The attack on Mumbai is over. After the numbing sorrow comes the blamegame and the solutions. Loud voices amplified by saturation TV: Whydon't we amend our Constitution to create new anti-terror laws? Whydon't we arm our police with AK 47s? Why don't we do what Israel...
A commercial intelligence providing service has recently analyzed the situation in the Indo- Pakistan Sub continent. According to this analysis the geopolitics of the subcontinent dictate that the only expansion space for India’s Gangetic Plain is Pakistan’s Indus Plain....
When the emotionally charged standoff between India and Pakistan eases, and the dust settles on the Mumbai attacks, perhaps it would be wise for India’s political leadership to do a bit of soul-searching. "Why India's Problem Lies Within"
The peaceful civil disobedience movement in Indian-occupied Kashmir – from armed fight to peaceful campaign for self-determination – poses serious problems for India, says a report in Wall Street Journal on Monday. "Peaceful Kashmir protests headache for India: paper"
The Mumbai carnage has been a topic of debate in Pakistan and has produced a flurry of reactions. The initial reactions, during the first and second day were extremely sympathetic. "Mumbai Attacks: How do the Pakistanis see?"
Is the senseless attack on Mumbai and the heartless killings of innocent people on Thursday 27 a pretext to unleash a campaign to slaughter Muslims as it was done in the aftermath of the 9/11 events in New York and Pensylvania? The ever growing Washington . London , Tel Aviv...
What comes to light in the wake of the Mumbai attacks is that like the sundry other criminal mafias operating in nearly every corner of the world, the organizations sponsoring terror are structured -- and dangerously on the verge of becoming institutionalized. "Tackling...
SRINAGAR, India -- Lashkar-e-Taiba, the presumed perpetrator of last month's Mumbai attacks, sprang up from the bloody insurgency against Indian rule in predominantly Muslim Kashmir. While the plight of Kashmir has galvanized Islamic radicalism across South Asia, the...
The impromptu reactions of Indian leaders to the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai have necessarily been based on revulsion and impulse. Indian Prime Minister repeatedly mentioned the need for co-operation from the International community' and kept Washington informed of the...
We've forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India's 9/11." And like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we're expected to play our...
"No permission is required - just open fire on anything that moves," came the order from Maj Gen Tarik Khan, commander of Pakistan's Frontier Corps. "Pakistan pledges fight to the death "
Thirty-seven years have passed since the traumatic events of 1971. Much has been written on the subject. Most analyses have been confined to the developments within the subcontinent. The break-up of Pakistan has generally been viewed in relation to a regional upheaval. Little...
Politics aside, India must be confronted now. The National Security Conference is a welcome step but the government must shun its apologetic attitude when it clearly knows that the nation stands united. We should be prepared for the worst. Pakistani military should be...
Lord Malloch-Brown a minister of the British government has delivered his verdict. The Bajrang Dal and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of India are not terrorist organizations and are therefore ‘kosher’ for travel and interaction in Britain. Their inhuman anti...
"They are going to say that all Muslims do this," restaurateur Naved Akhtar Mirza said, after gunmen, apparently Islamic extremists, stormed India's financial capital last month, shooting up a train station and killing hostages at two hotels and a Jewish center. "Uneasy...