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India ratchets up tensions with Pakistan over Mumbai attack
By Peter Symonds, January 9, 2009
The Indian government launched a diplomatic offensive against Pakistan this week, with a dossier linking the Pakistan-based Islamist organisation Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) to the Mumbai terrorist attacks....
India stages “martial law” elections in Kashmir
By Deepal Jayasekera and Keith Jones, January 8, 2009
Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir Monday, ending six months of central government or “president’s” rule. India’s lone Muslim-majority st...
India: Stalinists proclaim right-wing AIADMK a pillar of their “Third Front”
By M. Kailasam, January 5, 2009
India’s two major Stalinist parties, the Communist Party of India-Marxist and the Communist Party of India (CPI), have formed an electoral and potential governmental alliance with a notoriously righ...
Amid rising tensions, Pakistan moves troops to Indian border
By K. Ratnayake, December 29, 2008
Tensions between India and Pakistan intensified last Friday after the Pakistani military began shifting troops from its western border with Afghanistan to bolster positions along the border with India...
Indian parliament rushes through draconian “anti-terror” laws
By Deepal Jayasekera, December 29, 2008
Barely three weeks after the Mumbai terrorist attack, all sections of India’s political establishment—including the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front—joined hands to pu...
India: Honda workers wage tenacious struggle to defend their jobs
By an Indian correspondent, December 24, 2008
For several months, workers at the Honda-Siel plant in Rudrapur, India have surrounded the plant to prevent Honda from removing machinery from the plant and shifting it to a new facility in a special ...
Indian minister condemned for urging probe into killing of police chief during Mumbai
By Kranti Kumara, December 23, 2008
A call by India’s minority affairs minister for an investigation into the killing of the chief of the Maharashtra state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) during last month’s terrorist attack on Mumbai ha...
Voters reject Hindu supremacist BJP’s attempt to exploit Mumbai atrocity
By Deepal Jayasekera, December 19, 2008
To its own dismay and the surprise of the corporate media, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s attempts to exploit the recent Mumbai terrorist attack for electoral gain fell flat. In fact, the BJP suffered...
Pakistan rounds up suspects in Mumbai attacks
By K. Ratnayake, December 11, 2008
Under intense pressure from the US and India, the Pakistani government has initiated a crackdown on Islamist groups allegedly involved in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
The US, Pakistan and the “terrorist” Hamid Gul
December 10, 2008
Washington’s targetting of Gul raises an inconvenient fact: that the nexus between the Pakistani military establishment and Islamist militias has its roots in the CIA-backed jihad in the 1980s again...
Tense India-Pakistan standoff continues
By Peter Symonds, December 8, 2008
The Bush administration is exerting intense pressure on Pakistan to take action against Islamist groups allegedly responsible for last month’s terrorist attacks on Mumbai. Rather than easing tension...
US backing for India fuels tensions with Pakistan
By K. Ratnayake and Peter Symonds, December 5, 2008
Far from damping down tensions between India and Pakistan, the visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terrorist attacks has only added more fuel...
