Category: Pakistan related

News thats really not *news*

Pakistan still training terror outfits: India “….National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced was terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Al-Qaeda and the...

The spreading tentacles of terror

Indore has been in the news before…but this time it is back for all the wrong reasons. From NDTV: “Arrested SIMI chief planned terror strikes” “…Arrested SIMI chief Safdar Nagori had called a meeting in Indore...

The path to becoming a “super-power”

I recently came across this excellent article by Capt Bharat Verma on How India can acquire great power status. Unfortunately, knowing the way our politicians thinks and our system works, this analysis is likely...

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t*

What most of us long suspected, or knew, has just been confirmed by Interpol: INTERPOL admits Dawood’s presence in Pakistan. So whats stopping him from being extradited over? A minor technicality….Pakistan refuses to admit...

*Must Read* links for the weekend

Starting with this one by Sandeep which includes quotes from MF Husain’s recent interview. The two that I found most interesting were: (emphasis mine): MF Husain: “…Later, in Hyderabad, in 1968, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia suggested I paint...