Unholywars

A comment on a concerned news item in The Economist makes an interesting analysis. All the conversation about Jinnah and disowning is all history and we should not discuss as we all have level of belief in faith.

Leave the past and discuss the present.

Let us be all sensible about India and Pakistan. We all know what Indians have done in 1970 with Pakistan by ripping the country into two pieces, means separating Bangladesh, it is all written and discussed.

Mumbai attacks, very sad and very bad. But waging a war against Pakistan, its another drama repeated by Indian congress to win next term in the office, as previously done by a man recently missed a shoe on his face in Iraq, George W Bush.

Why India cannot afford a war with Pakistan, because their economy is already in stimulus contracting, facts:

Poor—India is home to some two-fifths of the world’s malnourished children (Economist.com Dec 11 2008)

GDP forecast for 2009 is 5.0 (Oxford Economic Report Dec 08)

Sharp fall of 12% in export (Citibank Economic Report)

1.4 million people ready for work in 2009 (Citibank Economic Report).

Automotive industry suspended production and shut plants(Economist.com Dec 11 2008)

Decline in Indian Rupee against US$ (Citiban Economic Report Dec 08)

Well, I am not suggesting industrialized India is on the verge of falling but it is possible for emerging India to face worst unemployment in history and popular IT city Banglore to be full of jobless people. Millions $’s of investment in industrialized India may be rotten if India go ahead with the war.

In contrast Pakistan got nothing to lose as they are facing the worst economic crisis, with or without war.

Coming to war on terror. What ever happened on 9/11 change the world. Who did such a crime cost the innocent people that they never forget. I have deep sympathy for them as well should.

But we cannot blame Pakistan for training and supplying terrorist in the world. Because these terrorist were the called ‘Heroes’ once by American when they invaded Afghanistan to save that country from Russia. When these heroes got nothing to do after such bloody religious war, and Americans wants to get rid of them, so they start calling them terrorist, because they know they made these heroes a vicious people who only know how to kill humans.

Here I am not defending a terrorist, my only concern here is why they were trained by Americans in the first place?

Now these terrorist have spread all over the south Asia. And by taking the advantage, India supporting them to attack suburbs of Pakistan such as blast in Marriot Hotel, Islamabad.

Facts, why India have open number of Embassies and council offices in Afghanistan, specifically near border from Pakistan.

To conclude, it is in the best interest of India to remain calm and not support any such act that led booming India to become loosing India. It will be in the best interest of India to keep the peace in the region and in order to allow its industrialized economy to reach its boom.
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According to reports from the Daily Mail, Britain’s MI6 was involved in peace negotiations with the Taliban over the summer. This is a surprising report given the UK’s tough non-negotiation policy against fundamentalist groups such as the Taliban. If this allegation turns out to be true, not only it would be an embarassment for Downing Street but it would also prove Britain’s frustration with the escalation of violence across Afghanistan.

Benazir Bhutto had degrees from Harvard and Oxford. She spoke fluent and unaccented English. Her looks were patrician and she came out as a liberal humanist in a rabidly anti-feminist Pakistan. In other words, Mrs. Bhutto was the only real challenge and alternative to both President Musharraf and the fundamentalist Right Wing. She may have won the upcoming elections in Pakistan.

This ex-prime minister has been assassinated. BBC reports her being first shot in the neck and then in chest. Then her craven shooter blew himself up, killing 20 more. Bhutto was addressing a campaign rally at Rawalpindi. It is common knowledge that the Bhutto family is jinxed like the Gandhi family in India. Bhutto’s father and brothers have all been assassinated.

After writing numerous articles on Africa’s growing problems and the effects of those seemingly endless conflicts on the civilian population, today I have got a rare pleasant opportunity to share a unique reconciliation fact in the African country of Rwanda which has experienced one of the worst genocide in living memory and the horrific past has ceased to die down given the current raging war in neighbouring Congo is the basis of that genocide. But amidst all the darkness, there is a ray of hope of having a lasting peace between Hutus and Tutsis if the political environment ensures such unique feat.

According to an Associated Press report, there is a genuine sign of peace in some parts of Rwanda where Tutsis and Hutus are trying to forget the past and look forward to the immediate future. Lots of blood had been spilled and as a matter of fact is being shed still now in neighbouring regions but when seeds of peace have been sown, there is every chance that the life cycle of the most precious and rare natural resource would take its natural course unless artificial forces hinder such growth which is very common in Africa.

The US government is trumpeting the fact that violence is going down in Iraq; that Bush’s ’surge’ has worked. The Iraqi government is boasting that the situation in the country has improved so much that those Iraqis who had fled from Iraq are coming back! But, a deeper look at the situation reveals shows that nothing has changed much.

The Pakistani military claims it has re-captured a number of towns held by Islamic fighters of cleric Fazlullah, but the job is far from over. The Swat valley rebellion is the first open challenge against Islamabad’s rule in the tribal areas. The Pakistani army is used only to the conventional warfare it has fought against India. The threat from Swat is altogether a ball game.

Hardly a month has passed since the Annapolis conference between Israel, Palestine and Arab neighbors under the close guidance of the United States of America that was held at the end of last month, yet Israel has not made any effort to prove to its arch enemies and the international community.

Palestinian hardline faction Hamas is feeling the pressure leading up to the holiday marking the Islamic feast of Eid-Al-Adha. Gaza’s desperate economic and security situation has forced the violent anti-Israeli organisation to offer a hope of ceasefire in the region which recently has seen a spate of deadly Israeli airstrikes targeting Palestinian radical militants. Furthermore, with the continuing deep divisions among Hamas and moderate Fatah, the former has largely been isolated by the international community after violently taking over Gaza from Fatah in june.

Somalia is easily one of the toughest places to live today. More than a decade of hard violence coupled with an irresponsible government playing to the arrogant tunes of the clan leaders lobbying for power and pride has left many millions lifeless. Not many even contemplate leading a life with happiness and satisfaction in the near future. Militants, looters, bandits and security forces are to be seen everywhere. Ever since the Somali government fell in 1991, there has been complete chaos in the horn nation. Turned into a battlefield, there is fighting everywhere. Children hear to gunfire almost everyday.

Problems pile up, hunger everywhere

Hunger, poverty, militancy, civil strife, human rights abuses, food-aid delivery, forced displacement and security of aid workers are major issues here. The economy is so battered that feeding the population is an impossible task. Unfortunately, there is hardly any functioning government, which should ideally address these concerns. To make matters worse, the harvest has failed in Somalia’s Shabelle region, the traditional breadbasket. The country is experiencing its worst drought in 13 years. Though aid has been coming from far off regions, it doesn’t reach the hungry on time.

China should respect Tibetans and their rights. Reuters quotes Anne Holmes, Acting Director of Free Tibet Campaign, as hollering this.She was referring to the case of a nun who was beaten on the chest by Chinese authorities for wearing a photo of the Dalai Lama on her neck. No photos of the Dalai Lama are allowed in Tibet by the Chinese.

China maintains that it has never hurt anyone in Tibet ever, leave alone beating innocent monks. Rather, China sees itself as the great liberator of the Tibetan people. Before the Chinese kindly freed the poor Tibetans, the latter were burdened with the evils of religious superstition and mindless persecution at the hands of tyrannical lamas. In The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene had written of religious persecution by a Communist State in catholic Mexico. The novel can be retold by substituting Buddhism for Catholicism and Tibet for Mexico. The novel will clarify the truth about Tibet more than any blog-post or humanitarian report can.