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Well, India has a foreign policy. We have a foreign diktat. Big difference.

I only try to do justice to my moniker, to observe, even when I know it is futile. This project has disaster written all over it, with sanctions if it goes ahead, with unaffordably high price of gas tied in to the price of oil when gas prices are falling, and with the lack of money. And yet we...

Why not now? What stops us from doing that?

This kind of "dialogue" is mean to provide suitable platitudes to a population that traditionally has a short memory. It works very well actually. Example: Hum IMF kee ankhon mein ankhein daal ker baat karein gey (We will talk to IMF eye-to-eye), and we all know what really happened with the new...

Any information that shows if any civilians, specially children were among those killed?

I said something very similar here:

I did not blame anyone, Army or any others, since my comment described the overall situation of the end result. I am talking about our nation as a whole.

The stress of all these deployments will increase and take its toll on morale and discipline if allowed to widen in reaction to such attacks every time they happen. You are correct that a proactive policy to reduce the risks of such attacks is more important.

That is precisely the problem. When nations compete, the ones with all their institutions working will always do better where one institution does everybody else's job. Our Army may be the best Army in the whole world, but it cannot spread itself so thin. In the long run, that simply does not...

It is more likely that they are sending money to their families just before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Please keep in mind that this is the nation that takes a dual nationality as a sign that that person is an agent too. What you say above is only a logical extension of the same mindset.

I think that the real problem is the huge rate of growth of our cities with increase in local population and increase by migration from rural areas to cities. That does not allow for proper provision of social services and leaves infrastructure such as drainage lagging behind the actual...

Tango? Waltz? Harmony? What do you call when one partner is doing Hip-Hop and the other Bhangra? The basic issue us that national interest on both sides are common in some areas but in direct conflict in other areas, and the mechanisms to deal with the issues raised as not working as well as...

The best suggestion to improve? It is the same for Pakistan: Just apply all the existing Rules and Suggestions FIRST. Only then ask for new ones.

There is no back pedaling here, but rather a clarification to put to rest the claims being made by Pakistan foreign ministry. What Mr, Kerry said was this: What Mr. Kerry clearly says is that drone program will end as the threat is eliminated, and he HOPED it was going to be soon. THe...

@Aeronaut The honorable former ambassador says: A regime that continues to require external props for its survival, a country that is plagued by grave issues of governance despite having received billions of dollars in assistance needs new leadership and new institutions. Source...

Drones have been used for HVTs exclusively from the start. They are not resources for general warfare.

What Mr. Kerry means is that the drone attacks will stop - of course! - but only when USA is good and ready and done with them on its own terms.

By our forces too, or only the damned umreekis need to do that?

I can only hope and request that the advice being given in this thread to "Stick to English please" is communicated better (with warnings? maybe?) so that compliance is improved: