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by saket
11 Jan 2013 00:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Beheading of Indian Soldiers in Aug 2011 and Aman ki Asha
Replies: 810
Views: 82071

Re: Beheading of Indian Soldiers in Aug 2011 and Aman ki Ash

Indian Army rejects incorrect facts in 'Runway Grandmother' article by The Hindu New Delhi, Jan.10 (ANI): The Indian Army on Thursday said that a news article titled “Runway Grandmother Sparked Savage Skirmish on LoC” by Praveen Swami, published in The Hindu was factually incorrect. In a point-by-p...
by saket
27 Dec 2011 00:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): 06 Dec 2011
Replies: 2854
Views: 270243

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): 06 Dec 201

I am just a lurker but I am distressed at how an attempt it made out to justify the cowardice shown by the GoI. In this tripartite game, only India is coming out as the gutless player refusing to even land any kicks. At least the US (on being kicked by pakis) is kicking back, and the pakis are kick...
by saket
26 Dec 2011 23:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): 06 Dec 2011
Replies: 2854
Views: 270243

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): 06 Dec 201

I am just a lurker but I am distressed at how an attempt it made out to justify the cowardice shown by the GoI. In this tripartite game, only India is coming out as the gutless player refusing to even land any kicks. At least the US (on being kicked by pakis) is kicking back, and the pakis are kicki...
by saket
26 Jul 2011 21:35
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): June 30, 2011
Replies: 2855
Views: 457012

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): June 30, 2

JE Menon wrote:It's official: Ms. Khar is a Mr. Khar. Or at least used to be. You have to hear her speak for poorf of the claim.
++ diametric opposite to Javed Miandad in looks and voice.
by saket
22 May 2011 01:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Red Menace
Replies: 3748
Views: 551310

Re: The Red Menace

CRPF ineffective?! Its the same force that is responsible for CI and security in all urban areas in Kashmir! Besides, most importantly, Centre only provides troops - the grunt workers..Deployment patterns, logistics, tactics et al - the brains and heart of CI - are the responsibility of the state g...
by saket
05 May 2011 04:13
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

Najam Sethi on May 4 http://pkpolitics.com/2011/05/04/aapas-ki-baat-4-may-2011/ He gives a detailed reconstruction of the operation (as per his knowledge). He says that paki military DID NOT know at all of the operation. Osama lived with around 14 small children and 3-4 wives for SIX YEARS in Abbott...
by saket
04 May 2011 12:43
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Mar. 29, 2011
Replies: 2858
Views: 448641

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Mar. 29, 2

Listening to the comments in the American media I realize that even the mighty USA is helpless and unable to decisively take on pakistan on its treachery. The only thing they can do is to shout about it in their newsrooms. Puts a slight perspective on Indian pusillanimity wrt pakis as well. Although...
by saket
04 May 2011 08:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

SwamyG wrote:
saket wrote:****Must Read Jack Nicholson's response to pakistan (from a comment in WSJ by Kurt McFarlane)
It is a rip-off of Jack Nicholson's dialog from the movie "A Few Good Men": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes
Of course it is ..
by saket
04 May 2011 04:58
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

****Must Read Jack Nicholson's response to pakistan (from a comment in WSJ by Kurt McFarlane) Pakistan, terrorists live in mansions surrounded by walls, and those walls have to be scaled by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You weep for your sovereignty and you curse the SEALs. You have that l...
by saket
03 May 2011 20:03
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

Lara Logan: Pakistan has U.S. "blood on its hands"

Video included in the article : http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162- ... 03543.html

Nice to see Lara back, and also for her to mention LeT along with Afghan Taliban and Haqqani as the terrorists pakis support.
by saket
03 May 2011 19:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Red Menace
Replies: 3748
Views: 551310

Re: The Red Menace

Those who are railing against the Chhattisgarh state govt would to well to remember that : The best psychological boost to the Maoists was provided by the Central govt who sent in untrained CRPF personnel, several dozens of whom were killed in 2009/10 in ambushes - while hardly any of the state tra...
by saket
03 May 2011 11:33
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

There is no way that pakis had ANY idea of the operation or the fact that USA had tracked OBL down.

