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Sri Lanka, China And Hambantota0
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- August 16, 2017
Sathiya Moorthy In signing off around 70 per cent of the Hambantota Port holdings to a front company of the Chinese Government, as against the originally proposed 80 per cent, the Maithiri-Ranil leadership has done more than what predecessor President Mahinda Rajapaksa had done in his time. Whatever little might have been left open then
Indian Partition: A brief history of India and Pakistan on the 70th anniversary of independence0
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- August 15, 2017
Celebrations were held on the 70th anniversary of Indian Partition EPA Chloe Chaplain The Evening Standard August 15 marks 70 years since the partition of India and the end of British colonial rule. The sub-continent was once a key economic asset of the British Empire, ruled from London for almost 100 years. But it paved
For India’s Oldest Citizens, Independence Day Spurs Memories Of A Painful Partition0
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- August 15, 2017
August 15, 2017 Julie McCarthy Promila Saigal remembers the men in her family tossing her “like a football” from the rooftop of one family home to the next, in a bid to save her from the frenzy that washed over the Indian subcontinent 70 years ago. Enlarge this image Promila Saigal, 76, sits with her
Kashmir for Kashmiris! (A Sovereign Kashmir: Random Thoughts-307)0
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- August 15, 2017
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal India for Indians, Pakistan for Pakistanis and, of course, Kashmir for Kashmiris and there cannot be two opinions. Pakistan had been a part of India but no more. But India cannot take Kashmir in place of Pakistan which is now an independent nation. And hence annexation and brutal occupation of Jammu
Why Pakistan Hates Malala0
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- August 15, 2017
The West reveres Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Pakistanis resent and envy her. By Michael Kugelman On July 7, Malala Yousafzai posted her first tweet. Within hours, she had earned several hundred thousand followers and a warm welcome from the Twittersphere. Over the next few days, as word emerged on social media that she
China contributes to doubts about Pakistani crackdown on militants0
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- August 15, 2017
By James M. Dorsey China, at the behest of Pakistan, has for the second time this year prevented the United Nations from listing a prominent Pakistani militant as a globally designated terrorist. China’s protection of Masood Azhar, who is believed to have close ties to Pakistani intelligence and the military, comes days after another militant
Seventy Years After Independence, Remembering the Titans Who Got Us There0
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- August 15, 2017
By Sucheta Mahajan on 15/08/2017 Today there is an attempt at portraying the Congress party – and its leaders during independence and Partition – in very different hues from the inclusiveness, tolerance, democracy and secularism it upheld in very trying times. Mahatma Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru (L) and Sardar Vallabhai Patel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons The
How the Partition of India happened – and why its effects are still felt today0
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- August 15, 2017
Mahatma Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1947. Wikimedia Commons Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway “Partition” – the division of British India into the two separate states of India and Pakistan on August 14-15, 1947 – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British were able to secure agreement over how independence would take place. At
Commentary
The pain is doubled when the government keeps saying Bangladesh has democracy2
- Commentary
- May 13, 2017
Sheikh Hasina has choked her grip on the citizens of Bangladesh using all kinds of rules and regulations. Bangladesh passport bill is the latest one. This law can refuse issuance or renewal of anyone’s passport if the government suspects someone to be anti-state. Mixing up the state with the government, anyone can be accused of
Pakistan’s lurch towards ultra-conservativism abetted by Saudi-inspired pyramid scheme0
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- April 22, 2017
By James M. Dorsey Pakistan has been for at least four decades a major theatre of operations in the global struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran for dominance in the Muslim world. The stakes for both regional powers are high given that Pakistan borders on Iran; shares with the Islamic republic the restless region
Ambassador Nikki Haley Is Completely Clueless0
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- February 26, 2017
Ambassador Nikki Haley Is Completely Clueless United States’ Nikki Haley. Photo Credit: Office of the President-elect, Wikipedia Commons. By Daniel McAdams February 26, 2017 Just when we thought the great national embarrassment of a UN Ambassador Samantha Power was over, we are suddenly faced with a new US Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley,
Indian concerns over Maldives island-lease: It’s not about China but about sovereignty talk0
- Blog, Commentary, Issue 20 - Spring 2017
- February 2, 2017
Indian concerns over Maldives island-lease: It’s not about China but about sovereignty talk N Sathiya Moorthy, South Asia Monitor, 1 February 2017 At a New Year news conference in Male, Chinese Ambassador Wang Fukang reportedly expressed ‘surprise’ over “concerns raised by Indian journalists over the leasing of the Maldivian island of Feydhoo Finolhu (an uninhabited island