There is just one problem — as I see it— with Home Minister P Chidambaram’s coloured description of terrorism attributed to fringe groups run by Hindu zealots. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 1984 riots, Advani, Ayodhya, Babri Mosque, bhagva, bjp, congress, Hindu, Hinduism, Home Minister P Chidambaram, intelligence, Islamic terror, jehadist violence, Malegaon blasts, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Nationalist Congress Party, RSS, saffron terror, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sikh, terrorism
Pakistan is a land of compulsive talkers and conspiracy theorists. People with the least understanding of issues manage to come across as the best informed. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Chief of the Army Staff, compulsive talkers, conspiracy theorists, kayani, Lahore, Lt. Gen. Khalid Shamim Wyne, Pakistan, personality transplant, Pervez Musharraf
Floods in Pakistan have uprooted over twenty million people while posing three distinct challenges: outbreak of epidemics, massive migration to big cities and fundamentalist fringe gaining credibility at the expense of the State. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:10 am
Filed under World · Tagged Balochistan, calamity, civilian rule, epidemic, Floods, fundamentalist fringe, Kyber-Pakhtunkhwa, migration, Pak floods, Pakistan, Sindh, Southern Punjab
India has acted wisely in responding to the Pakistani demand for deposition before a Rawalpindi court of the police officer who led the 26/11 investigations at the Mumbai end and the magistrate who recorded the confessions of Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving member of the marauding gang. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 9, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 2611, Ajmal Kasab, anti-terrorism court, conspiracy, deposition, evidence, Hafiz Sayeed, india, interim charges, investigations, Islamabad, LeT, magistrate, Mumbai, Mumbai carnage, Pakistan, Rawalpindi, video-conferencing, Wagah, Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi
I really wonder on whose advice ISI chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha would have cancelled his trip to the United Kingdom? His reporting line is to the Army Chief, Gen Asfaq Pervez Kayani, not the civilian set-up headed by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 2, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Filed under World, india · Tagged Ahmed Shuja Pasha, David Cameron, Gen Asfaq Pervez Kayani, ISI, ISI chief, NATO, Pak Foreign Office, Pakistan, Rawalpindi, United Kingdom, Yusuf Raza Gilani