Nepal trusts India much less than China!

 

Nepal trusts India much less than China!

– Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, Nepal is also, in recent years, tilted towards China, especially for economic, rather than military or even strategic reasons although all of them have made any collative effort on any regional or international issues.

Nepal, the landlocked country, which is surrounded on three sides by India and China on one side over the Himalayas, depends on neighbors for its prosperity and also diversifying the sources of key supplies was very important for the successful conduct of its policies. Nepal is trying to find a way to ensure manageable risk in terms of resources it gets from other countries.

Extra pressure from New Delhi forced Nepal to move towards China.

Constantly tormented by the necessity of pursuing a neutral policy to effectively balancing between its immediate but antagonistic neighbors China and India, Nepal has been striving to figure out how it is related at multiple levels to both countries.

China and as well as Indian exerts tremendous influence on Nepal to toe their lines however, Katmandu is keen to be a partner of Beijing. While China is a UN veto power and world economic power, India is an emerging economy with its own limitations.

However, Hinduism playing a mediating factor, India has extensive political and economic influence over Nepal and thus far it provides much of Nepal’s supplies. In 2015, India withheld supplies, especially fuel, to the country after the devastating earthquake by blocking traffic because of a political dispute. Here Beijing stepped in and supplied fuel along the mountainous routes and became a trusted partner.

 

Rise of leftism

A Left parties’ alliance formed a new government in Nepal after a landslide victory, seen as a triumph of China over India regarding influence in Kathmandu, with pro-Chinese nationalist leader K.P. Sharma Oli expected to be prime minister. The alliance has an ideological affinity with communist China. Its top leaders, Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, both ex-prime ministers, also have a personal rapport with top Chinese and party officials.

Leaders of the coalition in Katmandu said the new government will launch five or six megaprojects aimed at spurring development and job growth, including revisiting the Chinese company-funded Budhi Gandaki dam project, which was cancelled on the eve of the election.

After the elections, Oli visited a border point with Tibet where a trans-Himalayan railway project is under review, further indicating future collaboration with China. Oli pledged to bring in Chinese investment for key infrastructure projects, and to return a US$2.5 billion hydropower project to China’s Gezhouba Group, after the current government scrapped the deal citing contract “irregularities”.

While Chinese communist ideology seems to be close to Nepalese political and intellectual classes, India under BJP government tries to  use Hindu religion to exert  more influence the on the Nepalese mindset than China.

Nepal’s newly elected Left Alliance is not doing Beijing’s bidding, but seeks to balance relations between China and India to promote economic growth and political stability. The sweeping victory of the Communist CPN-UML and Maoist Party alliance in Nepal’s election this month has raised alarm bells. The primary concern in the international press seems to be that a communist government will allow China a greater role in a region India sees as its backyard.

Earlier, the centrist Nepali Congress-led incumbent government played a role in slowing Beijing’s economic advances in Nepal. Not one project has yet been pursued under the “Belt and Road Initiative”, eight months since a framework agreement. Breaking with the tradition of visiting India first upon taking office, Dahal chose China as his first port of call in August 2008. Oli signed a slew of deals, including on transport and transit, when he arrived in Beijing as Nepal’s leader in March 2016. These treaties not only ended Nepal’s sole dependency on India for trade but also diversified the Nepalese market for petroleum imports, crucial for a landlocked nation that has faced three economic blockades by India.

Once considered close to New Delhi, Oli became vocal against India when it pressured Nepal over its constitution in September 2015, then imposed a five-month blockade, and tried to bar Oli from becoming prime minister. But, he is not against seeking Indian investment for development. No government in Nepal can ignore one neighbour at the cost of another. Nor can it afford sole dependency on either.

With China surpassing India on the list of Nepal’s largest donors and investors, India’s unease has deepened. The problem is India still sees Nepal as its “backyard”; it welcomes Chinese investment but expresses deep suspicions when it comes to its neighborhood.

There is speculation, mostly from Indian sources, that China has been pulling the levers behind the scenes to help the two major left parties come together. Western media have repeated the claim, with the alliance depicted as a pro-China force and Chinese activities held responsible for India’s diminishing influence in Nepal.

If India’s traditional dominance in Nepal has waned, it is more because of India’s reckless diplomacy and it new hate politics. After India imposed an effective blockade against Nepal in 2015-16 for refusing to write a constitution on its terms, Nepal was cut off from fuel and essential supplies for more than five months. Nepal has since looked north for development and diplomatic balance and China readily obliged its red neighbor.

India may not accept developments in Nepal as the aspirations of a landlocked, sovereign neighbour to diversify its trade, transport and transit dependencies.  India’s clout would not count greatly if it continues to try to reverse the logical trend but on the contrary would only help steer China’s speedy footprints in Nepal.

But India must honour its earlier infrastructure commitments to Nepal, while admitting that China is a reality, not a choice, for Kathmandu.

Logic

It is geographic logic that geared Nepal towards the south but economic and geopolitical logic means it now also engages China. There is now a consensus across the political spectrum on the need to end Nepal’s exclusive southern orientation and develop better trade and transport links with China.

Study of China and its language are becoming popular in Nepal. The students of Nepal are also taught about contemporary China, including the government’s claim that it is the home of the “four great new inventions”, including shared bicycles and high-speed railways. The number of Chinese tourists travelling to Nepal is also swelling, rising 20 per cent in 2016 to 104,000, according to figures from the Nepal Tourism Board. The sharp rise has coincided with an increase in the number of Chinese businesses in Kathmandu, including hotels and restaurants in the so-called Chinatown in the city’s Thamel district.

Since opening in 2015, Nepal has organised dozens of events promoting Chinese culture. In fact, the Classrooms have sparked controversy in some countries because of their links to the Chinese government, and the perception that they support Beijing’s political objectives and fail to tackle sensitive topics. There are more than 1,000 such classrooms in primary and secondary schools around the world.

While China’s cultural clout in Nepal lags far behind that of India – with which Nepal shares a 1,700km open border – opportunities for Beijing to shift that balance were given a huge boost when Nepal’s Communist alliance, which is seen as friendlier to China, secured a landslide election victory.

Totalitarian China has restrictions placed on religions, especially Islam and controls over the internet and blocks many websites which might carry content that is religious and not exactly critical of the ruling Communist Party – including Google and Facebook – but also religious contents.

 

Political economy

The left win in Nepal was good news for China, given Nepal’s strategic location as a buffer with India and proximity to Tibet, an autonomous region of China with lingering tensions over its sovereignty.

Nepal’s communists have been adherents of the market economy since the establishment of democracy in 1990 and many leaders have close relationships with India. Most domestic forces have sought help from India and China to gain political leverage and both countries have attempted to influence political processes. Their involvement is as effective as local dynamics allow. No country wields absolute power over politics in Nepal.

China is Nepal’s largest foreign investor, and in the past financial year alone has invested 8.36 billion Nepalese rupees (US$81.89 million) in the country, an increase of almost 35 per cent from the year before, according to Nepal’s Department of Industry.

More than US$80 million of investment are helping Beijing to win hearts and minds in its tiny, but perfectly placed neighbour Nepal. Much to the annoyance of New Delhi, Beijing has poured huge sums of money into infrastructure projects in Nepal – a landlocked nation with China to its north and India to its south – under its trade and infrastructure development plan known as the “Belt and Road Initiative”.

The impact of Chinese investment in Nepal is visible in its roads and motorways, hydroelectric projects and railways, as well as the rebuilding projects launched after the devastating earthquake of 2015 that left more than 9,000 people dead. At the entrance to a project, partly funded by Beijing, to restore a tower in front of the old royal palace in Durbar Square, are the flags of both Nepal and China.

China has been making strenuous efforts to increase trade with Nepal. At present, China-Nepal relations are developing at the fastest pace we’ve seen,” said Yu Hong, Chinese ambassador to Nepal. Nepal’s closeness to China, expected to deepen under its New Leftist government, is just a sovereign nation’s wish to secure its interests and India should accept it as such.

In fact, the regional superpower China helps Nepal overcome it’s over dependence on India by providing those resources that come from India to the former kingdom of Himalayas. Nepal ended its long dependency on India for internet access recently by opening a fibre optic link to China. Nepal’s information minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet inaugurated the link across the Himalayas at a ceremony in the capital, Kathmandu. Previously, all internet connections in the landlocked country came via three access points in its only other neighbour, India through the cities of Bhairahawa, Biratnagar and Birgunj in southern Nepal.

The new internet line provided by China Telecom Global extends from Kathmandu to the border point Rasuwagadhi into the Tibet region. It comes after a coalition of two communist parties that are considered pro-China won Nepal’s election last month. The Nepal line is connected via Hong Kong bandwidth, which is not restricted by the infamous “Great Firewall”. The link was scheduled to be up and running by the middle of last year but it was delayed due to the difficulties of working at high altitudes above 4,000 metres.

Work on a communications link to China was finished in December 2014, but it was completely destroyed in a devastating earthquake in April 2015. A land transport route through the Tatopani border point to China is still closed.

Chinese influence can be seen across Nepal, Beijing still has some way to go, especially in the area of people-to-people relations, which are still not sufficient. Cultural relations and the people-to-people relations are the vehicle for strengthening bilateral relations

This visible presence is a concern for India, which regards China as a strategic competitor and views the influx of Chinese money with a geopolitical edge. There are also perennial concerns over China’s soft power regarding sovereignty

Helplessness

Any country would like to have full and complete sovereignty and freedom to decide its course without any pressure or force from any other big nation. Nepal feels for that ambiguity and inability. .

Nepal is pursuing a long history of trade and cultural connection with China that was broken after the British incursion. What the India/West axis sees as Nepal being breaking away from its fold, but Nepal sees as a much-needed rebalancing.

Nepalis strongly desire to break free from the shackles of political and economic domination from both Indi and China. They have seen Asian countries transform themselves in a matter of decades and are eager for similar change. They have seen the rise of China and how the Chinese have lifted millions out of poverty. They have seen in their own country how almost 70 years of Western development aid has done little in comparison.

There is a great disillusionment against what is widely perceived as the proclivity of the Indians and Westerners to get mired in domestic politics and social engineering Nepal is not a “security instrument” to contain China, nor a battleground in the new great game. It is easy to see why the Chinese model, with its strictly economic terms of engagement, is preferable to many, even with concerns about “debt entrapment” among countries dealing with China.

Anyone in China’s neighborhood is going to be aware of the gravity of China’s pull and the amount of influence it could potentially wield. But many in Nepal appear unconcerned, focusing instead on China’s massive economic development and the spillover benefits it could have for their country. 10 years down the road, Nepal’s economy will have largely benefited because of the Chinese economy.

Obviously Nepal will benefit from the growing Chinese economy and the Chinese protection would ward off any threats from India.

Russia: President Putin likely to have a cake walk in the March presidential poll

 

Russia: President Putin likely to have a cake walk in the March presidential poll

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Russians who had made a Socialist revolution in 1917 for a new communist society for providing the people equality they sought by systemic change and who later in 1990 joined President Michael Gorbachev and Boris Yelstsin to dismantle communist system and erase its legacy and still later in 2000 they elected a former KGB personnel Vladimir Putin as their President, will again go to the polls on 19 March for the country’s seventh presidential election and in all likelihood incumbent President Vladimir Putin would get reelected to the Kremlin for a fourth term in office.

The election results would make President Putin the leader with the longest tenure in executive authority of any of the world’s major powers.

The Kremlin factions and clans do not approve of the choice of Putin’s successor and that would be will be incentivized to consider following the color revolution playbook as a way to offset their rivals begins to increase.

Weak, divided opposition

Like in India, Russian opposition is also split, making Putin’s win fairly easy. Indeed, it is fascinating that several of the candidates running in March’s election, especially Boris Titov, representing the old “Right Cause” (now the Party of Growth) and to a lesser extent the new face of the Russian Communists, Pavel Grudinin, replacing the old perennial stalwart Gennday Zyuganov, do not expect to win election but are using the campaign to push their respective pro-privatization and anti-globalization programs, in an effort to influence the direction the Russian government will take in the coming years.

