Bharat Rakshak

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What is Gujral doctrine? An Obituary to Indian Intelligence capabilities in Pakistan. adding for future reference Gujral Doctrine The Gujral Doctrine is a set of five principles to guide the conduct of foreign relations with India's immediate neighbours as spelt out by I.K. Gujral, first as India's...

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Roperia ji,

Can you ask the separatists what would be the status of Kashmir if there was no Partition?

What would be their status if there was no Partition and the British had not left?

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What is Gujral doctrine?

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IMO, you can't play in the World Cup without first playing the national team, it is more likely that Natwar Singh has had practice in his craft/graft.

I did not even read him, seriously that is.

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Philip sir, Is Natwar Singh the same person in my mind, who was involved in the UN Iraq Oil for food program. The fruits of work were quite poisonous for him personally. At least I understood the inner workings of UN better because of him, if it is the same person. Thanks --- edited his title possib...

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Putting the video of the interview JS interview on NDTV, which is much better than the transcript. http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/your-call/your-call-with-jaswant-singh/228067 The transcript has a few problems, a whole segment of Col Thapar and JS exchange is not there. Also, typos like 'saw down'...

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^ How so Paul ? Pls care to explain How Gujral doctrine helped ? The Gujral doctrine is a psychological strategy that prevents tit-for-tat. A pakistan that doesn't get the opportunity to fight with india is a pakistan that fights with itself. @harbans Pakistan is a good source for agro essentials. ...

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but sir but if GOI keeps on taking decisive actions like it has been taking lately, the 'war criminals' as you say it will get more leverage in Burma.

Any movement against the junta is a good thing, IMO.

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Burma poll: Aung San Suu Kyi hopes for 'new era' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17581054 Calling the polls a "triumph of the people", she said the goal now was reconciliation with other parties. Partial official results suggest that Ms Suu Kyi's party took at least 40 of the 45 seats...

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Transcript: Your Call with former Defence Minister Jaswant Singh http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/full-transcript-your-call-with-former-defence-minister-jaswant-singh-192576 New Delhi: It has been a turbulent week for the Government and the Army Chief, with the controversies surrounding Army Chief ...

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Brajesh Mishra has lost his mental balance. See his foul-mouthed interview to Karan Thapar - General VK Singh is the worst Army Chief so far: Brajesh Mishra - http://ibnlive.in.com/news/general-singh-is-the-worst-army-chief-so-far/244782-3.html Between BM and Gen VK Singh, the odds are, it is BM th...

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x-post Sorry for posting this again, thinking that it must have been lost in all the noise yesterday. A poignant true life story by Wg Cdr retd Unni Kartha of his buddy of NDA time, Col AGJ Swittens (Late), POW after the 1971 war. Shows how an ungrateful country we are. http://cyclicstories.blogspot...

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Mindset of Rushdie is that of a small man, Imran Khan tells NDTV If anyone cares to read it here: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mindset-of-rushdie-is-that-of-a-small-man-imran-khan-tells-ndtv-188230 Comment Sometime back she had flown all the way to London to interview Gen Mushasraf at his apar...

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Much like our neighbours, we have command of the universally accepted English language. Needless to say, we are equally gifted with similar traits , yet we have not tapped into our core strengths. Really??? :roll: Watch this video and ensoi.... Moeed Pirzada pining about how the talent that comes o...

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... Judea Pearl is the father of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was Kidnapped in Pakistan in January of 2002. The group that kidnapped him, made strange demands like the release of F16 fighters by the US, which were held back under the Pressler amendment. Daniel Pearl was kidnappe...

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^not this one.

Liked the tod-phod range

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No dispute about this: Paki Jahangir Karamat and former IAF chief S. P. Tyagi A Strategy of “Congagement” toward Pakistan: Zalmay Khalilzad From the first article Though India-Pakistan relations are going through a relatively calm phase, things can quickly change. We must take advantage of the pres...

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Mindset of Rushdie is that of a small man, Imran Khan tells NDTV If anyone cares to read it here: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/mindset-of-rushdie-is-that-of-a-small-man-imran-khan-tells-ndtv-188230 Comment Sometime back she had flown all the way to London to interview Gen Mushasraf at his apart...

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Still IN4TL, hence my last post on this. I'll keep it brief. Without do gooders Bhopal Gas tragedy would have faded from memory and all one would remember is that DOW is a good investment for the future. Don't even want to start on "Vedanta" but again without do gooders a terrible wrong c...

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This one has to be postes in full. Rushdie ridicules Imran Khan at conference {where} AFP http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/rushdie-ridicules-imran-khan-at-conference.html NEW DELHI: British author Salman Rushdie on Saturday attacked growing intolerance in India as he returned to the country for the f...

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2 examples, Bhobal Gas and "Vedanta" Industries.

for IB4TL.

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Lahaulbilakuwaat Mirza Vivek_A

Fri the 13th is not till next month.

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X-Post Salman Rushdie India Today Conclave 2012. Excellent talk by Salman Rushdie at India Today Conclave 2012. He taken on Imran Khan for his dramatic refusal to attend IT Conclave, the Congress Party's appeasement in UP and how the average Muslim all over world is hostage to the shenanigans of sel...

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Salman Rushdie takes on Imran Khan over 'immeasurable hurt' http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/salman-rushdie-takes-on-imran-khan-over-immeasurable-hurt-187104?pfrom=home-lateststories This is what Mr Rushdie said: •Imran was told well in advance I was coming. Imran is a man of the old school. Maybe ...

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The movie made in 1946: Dr Kotnis ki amar kahani (The eternal story of Dr Kotnis) (2 hours) During Japanese invasion in 1938 went to China in with group of other Indian doctors as a show of solidarity to the Chinese. Died in mission of plague in in China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotnis (the wik...

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Door hato aye duniya walon Hindustan hamara hai (1943) One of those songs that slid past British censors as a pro-war effort against the Axis powers, but really was a statement against the British rule itself which they realised later and I think was curbed for a sometime. Belongs to the then popula...

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Skydiver Felix Baumgartner on track for super jump http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17399985 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is well on the way to setting a world record for the highest free-fall jump. On Thursday, the adventurer leapt from a balloon-borne capsule 71,500ft (22km) ab...

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14 March 2012 Tibetans protest after monk sets himself on fire in China http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17374855 Several hundred Tibetans have protested against Chinese rule in the western province of Qinghai after a monk there set himself alight, rights groups say. The Tibetan monk set f...

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Some of the responses have in turn raised more questions. Panzers held under the direct control of the "dear leader" was one of the factors on D-day. Not averse to a little premium as long as there is no down time. Aditya ji The article caught my eye a is something which caught my eye and ...

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Two Pakistani UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17351144 Two United Nations peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison and sacked from the army for raping a 14-year-old boy in Haiti. The soldiers were found guilty by a Pak...

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The Siachen issue {Is it that time of the year?} http://tribune.com.pk/story/349027/the-siachen-issue/ By Shahzad Chaudhry Published: March 12, 2012 The writer is a defence analyst who retired as an air-vice marshal Somewhere in 1984, India did the ‘Kargil in reverse’ on Pakistan. {Another lie, ask ...

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India’s secret army of Tibetans without parachutes; kickbacks suspected http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=17356 Saikat Datta / DNA March 9, 10:30 IST New Delhi: India’s secret force of Tibetans, the SFF (Special Frontier Force), raised after the 1962 border conflict with China, ha...

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Almost fiction: Talibanistan from Nat Geo A prequel made in 2010 from pre-OBL bumping days, when TSP was fighting taliban AQ. Frontier Corps & Sundry Scouts look more like the Spent Force. Some worthwhile interviews of the children pushed b-washed into soosai. fjfSRG9hQRQ [youtube]5hbA0vNkZmg&am...

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12 March 2012 China's leaders jockey for top posts http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17309027 There are no opinion polls, no official candidates, not even a declared race - but a political campaign has begun in China. Senior politicians are vying to secure promotion when the Chinese Commun...

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Islam named intelligence agency chief Islamabad Pakistan appointed Lt General Zaheer- ul Islam as the new director-general of the country's powerful spy agency Friday. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's office statement said: "The prime minister has appointed Lt General Zaheer-ul Is...

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China rights situation deteriorating, say activists

9 March 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17314551

The report added this "conveyed a warning to the ordinary Chinese citizens: anyone who challenges the government will be punished".

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Chongqing leader Bo Xilai speaks on deputy scandal

9 March 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17308856

I had a cough and was not feeling well, was Mr Bo's comment on Friday.

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China's social networks hit by censorship, says study 9 March 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17313793 Chinese censors are actively targeting social media to quash discussion of banned topics, suggests research. The US study gives the most in-depth look at the extent of China's policing of...

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By Ajmal Kamal 'Them’ and ‘us’ http://tribune.com.pk/story/317609/them-and-us/ I came across on such atypical narrative in a diary of a Dhaka University student belonging to Lahore that records his personal experiences from March to June 1971. Anwer Shahid, who went on to become a journalist, wrote ...

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8 March 2012 Last updated at 06:24 ET Chinese leader Bo Xilai's meeting absence creates stir http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17295917 Bo Xilai, the Communist Party chief of Chongqing city, was not in his usual seat at a session of China's annual parliament. He was expected to gain a senio...

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