Hindustan Times
Consumed as we are with the hurly-burly of the General Election, we may have lost sight of an important development in our neighbourhood. As the Pakistan government tries to persuade the Taliban to retreat from its latest encampment a mere 100 kilometers away from Islamabad, the world — and Washington, in particular — has finally come around to the view that Pakistan is on the brink of becoming the next Afghanistan. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Asif Zardari, bombay attacks, civilian governments, General Election, India, Islamabad, Kashmir, Pakistan, pakistan government, washington
Unlike many Indian journalists of my generation, I have never interviewed Pervez Musharraf — the man is an interview junkie — or met him at an informal meeting on a one-on-one level. My two strongest memories of him, therefore, will pale in comparison to the full-screen, technicolor recollections of my colleagues.
(2 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 23, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged AB Vajpayee, Afghanistan, dadagiri, Indian civilians, Indian journalists, ISI, jehadi, Kargil, Kashmir, Kashmir militancy, Lahore, Pervez Musharraf, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh’s, US President
Have you been reading the news coming out of Kashmir with a mounting sense of despair? I know I have. It’s clear now that the optimism of the last few months — all those articles telling us that normalcy had returned to Kashmir — was misplaced. Nothing has really changed since the 1990s. A single spark — such as the dispute over Amarnath land — can set the whole valley on fire, so deep is the resentment, anger and the extent of secessionist feeling.
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Amarnath, Bihar, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mehbooba Mufti, Mizoram, political parties, Tamil Nadu
