Mustafa Qadri: Stuck between India and the Taliban The idea that Pakistan is inherently dangerous is a mantra used by those who ignore history and avoid the complicated reality According to Kapil Komireddi in these very pages, the demise of Pakistan is “inevitable” because it has since foundation been a source of division and extremism. [...]
Stuck between India and the Taliban
June 18th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Afghanistan · Bajrang Dal · double standards · fascism · India · Kashmir · Mumbai · North Korea · nuclear weapons · Pakistan · Taliban
Mumbai is not New York
December 21st, 2008 · No Comments
This, then, is the larger historical context of terrorism in the subcontinent and of the Mumbai attacks. It shouldn’t surprise us that Hafiz Saeed of the Lashkar-e-Taiba is from Shimla (India) and LK Advani of the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh is from Sindh (Pakistan).
Tags: Bajrang Dal · double standards · Hafiz Mohammad Syed · Jamaat-e-Dawa · Lashkar-e-Toiba · Mumbai · Narendra Modi · Shiv Sena · war on terrorism