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Well I have planned for Sri Lanka, with my girlfriend, for now. We have a thing for exotic beaches. But I am a big foodie. Maybe, next time I'll try Lahore. Have heard great things about the delicacies.

I was planning on vacationing in Sri Lanka. Would it be advisable to visit the country? Has any travel advisory been issued, recently?

The backroom dealings are commonplace, as you mentioned. But, the fact that this exchange involves the apex court of India, makes it difficult to buy the conspiracy theories about marines being handled with kid gloves, as such an arrangement would would necessitate the willful involvement of...

Heheh...I don't know about Italy...but this is sure to be very embarrassing for some of the posters from Pakistan...turns out India is not as powerless as they would've hoped... Hats off to Indian diplomats...job well done... March 22 - today is when the SC appointed deadline expires...

Heheh...internet warrior alert!! You are funny...in an unintended way... of-course...

Outside of perhaps securing resources in Africa, all these outbound investments are bad news. It signifies Indian businesses loosing their appetite for the local market. In fact, that has been the sentiment voiced by various heads of businesses. At a time when foreign fund flows are drying up...

Hmmm...you are probably right...I just wasted 5 minutes of my life on a frustrated soul...

So pakistan - which nearly never won a war, yet instigated conflicts...was incompetent enough to loose half the land mass...for all the pride of its armed forces, sold out to american dollars and were enslaved for years to fight their war...when the drone bombings on so-called "sovereign" pak...

Unless India has managed to water down the resolution, as claimed by Amnesty and some other human rights groups, and managed to strike an under-wraps bargain with SL - this would be ideal example of how to shoot oneself in the foot.

Plato - True friendship can exist only between equals. Until then, it would be foolish to allow the Chinese the luxury of taking their word at face value. We can ill-afford complacency or unpreparedness.

That is roughly 4.5-4.7% of the GDP. How sustainable is it, given pakistan's macro-economic situation? Also how is the inflow of CSF funds accounted for? I mean its not FDI / FII. How is the receipt of this money reflected in the books of accounts?

Firstly, I doubt that BD reaching some kind of a naval / security pact with US is likely to ruffle feathers of the indian establishment. In The short to mid-term future, US is likely to partner India. So, any security arrangement with the US, at the expense of the Chinese - will only help...

Just curious...what is BD's annual defence budget?

It's funny. You guys run down the indian media as the worst thing to have happened to journalism and then uphold these "big mouthed, bigoted" journos' decision to invite a publicity seeking, self-promoting general as a benchmark of how "sought after" a personality is.

Indian arrogance?! Just the other day one pakistani friend had clubbed Pak with Russia and China as the three "heavies" that backed SL, in context of the UN resolution. I initially thought that it was a typo. But the thread was full of clumsy arguments by pakistani friends who attempted to...

Rough estimates peg the Rafael deal at about USD 20 billion - which translates into Euro 15-16 billion. For one, that figure is pretty big for a country that is facing steep economic challenges. Secondly, trade ties are formed over years of engagement and collaboration and tend to become...

So you just compared Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with Pervez Musharraf?! Hmmmmm.....Now say that one more time and try not to die laughing...

Just a layman's suggestion - lets put the rafale at stake and then let's see what the french have to say about India's italian problem.

I remember an article at the beginning of the Italian marine saga which said that the govt could not afford to be seen offering concessions to the marines due to Italian origins of Sonia Gandhi. With the marines now absconding, I would imagine that with the general elections only a few months...

The SC made a very valid observation - how can the diplomat claim relief (diplomatic immunity) under the Vienna convention after "voluntarily subjecting to court's jurisdiction"? The SC has already embarrassed itself after being overtly generous to under-trials (Christmas break?!?! voting...