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Jaswanth Singh back in Adhvani's BJP

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Singh’s views on Jinnah had led the BJP to summarily expel him at the Chintan Baithak in Shimla last August. On the other hand, Gujarat CM Narendra Modi had banned the book on the ground that it made an unfair assessment of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

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Biden vs. Petraeus: Depart slowly or exit fast

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Mr. Biden argued for a narrower counterterrorism strategy with many fewer troops and a clear endgame for the United States. McChrystal and to some extent Petraeus wanted a surge. Mr. Obama com[promised, he did a surge and set a date for withdrawal. Apparently that compromise was acceptable to the military as a whole. However the [...]

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Post-US Afghanistan: Pakistan deepens presence

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First the foremost, the Americans have to be given a win-win situation in Afghanistan so that they can declare victory and head home. Afghanistan has to cleansed of threats to America. If the US feels safe, it will quickly lose interest in far away Kabul–just like it lost interest in Ho Chi Minh City and Panama City.

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Modern Hindi is 135 years old invented by Lallu Lal and Dr. Gilchrist

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Lallu Lal, under the inspiration of Dr. Gilchrist, changed all that by writing the famous Prem Sagar, whose prose portions are on the whole Urdu, from which Persian words have been throughout replaced by Indo-Aryan words. . . . The new dialect gave a lingua franca to the Hindus

Modern Hindi is 135 years old invented by Lallu Lal and Dr. Gilchrist

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US Air Force makes fun of Indian Air Force

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The IAF recently participated in an Air Force exercise–usually reserved for NATO allies. The IAF was so horrible that they didn’t even know where the operations were being held. They missiles jammed, and they had no visual direction. The IAF SUs were sitting ducks [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLDHbAybzo4&feature=player_embedded] Colonel Terrance Fronoff tells is F-15 Strike Fighter at the [...]

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Jinnah on Russia and America

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Margaret Bourke-White was a correspondent and photographer for LIFE magazine during the WW II years. In September 1947, White went to Pakistan. She met Jinnah and wrote about what she found and heard in her book Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India,Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949. The following are the excerpts: [...]

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Afghans see sign of victory in McChrystal's Ouster

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Afghans see sign of victory in McChrystal’s Ouster

Afghans see sign of victory in McChrystal's Ouster

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Free Gaza Movement gaining momentum

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Activists are deter-mined to carry on with their drive until Israel capitulates to their demand. Two boats carrying women activists and humanitarian aid are poised to set sail from Lebanon for Gaza in spite of Israel’s threats to forcibly prevent them from breaking through Israel’s blockade of the besieged coastal enclave. Other ships have been [...]

Free Gaza Movement gaining momentum

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After Marjah, Qandahar failure -McChrystal's firing was inevitable

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President Obama’s decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal will create new complications for the troubled U.S. effort “There were a set of assumptions underlying the COIN” — counterinsurgency — “strategy, and many of them are proving to be either false or very difficult to achieve,” said a senior U.S. official in Afghanistan, who spoke [...]

After Marjah, Qandahar failure -McChrystal's firing was inevitable

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McChrystal surge vs. Biden-Eikenberry-Holbrooke withdrawal: Obama affirms war ends in 2011

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The seminal decision of President Barack Obama represents more than firing a disobedient and rude general. It is depictive of the way the new war is going to be engaged. McChrystal was brought in from Iraq where he headed Psy-Ops and Targeted Assassinations of insurgents. The same policy was attempted in Afghanistan. Most of the [...]

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