India’s brazen attack
Untenable stand on the UNMOGIP as also on Kashmir Pakistan has approached the United Nations to investigate the recent attack on a United Nations’ Military Observers’ Group vehicle. This is not the…
Will Modi sacrifice his strong-man ego?
Is he ready to scrap the farm laws? Since November 26, Indian farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting on the outskirts of chilly New Delhi. The government tried to…
What restrained the BBC?
Protecting India when it’s disinformation is exposed The EU-based non-governmental organisation, EU DisinfoLab, has released its second tranche of te goldmine of India’s vast disinformation network. It reveals that a dead human-rights…
Special force in UP to arrest people without warrant
10-year imprisonment for interfaith marriage India has a slew of laws to persecute minorities. The police or armed forces can cordon and search any premises, and arrest any person without a warrant.…
RSS’s changed stand on Kashmir
From Jammu statehood to Kashmir accession, the BJP record is one of hypocrisy It is eerie that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh celebrated `Accession to India’ Day on October 26. History tells that…
How will Sino-US relations turn out under Joe Biden?
No one should expect Biden to be a revolutionary US President Donald Trump, hopefully outgoing, was not an out-and-out failure for his electorate. Yet he was shown the door. He had many…
The Pakistan dossier unmasks India’s ugly face
Even Indian prime ministers approved insurgencies In a joint press conference with Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar in Islamabad, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi lifted the lid…
Misperceptions about Islamic jihad
Why no focus on jihad in Hinduism, Bible or Torah? France is a cradle of modern human rights. How come its slogan `liberty, equality and fraternity’ allows it to drag out mosque-goers…
Why does the FATF treat Pakistan as a bête noire?
Why no focus on Arab world charities? In its latest review, the Financial Action Task Force conceded that Pakistan has addressed 21 of the 27 items of its Action Plan, though te…
Myths of bovine-excreta benefits
Cures even cancer, resists radiation The fanatical Hindu believes in magical or talismanic properties of cow dung and urine. The believers are spread over a wide spectrum. They cover all walks of…
What does the acquittal reflect?
Indian courts are handmaidens of Hindu fanatics All the 32 accused, including LK Advani, in the Babri Masjid demolition case were acquitted by the special CBI court in Lucknow in September in…
FATF’s sword of damocles
Selective use of `terrorism’ Pakistan is struggling hard to wriggle out of the Financial Action Task-Force’s grey list. Pakistan needs 15 out of 39 votes to get rid of being listed. But,…
Is India a fascist rogue state?
The RSS ideology’s triumph is a nightmare India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, like so many other Bharatya Janata Party stalwarts, makes no bones about having been a member of the RSS. The…
How to bring back illicit money stashed in foreign safe havens
India too has much bitter experience India says that its citizens have $60 billion in assets stashed abroad. Our government also is determined to get back assets worth $11 billion hidden in…
While India buys more arms suicides in India rise
Trillions for military hardware while meager resources for Covid-19 relief India is riding THE hobbyhorses of ACTOR Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide and China’s intrusion across the Line of Actual Control (though denied…
India’s bid to back out of plebiscite commitment
Indian contortions cannot fool everyone forever During a virtual informal meeting of the plenary on the annual report of the Security Council, the Indian representative stunned the world community by his remarks.…
Slipshod Pulwama investigation
Points to ponder On 14 February 2019, an explosive-laden vehicle rammed tinto India’s Central Reserve Police Force convoy near Awantipora on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway. Forty CRPF personnel were killed. Without investigation, India…