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abhijitm wrote:Shinde has exposed Congress. He has done a massive favor on BJP. It would be interesting to see how BJP use this opportunity. Speak Modi...NOW.

SSridhar wrote:
One of their agenda is to shackle India completely so that a moral equivalence is established willy-nilly between India and Pakistan and then the INC can work out a deal with our enemies.

Lahore: Five persons, including two alleged Indian nationals, have been arrested on charges of spying in the Cantonment area of this eastern Pakistani city, police sources said today.

The sources told PTI that Military Intelligence had arrested the two alleged Indians nationals near the Pakistan Rangers headquarters within Lahore Cantonment a week ago.
“During interrogation, the suspects revealed that three Pakistanis had helped them cross the border. Today, police arrested the three Pakistanis in Hudiara village and took to an undisclosed place for interrogation,” a police source said.

The visa on arrival scheme for senior citizens above 65 years at the Wagah border crossing was put on hold as Pakistan was demanding too many documents from Indian applicants, diplomatic sources said on Monday.

The Indian side had put in place simplified procedures for issuing visas on arrival to Pakistani citizens, who were required to produce only a copy of their National Identity Card and a utility bill as proof of residence.

On the other hand, the Pakistani authorities wanted Indian citizens to provide several documents, diplomatic sources told PTI.

Pakistan also insisted that Indian applicants should name a sponsor on the Pakistani side, they said.

With all such arrangements being implemented on a reciprocal basis, Indian authorities decided to put the visa on arrival scheme on hold, the sources said.

"The procedures will be changed and Pakistani citizens will be required to produce the same documents as the Indian citizens," a source said.

The visa on arrival scheme was scheduled to start on January 15 at the Attari integrated check post under a new visa agreement signed by India and Pakistan last September to ease cross-border travel.

Initial reports had contended that the scheme was put on hold because of growing tensions between the neighbours over ceasefire violations along the Line of Control.

Indian officials have not announced any fresh date for operationalizing the visa on arrival scheme.

Indian officials had earlier said the visa on arrival facility would not be available at any other immigration or border point and Pakistani senior citizens would be issued a 45-day, single-entry visa valid for up to five places.

They would also be exempted from police reporting, which is mandatory for most Pakistani travellers.

The visa on arrival facility can be availed only "to visit India to meet friends or relatives" and it cannot be used for business, medical, conference, employment, pilgrimage or any other purpose, an official statement had said.

CRamS wrote:In India on the other hands, the ideological split runs at the core of Indian nationhood. Cong supporters simply don't see corruption, terrorism, anti-Hindu bigotry, TSP appeasement, and dare I say even issues as sacrosanct as Kashmir etc as important red lines that must be intolerable if they are crossed. In fact, India's Hindu dharmic roots and Hindu civilizational is held at contempt by Cong's supporters. The polarization is so extreme, that I cannot think of anything Cong can be accused of doing that will turn away its supporters.

CRamS wrote: I respectfully disagree. If 2G corruption, 26/11 surrender etc, you name it didn't expose Cong, you think this will. In fact, as the firtspost article that someone posted argues, this could be a clever manuever by Cong to cement its base

In India on the other hands, the ideological split runs at the core of Indian nationhood. Cong supporters simply don't see corruption, terrorism, anti-Hindu bigotry, TSP appeasement, and dare I say even issues as sacrosanct as Kashmir etc as important red lines that must be intolerable if they are crossed. In fact, India's Hindu dharmic roots and Hindu civilizational is held at contempt by Cong's supporters. The polarization is so extreme, that I cannot think of anything Cong can be accused of doing that will turn away its supporters.

The polarization is so extreme, that I cannot think of anything Cong can be accused of doing that will turn away its supporters.

sum wrote:Two Indians arrested in Pak on spying charges: reports

Lahore: Five persons, including two alleged Indian nationals, have been arrested on charges of spying in the Cantonment area of this eastern Pakistani city, police sources said today.

The sources told PTI that Military Intelligence had arrested the two alleged Indians nationals near the Pakistan Rangers headquarters within Lahore Cantonment a week ago.
“During interrogation, the suspects revealed that three Pakistanis had helped them cross the border. Today, police arrested the three Pakistanis in Hudiara village and took to an undisclosed place for interrogation,” a police source said.

Seems our TSP ops have been kickstarted in higher gear? Dont recollect Indians being arrested deep in TSP from a long time.

saip wrote:Besides terrorism which is Pakistan's main export, it seems to be exporting another dangerous thing. Time whole un-islamic world united and banned pakis from entering their countries.

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SSridhar wrote:You are correct about your assessment of the mental and intellectual faculties of our dreadful Home Minister. But, this is the agenda of the INC. The script-writer is somebody else. He is parroting the lines given to him. Ms. Maino, Princeling, P.Chidambaram, Digvijaya Singh, Jayanthi Natarajan, Mani Shankar Ayyar, Arrogant Manish Tiwary . . .the brigade is big, vociferous and have media access. One of their agenda is to shackle India completely so that a moral equivalence is established willy-nilly between India and Pakistan and then the INC can work out a deal with our enemies. Their approach is the same as that of the communists, pummel the majority community in a country ruthlessly and in every which way if you want to rule over them. I do not see much difference between the Taliban and the INC in this.

