Apologies if posted earlier ...
In scramble for Afghanistan, India looks to Iran
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- 10 Jul 2010 22:47
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Iran News and Discussions
- Replies: 3261
- Views: 373514
- 04 Jul 2010 10:39
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Distorted history- Causes, consequences, remedies
- Replies: 4186
- Views: 65138
Re: Distorted history- Causes, consequences, remedies
http://is.gd/deCI2 ... "The Beautiful Tree - James Tooley" ... read from page 215 ... gives a very good account of education in India circa. 1822 ... I'm sure the guru log already know about this ... but for those who don't .. its a must read ... also posting an article from James Tooley a...
- 02 Jul 2010 18:48
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: J & K news and discussion
- Replies: 3983
- Views: 498304
Re: J & K news and discussion
Jarita wrote:Wonder what the geopolitical factors are that triggered this recent outburst in J&K... Does it have anything to do with withdrawal from Afganistan
No .. I think it is our Paki friends trying to send a message to GoI before the start of Foreign Minsiters' talks ...
- 01 Jun 2010 22:49
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Af-Pak -> Pak-Af Watch
- Replies: 4017
- Views: 330864
Re: Af-Pak -> Pak-Af Watch
Venkarl wrote:AnimeshP wrote:Apologies if posted earlier ...
Secrets From Inside the Obama War Room
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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/15/secr ... room.html#
- 26 May 2010 07:41
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): May 21, 2010
- Replies: 2839
- Views: 295380
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): May 21, 20
Seminar highlights Indian Muslims’ plight Staff Report LAHORE: The country should thank God and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose sagacious leadership and unflinching determination led to the establishment of a separate homeland where Muslims are now living an honourable and dignified life as...
- 22 May 2010 22:20
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 414416
Re: Geopolitical thread
And what about Swapan Dasgupta? Is he non-consciously a supporter of the "Western agenda" against India, and "mentally colonized"? This was the allegation. Now of course, we have another couple of bugbears - "SS Menon/GK Pillai types" - since it is off season on Kakodk...
- 18 May 2010 18:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2540
- Views: 487319
Re: CT and COIN operations in India: News, Images and Discus
For all those indulging in :(( :(( and questioning why the Army cannot be brought out .. I'll let the Indian Army do the talking ... X-posting from Indian Army thread ... Army looking after external and 'internal' threats.. Army proposes dedicated training facility for anti-Naxal ops "The Army ...
- 18 May 2010 06:32
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Af-Pak -> Pak-Af Watch
- Replies: 4017
- Views: 330864
Re: Af-Pak -> Pak-Af Watch
Apologies if posted earlier ...
Secrets From Inside the Obama War Room
Secrets From Inside the Obama War Room
- 18 May 2010 05:32
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1360
- Views: 150455
Re: BR Forum Feedback
There is a very interesting discussion going on in the Perspectives thread in the Technology forum regarding BP and the Oil spill... I'm just wondering if the correct thread for that discussion is the Oil and Natural Gas thread?
- 17 May 2010 22:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2540
- Views: 487319
Re: CT and COIN operations in India: News, Images and Discus
Time to give few canes to Arundhati Roy and her likes on their bu++s, and take some harsh steps against the Naxalites & their sympathisers. This is what so many people like me is telling all these days ! but who cares ! Even some of the forum members say DONT USE ARMY ! DONT USE AIR POWER ! FC*...
- 16 May 2010 20:30
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Who is this Gordon Duff idiot? http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/05/gordon-duff-time-square-fizzler-israels-crotch-bomber-redeux/ A_Gupta ... Don't pay attention to these kinds of sites ... I checked some of the comments ... the site seems to be full of conspiracy theorists ... the comments have...
- 11 May 2010 08:10
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 414416
Re: Geopolitical thread
Well ... Stephen Cohen is being highly disingeneous when he says that the Indian military lacks the capability to whip an enemy one-fifth our size. Maybe he should have gone and read up the US State Department archives before opening his trap. You see when your opponent (whatever his size be) has t...
- 11 May 2010 01:13
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 414416
Re: Geopolitical thread
A bit too simplistic. Incorrect dates. Stupid title. Agree with him on bureaucratic interference. Feel like inviting him to BRF. One hour closer to death. I dunno, I kind of agree with him. India can't even get an NSC without alarmists darkly warning of it becoming a harbinger of dictatorship. I al...
- 10 May 2010 19:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Militants in no mood to talk The Tigers ignored instructions from Taliban leader Mullah Omar that the men should be freed, instead issuing a list of high-profile men in Pakistani jails to be released in 15 days. Otherwise, they said, Tarrar would meet the same fate as Khawaja. For the release of Qu...
