What is common between Abu Hurera, Abu Qahafa, Abu Al Qama, Abu Usman and Abu Jundal except for the fact that they all have an Arab honorific Abu and belong to dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist group based in Pakistan? Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 26/11, Abu Al Qama, abu hamza, Abu Hurera, Abu Qahafa, Abu Usman, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, hindustan times, IISc terror attack, LeT, news, pakistan, Sajjid Mir, Shishir Gupta, Zabi Ansari, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi
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
It is often said that countries which do not remember the past, do not have a future. We Indians tend to gloss over the past, both internally and externally, in the relentless hope for a brighter and prosperous future. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 26/11, hindustantimes, India, inside story, isi, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, JuD, LeT, Maldives, NDA, pakistan, PM Manmohan Singh, SAARC summit, Shishir Gupta, Yusuf Raza Gilani
Political scientist and former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in her memoir “No Higher Honor” has shed light on behind the scenes action on three instances when India almost went to war with Pakistan. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Atomic Energy Commission, Brajesh Mishra, Cabinet Committee on Security, CCS, CIA, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, George W Bush, hindustan times, India, inside story, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jummu and Kashmir, Kaluchak, Kudankulam, Lashkar-e-Taiba, LK Advani, news, Operation Parakram, pakistan, Pentagon, Pervez Musharaf, Pranab Mukherjee, Shishir Gupta
India and Afghanistan took a step close to each other after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Hamid Karzai initialed three significant bilateral documents on Tuesday including the all encompassing strategic partnership agreement. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Filed under World · Tagged afghanistan, america, haqqani network, hindustan times, India, isi, karzai, news, pakistan, Shishir Gupta, taliban