Posted on 31 March 2011.
Thrown out of Kabul terrorist Brahamdagh cannot stay in EU One of Pakistan‘s t most wanted terrorist Brahamdagh Bugti has been thrown out of Afghanistan. Pakistan has been pressuring Kabul to expel the murderer, and Mr. Karzai has finally acquiesed to the Pakistani demand. He didn’t have much choice. Pakistan had threatened punitive action against [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 29 March 2011.
Pulitzer prize winner Joseph Lelyveld’s “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India” claims that Gandhi was a bisexual and had a German-Jewish bodybuilder lover in Hermann Kallenbach. It’s impossible to imagine him making things up about Gandhiji, or about anyone he may be writing about. Joseph Lelyveld may be many things — [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 29 March 2011.
The Pakistani Foreign Office on Monday issued a statement that Ambassador Hussain Haqqani will continue with his post as the Pakistani Ambassador to the US in Washington. Various media outlets had reported that Mr. Haqqani was to end his tour as Ambassador to the US. In response to media reports regarding the replacement of Haqqani [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 28 March 2011.
The US Consulate has agreed to “withdraw” more than 300 US mercenaries from Pakistan. Apparently this was the deal for releasing “Raymond Davis”. This is being reported by the NYT owned publication called The Express Tribune. The Tribune has links to various US agencies and the US embassy in Pakistan. The American legal equivalent to [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 28 March 2011.
Prashant Tambe said: Has caste gone? No!! It’s still bleeding………………….. What is a caste? What does it mean to belong to a “lower” caste? Does this fact influence the way you live or the way you dream? In the Indian context, the painful fact is that yes, it does! The problem is still bleeding after [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA
Posted on 28 March 2011.
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has had an ah! ha! moment. She has come to this conclusion in the Post “Raymond Davis” era. What she has not stated, is the fact that Ms. Clinton has been responsible for the breach. While President Bush threatened Pakistan, he did not however do the two things [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 28 March 2011.
Bharat will be playing on home ground. The ticket price in the black market is ten to a hundred times the value of the ticket—Bharat is engulfed in Cricket Mania. All eyes on the India-Pakistan match, which is always a crowd pleaser around the world. It is so exciting that Intikhab Alam, the manager had [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA
Posted on 27 March 2011.
When Napoleon reached Cairo, he read from the Quran, eulogized the prophet and told the Egyptians and those who were watching nervously in the British Empire “We have come as liberators, not as conquerers”. Of course Napoleon had no reverence for Islam, he simply used the rent-a-mullah program to make his message more palatable to [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 27 March 2011.
According to Fox News, Stratfor is owned and operated by former CIA operatives. Sites like Stratfor and The Long War portray the CIA point of view. Pakistan has enhanced its arsenal of nuclear-capable missiles and it has continued to improve its relationship with China. Beijing is Pakistan’s strategic arms partner because the US has been [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 27 March 2011.
It was not a direct apology for the 42 civilians killed by the drones, but rather it was an indirect expression of “regret” over civilian casualties in Pakistan. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani had demanded that the US apologize for civilian deaths from its military and intelligence operations. Ambassador Gross seems to have [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli