A young girl is sitting in front of me, ironing the white shalwar kameez that is her uniform, ready for school the next day. We have been chatting about the usual stuff – clothes, movies, school… I ask her about the halats and how it affects her – halat meaning the situation. No more needs [...]
The Indian agencies’s security failures are in no small part due to the Bhartia Junta Party (BJP) (and its militant wings like RSS and Dal) own brand of religiously influenced vote bank politics that has left it with a weak and unconvincing stance against both Hindu and Islamic extremism. BJP now relies solely in uniting [...]
I wonder why Indians are so stupid. Not only are they stupid, they think others are stupid as well. I mean, all this talk about the ISI or Pakistan behind the Mumbai attacks without a shred of proof is really insulting our intelligence.
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The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that the terrorists were successful. The identity of the black-hooded group remains a [...]
Despite clear and contradictory evidence to suggest otherwise, corporate media brings out the boogeyman once again as a poster child for the ailing war on terror, Pakistan link claimed The majority of the corporate media has gleefully seized upon the terror attacks in Mumbai to claim that they are the work of “Al-Qaeda,” despite clear [...]
Strange that none of the media (TV or Print) have picked this up at all. Or have they been deliberately ignoring it?
The latest attack happened in a secure, glittering part of the city. The media is forgetting that the rest of the city is home to a ruthless mafia with an ability to shut down the city from the rest of the country. The organized Hindu terrorist organizations have a fertile ground to operate.
It is surprising that even if the so called ‘terrorists’ were Pakistani trained SSG commandos as alleged by many Indian members, I’m surprised how 12 men could besiege two major hotels for such a long while.
On November 14, this year, I was to fly from Islamabad to Karachi via PIA Flight # 3192 which was scheduled to depart at 9:00 a.m as per my ticket that I purchased a couple of weeks earlier.
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