Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: Arundhati Roy
A large number of people support Roy, says activist-advocate Colin Gonsalves – also a signatory — because the possible police action is seen as a an attempt to stifle voice of dissent; dissent from the government’s point of view. “The government gets rattled when an alternate point of view is articulated intellectually. Roy has been able to articulate that point of collective self-defense: that when poor people are attacked with guns, they do have a right to defend themselves. Usually, human rights activists are pushed on the back-foot on that point, but Roy articulated it well.”
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: Pakistan Navy
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has adopted a comprehensive strategy to increase, upgrade and strengthen its naval fleet in order to effectively face challenges of terrorism, piracy on the high seas and incidents of illegal activities in the sea, according to a press release issued from Malaysia. According to the press release, Pakistan Naval Staff Chief Admiral Noman [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: FGFA, PAKFA
There is news that the Russian PAKFA (T-15) will be purchased by Bharat (aka India) as the FGFA. The PAKFA has already been designed and was recently tested. Deliveries of the plane will be made to Delhi in the next decade, though Russian shipments to Bharat have usually be delayed by several years. Meanwhile the [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: FGFA, PAKFA, T-50
There is news that the Russian PAKFA (T-15) will be purchased by Bharat (aka India) as the FGFA. The PAKFA has already been designed and was recently tested. Deliveries of the plane will be made to Delhi in the next decade, though Russian shipments to Bharat have usually be delayed by several years. Meanwhile the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs
Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: Aerospace, Defense, Malaysia
Malaysia is already a high-tech country that has been a model of growth and creativity. Dr. Mahater Muhammed a third world dump into a modern nation. Malaysia is a high tech magnet for the world’s most advanced computer companies. Now there are reports that it is stepping into Aerospace and Defense manufacturing. A Russian aircraft [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: Defense manufacturing, Irkut, Malaysia
Malaysia is already a high-tech country that has been a model of growth and creativity. Dr. Mahater Muhammed a third world dump into a modern nation. Malaysia is a high tech magnet for the world’s most advanced computer companies. Now there are reports that it is stepping into Aerospace and Defense manufacturing. A Russian aircraft [...]
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Posted on 23 April 2010. Tags: secret space spy plane, Space rocket, USA
The Air Force launched a secretive space plane into orbit last night from Cape Canaveral, Florida. And they’re not sure when it’s returning to Earth. Perched atop an Atlas V rocket, the Air Force’s unmanned and reusable X-37B made its first flight after a decade in development shrouded in mystery; most of the mission goals [...]
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Posted on 22 April 2010. Tags: Bhutan, Prime Minister Makhdoom Gilani, SAARC Summit
Prime Minister Gilani should send the right message and skip Bhutan. He should send a minor official to SAARC. Even Foreign Minister Mahmood Quraishi would be too high an official. He should send Mr. Basit the Foreign Office spokesman to represent Pakistan at the summit.
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 22 April 2010. Tags: Pakistan
There are columnists in Pakistan that are pouring Sulphuric Acid into the foundations of the republic.
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 22 April 2010. Tags: Chinese Blue Navy, Japan jittery
Before 2009 the PLAN has been a litoral force, only capable of defending Chinese territorial waters. Recently South Korea announced that it wishes to deploy F35B fighters on its Dokdo class carrier. Although the Dokdo was built as a helo-carrier, the carrier was already designed for the deployment of fighter planes. Just like South Korea, [...]
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