Archive | January, 2011

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Bilour’s ailment: Foot-in-Mouth disease

Badshah Khan and his progeny had a choice to move beyond their parochialism and built KP, but they did not–all they did was fan the fire of ethnicity. Isfandyar Khan cannot hold a public meeting in Peshawar or Nowshera. He has no backing in his home province. He runs from the Talibs, and hides from [...]

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Zalmay Rassoul should face dressing down in Islamabad

Image by ????????? ?????????? via Flickr The Afghan foreign minister Mr. Zalmai Rassoul will arrive in Islamabad next week for discussion on issues relating to the American withdrawal. Afghan Pakistan relations have improved a lot, thanks to Turkish intervention. the main issues to be discussed are regional security, the US pullout plan and reconciliation with [...]

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Hindus were immigrants to South Asia

An ethnic Adivasi woman from the Kutia Kondh tribal group in Orissa, India Dr. Jamil Khan should be credited for tremendous research on the subject of Hindu origins outside South Asia. He has consecrated his brilliant research in a book with a strange title. Neither the title of the book, nor the depth of his [...]

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Posted in Current Affairs, History, India CA, S. Asia History, Uncategorized3 Comments

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Malaysia-Pakistan economic symbiosis in Auto-parts, Palm Oil

Cooking palm nuts to soften the nuts for oil extraction Pakistan has a colossal auto-parts industry. According to some calculations it is the 4th largest in the world. However the industry is not export oriented, and quality remains an issue. In 1947, Pakistan did not have a steel mill, working university or even a single [...]

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Fire Bilour, Hire Lalu Prasad to fix Railways

Fire Bilour, Hire Lalu Prasad to fix Railways The zenith of Pakistan Railways was under the able leadership of Mr. Khalil Tahir Kidwai who was chairman Railways under Zulfiqar Ali Bhutt and later became Minister of Communication for a short period of time.  Mr. Kidwai was a towering man with personality and grace. He was [...]

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Extradite Aseemanand and RSS terrorists

The BJP banner The culprit of Samjhota Exres dresses up in the full Hindu saffron regalia, and is followed to and from places by his band of marauders who carry the Hindu Trident and yell Anti-Muslim slogans. Colonel Prohit dreses the same way, and is treated like a hero in Bharat. It is like the [...]

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Pakistan should mine Reko Diq itself

A view of sea from the Astola Island of Pakistan. Renowned nuclear scientist and member Planning Commission, Dr Samar Mubarakmand, Wednesday told the Supreme Court that they have technical expertise and manpower to run Reko Diq project. The Government should not give it to foreign company as it wanted to take raw copper and gold [...]

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Rebuilding PIA

Surrendering PIA It took decades to build a national carrier, and only years to destroy it. Today PIA is one of the four major Pakistani institutions that are responsible for most of the deficit financing in the budger, which makes Pakistan dependent on the US. This dependence jeopardizes the national goals and aspirations of the [...]

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Chengdu, China-J20 fighter

J-20 possible because of US economic asphyxiation in Afghanistan

Chengdu, China-J20 fighter While China is strutting out new weapon systems and Russia is developing new plans, the US is canceling planes because it cannot afford to invest in newer technology. Robbin Laird writing for the second Line of Defense brilliantly describes the US shackles  “The Afghan engagement is eating up our military resources, which [...]

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Post-Biden Analysis

Post-Biden Analysis He came, he saw but he didn’t conquer. Vice President biden came to Islamabad and tried to say all the right things. The news emanating from Pakistan seems to indicate that Islamabad is not buying most of what he said. The troika of leadership in Pakistan is skeptical of US intentions and leery [...]

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