Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: Boer War, British Army, India, mohandas k gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, South Africa, South Asia, World War II
Gandhi’s racism: The truth behind the mask. Behold Sergeant-Major Gandhi who supported the British during the Boer War and Zulu Rebellion. Behold the prophet of peace who worked to stratify the society in South Africa, Whites, Indians and Blacks based on the Hindu Caste system. Behold the “Enlightened One” that supported the British effort in [...]
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Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: Asia, China, India, Lahore, Ministry of Railways, Pakistan, Pakistan Railways, Rail transport
he Image via Wikipedia The Federal Minister of Railways, Mr. Ghulam Ahmed Bilour is the worst Railway Minister in the history of South Asia and most probably the world. It was on his watch that the Pakistan Railways has lost more money than ever before. His incompetence is not limited to Railways, he is a [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, China, India, New Delhi, NSSP, Nuclear suppliers group, Pakistan, United States
Image via Wikipedia US President Barack Obama’s three-day visit to India may not produce some earth-shaking bilateral agreements, but it is sending seismic waves around Asia, especially in China and Pakistan. From India’s point of view the expectations start from bilateral interests. The “Next Step in Strategic Partnership (NSSP), and “Shared Values” between India and [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Hari Singh, India, Jamaat e Islami, Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir conflict, New Delhi, Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s book Nawa e Hurriayat spells out major reasons for accession with Pakistan while opposing staying with India or an independent Kashmir. Syed Ali Shah Geelani is the most popular Kashmiri leader. He along with Ms. Andarabi and Musrat are running the current intifada. Geelani wants accession of Kashmir with Pakistan. Syed [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Arun-III, Ashok Chaturvedi, Girija Prasad Koirala, Government of India, India, Kathmandu, Maoism, Nepal
Image via Wikipedia The Unified Maoists’ Party has challenged India to withdraw its investment in 300 MW Upper Karnali Hydro Power Project in the district of Dailekh and other small projects wherein Indian companies are currently involved. Lila Mani Pokharel, the Unified Maoists’ Party Water Resources Bureau Chief, while addressing a program jointly organized by [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, S. Asia History
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Amar Singh Thapa, Asia, Gorkhali, India, Mechi River, Napoleonic War, Nepal, Sugauli Treaty
Territory ceded by Nepal in 1816 Wikipedia It would be appropriate and justifiable to consider the East India Company‘s ulterior motive beforehand in invading Nepal at various eastern, southern and western lands. They had pre-planned objectives in spreading the colonial domination throughout the Indian subcontinent. To this end they covertly prepared themselves and launched war against [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Judith McHale, Pakistan, Pakistani Armed Forces, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, United State, United States Secretary of Defense
The US government has released the official status report of the much heralded and misnamed “Strategic Dialogue”. There was nothing strategic about the event. It was only an event that deals with tactical issues pertaining to the American war on terror were discussed. The only tangible result was the $2 Billion in aid to the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Hamid Karzai, House of Saud, Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia, September 11 attacks, Taliban, Taliban government, United Arab Emirates
The reports of asking the Saudis to assist in the peace efforts is poignant because they poke a big hole in the official Afghan story that they are talking to the “Taliban”. The truth bears out the facts that most of the talking in Kabul has been for cosmetic affect in preparation for the Midterm [...]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Black Day, Hari Singh, India, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir Valley, Maharaja Hari Singh, Pakistan Army
Maharaja of Kashmir, Hari Singh (1895- 1961) Wikipedia October 27, each year, is remembered as the Black Day across the length and breadth of Pakistan and the entire State of Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that on this inauspicious day the Indian occupational forces landed in Srinagar that started a chain reaction of events, which [...]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: India, Japan, New Delhi, North Korea, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear suppliers group, Tokyo Electric Power Company, United States
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Japan Aomori Wikipedia Non-proliferation has over time become increasingly discriminatory and a vehicle for the powerful to pressurise states they consider “unreliable”, and the fact that these targeted states happen to be primarily Muslim states, with the sole exception of North Korea, reflects a further bias within the developed world. In fact, [...]
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