Maldives Upsets Big Brother India

[asad71]

Muslim nations and China must move in quickly to fill in the void before the Indians can reorganize a return.

 

[Tshering22]

Even if we dont need them, we would not want them to fall into the lap of China.

Another foreign policy disaster in the making after Sri Lanka fell into Chinese lap.

Listen, our foreign policy was always screwed up around the neighborhood.

We fcked up in two of the most culturally common places India could ever have: Nepal and Myanmar. However fortunately things were not so bad as we feared and somehow things have started going well again. During Gyanendra's era, I was wondering whether these baby pups of democracy i.e. UPA-1 was going to screw our ties with Nepal or not and when Prachanda came to power, I thought we'd had it. Thanks to Battarai that things improved. And of course in case of Myanmar, Thein Sein's rise to power was a welcome where he was softer and more practical in foreign policies unlike Than Shwe.

Buddy, you need to know that Maldives is not the same as it was a decade ago. Under Nasheed, the country was moderate and wasn't so hostile and overtly Arab-wannabe as it is today. Waheed's rise to power was on the popular religious xenophobic sentiments that the conservatives in Maldives have against non-Muslims.

When Nasheed was being thrown out, we should have sent our troops into Male and crushed the overthrow but instead, MMS and his Owner just looked along like helpless losers.

We made this thanks to our so-called leaders.

You know what? China can have Maldives. They are anyway sinking with three of their 27 habitable atolls under the ocean. As for SL, we don't care a rat's rear. Geography doesn't change even if friends do.

Muslim nations and China must move in quickly to fill in the void before the Indians can reorganize a return.

So much for "Muslim nation". Bangladeshis are beaten and attacked and considered inferior by Maldivians everyday. They hate everyone who isn't like them despite being highly dependent on external tourism.

If you are indeed a Bangladeshi by birth and blood, you should be more pissed off at Maldivians than we are.

Just google how they treat Bangladeshis in their country.

And if you don't want to trust google as it is run by Americans then just take out some time to take your flight to Maldives next time and tell them you're a Bangladeshi. You will see it for yourself.

 

[IndoUS]

The Maldives says it will press ahead with its decision to cancel a major airport investment deal with an Indian firm, despite an injunction by a Singapore court.

A presidential spokesperson said the decision to end the contract with the Indian firm GMR was "irreversible".

GMR, however, says the court order means it can continue to operate the airport as per the original agreement.

The decision has sparked a row between the Maldives and India.

Delhi has suggested it could lead to the suspension of millions of dollars in Indian aid to the Maldives.

GMR and Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad won a joint contract in 2010 to operate the airport for 25 years.

Former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, who initiated the project, has described its cancellation as a blow to foreign investment and tourism.

'Very concerned'
"It's our decision, it's not reversible, it's not negotiable," Masood Imad, the media secretary to the current Maldives president, told the BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo.

He said Monday's ruling in Singapore was in respect of compensation that the Maldives government would be obliged to pay GMR - and the government was engaged in working that out.

Asked if the government was going against the court ruling, he replied: "No sir."

But, he said, the government was within its rights to terminate the overall contract and that had not changed, our correspondent reports.

However, Fayaz Ismail, a Maldives-based lawyer for GMR, told the BBC that this was a "completely false interpretation" of the Singapore court's ruling.

He said the ruling "very clearly restrains the government" from taking "action which might jeopardise the operation of the airport" until the arbitration process was completed.

"We're very concerned," Mr Ismail said.

Last week, the authorities in Male suddenly cancelled the $500m (£312m) contract with GMR to manage the Ibrahim Nassir International Airport.

The government in Male said it was advised by unnamed British and Singaporean lawyers to cancel the agreement with GMR.

India said the move would send a "very negative signal" to foreign investors.

GMR has a 77% stake in the operation while the Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad owns the remaining 23%.
BBC News - Maldives says will take over airport from India's GMR

So basically the deal with the airport is that the government wants to keep the airport. The best thing for GMR and Berhad to do is ask for all the money they have invested there so far and terminate all contracts in the country since its pretty much a breach of contract from the government side.

 

[Zabaniyah]

“India should have seen this coming. Our diplomacy is so one-dimensional that it wasn’t able to take care of our economic interests in Maldives.”

