Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle, Eurofighter Typhoon, Oman, Persian Gulf, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United States
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 19: — As the U.S. Congress mulls the administration’s plans to sell Saudi Arabia advanced F-15S strike jets and other weapons worth some $60 billion, Riyadh’s Persian Gulf partners are also looking at new combat aircraft to counter Iran. Kuwait has expressed an interest in becoming one of the first operators [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Asia-Pacific, Indonesia, Jakarta, Juwono Sudarsono, Purnomo Yusgiantoro, South Korea, Sukhoi, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Southeast Asia’s sleeping giant has begun to make some surprisingly wakeful noises. After decades of underinvestment and international isolation, the Indonesian Armed Forces, known as the Tentara Nasional Indonesia (TNI), are set for a capability overhaul that could reset the strategic balance of the Asia-Pacific region – at least if the ambitious pronouncements of Defense [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Aircraft carrier, Delhi, India, Indian Navy, New Delhi, Russia, Russian Empire, Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov
More delays on Admiral Gorshkov: Russian Ambassador Kadakin India‘s buying spree has run into some serious hurdles. It had planned to spending $2.5 Billion on an obsolete Aircraft Career that even the mighty Russian Empire could not afford to operate. Moscow has jacked up the price several times and now it is around $3 Billion. [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Afghan, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, Kabul government, Mohammed Omar, Quetta Shura, Taliban, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
Recent widely-reported contacts between senior Taliban and the Kabul government have little to do with a peace settlement and involve scarcely more than exchanges of cash and prisoners, diplomats and observers have told the Guardian. They say contacts with the Taliban have been under way for several years and reflect how war is waged in [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Constitution, Constitution of Pakistan, daily times, Hindu, Islam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Muslim, Pakistan
Rebuttal to all Bharatis, Secularists in general and Mr. Yassar Hamdani’s article titled “Basic structure myth”. =============== How can you tell that a Skunk has been threatened. One can smell it a mile away. When the skunk has lost a battle, he sprays his enemy indiscriminately destroying the ecology for days and weeks. One such [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Iran, Islam, Lauren Booth, Palestinian people, Press TV, Tony Blair, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Yvonne Ridley
Image via Wikipedia What is it with middle-class Englishwomen and the headscarf? Why do so many ladies from the most sexually-liberated and educated society in history just crave the feel of fabric against their hair? I was struck by this thought when watching Jihad Jenny Tonge being interviewed by Lauren Booth on Iran’s Press TV [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: France, French people, Le Havre, Nicolas Sarkozy, Paris, President of France, Raymond Soubie, Strike action
Image via Wikipedia PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy‘s approval rating has sunk to its lowest level yet, a poll reported Sunday, as protests over his pension reforms left the country struggling with gas shortages, travel chaos and school shutdowns. Despite raids by riot police last week to force open refineries blocked by striking workers, France’s [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Arundhati Roy, Dalit, Delhi, India, Kashmir, Kashmiri people, New Delhi, Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Image via Wikipedia A political alliance is emerging in Bharat–leftist liberal and good Hindus supporting the oppressed Kashmiris backed by the rebellious Naxalbaris (aka Maoists). The open rebellion against the Central government has indeed rattled Delhi and they have retaliated with the usual threats of force and incarceration. Any move against Geelani, or Roy will [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Afghan, Ahmed Rashid, Congressional Research Service, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Kabul, United States, Zalmay Khalilzad
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Hajji Mohammed Aman sits in the half-light of his west Kabul real estate office and makes a demand of his president. “When you decide to do something, you have to do it, even if it costs you your life,” he says, firmly but without bluster. The comment hints at [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Afghan, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Politics of Afghanistan, Politics of Iran, President of Afghanistan, President of Iran, United States
Image via Wikipedia Mr. Karzai has admitted to receiving millions in cash donations from Iran–in return for an Iranian role in Afghan affairs. Similar charges were also levied against Mr. Karzai for accepting cash and money from Bharat (aka India). Delhi was able to peddle its influence and get some kep cabinet posts for its [...]
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