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Posts Tagged ‘mumbai’

Is Mumbai Police a Hero ???

By Ali Yar Khan • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics

A very strange and sad thing happened in the South Asia. 26th November, 2008, 9:40 PM Mumbai hits the global headlines for being attacked by the terrorists openly firing at the Public.  All what the Mumbai Police is interested in is catching people drunk and without proper traffic rules and that is only what the [...]



INDIA: A Prisoner of History

By Mir Adnan Aziz • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

“Of course the people do not want war. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can [...]



A Realistic Collective Strategy for both Pakistan and India to Prevent Terrorism

By Guest Blogger • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics

“[AJK President] Raja Zulqarnain Khan said that India should desist from its negative approach of blame games against Pakistan. He said both Pakistan and India should immediately adopt a collective strategy to root out and combat the menace of terrorism.”
– “AJK President urges India to be realistic,”
Pakistan Observer 15 December 2008
“India has to have positive [...]



Is Mukherjee That Idiot ???

By Ali Yar Khan • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Even when the ten odd terrorists were enjoying the evil of terrorism in the Mumbai, Indian media and flabbergasted Indian authorities started blaming Pakistan. Pakistanis wanted to share the grief of Indian people, but the hawks in Indian media and power brokering circles created a war hysteria.
Even when the terrorist Ajmal Kasab wasn’t arrested, Indian [...]



Cold Start strategy in Kasur By India

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Dec 30th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Both India and Pakistan have stretched the limits and fast approaching the point of no return. Both arch nuclear rivals are adopting tough posture towards each other and the rhetoric is getting more aggressive and heated and if words become actions then it would be an Armageddon for the region, and world will be in [...]



If Palestine Had Nukes, Israel Would Never Attacked It

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Dec 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The illicit puppy, Israel, which was born after the shameless cross of United Kingdom and United States has showered missiles and bombs over the civilian population of Gaza, killing more than 300 people and injuring more than thousand, and they say that this blatant act of terrorism would continue.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is pleading like [...]



Mumbai Attacks : The Worst Case Scenario and Pakistan’s Option

By amicus • Dec 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Since the Mumbai attacks India has, by design, launched premeditated, malicious and vigorous propaganda campaign to project Pakistan as the epicenter of terrorism and its government as being ineffective in eliminating the alleged training camps of terrorist outfits from the country’s soil. It’s altogether a different matter that the so-called evidence is no where to [...]



You had one Mumbai, we have a ‘Mumbai’ every day.

By A Khokar • Dec 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

  Kasab’s letter wouldn’t be accepted as evidence in any court: Ayaz Amir 
Report by A Khokar
Pakistani Journalist Ayaz Amir said on CNN-IBN  that the letter given to Pakistan which India says is Kasab’s confession, wouldn’t even stand in Indian courts. India doesn’t seem serious to get to the bottom of who actually carried out the Mumbai [...]



India Poised to Attack Pakistan : Pakistan Poised to Retaliate Befittingly

By Anwar Jalal • Dec 28th, 2008 • Category: Politics

India continuous reluctance of providing  tangible proofs for the  Pakistan alleged  involvement in the  Mumbai attacks in spite of  Pakistan frequent insistence  for the same stands totally against  reason and  even common sense  and  thus  sound clumsy. Latest  proof in this regard is the  statement  of Ronald Noble,(secretary general  the global police agency Interpol ) in which he  has said  that  India [...]



Pakistan & India: Of Jingoism & Objectivity

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Objective/fair reporting and debate have been the biggest casualty in the mass media and elsewhere in the past decade. Jingoism and bullying have managed to suppress voices of professionalism and reason. Here is a voice of reason from Pakistan.
(Unfortunately, in India and Pakistan the media/political discourse on Kashmir never takes into account the game plan, [...]