South Asia Citizens Wire | October 10-13, 2009 | Dispatch No. 2660 - Year 12 running
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SACW DISPATCHES ARE BEING INTERRUPTED FOR A TWO WEEK PERIOD; DISPATCHES WILL RESUME ON THE 1st OF NOVEMBER 2009

[ SACW Dispatches for 2009-2010 are dedicated to the memory of Dr. Sudarshan Punhani (1933-2009), husband of Professor Tamara Zakon and a comrade and friend of Daya Varma ]

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[1]  Sri Lanka: Human Rights
- Press release from Centre for Policy Alternatives Regarding Death Threats To its Director
     - Shirking a moral duty to Sri Lanka (Suren Surendiran)
[2]  Save the Maldives from fundamentalists (Maryam Omidi)
[3]  Pakistan:  Interpreting the GHQ attack (Editorial, Daily Times)
[4] India: Remembering K Balagopal - Memorial / Web archive / Educational and Activist space on Human rights issues
[4]  India: Human Security vs Security Mania
      - A nutrition scheme held hostage by contractors (Biraj Patnaik)
      - Spooks want govt to block Skype (Mohua Chatterjee)
      -  Of real-time intelligence and common sense (Jawed Naqvi)
- The Government’s "Offensive" Is a Formula for Bloodshed and Injustice (Campaign for Survival and Dignity)
[5]  India: Resources For Secular Activists
(i) Gujarat: Brutal attack on former mayor of Vadodara (Anhad Press Release) + Systematic discrimination oozing out of the pores in Gujarat (Shabnam Hashmi) + Police Continues Illegal Detentions and Torture in Gujarat (Anhad)
(ii) Maharashtra:
     - Hate politics in Sangli
- RSS, “Shastra Puja” [Arms Worship] and and offences under Arms Act
(iii) Jinnah's case for a supreme court (A.G. Noorani)
[6]   India: Human Security vs Security Mania
   - A Nutrition Scheme Held Hostage By Contractors (Biraj Patnaik)
   - Spooks Want Govt To Block Skype (Mohua Chatterjee)
   - Of Real-Time Intelligence And Common Sense (Jawed Naqvi)
- The Government’s "Offensive" Is a Formula for Bloodshed and Injustice (Campaign for Survival and Dignity)
[7]  Upcoming events:
(i) South Asia Foundation Peace Festival 2009 (Amritsar - Wagah - Preet Nagar, 10th to 23rd October 2009) (ii) Meeto Memorial Award for Young South Asians (New Delhi, 14 October, 2009)

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[1] Sri Lanka

PRESS RELEASE FROM CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES REGARDING DEATH THREATS TO ITS DIRECTOR
http://tt.ly/33

SHIRKING A MORAL DUTY TO SRI LANKA
by Suren Surendiran (guardian.co.uk, 8 October 2009)
http://tt.ly/34

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[2]  Maldives:

The Guardian
28 September 2009


SAVE THE MALDIVES FROM FUNDAMENTALISTS

An Islamic scholar is facing flak for not wearing the right beard. We must not let Wahhabism suffocate this island nation's identity

by Maryam Omidi

On his recent visit to the Maldives, Salih Yucel, a Turkish Islamic scholar and lecturer at Monash University in Australia, was rejected by his fellow Muslims who deemed his beard too short and his trousers too long for him to be a bona fide Muslim. The response to the former imam came as no surprise, being symptomatic of the puritanical Wahhabism taking root in the Indian Ocean archipelago, a favourite haunt of honeymooners and A-list celebrities.

The country's legislative architecture entrenches this intolerance, in a constitution that recognises only Muslims as citizens and a Religious Unity Act that stringently demarcates the type of Islam to be practised. Nor are the country's non-Muslim expatriates, largely Buddhist Sri Lankans and Hindu Indians, permitted to practise their faiths in public as all places of worship apart from mosques are banned. The intolerance does not end here: for Wahhabis, even other Muslims, such as Shias and Sufis, are apostates.

The onset of Wahhabism in the country can be linked to a rise of the ultraconservative ideology in the region, above all in Pakistan, where many Maldivians travel for a free education at one of its madrasas. While the teachings at the vast majority of these institutions are benign, there are those, financed by Saudi Arabia, that serve as conduits for the Wahhabi ideology.

