In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Good peace but, with due apologies, some of your assumptions are driven by either goodness of heart or are simply naive. Probably you do not seem to know that the few Pakistani ‘peaceniks’ you know or may have come across on social media do it as part of their job. They are paid salaries in millions just to pretend to be peaceful, not to mention frequent foreign visits with stay at five-star hotels. I do not know a single Pakistani peacenik who would agree with any of the points you have made in this piece about Hafiz Sayeed or Masood Azhar. Did you see any banner against them at the protests that seem to inspire you so much? You never shall. Finally, lest one forgets, if an intelligence agency can co-opt the services of the likes of Sagarika Bose, don’t you think that it would have done that successfully in the country it runs by hook or crook. Rest I leave to your imagination but do keep up the good work. Best wishes!
I too am a silly romantic like the columnist. Peace is difficult, and at the official level it no longer seems like a priority. Some elements of the media spew out so much venom, some of it is bound to soak into our collective consciousness. 2. The use of terror to change the status quo in Kashmir is hurting Pakistan as much as it is hurting us. The deep state needs to do a cost benefit analysis, move away from this strategy, lest it lead to war.
Finally a sane article from Vij. Don’t become peacenik just for the sake of it. We all want peace but not when our people are being killed slowly.
Good peace but, with due apologies, some of your assumptions are driven by either goodness of heart or are simply naive. Probably you do not seem to know that the few Pakistani ‘peaceniks’ you know or may have come across on social media do it as part of their job. They are paid salaries in millions just to pretend to be peaceful, not to mention frequent foreign visits with stay at five-star hotels. I do not know a single Pakistani peacenik who would agree with any of the points you have made in this piece about Hafiz Sayeed or Masood Azhar. Did you see any banner against them at the protests that seem to inspire you so much? You never shall. Finally, lest one forgets, if an intelligence agency can co-opt the services of the likes of Sagarika Bose, don’t you think that it would have done that successfully in the country it runs by hook or crook. Rest I leave to your imagination but do keep up the good work. Best wishes!
I too am a silly romantic like the columnist. Peace is difficult, and at the official level it no longer seems like a priority. Some elements of the media spew out so much venom, some of it is bound to soak into our collective consciousness. 2. The use of terror to change the status quo in Kashmir is hurting Pakistan as much as it is hurting us. The deep state needs to do a cost benefit analysis, move away from this strategy, lest it lead to war.