Pakistan has moved troops to their border with India. Many believe the dirty hands of the US are bent on making war with these puppets.

By Praful Bidwai - December 23, 2008

Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country's federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties...One law, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act, seeks to establish a new police organisation to investigate acts of terrorism and other statutory offences...The other, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Act, radically changes procedures for trying those accused of terrorism, extends the periods of police custody and of detention without charges, denies bail to foreigners, and reverses the burden of proof in many instances.

By Arundhati Roy - December 15, 2008

We've forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India's 9/11"...But November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan, and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions.

By PETER LEE - December 17, 2008

The "Made in Pakistan" label is by now pretty firmly affixed to the Mumbai outrage...The most significant development in the story, however, has been the determined efforts by the United States, grudgingly supported by India and enthusiastically echoed by Pakistan, to divert any attention from the possibility that state actors e.g. the notorious Inter Services Intelligence directorate or ISI and its supporters in the government and inside Pakistan's elites, were implicated in the attack.

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS - Counterpunch

By illegal, uncivilized and undiplomatic behavior, the US has stirred Muslim peoples from their long slumber as serfs of Western colonial powers. Some Muslims have had all that they can take, and their fury drives them to rouse a billion of their fellows to throw off the yoke of foreign hegemony...The arrogant incompetence of American governments brought this conflict to the American people and inflicted it upon the world.

By TARIQ ALI - November 27, 2008

The terrorist assault on Mumbai’s five-star hotels was well planned, but did not require a great deal of logistic intelligence: all the targets were soft. The aim was to create mayhem by shining the spotlight on India and its problems and in that the terrorists were successful. The identity of the black-hooded group remains a mystery.

October 16, 2008 - The Irish Times

TWELVE INDIAN provinces have worrying levels of hunger, with the situation "extremely alarming" in the central state of Madhya Pradesh...The 2008 Global Hunger Index report...warns that Madhya Pradesh's nutrition problems are comparable to those in Ethiopia and Chad. The report reveals that India has more than 200 million people suffering from hunger - a number greater than in any other country.

By Emily Wax - Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Few places in India absorb and imitate American culture as much as call centers, where ambitious young Indians with fake American accents and American noms de phone spend hours calling people in Indiana or Maine to help navigate software glitches, plan vacations or sell products. The subculture of call centers tends to foster a cult of America...But collection agents...are starting to see the flip side of that vision: a country hobbled by debt and filled with people scared of losing their jobs, their houses and their cars.

By Arundhati Roy & David Barsamian - October 12, 2008

INDIA HAS done a better job than the United States in recent years. The myth about the U.S. being a beacon of liberty has been more or less discredited amongst people who are even vaguely informed. India, on the other hand, has managed to pull off almost a miraculous public relations coup. It really is the flavor of the decade, I think. It's the sort of dream destination for world capital. All this done in the name of "India is not Afghanistan," "India is not Pakistan," "India is a secular democracy," and so on.

By Syed Saleem Shahzad - October 2008

The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war.

[...T]he government [of India] has committed itself to economically rehabilitate Bhopal’s chemical disaster survivors, remediate the disaster site, and pursue legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.

Mr. Laibar Singh was not deported on December 9th as was threatened by the Canadian Border Services Agency. He remains in sanctuary in Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in Surrey.

A second article has been added with a link to Aaron Lakoff's audio interview with Mariana Payet of No One Is Illegal - Vancouver.

The Associated Press | Dec. 16, 2007

NEW DELHI - Nearly 300 communist prisoners escaped in a daring jailbreak amid a hail of gunfire Sunday in restive eastern India, police said.

Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun | Monday, December 10, 2007

METRO VANCOUVER - An attempt to deport a paralysed man [Laibar Singh] back to India on International Human Rights Day fell apart after a grass-roots protest at Vancouver International Airport Monday literally halted traffic and prevented border and immigration agents from taking custody of him.

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.