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Let us see if Saudis will still buy it. Their budget is apparently under strain because of low oil price.

In my POV, freedom of expression includes freedom to troll :) But hate speech should be punishable. Whereas bigot(who tactfully skirt the hatespeech definition) should be treated like the bigots and racists they are. In US you are free to be a racist, except you would be isolated socially. Even...

Agree with you Nair. The principle should be that Indian arms should not cause harm to any Afghan. However if things get too dangerous, then all bets are off. Meanwhile Afghanistan should be encouraged to not capitulate to the Afghan Taliban at any cost. A common Afghan army soldier will feel...

CNN-IBN is a sensationalist channel. At its extreme ends, it has anchors like the one who interviewed Mukhtar and are a disgrace to journalism. You have Dawn to keep Pakistan's conscience, India has The Hindu.

Godspeed Afghanistan. Too much barbarianism and suffering you have endured. This is time to tie up ends and build an inclusive country.

Thanks for trying to steer the topic to things that matter. Freedom of expression should be absolute as long as it does not hinder other's freedoms. Satanic Verses should be unbanned. For the government's credit Lajja was not banned in India. I consider the bans so far acceptable only in view of...

There was a control case called Iraq which everyone forgot quite stupendously. That is not strategic depth meant to Pakistan. Either you are ignorant or lying through your teeth. Strategic depth is what it sounds like - a staging ground for Pakistani forces to reorganize if they lost territory.

Please... you know that is not true. Afghanistan got into the mess for no fault of its own.

I think we need to have more beef parties and pork parties, send a message to people on how to handle things that are not to their liking - by simply walking away. Nobody is force-feeding anyone with beef or pork.

Apply the same formula :) (1/66)*2/7.5 (INR in dollars) * Indias nominal GDP in trillion/Indias PPP GDP in trillion What this formula gives is essentially how many dollars will give you a particular amount of purchasing power in a country. If we assume one unit of purchasing power will buy x...

(Local currency converted to Dollars) * GDP nominal/GDP PPP will give you a dollar number to compare. You can call the number as PPP dollar.

You are right. The mixup happened because the OP wrote Rs 123 beside the dollar amount. He should have written PPP dollar. Actually it comes to around Rs 33. There is actual poverty reduction if you consider the timeframe from 2011 to 2015, though you can argue the whole of it is because of...

OK that is another propaganda piece by The Independent. Putin only said that Palestinians deserved a state and that Russia will contribute towards the goal. He did not say Russia will 'fight' as far as I can tell. This is the stand of most countries of the world. There is no need to attribute...

That is oversimplification, may be even downright callous. There are millions whose fate is not in their hands. Some came out and some are still in indentured labour. They have no idea what impact education can create in their lives. In some communities, for generations there is no culture of...

:rofl Watching too many bollywood movies, huh? What was the real reason for what?

The article has a wrong title and info. I guess that is why ET took it off now. Marri is not in Delhi. His representative is.

That is most likely because India never sponsored any arms for Baloch groups. At least until Manmohan SIngh government was in power. But with the current government, all bets are off. I will agree that India might be helping Baloch insurgents materially now. Earlier governments were by the book...

OMFG!! I thought that the report was a satire. They actually have only 9 fighters tops in Syria!!

The report was carried by The Guardian, which seems genuine.

I am getting doubts now considering the gap between what they say and what they do.