If they had, the ISI would have moved him away from Abbottabad ASAP, they would never ever have allowed any of this to go down so close to the PMA.
by saket
03 May 2011 11:18
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

Did Musharraf know about the Abbottabad safe house?

Interesting passage from his autobiography contained in this NDTV clip http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/m ... use/198402
by saket
02 May 2011 14:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan

Zaid Hamid, Gul etc are going to weave an endless conspiracy out of US burying OBL in the sea within two hours.

Couldnt OBL's body have been brought to the USA and his identity verified in detail?
by saket
02 May 2011 09:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Pakistan
Replies: 2848
Views: 404640

Re: Breaking News - Osama Bin Laden - killed In Islamabad, P

Anyone with half a working brain cell and two seconds of though will realize that Obama was a guest of the paki army. CNN or Obama cannot castrate people of basic faculties ..
by saket
01 May 2011 18:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Red Menace
Replies: 3748
Views: 551310

Re: The Red Menace

Those who are railing against the Chhattisgarh state govt would to well to remember that : The best psychological boost to the Maoists was provided by the Central govt who sent in untrained CRPF personnel, several dozens of whom were killed in 2009/10 in ambushes - while hardly any of the state trai...
by saket
28 Apr 2011 06:48
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: India selects Typhoon and Rafale for MMRCA shortlist
Replies: 1324
Views: 280492

Re: India selects Typhoon and Rafale for MMRCA shortlist

US Envoy Tim Roemer to NDTV: I am resigning, returning to Washington


Fallout of F-16/F-18 exit ??
by saket
04 Apr 2011 12:17
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: The Cricket World Cup Thread
Replies: 8255
Views: 856745

Re: The Cricket World Cup Celebration Thread

OK guys, get ready for some WTF: World Cup trophy lifted by Team India is a fake Did the Indian players know that the cup that Sharad Pawar, president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and India's agriculture minister, presented to them, the gold-and-silver trophy that President Pratibha P...
by saket
04 Apr 2011 11:45
Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
Topic: The Cricket World Cup Thread
Replies: 8255
Views: 856745

Re: The Cricket World Cup Celebration Thread

This toad Ramachandra Guha wanted pakistan to win against India,



he must have wept for his mancrush afridi on his toilet :rotfl:

India did win despite Guha not wanting, good sign that India will become superpower as well.
by saket
24 Mar 2011 07:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion
Replies: 1835
Views: 284954

Re: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion

Do we need any more proof of the "strategic slavery" that the UPA has embraced? How India blinked on U.S. inspections of PM's jet Wary of political fallout, New Delhi asked Washington to stay quiet on shifting goalposts Three years after issuing a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) on Bo...
by saket
22 Mar 2011 12:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion
Replies: 1835
Views: 284954

Re: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion

What is most surprising to me is that the BJP is not demanding a criminal probe on the wikileaks cable about the bribe MPs for votes scam. Instead they have moved a privilege motion against MMS - which IMO is a diversionary tactic. I am afraid there is some underhand dealing or compulsion which is p...
by saket
22 Mar 2011 04:48
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Bakistan: Emirate of New-clear Inquilabi States-Bojitiv Newj
Replies: 2842
Views: 470636

Re: Bakistan: Emirate of New-clear Inquilabi States-Bojitiv

Airavat wrote:kiska "tradition" hain ji?? Raa agints impregnating our hollowed instushuns!!
Thats Delhi not Lahore, can clearly see DTC bus in background.
by saket
17 Mar 2011 10:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion
Replies: 1835
Views: 284954

Re: Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable Dump - News and Discussion

BJP is going to raise the cash for votes in the no-confidence vote in the Parliament.

