South Asia Investor Review

Wall Street Journal's White House Correspondent Sabrina Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American Muslim journalist, got to ask the only question posed by an American journalist to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to the White House in Washington, DC. This was the first time in 14 years that Mr. Modi took an unscripted question from any journalist anywhere in the world. In fact, it was his first press conference since taking office as the prime minister of India in 2014.  Narendra Modi (Left), Sabrina Siddiqui (R) Sabrina Siddiqui asked the Indian leader about rights groups’ assessments that his government is discriminating against religious minority groups and quashing dissent. She asked," What steps are you and your government willing to take to improve the rights of Muslims and other minorities in your country and to uphold free speech?"  The Islmophobic Indian prime minister feigned “surprise” at the question and said democracy is core to India. He t...

Pakistani analyst Uzair Younus has recorded personal impressions of his recent India visit on his YouTube channel, as well as in an interview on another YouTube channel called "Pakistan Experience".  Indian media have gleefully jumped on it with headlines like "Visiting India Was Like Stepping Into The Future" and a "Pakistani analyst" talking of India's "communal harmony". It has helped Younus' channel draw its highest ever views, and inundated it with Indian trolls' comments praising Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and denouncing Pakistan.  This is yet another confirmation of what former US President Barack Obama wrote in his  book  "A Promised Land": “Expressing hostility toward Pakistan was still the quickest route to national unity (in India)”.  Indians See Uzair Younus Endorsing Indian PM Modi's Policies Digital Payments:  Younus' "stepping into the future" comment refers primarily to t...

How was Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's UN General Assembly speech received? Was he right to tell the audience that Prime Minister Narendra  Modi belongs to RSS , the right-wing Hindu Supremacist organization whose member killed Mahatma Gandhi? Does the world know that RSS founders were inspired by  Nazism and Fascism ? And the RSS members admire Gandhi's murderer Nathuram Godse? Is it hypocritical of Modi to exploit Gandhi's name in his UNGA speech and elsewhere in the West? Do Hindutva followers want to have it both ways? Benefit from Gandhi's name in the West while  destroying Gandhi's legacy  in India? Why did Imran Khan talk about the connection between US war on terror after 911 and the  rise of Islamophobia ? How have countries like India exploited the war on terror to defame genuine  Kashmiri resistance  movement as terrorism? What will happen when Modi lifts restrictions on  8 million Kashmiris  living under total lock-d...