Pakistan on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that the Mumbai attacks were partly planned in Pakistan and that it has arrested six suspects, including the “main operator”. In its first detailed response to the dossier provided by India, Pakistan said criminal cases had been registered against nine suspects on charges of “abetting, conspiracy and […]
Unhatched poetry
Dear Readers: I don’t mean to deject from the structured journalism that this website is meant to be. Instead, it is only a way of breaking the monotony of reading so much about things now pestering most of us as we carry on with our lives. And perhaps, there is good reason to find […]
Bangladesh Shia procession attack: Militants strike hard after a decade
The fatal attack at Hussaini Dalan with handmade grenades on October 24 that to date has killed two people who joined the traditional Tazia procession of the Shia Muslims was the first such mass targeted terrorist operation by militants since 2005. Upon preliminary investigation, the law enforcers said that Jamaat-e-Islami’s radical student wing Islami Chhatra […]
THE ‘UNKNOWN GUNMEN’ OF SOPORE
The mystery regarding the antecedents of Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) which has terrorised the people of Sopore town of North Kashmir by going on a killing spree is only deepening with every passing day. The police claim that this group’s cadres are most certainly Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants who having become disenchanted with their leader Syed Sallahudin […]
KASHMIR’S ‘COMPOSITE TOWNSHIPS’- A SLIPSHOD PLAN OR A CUNNING ‘CONSPIRACY’!
With the Center finally deciding to shelve its ambitious plan of settling migrant Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) in ‘composite townships’, it is time to celebrate. Though Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farook has been very magnanimous and hailed it as “a victory for people of the (Kashmir) Valley,” the credit for thwarting this preposterous proposal should […]
“Death on the Broadlands” by Alan Hunter
Alan Hunter – about whom I can find essentially nothing on the vast World Wide Web – is one of the great writers of our time. (He died in 2005.) How can I instigate a belated vogue for his careful writings, chronicling the Taoist adventures of Inspector Gently, an aging detective from East Anglia? Each […]
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