And the congress-bootlicker NDTV reports it as "BJP going to raise a stink in Parliament."
by saket
17 Mar 2011 03:42
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami - News and Analysis
Replies: 2262
Views: 238992

Re: 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami - News and Analysis

Spent fuel has residual decay heat and is not same order of magnitude as reactor core. Besides the fires in spent fuel area are oil fires and not hydrogen fires. So there is lots of ill informed fear and confusion. As far as I can understand, the no. 4 reactor was shut down for maintenance and the ...
by saket
15 Feb 2011 07:56
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011
Replies: 2857
Views: 440991

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2

Even if the assertion that "discussion" on 26/11 is part of the Indo-Pak dialogue is accepted, this would be a huge climbdown from the earlier position of India which required credible action against JuD et al before any resumption of the dialogue. On top of all this the dialogue itself is...
by saket
15 Feb 2011 07:51
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011
Replies: 2857
Views: 440991

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2

There is no concept of a checkmating of pakistan, whereas India can get checkmated (handing over of Kashmir). The only possible force that can get India to hand over Kashmir is the Kashmiris themselves. Lo ji, waat logic .. The only possible force that can get USA to hand over California is Califor...
by saket
15 Feb 2011 00:56
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011
Replies: 2857
Views: 440991

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2

Since talks don't accomplish anything - there have been talks going on forever - the starting/stopping of talks has leverage only in the mind, not in reality. It is all meaningless posturing. It is something like the 50-move rule in chess and when it is best to start a new game. The fifty-move rule...
by saket
15 Feb 2011 00:27
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011
Replies: 2857
Views: 440991

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2

By the way, on Samjhauta blasts, why the hell is India answerable to the pakis? The blasts occurred on Indian soil on an Indian train. Its an internal matter of India for Indians to handle. Any self respecting govt would have told the pakis to STFU about Samjhauta. Did pakistan share the details of ...
by saket
15 Feb 2011 00:23
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2011
Replies: 2857
Views: 440991

Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Feb. 12, 2

Secondly, 26/11 is not history. Discussing 26/11 is a condition for further talks. This is a definite climbdown from the earlier Indian position that action on 26/11 would be a pre requisite for restarting the dialogue. There has been ZERO action on 26/11 by the pakis and yet we have this shameless...
by saket
27 Jan 2011 16:20
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

What would Chanakya do?

An interesting clip from the serial.

by saket
26 Jan 2011 09:17
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

BJP should boycott OA from now on.
by saket
25 Jan 2011 21:48
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Excellent, Arun Jaitley refers to the underhand dealings of the MMS-Sonia traitrous cabal with Kasuri et al. http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/total-psychological-surrender-to-separatists-says-jaitley/189015 BJP should not stop shy of raking the Kasuri revelations of joint love making over dead ...
by saket
25 Jan 2011 21:44
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

When the main opposition party leaders are not allowed to enter a state, what kind of kangaroo democracy is this? Arun Jaitley is a hot shot lawyer. Why doesn't he challenge the gov'ts action in the supreme court. He won't coz he knows he will lose. The govt is well within the law on this. Emergenc...
by saket
25 Jan 2011 21:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Why are the BJP workers not even allowed to enter Jammu?

Is Jammu also a part of Lal Chowk?
by saket
25 Jan 2011 09:59
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Can you get it into your head that this is 100% NOT about any hate baggage of the past or otherwise? Sorry. Is majorly about the hate baggage of the BJP. You cannot separate the BJP's persona from the specific message here. This is about a fundamental right that is very deservingly held above any o...
by saket
25 Jan 2011 09:43
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Question for mods - Isn't this trolling by Vina? This guy is obviously going to bring in ' hate baggage of the BJP ' in every second post whether or not it is relevant to the issue under discussion. Dude. Wake up and smell the coffee. The BJP DOES carry a terrible terrible hate baggage , and a hist...
by saket
25 Jan 2011 09:02
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Live webcast of BJP rally at Pathankot from 11 am.

http://bjp.1vc.tv/video/520/Rashtriyaek ... ankot.aspx

Right now a fiery Vajpayee speech of yore is playing on repeat.
by saket
25 Jan 2011 08:18
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: J & K news and discussion
Replies: 3371
Views: 460203

Re: J & K news and discussion

Since when has this become exclusively about BJPs politics? The issue is very simple : BJP wants to hoist the flag - one can have different opinions on its motives. But how can one question the right itself, and how can the govt forcibly stop the event? I mean on Republic Day, even if Dawood Ibrahim...