Wahhabism, a back to basics Islam, states adherents must follow the way of the Prophet Muhammad and his disciples to the letter. The result has been a doctrinaire outlook among devotees and a repudiation of the Maldives' historically moderate past.

As with other countries in the region such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islam in the Maldives was suffused with elements of Sufism; further, unique to the island nation are the influences absorbed from its Buddhist past. But today, a conflict between these traditions and calls for greater orthodoxy is palpable.

Many pin the upsurge in radicalism on former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, an Egyptian-educated scholar, who according to one journalist, brought Islam to the forefront of the nation's identity at the expense of other cultural attributes. The upshot has been the destruction of indigenous Islam in the Maldives and a cultural identity crisis.

The losers in this formerly matriarchal society have been women and girls. A groundswell of devotion over recent years has led to the number of headscarves worn soaring, though often through social pressure rather than piety.

More recently, families refusing to send their daughters to school or vaccinate their children, while uncommon, are beginning to worry the authorities. More alarming are reports about men keeping underage girls as concubines to have sex with when their wives are menstruating. Although yet to be verified, the reports have moved the Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed to call for an investigation. While the Ministry of Islamic Affairs denounced concubinage as un- Islamic, for many it was a nod to the practice of taking slave-girls as concubines during the prophet's time.

In July, I wrote an article about the gender disparity in issuing punishments for those convicted of premarital sex, for which the sentence under sharia law is 100 lashes. While pregnancy incriminates women, men deny their involvement in the act and get off scot-free. Latest statistics from 2006 revealed that out of 184 people sentenced to the punishment, 146 were women. The article and Amnesty International's consequent call for a moratorium on flogging led to protests demanding my deportation and the resignations of the foreign minister, an MP and the Maldivian high commissioner to the UK, all of whom I quoted in the article.

What the protests underscored was the absence of a public space for religious debate. While a predominantly moderate sentiment may still exist, the few bold enough to ask questions are labelled un-Islamic or worse still, intimidated into silence. A recent announcement by the minister of Islamic affairs that only scholars well-versed in the Qur'an should speak about religion affairs tightened the screws further.

The rise of Wahhabism is one of the many challenges the fledging democracy has to face. Although led by a young, liberal president, the coalition government's failure to encourage dialogue on religion has precluded the possibility of alternative narratives taking hold.

The government's ambitions to reappropriate its heritage through the restoration of its Buddhist sites and the introduction of Maldivian history in schools may be one antidote. Another lies in the country's largely young population. While outwardly at least devotion has rocketed, behind closed doors, many young people hunger for an Islamic reformation. The question is, who will dare to lead the way?


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[3] Pakistan:

Daily Times
October 12, 2009        

EDITORIAL: Interpreting the GHQ attack

The Saturday attack on the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi martyred a number of military personnel including a Brigadier and Lieutenant-Colonel. The army reacted swiftly, killing four of the terrorists and locating their safe house in a nearby suburban settlement. While this was going on, five terrorists managed to get into a security building and held hostage more than 40 personnel including civilians. The operation, launched in two phases got all the hostages released except three who got killed; four terrorists were killed while their leader was arrested. The attacking force lost four personnel.

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the act and named the “group” that had undertaken it: Amjad Farooqi Group. A member of the group reportedly demanded that the government stop the military operation in the Tribal Areas, hold former General Pervez Musharraf accountable for his actions, force Blackwater US private security firm to leave the country; shut down all western non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and release detained Taliban. Al Qaeda had earlier named the killers of khassadars in Khyber after its founder, Abdullah Azzam.

Amjad Farooqi was a terrorist affiliated with Al Qaeda through Sipah- e-Sahaba and Jaish-e-Muhammad. He was involved in the attempt on the life of General Musharraf, the beheading of the American journalist Daniel Pearl, and the bombing of a church in Islamabad. He was killed in 2004 in Sindh. The Al Qaeda link was disclosed after his death. His handler was the Libyan Abu Faraj al-Libi, who had replaced the planner of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, as Al Qaeda commander in Pakistan, after the latter’s arrest.

