Pundita

"majorlyprofound.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this blog." I hope he's okay.  A friend who ...

More from the C-SPAN website on McCarthy's speech on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: The details, includin...

It's only snowed in Johannesburg, South Africa 22 times during the past 103 years.  It snowed again yesterday, to the delight of resid...

WalMart leads call for higher pay in Bangladesh By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury August 4, 2012 Asia Times Online DHAKA - WalMart, Nike, Gap a...

I thought you were killing Pakistan Taliban in Afghanistan. No, you idiot, I'm killing Afghan Taliban in Pakistan. You're supposed ...

From Pakistan's Business Recorder, datelined today : Despite acknowledging that MoU signed between Pakistan and United States regarding ...

The protocol at this blog is that I don't write about massacres of civilians, whether in a foreign country or the USA, which are carr...

The Taliban Bribery shell game The most important item to emerge from last week's press coverage of U.S.-Pakistani relations is a ...

NATO in Afghanistan “With its most skilled and experienced commanders being lost so quickly, al Qaeda has had trouble replacing them. In...

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The instant message was something to do with aid to Pakistan. I have no idea who sent it but I was very irritated to see an instant message ...

"A simple fact of life in Pakistan is that even though the ISI was created as coordinating intelligence agency for the various armed s...

UK arrests man for "malicious tweets" to Olympic diver Tom Daley

iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner Blazing Catfur, one of Canada's feisty free-speech bloggers (okay; they're all feisty) pro...

The prodigiously creative Charles Cameron (born 1943 in England; Scottish in name and heart; BA in theology and MA from Oxford University...

From the New York Times report  on India's massive blackout: [...] India suffered the largest electrical blackout in history on...

From Zenpundit Mark Safranski's comments about three posts at the Russia Blog: Look, neither Russia nor Putin merit any special favors...

“The ministers get together and provide [the defense chiefs] with political guidance, and we discuss how we turn that into military advice a...

So here it is, 2:25 AM in Washington, DC and I am trying to type while stopping every few seconds to stuff the edge of my sleeve in my mouth...

Gemma the Seer  Russian Raccoon to Give Twitter Predictions for London Olympics The Moscow Times July 27, 2012 A prophetic ra...