I have been absent from this blog for quite some days related with my own learning journey. Been thinking a lot about all these India-Pakistan thingies. For all people of the two countries, there is a perspective i’d like to share: Identity: Pakistan seems to still be in teenage rebellion mode when it comes to [...]
Update: After getting praise mails that I am, as a journalist encouraging war, I need to state specifically that I am NOT a journalist, and my knowledge of politics is minimal. What I am is a concerned and distraught citizen. My posts are not informed political opinions or advice about policy, but thoughts that cross [...]
Awesome, Isn’t it? How much of a fool can the media make of themselves? The whole Mumbai nightmare has been faithfully punctuated my bad reporting by the media. One terrorist killed at Taj. Seven. uh, it was two. Two! Which two? I thought four…. but that wasn’t at Taj! That was at Oberoi……… If you [...]
Call me ignorant, but THIS is Pakistan’s idea of peace? What in the world do they have to be preparing and parading their nukes about? Mumbai gets attacked, held hostage; India is devastated; proofs emerge that LeT is involved; Pakistan remains stubbornly blind as usual; Zardari pleads that even if its Lashkar, not to strike [...]
Today, there is news of yet another Kashmiri student dying in an Army encounter. The Army says that it had received information on suspicious activity and had laid an ambush. When they detected movement, they challenged the persons, and on not getting a reply, they opened a fire in which Manzoor Ahmed Magray a student [...]
As I look around at my beloved city ravaged for some obscure purpose, my blood boils. I read around on the net, drawn to the news reports like a horrific accident that I can’t bear or ignore. I see reports of devastated lives and responses from protest marches to non-cooperation. On the other hand, I [...]
I’ve been following news on the Mumbai terror attacks religiously, and to my surprise, today, there are reports in various UK newspapers that Mumbai police are looking for a woman in a burqa who assisted the terrorists. All these news pieces agree that the captured terrorist confirmed her presence and that she visited the terrorists [...]
If one good thing can be said to have emerged from this whole nightmare, it is that many perceptions in Pakistan and other country Muslims about India seem to have been broken. The first and very important is where Muslims are harrassed and arrested every time there is a terror attack in India. Not only [...]
As I read up on all the different reports from the warnings that had been there, I am more and more certain that this was not an intelligence failure so much as a failure to design intelligent responses. What more intelligence is needed? You have warnings about an attack from the sea by captured terrorists, [...]
I don’t deny that there was great bravery shown on all fronts against the terrorists. Yet, as we move on from the tragedy, the urgency is blurring. At this time, I want to take a moment to look at things that could have been better. Equipment and training: I put these together, since it would [...]