Punjab had warned of the impending attack on the GHQ as early as July 15 this year, and had named Lashkar-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad whose terrorists “would be dressed in military uniforms” and would be carrying specific weapons. Again, it was South Punjab which was in focus and, against all assertions to the contrary, this time counter- intelligence was clearly effective against the terrorists. How else can one judge counter-intelligence if not from this forewarning that even named the outfits? If this tip-off was ignored, it can only mean that there is “denial” somewhere of there being terrorist trouble in South Punjab.

Most attacks in and around Islamabad, including the one on Marriott Hotel, have been traced to South Punjab. Today, in the so-called Seraiki Belt, no one dare speak against the erstwhile jihadi organisation now clearly aligned with Al Qaeda. The government stance is that the leader of Jaish-e-Muhammad, Maulana Masood Azhar, is not to be found, but the foreign press has reported his presence in Bahawalpur with new training facilities for his terrorists in the nearby desert.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the deed is done by terrorists aligned with Al Qaeda, but he also adds some other connections that introduce breaches of logic that only he can understand. He says the terrorists are working for their foreign masters against the integrity of Pakistan. “Foreign masters” have been named by others as India and the US. Unless explained more fully, this means that India and the US are paying Al Qaeda — which Mr Malik says runs the TTP — to wreck Pakistan.

The US is keen that Pakistan help it catch Osama bin Laden and destroy the safe havens of Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is simply not logical that it should fund Al Qaeda to destroy Pakistan. India has been hit by the “minions” of Al Qaeda and is challenging Pakistan to take action against certain organisations the Punjab CID has named in connection with the latest GHQ hit. Many TV commentators angrily assert that a reference to them in the Kerry- Lugar Bill was inserted by the Indian lobby in Washington.

An entire international community that includes the US, India and China, wants Pakistan to take the battle to the “GHQ of the Taliban” in South Waziristan. The Pakistan army has blockaded the area and made initial moves to open the way for a ground assault. This attack, from what it appears, is likely to hasten the process and we should expect the forces to start moving on the ground by the end of this month. In any case, the army knows that as winter approaches, the operation may well be delayed beyond March-April in 2010 and that could give the other side time to reorganise and consolidate.

The NWFP government wants the attack on South Waziristan to proceed and wants Punjab to clear its southern region of old jihadis now aligned with Al Qaeda terrorists. Clearing South Punjab is important because at this stage it does not require more than local police intelligence and a combined police and paramilitary operation against specific targets. As for how effective local intelligence can be is clear from the forewarning about the attack that did materialise. *

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[4] India: REMEMBERING K BALAGOPAL - MEMORIAL / WEB ARCHIVE / EDUCATIONAL AND ACTIVIST SPACE ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES
http://balagopal.org


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[5] India: Resources Secular Activists

(i)  GUJARAT: BRUTAL ATTACK ON FORMER MAYOR OF VADODARA
(11 october, Anhad Press Release)
http://www.anhadin.net/article91.html

SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION OOZING OUT OF THE PORES IN GUJARAT
Muslim families forced out; Police repression, Digging and demolition of graves in Dahod district
10 October, by Shabnam Hashmi
http://www.anhadin.net/article90.html

POLICE CONTINUES ILLEGAL DETENTIONS AND TORTURE IN GUJARAT
29 September
http://www.anhadin.net/article87.html

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(ii) HATE POLITICS IN SANGLI
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2009/10/hate-politics-in-sangli-in- shadow-of.html

RSS, “SHASTRA PUJA” [ARMS WORSHIP] AND AND OFFENCES UNDER ARMS ACT
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2009/10/rss-shastra-puja-and-and- offences-under.html

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(iii) JINNAH'S CASE FOR A SUPREME COURT
by A.G. Noorani
Had Indians united in support of a final court of appeal in 1921, moves for reform of personal laws of Hindus and Muslims would have accelerated.
http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20091023262108100.htm


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[6] India: Human Security vs Security Mania


