Thursday, December 17, 2009

US Apologist Talat Masood on Anti-Americanism:

Talat Masood Uncle—nothing personal—but your ideas are not in the best interest of Pakistan. You make some good points, but the “defense at any costs” is unwarranted and does not help either America or Islamabad. You paint a rosy picture—but don’t condemn the occupation or the bombing of Pakistan. Obama’s arguments were no different from Bushs’:–Fidel Castro Ruz. Many claim that you are on foreign payrolls—others say that you represent everything that is wrong with Pakistan. Some even claim that you are a Fifth Column deprecating Pakistan at every forum. You have served the nation well. Your uniform and your work has to be appreciated—but you are just plain wrong on most issues of concern to Pakistanis. Have you ever spoken up against foreign bases. Shutting down the bases.  

Why don’t you speak up against Bharat (aka India)? “India behind terrorist attacks” FM Qureshi. Your discussion of Blackwater has been stated, as if it was only a misunderstanding and a communication issue. While many Americans are questioning the war in Afghanistan, there is a cabal in Pakistan that wants perpetual US occupation of Afghanistan. Why are you in that group? Defeating Al-Qaeda by not fighting Taliban

You wrote reams against Musharraf for his alleged obsequious attitude towards America. Why are you silent about the complaint PPP government which you support.Why did Rehman Malik release arrested Blackwater spies?

Anti-Americanism continues to rise unabated in Pakistan. It is not confined to fringe elements alone but is spreading in the mainstream. A few recently retired military officers and politicians have gone as far as accusing US for abetting and supporting acts of terror that have engulfed the country. This is despite the fact that President Obama and the administration has made serious efforts clearing up misunderstandings and reducing the inherent tensions not only with Pakistan but with the Muslim world in general.

Washington has tried to redress the past policy mistakes of abandoning Pakistan by developing a long-term strategic relationship. It has expanded, in scope and depth, Pakistan’s economic assistance threefold and doubled military assistance, totaling $2.2 billion annually. The Enhanced Partnership Act, notwithstanding its intrusive clauses and abrasive wording, is a clear manifestation of breaking from the past. The United States has also been highly supportive of Pakistan at the World Bank, IMF and other multilateral forums to ease its financial crisis.

Furthermore, on a larger canvas, President Obama has tried to reach out to the Muslims and expressed as a matter of policy his desire to develop a relationship on the basis of mutual respect. He has repeatedly emphasised his close personal links with Muslims and frequently reflects warmly on his experiences in Muslim countries during the early part of his life. His speech at the University of Cairo and prior to that in Turkey was a clear indication of this shift. The immediate withdrawal of some of the draconian measures like water boarding and his plans to close Guantanamo Bay, although as yet to be implemented, are all signs that were meant to reduce the cleavage with the Muslim world and an assurance that the US is not at war with Islam but is only fighting those radical Muslim elements that have taken arms against them. The Nobel Peace Prize award to Obama was an acknowledgement of the transformational changes that he was aspiring to bring in American policy.
But nothing seems to work. Even when the US administration or the military leadership makes a statement that the resolution of the Kashmir dispute would contribute towards regional stability, it is viewed with great scepticism. Similarly, when top US military and government officials publicly acknowledge that Pakistan’s nuclear assets are safe it fails to resonate.

In short, cynicism and dislike for America has reached a point of no return among a certain class in Pakistan, and from their point of view nothing that US does can possibly be good for the country. And they cling to the mantra, despite repeated assurances, that Washington’s interest only lies in taking out our nuclear assets.
What then are the reasons for this distrust and how far are these allegations of the US wanting to destabilise Pakistan, with the help of India, credible?

Any major power, when it adopts a security or foreign policy, always weighs the flip side of everything. If Washington were to destabilise Pakistan as a deliberate policy, then the ensuing chaos will create a vacuum that would surely be filled by the Taliban and jihadi forces, posing a far greater danger to the US, India and the rest of the world. It would be absurd for the US to simultaneously fight the militants, be it the Taliban or Al Qaeda, and support them.

The fact, however, is that the internal and external policies Pakistan has pursued in the last three decades to advance its perceived national interests were flawed and have come to roost. Regrettably, we are in a state of denial and not prepared to accept that militancy is not home grown, and has taken root with the people. There is no doubt that American policies along with Indian designs have accentuated Pakistan’s regional problems. But the answer to our insurgency and the expanding frontiers of terrorism lies primarily with us. It is the responsibility of our leaders to give clarity in defining the nature of threat and mobilising the nation’s resources, both human and material, to combat it successfully. Failure to do so has resulted in the spread of endless rumours generally to the advantage of the militants. We are also failing to optimise the exceptional support that the international community is willing to extend in these difficult times.