- 10 May 2010 16:18
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
'Musharraf responsible for construction of Indian dams on Pak water' All party meeting in Pakistan on the water issue ... now inquiring minds may ask who were the attendees .. The APC convenor Hafiz Saif Ullah Mansoor presided over the meeting which was particpated by Prof Hafiz Abdul Rehman of Jam...
- 08 May 2010 20:11
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitical thread
- Replies: 3955
- Views: 414416
Re: Geopolitical thread
Stephen Cohen talks about "Irrelevance of India's military power". http://acdis.illinois.edu/students/courses-current/focal-point-seminar/Cohen-India.html/ A bit too simplistic. Incorrect dates. Stupid title. Agree with him on bureaucratic interference. Feel like inviting him to BRF. One ...
- 07 May 2010 22:51
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Red Menace
- Replies: 3744
- Views: 369994
Re: The Red Menace
What about the Moists like Manishakar Ayyar and others within congress and people like N Ram who openly support Naxal cause. Of course that stupid A Roy already discredited herself. But there are many in the so called mainstream media and "Intellectual" :rotfl: :rotfl: who openly share th...
- 07 May 2010 20:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Some more insights into the Khawaja episode ... can guru-log comment on whether what is being said in the article makes sense? In a Ditch A quick word about Khawaja himself. A squadron commander in the Pakistani Air Force early in his life, Khawaja later joined the ISI. After getting kicked out of t...
- 06 May 2010 06:33
- Forum: Technology & Economic Forum
- Topic: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
- Replies: 3933
- Views: 584285
Re: PRC Economy and Industry: News and Discussions
Shanghai Expo faces £400m shortfall as visitors shy away A live graph of visitor numbers on the official website, which was intended to show the soaring success of the Expo, was deleted after it revealed widespread apathy instead. At the moment it was taken off the website, in the mid-afternoon, it...
- 05 May 2010 22:38
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Apologies if posted earlier ... Fear grips Pakistani-Americans A Pakistani-American girl, only 12, refused to go to school on Tuesday, saying she fears other students will ask her questions about the suspect held in New York for a failed attempt to bomb Times Square. Another girl, 11, went to school...
- 05 May 2010 19:52
- Forum: Technology & Economic Forum
- Topic: Indian Education System
- Replies: 3806
- Views: 352446
Re: Indian Education System
School boards ready to kick leather, give canvas a shoo-in Seen as “environmentally hazardous”, “unhealthy” and an “uncomfortable” vestige of the colonial empire, black, shiny leather shoes may soon be off school campuses across India. Instead, white canvas shoes, so far reserved for Physical Educa...
- 05 May 2010 19:32
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
- Replies: 5693
- Views: 781770
Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis
A wonderful find.Marshal Zhukov's taped interview on the fine line between victory and defeat in WW2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7681504/Soviet-commander-admits-USSR-came-close-to-defeat-by-Nazis.html Thanks Philip ... very interesting and informative read ... However, ...
- 05 May 2010 06:03
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2
Daddy's on the run .... Pakistan questions at least 7 about New York bomb plot Shahzad's father, Baharul Haq, a former senior Air Force officer, lives in an upscale suburb of Peshawar, according to security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Said ...
- 30 Apr 2010 17:24
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: US and PRC relationship & India
- Replies: 2018
- Views: 225209
- 30 Apr 2010 05:18
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: The Red Menace
- Replies: 3744
- Views: 369994
Re: The Red Menace
Congress’ Secret Talks Speaking to weekly current affairs and features magazine Open, senior Maoist ideologue Tusharkant Bhattacharya has said that he was approached by Digvijaya Singh in August 2009 through a Hyderabad-based Congress leader. Bhattacharya, who is one of the most senior and respecte...
- 30 Apr 2010 03:28
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
- Replies: 3245
- Views: 400866
Re: People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009
From China's mouth to Texans' ears: Outreach includes small station in Galveston Beijing's new response is typically massive and ambitious: a $6.6 billion global strategy to create media giants that will challenge agenda-setting Western behemoths such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the BBC and CNN...
- 30 Apr 2010 01:18
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
And we will do another Kargil ...
- 29 Apr 2010 16:26
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 284389
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
Pentagon sees Pakistan shift, downplays Afghan impact Pakistan has shifted 100,000 of its troops from its Indian frontier to spearhead an unprecedented crackdown on militants along the Afghan border, but the offensives are unlikely to have an immediate impact on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, the...
- 28 Apr 2010 22:26
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 837670
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
After all the dust settles you will find that it was MMS that pulled the plug on the lady spy. The timing doesn't match otherwise. I have a feeling that it might be someone other than MMS who pulled the plug here ... Here is my reasoning for this: - IB is under the control of MHA - RAW reports into...
