Posts Tagged ‘India’
India allocates $11 bln to build six new submarines – paper
RIA Novosti | 11 July 2010 India's Defense Acquisitions Council has approved the allocation of over 500 billion rupees ($11 billion) for the construction of six new-generation diesel-electric submarines for the Indian Navy in a record military deal, The Times of India reported on Sunday. This amount exceeds the $9 billion allocated by the [...]
Indian Army deployed to quell deadly Kashmir protests
Christian Science Monitor | 7 July 2010 The Indian Army moved into the northern city of Srinagar to clamp down on clashes between police and protesters that left at least three dead Tuesday. Elsewhere along the India-Pakistan border Wednesday, crossfire killed three troops. Indian Army troops patrolled in Kashmir on Wednesday for the [...]
BJP threatens stir against 15% quota for Muslims
Times of India | 4 July 2010 BANGALORE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday threatened to launch a mass agitation if the central government implemented the Ranganath Mishra Commission report which recommended 15 percent reservation for Muslims in education and government employment. "We will launch a massive agitation if the United [...]
Engineering a New American Islam
Awaam by Vision21 | By Asghar Ali Engineer | 2 July 2010 Reformists at work It is values which provide the moral base and stability to society, and that five values are most fundamental in the Quran. These are: the truth (haq), justice (adl), benevolence (ihsan), compassion (rahmah) and wisdom (hikmah). No Islamic law should violate these [...]
Unmanned Drones: Targeted Killing or Collateral Murder?
Antiwar | By by Thalif Deen | 30 June 2010 When a Pakistani-U.S. national pleaded guilty last week to a failed attempt to detonate explosives packed in a vehicle in the heart of New York City, he admitted that one of the reasons he targeted the busy Times Square neighborhood was to “injure and kill” as many people as [...]
Dire need to counter RAW’s terrorism
By Asif Haroon Raja It is now an established fact that no South Asian state has ever indulged in covert operations or cross border terrorism against its neighbors. The only culprit is India which resorts to this evil practice against all its neighbors, be it Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Nepal , Maldives , Bhutan , China and Myanmar. [...]
US warns Pak over Iran gas deal
Times of India | 21 June 2010 ISLAMABAD: The US warned Pakistan that a recently signed gas pipeline deal with Iran could run afoul of new sanctions being finalized in Congress, the US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan said on Sunday. Richard Holbrooke delivered the message during a visit to Pakistan, his first since Iran inked a [...]
The New American Imperialism
Naked Punch | 9 June 2010 By NOAM CHOMSKY Interviewed by David Barsamian MIT, Cambridge, MA 2 April 2010 One of the themes that Howard Zinn tried to address during his long career was the lack of historical memory. The facts of history are scrupulously ignored and/or distorted. I was wondering if you could comment on imperialism then and [...]
CNAS Panel: Advice on “Af/Pak” to the Next U.S. President
CNAS | 10 June 2010 CNAS Fourth Annual Conference Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 21st Century BEYOND AFGHANISTAN: AMERICA'S ENDURING INTERESTS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA Beyond Afghanistan & Keynote Address by Michèle Flournoy 00:00:00 Panel Discussion 00:57:20 Questions & Answers 01:11:30 [...]
Bogged Down, McChrystal Postpones the Helmand “Offensive”
New York Times | Editorial | 13 June 2010 Taking Stock in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is trying to strike a secret deal with the Taliban and Pakistan and doubts that the Americans and NATO can ever defeat the insurgents. Karzai is telling aides that he believed the United States, and not the Taliban, might have been responsible [...]