With Alexei Navalny sidelined after energizing thousands of Russians in towns and cities across the country to protest in recent months, Sobchak could be an alternative opposition voice. In 2012, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov ran for president. He came nowhere close to victory — finishing third with nearly 8 percent of the vote — but many believed that had never been the point. Prokhorov, they argued, was a spoiler candidate: a tool for Putin to channel anger at the Kremlin into a non-threatening vote.

Since former reality TV star Ksenia Sobchak announced her candidacy for presidency, deciphering her motivations has become a national obsession. She is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the first democratically-elected mayor of St. Petersburg and a former mentor of President Vladimir Putin. Russian presidential candidate Sobchak is running on an “against all” platform from the Civic Initiative Party in Russia’s presidential elections in March.

Sobchak, 35, has a wide-reaching public persona. She is a socialite and former reality TV presenter, turned opposition activist, then opposition journalist and — now — presidential candidate. Her candidacy has come as a shock to many — often referred to as the Russian Paris Hilton, her more than 5 million followers on Instagram are served daily photos of fashion shows, expensive restaurants and far-flung beach holidays.

Ksenia Sobchak’s campaign is bringing issues into the public realm—and her ability to pose a question in her capacity as a reporter to Putin at December’s marathon press conference was seen as a signal that, even if she is not expected to win, her candidacy is part of the necessary process to consider what happens to Russian politics after Putin retires or departs from this mortal realm.

Many believe Sobchak has been handpicked by the Kremlin to inject vitality in Russia’s presidential elections and bolster turnout on March 18, 2018. Is she just the latest Kremlin stooge? Is she a spoiler candidate — someone co-opted by the Kremlin to split the opposition vote — or will she actually further the opposition’s cause?

As an independent candidate, she would have to gather 300,000 votes in a matter of weeks — a practically insurmountable challenge. Many see that as evidence that Sobchak has been given the Kremlin’s assurance she will be allowed to run — a claim she denies.

During a meeting with Vladimir Putin several weeks ago to discuss a documentary about her father, she said, she had told Putin personally about her decision to run. “He said that every person can make their own decisions and take responsibility for them too,” she said.

Many say, immediately after the presidential elections, Ksenia Sobchak will disappear from the political arena.

A problem that will not be solved by the March election is the question of Russia’s role in the Eurasian region and the world. In the West, there remains the assumption that US foreign-policy problems with Russia are personal: that they stem from Putin.

Russia won’t be able to turn a new leaf in US-Russia relations with a President Navalny, or Sobchak, or even a Titov, not to mention the long-established liberal reformer Grigory Yavlinsky, who has also thrown his hat into the ring.

It goes without saying, however, that a President Grudinin—or a President Maxim Suraikin, who is running under the banner of the neo-Stalinist “Communists of Russia” and released his “Ten Stalinist Strikes on Capitalism and American Imperialism” platform, or the perennial contender Vladimir Zhirinovsky, in for his seventh attempt to become Russia’s president—would not be interested in improving relations with Washington

Most of the candidates have similar views with Putin. A different candidate might terminate the Syria intervention, be more flexible on the Ukraine question, be less confrontational and more accommodative to US demands. But no one stands for Russia giving up its position if not as a super power at least as the regional leader or as one of the great powers who should be consulted on the important matters of the global agenda.

Putin Putin Putin

The current Russian political system was constructed for one person and can only be managed and controlled by one person—Vladimir Putin

Today, Puitn – and not Trump – is the most important leader of the world with some amount of dignity. Russians love and respect him and look forward to his forthright actions to weaken the unipolar, dictatorial and fascist mindset of USA.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on 7 October 1952 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union., served as President of the Russian Federation since 7 May 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008. He was Prime Minister of the Russian Federation from 1999 until 2000, and again from 2008 until 2012. He studied law at the Saint Petersburg State University, graduating in 1975. Putin was a KGB foreign intelligence officer for 16 years, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before retiring in 1991 to enter politics in Saint Petersburg. He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin’s administration, rising quickly through the ranks and becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999, when Yeltsin resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election by a 53% to 30% margin, thus avoiding a runoff with his Communist Party of the Russian Federation opponent, Gennady Zyuganov. He was re-elected President in 2004 with 72% of the vote.

In Putin’s first term (2000–2004), he was the emergency man called to take the helm of Russia and stop its slide into catastrophe following the breakup of mighty Soviet Union. The second term was marked by the theme of rebuilding and reconstructing what had been lost during the disasters of the 1990s.

During Vladimir Putin’s first presidency, the Russian economy grew for eight straight years, and GDP measured in purchasing power increased by 72%. The growth was a result of the 2000s commodities boom, high oil prices, and prudent economic and fiscal policies. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive presidential term in 2008. The 2008 presidential election was won by Dmitry Medvedev, Putin became Prime Minister

In September 2011, after presidential terms were extended from four to six years Putin announced he would seek a third term as president. The election will be held in March 2018, with a term until 2024. Putin has enjoyed high domestic approval ratings during his career (mostly higher than 70%), and received extensive international attention as one of the world’s most powerful leaders.

Putin won the March 2012 presidential election with 64% of the vote. Falling oil prices coupled with international sanctions imposed at the beginning of 2014 after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Eastern Ukraine led to GDP shrinking by 3.7% in 2015, though the Russian economy rebounded in 2016 with 0.3% GDP growth and is officially out of the recession

During Putin’s first eight years in office, industry grew substantially, as did production, construction, real incomes, credit, and the middle class. Putin has also been praised for eliminating widespread barter and thus boosting the economy. Inflation and corruption remained a problem however.  A fund for oil revenue allowed Russia to repay all of the Soviet Union’s debts by 200.

The goal of Putin’s activity was to create a ruling party, along the lines of the postwar liberal Democrats in Japan that could maintain decades of electoral supremacy, serve as a big-tent grouping allowing for differing factions to exist but remain united in a single political entity, and would develop sustainable mechanisms for leader development and renewal of cadres.

Human rights are of great concern in Russia.

Color revolutions in Europe and elsewhere have not solved any problems and slowly they brought back the old system.

Putin is known for his often tough and sharp language, often alluding to Russian jokes and folk sayings. An Orthodox Christian, Putin is said to attend church services on important dates and holidays on a regular basis and has had a long history of encouraging the construction and restoration of thousands of churches in the region. In 2014, he was reportedly nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. In 1980, Putin met his future wife, Lyudmila, who was working as a flight attendant at the time. The couple married in 1983 and had two daughters: Maria, born in 1985, and Yekaterina, born in 1986. In early June 2013, after nearly 30 years of marriage, Russia’s first couple announced that they were getting a divorce, providing little explanation for the decision, but assuring that they came to it mutually and amicably.

Unconstrained by conventional global norms, his reach has magnified in recent years. In 2016 Russian hackers were accused of tapping into email accounts owned by members of the US Democratic Party in a bid to aid the campaign of Donald Trump, who has regularly praised Putin’s leadership style. The Kremlin denies the charges, and President-elect Trump has also dismissed the possibility of outsiders tampering in the election, despite a reported CIA memo suggesting otherwise. Either way, with a likely ally entering the White House, Putin’s power may go largely unchecked for years to come.

No matter the fact of Putin’s genuine base of support in Russia, the ways that the Kremlin has managed the election process and the inevitable gap that will emerge between actual voter turnout and number of votes cast for Putin with the published results—especially if the target of 70 percent turnout/70 percent in favor of Putin is reached amidst reports that some degree of fine-tuning was required to meet these goals—will be cited to deny that Putin has any popular mandate to continue to govern.

Against US unipolarity

In the last few years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been made into a convenient scapegoat for all the West’s problems. If anything goes wrong at home — then blame that bounder Putin.

Russia is known for its policy of anti-Americanism but being a strong economic power with a UN veto, it has levers to upset all moves of USA and NATO against Russia.

During the Cold War era, the US Russia conflict was acute, though both maintained diplomatic and economic channels to continue the “normal” bilateral relationship. .

Being a former top KGB officer, President Putin is not trusted by US leaders who want to use the Kremlin to promote and shield all its capitalist and imperialist crimes.

Many prominent Russians in New Russia particularly in 2005 talked about how Russia, as one of the great powers, could work with the USA in creating a new concert to address critical international problems. But no one—not even the most liberal, pro-Western candidates running—would now advocate for Russian subordination in a US unipolar system.

The use the Russian threat ably is being promoted by US leadership in order to be able to strengthen unipolarity. The so-called ‘Russian threat’, being used by US politicians and media as the ever existing threat to them, is not only good for the arms industry, and defense budgets, but for all western politicians who have no answers to the very real threats their public face in their daily lives. They also cover up their failure by naming the Russian threat just like Indian regime points to Pakistan to ward off all its failures, both systemic and administrative.

Western world faces several serious problems, including a knife crime epidemic, a significant rise in the murder rate, a steady rise (over 60%)in homelessness and increasing unemployment, a sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty and a hideously expensive and unreliable public transport system- to name only a few. But rather than focus on solving them, those in power would rather ‘obsess’ about non-existent threats from Russia. ‘Army Chief warns of Russian threat’ has been the routine headline on the media websites and newspapers. It is deliberate attempt to divert people’s attention.

As to the ‘Russian threat‘; the idea that Russia would want to invade or attack the USA, UK and other Atlantic nations is extremely ludicrous.

Domestic scene

Russian politics today is still very far from this model, and Putin’s perpetual candidacy is a clear sign that the problem of political succession which bedeviled him in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election (when Putin was constitutionally prohibited from seeking a third consecutive term) still has not been solved. Putin, in many ways, cannot give up power maybe because he and those around him would not have the political and legal guarantees that they require.

Elections in USA, Russia and elsewhere are very routine matter for the government to hold by using all illegal means and would therefore not make any changes for the nation or world. Trump’s paid election is not going to change anything for the Americans. Russians—and the world—will wake up on March 19 to find that not much has changed. But the clock counting down towards domestic and international crises will be running.

Knife crime used to be a rare event in the UK, but in 2017 there were 80 fatal stabbings in London alone. The reality is that Britain is becoming an increasingly dangerous country in which to live. Crime figures released in October showed an underlying 8% increase in the murder rate, with a 13% rise in all police-recorded offenses from June 2016-June 2017. But the ruling elite prefer to scare people about Russia. An imaginary ‘Russian threat’ has been given precedence over dealing with the genuine threats citizens face at home.

However, President Putin is not at all responsible for all the crimes that take place in western capitals, elsewhere. The people responsible reside not in the Kremlin, but in Whitehall and Oval hall, elsewhere. With utmost cynicism, those who have put many innocent lives at risk, while spending a small fortune on neocon-inspired military ‘interventions‘ overseas, want people transfer their anger on to a foreign bogeyman- Putin is seen as the most convenient object. .. The strategy of seeking to divert attention from problems at home, by conjuring up the scepter of a menace from abroad, is of course not original: ruling classes throughout history have done this. . Establishments and their media continue to play it to confuse the masses.

Foreign Policy

On March 4, 2012, Vladimir Putin was re-elected to his third term as president. After widespread protests and allegations of electoral fraud, he was inaugurated on May 7, 2012, and shortly after taking office appointed Medvedev as prime minister. Once more at the helm, Putin has continued to make controversial changes to Russia’s domestic affairs and foreign policy.

During the period of the tandem with Medvedev, the erstwhile emphasis on modernization was replaced with an anti-crisis approach, to safeguard Russia from the vicissitudes of the global recession. Putin launched his third term by presenting a vision of securing Russia’s place in the world as the Eurasian pole of power, an effort that has faltered as the Eurasian Union has underperformed but even more so because of the Ukrainian crisis. There doesn’t seem to be an overarching, compelling, captivating vision for the fourth term, other than the slogan “A strong president for a strong Russia.”

In December 2012, Putin signed into a law which took effect on January 1, 2013 a ban on the US adoption of Russian children. According to Putin, the legislation is aimed to make it easier for Russians to adopt native orphans. However, the adoption ban spurred international controversy, reportedly leaving nearly 50 Russian children—who were in the final phases of adoption with US citizens at the time that Putin signed the law—in legal limbo.

