Doesn't anybody in Pakistan just "get it"??

Last updated on: December 21, 2008 at 4:55 pm By Desh Kapoor

Day after day it seems more and more obvious that Pakistani Government just doesn't "get it"! Mumbai Attacks were not just ANOTHER bomb attack.. it was an act of war and you don't get away with it so easily. Someone has got to pay for that. And as the evidence piles up, it seems obvious that (a) it is not the "Non state actors" but the groups within the Pakistani Government who are responsible (b) Those criminals and terrorists are not only not being arrested and eliminated, but being harbored and saved by the Government. Now, after all this, Pakistani Government has the gumption to suggest to the Indian Government that it will be "irresponsible" to speculate on the Mumbai attacks before the results of the probe come out. [1] Hello! Which "Probe" is this? Probe is not some kind of an arbitrary examination that will end one day and some Pakistani official will come out with a list of results... but its the result of various evidencde that the different agencies are gathering. Just as an example, FBI interrogated Kasab for 9 hours and confirmed lanes and by lanes of the area he was born and brought up - Ukkad area of Faridkot district.[2] In fact the anger in India is so much that even as Trident - a luxury hotel - opened up, its President made it clear that the hotel will henceforth bar Pakistani Nationals from the hotel.[3] Read more

Antulay and Karkare: playing the Muslim Vote bank politics

Last updated on: December 20, 2008 at 11:52 am By Desh Kapoor

At a Cabinet meeting in mid-July of 2006, two ministers, Arjun Singh and Abdul Rehman Antulay suggested that terror attacks in Mumbai then were the handiwork of Hindus and not Muslims (and therefore had no links to Pakistan). At that time Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Indian PM had asked them to "refrain from raising “divisive issues” in the Cabinet before bringing them to his attention."[1] AR Antulay, as he is popularly known, did an encore this week. He raised the issue of Hemant Karkare's death to suggest that he may have been killed because of some kind of "behind the scenes" work of Hindu groups. Now, the Indian Government has - based on the Constable Arun Jadhav's statement, who was shot but alive and on interrogations from Kasab - said that Karkare, Kamte and Salaskar were killed when the terrorists opened fired on their vehicle. For Antulay to now come out and say stuff contradictory to what his own Government has been saying betrays mischief on part of either the Government or Antulay.[3] Read more

Fanatical Islam, Sufi Islam and Sharif's indictment of Pakistani Government

Last updated on: December 20, 2008 at 3:49 am By Desh Kapoor

Imagine the economic and social problems of Muslims in India is solved, imagine the Kashmir problem is also solved; imagine too, the Israelis and Palestinians have made peace. Would al Qaeda and the various self-proclaimed jihadists "then put their guns down?" Indeed ask this question. This was posed by Salman Rushdie in New York.[1] And then he went on to make the point that I had made earlier in my post on Mumbai Attacks. Fanatical Islam (Sunni Wahabi) had taken over the Sufi Islam in the sub continent. Kashmir was about THAT dominance! Contrary to what most moderate commentators would like to suggest there are different "Islams". Some are more fanatical than others. Sufi Islam has been used by some fanatics to justify their activities on the grounds of victimization and maintain a cloak of plausible deniability! The terrorists were not really concerned what happened in Kashmir, he continued, and their action has to do with everything that overtook Sufi Islam in Pakistan and had it replaced by "fanatical Islam, an Arabised Islam." Soul searching is always required by everyone. And I also maintain that organized religions/sects and anything to do with any Guru/Prophet/Masters/Saints has been the nemesis of mankind. Read more

I don't know

Last updated on: December 19, 2008 at 9:38 am By Desh Kapoor

What is the state of the mind that says, "I do not know whether there is God, whether there is love," that is, when there is no response of memory? Please don't immediately answer the question to yourselves because if you do, your answer will be merely the recognition of what you think it should or should not be. If you say, "It is a state of negation," you are comparing it with something that you already know; therefore, that state in which you say, "I do not know" is nonexistent.... Read more

Concept of Gender Equality is against Islamic Principles: Pak Constitutional Body

