Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Rehman Malik, Interior Minister, Pakistan

On Mumbai attack
We have always condemned such attacks and we condemn it once again. Within hours, our Prime Minster and the President called Delhi and assured full support to India. We ordered an investigation even before India gave its first dossier. Seven accused are under trial currently while more that 16 have been put on the absconding list. However, as an independent judiciary, it has its own ways. But we are positive that the trial will be finished in coming months.

On custody of Ajmal Kasab The process is very simple. When the conspiracy is made somewhere, then the culprit should be tried there too. So, if the trial of Kasab is over, we will like him to be tried here too. We can discuss it later. The only thing is that we want India to talk to us on a common level. Not breathing down our neck. On intricacies of trial
We have not yet been provided with the Kasab’s statement. It is not good for us and it is not good for India. There is constant pressure on us to arrest Hafiz Saeed. But we have not yet received proof. We have just been offered allegations. We arrested him but he was released by the court because we were not provided with the info. There was some information on Lakhvi but we filled the gap. Our intelligence agency managed to track the server to Russia, Kuwait and elsewhere.

On David Headley
No information has been shared with us. Since it is claimed that he hatched the plan here, we need to receive information. We will also love to investigate him. He is subjected to US law and India is yet to receive access. If we have any information we will provide it.

On Hafiz Saeed’s hate speech
We cannot stop anybody from making speeches. If you start putting people behind bars for making hate speech, half of India and half of Pakistan will be behind bars. Under the anti-terror act of Pakistan if anybody instigates terror he can be put behind bars.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Lets talk now!

US finally realised it for a change

Well let’s look at it this way. Finally Iran and its intransigence is of some use to the world. At least it’s helping to bring some sanity in the US’s way of looking at the world and solving some key global issues. The US for once realized that Iran is no Iraq and that it cannot solve this issue on its own but would require the help of its erstwhile bete-noire Russia’s help in this case. Obama’s confidential letter to the Russian president Medvedev exemplified that. It was stated in the letter that the US will shelve the interceptor missile system that it plans to install in Poland with a hi-tech radar facility in Czech Republic, provided Russia successfully pursues Iran to shelve some of its nuclear ambitions. While Bush offered it as a direct quid pro quo, Obama on the other hand is trying to involve Russia as a strategic ally not only in the Iran issue, but also in war on terror in Afghanistan. It also talked about renewing arms treaty between the two countries that is expiring this year. However, Russia’s pride and Cold War hangover was instrumental in their refusal to the offer (denying being a second fiddle to the US), albeit expressing desire to talk on missile defense plan with the US. Obama is also considering a Russian proposal (which Bush refused) to install a part of the missile defense system on their own soil, so that it cannot be used against them. He is likely to respect the proposal only if it is effective and affordable.

Time since the Soviet disintegration, Russia has never got the right kind of treatment from the US that it always deserved. Even when Russia was included in G8, a certain antagonism still prevailed. If Obama succeeds in mending the relationship between the US and Russia by giving the latter its due respect, it’s for certain that many of the world’s major predicaments would be solved much more amicably. There are several issues on which Russia and the US do think on similar lines but for the needless turf war between the two, they refuse to accept it.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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