Category: World History

China’s claim over Tibet is questionable

From a Sify report on a seminar held last Friday at IIC on ‘1914 Shimla Convention Agreement and Consequences’ (emphasis mine): The fact that the Chinese refused to ink the 1914 Shimla Convention agreement...

Of Saudi Arabia, Petro-dollars and Terrorism

I recently came across this interesting admission by a senior US government official putting it on record that: Saudi Arabia today remains the location where more money is going to terrorism, to Sunni terror...

When is it OK to wage “Jihad”?

Halfway through an innocuous article about an unusual Saudi programme to “rehabilitate” jihadis, the Director of the Care Rehabilitation Center, Sheik Ahmed Hamid Jelan lets his guard slip. The excerpt (from the TIME magazine...

“Israel’s Domestic Enemy” – excerpts

Here is a link to a thought provoking article from some time ago… “Israel’s domestic enemy” I first read it in�The Pioneer (Dec 27 ’06)�and was reminded of it while looking for something else...