Category: Pakistan related

Some startling stats from the eastern front…

A report in yesterday’s Telegraph (14th Feb) has some surprising statistics re. the growth of Muslim population in the border districts of Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. The numbers speak for themselves. Source: http://telegraphindia.com/1080213/images/13zzpopulationbig.jpg...

From the tragedy, some unsavoury truths

Below, a collection of short excerpts from various reports and analyses following the tragic assasination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. *** From M. A. Muqtedar Khan’s (Associate professor and director of Islamic Studies, University of...

Democracy in Pakistan? You must be joking!

Came across this superb tongue-in-cheek post by Mark Anderson: The Pakistan Play. Excerpts (emphasis mine): “Let’s see if I have this right. Every country in the Middle East (except Israel) is a dictatorship, specifically...

Reassessing Mahatma: Did Gandhi-giri really work?

Several weeks ago, I came across this piece by Dr Dipak Basu (Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan), examining the role of Satyagraha in the national freedom movement. Until I read the...