Archive for Archive for April, 2008
The Southern Fulcrum of Jihad
Soon after the Mecca Masjid bomb blast (May 2007) and twin blasts in Hyderabad (August 27) several TV and print media friends grilled me: why should there be Jihadist attacks in the South? Kashmir and parts of North and West India have been in the hairpin of jihadist trigger finger, but the South was a [...]
ULFA, A DGFI-ISI PROXY
The latest ULFA carnage in Asom has been diagnosed by top like quack doctors and their prognostications are wide off the mark. Ministers with foot in mouth disease rushed to comment about ISI-ULFA involvement and ascribed other lollipop reasons to befuddle the people. The media has quoted Pradip Gogoi, ULFA vice-president, that the government of [...]
WE ARE VULNERABLE
Gauhar Ayub’s dramatic revelations are spectacular and shocking. He is not a powerful person in Pakistan and is known to be a hawkish anti-Indian. The allegations cannot be brushed aside simply as a marketing strategy for his forthcoming autobiography. Gauhar has almost pinpointed the identity of the Indian Brigadier and identified the channel through which [...]
WHY DO WE FAIL?
Serial bomb blasts (93) in Mumbai, attack on the Parliament, hijacking of IC 814 and the latest but not the last devastating serial bomb blasts on Mumbai suburban railway system generated media-fever, crocodile-tears from politicians, motivated leakages by police and intelligence agencies, communal cleavage and erosion of faith on the governing capability of the political [...]
