Western Disturbances And Subcontinental Tsunami

Written by Maloy Krishna Dhar on August 8, 2008 – 9:00 am -

The fidayeen attack on Indian Embassy at Kabul, Afghanistan, has been described by various analysts as a turning point in India’s fight against Jihad International, in collaboration with the US headed global coalition. The National Security Advisor also commented that India had incontrovertible proof of involvement of the Inter Services Intelligence’s (Pak) involvement in the attack. Some blamed the Taliban, Mullah Omar group and the others Mullah Jalauddin Haqqani group for the devastating attack. Some doubting toms speculated that the attackers could belong to Baitullah Mehsud of Neo-Taliban group working in tandem with al Qaeda and other Neo-Taliban groups.
Read More »

25 Comments comment | Posted in » Articles

Discovery of and by Pakistan

May 23, 2008 – 9:35 am

“Nehru wrote The Discovery of India in the Ahmednagar Fort prison. I began my journey to discover Pakistan in the New Central Jail, Multan…” So reads a small segment of the ...

A guided tour to outer-India (I)

May 23, 2008 – 9:32 am

Have you heard place names like Somdal, Chapkikarong, and Soraphungetc? Some may have, most must not. Do not sound to be Indian names. Yet they are Indian name places in ...

A Gun-point Marriage in Pakistan

April 25, 2008 – 10:43 pm

Most Pakistanis, barring close aides and admirers of General Musharraf, power-starved followers of Benazir Bhutto and chronic dreamers of democracy have been foxed by the twists and turns in Pakistan’s ...

All muslims are not terrorists: some are

April 25, 2008 – 10:41 pm

The print and electronic and vast sections of Muslim friends have confronted me with the questions: Why all Muslims are painted as terrorists? This is a painful question to face ...

An itinerant’s journey through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

April 25, 2008 – 10:37 pm

Traveling through Kashmir, one can not exactly start either from New Delhi or Islamabad or Srinagar. History has shut all the known doors and has opened several secret windows. One ...

Assam: The Bangla hand

April 25, 2008 – 10:30 pm

The latest ULFA carnage in Assam has been diagnosed by top leaders like quack doctors, broadcasting panic, and their diagnosis is wide off the mark. Ministers with foot-in-mouth disease rushed ...

Balochistan-cruces of history

April 25, 2008 – 10:26 pm

Most puzzling problems of history-the inscrutable cruces; are creatures of history, intertwined with political geography, which often transcend to the realms of geostrategic Gordian Knots. Balochistan is such a cruces ...

Bangladesh at crossroads

April 25, 2008 – 10:21 pm

Bangladesh is at crossroads. Political developments during last two years had brought into sharp focus the quantum of ideological chasm between the forces headed by pro-liberation combine headed by Sheikh ...

Bangladesh: A Need to Rediscover the Secular Forces

April 25, 2008 – 10:10 pm

Some scholars and geopolitical analysts feel that the epicentre of the concept and practice of Islamist jihad has shifted from Pakistan to Bangladesh. It has emerged as a critical breeding ...

Better Battle Orders for Fighting Terrorism

April 25, 2008 – 10:03 pm

October 29th serial blasts in Delhi has again proved that the combat tools of the Union and State governments are awfully deficient in drawing up battle plans against Pakistan’s proxy ...

Bloody Spring Blossom

April 25, 2008 – 9:57 pm

The spring-thaw at the peak of white winter has blown in warm air in Indo-Pak relationship. A mirage of permanent peace is discernible. It is hoped the spring blooms are ...

Stagnate or march with time

April 25, 2008 – 9:54 pm

The news that the UK has abandoned apartheid in its recruitment policy for the Secret Services (MI6) has hit the headlines. The UK has just crossed the colour-blind limits of ...

The ‘intelligent’ games nations play and what they imply

April 25, 2008 – 9:52 pm

Former Soviet KGB archivist Vassily Mitrokhin has opened a small snuffbox and India should not be rocked by historical truths, though the myth of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi being a ...

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »