An Indian like me across the unfriendly border from Pakistan cannot help finish reading this article with sadness rather any sense of schadenfreude. https://thefridaytimes.com/25-Jul-2024/the-looming-showdown-in-pakistan “Pakistan’s democracy has been mangled by repeated overtures to authoritarian tactics, often to justify violence and oppression. That has resulted in a hostile and polarized political landscape, where finding any commonContinue reading “High Noon in Pakistan”
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It’s not a general election in Pakistan … it’s the Generals’ election
‘Pakistanis protect your vote’: Imran Khan’s PTI says results withheld due to ‘historic win’ of the partyhttp://dhunt.in/SIKFu By Business Today via Dailyhunt Election in Pakistan has the unique and multiple distinctions of being held in a In spite of all the above, let it be known that Voting in Pakistan will either tomorrow, or veryContinue reading “It’s not a general election in Pakistan … it’s the Generals’ election”
WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?
The answer to the question, in my humble layman view is … Because India’s relations with Palestine are emotional and towards Israel, they are transactional. Palestine reminds INDIA so much of the pain and the horrors of her own 1947 Partition when millions of people were displaced and rendered homeless and destitute. So India cannotContinue reading “WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?”
India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor, paved with “Vishwa guru” ambitions?
The day after the New Delhi G20 Summit ended yesterday, the world media has gone agog over the announcement of the India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor (IMEECC)! Hyperboles are flying around hail it as the signal of a new emerging world order about to “overcome many geopolitical hurdles.” Here is a one sample ofContinue reading “India Middle East Europe Connectivity Corridor, paved with “Vishwa guru” ambitions?”
My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics
Fareed Zakaria of CNN posed all the right questions to German Chancellor Schulz and got all the right sounding answers. But to me watching the video, the interview sounded pretty menacingly portentous for the future of the world in decades to come. On a quiet Sunday morning yesterday , I couldn’t thus help falling intoContinue reading “My Sunday morning crystal-ball gazing into global geopolitics”
In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-23/cold-war-2-with-china-and-russia-is-becoming-ww3-niall-ferguson Bloomberg Excellent Op-Ed in the Bloomberg magazine indeed that gives deep insights into what’s going on today in the global theatre of superpower conflicts. Having read the essay carefully I asked myself: Okay, but what does it all mean for India ? And here’s what I think : India is being wooed and suckeredContinue reading “In the fruit-grove of Asia, has India turned out to be low-hanging fruit for America?”
NATO, Russia, Sun Tsu, “Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon”
Looking at the map above one can easily understand why NATO certainly presents a clear even if not immediately present “existential threat” and danger to Russia . NATO shares a border today with Russia that will overnight double in length once Finland and Sweden join it formally anytime soon in a year from today! InContinue reading “NATO, Russia, Sun Tsu, “Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon””
MY BLOGPOST DID GET IT RIGHT ABOUT “ROU”… RUSSIA OCCUPIED UKRAINE becoming the European “PoK” (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir”
The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank
The above Chart is a real beauty! It points to a diplomatic way out of the messy negotiations going on now between the USA and Russia over Ukraine … in favour of the Western powers. The chart reveals that half of America is fine with imposing sanctions on Russia but not all-out War over Ukraine.Continue reading “The UN must brace itself for the possible scripting of RoU (Russia-Occupied-Ukraine) much in the way it created PoK (Pakistan-Occupied/Kashmir) and the Israeli West Bank”
The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear”
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-saudi-arabia-rift-widens-after-oic-foreign-ministers-summit/amp_articleshow/88479783.cms The Economic Times dt. 24 December 2021 I read the above article with great interest since, after having lived and worked 25 years of my professional career in Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and travelled all across the Middle-East, I am familiar with the history and politics of its peoples and can relateContinue reading “The Haqqani Network and the “Ministry of Fear””