U.N. sanction on Lashkar operative a blow to Pakistan
Siddharth Varadarajan
New Delhi: Attempts by Pakistan to link the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 2008 to the earlier explosion on board the Samjhauta Express are likely to flounder in the face of the United Nations Security...
There is a dearth of hard evidence as far as allegations against India are concerned.
We have similar allegations against India so many times - Indian female spy arrested, some Shukla arrested for Lahore blast, India attacked SL team in Lahore, India is blocking water.
So far absolutely...
Link: Second Editorial: Track-2 dialogue with India (Daily Times, 2nd June)
Excerpt:
One good signal came when our Indus Waters Commissioner Mr Jamaat Ali Shah left for India last week for talks with his counterpart. Reported in Nawa-e-Waqt (May 31, 2009), Indus Waters Treaty Commissioner...
You have responded with an ad-hominem attack against the author. The fact remains that in India, not all communities have equal rights as regards managing educational institutions and places of worship.
As regards reservations, I agree that it should be based on economic criteria, and should...
I did not realize this thread was still alive. Frankly, I don't enjoy bringing this up. But since people want proof, here goes:
Bukhari 4.02.261:
He [Muhammad] had their hands and feet cut off, ordered nails which were heated and passed over their eyes, and they were left in a rocky land to...
Not to mention the thousands of consulates in Afghanistan.
But seriously, there is an arbitration mechanism, and it has been successfully used in the case of the Baglihar project.
Another question: Pakistan has been in military alliance with the US for most of its existence. Obviously, the reason for such alliance was Pakistan's obsession with India.
Do you think that this obsession with India has resulted in poverty, extremism and loss of sovereignty.
Secondly...
Question: What can you say about logistics / supply routes of Fazlullah and Mehsud? Why has Pakistan Army not been very successful in interdicting the same? Note that Swat is not on the border with Afghanistan.
Excellent idea, provided you yourself are not controlled by larger interests in one way or another. But even if you are, the cure to that is more and more democratization. Let a thousand flowers bloom.
But one suggestion - Gul is known to be an extremist - so try to balance Gul by asking...
New York Times report dated November 10, 1947, just after the Pakistani freedom fighters fled from Baramulla:
The city has been stripped of its wealth and young women before the tribesmen fled in terror, at midnight Friday, before the advancing Indian Army. Surviving residents estimate that...
Reuters story was published right after the incident and they did not meet the girl, who must have been in trauma at the time.
It is typical that you would concern yourself with trying to find loopholes to escape, instead of whole heartedly condemning the horrific, bestial acts of the...
Price for surrender: Sister hostage, raped, mutilated over 25 days
First Published : 14 Jul 2004 12:00:00 AM IST
CHANDERKOTE (DODA): She is afraid to talk. And when she does, it's in suppressed whispers _ of 25 days of torture at the hands of militants who raped her repeatedly and...
Here is a Reuters story about how Jihadi freedom fighters cut of ears, nose and tongue of 14 year old Kashmiri girl Mariam Begum.
Rebels Cut Off Nose, Tongue of Kashmir Girl -Police
Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:36 AM ET
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim guerrillas sliced off the...
UN vote is totally dead because of Pakistan's obstructionism and subsequent sponsorship of terrorism.
As for so called Jihadi "freedom fighters", the locals detest them, as the first post on this thread correctly points out.
As stated by ex-ISI chief Lt. Gen. (retd) Qazi in the Pakistani...
Lahore Transporters want Indian buses, not Chinese ones
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
By Moayyed Jafri
LAHORE
TRANSPORTERS have expressed reservations about the import of Chinese CNG buses due to their past experiences with the vehicles and lack of infrastructure for their maintenance...
In the aftermath of the earthquake, Pakistan accepted Indian corrugated metal sheets for roofing, BUT Pakistanis imposed the conditionality that these sheets not have any "MADE IN INDIA" markings because of "political sensitivities".
See Corrugated sheets sans "made in India" marking for...
I can defend, with proofs, each statement that I have made. But this board may not be the most appropriate place for doing so. However, as regards the tribulations of Ramakrishna Mission, see
LINK
Actually in India, Hindus are not allowed to run their own institutions, whereas taxpayers are forced to foot the bill to subsidize Madrassas and send Muslims for Haj trips.
Ramakrishna Mission in West Bengal is desperately trying to get itself declared as a minority institution to save...