This is also true that the legacy of betrayal is so strong and deep-seated that the US will have to work very hard to overcome the prevailing suspicions. The US administration will have to make a categorical assertion that Blackwater or its associates are not operating in Pakistan if confidence in the public of its sincerity is to be restored. The policy of employing drones needs also to be reviewed so that Pakistan military’s involvement at the intelligence and operational levels is fully integrated.

Otherwise every drone attack fuels anti-Americanism and exposes the contradiction in our relations, neutralising the tactical advantage that its employment accrues.
It is equally important to realise that, while we are passing through the worst of times, not everything is lost. There are many positive elements that are emerging as we wade through the present crisis. Despite all odds, a democratic system however fragile has been put in place. Institutions have started functioning, the judiciary is asserting itself, and media is robust debating every facet of our political, economic and social life and acting as a watchdog on our leaders. Parliament has yet to energise but is under public pressure to assume its responsibilities of legislating and assisting in the formulation of national policies. The civil society is emerging, albeit somewhat gradually.

Tragically, the nation is paying a heavy price in blood and sweat in combating militancy. It is forcing us to reform or face the consequences of an existential threat. The cumulative impact of these developments whether it is pressure of media, civil society or the violent acts of militants is bringing about fundamental changes in the society. Feudalism and tribal hierarchy is on its way out and politicians canot fool the people, and the military is in no position to capture power. Militancy is now compelling the government to act and reach out to the tribal people whom they neglected for 62 years. Similarly, the insurgency in Baluchistan is forcing the government to take political and economic measures that it denied to them. The military is acting against the proxies that at one time it patronised. The society is in flux and anarchic but there are several positive happenings as well. Anti-Americanism, Monday, December 14, 2009, Talat Masood, The writer is a retired lieutenant-general. Email: talat@comsats.net.pk

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Headley worked for CIA, FBI and the DEA: Was US responsible for Mumbai massacre?

Once a CIA spy—always a CIA spy. The CIA spy, FBI agent and DEA operative is involved in the Mumbai massacre. Mr. David Coleman Headley is an American citizen and worked for various organs of the US Government. Mr. Kasab was an individual, another stateless actor. However Delhi’s anger is on Pakistan and not the USA.

Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, charged with scouting targets for Mumbai terror attacks, worked as a confidential informant with the Drug Enforcement Administration for more than a decade, according to a US media report.

The relationship began with his first arrest back in June 1988, when customs agents at the Frankfurt airport pulled aside an intense and striking young man waiting to get on a plane back home to Philadelphia, McClatchy Newspapers reported Monday.

"They suspected he had heroin in his suitcase. They were right - two kilos' worth from Pakistan, hidden under a false bottom," the report said. He wasn't tough to crack: Before the day was out, Daood "David" Gilani decided to save his own skin, agreeing to betray his drug-dealing partners by helping US drug agents set up a sting," it said.

It was the beginning of a complicated, off-and-on relationship as a confidential informant with the Drug Enforcement Administration - one that lasted more than a decade.

In fact, Gilani was so helpful as a DEA informant in the late 1990s on heroin imported from Pakistan, according to records and Inquirer interviews, that prosecutors made a rare move: They ended his probation years early, allowing him to travel freely.

Within weeks, investigators cited by McClatchy said, he began training with terrorists in Pakistan.

New details are emerging about the strange double life of Headley, the son of a Pakistani broadcaster and a Main Line socialite who would spend evenings holding court and drinking splits of champagne in her bar, the Khyber Pass, McClatchy said.

He was briefly married to a Philadelphia woman in the 1980s whom he met at the bar, who, like a lot of other young women, was mesmerised by his dark skin and piercing eyes - one blue, the other brown.

He later became a heroin addict, and twice was caught smuggling the drug into the country by the DEA, in 1988 in Frankfurt, Germany, and in 1997 in New York. Both times, he got off with a lighter sentence by testifying against his partners.

