The International Court of Justice has ordered an effective review and reconsideration of Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence by a Pakistan military court.
When Pakistan goes to polls on 25 July, it will be the first time that two consecutively elected governments are handing over power, but political parties fear that the army is mounting a soft coup.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Pervez is a good person and an intellectual to the core. But he has grossly over rated Nehru who committed inuumerable blunders, Kashmir, Tibbet, going to UNO for Kashmir, rejecting Security Council membership offer, ignoring threats from China, having prejudices against majority Hindus and overdoing appeasement of minority Muslim community etc etc, the list is endless and his comments about Modi are absolutely Rubbish. Modi is the most computer savvy and methodical PM, India has ever produced.
Sure, the credit should go to Nehru. But for this, Modi should not be discredited. Since the beginning of his first term, he has encouraged and supported ISRO.
Thankfully, author did not go on to predict that Modi will close down ISRO soon thanks to his so called Hindutva ideology or order DRDO to produce Ravana Viman instead of Tejas! So long as he talks about Pakistan, it is fine but his analysis of India is all confused. Nehru is not liked by Hindutva brigade for his mishandling of Kashmir and China issues and interfaring in practices of Hinduism while doing nothing about other religions. No one ever had problems with scientific temper that was supposed to Nehru’s gift to India! Wish a physicist that he known to be, would analysed this with scientific temper.
Pakistan cannot have a Nehru, who loved minorities more than the majority community. But in space studies and satellites launching, China definitely helps Pakistan. The proposed moon mission of Pakistan will be a Chinese one, labelled as that of Pakistan.
One thing is certain if a right wing Hindutva govt. had taken over from British, India would be where Pak is to-day as Churchill n many other british ruling sceptics had predicted.
Another Atheist author
failed to bring secularism in Pakistan also Nehru’s daughter Indira failed to bring European Secularism instead this current Indian secularism which only respects religions rather than separation.
Nehru showcased India as a land of snake charmers. The author is either misinformed or is deliberately trying to attribute our scientists’ achievements to an abysmally low in IQ Nehru, who only managed to get a compassionate pass from Cambridge. Nehrutards will credit even their birth to Nehru.
I dont blame Parvez. After all what can you expect from a Pakistani writer? The Print cut, paste and post, just because you also hate the current govt. Shameless indeed. When enemy for India is within, why blame outsiders?
What kind of report is this? The writer wanted to give credit to Nehru for Chandrayan2 is like ISRO did nothing and it was all because of Nehru. You may praise Nehru for what he was. But why undermine the current Prime Minister as mocking him as not pro-technology. Hope author spent little time in Modi govt getting Israeli technology in water management and agriculture in Gujarat when he CM. Too much of apeacesment to dynasty politics. Shekarji, do you need writers like this underming The Print.
I agree with Prof.Hoodbhoy that a rightwing government would have messed us up forever in those early years. Even now i think the only reason that some of these organizations like ISRO, BARC etc are able to function independently is because of the looming specter of rising China that we have to try and compete with.
Am not so sure about the link between scientific temper in society and elite scientific achievements. One only has to look at USA to recognize that scientific achievement can come despite societal ignorance. Also, look at the way Russia has today reverted to orthodox christianity despite years of Soviet attempts to build scientific temper and probably some of the best education. There is something about humans that longs for something supernatural and rigid dogmas. Perhaps its the false certainty that then allows some people to become arbiters of all morality that is the driving force.
Pervez Hoodbhoy should learn to criticize his own military on Pakistan’s current state of affairs and keep off from passing remarks on India. Who India votes to power is India’s sole affair and not for Hoodbhoy to poke his nose in it.
The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad. It feels pity for his one sided view. Wrier learnt from books which were written by English to have clerks. He xan be good clerk instead of of professor as without knowing history he has written like Salman Rashdy.
Why is an inaccurate account published in a now third-rate Pakistani paper being copy pasted here? Nehru-built culture of science? India’s Hindutwa government? Fictitious vimana of Ravana?
Did Nehru establish the ISRO? Is Nehru the Father of India’s space program?
A country that sells buffaloes is out to lecture us now about how to go to the Moon. By the way, it was in the fear of this very “Hindutwa government” that Pakistan suspended all flights over its airspace causing agony to everyone around.
Iam surprised why you want attribute everything to either Nehru or his family? You feel the whole country is filled with hopeless people who did not know anything? Try to be realistic and give credit to all who were instrumental. Added to that you don’t have anyone to write articles such that you are going for a Pakistani writer?
The author, in order to establish his credentials with his people, has to first thrash HIndus or Hindutva as a propitiating ritual and then proceed with his critique. Otherwise he will be raked over the coals. Even so he is unable to go any further and assail a society which is in such a grip of the fire-breathing mullahs, the real cause of backwardness.
