mr. Kristensen. http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/xm38g50653435657/?p=ddf52842837645c2aa6a20690e04960c?=9 Estimated Globa l Nuclear Weapons Inventories , 2009 Russia 13,000* United States 9,400** France 300 China 240 Britain 180 Israel 80–100 Pakistan 70–90 India 60–80 North Korea ? Tota l ~23,360 * Approximately 4,850 of the Russian warheads are operational or active. The [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 21 March 2010. Tags: EU, Pakistan, UK, USA
Reports emanating from London seem to indicate that the UK is taking an aggressive role in trying to create conditions for an expeditious withdrawal from Afghanistan. This week, the UK and the US got together to pledge about $5 billion for the uplift of the areas afflicted by the war on terror. To call this [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 21 March 2010.
There seems to be sea change in US attitudes towards Islamabad. According to press releases, analyst reports, Islamabad’s demands, and positive signals from US officials, Pakistan will ask for Atomic energy, and the US Administration seems to be amenable to providing Civilian Nuclear Power plants to Pakistan. Regional experts say Pakistan will be looking to [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 21 March 2010. Tags: Isak Swu, Naga nationalists, Nagaland, National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Pakistani Indus Valley Civilization, Shillong Accord, Thuingaleng Muivah
Bharat (aka India) is bursting at the seams. The Nagas want complete independence from Delhi, and their aspirations of sovereignty and nationhood is in direct contradiction with the hegemony of the Indian Union which chooses to impose Delhi’s versions of a strong center. The discussion of the fraying Union is anathema to most Bharatis–who are [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA