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If Kashmiri migrants like Nawaz Sharif and Raheel Sharif wanted such good relations with the RSS/BJP, why didn't they just stay in Kashmir and campaign for union with India; why did they move to Lahore? This is just a naataq where they fool other ethnic groups with declarations of 'protect the...

Well there are also two inter-linked factors: 1. The wealthy elite groups from central British India which campaigned the strongest for the division of British India into Pakistan and India framed their argument in an 'Us-verses-Them' religious sense because they realized that the groups whom...

It's puzzling that a ruling group which stages drama's based on a siege and starvation of some people more than a thousand years ago; should hypocritically and so cynically engage in the siege and starvation of thousands of people today. I think the Sunni Arab residents of Syria have more in...

I'm quite certain that the profits of companies in both countries are grossly exaggerated and that there are probably hundreds of billions of dollars of toxic debts which are being hidden in all those padded balance sheets. We will discover the truth as soon as the next worldwide economic crisis...

I've never really understood the hostility of Pakistan's rulers towards Israel. It's a fact that Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ordered General Zia to assist the Jordanian regime in killing close to 20,000 Palestinians, so how is it that anyone in Pakistan considers Bhutto a hero while condemning Israel? I...

That's a rather inane justification. Are we discussing name or substance? If we're discussing the name of the state, when did a state calling itself *Iran* and not Persia or any other name last exist? If we're discussing substance are we suggesting a continuity on the basis of DNA or on the...

In effect you don't believe in your religion but think it's useful to hold Iran together--hence your use of the term 'necessary evil'. If that's the case you don't really believe in the Iranian people or in their sense of nationhood, and much less in their ability to exercise common-sense; since...

I asked for evidence (and not a rant and you tearing your hair out) that the federal government has granted a provincial government power to sign such agreements. Unless Pakistan is run on the basis of a Lahore based incestuous biradri gathering their uncles and calling that lawful authority...

Shia religion is a necessary evil? That doesn't sound like a great vote of confidence in your own beliefs! :-) How did it preserve Persian culture? The ruling Ayatollahs do not even claim to be Persians let alone Iranians. In fact they explicitly claim to be descended from an Arab tribe. That...

The federal government authorized a provincial government to sign agreements of this complexity and having such significant implications for the future defense of the state? Can you please provide proof? I don't mean just a statement by the Sharif family or their relatives. Also, why the...

That's not true. Uprisings in Kashmir have been taking place since 1947.

United States Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 10, provides in Clause 1: "No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation. . . ." Clause 3 provides: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress.... enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power ...

A religion that unites all the minorities? Are you suggesting the Persian Sunnis, Kurdish Sunnis, Ahwaz Sunnis, Turkmen Sunnis, Baluchi Sunnis and others follow the Safavid faith? :-) I quite agree that the Taliban were a brutal regime. However they didn't sexually molest and rape men, women...

I'm puzzled that a provincial government is signing deals with a foreign state. Is that normal for Pakistan?

Burma remains the linchpin or center of gravity in the region. It's a question of which way Burma turns that will have an enormous impact. The current ruling ethnic group in Burma are Chinese who migrated from Yunnan several hundred years ago, and displaced the native sub-continental groups such...

Why are they blaming the provincial government? The provincial government is itself having its resources (including electricity) stolen by another province, thanks to that province being the seat for the ruler of the state and his hangers-on.

That's the mentality of a sectarian or war-lord. An interesting perspective which will either lead to endless war as each foreign or minority group tries to carve out its own little fiefdom and impose its will on the surrounding majority; or lots of peaceful little swiss statelets all working...

Actually there are lots of people in Sinhalese regard Ravan as a hero, the traditional Indian version of the story as false, and that Ravan was avenging his sister Surpanakha, whose nose was mutilated by Lakshman, the brother of Ram.

Just a few observations: 1. The Iranian leadership are neither Persian nor Iranian. They are Levantine Arabs belonging to a 'ghulati' sect brought into Persia by the Safavis as part of a calculated plan to splinter Iran from the region and allow it to be controlled by the Safavis. 2. The...

Pakistan hasn't had a leader who cared about the national interest since the days of Ayub Khan. Every single leader since that date has been concerned with either their own sectarian or ethnic group's interests. The only thing the Sharif's are interested in is the same... Each of these...