Putin strained relations with the USA the following year when he granted asylum to Edward Snowden, who is wanted by the USA for leaking classified information from the National Security Agency. In response to Putin’s actions, US President Barack Obama canceled a planned meeting with Putin that August. Around this time, Putin also upset many people with his new anti-gay laws. He made it illegal for gay couples to adopt in Russia

In September 2013, tensions rose between the USA and Syria over Syria’s possession of chemical weapons, with the US threatening military action if the weapons were not relinquished. Putin spoke directly to the U.S.’s position in taking action against Syria, stating that such a unilateral move could result in the escalation of violence and unrest in the Middle East. Putin asserted that the U.S. claim that Bashar al-Assad used the chemical weapons on civilians might be misplaced, with the more likely explanation being the unauthorized use of the weapons by Syrian rebels.

Shortly after the conclusion of the 2014 Winter Olympics, amidst widespread political unrest in the Ukraine, which resulted in the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych, Putin sent Russian troops into Crimea, a peninsula in the country’s northeast coast of the Black Sea. The peninsula had been part of Russia until Nikita Khrushchev, former Premier of the Soviet Union, gave it to Ukraine in 1954. Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Yuriy Sergeyev, claimed that approximately 16,000 troops invaded the territory, and Russia’s actions caught the attention of several European countries and the United States, who refused to accept the legitimacy of Russian occupation of east Ukraine.

Putin defended his actions, however, claiming that the troops sent into Ukraine were only meant to enhance Russia’s military defenses within the country—referring to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which has its headquarters in Crimea.

In September 2015, Russia surprised the world by announcing it would begin strategic airstrikes in Syria, aimed at the rebel forces attempting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s historically repressive regime.

Months prior to the 2016 US presidential election, well over a dozen U.S. intelligence agencies unilaterally agreed that Russian intelligence was behind the email hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and John Podesta, who had, at the time, been chairman of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, designed to undermine Clinton’s campaign in favor of her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Soon after, the FBI and National Intelligence Agency publicly supported the CIA’s assessments. CIA claimed that Putin was personally involved in intervening in the US presidential election. Putin denied any such attempts to disrupt the US election.

Underscoring their attempts to thaw public relations, the Kremlin in late 2017 revealed that a terror attack had been thwarted in St. Petersburg, thanks to intelligence provided by the CIA.

A program was started to increase Russia’s share of the European energy market by building submerged gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine and other countries which were often seen as non-reliable transit partners by Russia, especially following Russia-Ukraine gas disputes of the late 2000s (decade). Russia also undermined the rival pipeline project Nabucco by buying the Turkmen gas and redirecting it into Russian pipelines.

Russia diversified its export markets by building the Trans-Siberian oil pipeline to the markets of China, Japan and Korea, as well as the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline in the Russian Far East. Russia has also recently built several major oil and gas refineries, plants and ports. There was also construction of major hydropower plants, such as the Bureya Dam and the Boguchany Dam, as well as the restoration of the nuclear industry of Russia, with 1 trillion rubles ($42.7 billion) which were allocated from the federal budget to nuclear power and industry development before 2015. A large number of nuclear power stations and units are currently being constructed by the state corporation Rosatom in Russia and abroad.

The ongoing financial crisis began in the second half of 2014 when the Russian ruble collapsed due to a decline in the price of oil and international sanctions against Russia. These events in turn led to loss of investor confidence and capital flight.

It has also been argued that the US/EU sanctions had little to no effect on Russia’s economy.

Russia responded with its own sanctions against the West. Additionally, to compensate for the sanctions, Russia developed closer economic ties with Eastern countries. In October 2014, energy, trade and finance agreements with China worth $25 billion were signed. The following year, a $400 billion 30-year natural gas supply agreement was also signed with China.

With peacekeeping as the goal, Russia’s foreign policy will proceed slowly and reluctantly, in line with the country’s shrinking economy – just as the West hoped it would.

When the commission investigating the crash of the MH17 flight over Donbass announces its conclusion that a Russian missile downed the Boeing aircraft, Moscow will declare the findings nothing but lies and slander.

Moscow will continue to haggle over Ukraine, seeking an end to sanctions in return for this or that concession. Russia will also partially fulfill the Minsk agreements and withdraw a major part of its forces from Syria. The Kremlin will similarly deny that Russian hackers and trolls attacked the US elections and democratic processes in Britain and France.

In fact, Russian actions in the Middle East have actually aided the security of the West. The regime-change obsessed UK and USA were backing so-called ‘moderate rebels’ in Syria. The Russian military played a key role in the defeat of ISIS and al-Qaeda linked groups there promoting security of USA and Europe. Many western countries provided covert backing for these so-called terror groups. The ‘threat’ turned out to be entirely bogus. The next time you hear an Establishment figure talking about the ’Russian threat to USA” one should know the regime is making some illegal moves against the people.

In fact, all western nations and their eastern allies jointly working against Islam and Muslims- for sure. . Russia and China, the veto members also support them.

Some rumors

Russia will adopt a new Constitution that will allow Putin to stay in power ; beyond 2024; Putin will marry a descendant of the Romanov family’; The authorities will re-introduce exit visas for Russians; Putin will develop multiple sclerosis and hand over power to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov; US hackers will influence Russia’s elections and the ruble exchange rate; Russian oligarchs will write a secret letter to Putin asking him to imprison Rosneft head Igor Sechin; The Russian national football team will take a $1 billion bribe from Saudi Arabia to lose their World Cup game; And maybe, everything will turn out differently. The right-leaning, conservative ideological bent will deepen until it starts to resemble monarchism.

Despite the commotion surrounding the World Cup, the authorities will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family with pomp and fanfare.

Possibly, Russia will undergo a major political crisis at the point only when Putin, like his predecessor, discoverer cum mentor Yelstsin will no longer be able to govern.

Maybe Putin’s ruling regime will begin to show signs of weakness, a Russian Orthodox fundamentalist or progressive liberal will come to power again.

Soon the country’s financial system and economy will collapse, or a new “thaw” will improve Russia’s relations with the West. One year from now, we’ll check back to see.

These are just rumours. Pure imaginations!

Future of Russia

The historic breakup of the mighty Soviet Union after serving the common people in many ways and helping many weak world nations obtain independence and economic development was the worst tragedy the humanity endured in recent times. Soviet President Michael Gorbachev was wrong in trusting the American imperialists for their pledges for peaceful existence and world peace, he ca now see the conspiracy of the western powers against Soviet union-a true strength of developing and underdeveloped nations. Americans wanted to break the political solidarity that developed between Russia and entire world that worked against the imperialist interests globally.

After the falloff Soviet Union and Socialist system USA has targeted its other enemy- Islam and invasion of Islamizing Afghanistan was the beginning of their war on Islam. Millions of Muslims have been murdered by USA, NATO and their terror allies of fascist orientation. Now USA and also ensured the support of Russia in weakening Islamic world, particularly energy rich Arab nations and Iran. Both kill Muslims in Syria.

Capitalism, imperialism dn fascism have won for the time being.

Fall of Soviet System helped USA and its allies like Israel focus capitalism and expansionism.

The world would be led secured and more dangerous hereafter under US dictatorship. USA, Israel and Russia would continue selling terror goods to third world as neo colonialist nations like India are keen to procure advanced terror goods from USA and Israel. .

Russia’s strong president Putin, the world’s most powerful person for years, has asserted the Russian policies, exerted his country’s influence in nearly every corner of the globe; from the motherland to Syria to the US presidential elections, Putin continues to get what he wants.

Though he tried to revive Soviet system in some way or the other, he did not fully commit himself to the project chiefly because many of the former Soviet Republics are now under US-NATO control. He has retaken Crimea region from Ukraine but that has created a lot of problems including economic terror actions from USA and EU, though there is no direct challenge from USA.

Whether or not Putin would concentrate on that subject in his next term with the wiling former Soviet states remains to be seen

Putin’s commitment to Russia and Russians as well as multipolarity is beyond doubts.

Unlike dictatorial Trump or fanatic fascist Netanyahu or of Indian Zionist Modi, President Putin is not deceiving his people with false promises or secret agendas. Russians are lucky. They trust him.

Before a single ballot is cast, a majority of the US political establishment will already consider the results of this poll to be illegitimate. This readymade prescription is understandable as President Trump got elected with suspected mandate by the US voters.

However, unlike Trump, Putin enjoys real support and love of majority of Russians who continue to want to see their nation a “great”.

The reality is that any leader in the Kremlin pursuing Russian national interests is likely to have points of friction with their arch rival USA. There seems to have no mechanism that would work to dampen down or deconflict those irritants on permanent basis. .

The election may solve nothing: those in the Russian elite who believe that Americans and some Europeans must concede the “reality” of Putin and start doing business with the Kremlin will be disappointed. Also, those in the West who maintain that all anyone needs to do is wait for the inevitable color revolution to depose Putin, that in turn will solve all the outstanding issues that have led to the deterioration of Russia’s relations with the West.

But the victory of Vladimir Putin is a foregone conclusion though the USA might try its luck to create problems for Putin in Moscow. Russian do not see or want any alternative to Putinism.

For Russians, Puitn stands for Russian character (Russkii kharact’er) of which they are very proud. They are supportive and fond of assertive stand of the Kremlin.

So, on March 19, 2018 when Russians voters queue up for voting, nothing will have changed and nothing is going to change even after that date. But the two looming problems that the election will not solve will still be there.

On Bharatratna and other Indian national civilian awards!

On Bharatratna and other Indian national civilian awards!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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As usual, the Republic Day is fast approaching once again as all “needy billionaires and other close associates with connections” push their candidatures for top national awards for their “services” to Indian nation on the 26^th. At many places, money bags must have already changed hands as without prior payments no national or state awards and honors are recommended or given.

That is system India promotes very religiously. Change of government from Congress to BJP has not made any difference to the system. Some “favorites” keep visiting temples etc for “blessings “so that Hindutva government would consider their demands for the top slot of national honor even while they have no new contribution to the nation.

Corporate lords and their mafia guys must be busy in “blocking”, like they book air tickets,   the prestigious awards for their favorites, leaving honesty to winds. Money bags go on getting exchanged by the concerned for the purposes. The greedy entertainers, extracurricular people, cricketers, sports people who have amassed huge wealth go all-out to get as many awards as possible

Routine things do not deserve national honor, however.

In order to deny Muslims awards for their service to nation and to promote their own saffron candidates who have generated enough hatred against Islam and Muslims, the military and intelligence jointly target Pakistan while the TV media lords project the cross border attacks from abroad as anti-national so that Muslims do not get anything for their services and sacrifices.

Indian regime treats entertainments alone as the most important national service deserving highest national honors. Generally, it as a rule does not consider those who have different views on world for national awards. In fact, mostly the regime keeps away many sincere or serious persons who make sincere contributions to the society and nation. The persons like teachers, scholars, ministers, governors, MLAs, MPs, collectors, Governors, CMs, military personnel, police, intelligence wing personnel, judges, who have made significant contribution to the nation are just ignored.

By giving awards to these serious people if they do make contributions, the government  could help the society to  groom  and promote, in due course, honest and hard working MLAs, MPs, authors, ministers, governors,  ministers, police, intelligence officers In fact, corruption could be contained significantly.

In fact, the rulers unfortunately have no time to consider them for national awards that are reserved for cricketers and entertainers. India media deliberately promote their favorite batboys who make maximum money d for national awards

The government and committees appointed by the government should avoid consider the entertainers for the prestigious national awards meant for genuine achievers for the nation to advance further economically, diplomatically, scientifically, administratively, etc.

All the entertainers have their own national awards in the respective fields like films, TV, sports, cricket, m film music, acting, etc, but the national Padma awards are not meant for them. They are for serous people and not for school dropouts like Sachin.

One really wonders as to why Indian regime and military salute the runout cricket batboys who cannot protect their own stumps behind just because they make 100s and 50s on mutual understanding with opponents. Cricket mafias help them accomplish the fake records. Top military posts are gifted to hem freely for managing the show at the crease.

Cricketers continue to play for many years for a life time and they are everywhere, in all formats and they also fix matches for 50s and 100s,etc. Kolhi, Doni, etc are everywhere in all formats? Why don’t they choose one of the formats and play? But these batboy frauds want to amass 50s and 100s and advertisements and dirty money and national awards.

