Jaswant Singh’s book Jinnah India Partition Independence has created quite a furor in India. The Hindu nationalists as well as the Congress secularists are outraged over its contents forcing expulsion of the author from BJP; the Hindu nationalist party known for demonizing the Quaid and viciously condemning the imperatives behind the creation of Pakistan. In [...]
Pakistan is not only a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic society but it is also a multi-religion society. The latest census data indicates that around 4% of the total population is Non-Muslim; little over 6,000,000. Though 6 million may look smaller number when compared to the total population of 170 million but it is still more [...]
President Zardari’s Peace formula for india and Pakistan
The PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT under President Zardari started peace initiatives with India taking tentative steps to liberalise Trade and tourism with India. Zardari doing a live webcast (his firstever) with english speaking Internet users in india and coining terms like “we are all half indian/half pakistani” was very optimistic.
In the Time [...]
The idea was to castigate the Muslims using terror tactics and blame the militants and Pakistan for direct involvement. But the methodology used was terror against Muslims. Swami, Sadhvi and an Indian army officer who was commanding a unit in Kashmir were involved. It was the army officer who was providing the arsenal to terrorize [...]
As a journalist who began his career in the late 1960s, I feel that the media is neglecting its real role of providing information through objective and responsible reporting and analysis. Why is it that the news stories, such as the one below, about the peaceful coexistence of Hindus and Muslims rarely find a place [...]
Homegrown terrorism is an alarming and very chilling idea. No country likes to believe that violent and armed insurgency and militancy has taken root in its backyard. Countries tend to put the matters at the back burner for as long as possible. India is ignoring the terrorists of RSS, BJP and Bajrang Dal [...]
A Roman Catholic nun raped in the Indian state of Orissa, allegedly during a riot by Hindus, has publicly denounced local police.
The nun held a news conference in the Indian capital, Delhi, in which she demanded that national police take over the investigation.
The Orissa police have been heavily criticised for delays in the case.
More than [...]
Irrespective of that who made Al-Qaeda, Taliban etc like groups and used for what reasons and on what fronts, when the utility of such groups is over then defaming and creating and projecting negative (required) image is done by use of media and diplomatic channels. There could be certain different affiliations of these created groups and [...]
In it’s blind pursuit to fully control the Kashmir and subjugate the overwhelming Muslim majority and preferring Hindu minority in every field, Indian government has once again started using Gestapo measures in the Jammu and Kashmir region, which it occupies for more than last sixty years.
In the recent skirmishes, Indian police stormed into the houses [...]
