India’s China history on June 12, 2020The 1962 war between India and China was triggered by the unresolved border dispute between the two young republics that became independent nations in 1947 and 1949 respectively. Australian Journalist Neville Maxwell had been working in New Delhi as correspondent and observed at first hand the drama that ended with a crushing Indian defeat. In […]
Association Of Eastern States Of South Asia The Aessa Plan on June 9, 2020History teaches us that the falling apart of Empires not only creates many successor states but the relation between those states and their neighbours are often marred by conflicts, conflicts that include quarrels about who is the rightful successor of the previous empire and multiple border conflicts. Furthermore, the successor states have to find for […]
Pakistan’s cash crops Cotton production part iii on April 19, 2020The fourth largest producer of cotton in the world, more importantly Pakistan has the third largest spinning capacity after China and India in Asia with thousands of ginning and spinning units producing textile products from cotton. Approximately 1.5 million smallholder farmers rely on cotton for a living having to contend with the effects of extreme […]
Pakistan’s cash crops Sugar production ( part I) on April 16, 2020Produced from sugarcane sugar constitutes Pakistan’s second largest agro-based industry after textiles ranking fifth in the world in cane acreage and ninth in sugar production. An important cash crop in our country. Sugarcane is an important source of income for the farming community employing over 1.5 million people. This includes management, technology experts, skilled and […]
What is wrong with Pakistan’s Judiciary? on December 21, 2019During the last couple of years Pakistani judges and lawyers have increasingly drawn the attention of the public to their profession and conduct. Starting from the early days of Pakistan’s existence at a time when the state of Pakistan was young and vulnerable the judiciary has been justifying military take-overs and rulers with the ‘doctrine […]
The blood and tears of 1971 on December 15, 201916th December revives the gruesome memories of an important event in subcontinental history. For some of us memories are personal but most of us know about the fall-out ofthe events of 1971 from history books. The civil war that broke out in March 1971 lasted for almost nine months and broke our country into two, […]
Muslims and the Ayodhya verdict on November 30, 2019Babri mosque is a long-standing political, historical and socio-religious dispute. India’s Supreme Court recently declared a landmark verdict thwarting Muslim claims to the site where in a 1992 Hindu mob led by BJP activists destroyed the 491 years old Babri Mosque that had been built by the first Moghul ruler Babur in 1528. Hindus were […]
A Book Review ‘The India’ staging Bollywood in Bollywood on October 12, 2019“The Betrayal of India. Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence” was published in 2017 and since then has seen two more editions. The Book analyses the evidence that has been blamed on Pakistan in the Mumbai bombing case. Elias Davidsson is a Jewish writer with an IcelandicPassport living in Germany. He made a name for himself by […]
Separatist movements threatening India’s existence on September 16, 2019That India is confronted with a large number of separatist movements is not surprising given its ethnic and religious diversity alongwith a history of multiple sub-nationalisms. Webpage “Quora” counts 135 different separatist movements in India in 2017.Many of those movements being small or even dormant only proves the multiple tensions that such a large state […]
Myth of Indian media freedom on September 4, 2019The second term of BJP rule in India has exposed the fake Indian image of a free, democratic or secular country. The media is an exact mirror of what is going on. The print and other media is so much under the control of the Hindutva team that it has become dangerous for journalists to […]