It quickly became clear to federal law enforcement officials in New York that Headley knew a great deal about the heroin trade between the US and Pakistan and was willing to cooperate, McClatchy said. Headley worked as US agency informant for a decade, Indo-Asian News Service, Washington, December 15, 2009, First Published: 13:04 IST(15/12/2009), Last Updated: 16:33 IST(15/12/2009)

Monday, December 14, 2009

Shame on Hasni Mubarak for building a fence around Gaza prison

Gaza border: Why Egypt is building a steel underground wall

Reports from the Gaza border say that Egypt is building an underground wall as deep as 100 feet to stem smuggling in Hamas-controlled tunnels. But there are broader goals, too.

Heavy machinery operates on the Egyptian side of the border between the southern Gaza Strip, right, and Egypt, left, as seen from Rafah, Thursday. Egypt has been digging trenches and installing metal sheets underground along its border with Gaza in an apparent attempt to curb smuggling into the Palestinian territory through tunnels, Gaza border guards and area residents said Thursday.

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Reports that Egypt is building a steel underground wall along its border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip have fueled speculation about what exactly Cairo intends to accomplish with the project, which British newspapers claim is being carried out with the help of the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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The immediate objective is obvious: to severely disrupt the flourishing smuggling trade carried out in an extensive subterranean network of tunnels under the border. The smugglers provide everything from food to weapons for Gazans, who are largely cut off from the outside world due to an Israeli blockade.

Analysts disagree, however, about Egypt’s broader goals, which appear contradictory and are obscured by the fact that Cairo has yet to acknowledge the existence of the project. But it appears that Egypt is trying to strike a balance between remaining a key ally of the US while at the same time shoring up its position as an influential player in a neighborhood that often views Washington unfavorably.

“Egypt is walking a tightrope between its commitments to Arabs and directly to the Palestinian cause and at the same time its commitment to enhancing international security,” says Gamal Soltan, political analyst at the Al-Ahram Center in Cairo, a government-funded think tank.

But constructing a wall is a significant departure from the mere rhetoric Egypt has used to exert pressure in the past. This time, Egypt’s balancing act might backfire, especially given that fact that the Arab world was highly critical of Egypt for closing the Rafah border during the Israeli incursion on Gaza last year and cooperating with Israel on the economic blockade.

“You have operation Cast Lead basically flattening Gaza and Operation ‘Metal Wall’ on the Egyptian side strangling the Gazan population even further. These are impressions and perceptions that the Egyptian government does not need,” says Adel Iskandar, professor of media and communications at Georgetown University in Washington.

A response to US pressure?
Residents on both sides of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza have reported seeing giant drills and construction crews along the Egyptian side of the boundary, spurring a flurry of reports last week. On Dec 9. the BBC published a map of the project and reported that the completed wall would be six to seven miles long and plunge 60 feet below the ground, while others said it could go as deep as 100 feet. The wall is reportedly impenetrable, composed of bombproof steel that will be impossible to sever or burn. Though it would not completely destroy the tunneling networks, it is believed that it would stem the majority of smuggling, which has become a key source of revenue for Hamas.

Some analysts see the wall as a response to pressure from the US and Israel, which consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization, to stem smuggling along the border.

The US has in the past threatened to withhold $200 million in military aid to Egypt over concern about arms smuggling in the tunnels, angering Cairo. A compromise was reached in early 2008 under which Congress allocated $23 million of that aid toward stemming smuggling, the US Army Corps of Engineers have been involved in training Egyptian troops on advanced technology that can detect and destroy the tunnels.

Catering to American interests renders Egypt a continued player in peace negotiations and an essential ally in negotiations. Egypt, once the region’s powerbroker, also stands to show its neighbors it will not be subservient to the whims of Hamas, a small militant group and an offshoot of Egypt’s banned political opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

“It could be a political ploy with the desire of maintaining or reasserting Egypt’s legitimacy in the region at a time when perhaps the Americans are starting to assume that Egypt has a declining role,” says Prof. Iskandar.
Message to Hamas: Consequences for not cooperating
Others see the wall as primarily directed at Hamas after months of Egyptian-mediated reconciliation talks with the rival Palestinian faction Fatah have failed to produce a solution.

“It’s quite a drastic measure,” says Nadim Shehadi, associate fellow for the Middle East and North Africa Program at the London-based Chatham House. He sees it as a pessimistic sign that Egypt is giving up on the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation talks that have failed to produce a deal under Egypt’s mediation efforts.
“It’s an indication that there’s no outlook for a resolution that would allow free passage soon,” says Mr. Shehadi.

