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China moves into Gilgit-Baltistan: Implications and what measures should India take

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Ray

Published on 30-08-2010 12:58 PM

PoK leaders want merger with India
By d-sector Team

Fast changing geo-political equations have made India extend its helping hand to political groups in PoK who have now been openly seeking New Delhi’s help in their struggle for survival and freedom.
While all and sundry in India are criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for bringing Balochistan on to the agenda of Indo-Pak bi-lateral talks, an international seminar organised in New Delhi has once again brought to the fore the approach-avoidance conflict India faces in dealing with the expectations of disenchanted communities from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and frontier regions.
Till recently India did not want to be seen as meddling in Pakistan’s internal affairs, but several political groups in PoK have now been openly seeking New Delhi’s help in their struggle for freedom, dignity and human rights, and now it seems New Delhi is willing to extend a helping hand to the distressed Karakoram communities. India now claims “legitimate interest in territories and peoples that are part of India but under illegal occupation, both to the west as well as to the east”. ...

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Shouldn't we modernize our overall defence system in much faster way?

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jumba_4u

Published on 28-07-2010 03:57 PM

Whatever situation we are in, whatever period is it, we can't afford to loose a war against any enemy. of course we are not war monger, but we have to very much jealous neighbours, and obviously powerful they are. we don't need to wait for the moment when someone'll declare war against us, this is our motherland and we all love it. I love this land as much i love my mother. At any cost we must defend our country, our people. this is the last piece of land where still humanity exists n most blessed land. what i suppose, we need an ICBM dat can carry atleast 1.5 tonnes of nuclear warhead, also a nuclear capable cruise missile that ranges upto 4000 kms with a faster speed than bhramos cruise. we should b prepared for any situation n we need to be self sufficient in defence system. we always beg others for technology transfer n sell us weapons, why cant we invest that much amount in research n development of our own weaponery systems, that 'll meet our requirments better? why don't we establish new research n development centres in other parts of india? we have best brains no dowbt. we have few good international frnds as well, why don't we b prudent n see our future needs? why doesn't our army 've most sophesticated rifles in hand, why doesn't IAF 've atleats ...

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Seven blunders that will haunt India for posterity

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JBH22

Published on 29-07-2010 09:49 PM

History is most unforgiving. As historical mistakes cannot be undone, they have complex cascading effect on a nation’s future. Here is a saga of seven historical blunders that have changed the course of independent India’s history and cast a dark shadow over its future. These costly mistakes will continue to haunt India for generations. They have been recounted here in a chronological order with a view to highlight inadequacies of India’s decision making apparatus and leadership’s incompetence to act with vision.
1. The Kashmir Mess
There can be no better example of shooting in one’s own foot than India’s clumsy handling of the Kashmir issue. It is a saga of naivety, blinkered vision and inept leadership. Hari Singh was the reigning monarch of the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. He was vacillating when tribal marauders invaded Kashmir in October 1947, duly backed by the Pakistan army. Unable to counter them, Hari Singh appealed to India for assistance and agreed to accede to India. Indian forces blunted ...

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What if India was allied with the US during the Cold War?

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ejazr

Published on 30-08-2010 01:11 PM

Well what we have to realise is that the US was looking after its geo-politcal interests and India was looking after its own interests. And as some members have mentioned, UK played an instrumental role in creating a rift of sorts. Many people might not know but US had pushed the UK to NOT partition India. US had already established diplomatic relations with India BEFORE independance. US diplomats had held meetings with Nehru and Azad as holder of the foreign policy portfolio and head of the Congress party respectively in the 1940s.
However, UK had insisted that partition was necessary to have a strategic base to contain USSR i.e. NW India. It did not help that the Congress had a left leaning agenda and Communists were wuiet popular among the Indian elite at that time. In contrast the ML leaders including Jinnah had guaranteed full defence co-operation with UK and US if Pakistan is guaranteed. And this is what happened. Lets not forget that the HQ of the British Indian Army was in Rawal Pindi and the ISI was established by a British ...

Why does the BJP lose to Congress and what should it do to win?

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Rage

Published on 30-08-2010 01:03 PM

The RSS has been the biggest impediment to the BJP's chances of becoming a properly national political party since 2005-06. And they will be for the many more years to come.
With the closure of about 11,000 RSS shakas in 6 years- that's about a fourth of all RSS shakhas in the country- I think Hindus, Indians, have demonstrated that they have much more important things to think about than communal-based politics- like money, wealth, success and business careers.
The BJP, at its inception, was actually formed as an alternative- a secular alternative- to a corrupt and degenerate Congress party. It comprised of Hindus, Muslims and Christians among its founding members. Things went wrong when they started to draw increasingly, their cadre, from the fringe parties- that espoused a more militant, communalistic version of right-wing nationalism- that were allied with them. ...

'Rape in war is deliberate military strategy'

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samarsingh

Published on 27-06-2010 11:07 AM

unfortunately this has been going for centuries...mongols under Genghis Khan gained quite a reputation(or should I say disrepute)...but then again it could be a propoganda by western intellectuals to term the eastern mongols as "savage barbarians"......but in more recent times it was widespreas during second world war....also noteworthy that up untill second world war there were actually not many prosecutions...
it is also important to note that false or exagerrated stories can me made up to justify military excesses....eg: during 1857 ( first war of independence) war rape was used as propoganda by british colonialists to justify colonialism "white man's burden" ...

Is Pakistan's JF-17 a Thunder or Blunder ?

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fulcrum

Published on 30-06-2010 05:06 PM

Original article by Fulcrum

Is Pakistan's JF-17 a Thunder or Blunder ?

Pakistan has witnessed new defense acquisitions in this decade than any other, and ...

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Foreigners doing business in China feel boxed out

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thakur_ritesh

Published on 02-07-2010 11:52 AM

it was never wrong to look inwards, be a protectionist and project your own people, we in india have done it for long and still do it, and seriously had it not been for the constant backing from our government our private sector would not have been where it is today, its just that chinese have learnt the lesson of believing in their own people a little too late in the day something they are trying to correct now.
these overseas MNCs will complain each time they see their interests slightly being harmed but none of the sort happens when they dole out millions if not billions in form of profits from the same market and if they have so much of a ...

Solution of Afganistan quagmire!!!

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Jeypore

Published on 27-06-2010 11:03 AM

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International relations

Let me begin with a theory, as this war prolonges and Generals are fired to a such complex problems of solving future terrorist attacks, as well as diluting current terrorist issue in the country of Afganistan. It is an enormous proposition for NATO forces as well as for India's Future..
So Here is my Radical Plan, The School system is being built by the NATO forces as well as by Indians, if I am not mistaken. Why not teach the next generation of other religous benefits.

Since, Afganistan made a law from 1970's and onward of not accepting any new relgion in there country, this would certainly bring changes...And the change would change the whole ...

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