Category: India & Its Neighbours

Just not cricket…

Seems that now even cricket (at least Pakistani cricket) is not beyond the pale of Islam. Amongst the headlines yesterday (here and here) was the news that Bob Woolmer’s murder may have been linked...

Dancing with the Dragon…

I came across two data points recently regarding China – both of which had very worrying implications vis-a-vis India and our strategic objectives. First, a great article “The Drag of a Dragon” by Prof...

No to Nokia, Yes to Ash-Abhi…!

Manoj pointed me to these two links that neatly sum up Pakistan’s schizophrenia with regards India: 1] Pak says no to Chennai-made (Nokia) phones: “The three to four authorised distributors of Nokia in Pakistan...

The “Talibanisation” of Pakistan…

…is now a REAL possibility. Close on the heels of mention in my last post about the Pakistani moral police, I came across this piece of news in today’s newspapers: “Pakistan minister earns clergy’s...

Now its the turn of Iran…

Chidanand Rajghatta wrote in The Times of India two days ago about how US may be using Pakistan  in efforts to destabilise the current regime in Iran (“US using Pakistan to destabilise Iran“). As...