Already beleaguered and wracked by infighting, India’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has been a subject of much mirth in the sub-continent this month after the five Pakistanis it identified as infiltrating terrorists turned out to small time businessmen and a security guard from Lahore. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 26/11, blast, Chidambaram, counter-terrorism, Delhi High Court, Hafiz Saeed, India, Intelligence Bureau, isi, Lashkar-e-Toiba, LeT, pakistan, Research and Analysis Wing, Shishir Gupta, terror, terrorists
Unlike her husband and former US president Bill Clinton, who administrated a sugar coated pill to Indian Parliamentarians post-Pokhran on non-proliferation, CTBT and dialogue with Pakistan in March 2001, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton does not mince words or believe in diplomatic parlance of the bygone era. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Filed under India, World · Tagged afghanistan, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Cameron Munter, china, George Bush, Hafiz Saeed, Hillary Clinton, hindustan times, Iran, mamata banerjee, New Delhi, news, pakistan, US secretary of state, West Bengal
Localitis often afflicts diplomats on foreign assignments with classical symptoms of routinely defending actions of the host nation. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Filed under World · Tagged 26/11, Cameron Munter, Hafiz Saeed, hindustan times, inside story, isi, John Bolton, LeT, Osama bin Laden, P Chidambaram, Shishir Gupta