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India’s Suicide Mission in Afghanistan

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It’s the Bharati “Charge of hte Light Brigade”. We wrote a detailed article on the Indo-Afghan deal which on the surface seems to have given Delhi an upper hand in Afghanistan. Analyzing the complex situation in the Hindu Kush is not an easy task. In fact headlines can be deceiving. We wrote last week that [...]

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‘Plebiscite should be held in Kashmir’: Prashant Bhushan

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Support for the referendum in Occupied Kashmir is now beginning to come from several quarters. It used to be that all of Bharat was clam-shut on the subject and there was no dissenting voice on the occupation of Kashmir. After the public stance of Arundhati Roy, there are voices that have begun to emerge that [...]

‘Plebiscite should be held in Kashmir’: Prashant Bhushan

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US backtracks: Clinton now wants Haqqanis as part of Kabul government

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Another signal comes out of Washington. Just a few days ago Washington was carping about the bogey men, the bad Taliban in South and West Asia. The Haqqanis were designated the irreconcilables. Today a different signal is coming out Washington. Now the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signaled that the US remains open [...]

US backtracks: Clinton now wants Haqqanis as part of Kabul government

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Pakistan’s help to Afghanistan is incalculable

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Millions of Afghans were born in Pakistan–thousands come to Pakistan for all sorts of commercial activities on a daily basis. Most Afghans can read, write or speak Urdu. There is noPrime Minister Gilani, on Dec 7th, 2010 said “The depth of our relationship and our commitment to Afghanistan’s future can be ascertained by the fact [...]

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Clinton to support India if Delhi forgets Afghanistan and thinks about East Asia

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In a move that we identified several years ago, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is asking Bharat to forget about Afghanistan and begin looking towards East Asia. While the US spent $4 Trillion Dollars in trying to secure West Asia for itself, it is telling Delhi to look East. She says “The future [...]

Clinton to support India if Delhi forgets Afghanistan and thinks about East Asia

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Panetta prediction

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Franklin Lamb reports that Leon Panetta, 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had carried a dire prediction to Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu:” Israel May Not Survive The Current Arab/Islamic Awakening” Panetta’s first day on the job was February 12, 2009. Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 [...]

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Pakistan has good chances of winning UNSC non-Permanent seat

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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ms. Khar has sought support  for her country’s candidature for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council (UNSC).  The only thing that stands is the way is Kyrgyzstan’s application most probably encouraged by Washington. According to Ambassador Akram “Kyrgyzstan has thrown its hat in the ring and, despite minimal chances of [...]

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India’s Diplomatic Triumph or Strategic Blunder

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How Pakistan will react to the US sponsored Anti-Pakhtun Delhi agreement. A Delhi based journalist Seema Mustafa writing for the virulently Anti-Pakistan Bharati paper describes the response to the question rather eloquently “Given the current mood of the Pakistan army it is unlikely that this agreement will work as a pressure tactic. Instead Islamabad can [...]

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Tirbute to one of the greatest ghazal singers of all time: Jeet

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We saw Jagjit in a private concert in 1977 in Karachi (at a restaurant called Horse Shoe), way before he was popular in India. Today the world has lost one of the greatest sons of South Asia who was popular from Burma to Afghanistan. His renditions of the poetry og Asadullah Khan Ghalib were so [...]

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Carving out a piece of the $3 Trillion Halal meat market

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The Halal meat market has been calculated at around $3 Trillion. Most of it is supplied by Non-Muslim countries where the halal practices are circumspect at best. This is about to change. Pakistan now wants it legitimate share of the market. Islamabad is very serious about this. To this end the following are working to [...]

Carving out a piece of the $3 Trillion Halal meat market

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