That way the cricketers do not let new players get chances to “play for the nation” international games.

BCCI promotes only the top players for extra money and they pester the corporate lords and government, ministers, president to offer national awards like bharatratna for  their 100s on mutual fixings If not mafia fixings. .

Government should have responsibility in ensuring genuine standards in achievements of the person seeking national awards and should not take not offer cricket gambling and stop offering national awards that are meant for genius people and not match fixers and gamblers, frauds.

Poverty of real achievers

 

Indian regime, intelligence, media etc do not make any positive contribution to promote and encourage true spirits in national building so that the best could be chosen for national awards.

This results in the poverty of real and genuine achievers in real human activities and gives rise to rotten stuff available for national awards.

Tragedy of Indian national honor took place when the Congress government offered the bharatratna to a cricketer as the most valuable Indian citizen among billion of Indians with highly committed persons in non-entertainment professions. Congress government gave the award to a cricketer as a slap to the BJP government for choosing APJ Abdu Kalam for the Bharatratna. Congress-BJP clash led to making a cricketer Bharatratna.

Upon successful execution of its plan to make a fake sportboy and a school dropout Tendulkar a Bharatratna, a honor meant exclusively for great Indian achievers and thinkers doing serious work for the nation and not the entertainers, Indian regime is eager make some more cricketers Bharatratana holder.

One does not know if India is eager to offer some more Bharatratnas to Tendulkar under some other categories so that India media could shine more. India launched IPL in football and made Tendulkar the owner of Kerala Blastards team and has been tirelessly promote its wins but so far no success though has got best variety players for Kerala Blastards team. Last match, Kerala Blastards was crushed by Goa by 5 goals and now India wants the Blastards to defeat another team by the same 5 goals.

It is a known fact that cricket matches are generally fixed in favor of batboys and for cash and the corporate lords who sponsor matches also work for their prestigious national awards.

National awards should not be national horrors by offering them to undeserving people while there are many deserving persons available.

Cricket board controls government and committees

Indian or any other government should offer prestigious national awards only to credibly genius persons, preferably who have come up on their own without state or other support. No need to  create false records for their favorites or push  candidates with fake records.

The government decisions cannot be questions because that would be construed anti-national. BCCI keeps sending a list of cricketers who should be offered Padma awards as they get 100s, take catches and sump balls, etc.  India’s top political leaders ruling the country by and engaged corruption just obey the BCCI and its corporate sponsors.

When the Congress party decided to offer the nation’s highest honor Bharatratna for a batboy Sachin who got 100s through mutual understating between the cricket boards and mafia mediations, India only slapped on its own face, on national prestige.

BCCI and corporate lords have already proposed a middle level national award to Dhoni for his wicket catches. He is a very tactic businessman with a huge establishment that mint money and wants Bharatratna or nest level post so that he can, like Tendulkar, retire from cricket field. Dhoni’s contribution to the fixed cricketism is fixing the score the team that bats first, that is, the team that bats first should be offered minimum of runs, say 260 in IDI, 140 in T20 and so on. And India generally is offered the chance to bat first. Dhoni come 6th or 7thor 5th depending on the situation. If the main batboys collapse without enough runs in their packets then Dhoni would be given a lot of runs so that the “minimum score” conditions fulfilled by the bowling team. Dhoni wants top national awards for his tactics. Not a fool. He knows how Indian government works.

Indian corporate government has already fixed Dhoni and Sachin, many others in military establishment with heavy, unserving post which a solder gets only after many years of selfless most dangerous services and after huge sacrifices.

Apparently, Australians have come to India without any preparation or practices. Just they had taken the bats (balls would be provided by the umpires) and took the early fight to reach India.  Generally, each team exchanges the members of the team well in adamant so that the teams prepare well to face each and every player- batboy and bowler. But Australia did not do that and brought a weak team without any real bowlers. So much so, one gets the impression that only Indian batboys and bowlers are great and all others are fools and without even imaginations, including the supposedly top team like Australians.

It looks Australia has been told by India BCCI not to harm Indian interests and help India celebrate greatness at least in cricket. So, Australians, most of them are Indian property as they have been purchased for IPL in India, and they need Indian cash- both while and black.

Australia has been invited by BCCI to play a series of matches to promote the “award interests” of innocent looking but very cunning Indian cricketers. And the guests from Australia have done well so far. They don’t make any effort to win but happy to get only some 50s and 100s as service charges.

How can military establishment accept an entertainer as their leader?

It has become a habit for Indian government as well as state governments to offer big administrative posts meant for senior IAS and IPS officers – why?

Are the administrators and entertainers one and the same? If cricketers are made ministers that make some sense because most politicians and ministers perform like entertainers.

How can these entertainers who make 100s by cheap and unethical means be top police offers?

Observation: sports, cricket, entertainments are not serious domains that define the nationhood.

 

Of course, cricket not a real sport of substance but only an ugly entertainment with fixings for 100s and 50s, etc. States and governments promote this gambling as their duty as part of capitalism for money for the rich and corporate lords and cricketers.

Match fixing, money laundering, black money generation play important role in IPL type cricket. In cricket, the strong and rich countries that can offer big money and shall have upper hand and they are allowed by the weak and dependent nations to win matches and series. Very simple! This is right now happening between England and West Indies and also Australia and India, though Australia is not a beggar nation. West Indies deliberately loses to England even after taking the needy wickets. If batboys fall early then quick runs are offered to tail-enders, bowlers. That is indeed the master-slave mentality.

Not just the cricket board BCCI and sports departments that strongly recommend for national awards of higher levels and big administrative posts for 50s/100s the batboys get by mutual fixing and with the help of fellow batboys, and largely thanks to batboy friendly pitches. Politicians who rule the nation and states, teat fixings for 100s, 50s and even goals as par with their own method of horse-trading for MLAs and MPs, protect the interests of corporate lords and their recommendations for awards and cash.

As a practical nation, India believes only in joint cricket exercises mainly because that strategy helps the batboys get 100s from the opponent bowlers and these big runs are necessary for looting national awards, huge money bags and heavy military posts among other preventives, denying them to genuine social workers, public servants, writers, honest politician, committed top officers, senior military personnel, police officers, others.

Entertainers are accorded high seats in India by the rulers. Apparently, thus, Politicians and entertainers jointly loot the nation. Bribery is welcome too.

Cricketers admit that cricket cannot be played like any real sport for its unpredictability and hence fixing for scores, 100s and 50sand 200s etc should be the order of this entertainment.

In India, literally everyone is pushed to play a sort of cricket and players are happy to give 50s, 100s, etc and get the same from the bowling players.

The game being played during the early days is continued for ever with every little variation- official fixings and fixings through mafia gangs.

Indian rulers are funny corrupt people who promote corruption and match fixings for profits, they treat cricket as politics but politics is not a serious thing for many.

Today, if anybody wants to get national awards they could take a stick and play cricket on roads and streets. They need not study and need not be intelligent but they should know how to read the signals passed on to them from the galleries. The BCCI and mafias of corporate lords do the rest.

BCCI would like to get every national award from Padma to Bharatrna to crickets for their 100s got by mutual understanding or mafia/cricket board fixings. BCCI is being financed and controlled by the corporate lords and MNCs who have close nexus with the government-both federal and state ones. .

Meanwhile, it is a national shame that Indian government and its regional varieties  do not consider those who work tirelessly for the nation for prestigious national awards but pick only entertainers-drunkards, cum smokers  who come to felid to make money.

Apparently, Indian regime wants the BCCI and all sport departments to fix the outcomes of games in India’s favor and, having succeeded in its mischief, it readily offers to the players national awards and high posts in government and military. Like Pakistan, India also believes it can hope for wins only in cricket as mutual fixings are rampant in this entertainment cum gambling.

India and its master England are now seen cooperating with each other with mutual counseling and playing joint mischief in cricket. Rains are  brought in by remote means to disturb the match if India or English is in trouble and rains invariably are suited to help them win. Both invariably use satellites to generate rains if their opponent teams try to defeat them.  Though they also know the “rain” gimmicks, the opponents meekly approve all that as being part of cricketism.

And thus cricket fixings go on without any hindrance and also the looting of national awards by fakes. Indian regime may be proud of such operations to boos the image of players and prestige of nation. .

How to ensure standards?

A nation that respects genius persons would be respected by the world and by its own people.

Government should promote genuine things and people who work for the the development of nation for their social and societal or public work, but India promotes corrupt people, fake entertainers, cricketers who get runs by mutual fixings.

A nation that institutes national honors only to be given to favorites and billionaires with nexus with mafias is not a genuine one. A government that honors fakes as genuine and promote billionaires and entertainers as a routine matter is not a remissible one A government that encourages bribery to play role in selecting people for national honors itself is fake.

Indian government should respect national awards by choosing only genius persons for them – and not gamblers, mutual fixers!

Of course, India like England is a key cricket nation that promotes cricket as an “important” entertainment deserving highest national honors. .

Offering Bharatratna to a cricketer or an entertainer or a person who manages a few 100 runs in cricket makes a big mockery of prestige of such national awards. It is time to cancel all such awards and give them only to the deserving persons who are in public service.

Highest national awards should be given to persons who have proven genuine records or made achievements in highest order.

There is no need to promote those with lower awards with higher ones as a matter of seniority as this is done in job markets. Each year only deserving specialists need to be considered for such awards.

The government could offer money or jobs or promotions in jobs, etc  to their favorites but not waste the top national awards to people purely on recommendations from the government or agencies as a crude joke to national pride.

Indian regime thinks by honoring the fakes and extracurricular people trained by the government by spending huge resources in indoor and outdoor games, it in fact honors itself and India. The kind of bogus and fanatic feeling is unfair.

India must promote honest politicians and committed police personal and military personnel for Padma-Bharatratna awards. Giving them to drunkards and smokers, frauds, liars etc would undermine the importance of the awards.

Indian government while deciding the annual awards must go beyond accepting the recommendations of frauds for fakes. It needs to search for genuine persons and reliable records and if it does not find any, it can wait for another year so that people become serious instead of offering the prestigious awards on fakes.

How can a government equate entertainment with administration by offering very big administrative posts to sports people, cricketers, actors and the like? The prestigious Padma awards of all categories should be reserved only for serious people not for entertainers, actors, cricketers or sport people.  A small post like Padmashri or an equivalent could be given to them only as their life time achievement and nothing more. All these extracurricular people should be offered awards meant exclusive for their profession, may be in plenty.

Notwithstanding the fact that genuineness and reliability of all scores and even wickets are in darkness, the regime, after help the team win the matches even by generating rains  by satellite  means, also  offers national awards and top administrative posts even in  military and police, intelligence – is it not a mischief on the nation?

There needs to be a national awards review commission – a standing committee, to keep reviewing the status of the national awardees and look out for genuine persons for the prestigious awards.  Putting together the recommendations of state governments and corporate agencies would not help awarding genius persons.  They find only entertainers and cricketers and other kinds of cash frauds.

The negative characters like chain smokers, drunkards, liars, criminals, cheats, etc should be left alone. Don’t burden them with national awards!

National awards should be able to generate enthusiasm and guarantee for the hard working people to achieve them.

Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Cricketism: South Africa tames Indians, refuses to make them shine!

Cricketism: South Africa tames Indians, refuses to make them shine!

– Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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India media cried out so loudly about their “series lose” to South Africans that the echo slammed even the Himalayas. Apparently, this time India is unable to fix matches and force its “shining win” in South Africa.

After its “successful” handling of a fearful Sri Lanka in Indian towns, winning all formats with bogus new records created for batboys, like Kolhi, now India team is in South Africa and already lost the first test match against much stronger team of Africa.

As Africans were dominating and India was fast losing the pitch, rains were invoked to serve Indian cause but unfortunately this time that trick did not work in India’s favor.  That ended the first test in a crash for India.

Bowlers had the upper hand in both teams but South Africa has the upper edge, resulting in the fall of Indian batboys one after another when India thought things are in their favor.

South Africa, unlike Sri Lanka, had a plan for India and it every player- both batboy and bowler.

That alone is not enough for winning the match.

