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Posts Tagged ‘RAW’

The Sikh pain of Golden Temple assault

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • Jun 4th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Jun 4, this year marks the twenty sixth anniversary of Indian Army’s assault on the holiest of the Sikh shrines, the venerated Golden Temple, in 1984. The seismic jolts that the assault unleashed changed India forever and the tremors of the aftershocks can still be felt. Their latest manifestation was the [...]



Madhuri Saga – Myth versus Reality

By Afshain Afzal • May 27th, 2010 • Category: Lead Story

The arrest of Ms Madhuri Gupta on leaking sensitive information to adversaries has exposed India’s passion to destabilize Pakistan. India, during the last 62 years failed to divert Pakistanis strive to remain united under Islamic ideology. To achieve this objective India is trying to culturally invade Pakistan and its neighbourhood. This conspiracy against common enemy [...]



The Words of Wisdom

By Afshain Afzal • May 25th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Few days back, an Indian court declared Ajmal Amir Kasab guilty in November 2008 Mumbai attacks, after all the charges against him were proved. Ajmal Kasab has been awarded death penalty but he may challenge the court’s decision in the higher Indian court. No doubt, what Ajmal Kasab did in CST is worth condemnation in [...]



Wading Through the River of Pain

By Momin Iftikhar Momin • May 20th, 2010 • Category: Politics

The deadly ambush sprung by the Maoist Guerrillas in Chintarnal forests in the Dantewala district of Chhattisgarh on 6th April has laid open the Pandora Box of the ‘Terrorist Threat’ in India. For all practical purposes the vast swath of intellectual journalism in India tends to frame the multidimensional threat of terrorism in the contest [...]



Who Assassinated Benazir Bhutto?

By Shanzeh Iqbal • Apr 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Different speculations were made regarding he tragic death of Benazir Bhutto, former Premier of Pakistan .The government of PPP decided to investigate the case and take the help from universal institutes. UN is an impartial and authentic institute and now its report is issued on 15April 2010.  It is to be seen that what actions [...]



Raw is war, even when mechanised

By Miranda Husain • Mar 24th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

The push-button approach to fighting al Qaeda endeavours to seduce us into believing that modern warfare is akin to the virtual wars of video games. But, of course, here in the real world, there are no three lives to be had and no restart button to push when the game is over
Much has been made [...]



RAW Operating Against Pakistan

By Mamoona Kazmi • Mar 21st, 2010 • Category: Politics

According to a daily “The News” more than 100 Pakistani Baloch dissidents have been sent to India by the Indian consulate located in Kandhar (Afghanistan) for six-months training. These people were selected from areas bordering Pakistan as well as Baloch nationals residing in different camps in Kandhar. They have been promised a salary of $ [...]



Agents and Conspirators

By Afshain Afzal • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Pakistan is being blamed for Mumbai attacks and is under immense international pressure to take action against the culprits. Islamabad is trying its level best to sustain international pressure as it hasn’t got much choice to fulfill the demand such as ‘to call a chicken a monster’. Despite the fact that cases against those blamed [...]



Secret Document Bares Indian Subversion in Pakistan

By Isha Khan • Mar 14th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Activists of anti Pakistan nationalist groups were the focus of Indian search for recruits who received cash, weapons and ammunitions from undercover RAW operatives masquerading as Al Qaeda agents
APP, New Delhi-Even as India and Pakistan were actively engaged in laying a framework for normalizing their relations in the aftermath of Operation Parkaram (Dec 2001- Oct [...]



Indo-Israeli Relations on a cross roads

By Afshain Afzal • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Politics

India and Israel had been enjoying close secret cooperation since decades. The Indian stance during pre-partition times was anti-Israel due to aggression on Palestinian. All India Muslim League and other Indian political parties were much critical to US and Britain due conspiracy against Palestinian in which they helped Israel to illegal occupy Arab lands. During [...]