A NUTRITION SCHEME HELD HOSTAGE BY CONTRACTORS

by Biraj Patnaik

THERE has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was done with the recognition that the nutrition gap (between what children should be consuming every day and what they actually have) is more than 500 calories. This is one of the reasons for the high incidence of child malnutrition in India: 46 per cent. This is double the malnutrition rate of sub-Saharan Africa, and has registered a mere 1 per cent decline between 1999 and 2006. The fact that this rate of child malnutrition persists in the second fastest growing economy makes it all the more inexcusable. Till a few years ago, the entire supplementary nutrition programme was borne by the state government. States were, therefore, given the freedom to decide on the mode of procurement and distribution of food in the ICDS centres. Barring a few notable exceptions, most states used private contractors to procure and distribute food. The quality was greatly compromised and more often than not food did not reach the ICDS centres. It was well known that contracts were given to private players who greased the system. The politician-bureaucrat contractor nexus was established. This led to the Supreme Court order of October 7, 2004, banning the participation of private contractors in the programme and directing that funds for supplementary nutrition be given to mahila mandals, women’s selfhelp groups and village communities. The logic of the move was fairly simple. Feeding children was not rocket science, and surely communities would be able to provide hot, cooked meals to children. Besides, decentralization of the funds would allow communities to keep a closer watch on the food being provided at the ICDS centres, and, indeed, increase their participation in the programme. It would also allow communities to make culturally appropriate food choices. In any case, a hot, cooked meal was already being provided in government and government- aided primary schools on the directions of the Supreme Court. It could be replicated in ICDS. The Supreme Court order was deeply resisted by the political class cutting across party lines as well as by the vested interests within the bureaucracy. Universalization of ICDS has doubled the number of ICDS centres across the country. This has also substantially increased the budget allocated to supplementary feeding, thereby increasing the stakes in the programme for vested interests. For the past three years, the Supreme Court commissioners’ office and the Right To Food campaign have been persuading state governments to effectively decentralize the funds for the supplementary nutrition programme. The Supreme Court has also passed interim orders to ensure compliance. Despite unambiguous orders from the Supreme Court and a Cabinet decision in 2009, many states continue to use contractors for providing supplementary nutrition. These states include Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Madhya Pradesh. In many states where provisioning of meals has been delegated to village self-help groups, the problems of giving them money on time and clearing their dues remain the biggest bottlenecks. Ensuring decentralization in the spirit of the Supreme Court orders remains a significant challenge for ICDS. (The author is principal adviser to the Commissioners of the Supreme Court in the Right To Food case) —CSE/Down To Earth Feature Service


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SPOOKS WANT GOVT TO BLOCK SKYPE
by Mohua Chatterjee, TNN 3 October 2009

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Spooks-want-govt-to- block-Skype/articleshow/5082066.cms

NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists.

The Cabinet Committee on Security has accepted the recommendation in principle but has not set a date for initiating action. The urgency to track Skype calls stems from the fact that terrorists -- as the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai showed -- are increasingly using VoIP services. The shift to VoIP has been prompted by the growing ability of intelligence agencies to intercept mobile and other calls.

Like the BlackBerry service, VoIP operators send their signals under a specific code which makes it difficult for others to decipher. Sources said Skype has shared its encryption code with the US, China and other governments but is refusing to accept similar Indian requests.

Since Skype is not registered here, Indian authorities have been forced to mull the drastic option of blocking its gateways here. This, however, may not be entirely effective as Skype can route traffic through other service providers. The agencies feel blocking the gateways will at least serve as a signal to local service providers against carrying traffic from Skype or any other similar service provider which does not share the encryption code with the government.

Sections 4 and 5 of the Telegraph Act gives government the right to grant licence for any kind of telephony and also the right to intercept. Last year, government amended Section 69 of the Information Technology Act to empower itself to take over servers of Net and telecom service providers and demand the encryption code. This may still be no remedy against recalcitrant overseas service providers who usually have their servers abroad. Last year, the government had a similar run-in with Canada's Research in Motion, BlackBerry makers and service providers, and the UAE-based satphone operator Thuraya.