South Africans played well against Indian bowling and bating.

India did not expect that.

South Africa is major supplier of terror goods for India to be used in Kashmir but apparently it does not mix economic with cricketism. .

This is a rare occasion that rains came as per Indian demand but could not help Indian case. Generally when rains come to disturb the match, it is presumed that India would win the match in a rainy way.

However, this time around India bit the dust

One wonders if the match were held in India, would Indians let South Africa win like this. Would not the rains generated by the “concerned” let India easily win. Indian camera would focus on the crocodile tears of the fanatic Indians selected and readied for the show among the audiences.

Since the match series is taking place in South Africa and South Africans buy rickets and pay for Indian players,  India cannot force South Africa to let India win by  “understanding” the Indian pains to see their Bharatratana level batboys fall like waste match sticks.

So, India could not force South Africa to let Indians shine as the January 26 is fast approaching for the government to announce and distribute highest national civilian awards and BCCI has already pushed its list of batboys for some of them.

But then India won’t just take the fall easily and has announced that next IP would be held in South Africa. So, you got the message from India for South Africa?

No? Or yes?

Cricket is worst form of gambling being promoted by the state as many politicians also share the booty. .

Meanwhile, let us wait and see how the second test would go in South Africa and who wins and how. Will Indian rhetoric gimmick of IPL 2019 in South Africa cut ice there?

 

Joint cricketism: South Africa offers Kolhi 100 as a wedding gift for claiming Bharatratna

 

 

India and other cricket countries want that cricket is discussed every where even in negative sense it deserves.

IndoSouthAfrican cricketism: It seems South Africa after wining the first test has compromised with Indian guests in the second test. SA has happily offered more than 100 runs to Kolhi though India did not do any favor to South African skipper in the first test.

India’s man target is Hashim Amla as it ‘bygod” believes through black magic that if Amla is removed quickly
India would could fancy chances of winning or at least draw it.

But the first test proved Indian theory wrong as Amla did not any runs but SA won the match. In second innings India has managed to remove Amla with a just one run and hopes South Africans could be defeated now or at least achieved a draw. .

Meanwhile rain shave been invoked on behalf of India and it is hoped rains would help India prove its predictions, if not its skills or talent.

In fact, India does not believe in talent display or boosting its skills but only chooses an approach for practical reasoning of fixing matches.

South Africa has already proved that it is also willing for fixing for 100s and 50s as mutual benefits. Indian bowlers would not let SA batboys to have 100s. or 200s it wants for national awards and advertisement money for batboys.

Any way SA has let Koli shine with a full 100 for India and India accept that favor gleefully, though Indian PM Modi is busy hugging a fellow fanatic Netanyahu in New Delhi, and conducting a road show in Gujarat, may not have time to watch the Indian cricket shows in South Africa. But if at all India wins the series, his PMO would send congratulatory messages to Koli on behalf of PM Modi.

Meanwhile, if time permits one must see the TV footage of how PM Modi was running with both hands spread wide like a fellow owl seeking military goods to target Kashmiris in Kashmir.. .

 

Power of bowlers –India manages 100 for select batboys

 

It is a fact that reckless bowlers win the matches for the teams, the teams without efficient or with weak bowlers can only wreck the teams badly

But Pakistan continuously plays the old ways- trying to get 50s and above as their cricket objective for the batboys to shine. Without good and effective bowlers they cannot win matches.  Thanks to IPL control mechanism, India still manages 50s and 100s and even win matches.

 

Pakistan is one of cricket teams that don’t have good efficient bowlers who can control run rate of the opponent batboys and take wickets. The Pak team is trained only to get 50s or 100s runs by offering good scores to the opponents first.

 

Unless Pakistan train good bowlers its chances of winning matches are very low.

One does not know whether Pakistani bowlers are really bad and weak or they just pretend to fool the opponents to get 50s and 100s from the opponents in the next matches.

Wither case, Pakistan is not behaving properly on the field.

Time is fast coming to say that batboys cannot be pampered by the bowlers as the Power of bowlers is being recognized by the bowlers themselves though India manages 100s by fixing the match officially by the BCCI,

 

Otherwise Kohli et all cannot go past even 20 runs. It is the teams like Pakistan that promotes such fakes as heroes for return favors and South Africa is also doing the same.

 

India testes bitter pills in South Africa as they have been comprehensively defeated by South Africa and Indian skipper Kohli, who choose the toss and other detai^ls on signals from the corporate intelligence agents has lost the test series for the first time in decades. In fact India media laughed and cried loud that the ‘great’ kolhi and team could not win the test in South Africa’s the batboys who fell one by one like dried leaves fall off the trees during the autumn.

India had gone there after full preparations and training by playing with many teams finally with Sri Lanka.

South Africa is all set to claim a whitewash win without allowing Indians to anything according to their plan.

India cannot blame on the itch in South Africa since the pitches prepared there were just like those being prepared in Indian conditions.

India says the South African bowlers were ruthless and the innocent looking Indian batboys could not match them in any manner. India wants to have the best bowlers and expect only weak bowlers from the opposite side so that Kolhi and Rohit, others could hit 4s and 6s as freely as possible like the wild fire, to make the Indian spectators happy.

Perhaps, India faces real bowlers only now. Even without Indian team would find the last test difficult as well.

However, result of the final test would be test for the South Africans as well. Obviously, Indians, including parliamentarians and intelligence wings and corporate media lords, have lost the sleep ever since they lost the test series abroad in Africa and they, including the coach Ravi, would carefully watch the visual clips to study the new techniques of SA bowlers and batboys that put Indians upside down. After all, Indian cricket fixers are of Bharatratna level guys.

Indian worry is really pathetic. It thinks a loss in a cricket match would also be a direct win for Pakistan. In that sense Pakistani military has thrashed Indian military occupying Jammu Kashmir. Is not that the truth?

Of course, Indian government would also use the channels to pursue the case with its counterpart in South Africa through various agencies to let India shine at least in the third “round”.

 

So now, it all depends on whether South Africa’s government and its cricket team would play for their country or to let India shine too much.

 

Otherwise, it would be a cake walk for South Africa to run over beleaguered Indians.

 

 

Indian Hindutva objections to Muslim divorce practice: Is Modi- government really sincere about the “fate” of Indian Muslim women?

 

Indian Hindutva objections to Muslim divorce practice: Is Modi- government really sincere about the “fate” of Indian Muslim women?

– Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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[“In order to prove that Indian regime indeed cares for Indian women Muslims, a minimum of 20% seats in academic institutions and jobs must be reserved for Muslim women. Also a minimum of 10% seats in the parliament and state assemblies should be reserved for Muslim women and there should at least be one women judge in every court of India”. That is the real empowerment of Muslim women in India which would make difference in community andantino at large”].

 

For Hindu politicians in Indian political outfits, Hinduism perhaps is a source and cause for instant and perpetual entertainment. As the majority community they can play as much as they like. Muslims cannot have any serious objections. But when the Hindutva leaders using Hindutva as a cheap political resource use Islam also like that for entertainment purposes, we have serious objection to that nonsense. The Congress-BJP duo that fights for power should not trespass the Islamic territories by misusing some senseless Muslim individuals.

Indian national political outfits, particularly the Congress and BJP- the former and incumbent misrulers that promoted rampant corruption and crimes, continue to play dirty religiously communal politics for garnering their Hindu votes.

Indian government run by the BJP led Hindutva parties, on the strength of Shi’a sect of Islam that foolishly fights Sunni sect, is on its way to make Islam irrelevant possibly by ban it altogether after creating problems for the latter.

The BJP is keen to get the anti-Islam issue Triple Talaq passed in the parliament to show to the Hindu voters that Triple Talaq has been imposed on Muslims in order to keep the Hindu voters in good humors.

Triple Talaq

Qur’an terms nikah or marriage ‘mithaqan ghaliza’, a strong agreement. Divorce is not  a good thing.

Women in Islam are the most protected female population on earth but the anti-Islamic forces try to disrupt the tranquility and make the women vulnerable external pressures. The venomous RSS-BJP duo and their secret Hindutva ally Congress, among others have recently “discovered” that Islam in India is against not only Islamic women but even their own religious women.

Hindutva forces have been at work for quite some time to tarnish the image of Islam and target Indian Muslims and with power in hands thanks to the Muslim community in India,  they now go all out to do maximum harms to them.  They have several cases in Indian courts seeking to support Hindutva ideology and punish the Muslims who do not support the RSS-BJP.

This is misinformation spread deliberately by the Hindutva media lords to insult Islam as a terrorist religion without any humanness and threaten Indian Muslims – both male and female.

Injustice is committed to women in India is not by Muslim men but by the ruling regime that targets Islam and Muslims. As such the RSS=BJP seeking to destroy all mosques in the country cannot be “well-wishers” of either men or women of Islam.

The Islamic law Triple talaq requires a long procedure of divorce   if the partners have developed strong hatred toward each other and onetime simple Talaq is not enough but three times of talaq needed to obtain a divorce so that the partners have enough time and opportunities to reverse their rigid stance and come back to live together, avoiding unnecessarily separated lives against the wishes of Islam.

There is clear misunderstanding among non-Muslims about the message of Triple Talaq and some of the anti-Islamic people argue in TV channels that Muslims just say instantly the Triple Talaq once or twice or thrice and end the marriage abruptly.

That is not the case. If there is a problem with a married couple, the concerned families and community intervenes and find a amicable solution. They meet regularly, discuss the issue and finally decides whether divorce is good enough for them.   The husband does not pronounce Triple talaq instantly and end the problem.  That doesn’t happen in Islam, may such “instant” thing happen in other communities.

Islam honors and cares for the sanctum of marriages and ties to save the marriage even if the couple has serious misunderstandings and crises. Like in any other religion, some Muslim men could be dangerous guys and even criminals and could harm wives but that is a criminal case the court should solve it.

Preferably Triple talaq process could have some days between them to be able to pronounce the final talaq by the relatives and their common well wishers.

There could be instances of deviations and such cases should be dealt sternly with but using one of two such wrong instances, if at all,  to negate the triple talaq philosophy is totally foolish and to fanatic.

Duplicates do not become originals. Those who try to disturb the religious laws cannot pretend to be the well wishers of Muslim women. Only Islam and Muslim men alone can provide real security to Muslim women.

Triple talaq is already declared by Supreme Court as null and void. It has become the law of the land. Then what is the need for any further legislation on that?

 

Why are they against Islam and Muslims?

It is a sheer habit. By nature and in essence the Hindutva people fear and hate Islam- unnecessarily. They should fear God and not Islam. If they are god fearing, they won’t hate Islam or any other religion. That is a fact.

Islam is the most humane religion on earth guided by the Holy Quran but the foes of Islam across the globe try find faults with Islam and concerning Islamic faith.

The anti-Islamic forces and media lords y always work to prove that Islam is a terrorist religion where women do not have any right to live in male dominated society and as if every Muslim woman commits suicide due to restrictions imposed by men on their “carefree movements”.  And so much so they behave as if more and more Hindu women and ladies from other religions come to Islam to fill the gap.

Is that so?

Mere sympathy does not bring adherents to Islam but true faith in Islam does that.

The Hindutva forces not only plan secret communal agendas to garner Hindu votes for the Hindutva parties, but worse, also now try to divide the Muslims community along nonsensical lines by declaring that Women in Indian Islam do not have freedoms to enjoy life as they wish. .

Today, the BJP can pass any resolution in both houses of the parliament. BJP has as per its plan has passed the triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha.

Are these foes of Islam really worried about Muslim women? If so why are they not doing anything about the plight of their own women?

RSS dictates Indian Parliament

As a “historic” Indian anti-Muslim step, the lower house of Indian parliament (Lok Sabha) has passed the contentious bill making instant triple illegal with up to three years in jail for the husband, a development hailed by the government as “historic”.

Congress ad its close allies rejoice at the BJP‘s bold step. The bill was passed after the House rejected a string of amendments moved by Asaduddin Owaisi from the AIMIM and Bhartruhari Mahtab from the BJD. MPs from the RJD, AIMIM, BJD, AIADMK and All India Muslim League opposed the bill, calling it arbitrary in nature. One of Owaisi’s amendments saw 241 voting against it, and only two voting in its favour.

