Search results

The Sikhs have always been a very respected community among the Hindus who have viewed them as protectors. Sikhs are disproportionately represented in the Indian armed forces and many chiefs have been Sikhs. No matter how low is profession or economic status, a Sikh is addressed as "Sardar ji"...

What will the names of those those countries be ? I can count Balochistan , Pashtunistan , Sindhudesh, but what about the others ? India intervened militarily in Bangladesh because she couldn't afford to keep the refugees that had fled after the West Pakistani army started the genocide and mass...

All of the Congress leadership was opposed to partition. However, Sardar Patel was one of the first in the Congress to accept the idea after Jinnah's Direct Action Day as he realised Jinnah's increasing demands would prove to be catastrophic for a united India. In fact, Sardar Patel and VP Menon...

I do not engage with any uncouth ignoramus. Putting on ignore.

I don't understand why Pakistanis support Khalistan. The Khalsa were initiated by Guru Gobind Singh Ji in response to the atrocities by the Muslim Mughal rulers. His father, Guru Teg Bahadur ji, was martyred by beheading on the orders of the zealot Muslim emperor Aurangzeb and he lost his sons...

Well, they had accepted Russia to a large extent. Russia received huge IMF loans and was even included into the G-8. Russia was only expelled from there after the annexation of Crimea. Yeltsin had a good personal rapport with Clinton and Putin with Bush and Schroeder. Europe agreed to become...

The younger Russian population especially identifies with Western values, not Chinese. If the Russians get fed up of the war , Putin gets toppled and free elections are held, Navalny, who leans towards Western democracies, may well come to power. It may look unlikely now, but so did the...

I agree with you on that, but the fact is that China is stuck with Putin in a way that India, for example, is not. If Putin gets replaced by someone like Navalny, India and Russia will continue to have strong relations - actually even stronger because the West would not disapprove of two of...

China knows very well that if Putin gets toppled from power and is replaced by a truly democratic government, Russia well most likely slip into the Western sphere of influence. At this stage , the plan is thin on details, but it is clear than Putin will never agree with how most of the world...

Slightly different take on this https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/india-pakistan-love-story-ludo-opinion-8459785/ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64740767P

The definition of a market price is that it is the intersection of the highest price a buyer is willing to pay and the lowest price a seller is willing to accept. If the market price is 41 cents on the dollar, it means that is the price at which there is both a buyer and a seller.

Not a traditional bank, but there are plenty of vulture funds - they will probably be willing to lend at 25 cents on the dollar in the example above.

The answer is that in the present circumstances, there is no incentive for India to lose money trying to bail out Pakistan. It is irrelevant whether Pakistanis trust Indian capability and quality. They see India as the enemy, so will not allow Indian companies to be involved in critical projects...

Well, it would depend on the interest rate charged. There are private investors who specialise in junk rated debt. I am sure at a high enough yield some will be willing to take risk on Pakistan once the IMF forced them to cut their budget deficit and become more creditworthy.

The Chinese government is willing to risk losing money in Pakistan because Pakistan is a client state. Why will the Indian government be willing to lose money in Pakistan on worse terms than what China gets. Private sector works on the basis of profit and not charity. Even Chinese private...

It is obviously not acceptable, but Pakistan is too dependent on China to exercise independent agency in this matter. It is just realpolitik. Even India and China cannot defend the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but have to keep their own national interests in mind over taking an idealistic...

No private sector player will lend to Pakistan without an IMF deal. As for the Indian government, they could probably give money to Pakistan at better terms than China, but Pakistan will never put up the strategic assets, like Gwadar port, that India would want at collateral. Even if it did...

It may be more capable, but is India really looking for such a heavy fighter when they already have hundreds of Su-30MKI ? Also, Lockheed Martin has claimed India will be the hub for manufacturing F-16s , including for the export market. I am not sure a similar deal will be offered by Boeing...

No idea what that means. I am not familiar with the language spoken inside Pakistani homes. Is it somethung abusive ? I guess it is something for the mods and admins to look into if that is so.

What does Randa bandri mean ?