Category: Pakistan related
Start the weekend with this Tehelka story that tries to explain why the British thought Pakistan would be a more robust democracy than India (the article was written before the results were announced). Next,...
Stumbled on this very interesting post by Abbas Zaidi yesterday: Taliban’s hypocrisy is in fact Pakistan’s national trait. Brief excerpts follow. Please note that emphasis (bold) has been added by me. *** Excerpts from...
This post was prompted by an exchange sometime ago on the Freedom Team of India google groups on the subject of “minority protection“. As we get into the final stages of 2009 Lok Sabha...
Start this weekend with P Sainath at his best on Celeb crusades & the death of politics. A very brief excerpt: The Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai averaged over 60 per cent voting between 1957...
*** CAUTION: Long Post *** Over the last few days, as news continued to pour in about Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable march across north-west Pakistan, the question that would not go away in my mind was: Why is...
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