With BJP MPs behaving like owners of the parliament, huge numerical superiority in the lower house of the Parliament, it was a foregone conclusion that the BJP will be able to get the bill passed without a hitch. It should also pass the Rajya Sabha hurdle as well, given the fact that the numbers in the upper house of Parliament also favor the saffron camp. PM Modi is engaged consensus to target Muslims in getting the Bill passed by Upper House while Congress is ready for that. . .

The BJP government argues that the tradition is already illegal in three out of the four Islamic schools of thought. The talaq-e-bidat is sanctified only in the Hanafi jurisprudence. The Hanafi scholars in the North India made it a prestige issue without deliberating it with ulema of other schools of thoughts and take a reasonable stand on the issue that has finally resulted in a bill that makes the Muslim men in the country a very vulnerable target.

Criminalizing something that didn’t take place?  The BJP that has used the issue of instant triple talaq deftly for making political gains, has simply gone too far in its zest to make the entire Muslim community look obscurantist and backward. Many among Muslims are looking at the latest bill as a tool to divide the Muslim community. Others claim that the bill was unnecessary as it criminalizes an act that cannot be committed due to it being illegal. Faizan Mustafa, a renowned legal expert says, “The purpose of criminal law is to forbid and prevent conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably inflicts or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests. Since the Supreme Court has set aside triple talaq, it no longer dissolves the marriage, and thus, causes no harm at all. It no more threatens the security and well-being of society…

The BJP and its media lords clam with the Bill the life and status of Indian Muslim women have been upgraded and they gain full justice.

How?

Will Indian Muslim women get something extra from Indian regime so as to ensure their safety and security?

Every aspect of Islam is much better than in other religions. Some problems crop up in rich Muslim families where women seek more freedoms that men have. In fact some women want to be totally free and their husbands are scared of telling them something unpleasant for the sake of unity of families. .

The Bill

The BJP government is determined to intrude into the personal lives of individuals with anew Bill on Muslim women. It aims at making every citizen to behave as the RSS wants and dictates.

Parliament has to decide whether the victims of triple talaq have fundamental rights or not, government said, after some Opposition members claimed it violated the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

With the Supreme Court making triple talaq illegal, there was actually no need to bring the bill, criminalize something that cannot be done and try to take credit for passing the Bill if not improving the lot of the Indian Muslim women.

The BJP claims it wants to ensure justice for the Muslim women in the country. Nonetheless, the whole idea of criminalizing triple talaq, despite the fact that the country’s apex court had struck down the tradition, seems rather very strange.

Union Law Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, while speaking during the discussion in the Parliament said, “My appeal is that this bill should not be seen through the eyes of political parties, religion or as a vote bank. This is for the “honor” of our sisters and our daughters. This is for their ”dignity and justice”. I want to follow the legacy of this house by seeing that India stands up for its Muslim “sisters and daughters” whose brothers and sons  the RSS criminals  kill by lynching for eating beef or not fowling ‘ghar Wapsi’ law. .

Fulfilling its electoral promise, the BJP-led government moved swiftly to draft the legislation following a Supreme Court order in August, striking down the practice as unconstitutional. The apex court asked the government to come up with legislation within six months. “It is a historic day. We are making history today,” Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the House after tabling the Bill. A major bill restricting the Islamic practices to suit the common code was passed in Lower House within a day and it would go for the approval of the Upper house.

The Bill must provide justice, security and honour to women. The bill, its framing was faulty and flawed. if the proposed law makes the practice of instant triple talaq illegal and void, how a person can be jailed for pronouncing ‘talaq-e-biddat?’

Members from Congress and the Left were not allowed to speak on the Bill as they had not given notice. SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was also seen opposing the Bill. RSP leader Ramachandran said: “The main apprehension is the over enthusiasm of the NDA government led by the BJP. There is a cloud of suspicion.

AIMIM supremo Asaduddin Owaisi said Parliament lacks the legislative competence to pass the law as it violated fundamental rights. Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Owaisi said that while the Bill talks only about Muslim women being abandoned, the government should also worry about nearly 20 lakh women of various religions who are abandoned by their husbands, “including our bhabhi from Gujarat.”

BJP government is least bothered about what the Muslim MPs say or do not say. Owaisi MP slammed Law minister Prasad who as Union law minister has failed to discriminate between civil law and criminal law. Not a single Muslim country has a penal provision. Triple talaq is a form of verbal and emotional abuse,” he said.

Owaisi alleged that the Centre was giving an advantage to the offenders and was not helping the situation. “Your dream of having more Muslims in jail will be achieved. Please send the Bill to the Standing Committee. You are forcing a Muslim woman to file an FIR against her husband. You are giving a handle to the Muslim man, who will have 90 days. If you are true to your intentions, create a corpus of 1,000 crore,” he said.

Though Congress supported the Bill, senior leader Salman Khurshid, a former law minister, said the proposed law is an intrusion into the personal lives of individuals, and would bring the civil issue of divorce into the realm of criminal law.

Islam wants Triple Talaq not in one go or instantly but in a process of several meetings while the BJP/RSS supporters might want just one Talaq in one go instantly!

The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill would only be applicable on instant triple talaq or ‘talaq-e-biddat’. It gives power to the victim to approach a magistrate seeking “subsistence allowance” for herself and minor children. A victim can also seek the custody of her minor children from the magistrate.

Religious leadership to be blamed there is no denying that the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 is a watershed moment for the Muslims in the Independent India. The instant triple talaq, also called talaq-e-biddat is something that does not go against the very spirit of marriage. But the process should be followed.

The RSS and BJP are in a hurry as if they won’t survive next general poll. . The fundamental principle of good legislation is the art of conducting men to the maximum of happiness, and to the minimum of misery. A principal source of errors and injustice in legislation are false ideas of its utility. The Lok Sabha debates clearly demonstrated that government has unrealistic hopes from this bill.

The triple talaq shouldn’t be criminalized as there was no need to do so. “Inconsequential triple talaq, thus, should not be criminalized. The primary purpose of criminal law is ‘prevention’ of an act; if non-criminal means can succeed in preventing this act, criminal law need not be used.

The BJP law minister says if the Muslim women don’t have justice, this house will give them justice. The “instant” triple destroys the very sanctity of this agreement by unilaterally allowing the man to end the marriage at the spur of the moment. But who does triple Talaq instantly? – Not Muslims as they discuss in the community before taking a decision.

While many were not happy, especially regional and Muslim parties, the Congress said it supports the Bill but with strengthened safeguards for divorced Muslim women. It asked for the Bill to be sent to a Standing Committee, instead of being decided on Thursday itself. Lalu Prasad would have protested vehemently but he is in jail.

Soon after the introduction of the Bill was approved, Prasad wondered whether Parliament could remain silent if the fundamental rights of women were being trampled. He said the legislation was not aimed against any religion but was framed to provide a sense of justice, security and honor to women. He said the law was required as even after the Supreme Court had struck down the practice of ‘talaq-e-biddat’ in August. He claimed that as recently as today, a woman in Rampur reported that she was given “instant” triple talaq by her husband for getting up late. That is absolute nonsense.

 

Why is much ado about nothing?

What exactly the Indian government and judiciary talk about “Triple talaq”?

Since the Supreme Court’s judgment declaring valid a recent marriage of Hindu girl and Muslim boy that took place in Kerala, the Hindutva forces have been on their dirty toes to take revenge on Muslims.

A marriage should be saved at all cost and separation could be recommended only when the partners cannot live together any long.

Does the BJP really the savior of Muslim women? Please don’t laugh! The saffron party has been gloating over the fact that it has been able to bring the law criminalizing triple talaq and pass it from Lok Sabha. The Union Law Minister has said that the government wants to improve the lot of the Muslim women in the country. Does the party really want to improve the condition of the Muslim woman by sending the husband, usually the lone bread winner in a household to the jail for three years?

The instant triple talaq may have destroyed the lives of a few Muslim women who actually suffered from it, but this was taken care of by the Supreme Court verdict making the practice null and void. If the sole bread winner of the family goes to jail for committing a crime that cannot really take place, who will look after the wife and children.

The woman, following the apex court verdict will remain his wife despite him pronouncing triple talaq. If the BJP was really eager to see the Indian Muslim women develop, as the Union Law Minister so grandly claimed, his government should have passed legislation providing special provision of reservation for the Muslim women in job and education. By ensuring that the sole bread winner of the family goes to jail, the BJP government at the center has hurt the Muslim woman the most, whose interests it claims it wanted to safeguard

BJP-Congress duo must debate the divorce in vogue in other religions.

Triple Talaq in Islam is the best opportunity for the partners to decide on the issue without hurry. Triple talaq need not be done  in one go and can be done on different days one after another and only third  talaq  could  enable for a divorce to come into force only if both agree.

What is the objection from enemies of Islam? Why do the RSS-BJPP target the Triple talaq to get more Hindu votes?

Islam insists on a careful Triple Talaq allowing enough time fro the married couple to decide their separation if the married partners cannot live any more together. Once divorced, the partners cannot rejoin just like if they  feel for their mistake of divorce  that but for that to happen  the women must get  married again to another man before the first husband takes her back.

So, the Triple talaq is a safe method of taking correct decision.

But the RSS/BJP and their Hindu boys and girls seek just one Talaq and be free to enjoy life “in full”. They want a “single talaq’ pronouncement in secrecy on the bed itself to end the marriage bond. Secretly

Muslims want triple talaq only when the men and women decide they cannot live together.

Three times would give them an opportunity to think thrice before deciding on the break up. He or she can say no after Talaq twice.

But Hindus want just one talaq and break the marriage.

Foolish people argue foolishly because they are majority and the media are theirs.

How can the government improve the lot of the Muslim women in the country?

In order to prove that Indian regime indeed cares for Indian women Muslims, a minimum of 20% seats in academic institutions and jobs must be reserved for Muslim women. Also a minimum of 10% seats in the parliament and state assemblies should be reserved for Muslim women and there should at least be one women judge in every court of India. ”. That is the real empowerment of Muslim women in India which would make difference in community andantino at large.

Will the patriotic people who claim to be interested in India’s over all development do it now? Or let them shut their wide communal mouth. They need to kill or insult Muslims to get the Hindu votes.

One of the worst embodiments of Hindutva is the criminalized dowry system that has harmed not only most Hindu women but also Muslim women, epically poor sections of lower strata of population.

Some of the insane practices in Hinduism/Hindutva have negatively influence Muslim community. One of them is the dowry system considered to be the basis of their economy. Men ask and get huge sum along with cars, etc, as dowry to marry a girl.  Marriages have been halted and women committed suicide when some marriages stopped due to the non-payment of dowry money promised.

Most of Muslims are with poor background. Without enough sound economic backups, Muslim women dins difficulties in getting married. .

Maybe the PM Modi is not aware of such cruel practices but the Law minister should know it.

Indian parliament must end dowry menace that makes men parasitic worms. Will PM Modi take pity on Indian women who are the victims of deadly dowry system and the resultant crimes?

What is problem in passing law on the issue and save every woman from injustice in the country? These women certainly include Muslim women too.

But India is in a hurry to fix Muslim community and probably force them to become Hindus by changing their names. .

Why is Modi- Hindutva government worried only about Indian women?

It is a known fact that Indian regime and media lords hate Muslims and they want to fix Muslims and insult Islam.

Indian government is now busy fixing Indian Muslims by mischievously trying to hurriedly pass a law to cancel the Islamic Triple Talaq policy meant for save even a troubled marriage.

Now the BJP government wants to free Indian women from the clutches of men and society.

Some wild wolves are worried about the cows getting trenched in rains. Why?

Is that because of concerns for Islam or women?

Why?

With the backing from USA, Israel and other anti-Islamic forces, India actively pursues policies to target Muslim community, mosques, and its faith.

BJP is using Indian women to target men next Muslim men would used against  women afterworlds, police and military would be used to kill Muslims- both men and women , and children as well as Israelis doing in  occupied Palestine.

