Unconditional surrender. India has offered to restart talks with Pakistan even though the Pakis have done nothing to arrest the planners of the Mumbai attacks. They have lied, stalled, evaded and even threatened India but we are going to hold talks with them anyway. I had suspected something was afoot when the freeloading journalists of leading english dailies started a campaign on how to love Pakis from the beginning of the year. Then came the completely false outcry over the rejection of Paki cricket players by the owners of IPL franchises. Lies came thick and fast on how the Pakis were snubbed completely ignoring the fact that the owners of the various teams had every right to spend their money as they chose without having to explain their actions. Couple of days ago a conference was held in London where it was agreed that talks should be held with ' good ' taliban as a preparation for the withdrawal of NATO and US troops from Afghanistan. India was thanked politely for the hundreds of millions of dollars we have spent in the reconstruction effort in Afghanistan and then told to push off. Our concerns that securing Afghanistan will leave the taliban and LeT free to send terrorists into India was met with a shrug. After all lives of white people are more important than our lives. Apparently the Americans exerted pressure on our government to make friends with the Pakis so that the Pakis can divert more troops to the western front. As usual our government caved in. I would dearly love to know what it is that the whites have on our politicians that they can blackmail them at will. Whatever it is we did NOT gain independence in 1947.