Not true. Over the years, Thapar has interviewed a bunch of people over the world. This isn't different from David Frost or Mike Wallace interviewing Khomeini and Putin. Some journalists have built that cred over the years and Thapar did that during his BBC Hard Talk days.
@Waz has asked me a question in a locked thread
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What do you mean "how many elections Balochis have voted in", they've voted in every election every other Pakistani has voted in.
Why are you bringing in nuclear proliferation and Bin Ladin...
How many elections have Balochis voted in?
How many elections have Kashmiris voted in?
It's a bit ridiculous that a country with a history of military coups, hanging of Prime Ministers through a dodgy judiciary, military dictatorships, under the pump for housing terrorists like Osama and Saeed...
Some excellent footage from a. British source. It's from the 1965 War with Pakistan as villages in PoK are liberated. The liberated Kashmiris of PoK welcome Indian forces and exchange Pak currency for Indian currency as legal tender changes.
There is some footage of the captured Haji Pir Pass...
Ad hominen attacks are against forum rules. Have a spirited debate on history and narratives, you weaken your argument by generalizing and taking potshots at individuals. @Waz hasn't ever gotten down to school boy insults.
A historical anectode I came across about a future Head of IAF
Interesting Anecdote of JRD Tata:
When JRD Tata was 25 years old, an interesting news item in the London Times newspaper caught his attention. A unique air race had just been announced, by His Highness The Aga Khan, spiritual...
That's when the hyper nationalist narrative of Arnab and his clones also took off unfortunately. I spoke to 2 people close to the attacks - one was a diplomat in the the Israeli Consulate in Bombay. Any Jew irrespective of being an Israeli citizen or not was offered to be evacuated to Israel on...
Yes, I was at a pub called Henry Tham's which was literally 200 meters from the Taj and would probably have gone there. Had also dropped an American friend to Chabad House a few times. Was absolutely nuts.
Don't shoot the messenger. It's tweeted by the Afghan Vice President. I find soccer decidedly plebeian, so I stopped reading at the word "soccer". Please give a tennis analogy if you wish to stick to sport.
What happened in Jammu wasn't done by Indian forces.
What was done in Mirpur was done by Pakistani forces. It's there in Christopher Snedden's book - I think he is Aussie and the book is published by Harper Collins.
