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Myra MacDonald
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Myra MacDonald
@myraemacdonald
South Asia specialist. Author of "Heights of Madness", "Defeat is an Orphan", and "White as the Shroud; India, Pakistan and War on the Frontiers of Kashmir."
Scotland
Joined May 2008
- I am sympathetic to India’s complaints about terrorism emanating from Pakistan. And I am very dubious about CPEC. All that said, the choice of words here seems unnecessarily undiplomatic and focused on a domestic audience.#WATCH | "As a Foreign Minister of an SCO member state, Mr Bhutto Zardari was treated accordingly. As a promoter, justifier and spokesperson of a terrorism industry which is the mainstay of Pakistan, his positions were called out and countered including at the SCO meeting
00:00 - Finally read this piece by Imran Khan. It's mainly vacuous #Pakistan state propaganda & the usual nuclear sabre-rattling. (A country that threatens nuclear war in response to human rights abuses in another doesn't actually care about human lives). nyti.ms/2L8glBp #Kashmir
- #Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif given 10-year jail term (as will happen to any democratically elected leader in Pakistan who tries to assert civilian supremacy).
- There is always truly appalling human tragedy at the heart of #Pakistan's political battles. (And 12 hours out of jail to mourn a wife and mother who died without them is nothing.) reut.rs/2x1hcf4
- Replying to @myraemacdonaldThere’s an element of being rude to a guest that India would not have done before. But it’s also striking that Jaishakar reserves his harshest language for Pakistan (the far weaker country) than for China (the far stronger country) nibbling away at its borders.
- I'd not heard this before. French head of ER explaining why Italy suffered so badly. i) Italy has poor primary care so everyone went to hospital ii) Covid-19 patients then got mixed in with other patients. iii) Failure to isolate patients suspected of having the virus.Pourquoi l’épidémie de #COVID19 est-elle considérée par Emmanuel #Macron comme la plus grave crise sanitaire qu’ait connue la France depuis un siècle ? L'analyse de @philippejuvin, chef du service des urgences de l’hôpital Georges Pompidou à Paris 🔽 #santé #coronavirus
00:00 - This non-violent Pashtun protest movement in #Pakistan is remarkable. Thousands wait in Karachi for hours while their leader, having been turned away from two national airports, drives the length of the country to address them. Give it the attention it deserves.
- Replying to @myraemacdonaldAll in all, it looks to me like a government that is letting its own nationalist domestic political imperatives get in the way of intelligent choices about foreign policy.
- Someone just sent me this photo of #India from an old globe (I think from the 1930s). Fascinating to see #Balochistan marked as a separate entity. Jammu and #Kashmir (which I spend my time studying) barely figures. #Tibet looms large in it too.
- Replying to @myraemacdonaldIt looks cowardly and bullying (though the BJP’s domestic constituency will love it.) From a foreign policy POV it lacks sophistication - you attack CPEC, you attack China, making it more likely that China will assert its power against you.
- This is appalling. Allegations of corruption against civilian politicians in #Pakistan have long been used by the security establishment to enforce its own dominance.
- Mixed feelings about Glasgow immigration protest. I get the horror at dawn raids and if it happened to someone in my neighbourhood I might well have joined them, but I'm uncomfortable about it being wrapped in anti-English bigotry and a sense that Scots are superior (we're not) >