Last updated on: December 19, 2008 at 5:36 am By Desh Kapoor

There is a great deal of discussion done by moderates from the Islamic world on how Sharia and the Islamic laws are "for" women and how they respect them and provide "equality". Well, they obviously have not read their stuff. Now, at least in Pakistan, it is official: Concept of Gender Equality is against Islamic Principles. So says the Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body that advises the legislature on whether laws are in line with Islamic principles.[1] Terming the gender equality as impractical and against Islamic principles, the Council called it a "vague" term. According to the panel, equality was impossible to implement because of different "physical and mental capabilities" of men and women. Read more

Growth of Internet in India and its effects

Last updated on: December 18, 2008 at 4:07 am By Desh Kapoor

I have always believed that if the correct infrastructure is brought to the ground, the growth in the technical areas will go up exponentially in India. India is, for example, a great ground for Internet and web. Now, it is growing even further. 74% of all internet connections now in India are broad-band. By 3rd quarter of 2008, 5% of all connections were over 2 MB per second. And this rate is increasing. Recently, the state-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. a mobile services provider launched 3G services... an area that will also grow tremendously! Read more

SWINGING WHILE MEDITATING

Last updated on: December 17, 2008 at 6:14 pm By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

SWINGING WHILE MEDITATING Everything in Nature has rhythm: Planets, our solar system and galaxies have different very peculiar swinging movements,even our small intestine follows the universal rhythm. Every cell in our bodies has its own rhtyhm. Read more

Life is the Religion

Last updated on: December 17, 2008 at 5:50 am By Desh Kapoor

Do you know what religion is? It is not the chant, it is not in the performance of puja, or any other ritual, it is not in the worship of tin gods or stone images, it is not in the temples and churches, it is not in the reading of the Bible or the Gita, it is not in the repeating of a sacred name or in the following of some other superstition invented by men. None of this is religion. Read more

Murder of Gen. Alavi, Nukes for Bin Laden and Pakistan's STATE actors in terror network

Last updated on: December 17, 2008 at 4:28 am By Desh Kapoor

A month back a Pakistani Major General was killed. Maj Gen. mir Faisal Alavi. On November 19, two gunmen shot dead Alavi and his driver outside Islamabad. He Knew It Jang [1] the Pakistani newspaper disclosed that he was killed because Alavi was about to expose the links between Pakistani Army and the Taliban. He had "threatened" to expose Pakistani Generals for 'deals' with Taliban militants. This made him a "hot potato" in that establishment. Now, of course, the Pakistani Army is calling the entire story a "slander"! [6] Alavi had sensed his future killing and had reportedly told his friends that he was anticipating that he will be "eliminated" as he knew too much. In fact he had been sacked by Musharraf as he had been against a pact with Taliban reported Jang, a Pakistani newspaper. The Letter to Gen. Kayani Carey Schofield has been collecting material on the Pakistan Army for last two years and visiting various garrisons and military installations on the pretext of writing a book “Inside the Pakistan Army”, which she intends to get published next year by Soap Box Books. In this process, she had met many military officers and often prolonged her stay at different locations to get maximum material. link Alavi had also written a letter addressed to the Pakistani Army Chief which he sent to a British Journalist Carey Shoefield with the instructions that the letter be published in case he is assassinated. The letter was published but the names of the two Generals accused by Alabi have been blacked out.[3] It is not that the world has not known of the close tie-up and indeed an alliance between Pakistan's establishment and the terror networks. On Drishtikone we have written about this alliance several times.. and even during the Mumbai Attacks I was certain of the links between different terror players but despite the fact that Pakistan's common man faces this threat the most... they go on to support the Terror Masters combine of ISI/Taliban/AQ/Dawood/Jehadis/Pakistan Army! Read more

DOING GOOD DEEDS: OUR NEXT YEAR'S MAIN RESOLUTION

Last updated on: December 17, 2008 at 1:58 am By Rev. Dr. Todd Littleton

DOING OUR BEST ABOUT DOING GOOD DEEDS Since my early childhood doing good deeds was often heard from the mouth of the adult world. It was and still is engraved in my mind. With my long years of sincere and deep mystical studies it has become a milestone in my life. Read more