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Didn’t Osama Bin Laden have a black beard?

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All pictures of Osama Bin Laden show him with a black beard–albeit, some pictures show him with a few gray hairs. The recently released video shows a man sitting on the floor with a white beard. Local Abbottabadis recognize the man as Mr. Akbar Khan, the landlord of Waziristan House where the Navy Seal raid [...]

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CIA-ISI spat has strategic implications for America

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There is a saying in Pakistan–how can you live in the river if you have enmity with the crocodile. Maybe the CIA has never heard of it. The message is straight out of the sixties–scrawled as graffiti in cities in Latin American countries. The writing for the CIA is on the Pakistani wall is the [...]

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Unable to make parts Delhi seeks Non-Russain sources

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The Bharati defense industry is in a quandary. It has been unable to make the parts for its Russian defense equipment. Russian supply chain has proven to be totally unreliable.  Bharat tried to make parts for its Mig 19s and Mig 21s. The Russians blamed the shoddy quality of the local parts on the crashes, [...]

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Babri Masjid: Hooray for the Indian Supreme Court

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The BJP mobs destroyed a mosque, and the massacred hundreds of Muslims around Bharat. All for an election victory–which they got. Mob vendetta cannot be allowed to stand. Finally some sense of sanity from Bharat. After the devastating and erroneous verdict that came out of the High Court, the Supreme Court’s stay order on the [...]

Babri Masjid: Hooray for the Indian Supreme Court

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Operation Geronimo: The real target was the ISI

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President Obama is a brilliant strategist, a deep thinker and cold hearted calculator who has used the best brains in America to kill three (not two) birds with one stone. At 9 pm when he announced to the world the completion of the operation in Abbottabad, he was actually talking about more than one operation. [...]

Operation Geronimo: The real target was the ISI

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The Great Game: A historical perspective

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Lord Curzon said “Whoever controls Central Asia, controls the world.” He then tried to control Afghanistan with his “On to the Oxus” policy which ended in ignominious defeat leading to the “Back to the Indus” retreat. The British never ventured into the wild wild west and Peshawar never really flew the Union Jack. The Mongols, [...]

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Irshad Manji continues to lie

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I was more than amused when Ms. Irshad Manji mentioned a “Interfaith New Jersey man” in her current article published in the Wall Street Journal today (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703992704576305412360432744.html#%253Fmg%3Dcom-wsj%26articleTabs%3Dcomments). I was that man, who had led an interfaith delegation of Jews-Muslims and Christians to attend her speech sponsored by the JCRC at Drew University in New Jersey. [...]

Irshad Manji continues to lie

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The Pakistani anger at the puppets

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Pakistanis are angry for several reasons. Chief among them is the incompetence or collusion of the Army, the ISI and the obsequious complaint government that allowed the US to violate Pakistani territory and then claim all credit for it. The street as well as th elite is mad that the troika (government, Army Chief and [...]

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Post Osama Bin Laden US Game in Afghanistan

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When Colonel James Abbot named the city after him, he did not imagine that his name would forever be associated with the most wanted man in American history. He is probably turning in his grave that no American can pronounce the name of his town. This weeks events have shown that Barack Obama is cold [...]

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Indian army chief Gen V.K. Singh eats crow

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Bharati army chief Gen V.K. Singh boasted that his forces had the capacity to launch an Abbotabad like hot-pursuit operation in Pakistan. He further said that if there was a decision by the government to carry out a mission India`s three services had the wherewithal to meet the challenge. The threat riled his Pakistani counterpart [...]

Indian army chief Gen V.K. Singh eats crow

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