What bothers me is that we seem to have got caught in the trap of tech fixes
and short-term solutions; sufficient troops on the ground, and enough night
vision equipment, and we'll solve something or the other. Of course we need
full-fledged artillery back-up, from 105 mm through 130 mm right
Isn't this then a lovely opportunity to suggest that the plebiscite take place
simultaneously all over the earlier administrative areas of Kashmir? That
should set a nose or two out of joint! Of course, we run the risk of learning
that they, too, want to stay away. Tough.
Regarding the Muslim
Whatever little I have read about Pakistani doctrine about the bomb, they have
four doomsday scenarios, sketched out in broad outline - loss of strategic
masses of territory, loss of strategic proportion of the Armed Forces, and so
on. They apparently plan to press the button if these four
Ouch.
Pretty close to the bone.
There was the time when somebody was designing instruments for aircraft
cockpits for the French organisation SA. When SA wanted to sell the 'glass
cockpit' to the Indian Air Force, through HAL of course, the somebody concerned
was commandeered and ordered to
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, Bonobashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this then a lovely opportunity to suggest that the
plebiscite take place simultaneously all over the earlier
administrative areas of Kashmir? That should set a nose or
two out of joint! Of course, we run the risk of learning
that
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:38:07AM +0530, Gautam John wrote:
As with most things Linux, pretty cool when it works. Never been able
to get Pulse to work...
yes, it wasn't quite as simple as i implied :-)
try following the instructions here:
I didn't realise I was so convoluted in what I wrote earlier. Sorry.
As a matter of fact, I do think that Pakistan should be challenged to hold the
plebiscite at the same time, and under the same conditions, terms and so on, as
India. The reason I would exclude China is that I believe that
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Divya Sampath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it would be immensely difficult for the new nation, land-locked as it is,
and completely snow-bound in winter, to survive without substantial
support (read: subsidies) from its larger neighbours.
Switzerland?
Thaths
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:56:13AM -0700, Thaths wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Divya Sampath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it would be immensely difficult for the new nation, land-locked as it is,
and completely snow-bound in winter, to survive without substantial
support (read:
On Thursday 21 Aug 2008 4:13:52 pm Bonobashi wrote:
And if they vote for us, Shiv can buy the beer.
er my dear fellow Macaulayite. Do you really think Indian politicians will
agree to an election/vote/referendum/plebiscite that they are not sure of
winning? Or at least trying to win again
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:40 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a small minority of sensitive and
educated Indians who think that Kashmiri separatists have a case.
Has there been another thread on Silk list that I have somehow missed?
Because the arguments I have seen coming from the
I'm afraid I won't find myself alone in believing that 8 out of 10 of those
Kashmiris living in the Valley want out. It isn't clear what proportion want to
join Pakistan, and what section wants independence, but it is unlikely that
they want to stay on as part of India.
There is need for a
Dear Shiv,
There you go again, getting things boringly right as always.
Actually, after writing out most of a reply to this mail, I sat back and
decided against mailing it to the list. It's likely to be too long and too
involved to be fair on the membership of the list. The points are as
The Kashmir valley does not have the longstanding and sophisticated trading
systems and infrastructure that Switzerland does, which make the Swiss a viable
economic entity. Developing them would require decades of investment and
subsidies from _somewhere_, as well as active supply of essential
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Emotional reasons aside, the people of the valley would be better
off choosing limited autonomy under either India or Pakistan.
Perhaps -- indeed, I think they're better off as part of India -- but
isn't that really up to them to decide and not up to everyone else?
On Thursday 21 Aug 2008 6:43:58 pm Bonobashi wrote:
I'm afraid I won't find myself alone in believing that 8 out of 10 of those
Kashmiris living in the Valley want out. It isn't clear what proportion
want to join Pakistan, and what section wants independence, but it is
unlikely that they want
I could not agree more. Which is why I favour a plebiscite.
Cheers
Divya
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By pure coincidence, this seems to have shown up on the BBC web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/default.stm
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Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By pure coincidence, this seems to have shown up on the BBC web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/default.stm
Thanks for the link. Looking more closely at the map, it appears
Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By pure coincidence, this seems to have shown up on the BBC web site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/default.stm
Thanks for the link. Looking
On Thursday 21 Aug 2008 10:14:39 pm Perry E. Metzger wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/def
ault.stm
Ah -a Kashmir for dummies?
Well it IS the BBC after all and fudges the detail..
Reading this and other such pieces that have appeared in the past, I
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:49:35AM +0530, ss wrote:
Reading this and other such pieces that have appeared in the past, I recall
what we as a group of boys used to discuss when one of our group picked up a
very pretty girlfriend at a 3 or 4 day intercollegiate sports festival.
Every one of
On Friday 22 Aug 2008 6:19:28 am Rishab Ghosh wrote:
what a nice analogy! and i think what some people in this discussion have
been suggesting is that the boy might well want to do various things with
the girl, and not let her go, and have many arguments for it, but at some
point the girl's
(terrain permitting) was precisely the key to the military situation. It is
extremely unlikely that any sweeping mobile manoeuvres will take place in the
broken ground that lies between Islamabad and the borders of undivided Kashmir.
Far more likely is the traditional battleground between
On Friday 22 Aug 2008 6:47:59 am Bonobashi wrote:
The open territory in Rajasthan, facing Multan, has never been tested
seriously in battle. On one occasion, a Pakistani armoured sweep failed to
focus on its objectives, and was caught at dawn by a squadron of Hawker
Hunters, which then started
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