But some say it’s not a final move, but rather a political maneuver to strengthen Egypt’s position as a mediator between the estranged Palestinian factions – a maneuver that may prove crucial to restarting negotiations.

“It’s a way ... to send a message to Hamas that they cannot enjoy the same kind of lenient Egyptian policy while at the same time refusing to cooperate with Egypt towards Palestinian reconciliation,” says Gamal Soltan, political analyst at Egypt’s government-funded Al-Ahram Center. “Egypt wants to show Hamas there are consequences for not cooperating.”

Friday, December 11, 2009

Failed State: Unsuccessful attempts to form a country--India

The world is aghast—like the USSR, Bharat is imploding. The analysts were right—it would take a feather to unravel the poorly concocted country called India. Winston Churchill was right when he proclaimed “that India is as ephemeral as the Equator”. The Balkanization of Bharat continues. Let the games begin. The Chinese had threatened to break up Bharat into 20 states. They may not have to take the trouble. Shining Indian is imploding as we speak. What surprises the world that Indians have not blamed Pakistan for their imploding country—at least not yet!

Telangana is Balkanizing India towards 560 independent states era during Company Raj, British Rule, Mughal era & before

image Telengana secession from Andhara unleashes centrifugal forces all over India. Assam, Kashmir, Bodoland, Sikkim, Telangana, Gorkhaland, Bundelkhand and others want their own states. Most don’t want any control from Delhi. When Zaid Hamid proclaimed that India would be reduced to the size of Sri Lanka, many scoffed at his prophetic words with skepticism. Now the reality is showing the world the veracity of his words.

Naxalite insurgency exposes deep cavities in India India Balkanizing: Naxal insurgency widening cracks into deep abyss “India” was never one country—always a patchwork of alliances, deceitful conspiracies, shifting loyalties, loose associations, and constant rebellions against the center. Even the might Mughal Armies could not control the entire territory. Quell a rebellion in the West, and the East was usurping. Quit down an aggressive potentate in the North, and the South would be in revolt. Today history is being repeated. India: Inebriated by meager success is blind to real self-portrait of caste infested penury and balkanization

“India” is a misnomer: The British “Indian” Empire included parts of the Subcontinent, Iraq, Burma etc. The French “Indian” Empire included parts of the Subcontinent plus Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. The Dutch “India” is a misnomer: The British Indian Empire included parts of the Subcontinent, Iraq, Burma etc. The French “Indian” Empire included parts of the Subcontinent plus Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam. The Dutch “Indian” Empire included Indonesia and parts of the Subcontinent. included Indonesia and parts of the Subcontinent.

Many think of Bharat (aka India) as a monolith. In actual fact, there were more than 570 independent states before Lord Clive entered Calcutta. Even during the Company Raj (Plassy to War of Independence), the East India Company controlled a small portion the territory (1176-1857). When the Crown formally took over South Asia after the Company almost lost the war of Independence (aka Great Indian Mutiny) it only controlled only about 40% of the region. The rest of the area was ruled by princes, potentates, rajas, kings, badshahs—who had varying degree of sovereignty and independence. Some of the larger states were very independent. For example Hyderabad was a country by itself. Bhopal and Kashmir were also not ruled by Delhi.Bodoland wants independence from India

Is India is a failed state? The maps show the more than 89 insurgencies that are raging in India
The British Empire does not even show half of PakistanThe British Indian Empire included India, Iraq, Burma etcThe hundreds of states in the Subcontinent in the middle of the 19th century

India cracks are showingCracks are showing in Bharat today!

The congomleration of statesGiven a modicum of political will, Danger-I and II may still be manageable, however, Danger III to its territorial integrity in the Northeast may prove to be the most difficult. In fact the entire Northeast can easily be unhooked on multiple counts from the Union. First, these are low populated areas having contiguity with the most densely populated and demographically aggressive country in the world, i.e., Bangladesh. The country has also emerged as a major source of Islamic fundamentalism which impacts grievously on the Northeast. To add to these woes, New Delhi because of sheer vote-bank politics legitimized illegal migration for 22 years through the vehicle of IMDT. Many border districts now have a majority population constituting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. In near future, this leverage will be used to create an internal upheaval against the Centre as in the case of the Valley. It’s a classic Islamic fundamentalist principle of asymmetric warfare. What cannot be achieved by conventional wars, can be done through infiltration and subsequently internal subversionSecond, the Northeast if not addressed appropriately could unhook from the Union before the Valley given the acute vulnerability of the Siliguri Corridor, which is merely 10 to 20 kilometer wide and 200 kilometers long. If this critical corridor is choked or subverted or severed by force, the Union of India will have to maintain the Northeast by air. With poor quality of governance for which the country is infamous, the local population may gravitate towards other regional powers.These are the most serious cracks identified by the security agencies of Bharat.