Sounds awfully familiar

Friendship is only between equals. Period.

Equals as in?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

China is surrounding India Very soon there will be Chinese base in Gwadar

China is surrounding India Very soon there will be Chinese base in Gwadar

And then China will move on to Chittagong, Colombo ... A triangle front... China is very smart

If that is the case, India will make USA's task of surrounding China easier.

Little *** countries like Bangladesh aren't going to do jack ****.

 

[clmeta]

Why China?
Don't pull in Kaffirs please.
Leave it on believers.

Muslim nations and China must move in quickly to fill in the void before the Indians can reorganize a return.

 

[arp2041]

GMR row: India freezes aid to Maldives, ties under stress

In a move to put pressure on Male, India has frozen aid to Maldives as its government on Monday decided to take control of the international airport despite a Singapore court staying the suspension of the contract given to India's GMR-led consortium.

The high court of Singapore suspended the Maldives government's decision last week to terminate the $500 million contract, the single largest Indian FDI in the Maldives, awarded to the consortium for developing the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport at Male.

"High court of Singapore today (Monday) granted injunctive relief (stayed) against the applicability and operations of (contract termination) letter issued by the ministry of finance and treasury (MoFT), government of Maldives," GMR said in a statement.

"The high court upon hearing both the parties was pleased to grant this stay in favour of GMIAL (consortium of GMR-MAHB)."

However, the arbitration process will continue on the sidelines, said a company official.

The Singapore high court is acting as an arbitrator in the issue between the GMR-backed consortium GMIAL and the Maldives government. Under the contract, the law of either Singapore or Britain would apply in case of differences between parties.

The Maldives government, however, chose to defy the order. "We will continue the airport takeover and Inshallah next Saturday onwards MACL (state-controlled Maldives Airport Company Ltd) will be running the airport," Defence minister and acting transport minister Mohamed Nazim told reporters in Male on Monday.

Upset at the Maldives government's attitude, India has put on hold $25-million budgetary commitment to Male, said reliable sources on Monday.

Bilateral ties will be affected, said the sources.

The Indian government is also studying the court order and its implications, said the sources.

The Maldives government Wednesday had defended its decision to terminate the GMR contract, saying the deal was dogged by "legal, technical and economic issues". However, in the wake of reaction by the Maldives government Monday, it seems legal issues were only the fig leaf behind which President Mohamed Waheed was hiding, the sources said.

In New Delhi's assessment, there are many vested interests at work, a veiled allusion to the increasing clout of a pro-China clique that is said to be close to the powers-that-be in Male and has influenced the decision to scrap the GMR contract.

What is more distressing to India, the sources added, is the way a commercial dispute has been used by some fringe elements and political parties in the Maldives to whip up anti-India sentiments.

"It has become an election issue and it has ceased to be a purely commercial matter," said the sources.

Elections are scheduled to be held in the Maldives late next year, but there are indications that they could be held as early as next year. GMIAL, which is a consortium of GMR and Malaysian airports operator MAHB, had won the right to operate and modernise Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in a bidding conducted by IFC, an arm of the World Bank.

The Maldivian cabinet had directed GMIAL to hand over the airport within seven days to MACL. It had also asked GMR to vacate and remove all property from the airport within 30 days.

According to GMR, both MACL and the MoFT, under the concession agreement, "are not allowed to interfere with the rights of the Investor (GMR-MAHB consortium)".

"With this (judgment), GMIAL shall continue to operate the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport as usual as per the provisions of the concession agreement," GMR said.

GMR row: India freezes aid to Maldives, ties under stress - The Times of India

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Why China?
Don't pull in Kaffirs please.
Leave it on believers.

Why do Indians always refer to us as "Kaffirs"?

 

[jhungary]

Why do Indians always refer to us as "Kaffirs"?

Kaffirs = non-believer, whatever it means. IT could also mean South Afrkican as a deggro term, but i don't think he use it like that

 

[Setting]

Why do Indians always refer to us as "Kaffirs"?

Are you a Muslim?

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Kaffirs = non-believer, whatever it means. IT could also mean South Afrkican as a deggro term, but i don't think he use it like that

I know what it means, I just think it's funny that I never hear Muslims calling us Kaffirs. Only Indians do so here.

