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His point being that such small incidents may also cause major issues in bilateral ties. I think I made it sound more sinister than it is, really.
Pakistan has a lot of issues of it's own to deal with. The Taliban just for starters. And is that protest against the government still going on?
Not sure what's going on with the PLA. Either the retreat order was a lie or some officer (at whatever level of authority) is doing his own thing.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.I'm gonna bet the former, though I can fully see the latter being possible.
And yeah those protests are still going, but they're a joke by now. Sharif ain't leaving. Imran Khan has about the same credibility as a potato.
That said, the Army already has been messing around on the Line of Control lately, so they don't care if the Taliban gives them trouble.
And thats not even getting into the Insane Troll Logic that the Taliban is RAW's baby.
Resident Bollywood Nerd
Well, laughability aside, the unspoken premise is, of course, that Kashmir is already with India, and not with Pakistan (otherwise the question of 'taking back' would not arise). And it seems that Pakistan has found their own Rahul Gandhi.
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Oh that has been clear for months. Bilawal ALSO has the credibility of a potato.
But in more important news, Pakistan has a new spymaster: Say hi to General Rizwan Akhtar.
Resident Bollywood Nerd
More info:
- India is the first Asian country to get a Mars orbiter. Not China.
- This is the cheapest Mars orbiter made, at approximately $79 million. For perspective, Gravity cost more to make at ~$105 million, and NASA's Maven orbiter cost ~$600 million. A common Indian stereotype joke is that it is appropriate that we have managed to reduce the cost so heavily, given that a Gujarati is the Prime Minister.note
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Here
is some information on the scientific payload the Indian Mars craft is carrying.

I apologize, Shinra, if you were offended in any way. I thought that it would be a change of perspective, hence I brought it to attention.
Anyway, Sledgesaul, 'wet' is a reasonably good descriptor. It is, however, starting to get extremely hot and drier in a lot of places, Bombay included. There is some rain (and conventional wisdom says there should be a bit more), but the monsoons are in full retreat and -puts on glasses- Winter is Coming.
Anyway, as to the pollution, most of Bombay is quite polluted, being a major city, but certainly nothing severely reducing visibility in the absence of torrential rain. The closest is the fact that, because my college is right next to a chemical refinery, I spend most lectures in the monsoon semester inhaling the heady scents of ammonia.