This is what the Home Minister of an aspiring superpower says in a public statement (emphasis added):
‘This is not new. We know where he (Dawood Ibrahim) is…” Chidambaram told reporters when asked about his reaction to the lavish reception Dawood Ibrahim hosted for his son’s wedding in Karachi recently.’..(but) What is it that we can do from India,’ he asked.
I am speechless…and reminded of  We know its Pakistan but we hope its not

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Kapil Komireddi, writing in the Foreign Policy magazine, says:
Moderate Pakistan, if such a thing ever existed, is dead

Below, excerpts from a thought-provoking piece titled, Take Pakistan’s Nukes, Please (emphasis added):
..The attack on Sunday, May 22, by Taliban fighters on the Mehran naval air base in Karachi — its audacity, the foreknowledge it implied, the militaristic precision with which it was executed — carried a message: Pakistan is no longer a contested territory; it is now emphatically their turf. The reins of official power may not be in their hands yet, …

US President Barack Obama

Pakistan has been very obsessed with India. They see that as their existential threat. I think that’s a mistake

There is one more (emphasis added)..
Our job is to secure the United States. We are very respectful of the sovereignty of Pakistan. But we cannot allow someone who is actively planning to kill our people..we can’t allow those kind of active plans to come to fruition without us taking some action.
Past quotes are here.. Image courtesy: WhiteHouse

From a BBC report
‎”..We had located Bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan”
How many of our channels will highlight this info?
Will America now declare Pakistan a terrorist state?  Will Pakistan finally own up to supporting global jihadi terrorism & aiding/ abetting attacks against India?
Is it not time to hold Pakistan to account? …or – as Sh Jay Bhattacharjee put it in an email to me – “will one of the world’s most criminal countries going to get away scot free, once again ?”
Also read: ”All roads lead to Islamabad…“, All …

Courtesy Bhaskar Chatterjee, I stumbled on this “map” on a section of the the ToI website:

Might this be a strawman / trial balloon to see how a solution that makes the LoC as a permanent border is received by the public? or am I reading too much into this?
I remember the days when such a map in an Indian publication would have led to copies of the magazine/newspaper being confiscated and/or banned and the offending map censored. I also remember one of the first “official” letters I wrote in the IFS, …

A 5-min video snippet from a discussion on Jammu & Kashmir that I introduced and moderated at the London School of Economics last week.
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Jammu & Kashmir LSE Mar ’11
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