Bharat Rakshak

A secret CIA document found among the haul shows that the British and Libyans worked together to arrange for a terrorism suspect to be removed from Hong Kong to Tripoli – along with his wife and children – despite the risk that they would be tortured.

joshvajohn wrote:Trade mission aims to grow links with India
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/busine ... ith_India/


We should engage with Britain in a positive and proactive business relationship. Many who always criticises Britain are living at least one century ago! The present realities have changed. Britain as a country and people wanted to do business across the world as India is a potential business investment place as well as partnership in business are all possible. In many ways Indian and UK cooperation has moved well ahead.

vijayk wrote:http://newsinsight.net/archivedebates/n ... recno=2190

Is Kashmir back on the US agenda? The presence in Washington of Alexander Evans, a counselor in the British diplomatic service currently on sabbatical as the Henry A.Kissinger Chair in International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress, signals that. In January 2012, he will become senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Evans worked previously at the US department of state as a senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke and Marc Grossman, successively the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Evans was on loan to the state department from the British foreign office for his knowledge and expertise on Kashmir.

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In the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attack and before visiting India, the then British foreign secretary, David Miliband, stirred a controversy. He said solving the Kashmir issue would deny Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistani terrorist group responsible for the Mumbai carnage, its "call to arms" and free Pakistan to fight al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in its tribal areas. Why Miliband was not given the Holbrooke treatment and barred from India is not clear. It is telling, however, that Miliband spent "quality time" with Rahul Gandhi in some dusty Indian village.

Alexander Evans comes from the Tony Blair-David Miliband set that wants to meddle in Kashmir. Evans is very close to non-valley Kashmiris and particularly the Mirpuris who run "independent Kashmir" campaigns in London. Evans opposes violence. He is disturbed by the violence in Jammu and Kashmir but is less vocal of the killings and oppressions in Gilgit, Baltistan and elsewhere in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Following 9/11, Evans distinctly was worried that Pakistan's ability to continue with its terrorism inside Jammu and Kashmir would be curtailed by Washington. Writing in Kashmir Observer on 2 October 2001, Evans wondered: "What might all these changes mean in practice? Pressure -- serious pressure -- to end militancy in Kashmir changes the equation within Kashmir completely, along with Kashmir-Islamabad and Kashmir-Delhi dealings." Evans was worried about the pressure on the terrorists and their sponsors.

He was also concerned about Hurriyat leaders. "(They) will need to do the most thinking," he warned. "A new regional order -- and a powerfully aggressive US policy on anything that smacks of terrorism -- demands a new political strategy from the APHC umbrella. This will prove difficult to craft, and the residual tensions between moderates and hardliners, nationalists and pro-Pakistanis, and the smaller constituency of political Islamists, may bubble to the surface."

Evans was concerned about the Kashmiri diaspora too. "The Kashmiri diaspora," he noted, "will never enjoy the freedoms it has since the 1960s, drawn upon to agitate and support militancy in Britain, Europe and the US. Various prominent Kashmiri exiles may find their continuing residency overseas subject to stringent restraints."

In conclusion, he stated, "Of course a solution to the Kashmir problem is needed, now more than ever, and it should be pursued... Greater US interest in the issue is welcome, therefore, and thoughtful analysis coming from the likes of the Kashmir Study Group, operated from New York, and other organizations could pave the way for a more informed dialogue among India, Pakistan, and, it is hoped, the Kashmiris, too."

One of the members of the Kashmir Study Group, Farooq Kathwari, heading the home furnishings retail giant, Ethan Allan, was appointed last September by Obama as a member of the president's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Kathwari says the Kashmir Study Group means to "engage in fact-finding and the analysis of possible steps toward a solution, that is, unofficial initiatives by private citizens."

According to the influential http://www.danielpipes.org, Kathwari's son "took leave from Harvard Medical School to go fight in Kashmir. He did not know any Urdu or anything else about the conflict except that it was a fight between good and evil. Good meaning of course Islam and Hindus were, no doubt, the evil." He died in Jammu Kashmir fighting Indian soldiers, the report said.

The country’s biggest manufacturer is Indian. What does it seek from and give to Britain?

Beer-barrel-sized ingots made from scrap at a sister steelworks in nearby Rotherham are cleaned, welded to a stub and lowered into the furnace. The drop-by-drop melting takes 12-14 hours, removes impurities and strengthens the steel. Once cooled and tested, the blocks of steel are ready for use in aerospace and oil-drilling, where high-strength steel is prized.

But just how sweet is Tata for Britain? Any fears that Tata would strip out technology and ship it home have proved baseless.

Prasad wrote:Whats wrong with doing what the chinese are doing? Send over a mallu there to setup a tea stall and claim the island to be historically ours ?

Singha wrote:french hold a string of tiny islands east of madagascar coast claimed by multiple nations there (madagascar, seychelles, mauritius). each island has a weather post (automated) and 14 soldiers. on the basis of this, they claim a 200km EEZ around each island which deftly overlaps the EEZ of nations around these islands

clever people these goras - any isolated island or chokepoint anywhere in the world is always a target for their claws.

since 1925 the french have also claimed a pie slice of antarctica from the coast all the way to the south pole.

A move in British parliament to embarrass India over rights violations in Kashmir virtually fell through with less than 30 of the 640 House of Commons members attending a debate on it. The house's business committee also disallowed a demand for a vote on the motion.

"We should not be too quick to criticize (the Public Safety Act, a preventive detention law in Jammu & Kashmir that triggered the debate),'' [Conservative Party MP Steve] Baker said. He cited the "control order" that exists in Britain and has been widely applied in Northern Ireland not dissimilar to the PSA.