Cracks are showing in “India”The forces in East Punjan, Kashmir, Seven Sissters of the Norhteast, The Naxalite insurrection

Cavities display severe cracks in the conglamoration of more than 560 statesThe states truncated.

Nagaland does not want to be part of Bharat.

Seven sistersThe Seven Sisters want to be independent

ChattirgarhThe state of Chhattisgarh has an area of 1,35,191 sq. km. and a population of 20.83 million. There are 16 districts, 146 blocks, and 20179 villages. The State has population density of 154 per sq. km. (as against the national average of 324). The decadal growth rate of the state is 18.27% (against 21.54% for the country) and the population of the state is growing at a slower rate than the national rate..Chhattisgarh is one of the few landlocked states of the country. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar bind the State in north, in the east it is bound by Orissa, in the south by Andhra Pradesh and in the west by Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. A large part of the state comes under Vindhyachal range that divides the Subcontinent into two. Mahanadi and Narmada are the principal rivers of the state. Narmada has its origin in Amarkantak, which lies in Chhattisgarh.Chattirgarh want to be by itself.

These are imperial British maps of the Subcontinent

PakistanThis is the Pakistan that was demanded.

Throughout history, the struggle for the independence of the Subcontinent has been struggle against centralism and the struggle has been waged to create for provincial autonomy. The Government of India Act of 1919 set out in clear terms the subjects which were to belong to the provincial sphere and those to the Central sphere. But both the Congress and the Muslim League boycotted the elections to the provincial and Central Legislatures held in November 1920 under the Act, because they felt that the Central vernment had still retained too much of power over the provinces.Throughout history, the struggle for the independence of the Subcontinent has been struggle against centralism and the struggle has been waged to create for provincial autonomy. The Government of India Act of 1919 set out in clear terms the subjects which were to belong to the provincial sphere and those to the Central sphere. But both the Congress and the Muslim League boycotted the elections to the provincial and Central Legislatures held in November 1920 under the Act, because they felt that the Central vernment had still retained too much of power over the provinces.This map of 1853 “India” does not show half of Pakistan.

In 1948 Nehru forced all states to join the “Indian Union”. Any state that would try to exist independently would be declared enemy state and Bharat would be at war with it. He used a fake article of accession to send forces to Kashmir and tried to occupy it. The article of accession was never presented to Pakistan, or the UN—and is now purportedly lost—as if it ever existed. Nehru allowed Patel to instigate a “Police Action” against Hyderabad and took over over. The same story was repeated about 560 times. Junagarh and Manvadar who had opted to join Pakistan were forcibly incorporated into Bharat (the opposite of what happened in Kashmir).

This expansionism didn’t end with the take over of Assam. Nehru then tried to take over Sikkim and Bhutan.

Now the chickens have come to roost. Ironically the Central government of Bharat today only control 40% of the the territory of the land mass of the country. This is similar to the British Raj. The Naxals control 40% of the land, and Assam, and Kashmiris control the rest. The announcement for the new state has opened the floodgates of secession.

Analysts said the decision will fuel protests by other ethnic and regional groups seeking separate states. Among these are Gorkhas wanting a new state in the mountainous Darjeeling region.

“This is a test for India’s ability to address sub-national sentiment in a law-governed way,” said Mahesh Rangarajan, a Delhi University political scientist. “It’s going to raise the question: should India consider having a state re-organisation commission?”

India has 28 states, mostly formed in 1956 in an effort to reorganise administrative units along ethnic and linguistic lines after British colonial rule.

But doubts have grown about the states’ ability to govern large populations as regional economic disparities widen. In Andhra Pradesh, politicians from the inland Telangana region have long resented the greater prosperity of the coastal belt. Financial Times

image Supporters of Telangana statehood celebrate in Hyderabad on Thursday after the Indian government agreed to support their separatist demands in an effort to quell unrest.

