UnSaid

Punjab has been asking for its money back , which it used to fight the insurgency. Althiugh Centre has not given the money to Punjab, it does not have problems with spending money on Kashmir.

Will the Centre wake up after Punjab has lost all hope even after co-operating fully with the Indian state? Why is Punjab not getting its proper due when it lost so many of its own sons to fight the Pakistan supported militant insurgency. Surprisingly, no one says anything about so much of Indian tax payer money going to Kashmir when Kashmiris don’t even prefer to call themselves Indians? Punjab has not made it a big issue even after its been a decade since they successfully eliminated the insurgency. It is in complete contrast to Kashmiri seperatist leaders who are busy holding the Indian State to ransom, when they are not busy killing innocent civilians and planning another ethnic cleansing.

It is reported that Omar al-Farouq, a top al-Qaeda operative in Southeast Asia has managed to escape from Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan being run by the Americans.

Thinking out aloud here whether this is a master stroke from the Americans. He is a top al-Q guy, if he escapes, he will either try to contact the big guy, bin Laden himself or atleast try to get around his old gang. Might not be a bad idea to let him get away and have a tracker stick on him. The Americans would’ve already taken out whatever they could’ve from him during his time with them.

If it is true, President Bush will finally have a shining star on him amid all his current troubles. But if it is not, the free world would just be hoping that he managed to get himself placed on a land mine while getting away.

But important questions would be, how did it happen? Did the torture charged American guy’s buddies have a hand in this to save their friend? Looks extremely unlikely. Did the Bagram base got infiltrated with Taleban? May be. Will this be a que to Taleban that the American bases are not all that impregnable? Sure.
Or did Pakistani agents play a role here? May be.

They will be sought after by Taleban themselves to boost their morale and to know about the insides of the American base and try their luck with other Taleban held up there.

Not sure when the communists of India will ever get out of the hole they have got themselves in during the last few dacades. They are either laughable or repulsive and another example could be this.

For the first time in decades, an Indian Air Force base will be picketed by a political party’s activists. Bengal’s ruling Left Front, key allies of the UPA at the Centre, will use 100,000 cadres to gherao the Kalaikunda airbase to protest ‘‘American military presence’’ when US Air Force F-16s arrive there on November 7 for Cope India 05.

Imagine how it must feel like to have just one person who can think.

The lone voice of reason in the Left brigade is General Shankar Roy Chowdhury, former Army chief and now a Left-backed member of the Rajya Sabha.

Are they waiting for some Chinese papers to come out before getting embarrassed, or will their next antic be always their best?