I read a lot of news about India and her neighbors. Its high time that we start doing something about all our neighbors. ISI is using not only Pakistan and Bangladesh for its dirty work but also Nepal and Sri Lanka. It has a foot hold in these countries due to the turbulence in these countries. We definately should do something about these two countries soon. Nepal looks like its sorting itself out but SL is going worse. Recently, i saw a report on how Pakistan is hoping for a large part of SL's defence spending. Furthermore, their foreign minister was gloating about how Pakistan is helping it kill the tamil minority population. We have to make clear that ISI/Pakistan stay out, treat everyone equal, etc, etc or we should really think about annexing these litoral countries. There is more justification for SL to be part of India than some of the Indian states themselves. For example, i was reading an argument by someone on rediff that the tamils moved India to SL as internal migration within the Chola empire and hence, they are our people. Sinhalese are from Orissa or bengal or somewhere like that. Surely, this is good enough reason to start talks with the island about it being in a federal setup. Mostly importantly, we cannot allow Islamic terrorists to use SL to undermine our security. What gets me is that ISI does it so openly with SL's blessing. Anyway, its something we should think about.
Nepal looks like it is sorting itself out. We need to see how we can help manage Nepal's security. Since there is no monarchy, there is no need for the country to exist as it is. Surely, it can now become a new state of India.
If we can sort out our Hindu/Bhuddist neighbours, then we can start thinking about Bangladesh. Water might be the best way to come around this. All this probably sounds stupid to most people but would like their thoughts on this.
