Quote of the Day
Tarik Jan, “a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad’s Institute of Policy Studies” quoted in TIME Magazine, “Pakistan: Divided by Faith” by Aryn Baker: “We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British...
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The great joke that is Indian media – Part IV (re. Siachen)
…or History made simple, courtesy IBN. IBN this morning has a breathtaking exclusive: “The untold story of accession of Kashmir“ All in 193 words (or a 2-minute video for those how prefer pictures to...
Pakistan, Taliban & the “War on Terror”…yawn
Thanks to Anirban for alerting me to “Pakistan on a perilous path” by Mohammad Shehzad (a journalist based in Islamabad). It reiterates the points that have been made by me & several other commentators in...
The “Raja-Mandala” approach to containing Pakistan
A few days ago, I chanced upon this article by Vanni Cappelli (freelance journalist; co-founder and president of the Afghanistan Foreign Press Association) titled “Containing Pakistan: Engaging the Raja-Mandala in South-Central Asia” Vanni starts by...
Lets pretend there is no Al-Qaeda…
…even better, lets pretend there is no Osama. Within hours of John Negroponte’s comment about Pakistan being the centre of Al-Qaeda and a major source of Islamic terrorism. Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mr Sherpao was...
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