Mr. Abdullah's comments about PoK is shameful, disgusting and disappointing.  It proves an adage 'grapes are sour'.  Three generations of his family ruled J & K and could not find a solution to the PoK riddle which shows lack of vision and governance.  Situation became bad to worse. Instead of pushing forward a genuine cause of India to claim the whole territory of J & K as part of India, his statement is encouraging the claim of an enemy country.  His three generations have been living in India and enjoying the prosperity of India, but has no shame in going against India's legitimate interest of this territorial dispute.  People of Kashmir should keep the inner anti-India sentiments of the Abdullah family in mind and show their rejection at the ballot box in the future elections.

It seems like King Salman is trying to open up Saudi society to a little bit more on moderate version of Islam and putting all the pieces in place to placate the non-Muslim communities in Saudi also.  Certainly, it is a step in the right direction to invite flow of investment from the outside world.  Saudis cannot survive for ever on the revenue generated by the sale of oil because its availability is going to be over one day.  However, this writer has his apprehension about the sincerity of Kingdom's intention and determination to really open up Saudi's society to the extent appreciated by all the non-Muslim communities.  The reason being that there is still no restriction or penalty imposed by the Saudi Government on the fanatic clerics who openly deliver  sermons to the Muslim community in Saudi Arabia.  Those sermons have a great influence to divert Muslims to participate in destructive activities by joining non-state fanatic militant groups.So, it appears that King Salman's efforts to bring Saudi society to a moderate Islam version ironical because  he is not doing anything to prohibit spreading the Wahhabism version of Islam.  If he is really serious in his efforts, he ought to restore the fundamental human rights to all people living in Saudi Arabia irrespective of their gender, race and religion along with allowing non-Muslims to visit Mecca and Madina.  Christians, Hindus, Jews and Budhists etc. allow everybody to visit their religious shrines, why cann't they visit Muslim religious shrines?

China blocked the petition in the UN to declare Mr. Azhar as an international terrorist should not surprise Indian authorities. The reason being that the non-state terrorist actors in Pakistan are supported by the Pakistani Military and ISI nexus, and also China has a very big investment of around $46 Billion in the CPEC project. China will not like to upset that investment project because in the long run it will serve China both its military and economic interests. With this investment, China is expanding its tentacle which fulfills its territorial expansion objective, and also it helps China to bring its armed forces further nearer to the Indian border. As we know, China has already sent thousands of workers and armed men in Balochistan to work and protect this CPEC project, Chinese languages are being taught in Pakistan along with Chinese small business are opening their operations in Pakistan. Hence, India ought not to expect any type of helping hand from China in this matter. However, India can and should play a counter-China game to help the rebels in the Western part of China which is seeking separation from China