There is nothing against the law in America which prohibits anyone from building a mosque or an Islamic center, if you please, anywhere in America. That’s a known fact. But that’s just the law. There is much more to it than just the law. There was a 9/11 attack in which nearly 3000 Americans died and it cannot be just wished away. To say that an Islamic Center close to the site of attack will help in bridging gaps between the two communities is just too far off from the practical realities on ground.

Posted on August 21st, 2010 under Track the world. Tags: 9/11, center, cordoba, faisal rauf, ground zero, initiative, Islam, mosque, obama, Sarah Palin, Terror. Comments: 6

Denial of visa to our members of the defense forces is not exactly racism on the part of Canadians, because apart from being generous to Pakis who are of the same color as us, the Canadians have been more than friendly to Khalistani terrorists from Punjab. Please remember that bombing of Air India Boeing Kanishka in 1985 which was carried out by Babbar Khalsa (a group banned in India, US and Europe but not in Canada at that time) was planned and executed in Canada, as their own inquiries have revealed. Fact is that Sikh separatists have been growing in clout in Canada since 1970s, though some terrorist organizations like Babbar Khalsa were indeed banned in 2003, it is now more than apparent that the Khalistani terrorists and their supporters have now reached the upper echelons of Canadian hierarchy so as to influence even their foreign policy, covertly or overtly. If you consider this aspect, you can then see why these people are against members of our defense forces and intelligence agencies who may have been involved in counter terrorist operations in Punjab. And that is the basic reason for denial of visas to our people who are or have been in uniform. There cannot possibly be any other justification unless you say that Canadians authorities have all gone nuts.

Posted on May 27th, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Air India, bombing, defense, deny, judgment, Kanishka, Terror, visa. Comments: 3

Why does Pakistan have to be the custodian of Islam? No other Muslim country in the world has taken such an extreme step of banning Facebook and Youtube for showing pictures of Mohammad. In any case, who is the loser over here? Is it Facebook/Youtube or are the average Pakistanis the losers? From more than 350 million users of Facebook and 300 million on Youtube if you deduct less than 3 million Pakistanis who had an account you’ll see who the loser is. Actually, by doing this Pakistan has inadvertently given free publicity to this webpage which is now attracting millions of viewers and participants. What actually should’ve just blown over has now become a rage with many non Muslims who came to know about this group on Facebook only after reading the report of Pakistan having blocked this site. What a stupid irony!!!

Posted on May 21st, 2010 under Track the world. Tags: ban, block, Facebook, Islam, mohammad, Youtube. Comments: 6

Indians are quite amused at the way British parliamentary elections have turned out. While Indians have learnt to live with a hung parliament the Britishers who were supposed to be our role models in parliamentary democracy are only now realizing the perils and merits of multi party system. After 1974 when Conservatives under Edward Heath lost to Labour in a hung parliament this was the first time that neither Tories nor Labour have got a clear majority. Liberal Democrats, as expected, have upset the apple cart and are now very nicely placed to determine who should be the next PM. Unfortunately, they do not have people like Amar Singh who could’ve been a big help in such situations. And I don’t know for sure if he has been called to help them or not.

Posted on May 9th, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Congress, election, Family, Gandhi, hung, Labour, Liberals, parliamnet, Tories, UK. Comments: 8

There are clear indications that this man Faisal Shahzad has had links with not just Taliban but JeM as well, an organization which till now was only targeting India. If you still think that your enemies are only Taliban and Al Qaeda, I guess you are just being naive. All these terrorist outfits like JuD, LeT, JeM and others consider both India and America as their enemies and will target America if and when Taliban/Al Qaeda are unable to. And make no mistake Mr Obama, they have the resources, as we saw during Mumbai attacks. You may have been able to thwart this attack in New York but that was just plain luck. Please remember that as an administration you have to be lucky every time whereas terrorists only have to be lucky just once to create havoc.

Posted on May 6th, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: attack, bomb, Faisal, kill, Mumbai, New York, Terror, terrorist. Comments: 4

Is there anything called the ‘good Taliban’? The answer to that question will depend upon whom are you asking this question from. If you ask Indians, well, all Taliban is bad. If you ask Pakis, most of them are good. If you ask an Afghan- on second thoughts, don’t. What Afghans think doesn’t really matter, unfortunately. If you happen to ask Americans, their answer will also depend upon when is the question being asked. Till some time back the entire Taliban, possibly along with their kids, women and cattle, was bad for Americans. But times have changed and they now say that some of them are indeed good. But this is not their final position on the matter either. Don’t be surprised if they revert back to their earlier position depending upon where their offer of talks with the so called ‘good Taliban’ leads to.

Posted on February 13th, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Af-Pak, Afghanistan, good taliban, India, Kiyani, NATO, offer, talks. Comments: 8

The question here is not just Dr Pachauri or even his ill gotten wealth. The question is of correctness of data. The question is - Whether Copenhagen was a waste of time and money by govts all around the world? The question is - Is the rate at which we are currently emitting and polluting our environment still increase the global temperatures by three degrees by 2050? The question is - Does Maldives and other such small island nations which were considered as being doomed because of melting of glaciers still vulnerable? The question is- How will this ‘error’ affect the market of climate change especially the rates of carbon credits? Well, those are the question which IPCC needs to answer. Surely, if the planet is not as vulnerable as was being made out rates for carbon credits will nose dive though Indian companies which were making a lot of money through this will suffer. But still we do need answers for these questions.

Posted on February 4th, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: carbon, Change, climate, crdeit, global warming, IPCC, Pachauri, rate. Comments: 7

The kind of punishment Afridi has got which is just a ban for two matches I feel ICC has let him off pretty lightly. And I’m not alone who feels that way. Even Inzamam ul Haq has also said the same thing. If ICC really wants to curb this practice they should’ve been more strict. At the moment this punishment is like ICC is telling Afridi that he was stupid to do it so openly and get caught. Probably they mean that he should be careful when he does this next time. By the way, does this light sentence have anything to do with the match referee being a Sri Lankan, namely Ranjan Madugalle? After all it’s case of a non white player.

Posted on February 2nd, 2010 under India calling, Track the world. Tags: Afridi, ball, cricinfo, Cricket, ESPN, ICC, match, tampering. Comments: 4

The Sri Lankan election results don’t really change anything for the Tamils 300,000 of whom are still languishing in camps. Rajapakse has been non committal on the specifics of future course on this issue though he does keep making politically correct statements like rehabilitation of Tamils is being done on priority and that he will continue to do so. But will anything really change for the these people now that he has won the elections? Quite unlikely. If he didn’t do it in the run upto the elections based on which he could’ve sought their votes it would be rather stupid for anyone to expect him to do so now when he doesn’t really need their support. Well, to be candid, he didn’t really need their support before the elections either as the results have proved beyond doubt whose support is actually required to come to office. And it’s not Tamils.

Posted on January 27th, 2010 under Track the world. Tags: elections, Fonseka, LTTE, Prabhakaran, Rajapakse, results, Sri Lanka, Tamil. Comments: 7