Vanishing Hindu, Sikh minorities in Pakistan

Surprisingly, the Indian Human Rights activists and secular protagonists, who labour beyond all conceivable elasticity of the Indian system, do not shed even crocodile’s tears for the Hindu-Sikh-Christian minorities in Pakistan.

These matters are not even taken up either in first track or second track diplomatic talks with Pakistan. Systematic destruction of Hindu temples and desecration of Sikh temples do not attract attention of the Indian political leaders and so-called secularist compradors.

Can India become a superpower?

Among the numerous viewpoints regarding India’s potential to make it to the big league, one of the most important opinions held by many analysts is that India has even failed to decisively counter the challenge of terrorism directed towards it from its neighbour, which is one-eighth its size.

Experts opine that the defeat and humiliation at the hands of the Chinese in 1962 has been largely overlooked in the planning of future strategies. According to them, there is a lot of hype about India’s emergence as a great power. But as we take credit for limited successes against a small adversary, there is little or no public knowledge of a well laid out doctrine regarding future engagement with a superior power like China.

Who leaked classified US info on Indo-Pak War in 1971?

Jack Anderson, an American investigative journalist, first reported about the US tilt towards Pakistan under secret orders from then President Richard Nixon. Anderson got the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1972 for his reports on US’ tilt away from India.

The United States administration had ordered a high-level inquiry into the special reports by Anderson in The Washington Post on December 14 and December 16, 1971.

India-China crisis

The Indian response to the the hysteria in the press about recent Chinese incursions suggest that it wants to avoid rhetorical, political and military fights with China. India has avoided making public its displeasure even on the issue of China’s continued military assistance to Pakistan.

The Indian response to China’s policies suggest that India wants to strengthen its position vis-a-vis while seeking to avoid any direct confrontation with it.

How serious is the Naxal threat?

Shocking details about the structure of CPI (Maoist) and its internal processes have come to light. The revelations were made by a very senior group leader, Mihir Besra, who was captured in 2007.

According to the interrogation report of Besra, the 9th Congress of the group met in January 2007 in Bihar and many important operational decisions were taken in it.

Watch Pakistani qawwali on Jassu Bhaiya

Jaswant Singh’s book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah proved too costly for him as his party expelled him even without giving a notice. But Jassu Bhaiya’s scholarly work on the founding father of Pakistan has made him very popular across the border.

A Pakistani television channel is beaming a parody qawwali which praises him for showing Jinnah in a positive light and accords a 21-gun salute to Singh.

Watch the qawwali here…

Crisis in BJP: Another leader attacks Rajnath

The unprecedented crisis that has hit the party with a difference is refusing to die down with yet another senior leader speaking out against party president Rajnath Singh.

While every leader has different reasons to blame Rajnath Singh, this is not the first time he is under fire. A letter written by a former party MP before the polls even accused him of harming the party by selling the election tickets during the Lok Sabha polls 2009.

Canary Trap brings you the letter written by BJP leader Virendra Singh to Rajnath Singh when the election process was underway.