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  From Tribal/Army Invasion to Operation Gibraltar to Operation Topac to Pak in a Limbo Lalit K Kaul A building that is founded on false foundation and covered by false roofing is not designed to survive the vagaries of weather; yes, such a building can be a toy to play with. Pakistan is such a building. A person with a lot of venom within is ultimately consumed by it; the Pak society embodies such person. A person who keeps blaming the whole world for his/her failures becomes irrelevant to it; Pak politicians embody such person. False Foundation: For Muhammad Ali Jinnah religion was the defining parameter of a Nation and civilization conveniently negating the facts of human civilization (anywhere in the world) that while religion(s) in a(the) region(s) did undergo transformations, the people in the region (the societies/communities) maintain a kind of continuity with their culture, language, belief systems and their interactive ways with the mother Nature; with change (volunte

  The Plebiscite in POJK: How Can a PM be so Ignorant of History as Imran Khan is? Lalit K Kaul For all the claims of the PM of Pakistan that he knows about Europe and its culture more than the Europeans and that he does know the history of Uzbekistan because he is a student of history, he gives the impression that he does not know the history of his own country and the   regions under her occupation. Nothing sums up his ignorance about the history of the Indian sub continent more aptly than his declaration in the election rallies in the POJK that he will conduct referendum in the region to know the people’s preference between the two choices like, 1) the region’s merger with Pakistan and 2) being an independent nation state.   Political Imperatives are not unconstrained:     There is this possibility that the PM of Pakistan may be playing to the gallery in the hope of securing some more votes for his political party in the ensuing elections, but even then the bottom line is th

The Farmers and the Government on a Jungle Safari (F rom Jungle to Zoo & Back Everyday Anytime!)                                                                                                                                                                                 Lalit K Kaul From Jungle (Sikri Border) to Zoo (Jantar Mantar) and back; all free of cost ostensibly, but to be borne by the tax payer; hospitality extended for the first time in the history of independent India only to ridicule those who think that they are agitating for a cause dear to them. Who cares? As long all of it is peaceful and the electronic media gets busy overtime with quality competition in earning TRP and the unemployed politicians improve their visibility by standing in front of the multiple cameras while answering questions that neither have any relevance nor the rationale, because none of these Netas have courage to state explicitly what’s truly going on and neither do the journalists have

  OIC Kashmir India & Pakistan                                                                                                                                              Lalit K Kaul The US President Joe Biden’s snub to the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) and Pakistan PM, Sri Imran Khan, combined with the growing threat of Islamic Republic of Iran (Shia Nation) to the Sunni Muslim world set in motion redefining of relationships within and without the Arab world that opened a window for the OIC to oblige Pakistan with its statement on Kashmir. The OIC though comprising of many Muslim Nations yet the KSA holds the key. The threat perception necessitated a show of unity among the OIC members and its assertion was proclaimed by flogging the much beaten cow – the Indian Kashmir, as they call it. The Locus Standi: The OIC has no locus standi insofar as the much orchestrated issue (by Pakistan) of “Kashmir” is concerned. While respecting the concept of Ummah and their exp