2014

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Cold storage horror

On the Karachi airport cold-storage deaths, the poster asks whether anyone switched off the power, and reads the attack as Pashtun nationalism seeking ‘pure lands for pure people’ and sea…

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Karachi Airport (repeat attack)!!!!

A DawnNews report of a second attack near Karachi airport that the TTP claimed, with the poster noting the militants have become brazen and asking about their obsession with planes.

Brown Pundits Archive10 June 20140 comments
Modi-Sonia combo for women’s lib

Troubled by the dominance of Sonia Gandhi’s dynasty and Modi’s Hindutva, the post argues parties should compete on governance and on what they do for women, and welcomes their joint…

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Pretty face, ugly words

Using a report on Thailand’s coup and a Thai socialite’s contempt for peasants, the post says elites everywhere tolerate elections only to avoid seeming feudal, and that real grass-roots democracy…

Brown Pundits Archive9 June 20140 comments
“Modi’s name was inscribed in Sanskrit”

A Times of India report on Hafiz Saeed tweeting that Modi’s new team was behind the Karachi airport attack, amid trending claims of Indian weapons with Sanskrit inscriptions, with the…

Brown Pundits Archive9 June 20140 comments
Roberto, Nehru and Sonali

Quoting an obituary of Sonali Dasgupta, the Bengali woman who left her husband for Roberto Rossellini in 1957, the poster wonders what gave her courage, whether Nehru should have helped,…

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Pakistan and Terrorism; Rocket Science?

Reacting to the Karachi airport attack and the killing of at least 23 Shias in Balochistan that drew little coverage, the author mocks Pakistan’s script of blaming RAW, Mossad and…

Brown Pundits Archive9 June 20140 comments
Karachi Airport terror attack

A report on the Karachi airport attack with at least 20 dead, with the poster hoping BP readers and their families are safe and arguing that the cult of suicide…

Brown Pundits Archive8 June 20140 comments
Forget Pak, Focus on Chinese Challenge: RSS

Excerpts from Ram Madhav’s article arguing India should stop obsessing over Pakistan, a failed neighbour with a weak Nawaz Sharif, and treat China as the real challenge, abandoning the ritual…

Brown Pundits Archive7 June 20140 comments
Why were the Jihadis created?

A tweet by Haji Sriram Pasha (@HarPasha) argues Pakistan’s jihadi groups were raised to intimidate its own people, not to serve strategic depth against India. The poster agrees about the…

Brown Pundits Archive7 June 20140 comments