 

Observation

Will the regime guarantee jobs and economic status for Muslim women in India? Will India pass the Women Reservation Bill? Will India abolish dowry system as it badly affects poor Muslim women? Dowry system is bad for Islam and it is not practiced in Arab nations or other Muslim nations but only in India Muslim community suffers due to the dreadful dowry system. .

Since its independence from UK, India has actively pursued anti-Islamic path in a systematic manner and most political parties, especially Congress as a part of its own hidden anti-Islam policy supports the Hindutva designs secretly. After Ghar wapsi, Beef, lunching, etc now the RSS-BJP has touched a crucial issue of Islamic divorce practices. India claims Saudi Arabia has cleared the matter in favor of Indian Hindutva so that India could buy more oil format.

Like what the Hindutva minded Congress party did before, the  Modi led  BJP government is  also playing to the gallery of Hindutva lords by making politics  a mere entertainment in  the  country and  the parliament a forum to keep the Hindutva lords in good humors.  The process started as soon as BJP came to power in 2014 by defeating the communal Congress led NDA coalition.

Now that the Hindutva criminals are sure that Muslims would get back their legitimate Babri Mosque, they accelerate their ill designed agenda against Muslim community because they are in brute majority and many parties  support their misrule, Indian Parliament and state assemblies have their own  communalized Hindus, etc

The Triple talaq is one of the weapons of foes of Islam to target both Muslims and judiciary.  Clearly, the Congress BJP duo is secretly working to  defame Islam and ban even the Holy Quran by taking  the issue to  Hindutva led Parliament that would clear anything anti-Islam quickly even without  any debate.

Indian BJP government says they are worried about the “fate” Indian women but not in the true spirits and ease the plight of all Muslims under Hindutva rule and their status. In fact, they are least bothered about the plight of Hindu women but are keen only to insult Islam. Yes, some wild wolves are so much worried about the cows getting trenched in rains.

They say Indian Muslim women want freedom from husbands but, they argue, Muslim husbands do not let them leave them to do whatever they want to do on streets.

They want to make the West happy by saying that Islam is not a good religion but Hindutva and others are super religions offering too many freedoms to women to enjoy life freely…

Interestingly, the BJP India gives priority to Muslim women’s status rather the women reservation Bill hanging in the parliament for decades, affecting the Indian women in all respects. Indian polices on liquor-gambling laws concerning liquor and lottery sales etc have been harming women, including Muslim women. But neither the Congress nor its secret Hindutva ally BJP bothered to help the women who toil and suffer because of male dominations and their liquor behavior.

Strangely enough, of all formations, it is RSS-BJP, rather than the Congress party, that has come forward to protect the status and strength of Muslim women in India, making them lawfully independent of “dominant” Muslim men who impose their will on the weaker women.

RSS/BJP now has majority in the parliament and so they are pushing hard for targeting Islam and Indian Muslims Even in protecting the Muslim men and women of India has proven to be fanaticism.

Babri Mosque issue is still pending but Indian regime and judiciary are playing dirty politics with Muslims while Intelligence-media rods target Muslims and Islam so vulgarly so that the judiciary would be cowed down in favor of Hindutva criminalism. Now the Hindu parties and judiciary are quick to point fingers at the Muslim women in order to target Islam and Indian Muslims and Islam. .

Hindus and others would certainly rejoice at the Triple developments but those Muslims who also rejoice the BJP’s “care” for women in Islam should know that  these elements who pulled down  Bharatmata’s  historic Babri Mosque built by emperor Babur as part of Indian Islamic cultural assets , have  no reasons to do anything good for Muslims – male or female.

The proposed law was violative of personal laws and was a politically motivated move. Given the population of Muslims in the country, triple talaq cases were negligible. The BJP-RSS duo is unnecessarily taking gun to kill a mosquito. They have jeopardized the sanctity of the House.

Under the proposed law, instant triple talaq in any form — spoken, in writing or by electronic means such as email, SMS and WhatsApp — would be illegal and void. It will make instant talaq punishable by a jail term of up to three years and a fine, and would be a cognizable, non-bailable offence.

The Bill will now be sent to the Rajya Sabha for passage before it is forwarded to the President for signing it into law. The Bill’s prospects in the Rajya Sabha are uncertain as the government lacks majority and the Congress’ support for the Bill is conditional.

Tomorrow the BJP-Congress led Hindu forces would enact laws against Islam, Muslims, mosques etc.

The Congress-BJP governments that force Muslim employees to quit their hard earned jobs in order to possibly appoint Hindus in those  vacant  places and also refuses to give pension and other retirement benefits  as agreed by the  administrations, cannot be expected to be good to Muslim women.

At the national level, Indian regime pledged to rebuild the Babri Mosque  at the very site  where it stood for centuries as an important example of world cultural monuments and  Hindu-Muslim unity in the country has not been kept  either by the Congress  or BJP.  How can Muslims expect this hypocrite regime to upgrade in status and take care of women of Islam?

One has no ideas as what all left in the secret bags of RSS to be used against Indian Muslim and Islam. Devil moves in mysterious ways. One must wait for their next move.

India knows well as to how to divert the attention of the nation and world at large it can do that by enacting another bigger drama than demonetization. By passing a new “Muslim law”, the BJP government has possibly has vetoed any possibility of Muslims taking the case to the special benches of Apex Court.

Indian Parliament today with Hindutva majority with Hindutva minded Congress backup can pass any law. If the BJP decides to destroy every mosque parliament will pass it. If RSS wants to deny work for Muslims, that would be done and if they want to kill every Muslim or destroy the houses and shop of Muslims, Indian parliament would give its consent. So, the BJP-Congress duo can achieve anything they want in the parliament.

Triple Talaq gimmick is only the tip of the iceberg.

That is today’s Indian Hindu mindset that follows the USA-Israeli fanaticism as a part of Indian hate model.

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Pakistan reacts sharply to Trump’s cheap comments!

Pakistan reacts sharply to Trump’s cheap comments!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Three issues should be explained right here about the deceptive US aid policy. First, it is a fact that USA gave some military aid to Pakistani aid as service charges for what Pakistani government and military did to boost the image of NATO in killing Muslims as terrorists.  Pakistani core media lords also painted the falsehood to promote US-Pakistani illicit relations targeting Islam.  For all services Islamabad did for Washington bosses have got the Islamic nation a so-called terrorist nation.  USA has made it so. Since USA has already got what it sought from Islamabad by coercion, now it criticizes and even insults its major non-NATO ally. So cool!

Second, USA does not give any free money to Pakistan or any other country, except its criminal child Israel in fascist suit. Generally, USA tells Pakistan that it would release so much money in kind for services rendered by Islamabad to NATO terrorist gang, but in order to claim it Pakistan must purchase US-Israeli terror goods worth double of the promised aid money. That is to say Pakistan is forced to buy their terror goods.

Third, Whatever USA has given to Pakistan is received from India for supporting its Kashmir and anti-Pakistan causes. So, USA just transfers the Indian money to Pakistan.

Issuing a tough warning to Pakistan as a New Year gift, US President Donald Trump in the midnight alleged that this South Asian nation has given America nothing but lies and deceit and has given safe haven to terrorists. “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools,” Trump said in a strongly worded tweet.

 

Pakistan feels awfully insulted by USA after misusing Pakistan for its goals in order mainly to keep its funding agencies in India in good humours. “They give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!” Trump said in his first tweet of the year.

These days, Trump’s rhetoric targets those that stopped serving the US interests.  Pakistan tops the list as it stopped killing Muslims to make Indo-US happy. India and Israel are the favourites of this global rogue who says things as his Jewish son in law suggests. .

However, this latest US nonsense is the strongest warning that has come from the US president. In his new South Asia Policy unveiled in August, Trump had called for tougher measure against Pakistan if it did not cooperates the US in its fight against terrorism.

The Trump government insists on Pakistani military to keep killing Muslims as Pakistan has killed much less than Afghanistan has achieved. Last week Trump announced the USA will deny Pakistan military aid amounting to $255 million as it expects Islamabad to take decisive action “against terrorists and militants on its soil”. “The United States does not plan to spend the $255 million in FY 2016 in Foreign Military Financing for Pakistan at this time”

A White House statement said: The President has made clear that the United States expects Pakistan to take decisive action against terrorists and militants on its soil, and that Pakistan’s actions in support of the South Asia Strategy will ultimately determine the trajectory of our relationship, including future security assistance, continues to review Pakistan’s level of “cooperation”.

US monsters are barking like wild wolves.

USA continues to bully Pakistan by using its terror aid.

Known for its open bluffing, USA tells one thing but does the opposite, premises huge sum but provides only a part of it in “kind” only if Pakistan spends equal amount on US-Israeli terror goods. The amount, $255 million, is left over from $1.1 billion aid earmarked for Pakistan in 2016, and which included non-military aid as well. It was cleared for handing over in August, just days before it would lapsed as unspent money.

Pakistan delivered its rejoinder to US President Donald Trump’s “lies and deceit” tweet, telling the USA to stop blaming Pakistan for its failures in Afghanistan. The response was also delivered on Twitter, where President Trump’s started the New Year, by slamming Pakistan for playing US leaders for “fools’ and providing safe havens to terrorists.”No more,” he tweeted. The US had given Pakistan 33 billion dollars in aid in the last 15 years and yet, he said, Pakistan had “given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools

President Trump did not specify the aid that his administration would stop but the assertion comes in the backdrop of reports that his administration was considering withholding $255 million in already delayed aid to Pakistan.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif promptly said that his government was preparing a response that “will let the world know the truth”. Later, according to Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned the US Ambassador but there was no word from the foreign office on the agenda of this sudden meeting. On Twitter, Pakistan’s Defence and Information ministers hit back at Donald Trump.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir-Khan said the US had received for “free” “land and air communication, military bases and intelligence cooperation that decimated Al-Qaeda “for 16 years “but they have given us nothing but invective and mistrust. They overlook cross-border safe havens of terrorists who murder Pakistanis,” he added.

Marriyum Aurangzeb, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, chipped in. Firing back at the Trump administration, she said there had been no ambiguity about Pakistan’s “unmatched sacrifices” and the United States should not shift the blame for its failure in Afghanistan on Pakistan.

Later, media reports cited Pakistan Foreign Minister’s interview to Geo television in an Urdu-language interview that made the same point. He asked the USA to hold “its own people accountable for its failures in Afghanistan”, claiming that all funds from the USA had been “properly audited” and that “services were rendered.”

US-Pakistani ties have chilled steadily under Trump, who seeking to showcase the US military prowess to the world and threaten weak nations in August declared that “Pakistan often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror”.

Of course, one country which is enjoying the tussle between the USA and Pakistan, former secret allies without any real ideological base, cooperating on killing the Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan proper, is its nuclear neighbour India that wants to kill the Kashmiris and take away entire Jammu Kashmir from Kashmir.

Already, destabilized, injured and insulted, Pakistan now needs regain full and complete sovereignty from USA and NATO and should purse a policy that keep both USA and India in check.

There could be many pro-US nuts among Pakistani parasites indoors and in USA that would ask the government to accept the insult and warnings as an Islamic fate and just do exact what the US monoesters seek from Islamabad..

Islamabad should take the Trumped warning seriously and end all military deals with it – let India fill the terror gap- and begin pursuing a bold Islamic foreign policy.

Islam doesn’t wish to see Muslim nations that behave slaves to anti-Islamic nations.

Once Islamabad becomes strong willed and self reliant, Americans would come again waging its long nasty tail.

Time is running out!

Persian Spring in Iran!

Persian Spring in Iran!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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The crisis long expected in Iran has just struck, presumably as the enemies of Islam and Iran sought.

Upon their tremendous success in destabilizing Arab nations, the USA-Israel fascist twins try to make Arab Spring a Persian Spring as well by activating and accelerating unrest in Iran while Iranians think they are the same people who first destabilized Arab nations.

USA and Israel have succeeded in extending “Arab Spring” to Iran, making it a Persian Spring, killing many.

Israel has recently declared that “Israel and the United States have secretly signed a far-reaching joint memorandum of understanding providing for full cooperation to deal with Iran’s nuclear drive.” As part of the secret deal, both countries seek to put “steps on the ground” in order to attack Iran covertly. The secret deal was made on December 12 at the White House. Just a few days later, Trump tweeted that “Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption and its squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves.

