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Ansar Abbasi in Pakistan newspaper 'Jung' has summed up the Pakistan's present predicament. When USA told Pakistan that Osama Bin Laden is Jihadi , Pakistan immediately made him hero. When USA made him terrorist, Pakistan believed them. When they said Osama is culprit for 9/11, Pakistan decided to cooperate USA and kill him. Now USA came to Pakistan without asking and killed Osama and buried in the sea. USA became happy so Pakistan is happy too. All this is because of dollars shoved in Pakistan's pockets. Now the World has made Pakistan center of terrorism and on the other side Pakistan has provoked Al Quaida and Taliban to be their enemy . Either way, Pakistan will be crushed. Has anybody thought about this ?

In the name of ‘ Marathi Manus ’ , when Raj Thackeray and his cronies were mercilessly beating innocent young students from Bihar and Taxi drivers from UP, I as a Marathi Manus , never felt a wrath from North Indians in any part of India. They all attributed lunatic regional chauvinistic behavior of Raj on his own personal political agenda. In my visit to Sri Lanka , being an Indian did not bring any derision from Sinhalese Srilankans despite IPKF aggravating the conflict between LTTE and Sri Lanka Govt forces. Would an Indian think the same towards a Pakistani national against the backdrop of Mumbai terror? Although, I would like him to do so but in all probability average Indian will be coaxed or incited to bring renewed hatred towards Pakistan citizen. Despite an easy temptation to do so, I feel India should not be trapped into a game plan of Al Qaeda . India is on roll over last decade but its galloping economic juggernaut can stutter only with her internal disorde...

I don’t remember if it was from her autobiography or from her syndicated column that I learnt about the behind the scene activities of ‘Shimla agreement’ that was signed after India -Pakistan 1971 war. Benazir must have been 26 then when she accompanied her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for the summit talks with Indira Gandhi. Benazir wonderfully portrayed the defeated mindset of Pakistani rulers whose pride was brutally wounded after their defeat in war and partition of their country. I think the opportunity to be present at the Shimla Pact must have been the moment for Benazir’s baptism into Pakistani politics. In 1993, I saw Benazir’s mother at hotel Intercon in Abu Dhabi. She was tall, fair and it seemed she bestowed her physical traits to Benazir. I do not know if she is still alive or not, but if she is- this must be the most cruel moment for her. Her husband was hanged, her one son – Murtuza was murdered in Cannes, second son – Shahanwaz ambushed and killed by Pakistani forces and ...