Geo-Political

All the Geo Political action in India's neighborhood!

India Advises Indian Businesses against doing business in Chinese City

Things are heating up between India and China.  The latest incident – after many from China like actions regarding bureaucrats from Arunachal – is the Indian Advisory to Indian traders against doing business in Yiwu – near Shanghai. Efforts were on to quietly shift them to Shanghai. But the controversy, which left an Indian diplomat in [...]

Pakistani Couple in London slaved and raped a teen-age Deaf and Mute girl

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Came across a news item today, where a Pakistani couple – 83 year old Ilyas Ashar and 66 year old wife Tallat Ashar had kept a deaf and mute Pakistani girl, - they had brought all the way from Pakistan, as a slave – when she was 10.  She is now supposed to be 19 or [...]

Indians and Chinese Discriminated against in College Admissions in name of “Promoting Diversity”

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If you are an Indian or Chinese student, the chances are you are discriminated when it comes to College Admissions in the US. This is being proved by repeated studies and also from the complaints against some premier colleges like Harvard and Princeton. The explanations offered try their best to give a spin. In a [...]

Osama’s Death and Pakistan

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Osama Bin Laden’s saga will turn out to be one issue that is going to define Pakistan and even its relationship to the world in the coming decades. Why? Because a lot of what is happening and what will happen in the future is because the veil over the actions by the Jehadis and the [...]

China, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar – The Future and Past Follies of India’s Foreign Policy in its Neighborhood

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Slowly and gradually and under the very nose of India, Nepal is becoming a vassal state of China. Maoists took over the country and reversed its status as a Hindu State. And now, there is serious talk in that Government of abandoning the special status treaty with India. Because, they want to hedge their bets [...]

Chinese Government Shoot Tibetan Protesters in Cold Blood

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Four Tibetans have self-immolated themselves to protest against their repression by the Chinese Government. Tibetans asking for freedom were arrested a few days back by the Chinese and Tibetan youth came out to protest. What does the Chinese Government do? They start shooting the protesters who were unarmed. One dies (am sure this is a [...]

Afghans have a tough time with high prices and low food stocks and Pak locks land route

There has been a constant discussion in Pakistan on how it “helps” Afghanistan and how the Afghans aren’t thankful enough.  This news item shows how much the Afghans are dependent on the land route from Pakistan to get their basic This act will only increase the tensions and mistrust between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is [...]

Taliban Shoots down 15 Pakistani Soldiers in Revenge

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A Taliban commander comes on and after saying he is going to shoot his captives as a revenge for his people having been killed by the Government. Then he shouts “Allah-o-Akbar” (Allah is Great) and shoots 15 military personnel down. The situation wouldn’t be anything strange given the reputation of Taliban but for the details [...]

We will make Pakistan a Taliban State

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How do you fight a person, when you can’t fight the mentality? The Jehadis in Pakistan have very clear enemies – Americans & Westerners, Jews, Indians (read Hindus), and the Muslims who aren’t “Muslim enough”. That is how the hierarchy of “Enemies of Islam” goes. What happened in Lahore is symptomatic of a larger malaise [...]

Five Predictions for 2012: How will the world be like?

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This year, 2012, is a significant year in many ways. There are enough doomsday-sayers, who believe that 2012 will be the end of the world. World, as per the great mystic and yogi Sadhguru is poised to see a surge in ability of people to touch their inner self. World is at a point where [...]