Indian agencies are also keeping their fingers crossed, not sure whether the department of telecom -- with a stake in sectoral growth -- would like to lean on VoIP service providers on the issue of sharing encryption code. Besides, there's also a feeling that the government would be wary of people's response to the snapping of Skype. The free service is used by a vast majority of urban middle class Indians for communicating with families and friends spread across the world.

Last year, TRAI had sent a recommendation (with data from 2007), that Skype and Goggle should be asked to pay a licence fee, after being brought within the licence regime. However, government turned it down saying they were not based in India.


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Dawn
21 September, 2009

OF REAL-TIME INTELLIGENCE AND COMMON SENSE

by Jawed Naqvi

A worrying topic of discussion gleaned from a slew at a western diplomat’s reception last week concerned security for the Commonwealth Games to be staged in Delhi in November 2010. The proposed Commonwealth Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the Ministerial Meeting on Terrorism to be held on the margins of the UN General Assembly session on Thursday underscored the urgency of it.

His colleagues from the post-colonial club will closely question Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna over a range of security-related aspects of the Games, for which construction work is under way at a feverish pace in Delhi. Recent memory about security for sporting events is not flattering. Acts of terrorism with roots in Pakistan have shaken sports bodies in India and Pakistan alike. A few teams from Commonwealth countries were forced to stay away from India. Also Indian cricketers played abroad because enough security was not available to them. The Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricketers and its fallout on the sporting calendar of Pakistan are all too well known.

Now unconfirmed Indian reports are quoting the Israelis as warning of more attacks in the near future by religious extremists from Pakistan, with or without logistical support from their Indian partners. Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, (the key spokesperson in Agra) is to hold a mandated but what also looks like a grudging meeting with her Pakistani counterpart in New York some time this week. She made pre-departure remarks to the effect that the peace process would not move if Pakistan did not address India’s concerns with terrorism from its soil.

There is only one way to address the problem — shared intelligence. India and Pakistan will have to cooperate in very new ways to confront the very new challenges they face together. Israelis and others have come to be mistakenly regarded as veritable super sleuths in South Asia because India and Pakistan will not share vital information with each other, which they will readily provide to anyone else.

The Sharm al Shaikh agreement of July 16 between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan tried to address precisely this mistrust. “Both leaders agreed that the two countries will share real-time, credible and actionable information on any future terrorist threats,” their joint statement said. I can’t detect a single devious intent in this. There should be no doubt that real-time intelligence will be vital to host the Games with any degree of assurance for security, not for the participants alone but for the visitors.

It is the flip side of this vital step we have to worry about. Seldom are happy tidings for peace seen as equally good news for the intelligence communities of any two hostile powers. They stand to lose most from any sensible people-friendly rapprochement. Similarly upset would be their quislings in the media.

Barring a few notable exceptions, it was the media on both sides that played less than a constructive role following the terror assault on Mumbai. If the Indian TV channels had their way – going by what some of their leading star analysts said – India should be under military rule in cahoots with big corporate houses, led by Ratan Tata. This was the sum and substance of TV discussions in the wake of the Mumbai terror. Parliament would be suspended indefinitely and the dogs of war would be let loose not only on Pakistan, but also more viciously against dissenters at home.

It is axiomatic that the media’s prowess can shore up democracy but less discussed is the reality that it can also turn reasonably agreeable countries into a Murdochian nightmare. It was none other than rightwing media, not without the standard underhand support from their intelligence minders that went to town over totally fabricated news of Chinese incursions into Indian territory. It took a loud public reprimand from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a flat denial of the reports by the Indian army chief to stall Rupert Murdoch’s protégés from wreaking havoc.

The Sharm al Shaikh meeting was a milestone in recent efforts by the two countries to tame their intelligence beasts. The issue of Balochistan could never have been included in their joint statement otherwise. However, rather than preparing their units to carry out the wishes of the political leadership, the intelligence-media duo in both countries has been seeking to queer the pitch for the people’s representatives. The entire debate in parliament and in the media has skirted the crucial paragraphs of Sharm al Shaikh. They focussed on the emotional appeal of Balochistan and Kashmir instead. The facts were to the contrary.

“Both leaders agreed that terrorism is the main threat to both countries. Both leaders affirmed their resolve to fight terrorism and to cooperate with each other to this end.” What could be more transparent an undertaking against terrorism?

