The following is from an article of the Washington Post published on the 15th of December 1963. Titled "A Fairy Tale Vale Laced by Bullets 'incidents' Are Commonplace along the Cease-Fire Line Dividing Kashmir"
" A Desolate Contrast
Although Pakistan most of the Poonch and Mirpur ranges of...
The great mediator
Sometimes Turkey really is a bridge between west and east
Aug 19th 2010 | istanbul
IN JUNE 2006, days after a young Israeli private was captured by Hamas, Israel’s ambassador to Turkey paid a midnight visit to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister. Gilad Shalit...
Mate thats pretty much what he said. The decision moved on and Mr.Parthasrthy didn't get a chance to get a Yes or No reply. Even if the second direct question was asked, it is highly unlikely that he would have given a direct answer for he was very evasive in the first case itself...
Ok since you made an effort. Let me summaries for you what happened in the video:
Towards the end of the discussion Mr.Azim was asked a direct question by Mr.G Parthasarthy (former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan) as why foreign journalsts were not allowed to visit Gilgit-Baltistan...
Asia Times seems to be blog mate. I am not sure it can be pitted as anti-thesis to the NYT article, there is a lot of difference between the two. May be may be not. If you can come up with something credible i am very open to revising my opinion. Till then i will stick with the NYT article...
I don't think that a local journalist cant talk to him. Just that it is hard to believe, this is the internet & people claim to be a lot of things. How do i know that you are what you claim to be? Credibility is important my friend.
Alright i will ask you his number but in a day or two...
Care to provide a link to the article you mentioned. So that i can verify what you are saying. Yet, you seem to have avoided a direct answer to Mr.Tariq Azim's comment.
At first look, Asia Times seems like a blog.
Frustration & anger is all that your post says. Its understandable in the sense that you have not not been able put up any credible defense in support of your claim.
Your repeated inability to respond to my query on Mr.Tariq Azim statement is clear proof of the bankruptcy of your ideas. Need...
Jan Goodwin is only as Pakistani as Selig Harrison is an Indian. Get the point or it needs further elucidation!!
The article is from 2005, it is nearly 5 years old & that too from a blog about fashion & s_ex advice!! Nice source.
Indeed, looks like it. Even the New York Times and Mr.Tariq...
Read this carefully & try to understand the context:
"The entire western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a...
Search and Rescue team??? When did search and rescue teams start qualifying as Journalists?
I guess you have not read the original article carefully. I strongly suggest that you do that now.
From the main article:
"he entire western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the...
Ok let's say hypothetically that it is a naive argument. But what do you have to say about Mr.Azim's statement?
Watch the video, that's what the link is for. Stop beating about the bush. This whole debate is centered around weather "foreign journalists" are allowed into Gilgit-Baltistan or not...
Not good news for Erdogan and the AKP. In spite of successfully blocking Gen. Ilker Basbug's choice for his successor, i guess he didn't really get what he wanted.
The counter point of view provided is simply not convincing. I have said earlier and i am saying it again Tourist are not equal to Journalists. Mountaineers climbing K2 do not bring back news of ground realities in the region, they just bring back news of their accomplishments or failures...
Ok, lets see:
1. IRA - provided arms and training by Lybia. also people of Irish origin in the US contributed substantially to funding it and in some instances even arming it with weapons smuggled from the US.
2. Hezbollah - proxy of Iran, supported both financially and militarily by Iran...