Archive | December, 2010
Posted on 08 December 2010. Tags: Anne W. Patterson, Chief of Army Staff (Pakistan), Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician), George W. Bush, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, United States, Wikileaks
“Well we are not in Kansas anymore Toto” The a petite, blond is from Arkansas, with a non-classy Southern drawl to prove it. Anne W. Patterson is a career foreign service officer appointed by George W. Bush as ambassador to Pakistan in 2007. Pakistanis and the sane world sighed a sigh of relief when the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Arrest of Bradley Manning, Grand Chessboard, Iraq, Reuters, United States, United States Army, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Wikileaks
The Case for Wikileaks; We those willing to look beyond the manufactured War on Terror have always been aware that the American war in Afghanistan / Iraq and other strategic hot spots were not only illegal. However every time we raised our disgust with the war we faced the same common response “the guilt trip” [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Ayodhya, Babri Masjid, Babri Mosque, Delhi, India, Indian Mujahideen, Narendra Modi, Varanasi
Hindustan Times reports on a message from the terror group: Indian Mujahideen attributes this attack to the 6th of December that will haunt your nation of world’s ‘Greatest DemoNcracy The ephemeral and evasive local Indian group called “The Indian Mujahideen” has struck the heart of Bharat once again. The Indian Muslim group has carried out [...]
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Posted in Ind Muslims CA, India CA
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: China, India, Jiang Yu, List of Chinese dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Nobel Committee, Nobel Peace Prize, Sinophobia, Wen Jiabao
The Chinese and Indian relations have hit another snag. TOI reports that Beijing is asking Dlehi to boycott the Nobel Peace prize committee, because. Sino-Indian trade has increased dramatically in the past decade with China flooding the Bharati market with Chinese goods. the balance of payments remains in China’s favor. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang [...]
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Posted in China CA, Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Bharatiya Janata Party, India, Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmiri people, Kashmiris, New Delhi
‘Indian Occupied Kashmir is a big prison’ That “Kashmir is a big prison” is the conclusion the visiting 11-member Indian delegation to Held Kashmir to assess the causes of the months of turmoil has reached. If a BJP MP observed that it was on coming to the occupied part of the state that they learnt [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, India, Islamabad, List of companies of the People's Republic of China, Pakistan, Premier of the People's Republic of China, United State, Wen Jiabao
Massive 230 member Chinese business team coming to Pakistan While the worlds last superpower took 200 US businessmen to Delhi, and did not sign any significant deals to invest in Bharat–the world’s next Superpower is coming to Islamabad. Chinese Prime Minister is bringing 260 businessmen with him–and several deals including the deal for the 1G [...]
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Posted in China CA, Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Politics of Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, Tamil National Alliance, WikiLeak
US Complicity In Sri Lankan War Crimes: WikiLeaks The interference by the Indian RAW, and the Indian armed forces in Sri Lanka is well known. Now there is documented evidence where the US diplomats are reporting that the Indians are responsible for the war crimes. The Wall Street Journal reports the following: One of the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Areva, France, India, Jaitapur, Manmohan Singh, Nicolas Sarkozy, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited
Indo-French Nuke talks fail on Liability issues India and France took several steps forward to getting the first French nuclear reactors in India, but had to stop short of putting the nuclear deal into operation. Indian law holding suppliers liable for damages in case of a mishap. France, like the other big N-suppliers the US [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, US Int Rel.
Posted on 07 December 2010. Tags: Ahmed Nazif, Christian Science Monitor, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Muslim Brotherhood, National Democratic Party, United States, Wafd
A dictator farcical ‘elections’ in Egypt Hasni Mubarak’s henchmen went into over-drive and prevented the opposition from getting any seats. Kristen Chick of the Christian Science Monitor writes–”The consensus among many analysts is that the regime overreached, delivering an embarrassingly large majority when it had actually intended to only cut down the opposition representation to [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, US Int Rel.
Posted on 03 December 2010. Tags: Bangladesh, East Pakistan, India, Pakistan, Pakistan Army, Pakistani Armed Forces, Sarmila Bose, United State
Image via Wikipedia ‘Dead Reckoning’ redefines history of 1971 Dead Reckoning by Sarmila Bose: This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakistan, backed respectively by [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs