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“Force Fungibility”: Indian troops in Afghanistan
Rupi News | 7 hours ago by Moin Ansari
Force fungibility: “Indian troops in Afghanistan will shift battleground away from Kashmir and Indian Mainland”. There are renewed calls by Delhi to allow it to send troops to Afghanistan. Kabul bombing: Ruse to send Indian troops to Afgh read more
Manmohan’s Mumbai mess: Case has more holes than a sieve
Rupi News | December 25th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Manmohan’s Mumbai mess: Case has more holes than a sieve. Nothing makes sense. We have been reporting about Mumbai for months now. Mumbai militancy: Some inexplicable questions for Indian leaders. There a hundreds of unanswered questions on the read more
Quaid e Azam as “The Hindu” saw him in 1948
Rupi News | December 25th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Jaswanth Singh eulogized Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his current book. The Bharati media weaned on the milk of "Jinnnah hatred" don't have a clue about one of the greatest political leaders of South Asia In the light of the controversy gener read more
Eliminating schisms: Is a joint Sunni-Shia Fiqah possible?
Rupi News | December 25th 2009 by Moin Ansari
May God forgive me if I have transgressed. Ashura is a divisive time for Islam, and vested interests exacerbate the differences between the two major sects. 90% of Muslims of the world are Sunni. 10% are Shia. The schism that developed between the tw read more
CIA & ISOC terrorizing Pakistanis to “convince” them to a…
Rupi News | December 25th 2009 by Moin Ansari
More than 80% of Afghanistan is in the hands of the Afghan militant groups. At the same time a vitriolic campaign is waged in the US media by defeated American General about the so called “save havens”. It seems inane that the few hundred read more
Happy Birthday Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 24th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Jinnah and Liaqat at the 1940 Lahore Resolution (Pakistan Resolution) The Pakistanphobia against Pakistan plus the the paranoia against all Pakistanis is the root cause of the hatred emanating from Delhi. The history taught in Bharat is really the h read more
Zaid Hamid sets the record straight about East Pakistan
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 23rd 2009 by Moin Ansari
Zaid Hamid sets the record straight about East Pakistan For the past 40 years, a historical lie has been propagated by Indians about East Pakistan. The dirty role of Indian government and mass genocide of Pakistanis in East Pakistan at the hands of R read more
Anniversary of Russian failure in Afghanistan: US faces same fate…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 23rd 2009 by Moin Ansari
MOSCOW – Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan, a move that sank the Soviet Union in a decade of guerrilla war and hastened the collapse of the Cold War empire. Today, as former Soviet soldiers watch America read more
Indian Kangaroo Court: Kasab denies using sea route–Police tort…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 23rd 2009 by Moin Ansari
Kasab denies coming to Mumbai through sea route Mumbai, Dec 23 (PTI): Lone surviving Pakistani gunman Ajmal Kasab today denied having entered Mumbai through the sea route and stuck to his earlier claim that he had come to the city 20 days bef read more
Lessons of history from Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 20th 2009 by Moin Ansari
What would ZAB do? Monday, December 21, 2009 Gibran PeshimamIt was an anxious summer in 1977. Frenzied negotiations were underway between the Pakistan People’s Party and the combined opposition to reach to an underst read more
Talking to a bully is useless. Why have peace talks?
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 20th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Akhand Bharat remains a dream of many in the Bharati establishment. There is documented proof that Jawhaarlal Nehru sent letters out in the 40s proclaiming that “Pakistan” would be reabsorbed. Even so called “secular” leaders like Indira Gand read more
India claims CIA knew about Mumbai: US silence seen as collaborat…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 20th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Did the Americans have detailed advance information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with India, only passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy within the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed read more
US can hardly ask others not to put their own needs first–Admir…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 20th 2009 by Moin Ansari
The US wants Pakistan to make war in North Waziristan–ostensibly against the Haqqani Network. Admiral Mullen fails to expalin why Haqqani’s Hisz Islami is part of the Karazai government–with about 40 members sitting in the Afghan read more
Bring the Pakistanis back home–revoke Zia ordinance stripping t…
Rupi News | December 20th 2009 by Moin Ansari
December 16 marks the 38th anniversary of the breakup of Pakistan when the Eastern wing of the country emerged as Bangladesh after an India-backed secessionist movement. The occasion calls for highlighting the plight of about 250,000 so-called Bihari read more
F-22 Frigates to challenge attempted hegemony in South Asia
Rupi News | December 19th 2009 by Moin Ansari
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Commissioning of F-22P frigate for Pakistan – PNS Shamsheer – was held on Saturday at Shanghai, China, where Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nauman Bashir was the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Admiral Nauman said read more
J-10: The New heart of Sino-Pakistani Defense Nexus
Rupi News | December 19th 2009 by Moin Ansari
J-10: The New Cornerstone of Sino-Pakistani Defense Cooperation China and Pakistan have forged a formidable partnership in high-tech defense production. This partnership is born of their ever-deepening military and strategic cooperation that is also read more
Il-76 Refueling tankers: Pakistan Air Force can now reach all of…
Rupi News | December 19th 2009 by Moin Ansari
The PAF lacked the capability to reach Kolkota and Assam. Theoratically Bharat (aka India) could have hidden some of their assets in the Northeast where they would not be very vulnerable. The Bharati assets would not be totally safe, because the Paki read more
A case for compensation for colonialism: The blood has not dried
Rupi News | December 19th 2009 by Moin Ansari
As the Union Jack went down the celeberation was tarnished becuase of the horrible biased decisions of Mr. Ratcliffs boundary commisison. Radcliff was so scared of the repercusisons that he burned all the papers and fled New Delhi Forgotten claims? F read more
Gilani’s collision course: Will the Supreme Court back Tariq Kh…
Rupi News | December 19th 2009 by Moin Ansari
It is difficult being honest in Pakistan. Tariq Khosa was the most deligent and brutally honest civil servant that would not take no for an answer. He was incorruptible and indefatigable–’till he was fired by Prime Minsiter Yusuf Gilani. read more
You can run but you can’t hide
Rupi News | December 18th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Supreme Court Chief Justice dismissed by Musharraf wants Zardari’s $330 million Surray Palace investigated There is unsubstantiated rumor and innuendo from multicolored writings from non-credible sources and then there is irrefutable fact from read more
Ambassador Haqqani loses–ISI to approve all visas of US nationa…
Rupi News | December 18th 2009 by Moin Ansari
ISLAMABAD – In a major policy decision, the government has made it mandatory for the Pakistani missions abroad to issue visas to foreigners intending to visit Pakistan only after their clearance from the country’s top intelligence agency ISI. Wel read more
Holbrooke talks a good talk on aid: Trade preferences, ROZ, FTA m…
Rupee News The main account | December 17th 2009 by Moin Ansari
The world economic powers must lend economic support to Pakistan as robustly as they are doing for Afghanistan to help Islamabad step up socio-economic development of its people, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke said. The Obama Administration’s read more
Zaradri’ Cabal feels the heat: The Party is over
Rupee News The main account | December 17th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Interior minister Rehman Malik believed to be on exit control list drawn up after court ends legal amnesty Asif Ali Zardari: The Pakistani president’s government is under pressure after supreme court ended legal amnesty. Photograph: John Mo read more
Noose tightens around Rehman Malik: Can he escape?
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 16th 2009 by Moin Ansari
According to the Supreme Court, the NRO is not effective any more. This means, that those who had been convicted of crimes are criminals. Criminals cannot hold office. Criminals belong behind bars. This leaves Rehamn Malik in a quandry. He has to pos read more
Free Kashmir: African Union slaps India with admonition on Kashmi…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 16th 2009 by Moin Ansari
ISLAMABAD (APP) – The ambassadors of African Union have urged India to resolve the Kashmir dispute at the earliest, as it is vital to peace and stability of the region in particular and the world in general. According to the Kashmir Media Services, read more
The wrong lessons from 1971
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 16th 2009 by Moin Ansari
The wrong lessons from 1971 The Day that lives in infamy: December 16th Warrior “diplomacy” of India Why Mujib Ur Rehman is not mourned in Bangladesh today There are certainly are many lessons to the learned from 1971—but most politici read more
Foreign Office overrides Mr. Haqqani. Visas refused to Blackwater
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 16th 2009 by Moin Ansari
Ambassador Haqqani’s staff has been issuing blanket visas to anyonoe who applies. When the Pakistani Foreign Office checked the applications, and overruled the Paksitani Ambassador to America, a story “about harassment” was leak read more
Pakistan’s M2 motorway
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 16th 2009 by Moin Ansari
< 1 / 2 > View Full Size Alistair Scrutton first joined Reuters in 1998 as correspondent in Peru. Then he moved to Buenos Aires as senior correspondent for southern Latin America, covering coups in Bolivia, rebel violence in Peru an read more
The Day that lives in infamy: December 16th
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 15th 2009 by Moin Ansari
The wrong lessons from 1971 The Day that lives in infamy: December 16th Warrior “diplomacy” of India Why Mujib Ur Rehman is not mourned in Bangladesh today Greater “Brihot” Bangladesh is inevitable! Who were the architects of religi read more
“Afghanistan is getting progressively worse. We are caught betw…
Rupee News: Editor's Disquisitions & Fulminations | December 15th 2009 by Moin Ansari
“Afghans live under the shadow of the gun with the most corrupt government in the world.” – Malalai Joya It’s too bad Barack Obama didn’t consult with Malalai Joya before giving his Nobel acceptance speech on Thursday. read more
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