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Let India not assume a role of Moral and Conscience Keeper of Taliban’s Afghanistan: Lalit K Kaul

  Let India not assume a role of Moral and Conscience Keeper of Taliban’s Afghanistan                                                                                                                     Lalit K Kaul Indian media and Realpolitik are like two banks of a canal that never meet. The US having stationed its military might in Afghanistan for two decades chose to leave for her own geopolitical strategies; never addressed to Taliban as terrorists. The US still deals with Taliban. No world power and/or Nations who matter in the world affairs addressed to Taliban as terrorists, and this includes India. It is one thing to internationally denounce an ideological framework of a people and quite another to label them as terrorists. While the Taliban have been denounced for their attitude toward women and their violation of human rights, yet not labelled as terrorists, but the Indian media freely uses that invective against Taliban. For all the noises made by the media the world ov

That the PDP is progeny of the BJP Mehbooba Mufti should know: Lalit K Kaul

  That the PDP is progeny of the BJP Mehbooba Mufti should know                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Lalit K Kaul It is always interesting to read history; more interesting and revealing to dig it, if required. For all the self proclaimed “Secular” credentials of the PDP – as also of other political parties across the spectrum- Ms. Mehbooba Mufti needs to be reminded that her PDP was fathered by the BJP- the declared “communal” political party by all the perverted “Secularists”. The willing Mother was late Shri Mufti Muhammad Sayeed who was disgruntled with his the then parent party, the Sonia Congress. For details regarding the birth of PDP and the reasons behind it and how the Indian army facili

Why Saudi Arabia is silent on Taliban’s Afghanistan? Lalit K Kaul

                                       Why Saudi Arabia is silent on Taliban’s Afghanistan?  Lalit K Kaul The suicide bomb attacks near the Kabul Airport have raised apprehensions about the future of Afghans in their land that may get engulfed by uncertainties of the events to follow. It remains to be seen how the Taliban machinery brings under control the violence let loose by ISIS Khurasan (ISISK).  ISISK has taken the responsibility for the blasts. It is not the kind of beginning that the Taliban would have asked for, but has come to be. The administrative problems for the Taliban –facing resistance from Panjshir Valley and the Afghans in different parts of the country – seem to have grown many folds with the occurrence of blasts near the airport during the evacuation process. For the Afghans the Taliban are not welcome: That post peaceful takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban witnessed exodus of hundreds of Afghans to the Kabul airport desperately trying to leave their Mot

The Migration from Khoda to Allah has been Catastrophic (The trauma of Kashmiri Society): Lalit K Kaul

                               The Migration from Khoda to Allah has been Catastrophic (The trauma of Kashmiri Society)                                                                                     Lalit K Kaul Sri Nazm Sethi, highly respected and well known political commentator in Pakistan, whom the author follows near religiously, was recently asked: What is Pakistaniat? His reply betrayed pain and anguish within him for what Pakistan as a Nation has come to be. He said,” Pakistaniat that he grew up with is conspicuous by its absence and the extant one did not augur well for Pakistan” If the author was to be asked about Kashmiriat the reply wouldn’t be much different. Negation of Roots: Pakistan went through a transition since the then President Zia Ul Haq declared her to be an Islamic State in that it zealously started negating its thousands of years of cultural, historical and civilizational connect with the Indian Sub Continent and instead started locating its roo

Taliban are not Terrorists: Lalit K Kaul

  Taliban are not Terrorists Lalit K Kaul Indian media is calling the Taliban as terrorists. If Taliban are terrorists then so are the ex President of the USA and his administration who signed a pact/deal with the former for withdrawal of American forces from their land and in that exercise the US leadership did not think it necessary to include representative(s) of the government of Afghanistan. The simple deduction is that the US leadership did not consider Taliban as terrorists, but such a force to reckon with that the US military could not bring them to their knees and neutralize them forever as a contestant in the power politics of Afghanistan. The war of attrition had to be brought to the end one day, for all the losses of human lives, depletion of arms and ammunition and billions of dollars sunk to no use. The reality is that it may be easier to label the Taliban as terrorists, but not so for the US. The Humiliation:   Even a person possessed with less than average com

Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed and Omar Abdullah Epitomize Politics based on Falsehoods: Lalit K Kaul

  Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed and Omar Abdullah Epitomize Politics based on Falsehoods Lalit K Kaul  “India will pay with interest Aug 05”, Mehbooba Mufti and “India did not keep her promise to Kashmiris”, Omar Abdullah. Both the statements, a few days before the historic date of 05 08 2019, are not meant for Indian media, much less for Indian political leadership of the day who made that day historic, but for the Pak media and the political leadership and parties of Pakistan enabling Pakistan to create some commotion in the international arena for their domestic consumption. The employer’s pay cheque needs to be honoured by diligently working for the same and that’s what Mufti and Abdullah have done; by doing so they have also fed their constituency with an illusion that fight is ON against the abrogation. Pak’s and its various political party’s survival is centered on Kashmir and so are the political fortunes of Mufti and Abdullah. Center beware of such politicians! Your Grandfather