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    Book Review Required for "From Kargil To Coup"

    Has anyone read the book and have any reviews.Planning to order it.
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    A critical look at the Kargil operation

    Even as adversity struck, with military pressure mounting on Pakistani troops, Commander FCNA [Force Command Northern Areas] lost his nerve … In a meeting [then major-general, later lieutenant-general, Javed Hasan] implored the others: for God’s sake, forgive me. I have made a big mistake. Now...
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    Mob attack over alleged blasphemy: Three Ahmadis killed in Gujranwala

    GUJRANWALA: Three female members of the Ahmadi community, including two minors, were killed late Sunday and eight others were severely injured when an angry mob attacked and burnt five houses, a storage building and several vehicles over alleged blasphemy. Those killed in the attack include a...
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    Advice required!

    Guys, i have a long held dream...to climb the mount everest,but i never took a step in that direction,following the usal course reseved for a south indian....study hard, do engineering , get a good job.But now i have a job and still something feels quite empty in my heart.Now, i want to take...
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    google trends : india

    Fields(keywords searched) that i have set in the trends : ****,gmail,facebook,narendra modi Google Trends No of searches for **** and facebook : Google Trends No of searches for pakistan and u.s.a : Google Trends Comparison between searches for bangladesh, pakistan and afghanistan ...
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    Indian Evm machines prone to tamper.

    A very interesting tale by Alex halderman involving the all powerful indian bureaucracy,election commission the the questionable EVM machine....recommend everyone to watch
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    Weak institutions, easy targets

    Boko Haram had already killed over 80 schoolchildren in the previous ten months, and its campaign to make Nigeria a hardline Islamic state has cost 1,500 lives this year alone. Two terrible events indicate a deepening political crisis in Nigeria. The first occurred on the night of April 14, when...
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    In Islam, woman returning to earlier faith can end marriage if she likes: Delhi high court

    NEW DELHI: Interpreting a 75-year-old law, Delhi high court has held that a non-Muslim woman who embraces Islam after marriage but reconverts to her original faith can dissolve the union due to apostasy. Granting divorce under the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 to Sultana (name...
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    Boko Haram terrorists kidnap 8 more girls, hours after leader issues threat

    The U.S. put a price on the head of the ruthless leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram long before he masterminded the kidnappings of hundreds of schoolgirls, but American forces are now poised to help hunt the shadowy warlord said to have a photographic memory. Abubakar Shekau, who drew international...
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    No houses on rent for Indians in Singapore

    SINGAPORE: Many online home rental websites in Singapore include the words "No Indians, no People's Republic of China (PRC)", which is sometimes followed by the word "sorry", leading to increasing rental discrimination in the city. The issue appears more common with less expensive properties...
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    Women who have sex outside marriage should be hanged : Abu azmi

    MUMBAI: Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi has said that any woman who has sex outside marriage should be hanged, including rape victims. According to a report published in Mid-Day, Azmi said, "Rape is punishable by hanging in Islam. But here, nothing happens to women, only to men. Even the woman...
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    Why no juror system??

    I have been wondering from a long time why there is no juror system in subcontinent?Is there any student of law or lawyer here who can clarify that.It just seems to me that a juror system will result in faster trials and speedy justice something desperately needed.It also will eliminnate danger...
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    What are you reading right now?

    i am reading two books, two as in i just yesterday finihed one , they are : Pakistan eye of the storm : I chose this book because i wanted a neutral opinion on our neibhour.I couldnt have been achieved by either indian or pakistani authors.Another point for choosing was the preface was...
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    How people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress in public

    How people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress in public BY JACOB POUSHTER46 COMMENTS An important issue in the Muslim world is how women should dress in public. A recent survey from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries...
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    Bhagat Singh sparks a new revolt in Pakistan

    A prisoner in Lahore jail, Bhagat Singh is said to have challenged his British oppressors with this stirring sentence — 'Dekhna hai zor kitna bazoo-e-qatil mein hai (I will see how much might the killer has in his hands)'. Today, as the fight to build a memorial for the renowned freedom fighter...
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    How about some outrage over Devyani and the Adarsh scam?

    Now that temperatures over the Devyani Khobragade arrest in the United States are cooling down, perhaps it's time to take a more measured look at the entire affair and look at the larger controversy that Devyani is involved in, or at least the one that more common Indians would be interested in...
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    International law only for weaker states?

    The harsh truth is that the U.S. interprets the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations restrictively at home but liberally overseas so as to shield even the spies and contractors it sends On the face of it, there is nothing in common between China’s declaration on November 23 this year of...
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    Panicked, Hindus flee

    Many Hindu families and Awami League men in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat fled their homes yesterday following repeated threats from Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. As violence continued to escalate, four people were killed in the upazila and five others in...
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    Mahbubnagar Bus Victims' Kin Move SHRC

    The Andhra Pradesh State Human Rights Commission (APSHRC) on Tuesday sought a report from DGP B Prasada Rao by December 16 about police action against the families of Mahbubnagar bus victims on November 30, who were taken into custody when they went to meet transport minister Botcha...
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    Pakistan’s Jewish Ghosts

    The News, Pakistan’s largest English-language publication, had some stirring political tidbits to share with its readers yesterday: “According to the Election Commission of Pakistan,” the newspaper reported, “there are around 800 Jewish voters registered in Pakistan out of which 427 are women...
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