Posted on 27 June 2010.
Pakistan has shot down Bharati (aka Indian) requests to reign in, arrest and incarcerate Jamat Ud Dawah lead Seed, who is very popular in Pakistan. Saeed is an avowed Anti-Indian. Adhvani, Modi and Thakaray also have similar ideas about Pakistan. Islamabad has clearly informed Bharat that unless Bharat removes Modi from power, and gags Thakaray [...]
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Posted on 27 June 2010.
Pakistan has virtually ruled out barring Jamaat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack of 2008, from giving inflammatory speeches targetting India. “In a democracy, there is freedom of expression in Pakistan as in India. There are all sorts of people making all kinds of speeches. There are people with extremist views [...]
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Posted on 27 June 2010.
SRINAGAR: Another man was killed in Indian Kashmir on Sunday when paramilitary forces fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters who had defied a strict curfew, police said Sunday. Sopore town, 50 kilometres north of Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar, has been under indefinite curfew since Friday after two young men died when troops opened fire in [...]
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Posted on 26 June 2010.
Liberty University is expected to release a report next week on whether Ergun Caner, president of the school’s Baptist Theological Seminary, fabricated or exaggerated his account of being a former Muslim extremist rescued by Jesus. Caner is no ordinary ex-Muslim. His story has made him a favorite in conservative Christian circles, and many credit the [...]
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Posted on 26 June 2010. Tags: McChrystal
The war in Afghanistan was not going well. Marjah was a fiasco and Qandahar didn’t happen. So someone was going to get fired. General McChrystal abused the President and Vice President and exited. President Obama cant use the same trick. It will take take him a lot of cajoling, dictating, and planning to extricate America out of “the graveyard of empires”.
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 26 June 2010.
NSG: India fails to block China Pakistan nuclear deal
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Posted on 26 June 2010. Tags: Afghan
President Hamid Karzai, already wary of Americans, and their propensity for panache and “shock and awe”. He is disgusted by the role played by the US and Bharat (aka India) during the last elections–where both had pretty much tried to send him back home. A massive media campaign was launched against Mr. Karzai and Hamid cannot forgive Washington. When Abdullah Abdullah failed to connect with the electorate and did not have the finesse to build alliances with the Pakhtuns, he was dumped and Karzai was again picked up. While the US holding all the strings was able to pick up where it had left off, Bharat was held holding the bag. That was one of Bharat’s colossal mistakes. Pakistan continued to support Mr. Karzai. That has paid off in spades.
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Posted on 26 June 2010. Tags: Zaheer Abbas Khokar
Imran Khan has called the 2010 elections as seminal–a revolution akin to the one in 1970. Without naming Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Mr. Khan seems to be suggesting that the PPPs electoral victory in the 1970 election was a revolution–which brought a new party to the political landscape of Pakistan. Mr. Khan thinks of himself as [...]
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Posted on 26 June 2010.
Pakistan has announced that it will “monitor” websites for “content”. Simply monitoring the websites is not enough. Each and every article has to be rebutted. The OIC has to be involved. There should be a united front with Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia. A Volunteer Corp should be built to respond to Pakistanphobic and islamphobic [...]
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