Bharat Rakshak

The way for Indian govt to deal with this on-again off-again peepul-to-peepul sports/etc contacts should be: 1. Already committed schedules should be kept 2. All future potential commitments should be put on hold. 3. All Pakistanis and Bangladeshis applying for any visa should sign a declaration a. ...

Apparently our fellows raided a Pakistani post in Haji Pir sector called Sawan Patra and gave a Paki his 72. Wonder what the provocation was. Heavy firing going on in the area. Pacquis must have seriously pissed off the Army folks. Retaliatory shelling by IA is one thing but raiding across LoC woul...

Johann The Muslim League's supporters in the UP didn't fear liberal pluralism of Independent India. Rather they convinced themselves that such a thing couldn't exist in a Hindu majority democratic India. I would believe that it was as simple as that too but Pakistanis refused to accept Hindus as a m...

But the Mohajirs of UP who were the strongest supporters of the Pakistan idea were less worried about land and more concerned about the identity and culture wars. Their memory is of the post-1857 rise of Hindi and the eclipse of Hindusthani/Urdu. They assumed that India would be ruled by the sentim...

Ajaz Ashraf is an Indian journalist. He wrote a good column on the Mumbai attacks: http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012/07/13/story_13-7-2012_pg3_2 ANALYSIS: How we view Pakistan and its people —Ajaz Ashraf What leaves us perplexed is the Pakistani state’s failure to grasp the consequences...

I think its precisely the historical perspective of inter-communal relations in Punjab before the Pakistan movement that fueled his hope. Wasn't there a feeling that the real support for Pakistan was in Muslim minority provinces like UP, not Bengal and Punjab which were reluctant late comers? That ...

The forked tongue of this guy is not new either. When the poakroaches of NLI occupied Kargil heights, this guy was gloating about the tactical brilliance of it. Then when the downhill skiing started happening, this guy became moderately enlightened. EDIT: Found the piece: Gloating: http://archives....

Forked tongues of the holy armies By Ayaz Amir (ex PA) the foremost clean-shaven sympathizer of the Taliban, Imran Khan There are visible beards and there are hidden ones. This is turning into a demented society . There were/are apparently no young girls in Afghanistan and Indian Kashmir on whom Pa...

There is a pisko reason for all this "Thing is going to happen", "Thing is delayed", "Thing is never going to happen, former 2 statements were a lie" thing in Pakiland. In Pakiland on the other hand, they dont even know that they are lying. It is because everyone lies ...

Two faced Pakistan exposes itself in the US Gen Eshan ul-Haq’s mission was rather more crude. Speaking at the Center for the National Interest, formerly known as the Nixon Center, Haq summoned the ghosts and djinns used by the military and even civilian governments in the past, but which no longer ...

But its not about Congress Vs NDA point scoring, its India we are talking about. Actually you did make it about Congress vs NDA point scoring. You can't keep aside MMS's desire. He will inflict irreperable damage to India if he continues down this path. TSP is playing a brilliant divide and conquer...

Keeping aside MMS's inexplicable desire to keep doing business with Pakistan, it is well to note that during NDA rule, the discussions were about whether land in border areas of J&K could be exchanged for 'peace' and Musharraf's '4 point plan' was being blathered about by all and sundry in India...

The question is, what do Pakis hope to achieve through such ham-handed psy-ops? It is not that everyone reads express tribune (about 10 people in Pakistan buy english newspapers). They probably hoped some Western journalist based in Af-Pak would pick it up and republish in Western media. Pak offici...

Sadhana! Welcome to BR In 1945 after end of second world war, Churchill (before he lost election) wanted to secure the strategic interests of Britain in Indian subcontinent for which he wanted some strategic military bases in India close to Iran (which was under Soviet Union protection in world war...

The Muslims have only just won their own Muslim homeland, and they still have to build a structure that will suit conditions and developments that will take place. I am sure that with the jihadi Islamists, such a structure that suits the conditions is being built at last. It is also relevant to rem...

Yeah, a plausible reason is that Jinnah was paranoid about Congress sabotaging Muslim League. It was probably the same then as it is today - nameless dread of the Hindu majority used to justify anything from rabid jihadi militias to economic policy.

From Yawn this day 50 years ago http://dawn.com/2012/08/29/non-muslims-as-ml-members-opposed/ The Communications Minister, Khan Abdus Sabur, yesterday opposed the inclusion of non-Muslims in the Muslim League. But didnt Jinnah say Hindus can be Hindus, Muslims can be Muslims, something something in...

Re change in Jinnah after 1920 One cause of change in Jinnah was probably British government's allocation of Central Legislative Assembly seats in the 1919 Montford reforms for India. In 1909 Muslims were allotted 5 of 27 elected seats, according to Ambedkar's book. (Wolpert says 8 of 28 nonofficial...