Category: Pakistan related

W’end Reading: Modi, Bajrang Dal and Syed Shah Geelani

Start your weekend by reading Sh Modi’s interview in The Indian Express…which re-emphasises why development ought to be priority #1 for any political party today. Then read what drives young, articulate leaders like Prakash Sharma to...

Where are these missing 30,000?

Courtesy Lokmanch*, the popular Hindi blog, I picked up this worrying bit of information: Between Jan – Jul 2008, almost 30% of Pakistani citizens who travelled to India did not go back after the expiry of...

This is really scary news…

…for India. Picked this up y’day morning…(Courtesy Paul Kedrosky) ” Pakistan, The Land That Financial Bad News Forgot: Part II“.  The really scary bit is towards the end…(in bold – emphasis mine): Given all...

Watch how a super-power defends itself

From a BBC report: “‘Another US strike’ hits Pakistan“  (emphasis mine) Five civilians and seven militants have been killed in north-west Pakistan in a suspected US missile attack, local officials say. Missiles hit two...

Time to say One Country, One Law

Amidst the flurry of Op-Ed pieces in mainstream (English language) media, suggesting granting Kashmir “complete autonomy (Khushwant Singh) ” or holding a plebiscite (Swaminathan S Aiyar) or a referendum (Vir Sanghvi),  I failed to spot even one...