In fact, Trump a heavy fellow perhaps thinks Netanyahu – and not himself – should receive a Nobel Peace Prize for brutally controlling the besieged Palestinians, killing even children in Palestine and he believes that Obama should not have got it.

Protests across Iran saw their most violent night as “armed protesters” tried to overrun military bases and police stations before security forces repelled them, killing 10 people, Iranian state television said. The demonstrations, the largest to strike Iran since its disputed 2009 presidential election, have seen five days of unrest across the country and a death toll of at least 13 with the slaying of a police officer announced late Monday.

The protests began in Mashhad over economic issues and have expanded to several cities, with some protesters chanting against the government and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hundreds of people have been arrested. Iranian state television aired footage of a ransacked private bank, broken windows, overturned cars and a firetruck that appeared to have been set ablaze. It said 10 people were killed by security forces during clashes Sunday night. “Some armed protesters tried to take over some police stations and military bases but faced serious resistance from security forces,” state TV said. In a later report, state TV said killed six people were killed in the western town of Tuyserkan, 295 kilometers (185 miles) southwest of Tehran, and three in the town of Shahinshahr, 315 kilometers (195 miles) south of Tehran.

Dictator Trump, who has been happily tweeting against Iranian government and in support of the protesters, continued into the New Year, describing Iran as “failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration.” “The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years,” he wrote. “They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. “TIME FOR CHANGE”, but not in Israel and USA!

Many in Iran distrust and hate Trump because he has refused to re-certify the nuclear deal and his travel bans have blocked Iranians from getting US visas. Israeli Netanyahu, calling the protesters “brave” and “heroic,” said in a video posted to YouTube that the protesters sought freedom, justice and “the basic liberties that have been denied to them for decades.” He criticized the Iranian regime’s response to the protests and also chided European governments for watching “in silence” as the protests turn violent.

Late Monday, Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency said an assailant using a hunting rifle killed a policeman and wounded three other officers during a demonstration in the central city of Najafabad, about 320 kilometers (200 miles) south of Tehran.  On Sunday, Iran blocked access to Instagram and the popular messaging app Telegram used by activists to organize.

President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged the public’s anger over the Islamic Republic’s flagging economy, though he and others warned that the government wouldn’t hesitate to crack down on those it considers lawbreakers. That was echoed by judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, who urged authorities to confront rioters, state TV reported.”I demand all prosecutors across the country to get involved and the approach should be strong,” he said. Rouhani also stressed that Iran “has seen many similar events and passed them easily.”

The unrest now being witnessed in Iran reminds one of the history of British imperialism in Iran, inextricably linked to the D’Arcy concession, the creation of the Anglo-Persian (Iranian) Oil Company, and the infamous 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement which effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate. .

In the anti-colonialist political milieu of the post-World War II scene in the developing world, the burgeoning conflict between Iranian nationalism and British oil interests takes concrete form.  the historical developments leading up to May of 1948, the tactics of the American and Israeli national security establishments up to the present moment in sustaining the notion of Eretz Yisrael, the genocidal deprivation of the legitimate political aspirations of the Palestinians, and the subterranean activities of the Israeli lobby worldwide, would unmask the same political and moral deficiencies inherent in what happened in Iran

USA and Israel are trying to revive the old system, which is regime change through subterfuge. But that will certainly prove difficult for both the United States and Israel because Russia is not going to stand on the sideline and watch Iran goes up in flame. In doing so, Israel and the United States are paying “Iranian” dissidents to shake the masses.

People across Iran took to the streets again on Sunday evening in defiance of a heavy presence of riot police and state warnings to stay away. Iranian authorities have threatened a crackdown against protesters and scrambled to block social media apps allegedly used to incite unrest as the biggest demonstrations in nearly a decade continued for a fourth day.

The demonstrations began over economic grievances on Thursday but have since taken on a political dimension, with unprecedented calls for the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to step down. Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, in his first comments about the protests, aired on national television on Sunday night, said “people have the right to criticize”, but said the authorities would not tolerate antisocial behavior. He said criticism was “different from violence and destroying public properties”.

The protests are the biggest in Iran since 2009, when demonstrators called for the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president after what they regarded as his fraudulent re-election. Officials said they arrested at least 200 people during demonstrations in central Tehran on Saturday. It was not clear how many were arrested in the provinces, which saw protests on a bigger scale than the capital. Two protesters were killed in western Iran on Saturday.

On Sunday Trump said that “people are finally getting ‘wise’ as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism”, adding that the US was “watching very closely for human rights violations”.

Rouhani, urging the nation to be vigilant, acknowledged that people were unhappy about the state of economy, corruption and a lack of transparency. “People are allowed under the constitution to criticize or even protest but in a way that at the end they lead to a better situation in the country for the people,” he said. Condemning the US president, Donald Trump, who has voiced support for the protests, Rouhani said: “This gentleman who today sympathizes with our people has forgotten that a few months ago he called us a terrorist nation. The one who has opposed the Iranian nation from his head to his toe has no right to express sympathy for people of Iran.”

Earlier in the day, Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazil, said authorities would not tolerate the “spreading of violence, fear and terror”, which he said would “definitely be confronted”.  “Those who damage public property, disrupt order, people’s security and break the law must be responsible for their behaviour and should answer and pay the price,” he said, according to the website of the state broadcaster Irib.

The broadcaster said authorities had blocked Instagram and the messaging app Telegram, which is the most popular social networking platform in Iran, citing an anonymous source who said the move was “in line with maintaining peace and security of the citizens”. Authorities said the filtering was temporary. A source in Iran told the Guardian the state had started blocking access to Telegram, but it was not covering all provinces yet.

Authorities said two protesters were killed in the western province of Lorestan on Saturday, but denied it was the result of clashes between demonstrators and riot police.

Many senior figures within the reformist camp and the opposition Green movement remain perplexed as to how to respond to the current wave of unrest. The sharp nature of some of the slogans, which have challenged the foundations of the Islamic republic, has left them mute.

There have been anti-Khamenei chants such as “Death to the dictator” and slogans opposing Iran’s regional policy, including “Let go of Syria, think about us” and “I give my life for Iran, not Gaza, not Lebanon”. There were also nostalgic slogans in support of the monarchy and the late shah, as well as some with a nationalistic nature, including

Iranian conservatives, while acknowledging ordinary people were protesting for what they said were mainly economic reasons, accused foreign powers of inciting violence and exploiting the situation.

Some videos showed protesters apparently setting bins on fire and trying to break into government buildings. The semi-official Tasnim news, which is close to the elite Revolutionary Guards, published a photo that it said showed a protester setting fire to the Iranian flag. There were chants of “Death to the Revolutionary Guards” in at least one city.

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson issued a statement saying “there should be meaningful debate about the legitimate and important issues the protesters are raising and we look to the Iranian authorities to permit this….We regret the loss of life that has occurred in the protests in Iran, and call on all concerned to refrain from violence and for international obligations on human rights to be observed,” he said. German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel also said in a statement that “after the confrontation of the past days it is all the more important for all sides to refrain from violent action.” Both countries were part of the 2015 nuclear deal.

USA-Israel twins target Iran and by weakening it they hope to use the population against the Islamic government. Iran’s economy has improved since the nuclear deal, which saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the end of some international sanctions. Tehran now sells its oil on the global market and has signed deals to purchase tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Western aircraft.

Israel says the improvement has not reached the average Iranian. Unemployment remains high, and official inflation has crept up to 10 percent again. A recent increase in egg and poultry prices by as much as 40 percent, which the government has blamed on a cull over avian flu fears, appears to have been the spark for the economic protests.

While the protests have sparked clashes, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and its affiliates have not intervened as they have in other unauthorized demonstrations since the 2009 election. It wasn’t immediately clear if the Guard would change its posture given the reported attacks on police stations and military bases. In Tehran on Monday, streets were calm, though a heavy police presence was noticeable. Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazayeri , the Guard commander and deputy chief of staff for Iran’s military, said Monday that Trump’s support of the protesters “indicates planning by the USA for launching a new sedition in Iran.”

Amid not-so-subtle calls from USA for regime change in Iran, critics blasted Trump and his neoconservative allies on the right for misrepresenting and exploiting recent protests in the nation.

All anti-Islamic and anti-Iran rogues began attacking Iran and supporting the unrest and want the trouble to continue indefinitely. US dictator Trump wrote: “Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted.

Sen. John McCain, a notorious war hawk who infamously joked about bombing Iran a decade ago, tweeted: “The USA stands with the brave protesters who yearn for freedom, peace, and an end to corruption in Iran.”  Nuclear deal foe and US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley praised the “Iranian people who are now finding their voice.” Sen. Lindsey Graham who once called Iranians “cheaters and liars,” said the protests show the Iran nuclear deal isn’t working and that he would lay out what a “better deal would look like and … would stand with the Iranian people the entire time.”

As if USA really cares for human rights while torturing the falsely detained Muslims cruelly in secret places, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert tweeted that “Secretary Tillerson reiterates the United States’ deep respect for the Iranian people. We call on all nations to stand with us in demanding the regime respect their basic human rights.” The tweet came less than two weeks after it was revealed that Tillerson told State Dept. employees that allies and adversaries should get different treatment for human rights abuses.

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations and serial advocate for bombing innocent people and overthrowing foreign governments he dislikes John Bolton said clearly that regime change should be the goal of the protests, and praised dictator Trump for “taking the side of the demonstrators.” Israeli Netanyahu, meanwhile, even wished “the Iranian people success in their noble quest for freedom.” Commentators on social media were quick to point out the shallowness of such calls

The USA has been disrespecting, insulting, isolating, bullying, and punishing the Iranian people for 65 years because they wanted democracy. Dictator Trump pretended to pro poor- what is drama and nonsense.

Why the US never stands behind oppressed people in Saudi Arabia, or those being literally bombed and starved to death in Yemen-or Palestinians living under military law and apartheid.

Double talks are the passion for Americans. When the ISIS attacked Tehran, massacring civilians, Trump and many US politicians basically cheered on the attack as a good thing in Islamic world. Now they suddenly pretend to care about Iranians against the government

The size of the protests is much smaller than those of 2009, according to reports, but Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told Italian newspaper La Repubblica Sunday she believes “the protests are not going to end soon” and could very well swell.  At the moment though, writes Reza Marashi, research director for NIAC, “These protests more closely resemble a continuation of Iran’s long-standing civil rights movement rather than an attempt to overthrow the government.” But Marashi says one thing is clear: “Washington would be wise to acknowledge the limits of its power inside Iran where almost every Iranian is an anti-American. Policymakers cannot change this simple truth:

Israel and the USA have secretly signed a far-reaching joint memorandum of understanding providing for full cooperation to deal with Iran’s nuclear drive.” As part of the secret deal, both countries seek to put “steps on the ground” in order to attack Iran covertly. The deal was made on December 12 at the White House. Just a few days later, Trump tweeted that “Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime’s corruption and it’s squandering of the nation’s wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people’s rights, including right to express themselves.

Many Iranians are sceptical about how the protests have spread so quickly. One prominent senior reformist commentator, Hamidreza Jalaipour, said reformists were opposed to protests instigated by “advocates of regime change”, implying that the new wave of protests was not spontaneous. A protester from Tehran University told the Guardian by phone that although students were puzzled about how the protests were organised and spreading so quickly, they were not “getting leads from anyone”.

President Rouhani may have options: it can follow the example of its predecessors (Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani after the protests of the early 1990s and Mohammad Khatami after the 1999 student uprising and opt for a more cautious path, or capitalize on public discontent to push the system towards more genuine reforms. He may have other options too. That choice however, may not ultimately determine the Islamic Republic’s fate.

In fact, both Trump and Netanyahu are trying to revive the old system, which is regime change through subterfuge. But that will certainly prove difficult for both the United States and Israel because Russia is not going to stand on the sideline and watch Iran goes up in flame. USA would try all gimmicks to bring Moscow to its side.

The problems are USA and Israel: the protestors are Iranian, and the solution will also be Iranian.  USA and Israel have no role in it.