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Time of India
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
India balked at Israel's plans to do to Pakistan what it has done to Iran
How - and why - India balked at Israel's plans to do to Pakistan what it has done to Iran Chidanand Rajghatta TNN Jun 14, 2025, 18:16 IST IST Assessing and possibly admiring Israel's strike against Iran aimed at denuclearising the country, hawks in the New Delhi establishment would be reflecting with some regret of a time in the early 1980s when Israel offered India plans for a similar operation to take out Islamabad's then incipient nuclear program. Peaceniks would be relieved it did not come to that. According to accounts from that time, related most notably in Deception: Pakistan, the US, and the Global Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Israel proposed a joint operation to destroy Pakistan's nuclear capabilities, particularly the Kahuta nuclear facility, motivated by concerns over the development of what was termed the "Islamic bomb."
Time of India
02-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Not only 26/11 or Pahalgam, overwhelming evidence links Pak to multiple global attacks
Not only 26/11 or Pahalgam, overwhelming evidence links Pak to multiple global attacks Chidanand Rajghatta May 2, 2025, 18:17 IST IST For over three decades Pakistan-born and bred terrorists have struck across the world, with impunity and with very little consequence to the state who uses them as assets But for the heroism of assistant sub-inspector Tukaram Omble, who, armed with just a lathi, threw himself at Ajmal Kasab amid a hail of gunfire at a police check post during the 26/11 attack on Mumbai, thus enabling his police colleagues to capture the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Pakistan, aka Terroristan aka Denialistan, might still have managed to hoodwink the world about its depredations in India – and indeed across the globe. For years, going back to multiple attacks on Mumbai, including serial bomb blasts that killed scores, to the attack on India's Parliament in New Delhi and the Akshardham temple in Gujarat, Pakistan maintained a facade of deniability about its role in terrorist attacks in India and across the world. This was made possible because its proxies and perpetrators either died in suicide attacks or escaped. 26/11 was different.
Time of India
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Why US feels like North Korea: Ground report from frontlines of Trump's crackdown
Why US feels like North Korea: Ground report from frontlines of Trump's crackdown Chidanand Rajghatta TNN May 2, 2025, 00:09 IST IST With fear and silence stalking US college campuses, universities in Moscow and Beijing could well be more open Fear stalks American college campuses . It is not just students shying away from speaking out, but academics and administrators, too. At the George Mason University in Northern Virginia, hosting more than 4,000 international students out of 40,000 on its 677-acre campus, no one wants to speak on record about the 15 foreign students at the varsity whose F-1 visas have been scrubbed, though both students and faculty know about the revocation. The Dean's office directs you to the Human Resources Office, which directs you to the Student and Academic Affairs department, which sends you to the Office of International Programs and Services. Finally, Melanie Belog, an executive director in the university's Communications office, a former journalist herself, forwards a statement from college president Gregory Washington that acknowledges the revocation of 15 international students' visas but says 'these terminations have occurred without involvement of or prior notice to the university'. More of that later.
