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Yep, I'd rather spend my taxes on education than on Air India or other expensive PSU's.

It is true... Somebody set up a Google bomb on Zardari ?

BLA said that, not India. BLA would say that even otherwise -- Claiming that they have Indian support will make Pakistan more antagonistic to them, not less. Give a dog a bad name and shoot it etc.

Mentioning Balochistan in the joint statement really did open the Pandora's box. Now India is dragged into the issue which is rapidly becoming international. Now we only need Afghanistan to take one side and Iran to take the other -we'll have another unsolvable problem in South Asia.

Frankly I am split on this issue. First there is the issue of security (police can't identify people) and that of coercion (difficult to prove either way). Maybe this can be worked around - by having all Burkha clad people checked by women cops etc. I am assuming that a woman voluntarily...

The Sri Lankan attack comment was from Dawn (and the Ahmed Qureishi dude) . So far Pakistani politicians/diplomats have talked about Balochi insurgency and India, but not Taliban and India. Neither have they actually said how much involved India is. The only real "official" comment was from...

Another issue seems to be (atleast from Indian reports) that the ISI chief asked for his "counterpart" in India. There is apparently no direct counterpart for ISI chief in India since RAW is organized differently in the political/military hierarchy. Wonder if they'll send a politician/diplomat...

India has 5 in US (from the link you gave) and only 3 in Afghanistan (+1 embassy) Embassy of India, Kabul, Afghanistan

Or alternately, the guy was trailing Benazir for a while and when she came out, they fired. One would never know how long they have been trailing Benazir and the attempts not made.

Assuming that the guy is telling the truth, it is a real issue for India. Apparently the Balochi people believe that India is helping them. It would be really bad for India if India is really not helping them, but some people believe they have international support.

Thanks. Very well said!

Thanks. I watched the entire video. If the original comments were true, I'd have believed that India is actually involved in the Baluchistan mess. But from what the video shows, it is not much of an evidence. He first says he saw Karzai. That would have been a full blown war announcement...

Sorry about you being shot at. That said, all I am saying is that Vickers has been around the region for a while and would be an obvious one to be copied and used. India should not need to ship the gun from India. I am just asking whether the accusation was that India gave those guns...

I probably should have used the word "used Vickers" instead of "use Vickers".

The Vickers Machine Gun: Around the world "Aside from these commercial guns sent directly from Vickers Ltd., both India and Pakistan were British colonies until their independance in 1949. They were therefore supplied with British Service guns before that time - and used them for long after"

The link says video not found ?

Both India and Pakistan use Vickers guns. It is common through the commonwealth. I would not be surprised if the gunsmiths along the border can make a good copy of it - considering that this weapon is from world war I era and that it was used as early as in the third Afghan war. Why claim...

I understand the essence of what you are saying. Often, when a single leader comes to represent an ideology, taking out the leader has actually ended the ideological movement. But Rajiv Gandhi's death was not actually in vain. He died in Tamilnadu, a region traditionally pro-LTTE (both being...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/world/asia/21india.html?_r=1&hp MUMBAI, India —The man the Indian authorities have put on trial as the only survivor of the team of gunmen that killed more than 160 people here in November offered a dramatic and unexpected confession on Monday, reversing...

Actually seems like even against a 40 G capable missile the Cobra will be pretty competitive. Assume the worst case -- the missile is 1 meter behind the aircraft and is about to explode. The pilot pulls a Cobra. Remember that the acceleration experienced by the plane and the missile are...