Posted on 09 October 2011.
In the aftermath of the Bhopal tragedy, the Bharati Lok Sabha has passed a resolution that requires foreign companies working to give our liability payments to victims in case of catastrophic loss. The Liability requirement and the US demand that India sign the Convention of Supplementary Compensation (CSC) are the major impediments to the operationalization [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 09 October 2011.
Drones have killed thousands of people, most of them innocent civilians. Not it seems that they have been targeted. In a strange twist of fate, the a computer virus has infected the US Predator and Reaper drone fleet. Wired Magazine reported that the virus was first detected about two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 08 October 2011.
The Afghan endgame is intensifying. It is a tale of brothers and friends. The Russians used to be the enemy. Today they bluntly told Mr. Karzai that they don’t want anything to do with Afghanistan, other then what they have proposed under the umbrella of the Dushambe-4. Former enemies like like Hitmaryar are now in [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, Uncategorized, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 08 October 2011.
Several confusing signals are emanating from Washington. Today the message from Washington was upbeat and one of optimism. The State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland was all rave for Pakistan. She said that ties with Pakistan remained vital to US national security, the White House said on Friday as the State Department pledged to continue to [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 08 October 2011.
These are constant rumors that Mr. Hamid Karzai has lost his marbles, suffers from depression. Certainly his behavior, words and deeds in the past few days display an acute sense of pathological delusional derangement. He has been known to fly into fits of rage. One such incident was when his plans to talk to the [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, Pak CA, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 08 October 2011.
You made a bombastic speech in the National Assembly. According to press reports Pakistan has acquiesced on drone bombings. Fox News is reporting that “In what could mark a turning point in U.S.-Pakistani relations, Pakistani forces have arrested a handful of Al Qaeda suspects at the CIA‘s request and allowed the U.S. access to the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli
Posted on 08 October 2011.
America has lost the war in Afghanistan. It needs a face-saving exit out of the Hindu Kush. President Obama needs to show his electorate that he killed Osama Bin Laden America is safe once again. When the Afghan National Resistance stages spectacular attacks in the heart of Kabul, the American bubble of a stable Afghanistan [...]
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Posted on 08 October 2011.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the prodigious son of Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto, Prime Minister of Junagarh who in an earlier life had convinced the British to create the province of Sindh, and who engineered the successful accession of Junagarh and by default of Manvadar to Pakistan. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was the golden boy of President Ayub [...]
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Posted on 07 October 2011.
Ban Indian films in Pakistan: The Nation The Nation has demanded A ban on Indian films in Pakistan’s cinema houses. The paper said this would help the country’s film industry ”develop and thrive.” The Nation ran an editorial reporting a demand made by a group of artists, singers and directors in Lahore Wednesday to ban [...]
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Posted on 07 October 2011.
Haqqani Network Issue: A smoke Screen for Evil Game by Faisal Nazir The intense propaganda campaign by all and sundry in the US officialdom against the ISI is actually indicative of the prevailing desperation among the officials in the wake of their inability in taming down the Afghan resistance, much less than quelling it down, [...]
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Posted in Afghan, Current Affairs, India CA, Pak CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel., US Poli