People of Gilgit Baltistan, a unique mixture of ethnic mountain communities, are today living as slaves of the Punjabi-run, military-dominated Pakistan. These simple mountain folk do not have anything in common with the large majority of the Pakistanis. They are not linked by any cultural or histori

Nearly a century after failing to achieve nationhood in the post-Versailles period, the Kurds are now on the move. A greater Kurdistan nation-state taken from the four countries where Kurds are minorities is improbable, although greater autonomy is growing within Turkey and Syria if not Iran, and an

Shia Muslims in Kuwait have been slaughtered in a mosque by Sunni Takfiri Islamists that deem the Shia to be apostates. Immediately ISIS (Islamic State – IS) claimed responsibility for the latest atrocious attack against Shia Muslims that is all too common in nations like Iraq and Pakistan. However,

What is the connection between the fraudulent elections held by Pakistan in the disputed Gilgit-Baltistan region and China? There is a very deep connection which the international community is ignoring, deliberately or otherwise. This callous indifference, and colossal ignorance, is going to make Gi

Dr. Nazir S Bhatti, President of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC said in a statement here today that Pakistani Muslim historians are liars and tools of establishment who have never written truth about Pakistan Movement, founder of Pakistan and role of Christians in formation of Pakistan.
“Bias Paki

Those countries are fortunate who have leaders who make public commitments for higher achievements for their country. In that sense India is fortunate that PM Modi is publicly committed (through election promises) to achieve (in addition to transparent and clean govt.) unprecedented economic progres

Kalawati comes from a family of small farmers. Hers is a ‘joint and happy family’ where she lives with her husband, 1 daughter, 2 sons, 1 daughter-in-law and 1 granddaughter. Her postgraduate sons working outside the village are doing fairly well and have helped her construct their own house in the

The compassionate Karl Marx after having invested two decades into the reading of economics and practice of labor laws in England ended up with a couple of unique concepts along with other mammoth intellectual contributions, like Das Capita, Communist Manifesto, criticism of Hegel’s philosophy etc.

The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are a new, universal set of 17 proposed goals, with 169 targets that 193 countries (who are members of the UN) will be expected to use to frame their post-2015 development agendas and policies over the next 15 years, once the MDGs expire at the end of this y

The ongoing imprisonment of Pakistan Christian woman Asia Bibi highlights the ongoing oppression of Pakistan Christian, other Pakistan religious minorities, as well as Pakistan majority Muslims, by the oppressive blasphemy law, used as a tactic to silence unpopular voices and to oppress others. As p

It is only a matter of time that the cases of black money etc of Lalit Modi will be heard / monitored by Supreme Court of India (SCI) in which this issue is bound to come-up that why did Government of India (GOI) not appeal against Delhi High Court order of August 27, 2014 (which restored passport t

Out of ~ 68 years (except for ~ 11 years) the political party Indian National Congress (INC) remained in power as government of India (GOI) hence INC is an asset to India in the sense that it has maximum experience of running the government. But INC is a liability also for India because it consider

Though opposition parties (Congress, AAP, Communist Parties etc) are targeting Minister of Foreign Affairs Sushma Swaraj in [Lalit Modi’s travel document (from UK to Portugal) controversy] by press conferences media debates, demonstrations etc, but their opposition lacks legal & political teeth and

Pushpa lives with her skilled-worker husband and four children—2 girls and 2 boys. Apart from being a woman farmer, she also doubles up as an ASHA bahu (Accredited Social Health Activist worker). Pushpa was born in a family of farmers in a village of Jalaun district. They were 6 siblings. Her father

Some years ago, American forces organised a military operation and killed Osama bin Laden. Both when Osama was alive and when he was killed, there was much talk about him.
I’m always interested in the lesson that is contained in any incident or event. And the lesson that one learns from this event