India’s top woman athelete, the tennis star Sania Mirza (born in Mumbai 1986) has married Pakistan’s former captain of national cricket team, Shoaib Malik (born in Sialkot 1982) on April 12, 2010. The Nikkah ceremony was held at Taj Krishna Hotel (Hyderabad). The couple was congratulated by Indian Congress Party president Sonia Gandhi but criticized by Hindu extremist party Shiv Sena’s president Bal Thakra, who called Sania Mirza “a traitor” for marrying a Pakistani. Both Malik and Mirza are Muslims.

It is interesting to note that while pro-India secularists in Pakistan and abroad projected the marriage as a sign of India’s changing outlook of Pakistan and an opening for a future ‘brotherly relations’ between India and Pakistan – however, their dream of an ‘Islam-less’ Pakistan was shattered by the hostile actions of Hindutva mafia in India.

The allegation that Shoaib Malik was already married to a Hyderabad-born Ayesha Siddiqui in 2002 – were dismissed by Andhra Pradesh High Court earlier and ordered the police to return Shoaib’s passport and that he is free to return to his native country, Pakistan.

In response to her critic, Sania said: “I was not marrying a Pakistani. I was marrying a person I liked and he was marrying a person”.

Malik is the second Pakistani cricketer to marry an Indian idol. In 1980s former test batsman Mohsin Khan had married Bollywood actress Reena Roy. The marriage later broke down.

Jeff Gates in his January 2010 article, titled The Israel/India Alliance, shows the Hindutva love affair with the Zionist entity based on their common hatred toward Muslims.

Israel has overtaken Russia as India’s chief arms supplier as New Delhi announced $50 billion in defense modernization outlays from 2007 to 2012. The fast emerging fact patterns suggest there is far more implied for Pakistan in this “special defense relationship” than meets the eye.

Three months after the crisis in Georgia, a terrorist attack in Mumbai renewed fears of nuclear tension between India and Pakistan. When the Mumbai attackers struck a hostel managed by Chabad Lubavitch, an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect from New York, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni announced from Tel Aviv: “Our world is under attack.”

With religious extremists portrayed as operating freely in a nuclear-armed Islamic state, Tel Aviv gained traction for its claim that a nuclear-Islamic Tehran posed an “existential threat” to the Jewish state. Meanwhile Israel’s election of an ultra-nationalist governing coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu further delayed resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Meanwhile, India’s oligarchs continued to amass wealth and influence at a record pace as the caste system maintained its stranglehold on Hindu society. By 2007, India’s 40 billionaires had amassed a combined wealth of $351 billion, up from a combined wealth of $170 billion just since 2006. Though New Delhi cites the success of its high-tech sector and its “Bollywood” film industry as signs of a burgeoning middle class, the reality is far from reassuring.

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