ہند و پاک کی سیاست ماقبل تقسیم سیاست کی باز گشت ہے – آخری حصّہ – عامر حسینی: اعجاز اشرف آل انڈیا مسلم لیگ اور بی جے پی کے کمزور پوزیشن سے عروج تک پہنچنے کے درمیان بھی مماثلت تلاش کرتے ہیں۔لیگ کی کارکردگی 1937ء میں بہت ہی بری تھی اور بی جے پی بھی 1984 کے

The turning point in Indian politics – by Tufail Ahmad:   “It is historically extraordinary that Modi was born in the year (1950) in which the people of India gave themselves the Constitution, a politically enforceable document of Enlightenment ideas: liberty of thought and expression, free press, religious freedom,

BJP’s 31% lowest vote share of any party to win majority: The fact that the BJP has won a majority on its own in the 16th Lok Sabha has, inevitably, drawn comparisons with previous elections in which parties have won a majority of seats on their own. What has not

Silence is deafening, are my fears unfounded? – by Nandita Das:     The election of a new government in India is the result of a democratic exercise so vast that any critique of the mandate needs to be respectful. And more so, if it is a pre-emptive one. Yet,

Jinnah, Jaswant and the BJP: An analysis by Aakar Patel and Ghazi Salahuddin: Jinnah, Jaswant and the BJP Sunday, August 23, 2009Aakar Patel Jaswant Singh has not been expelled from the BJP for his book on Jinnah. He could not have been, because it does not say anything untrue. Very quickly, this

An unlikely Indian admirer of Jinnah: Jaswant Singh of BJP: An unlikely Indian admirer By Jawed NaqviMonday, 17 Aug, 2009 I have said objectively what I had to say in the book about Jinnah, now I am ready for the noose, Jaswant Singh said. –Photo by Reuters When India’s

Did you know that over the past 14 years 54,969 Indians have been killed by Indian militants? Incredibe India – by Dr Farrukh Saleem: Capital suggestionIncredible India Sunday, December 07, 2008 (The News)by Dr Farrukh Saleem Did you know that over the past 14 years 54,969 Indians have been killed by Indian militants? Incredible. That translates into roughly 4,000 Indians getting killed per

The BJP’s election plank will be Mumbai. This is understandable of a party which thrives on divisions and disruption – By Kuldip Nayar: Road that leads nowhere By Kuldip Nayar IT is difficult to say whether the assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh, Delhi and Mizoram are the semi-finals. The voters were agitated and angry over the terror

Prospects of Hindu terrorism in India: At least 10 people, including a serving Lieutenant Colonel Prashad Srikant Purohit and a Hindu monk and nun, have been arrested over alleged involvement in bomb explosions that killed four people in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the

Suspected Indian Army Personnel’s involvement in Malegaon blasts – ISI versus RAW and sectarianism in India and Pakistan: Indeed, it is not just ISI (or ‘was not’ just ISI) that has (had) connections with organizations which are (were?) involved in terrorist/sectarian activities in and outside Pakistan. Indian Army too does not seem to be not much different.