The recent exposé that Pakistan made a secret deal in 2004 to allow the CIA to conduct drone attacks on civilian targets provided Washington spared its nuclear facilities and mountain camps where Kashmiri militants were being trained for attacks in India, makes it imperative that New Delhi urgently revisit the … Read More
By creating a four-member Lokayukta, Narendra Modi has defeated the machinations of the Congress-dominated UPA to use the office of Governor and Chief Justice of the High Court to appoint a Lokayukta known for ideological bias against the Chief Minister. The Congress, in fact, has suffered a long-term defeat because … Read More
The shrillness with which political parties in Tamil Nadu have espoused the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils, with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa setting a dangerous precedent by seeking UN intervention for a referendum to partition the island nation, contrasts sharply with their deafening silence on the plight of the Tamil … Read More
The arrest of Pakistani national and Hizbul Mujahideen operative Liaquat Ali Shah on March 20, 2013, after he crossed over from Nepal along with his family, raises serious questions about the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s Surrender & Rehabilitation Policy for militants, and the Union Home Ministry’s complicity in giving free … Read More
When on March 14, 2013, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose the archbishop of Buenos Aires as new Pope the election was no surprise to the cognoscenti. Soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the German press leaked the details of his election in 2005, which showed Bergoglio was in … Read More
The Congress-led UPA has stooped to a new low in its quest to capture the increasingly uncertain Muslim vote-bank, with a mischievous and deplorable move to set up ‘special courts’ for members of the minority community who have been “falsely implicated” in terror cases. Apart from being a stunning denunciation … Read More
Even before the nation could imbibe the magnitude of the Supreme Court’s verdict on March 21, 2013, which finally brought the curtain down on the Mumbai serial bomb blasts that took over 257 lives and left 713 injured on March 12, 1993, the irrepressible Chairman of the Press Council of … Read More
In a vociferous defence of the manner in which he fought and won the 30-year war against the LTTE, former Sri Lanka Army Chief Sarath Fonseka riddled holes in the allegation that his troops murdered Velupillai Prabhakaran’s minor son, offered to face any probe, and gave a powerful, albeit indirect, … Read More
Whatever the outcome of the Friday, March 22, 2013, vote on the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka, the Congress-dominated UPA and the DMK, along with some of the latter’s allies in Tamil Nadu have jointly opened the door for a future Western military intervention in Asia under the dubious doctrine … Read More
