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aordinary family was born 8 march in garryhinch ireland he joined the bengal artillery in 1831 was commissioned in the 6th regiment of that distinguished formation later moving to the 5th regiment the warburton s story begins with the first afghan war of 1839 42 when the deposed afghan ruler shah shuja recovered his throne with british and indian bayonets warburton raised and commanded the king s own artillery in the shah s army read more posted by omarali50 at 9 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 17 2017 islam is breaking the back of the liberal democratic consensus ps dr abid sent in a revised version so i have over written the original post the following post was sent in by dr abdul majeed abid in response to my recent blog post regarding islam and liberal world order i personally think that loyalty to country even to an empire not our own can be successfully created but it takes an unusually dominant host culture or empire to carry it off for now and in the future who knows what shape loyalties and identities will eventually take but that is a story for another day dr abid s comments follow from dr abdul majeed abid islam it may be really is the the rock on which the western liberal democratic consensus is breaking recent events in turkey and the political situation in france are indicators of a future where the modern democratic project fails where an interaction with islam is concerned a democratically elected quibbles aside government in turkey used the tool of democracy to give up on democracy itself it was not as simple as that but this is one of the easier inferences khaled ahmed has written in one of his pieces that muslims don t really get democracy turkey has seen a hundred year long struggle for the government between kemalist secularist forces be they mustafa kemal s party chp or the military and islamist neo ottoman forces starting from nacmeddin erbakan to tayyip erdogan and the islamists seem to have scored a decisive victory with its kurdish majority south eastern part up in arms isis knocking on its doors and millions of refugees roaming the cities turkey can easily be branded the new pakistan pakistan lest we forget was made to escape from a democracy where muslims would remain as a permanent minority read more posted by omarali50 at 8 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 9 2017 pakistan managing the coalition business managing the coalition business by dr hamid hussain any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent but it takes a touch of genius and lots of courage to move something in the opposite direction albert einstein government of pakistan announced that it has given a no objection certificate noc to recently retired chief of army staff coas general raheel sharif to head the saudi led coalition it just put to end the rumor mill swirling around for more than a year however to date neither pakistan government nor general raheel sharif has put forward any clarification about the terms of agreement between pakistan and saudi arabia on this subject nature of the military organization its objectives role of its head and the compensation package associated with the job there may be some good reasons that government of pakistan thinks this is in pakistan s interest but it needs to present its case the lack of transparency in important policy decisions only increases the cynicism of general public read more posted by omarali50 at 8 11 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 3 2017 review age of anger pankaj mishra postscript having been told this is a rant not a review i have decided to add this disclaimer it is a rant and no it is not personal i have never met pankaj and for all i know he is probably a very nice guy this is not so much about him as about the postliberal eurocentric elite in general that he writes this for them and they love him for it makes me use him as a focus for my criticism someday if i have the discipline and or the time i should write a long form essay and not make it about him but about the worldview in general until then he gets to stand in for the lot of them but it is not personal pankaj mishra is a british indian writer and public intellectual who currently lives between london and mashobra and writes regularly for publications like the ny times and the nyrb he started his career as a promising literary critic naipaul was initially impressed but soon switched to native informant mode presenting and interpreting what he described as the angst atomization envy and ressentiment of newly emerging and fitfully modernizing india a phenomenon that other elite commentators and foreign visitors were presumably failing to notice he then expanded this theme to all of asia and has finally graduated to interpreting the metropole to the metropolitans themselves this could have been a somewhat risky move since western reviewers who received his reports about the darker nations relatively uncritically might well know enough about their home turf to become critical but by and large that has not happened reviews have generally been favorable this is not one of those favorable reviews i found the book tendentious shallow and repetitive with quotes and facts cherry picked from across his vast but chronologically limited and highly eurocentric reading list full of unfounded assumptions and opinions that are casually passed off with an as everyone knows air in practically every paragraph read more posted by omarali50 at 11 18 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 27 2017 review field marshal sam manekshaw from dr hamid hussain recently came across a great book about an officer and gentleman of a bygone era quite a timely reminder in the environment of general deteriorating standards of both pakistani and indian societies armed forces cannot be removed from their environment many officers are simply foraging in the same pastures a pause and looking at the conduct of upright officers and gentlemen may provide a different set of role models for young officers respect is earned by the character and not by the amount of brass on one s shoulders enjoy the reading hamid book review field marshal sam manekshaw the man and his times by brigadier behram m panthaki and zenobia panthaki this book by the husband and wife team provides a window to the personality of an officer and genetleman field marshal sam manekshaw brigadier behram panthaki served as adc to sam and behram and zanobia had a life long association with sam and his family this gives authors a unique vantage point they have done an excellent job of introducing the readers to the human side of sam read more posted by omarali50 at 9 06 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 17 2017 a few questions re trumpistan now that we are living in the age of trump i have a few random thoughts and questions and i hope some of you will answer with comments here or on social media a it seems to me that trump and his truly trusted advisers bannon coulter etc were not just cynically using the coming war with islam they really truly believe that the united states the most powerful nation on earth is in a fight to the death with islamdom the weakest and least coherent civilization on the planet well maybe stronger than hindu