2014

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Fight Taliban Arundhati Roy style

An Arundhati Roy interview extract likening Afghanistan, Waziristan, India’s North-East and the ‘Red Corridor’ to tribal uprisings against a corporate attack, radical Islamist in one place and radical Left in…

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Operation in North Waziristan: the end of the beginning?

Weighing the army’s North Waziristan operation, the author backs it for removing nasty militants but doubts any change in using terrorists against Afghans or Indians, expects civilian deaths, and notes…

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Geopolitical Analysis is bunk

A two-sentence fragment, apparently cut off, in which the author says reading the back-and-forths on the world’s conflicts has convinced him that most opinions are unreliable.

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Zarb-e-Azb: More the things change…

A string of tweets from Pakistani accounts reacting to Operation Zarb-e-Azb, from claims that Pakistan’s interests in Afghanistan and Kashmir are legitimate to warnings about Indian and UK-based extremists, under…

Brown Pundits Archive16 June 20140 comments
Freedom fighters

On reports that insurgents cut off the inked fingers of 11 voters in Herat, the poster mocks admirers of Taliban ‘freedom fighters’ who blame the West, with a news extract…

Brown Pundits Archive15 June 20140 comments
“See you in New York”

Quoting a US colonel on al-Baghdadi’s Camp Bucca farewell, ‘see you in New York’, and a report of ISIS boasting of executing 1,700 Iraqi soldiers, the poster doubts most Americans…

Brown Pundits Archive15 June 20140 comments
India or Pakistan?

The post argues India is now a Hindu democracy in all but name, expects the BJP government to end minority-targeted affirmative action and curb conversion, and compares this with ethnic…

Brown Pundits Archive15 June 20140 comments
Atheists are really bad, horrible people

Reading a US poll that finds marrying an atheist seen as worse than marrying across race, the post suggests asking the same question in South Asia, perhaps with ‘communist’ for…

Brown Pundits Archive14 June 20140 comments
Pakistan Taliban- ISIL in waiting? Random Thoughts

Asking whether an ISIS-style victory could happen in Pakistan, the author lists factors favouring the Pakistani Taliban: a state founded as a Muslim homeland, an Islamist reading of the Objective…

Brown Pundits Archive14 June 20140 comments
What if we cannot change the past?

Setting aside blame for the past, the author asks the desi elite a genuine question: what should America, Iraqis, Iranians and others now do about Iraq, saying he finds no…

Brown Pundits Archive13 June 20140 comments