Re: American respect for diplomatic immunity - This time an Indian!
^^ Wow, all of sudden you came out of your suicidal plans when the matter concern india. I am proud of you. i hope you carry same sanity when you talk about matters concerning pakistan as well.
kaka dont be so rude , the crocodile was weeping and shedding tears in sympathy, we should thank him , samjha karo.
Re: American respect for diplomatic immunity - This time an Indian!
I hope India never comes to the idiotic idea of cold start doctrine and start attacking Pakistan. It will not be good for anyone.
Pak looks to cross nuclear threshold against India
***NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s recent testing of NASR or Hatf-9 short range missile, coupled with its rapidly growing stockpile of low-intensity nuclear weapons, suggests that it is actually preparing to cross the nuclear threshold in case of a conflict with India.
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One of world’s most authoritative voices on Pakistan’s nuclear strength and American nuclear expert Hans Kristensen told TOI that a nuclear-tipped NASR seemed more like a weapon intended for use against Indian forces advancing into Pakistani territory.
"While that wouldn’t threaten Indian survival in itself, it would of course mean crossing the nuclear threshold early in a conflict, which is one of the particular concerns of a short-range nuclear weapon,‘’ said Kristensen, who is also Federation of American Scientists’ Nuclear Information Project director.
While the 60-km short range of the nuclear capable missile doesn’t threaten the security of any major Indian city, it certainly makes the Indian army and security forces vulnerable in case India does try to implement its much talked about Cold Start Doctrine, which entails making deep and precise incursions into Pakistani territory in the event of another Mumbai-like attack. Pakistan clearly seems to be raising the game considering that India will indeed be under pressure to destroy terror camps in Pakistan in the event of another state sponsored terror attack on India.
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Re: American respect for diplomatic immunity - This time an Indian!
Back to the topic, I think americans are going too far to humiliate the foreign diplomats and dignitaries. This is a clear violation of international law.
National humiliation with capital ‘H’
*Anyone who has known Meera Shankar would vouch that she is a proud Indian who never bats an eyelid in articulating her views and convictions, says former diplomat M K Bhadrakumar.
Indian diplomats serving in the United States may now have to be prepared during their so-called ‘local tours’ to strip down to their underwear in front of the American airport staff at short notice.
The best thing to do is to wear designer underwear, if our diplomats can afford them. India’s Images ] honour as an emerging power is in the crosshairs.
At any rate, wear clean underwear. One can never know who in the American judgment is a ‘mature’ Indian diplomat and who is not. It is classified information.
Indian diplomats serving in South Block appear to be ‘mature’ characters, as per the testimony recently given by the US ambassador in Delhi Images ] while praising the ministry of external affairs’s stance with regard to the WikiLeaks disclosures.
What may appear to be a vacuous stance to most Indians strikes as an act of ‘maturity’ to the American side. Thereby hangs a tale. It is the ‘immature’ diplomats from India who are in danger of receiving nasty surprises at US airports. India’s ambassador to the US Meera Shankar seems to fall into that category.
Of course, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna Images ] has expressed his surprise at the latest incident at the Jackson-Evers International Airport at Mississippi where Shankar was taken to a waiting room and subjected to a ‘pat-down’ despite being told about her status – that she is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of India – and that she enjoys diplomatic immunities and courtesies laid down under the Vienna Images ] Convention.
Indeed, the US is not a country of bumpkins who’ve never heard of the Vienna Convention. If the American ambassador in New Delhi is asked to strip down to his underwear at Raipur airport, all hell will break loose and the US administration will come down like a tonne of bricks on South Block quoting chapter and verse from the international covenant guiding the norms of civilised diplomacy.*
Re: American respect for diplomatic immunity - This time an Indian!
I think the young lady could have been spared all this humiliation, had the bosses sitting in the Indian embassy in Washington cared a bit more.
As The Economic times reports, such incidents involving Indian students are becoming more and more frequent, earlier this year almost 1000 students were hounded by Immigration department, even though they were not at fault. If a staunch ally (more loyal “gora” than the goras themselves) is being subject to such humiliation, I just wonder what are they doing to the students or national of other countries, which are not on good terms with the USA, e.g. Pakistan?
Krittika Biswas’s case: Does the Indian government do enough for diplomats’ families?
*The curious case of Krittika Biswas, a high school student from India who had diplomatic immunity, but was jailed by the New York Police Department for a crime of “cyber bullying” that she didn’t commit, raises many questions.
Earlier this year, more than 1,000 students from India at the now defunct Tri-Valley University (TVU) in California, were hounded by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in many cases for no fault of theirs. The two incidents seem to suggest that the US is increasingly becoming a country of officials who act with impunity, with brains outsourced to Capitol Hill.
Biswas has now given up plans to enrol in a premier institute in New York to study math as a major. She plans to instead enrol in a college in India. It’s the State Department which has the unpleasant task of trying to sort out the diplomatic mess such incidents lead to. In the case of Biswas, it’s in the form of a bizarre statement made by State Department spokesperson Mark Toner, that the US does not confer diplomatic immunity from jurisdiction or inviolability to family members of consular officers.
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The US, more than any other nation on earth, needs to ensure that the Vienna Convention rules on diplomatic and consular relations remain sacrosanct, as they have more diplomats than any other country, who work in places where the legal system is harsh.
In the US, even retail outlets have managers to resolve customer issues and to provide judicial solutions to disagreements. So why didn’t the NYPD know how to behave with a teenager? The city has for long dealt with parking violations by cars bearing diplomatic plates, so why did the administration fail to show a humane approach to an 18-year-old with a diplomatic passport?
Ambassador Prabhu Dayal, India’s consul general in New York, says he made a fervent call to the NYPD to make the case for diplomatic immunity for Biswas to have her released, only to have the NYPD stall him by putting him on a conference call with the State Department, which led to a stalemate.
Where were the bosses who could have used discretionary authority to decide on the spot to release Biswas till the matter of how to interpret the Vienna Convention rules on consular relations was sorted out? Did the NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly and the mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg know what was going on in the diplomatic capital of the world where they live?
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