rashtra but not by much and that putin is their great ally in this world war which otherwise teeters on the edge of being lost this is the most economical explanation for their obsession with putin and their hatred of fellow nato allies well as long as you discount the golden shower tape as being a fantasy otherwise that too is a pretty economical explanation this whole notion is a joke to the intelligence establishment the great capitalist corporations the western european powers and yes also to china and russia though some of them putin maybe even china have good reasons to encourage bannonists on this path long before conquering islamdom putin has more important things to do in the baltics ukraine belarus even poland i would add as an aside that there are probably hindus and middle eastern christians who do face a real battle with islamists and who may regard him and or bannon as potential saviors i think they are wrong not because they face no threat from islamists but because their faith in trump will prove to be a mistake but that is an argument for another day for now we are talking about the united states and the threats it realistically faces or does not face also some commentators below have pointed out that western civ does face very serious problems and the democrats or mainstream republicans for that matter seem to want to paper over the problems and continue with business as usual and so on true but again that you have problem x does not mean y is the solution an incompetent conman is not the answer anyway here is the thing if the western elites all shared the bannonist view even if it was wrong the us would remain their leader but given how little this view is shared in the world it can only be carried forward by undermining existing elites and alliances bannon is probably ready for whatever that leads to but even trump may not be up for it the rest of the western elite is even less likely to join in yet here we are so my questions 1 can trump and company establish control over the existing resources of the western powers and then use them to prosecute this war to the finish whatever that means in their minds or 2 can the old elites the so called deep state though i dont think that is a good term for this loosely organized elite and their even looser ideological meme cluster manage to get rid of trump without too much damage being done or 3 will the infighting incompetence and confusion proceed apace and where will that lead to in four years anticipating some objections i would add that 1 i think islamist insurgencies are real and reflect widespread desire for an islamic civilization that is a coherent and powerful presence on the planet but i dont think they have much of a chance of getting anywhere see my article here for some background 2 i think muslim migrants in europe are and will remain a headache for the host populations but not an unmanageable one the high point of airy fairy european multiculturalism has long passed without electing any wilders or le pens the european states will still reduce muslim immigration and will force with varying success increasing degrees of assimilation they will be troubled but they will not be over run they may overshoot in the other direction but they will not be over run 3 the islamicate world will see much anti american sentiment and some anti american actions but more important will be wars on the borders some of the borders nigeria sudan india may even see non muslim populations being overrun and non muslim populations within islamic states will continue to face major threats and maybe extinction in some cases none of that will be enough to conquer europe or invade america and in the midst of all this all major islamic countries will remain dependent on outside powers usa china russia or will face internal and border problems turkey that will overwhelm any dream of leading the new caliphate bannonism and coulterism are still a joke read more posted by omarali50 at 11 27 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 6 2017 the ina indian national army from dr hamid hussain forgotten chapter of indian army indian national army hamid hussain indian national army ina was formed during second world war from indian prisoners of wars pows captured by japanese later it was re named free indian army fia but it remained known by ina name second world war saw rapid expansion of indian army to participate in another global conflict on the eve of second world war the strength of indian army was 189 000 during the war it expanded to 2 3 million men on the eve of second world war there were less than five hundred indian commissioned officers and by the end of the war there were 9540 indian officers nine thousand indian officers were emergency commissioned officers ecos with only six months of training in malayan theatre british command quickly collapsed under japanese assault more than 60 000 british and indian officers and soldiers were captured by japanese british officers were separated from indian officers and soldiers and kept in a separate camp a number of indian officers and soldiers joined ina some volunteered for ina while others were coerced to join it to avoid hardships of captivity japanese soldiers wrote new chapters of barbarity for inhumane torture and execution of thousands of pows read more posted by omarali50 at 10 25 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom new url new site popular posts is islam the rock on which the liberal order broke triggered by this article about global democracy in danger back in 1992 fukuyama wrote his much maligned frequently mis 1857 a piece of shared history between hindus sikhs and muslims the relics are of indian soldiers from the 26th native infantry regiment imran khan boarding the wrong train as usual our great leader has taken the pulse of twitter and facebook or heard good news from on high and has decided to throw caution to the wind unreal islam the word takfīr pronounced tuck feer is one of the most fearsome words in the islamic lexicon deriving from the same roo the martyrdom of dr faisal manzoor i first met faisal manzoor in 1975 i was one year senior to him in high school and then in medical school where he was one of my students blasphemy blasphemy laws pakistan charlie hebdo i just picked this out of a past post about the cruel blasphemy execution by being burned alive of a christian couple in pakistan i am p burnt offering the martyrdom of shama and shahzad masih shama and shahzad masih were poor christians who lived in the small village of chak 59 in the tehsil subdivision of kot radha kishan n the 1965 war a summary by major amin major amin is a pakistani military historian who has written extensively about the pakistan army and other military history topics since congratulations india congratulations to india on another smoothly conducted completely credible election congratulations also to the winning party and better massacre of the innocents death comes again to peshawar ہے زلزلہ زمیں کو گہن میں ہے آفتاب بارش ہے خون کی چشم فلک اشکبار ہے ہے عنقریب پھونکے سرافیل صور کو بس حکم کبریا کا فقط انتظار ہے subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments blog archive 2017 14 june 1 brown pundits is now back at brownpundits com may 3 april 3 march 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