Yes, it technically just means "non-believer" which is correct since we are mostly atheists.

 

[IndoUS]

Why do Indians always refer to us as "Kaffirs"?

Anyone who is not a muslim and doesn't believe in Islam is a Kaffir don't feel so bad the muslims call us Indians Kaffiirs.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

The lesson is to heed the famous parable of the sun and the wind.

The arrogant wind (India) once saw a man with a coat and boasted to the sun (other power) that he could make the man take his coat off. The wind tried to force the man to take his coat off with harsh and aggressive blowing, however the man held on to his coat even more.

The sun then spread his rays and the man took his coat off. The sun won and the wind was humiliated.

Also as they say "You get more bees with honey than vinegar"

The reason why half of Asia hates India is because India is a bully, a thug and tries to destabilize countries.

Stop doing that and you may finally win some friends.

Shabba... Mokka story...

 

[Luffy 500]

Listen, our foreign policy was always screwed up around the neighborhood.

We fcked up in two of the most culturally common places India could ever have: Nepal and Myanmar. However fortunately things were not so bad as we feared and somehow things have started going well again. During Gyanendra's era, I was wondering whether these baby pups of democracy i.e. UPA-1 was going to screw our ties with Nepal or not and when Prachanda came to power, I thought we'd had it. Thanks to Battarai that things improved. And of course in case of Myanmar, Thein Sein's rise to power was a welcome where he was softer and more practical in foreign policies unlike Than Shwe.

Buddy, you need to know that Maldives is not the same as it was a decade ago. Under Nasheed, the country was moderate and wasn't so hostile and overtly Arab-wannabe as it is today. Waheed's rise to power was on the popular religious xenophobic sentiments that the conservatives in Maldives have against non-Muslims.

When Nasheed was being thrown out, we should have sent our troops into Male and crushed the overthrow but instead, MMS and his Owner just looked along like helpless losers.

We made this thanks to our so-called leaders.

You know what? China can have Maldives. They are anyway sinking with three of their 27 habitable atolls under the ocean. As for SL, we don't care a rat's rear. Geography doesn't change even if friends do.



So much for "Muslim nation". Bangladeshis are beaten and attacked and considered inferior by Maldivians everyday. They hate everyone who isn't like them despite being highly dependent on external tourism.

If you are indeed a Bangladeshi by birth and blood, you should be more pissed off at Maldivians than we are.

Just google how they treat Bangladeshis in their country.

And if you don't want to trust google as it is run by Americans then just take out some time to take your flight to Maldives next time and tell them you're a Bangladeshi. You will see it for yourself.

What a post. Typical of a Indian and I thank U for that. Really. This actually shows the type of hegemonic mindset a common Indian has. Now will U tell me the following:

Why should maldivians or S.asians like/respect India as your arrogant pathetic countrymen expects?

What right do your country have under Intl law to overthrow a maldivian gov that doesn't suit you? U are calling for open intervantion, mind U even US didn't take open military invastion over the past 3 decades in latin America. They had CIA orchestrated covert ops.

Who the hell are Indians to say what type of party maldivians should vote for? Who are U guys to judge a maldivian party?

What is wanne be Arab, why do U care?


As for the maldivian hating bangladeshi carp, I could care less. Don't stereotype maldivians. A muslim will always feel a brotherly bond with one another at the Intl scene regardless of whatever the goverments do. I don't understand why do hindus of all people jump over hills when it comes to muslim brotherhood (yes it does exist and always will). I know U lots are xenophobic islamophobes and given the chance U guys will slaughter every muslim in India, but why the winning when it comes to relations between individual muslim countries. Islamophobic americans and zionists care jack about the "umma" and just want to get on with the muslim massacre. I wonder why can't U lots do the same. It will save a lot of your time and energy and won't make you lots look idiots.

 

[arp2041]

Muslim nations and China must move in quickly to fill in the void before the Indians can reorganize a return.

Surprising that China, who doesn't even want to see a single muslim on it's land & those who are there are restricted from Practicing there religion, has suddenly becomes the savior/friend of the muslim world, while India, who has the second largest muslim population in the world, is an enemy, an evil nation, who should not existed on the first place