Because the US Congress had passed a bill allowing the CIA to carry out more drone strikes inside Pakistan “at will” which was a violation of the UN laws and sovereignty of Pa'astan

When the Indian home minister admitted that BJP is harbouring terrorists inside India, there was no action taken by the US. However, despite our sacrifices in the war against terror, it has given blanket powers to CIA to conduct drone strikes in Pakistan

He said such an act would further harm the world peace

The senator said that with the US forces withdrawing from Afghanistan, such a heavy logistic operation was going to take place in the region that a truck would be passing through Pakistan after every seven minutes

RamaY wrote:I demand Pakis export their Pakiness to entire Ummah!

saip wrote:Besides terrorism which is Pakistan's main export, it seems to be exporting another dangerous thing. Time whole world united and banned pakis from entering their countries.

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When Doves Fly Low
Lest anger blinds us, it’s Pakistandom, not Pakistanis, who are our enemy
Vinod Mehta

Television anchors are more sinned against than sinners. And their perverse power is vastly exaggerated. In the past fortnight, we have been led to believe that the nightly war-mongering and the constant cries for revenge, retribution and to-teach-them-a-lesson-they-will-never-forget is the proximate and sole cause for the war clouds hovering over Islamabad and New Delhi. That, if it had not been for these gentlemen (and a few ladies), the nation would have been able to take Pakistan’s alleged barbarism on the chin and move on.

The presenters of television news are not idiots. They have an unerring finger on the pulse of the nation. They are mood detectors. And even if one accepts all that is attributed to them, they mostly tap into the existing public temper. They don’t create it. It is the chicken or the egg riddle—which came first? The war-mongering or the public outrage? I believe the latter.

The outrage did not burst forth because of a single act. It was the cumulative outcome of pent-up fury festering since the Kargil war in 1999 to flight IC 814 to the Parliament attack, to 26/11, to the current beheading. Besides, the alleged over-reaction to the events of January 8 presented the country with another example of the unchanging pattern in the response of our estranged neighbour: first, the categorical denial with the taunting reprimand, “look within your own borders for the culprits”, to eventually a grudging acceptance of the incident, but with a crucial caveat—non-state actors were involved, to Pakistani soil could have been used in the planning of the crime, but we knew nothing about it, to the possible collusion of rogue state actors, but please show us the evidence of the collusion—evidence which will “stand up in a court of law”. Since the crime was conceived, masterminded and financed on Pakistani soil, how can India provide the smoking gun?

When domestic public opinion isn’t just vexed but enflamed, dialogue will require a brief pause. But there is no other option but to move on.

I am the original starry-eyed, much-lampooned candle-lighter of Wagah. I yield to no one in my passion for India-Pakistan friendship. I consider myself to be a card-carrying dove. Over the years, however, my trust in the Pakistani establishment—the army, the bureaucracy, most of the politicians, retired generals, among others, as opposed to the common man on the streets of Lahore and elsewhere—has diminished considerably. They craftily exploit the guilt many peaceniks suffer from—of “Big Brother” having historically mistreated “Little Brother”. Moreover, the establishment lies through its teeth. I’ve had personal experience of this economy with the truth. Though I remain committed to the goal of good relations, I view the Pakistani power structure with mounting suspicion.

I have often pondered over the question: why does the Pakistan officialdom hate India so viscerally? If you put aside the conqueror’s arrogance, what infuriates our neighbour is the fact that India has survived (and, importantly, prospered) as a functioning, secular democracy, while the land of the pure has turned into the land not of all Muslims, but of Sunnis, simultaneously emerging as the “most dangerous place on earth”. The theory of a death through a thousand cuts has been a fiasco. They have failed to drag us down to their level—that is the reason for their angst.

I write these words with immense sadness and regret. At present, I see myself as 50 per cent dove and 50 per cent realist as far as Pakistan is concerned.

How then do we move forward? With great caution, undoubtedly. When domestic public opinion is not just vexed but enflamed thus, dialogue and other overtures will require a brief pause. No democratically elected government can ignore domestic public opinion. The pause must, of course, be short and people-to-people contacts should be halted for a still shorter period. Move on, we must. There is no other option. When dialogue resumes we need to remember that the aam aadmi in Pakistan is our friend—though the establishment is not.

The brazenness has gotten to a point that the Congress is teaming up with the Pakis to slander the Indian Army and Hindus.

Philip wrote:Shinde's astonishing rantings and applause from Hafiz Syed ,should make us wonder whether the Congress is an Indian party or a fith-column of Pakistan hell bent upon destroying India.

partha wrote:Pakis being Pakis will provide another opportunity for us to teach them a lesson. But then if they can get away with Mumbai 2008, they can probably get away with anything.

VikramS wrote:GND = Gandhi Nehru Dynasty

Pakistan’s ski contingent comprising Noor Mohammad and Shah Hussain of Naltar Ski School clinched top two positions by winning gold and silver medals respectively in the ‘Dream Programme-2013’ held at Gangwon-do in South Korea

According to a Press release issued by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the prime objective of the Dream Program is to fulfill the promise with the international sports world to expand the base of sports by inviting young people from countries where winter sports is not available and providing them with systemic training to winter sports.

Secretariat police filed an application in a local court on Monday seeking proclaimed offender status for former president Pervez Musharraf and issuance of perpetual warrants for his arrest in judges’ detention case

Once the former president is declared a proclaimed offender, he continued, the prosecution can file another request to have his property confiscated and have him declared an absconder. In the next stage, they may ask Interpol to issue a “red notice” and arrest him abroad.

anupmisra wrote:Remember that mushy-goswami interview balls-up?