http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C08%5Cstory_8-12-2006_pg7_11
now they have started giving space to Hindu groups also it seems.
Umesh
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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:41:25 -1000
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Subject: HPI, December 16, 2006
December 16, 2006
Babri Masjid Riots: 14 Years Later
Judges Chastise -- Follow Your Guru, Don't Litigate
Asia Urged to Tackle Air Pollution
1. Babri Masjid Riots: 14 Years Later www.dailytimes.com.pk
LAHORE, PAKISTAN, December 16, 2006: The Hindu community on Thursday demanded
the reconstruction of more than 1,000 temples across Pakistan which had been
demolished by Muslims who rioted in December 1992 as protest against the
demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. While Muslims in India commemorated
December 6, the day Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindus, as a "day of
resistance" and demanded the Indian government reconstruct the Babri Masjid and
take action against those responsible for the incident.
The All Pakistan Balmik Sabha (APBS) Balochistan President Atnay Ram Chohan
said that more than 1,000 Hindu temples had been damaged in Pakistan following
the Babri Masjid incident and the government had assured the Hindu community
that their places of worship would be restored, but that promise has yet to be
fulfilled. APBS Punjab General Secretary Dr Munohar Chand said that though the
government had started reconstructing several temples in Multan, Rawalpindi,
Peshawar, Kohat, Bahawalpur and Lahore, the pace of work was slow and must be
completed on priority to promote religious harmony in the country. He added
that several temples in Lahore including Jain Mandir, Krishna Mandir, Balmik
Mandir in Nila Gumbad, Balmik Mandir and Bawa Mandir in Taxali Gate and Shah
Alam Mandir had been damaged in the violent protests in 1992, but the
government had only reconstructed the Krishna Mandir on Ravi Road.
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2. Judges Chastise -- Follow Your Guru, Don't Litigate
epaper.timesofindia.com
NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 15, 2006: (HPI note: This dispute does not involve
the BAPS branch of the Lord Swaminarayan sampradaya.) Thanks to television,
religious leaders have taken their discourses on spiritual life to the living
rooms of people. But recently it was their turn to get a discourse from the
Supreme Court. The case before the court was an offshoot of the litigation
between two leading followers of Swaminarayan, Ajendraprasadji and Swami
Keshavprakashdasji, and originated from a suit filed by the latter before the
Bhavnagar civil judge in 2002. The suit sought a declaration from the civil
court that Pande, having ceased to be the Acharya of Vadtal Gaddi, and his
supporters are not entitled to any privilege or right in respect of the Vadtal
Gaddi at Vadtal, Gadhada and Junagadh, as well as within any of the trust
property and that they have no right to declare their successor as acharya of
the gaddi.
Justices A. R. Lakshamanan and Altamas Kabir dismissed the petition filed by
Pande, deplored the litigious attitude that has crept into religious sects and
exhorted the members devote more time to the propagation of their gurus'
teachings. "If the time, energy and money was spent for carrying on the wishes
of the founder of the institution, things would have reached very great
heights," the justices said.
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3. Asia Urged to Tackle Air Pollution english.aljazeera.net
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, UNITED NATIONS, December 16, 2006: Experts say
Asia is too slow to enact regional pacts limiting harmful emissions and
reducing pollution. Air quality researchers at a regional conference this week
called on Asian nations to formulate a pollution control mechanism after
studies showed an increasing number of cross-border environmental problems.
Japan says soot from Chinese power stations is poisoning its lakes. Coal
emissions from India and China are polluting the air in Bangladesh while
land-clearing forest fires in Indonesia routinely send a choking haze across
Singapore and Malaysia. These factors, experts say, have turned Asia into the
world's most polluted region.
Michal Krzyzanowski, a regional adviser on air quality and health for the World
Health Organization said, "Transboundary air pollution is a big problem,
especially in densely-populated areas in East Asia. At the moment, there is no
mechanism to regulate this transboundary problem. You need to agree on emission
ceilings and common efforts to reduce the pollution." He said it took more than
10 years for Europe to come together to work out a similar regional mechanism.
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