Pervez is a good person and an intellectual to the core. But he has grossly over rated Nehru who committed inuumerable blunders, Kashmir, Tibbet, going to UNO for Kashmir, rejecting Security Council membership offer, ignoring threats from China, having prejudices against majority Hindus and overdoing appeasement of minority Muslim community etc etc, the list is endless and his comments about Modi are absolutely Rubbish. Modi is the most computer savvy and methodical PM, India has ever produced.
Quite a poor demonstration of Journalism! Biased and totally tilted towards one POV
Sure, the credit should go to Nehru. But for this, Modi should not be discredited. Since the beginning of his first term, he has encouraged and supported ISRO.
Thankfully, author did not go on to predict that Modi will close down ISRO soon thanks to his so called Hindutva ideology or order DRDO to produce Ravana Viman instead of Tejas! So long as he talks about Pakistan, it is fine but his analysis of India is all confused. Nehru is not liked by Hindutva brigade for his mishandling of Kashmir and China issues and interfaring in practices of Hinduism while doing nothing about other religions. No one ever had problems with scientific temper that was supposed to Nehru’s gift to India! Wish a physicist that he known to be, would analysed this with scientific temper.
Pakistan cannot have a Nehru, who loved minorities more than the majority community. But in space studies and satellites launching, China definitely helps Pakistan. The proposed moon mission of Pakistan will be a Chinese one, labelled as that of Pakistan.
One thing is certain if a right wing Hindutva govt. had taken over from British, India would be where Pak is to-day as Churchill n many other british ruling sceptics had predicted.
Another Atheist author
failed to bring secularism in Pakistan also Nehru’s daughter Indira failed to bring European Secularism instead this current Indian secularism which only respects religions rather than separation.
Nehru appointed a ‘maulana’ as the first education minister of India. BJP’s first education minister was a PhD in Physics. Speaks volumes.
Nehru showcased India as a land of snake charmers. The author is either misinformed or is deliberately trying to attribute our scientists’ achievements to an abysmally low in IQ Nehru, who only managed to get a compassionate pass from Cambridge. Nehrutards will credit even their birth to Nehru.
I dont blame Parvez. After all what can you expect from a Pakistani writer? The Print cut, paste and post, just because you also hate the current govt. Shameless indeed. When enemy for India is within, why blame outsiders?
What kind of report is this? The writer wanted to give credit to Nehru for Chandrayan2 is like ISRO did nothing and it was all because of Nehru. You may praise Nehru for what he was. But why undermine the current Prime Minister as mocking him as not pro-technology. Hope author spent little time in Modi govt getting Israeli technology in water management and agriculture in Gujarat when he CM. Too much of apeacesment to dynasty politics. Shekarji, do you need writers like this underming The Print.
What else can you expect from a Pakistani writer. Their love for Nehru who created Pakistan and hate for Modi never stops to amaze me.
I agree with Prof.Hoodbhoy that a rightwing government would have messed us up forever in those early years. Even now i think the only reason that some of these organizations like ISRO, BARC etc are able to function independently is because of the looming specter of rising China that we have to try and compete with.
Am not so sure about the link between scientific temper in society and elite scientific achievements. One only has to look at USA to recognize that scientific achievement can come despite societal ignorance. Also, look at the way Russia has today reverted to orthodox christianity despite years of Soviet attempts to build scientific temper and probably some of the best education. There is something about humans that longs for something supernatural and rigid dogmas. Perhaps its the false certainty that then allows some people to become arbiters of all morality that is the driving force.
Pervez Hoodbhoy should learn to criticize his own military on Pakistan’s current state of affairs and keep off from passing remarks on India. Who India votes to power is India’s sole affair and not for Hoodbhoy to poke his nose in it.
The writer teaches physics in Lahore and Islamabad. It feels pity for his one sided view. Wrier learnt from books which were written by English to have clerks. He xan be good clerk instead of of professor as without knowing history he has written like Salman Rashdy.
Why is an inaccurate account published in a now third-rate Pakistani paper being copy pasted here? Nehru-built culture of science? India’s Hindutwa government? Fictitious vimana of Ravana?
Did Nehru establish the ISRO? Is Nehru the Father of India’s space program?
A country that sells buffaloes is out to lecture us now about how to go to the Moon. By the way, it was in the fear of this very “Hindutwa government” that Pakistan suspended all flights over its airspace causing agony to everyone around.
Iam surprised why you want attribute everything to either Nehru or his family? You feel the whole country is filled with hopeless people who did not know anything? Try to be realistic and give credit to all who were instrumental. Added to that you don’t have anyone to write articles such that you are going for a Pakistani writer?
The author, in order to establish his credentials with his people, has to first thrash HIndus or Hindutva as a propitiating ritual and then proceed with his critique. Otherwise he will be raked over the coals. Even so he is unable to go any further and assail a society which is in such a grip of the fire-breathing mullahs, the real cause of backwardness.
Another idiotic writer from Pakistan wants to share his idiotic thoughts!???
Thank you very much The print for articles of pervez hoodbhoy,He is one of my favorite intellectual…
Writer must have received a hefty amount in Italian currency from 10, Janpath. Congratulations.
There is no ” Italian currency “. They use the Euro.