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Hammer, just for your satisfaction, I had to go through Mr Seervai's book again and he answers you well enough on your assertion that Congress was not a Hindu party but a national party representing all Indians. Please read (I quote): "It has been said I failed to recognize that the Indian...

Pakistani government has taken steps towards that and as a result you see so many imported vehicles on the roads nowadays. Atleast that is what I saw on my last trip to Karachi.

You conveniently post and talk about points that follow your chain of thought, because I'm sure you haven't read through all what I posted from Mr. Seervai's book. You cannot compare pre-partition Muslims to Nazism. That is just utter garbage; in my entire life, you and Hammer have...

Ok folks, thats the end of that. Now get back to the topic!

Hammer, the problem with your thinking is that you fail to acknowledge that Muslims as separate community (the largest minority - 13% of India's population at time of partition) had their own needs and rights which were being denied to them by the Congress (example, cows can't be...

People calm down and show mutual respect, otherwise this thread will be shutdown (either temporarily or permanently) and a lot of warnings would be handed out!

Am hardly surprised.

All of you sound like its a child's game to hand out guns to the civilian populace. It is a total destruction theory and nothing else. IMHO, guns should rest with the armed forces and the police. Civilians should act like civilians. Countries like Israel are a bad example because they make...

No sorry, no foreign troops are conducting operations in any part of Pakistan. And we will NOT allow anyone to come and do such. We are a sovereign nation and can take care of things ourselves. Involvement of foreign forces would mean major internal political upheavel and unrest in the already...

sword9 is correct spartan. Please do not post such exaggerated accounts, reading which even Lalak Jan would've felt hurt. Such pieces of writing lose their main objective (honoring the brave) and begin turning in to fairy tales, legends, myths, etc.

Yes that has been a dilemma facing quite a lot of historians and archeologists. I took up courses on Islamic & Arab history back in the days at university and we used to get up-to-date information about scientific digs, discoveries, etc. One of the most widely accepted explanations is that...

Alright, everyone calm down and cut back on emotions. This thread risks closure if I see irrelevant posts and sarcastic insults being hurled at anyone!!

sigatoka, I meant, reading and writing weren't established in the Arab world of the time of the Prophet (PBUH) as a means of communication, learning, etc because the culture was more 'orally expressive'. Reading and writing only became common in the late 7th or 8th century or perhaps...

Are you sure, you were 'wide awake' while posting all this? In fact, your post gives me a vague sense of 'desparation' to prove your points. First of all, talking about the step-by-step approach; it didn't succeed because Gandhi reduced everything to 'swaraj'. This...

How does 'two nation' theory relate to the internal problems that Pakistan faces today? I fail to see the linkage here. India has its own set of problems. Two-nation theory is NOT dead and CANNOT be dead since Pakistan exists and functions like any other country. The internal problems...

He's not because the term 'industry people' hardly refers to Presidents of major arms manufacturers. There is a huge army of middle-men, agents, lobbyists, etc out there. You never know who has taken it seriously enough to affect a future sale to any branch of Pakistani forces.

No body knows how many 'actual' nukes Pakistan, India and Israel have. International think tanks and foreign intelligence agencies 'estimate' the nuclear capacity of these three countries in particular to the size and capacity of each power plant they have which is directly...

Add to that Congress' attitude towards the Muslims. It knew well that it did NOT represent the Muslims of British India but it kept persisting that it did and even went ahead with propaganda tactics such as the 'mass contact' program which pissed the Muslims off majorly. As the...

VisionHawk, with all respect, what you have discussed in your posts is a very 'generalized' approach to the partition issue and a lot of religion there as well. What you have said is true but what we were involved in discussing before that, is the political situation that developed...

Ground/Land launched both the tests so far. This is because the missile has yet to be integrated onto subs and surface combatants before testing can begin using those platforms.