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After Hyderabad was broken up and its pieces parsed out to “Andhra Pradesh” and other areas, the state ceased to exist. The city which was a center of Muslim culture and Urdu learning died as the cultural Mecca for the Muslims.

Now the various ethnicities in Andhara Pradesh are fighting among themselves---the Telangana plan was to create a separate state. Its approval by the Indian National Congress has once again exacerbated the thin ethnic rivalries of diverse groups with competing interest. Uttar Pradesh was never a monolithic state either. It comprised of Awadh and other provinces. The British called it United Provinces (or UP). Now the Dalit leader of UP wants to re-split up UP into its former territories of Awadh and other states.

The Begums of Awadh, once humiliated by the British must smiling today—at the resurrection of their beloved state. Today another Begum in Lucknow is asking for its creation

“As soon as we get the nod from the centre, motion would come in the House”, Mayawati said, adding division of the state was necessary for good governance and balanced development. Mayawati said she was in favour of formation of Poorvanchal state also. But the demand should come from the people.

Of the 12 districts of  Bundelkhand seven are in UP and five in Madhya Pradesh. Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) demanding Harit Pradesh in western UP has laid claim on 23 districts, including areas of Roohelkhand comprising Barielly and Moradabad divisions. Hindustan Times

India's Security concerns Both the Congress, and the BJP are in favor of the division. Ms. Maywati is a very powerful leader in UP. What she is saying will happen.

LUCKNOW/ NEW DELHI: After the Centre's Telangana plan, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati and Jaswant Singh on Friday joined the chorus for smaller states with the BSP supremo renewing the demand for splitting her state into three while the senior politician pitched for Gorkhaland.

Mayawati dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that steps be taken for carving out separate states of Bundelkhand and western Uttar Pradesh out of the country's most populated state.

Rahul Gandhi has been in the forefront in pushing for a development package for Bundelkhand -- parts of which fall in UP and MP while RLD's Ajit Singh has threatened to launch a fresh agitation for creation of Harit Pradesh(Western UP).

"I have renewed the demand for smaller states in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today to also give consent to Uttar Pradesh as it has given to Andhra Pradesh for setting up separate Telangana state", Mayawati told newspersons in Lucknow.

"Both the BSP and my government are of the view that smaller states are conducive to all-round development and have been making a demand for trifurcation of Uttar Pradesh through letters", Ms. Mayawati said adding she had also written to the Centre in this regard on March 15, 2008. Times of India. Telangana fallout: Maya wants UP into 3,Jaswant for Gorkhaland, PTI 11 December 2009, 09:01pm IST


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Gorkhaland:

Emboldened by the Centre's move to initiate process for carving Telengana state out of Andhra Pradesh, members of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on Friday began fast-unto-death at five places in Darjeeling hills and Dooars demanding Gorkhaland state.

GJM press and publicity secretary Benoy Tamang said the agitation started in front of district magistrate's office in Darjeeling as also in Kurseong, Kalimpong and Kalchini in Dooars from 10 am. A batch of 21 members each began the fast. Hindustan Times

The centrifugal forces will continue to grow and ask for more and more.

IndiaView Full Image . Reuters NEW DELHI -- Other groups pushing for separate statehood in India are ratcheting up pressure on the government after New Delhi gave its nod earlier this week for a separate Telangana state to be carved out of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Among groups to demand their own state is Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, a political party, which announced Friday that about 20 of its members would go on indefinite hunger strike in an effort to persuade the government to form a separate state of Gorkhaland out of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

Pradeep Pradhan, the party's president, said in an interview that the party was encouraging Gorkhas to participate in a 96-hour business shutdown in the region starting Dec. 14. Wall Street Journal

 

Gorkhas are an ethnic group that spans parts of Nepal and northeastern India. Mr. Pradhan says the separate state would give identification to the Indian and Nepali Gorkhas who have been otherwise neglected.

The leaders of GJM are using the same tactics as the leaders of Telengana—rioting, fasts, and violence. 

In New Delhi, leaders of the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha met Union home minister P Chidambaram and demanded the creation of a separate Gorkhaland state saying "we want to be liberated from the colonial rule" of West Bengal government.

Assam: The restive tribes of Assam want their own states and they want independence.

Bodos, Dimasas and Karbi tribes of Assam have renewed their demand for separate states carved out of Assam following the Centre's decision to create a separate Telengana state. Indian Express

West Bengal:

"We do not want to stay with West Bengal. We want to be liberated from the colonial rule of the West Bengal government," GJM general Secretary Roshan Giri told reporters.

