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Confessions of former RAW officers and diplomatsOne is shocked to read accounts of former diplomats and RAW officers about executing insurgencies in neighbouring countries. B. Raman, in his bo

Shifting nuclear policyIndia’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement reflects a paradigm shift in India’s nuclear policy. It appears India has already perfected its delivery systems

The protector general of minoritiesThe 1916 Lucknow Pact was acknowledged as a pillar of Hindu-Muslim friendship. However, Motilal Nehru, at the behest of the fanatic Hindus, shattered the spi

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After the Babri Mosque come another 5,000 mosques India’s Supreme Court ordered a settlement of the Ayodhya dispute through ‘mediation’ despite resistance by the Ram Janmabhoomi

Tracing funny money is not easyOur prime minister intends to constitute an enquiry commission to look into ballooning of debt burden over the past 10 years. Let it cover related benami, money-

Money and drugs fuel Indian pollsIndia, the world’s largest democracy, stands divided in two worlds, the affluent and the poor Half of India’s population lives below the poverty line of a

More problems than just cows In post-election cow-vigilante’s India, fanatic Hindus’ new pastime is to lynch cap-wearing Muslims. A mosque-goer Muslim in Gurugram was told by a gr

Burgeoning trade amid China-boycott callsIt appears Indian economics, too, is getting radicalised. Aside from shady efforts to isolate Pakistan under FATF, India is furious at China also. Indi

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Bitter lessons from the past Four decades ago, ZA Bhutto was hanged. But he still lives in memory of many Pakistanis from all walks of life.Pakistanis still debate the evidence agains

There is a deluge of malevolent propaganda concerning Islamic Jihad. But the Hindu kinds of holy yuddha (crusades) are rarely focused on. The Qur’an gives a clear instruction that ‘There