Then the statement added: “Prime Minister Singh reiterated the need to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks to justice. Prime Minister Gilani assured that Pakistan will do everything in its power in this regard. He said that Pakistan has provided an updated status dossier on the investigations of the Mumbai attacks and had sought additional information/evidence. Prime Minister Singh said that the dossier is being reviewed.” There is a problem with this paragraph.

It shows a palpable lack of transparency on both sides. We don’t know what clinching evidence there is to nail Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attack. At an ideological level people like Hafiz Saeed should be incarcerated without a second thought for spewing hatred against different communities, including some sects of Muslims as well. But it seems to me that linking Hafiz Saeed to Mumbai is rooted in deep intelligence gathered by sources – human and technical – and the Indian side may be reluctant to share it with Pakistan.

This quandary is not unusual. In his insightful book published way before the Mumbai attack – Open Secrets, India’s Intelligence Unveiled – former joint director of India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) Maloy Krishna Dhar has indicated where could be going wrong. “A counter-intelligence case is different from a criminal case,” Dhar wrote. “It examines the probable threads of connectivity and establishes a pattern to prove that certain external forces have tried to penetrate the secrets of the nation. Prosecution under Official Secrets Act is different in nature from prosecution under penal laws.”

It is a worthwhile conjecture that the nature of evidence against Hafiz Saeed in the Mumbai attack is good enough to get him convicted as in an open and shut case but how do we place that evidence before a Pakistani judge! In other words all the facts generated from the investigations cannot be revealed to the public, much less to the ISI, a rival intelligence agency. Such deep-rooted mistrust has to be addressed to counter the serious challenge to our security. In the absence of a transparent effort to catch the culprits after 9/11, the American intelligence community and their conniving political patrons created the Guantanamo Bay. Is that the way forward for South Asia?

It seems to me that not all is lost on the India-Pakistan front. We have reason to take heart from a small under-published news report last week, which says that India has agreed to share partial intelligence on the November 26 attack with Pakistan. This could be the beginning of a qualitatively new relationship between the two countries. I remember a former envoy to Islamabad known for his hawkish views on Pakistan scoffing at the idea of sharing real-time intelligence with the ISI.

His argument was that such intelligence sharing would be misused by Pakistan. “If we tell them about a boat landing in Gujarat, they would then shift the venue to Goa or Kerala,” he had protested. That risk is there. On the other hand, as the prime minister of India is used to saying so often, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Former Pakistani national security advisor Mahmood Ali Durrani had suggested during his recent trip to India that the intelligence chiefs of the two countries should start meeting. I too believe there is no other way. This is what common sense dictates and this is what the Commonwealth foreign ministers might wish to hear from India in New York. The two spy chiefs could begin right away by outwitting each other in a harmless way, by becoming the first to dispatch Eid greetings. There will be no losers in this contest. That’s what common sense dictates.

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sacw.net

A PRETEXT TO IMPOSE BRUTAL REPRESSION: THE GOVERNMENT’S "OFFENSIVE" IS A FORMULA FOR BLOODSHED AND INJUSTICE
by Campaign for Survival and Dignity

The Campaign for Survival and Dignity, a national platform of adivasi and forest dwellers’ mass organisations from ten States, unequivocally condemns the reported plans for a military “offensive” by the government in the country’s major forest and tribal areas.
FULL TEXT AT: http://www.sacw.net/article1184.html

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[7]  UPCOMING EVENTS

(i) SOUTH ASIA FOUNDATION PEACE FESTIVAL 2009

(Amritsar - Wagah - Preet Nagar, 10th to 23rd October 2009)


South Asia Foundation 2009 Peace Festival
in partnership with Saanjh

supported by ICCR, NAPA, NSD, PUNARJYOT, Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop, Gurubakhsh Singh Nanak Singh Foundation Federal Ministry for European & International Affairs (Austria)

See full programme brochure at: http://www.sacw.net/article1183.html

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(ii) MEETO MEMORIAL AWARD FOR YOUNG SOUTH ASIANS
Invitation to the presentation of the award on 14 October, 2009 (New Delhi)
http://www.sacw.net/article1182.html


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