When I came to this country in 1970, The US Steel was the largest steel manufacturing company in the world.  Then due to lenient and ill-advised policies in this country in the 80s, slowly and slowly manufacturing base started deteriorating and shifted to overseas.  I believe, for any country, a strong manufacturing base is must for its prosperity and security.  This country imports lot of steel from China who is subsidizing its steel industry and dump steel in the United States at a very competitive price.  We have kind of become complacent about the supply of steel from China.  God forbids if there is a war between China and the US, this supply will disappear which means, the US can run into a scenario of shortage of steel to manufacture defense armaments - fighter jets, tanks, missiles etc.  So, from country's security standpoint, self-sufficiency in steel and aluminum manufacturing is must.  Needless to say, these tariffs will create jobs too - more jobs means higher GDP, higher revenue for the exchequer and higher standard of living for the people living here.

China has finally realized that its CPEC project could be in danger without having good relations with the Balochs.  Hence, it is trying to mend fences to save its $60 Billion investment.  As the article states good relations between these two parties is a win-win situation for both.  However, this is an appropriate opportunity for the Balochs to take advantage of it.  Balochs should not cave in and play this card to their advantage.  And that trump card is to ask Chinese government to help Balochs to get independence from Pakistan's illegal government in Balochistan.  I would go a step further.  Balochs should threaten China that in the event of status quo, CPEC will not be successful because Balochs will not tolerate the existence of this project in their territory without the approval of Balochs.  There will be constant pressure and even militant activities to make sure China and Pakistan do not take any advantage of this project.

Mr. Owaisi is right in condemning and branding all Indian Muslims as 'Pakistanis'. He is also right in suggesting that Government of India should pass a legislation with a punishment to a person who asserts this slogan. However, that legislation ought to cover also all those who believe, state and demonstrate pro-Pakistani slogans, unfurling Pakistani flag and orchestrate anti-India statements. As far as 'triple talaq' is concerned, I think government of India has taken a right step to uplift Muslim wowen's miserable married life dilemma. Muslim women are happy and that is very important. There should not be any place under the Indian Constitution for any 'Personal Muslim Law'. I will go further, Muslim man should not be allowed to remarry unless he first divorces his first wife - no more 4 wives. Politicians should think about the country first and not to appease the Muslim population by allowing them to marry upto 4 times. This is just creating a voting bank philosophy which needs to be stopped.

For whatever reason, the United States withheld funds for the Palestine government and that shortage has been taken care of by bunch of European countries.  It proves couple of points.  One being that the United States may not have any help available to solve the Middle East issue between Israel and the Palestine regardless how serious these two countries (USA and Israel) may be to wok on this old lingering issue.Secondly, like many other Muslim countries, Palestine government does not mind going door to door with a begging bowl to survive instead of creating jobs locally to employ people, bring industry to Palestine, educate the masses so that they become productive citizens.  I wonder how long they can survive on external help.  I think by not becoming self-dependent, Palestine government is weakening its position in the world forum.

This Mullah, Kasami, is still living in the 6th century environment. From his comment about women watching men's sport sounds like he has only one track mind which is full of filth and evil design. How does he know that when women watch men's sports they only look at men's thighs and not enjoying the sport itself. Can he read women's mind? I wonder what is his own character? Even Saudi Arabia which was supporting all this nonsensical ideology is changing. The current prince has realized that people should and have to change with the changing time. Those who do not stay behind time. These Mullahs want to see that this 6th century Muslim ideology does not go away so that they can maintain their own prestige and importance in the Muslim society. But they are forgetting that the Muslim women have awakened from the dark days and now they feel capable of decrying all nonsensical Mullahs' decrees. India has done a good job with the enunciation that triple talak slogan is dead in the woods. What a relief for the Muslim women? I think Muslim women in India should initiate an action nationwide to get rid of old fashioned Mullahs like Karami.

Another barbaric heinous attack in Kabul by the militants needs to be condemned by the civilized nations.  It is disgraceful what these non-state actors with the help of Pakistani government do to the innocent civilians.  They have no respect, love and affection for humanity.  Killing one human being is more than many, but these fanatics kill thousands and thousands without any remorse at all.  India has graciously offered its assistance to the Afghan government at this juncture of grief.  Looking from a security standpoint, I am puzzled that the US government has been training the local Afghan forces to protect themselves from these types of attacks for the last 15 years, and still these Afghans are not capable of defending themselves.  I am wondering how long it will take before they stop relying on external forces for self-defense.  I also wonder if it is due to lack of interest in  being trained to defend themselves or is there something wrong with the training modes or is it something religious or may be it is relating to politics?  I do not know the answer, but it is worth probing.

Both parties - Republican and Democrats - are in a handicapped situation.  Republicans do not have the votes required to pass the budget and democrats' hands are tied behind their back by the pressure from the lobbying of activists of illegal aliens.  In order to over this on-going budgetary tug-of-war, Republicans should give assurance to the democrats that all immigration and security issues will be discussed including some type of way for the 'dreamers' to stay in the United States as soon as budget is passed for the full year.  Those dreamers can stay in the United states who have no criminal record against them, know English language, have paid their taxes etc.  This stay is subject to compliance of all these requirements and will be under the radar for let's say 10 years from the date of this notification and approval of a legislation, failing which they will be deported.  As far as security issue is concerned, as the President said, this country will have wall/fence etc. on the southern border fully funded by the legislative authorities along with eliminating lottery system and chain migration.