China Pakistan Economic Corridor CPEC

Nice information about the CPEC here


For the string of pearls, this is a good place to check:

Pashtuns

Nice article from WOTR about whats what.


Truly worth reading if one wants to get an understanding of what really AILS Pakistan by thinking about Islamism the way they do.


BTW, I did see another article by Rakesh Sood a few days back which was pretty much incisive and cutting too.


Link here


Salient points:


- A lot of it has to do with the framework that the British Raj used
- Rae Bareilly is also mentioned. Mmh. I do wonder what if anything has to do with the Congress family repeatedly standing for elections from that constituency.
- So we have a pure Islamist and a Pashtun Islamist now. Now for more variants - Baloch Islamist, Pakjabi Islamist, Sindh Islamist and so on and so forth.


Pakistan is at a cross road and I don't know if the powers that be know it.

India Pakistan Relations: Perspectives

Brilliant read on the Indo-Pak relations.

Brookings essay by William Dalrymple

More stuff on what transpired in 2002 and why we recalled the Indian Ambassador can be read here

Aah... the advantages of doing read ups, thanks to being part of the Good Judgment Project... Strenuous... but lovely to do all this.