India

An article today from the Times of Indiashould be required reading for every member of  Hilary Clinton’s team prior to Obama’s inauguration. Somehow, the US under President Bush’s challenged stewardship has convinced itself that Afghanistan is where the Taliban will be confronted and victory won. The Taliban is an adaptive creature, and its tentacles [...]

January 5 2008, marks 60  years that the people of Kashmir have been waiting for the UN to make good on its resolution promising their right to self-determination.  Since the time of partition, Kashmir has been split and under the governance of India and Pakistan. Neither ex-colonial power, ironically,  has been necessarily as gentle [...]

A philosophical legal question may be at the heart of any potential military conflict between the two nuclear powers of India and Pakistan. The question resolves around extradition, but is a symbolic issue that calls into question each others trust of their respective government and legal system. India has today handed over to Pakistan [...]

One has to wonder what is going on at the US State Department. Having earlier called for Pakistan suspects connected with the Mumbai attacks to be extradited to India for trial, now they have reversed their course, and say they should be tried in Pakistan instead. Was this because they failed to realize there [...]

As dangerous a man as Ahmadinejad is, and as troublesome the regime he represents appears, one has to have a sneaking admiration for the sheer chutzpah of the man.  After earlier claiming US complicity in the Mumbai terror attacks as part of its objective to destabilize the Indian economy, Ahmadinejad has put himself  forward as [...]

  If the outrage of November’s  Mumbai attacks is not enough, fresh evidence is allegedly emerging that the terrorists abused, and in some cases, tortured their victims. While details are yet sketchy, the India papers are alleging that CCTV footage shows disturbing scenes of systematic violence against non-Indians at several locations “The terrorists who carried out [...]

  When a crowd of over 10,000 Pakistanis take to the streets chanting  “Down with America” and “Jihad is the only solution of America”, the West had better sit up and take notice. These particular demonstrators were venting their anger at the US unmanned air drone attacks and that Pakistan is being used as a [...]

  Everyday technology appears to be the latest weapon in the terrorists’ armory it seems, if you read about a couple of developments today. The Indian Courts are rapidly trying to push through a ban of Google Earth as terrorists used the online satellite imagery to help plan and identify locations in last month’s Mumbai [...]

  White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, made an interesting statement today that implies the US may have  forward intelligence on further terrorist attacks in India. An alternative explanation is that the statement was just intended to keep Pakistan off balance and ensure their continued cooperation.  At a press conference following the most recent arrests over the [...]

  There is an increasing buzz on intelligence channels about Bangladesh - it is the newest country to feature on the radar of concern. A Bangladeshi has been linked as one of the facilitators in the recent terror attacks in Mumbai. A brief history - Bangladesh was created in 1947 by its partition from India. [...]

  Often rumors are false, especially when coming from ‘unnamed sources’, but if the latest one from India proves true, then the dangerous game of brinkmanship between Pakistan and India may have just been raised in stakes. Express India has just reported that India has ‘proof’ that the Pakistan Intelligence Service (ISI) was involved in [...]

  President Bush seems to like to portray himself as he strong man of international relations, but he is being seriously upstaged by Russia at the moment. The Russian Navy undertook naval exercises with the Venezuelan fleet, throwing sand in the face of President Bush who sees Venezuela under Chavez as a rogue state. Putin, [...]

Never the strongest Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice’s dying days in office engender a feeling of sympathy for her. Her words of late are heard, earn nods in response, and then are totally ignored, it appears. While she is not blameless as her performance other than defending herself in Senate hearings has been less [...]

  According to an Associated Press wire, a Taliban warlord made an offer today to stop fighting against Pakistan, and instead fight with them in a war against India. The offer came in the form of a video recording by deputy chief of the faction Tehrik-e-Taliban, Maulvi Faqir Mohammad. He is quoted as saying, “If India [...]

  The Indian interrogation of the captured Mumbai terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kasab, is leaking like the proverbial sieve and what is coming out is proving more and more disturbing. Kasab says that a total of 24 people trained for the Mumbai attack in the Pakistan camps. So far, only 10 are accounted for - 9 dead [...]