- 28 Apr 2010 06:05
- Forum: Strategic Issues & International Relations Forum
- Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
- Replies: 1369
- Views: 140706
Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Pakistan Deal Signals China's Growing Nuclear Assertiveness
China supplying 2 nuclear reactors to Pakistan ... wonder what NPT Ayatollahs have to say now ....
Lemme guess ... It was the evil yindoos who have forced the chinese to sell reactors to Pakistan
China supplying 2 nuclear reactors to Pakistan ... wonder what NPT Ayatollahs have to say now ....
Lemme guess ... It was the evil yindoos who have forced the chinese to sell reactors to Pakistan

- 28 Apr 2010 05:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: The 1939-1945 Star Medal
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1081
Re: The 1939-1945 Star Medal
Hi
Welcome to BRF .. you might want to paste the query in the following thread
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Welcome to BRF .. you might want to paste the query in the following thread
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2623
- 27 Apr 2010 20:54
- Forum: History & Current Affairs Archive
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion
- Replies: 4621
- Views: 837670
Re: Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): Apr. 11, 2010
If Ms. Gupta were massa's agent she would have fled by now a la earlier thotas. So most likely she is TSP agent. So BRamanji is not correct in thinking she is a third country's agent in TSP. And she seems to be not hardboiled(she came back to Delhi) like Rabinder Singh who appears to have known his...
- 26 Apr 2010 07:29
- Forum: Technology & Economic Forum
- Topic: States News and Discussions
- Replies: 1146
- Views: 140689
Re: States News and Discussions
Can Uttar Pradesh catch up with Tamil Nadu ? Ca anyone suggest a website where all vital data related to Indian states such as the one mentioned in the article will be present, I have searched but cannot find a comprehensive data library. Check out this site ... Ministry of Statistics & Program...
- 06 Apr 2010 07:47
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: India-US News and Discussion
- Replies: 1609
- Views: 198723
Re: India-US News and Discussion
Apologies if posted earlier .... Posting excerpts Geithner will press case for US finance cos First, there is the issue of providing greater market access to US financial firms. Mr Geithner is expected to press the US case once again. The US has been emphasising on financial services, in which it ho...
- 04 Apr 2010 17:13
- Forum: Technology & Economic Forum
- Topic: A Nation on the March
- Replies: 790
- Views: 213182
Re: A Nation on the March
Do not known about desh, but an year ago I read an article listing the average age of Facebook user in US, which I think was around 40. In-fact, the study listed the 40-60 year demographic as the fastest growing, even out pacing the 20-30 range. My dad is on my friends list on Facebook .... have to...
- 27 Mar 2010 21:34
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1360
- Views: 150455
Re: BR Forum Feedback
I just hope that images being posted from some service officials picasa albums have been posted with their consent and knowledge. Not our call. The officer posted them as public albums - he probably knows better. The only reason why I brought it up is that I noticed a lot of family photographs with...
- 27 Mar 2010 20:28
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1360
- Views: 150455
Re: BR Forum Feedback
I just hope that images being posted from some service officials picasa albums have been posted with their consent and knowledge.
- 09 Mar 2010 22:32
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Economy: News and Discussion (Jan 1 2010)
- Replies: 2858
- Views: 387294
Re: Indian Economy: News and Discussion (Jan 1 2010)
Apparently the NREGA is providing a massive disincentive to work for the labour force in the region, with the people being very happy to get the money from GoI for little or no work. Read this slideshow, A miracle called Tirupur! http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/mar/08/slide-show-1-a-mira...
- 04 Mar 2010 20:59
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
- Replies: 3520
- Views: 555765
Re: Armoured Vehicles Discussion Thread
Tell me one thing Rahoul Ji, who used NVD in T-90 is it Driver or Gunner or Commander ? and Who uses TI is it Driver or Gunner or Commander ? IT was 5 & 6 which did eval and got trained in Ru.. some other elements were also involved ... most of the EME officers cant even diff between welded tur...
- 04 Mar 2010 06:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Bakistan: Emirate of New-clear Inquilabi States-Bojitiv Newj
- Replies: 2845
- Views: 336414
Re: Bakistan: Emirate of New-clear Inquilabi States-Bojitiv Newj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3EgdkbUUuI Wake up Pakistan Islamabad Chapter. An Earth Shaking lecture by Zaid Hamid, A lecture which made Zionists stunned that what happened to youth of PAKISTAN. :rotfl: I thought of putting this video in the TSP thread but figured this guy is way too funny to be ...