I love the BBC. They are so eloquent and diplomatic. CNN comes nowhere near them. BBC writes about the Taliban
“From 1989 to 2001, the Western world knew little about the developments that tore through the war-ravaged Afghanistan in the shape of a civil conflict followed by Taleban rule.”
Surprized or not? If you are not, then let me have the honor of surprizing you. Instead of ‘knowing little‘, CIA used to pay the Taliban officials. Somewhere along the line Taliban suddenly turned against the Aka(Boss). It was about some deal in some pipeline project. I don’t exactly remember what.
Anyway, perhaps Pakistan does support the Taliban. I think it’s quite likely because India is taking advantage of a ‘India friendly’ government in Kabul. Trouble in Balochistan is a signature of that.
Again one has to be cautious. Pakistan has really not taken care to develop natural resourse rich Balochistan, much to the anger of local people. Injustice never pays.
In another BBC report,
“About 2,000 debt-stricken farmers in India’s cotton growing Vidarbha region resorted to a protest with flowers to persuade a bank to disperse loans.
They garlanded the bank manager while a woman in the group washed his feet.”
It’s said inspired by a movie called “Lagey Raho Munna Bhai” (Keep at it Munna Brother). Movies can do magic.
It’s an intersting world, isn’t it?
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