Agreed. Technically we should have dispatched the 9th Para Unit to take care of this Waheed and his supporters. The deployment could have been secret but the suckular government doesn't even worry about the internal matters, why bother about external threats?
Where? Maldives?
Our biggest mistake was isolating king Gyanendra. With Maoists getting stronger, we should have dispatched special units into Nepal to assist Royal Nepal Army and decimate the Maoists along with their forests.
Trees can be replanted again, while Maoists could have been exterminated with sheer force.
Gyanendra was also to blame because he did NOTHING for the Nepali people to garner their support.
Simply projecting the Hindu image won't have gotten him anywhere.
That's because Nepali aka Dharmic culture is too proud to let it go and accept zombie communism.
Prachanda was as inept at administration as good as he was a militant.
There is a lot of potential. Thein Sein has already put his hand of friendship forward.
I think when a legitimate regime comes next year, we should further enhance ways to double our bilateral trade and slowly move to Southeast Asia in terms of trade focus rather than hostile countries that take us for a ride.
But there's a problem. We will need to do something about the nuisance separatist and gunda groups in our NE region.
Let's have a decisive PM like Modi take over the matters and ensure that civilians can peacefully enjoy trade and safety between India and southeast.
Maldives :
India still big daddy there. Were drilling oil in their backyard. Aukad kya hai unki? Japan + India = China banged from both ends - USA involvement.
Eleven Maldivian parties face dissolution - Times Of India
In a major blow to President Mohamed Waheed ahead of the Presidential election in September, the Maldivian Parliament on Tuesday overruled his veto on a crucial political bill requiring minimum membership of 10,000 people for recognition and participation in polls.
The Bill was passed by the Parliament in December last year. However, Waheed - whose party Gaumee Iththihaadh Party (GIP) has a membership of just over 3,000 members - refused to ratify the bill and had sent it back to Parliament for reconsideration in January.
During today's session, both Parliament's minority leader and majority leader unanimously supported to pass the bill without any amendments, forcing it through.
Out of the 67 members present during the vote, 60 voted in favor of the passage of the bill while six voted against the bill and one MP abstained, the Minivan News reported.
According to the constitution, if a bill sent back to Parliament by the President is passed again without making any changes, the bill automatically becomes law without the need of a presidential ratification.
Upon ratification, the bill will provide a three month period for any political party with fewer than 10,000 members to reach the required amount or face being dissolved.
Article 11 of the bill states that at least 10,000 signatures would be needed to register a party at the Elections Commission (EC), which would be mandated to ensure that membership does not fall below the figure.
Parties unable to sign 10,000 members would be dissolved. Of the 16 parties currently in existence, only five parties now have more than 10,000 registered members, including the former President Mohamed Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) as well as the government-aligned parties DRP, PPM, business tycoon MP Gasim Ibrahim's Jumhoree Party (JP) and most recently, the religious conservative party Adhaalath Party (AP).
In December, leaders of Adhaalath Party, a bitter critic of GMR airport project, had opposed the bill.
However, yesterday, the Elections Commission informed the party that it had attained the needed 10,000 members.
The party had carried out a vigorous membership campaign during which slogans such as "sign for Adhaalath party for Islam" and "defend Islam" were used, Minivan said.
