Rather, who is it cranking up for? Consider the following: —There have been, as Bruce Riedel points out in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, “persistent reports of some kind of understanding between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for Islamabad to provide nuclear weapons to Riyadh if the Saudis feel threatened by a third ...
But then… So what if you are one of the top leaders of one of India’s largest underground Maoist party. You still need to get in touch with the wife. In an interview with Romita and Aveek Datta, Mint‘s intrepid reporters, Communist Party of India (Maoist) politburo member Koteshwar Rao says: My wife Maina is ...
Misled by theory Obviously, the enemy has to be India, the United States and Israel. So it is hardly surprising for the Pakistani people and the media to deal with its cognitive dissonance over the Taliban by blaming it on the Indian and American hand. How bad is the dissonance? Well, take a look at ...
The attachment of impossible conditions is revealing Across the border, Ejaz Haider opines that “if Pakistan is asked by the US and other western capitals to pull out troops from the eastern border and deploy them to the west, then perhaps India should also be asked to thin its much-heavier Pakistan-specific deployment.” He goes on ...
He ducked the question, but a point was made in the asking This was the second question the new foreign minister had to answer: Question: This is on Pakistan. Do you think it is a good time for India to pull back troops from the border? What do you think about America increasing aid for ...
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Let’s call Pakistan’s bluff with Operation Markarap In today’s Mint, Sushant and I argue that moving our troops back will compel the Pakistan army to act against the Taliban; and because it is incapable of doing so, will cause the United States to realise that there is no alternative to dismantling the military-jihadi complex. Sooner ...
Colombo might have won the war with China’s help. It can’t win the peace without India’s Just in case you missed it in the heat of the elections, here’s the take on the situation in Sri Lanka: Now, while President Rajapaksa’s election manifesto promised to include in the Sri Lankan Constitution a charter to “uphold ...
India is already under risk from the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. So what if Pakistan has some more of them? No, it should not surprise anyone that Pakistan has been cranking up its capacity to produce more nuclear weapons and delivery systems. ISIS analysts David Albright & Paul Brannan recently sounded alarm that two new plutonium ...
But don’t let it go to your head And suddenly, The Acorn finds itself ranked at the top of Indiblogger.in’s IndiRank ranking of 7895 Indian blogs. (via tweets from indiblogger & Overlord. Gauravonomics has an analysis of the State of the Indian Blogosphere 2009). Yes, yes, you know such rankings are never perfect; the Bongs ...