Expelled BJP leader and Darjeeling MP Jaswant Singh, who was part of the delegation, said the demand for a separate Gorkhaland was just and was also the "oldest" demand for carving out a new state. Times of India. Telangana fallout: Maya wants UP into 3,Jaswant for Gorkhaland, PTI 11 December 2009, 09:01pm IST

Amnesty International Report on "Horrid India" The spectacle of the break up of the USSR is within the memory banks of most. Now one is watching the same history being repeated in Bharat. The world is watching the behemoth implode.

“Whatever the arguments for and against the legitimacy of the Telangana cause, it’s clear that by ceding to it, the Centre has stirred up a hornet’s nest,” said the Financial Express newspaper in an editorial Thursday. Financial Express

Naxals: Balkanizing Cracks in “India”: Naxalite insurrection growing

The Naxalites have a force of approximately 15,000 cadres spread across 160 districts in the states of Orissa, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka and West Bengal. They operate primarily in the lawless, dense forested areas of India’s interior, with some estimates saying Naxalites control approximately 10.03 million hectares (about 25 million acres) of forests nationwide. They also have an active campaign to recruit students and other youths to help spread their left-wing extremism into India’s towns and cities. Thus far, however, the Naxalites have not demonstrated the ability to operate in urban areas.

Like Yugoslavia and the USSR, the decentralization of Bharat continues.

In 2000, three new states were made: Chhattisgarh, which was part of Madhya Pradesh; Uttarakhand, from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand, out of Bihar. Telangana will be India’s 29th state.

More locally, there are fears that if the up and coming city of Hyderabad is included in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, which has invested heavily in its main city, will lose significant amounts of revenue.Christian Science Monitor

How Bharati media gags criticism of Delhi. With 75% of the population living under one Dolalr, a literacy rate that is below that of Pakistan—Bharat is the hungriest nation in South Asia (according to the World Hunger Index). It spends Billions on military equipment, while half the population of Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkota, Benaras, and Mumbai sleeps on the sidewalks. What is worse is that generations have been born, lived and died on the “footpath” without any shelter available to them. It is this generation that joins the ranks of the Naxals and the Maoists that control a wide swathe of territory from Nepal deep into Andhara Pradesh.

Assam and the seven sisters have almost no association with Delhi—linked by the narrow “chicken’s neck” which runs around Bangladesh.

There is the fear that balkanisation could prove to be disastrous for the idea of India. This is mainly the view of the metropolitan intelligentsia whose grasp of India beyond the big urban conglomerations is tenuous at best. DNA India

Hindu atrocities against widows.White Widows: 50, million women ostracized from society and incarcerated in temples

  • East Punjab: Brutal suppression of Punjabi insurrection. Thousands killed
  • Tamil Nadu and Mizuram are in flames seeking independence
  • Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka fled by Tamils in India
  • Bihar: Major issues in Bihar and problems with Bangladesh
  • West Bengal in Communist hands.
  • Gujrat: Serious Hindu Muslim riots perpetuated by Mr. Moodi
  • 200 -300 million Untouchables have little or no rights
  • 150 million Muslims are at the lowest rung of the ladder:

India has had wars with all her neighbors. By harping on the “failed state” mantra the bigoted Indian commentariat wants to surround “Akhand Bharat” with small Balkanized mini-states like Sikkim, Bhutan, Sri Lanka. Any hegemonous power achieves its goal in the region by sabotaging the integrity and sovereignty of the neighbors. India wants to surround itself with a “Warsaw pact” type of string of obsequies and subservient states. Pakistan is big hurdle in India’s hegemonistic policy of Westward expansion. Since the West never faced “India” in combat, they are unaware of the (South) Indian agression that was encountered by Southeast Asia (Laos, Cambodia, and even Indonesia). China and Pakistan working together have arrested the advance of the sepoys of Delhi.

Today Bharat has to be stopped from expanding its borders. Ignoring “Superpoweritis” & thwarting India’s plans

Sudra Holocaust: Genocide of 1 million Dalits in India since 1947: About three million Dalit women have been raped and around one million Dalits killed from the time of Independence. This is 25 times more than number of soldiers killed during the wars fought after independence. That is why Dalits do not need Aryan culture or Hindu Dharma based on caste any more. …” [Dr. Tulsiram]

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