INDIA claims to be the biggest democracy of the world and a champion
of human rights but frequent incidents of violence against minorities,
their exploitation and their status expose the myth of Indian
secularism. All minorities in India are exposed to almost similar
dangers and threats but the
While Muslims from Azamgarh demonstrated in New Delhi against random
arrest of Muslims in the name of terrorism, Gujarat Muslims avoid any
democratic agitation against indiscriminate arrest. While some say it
is `fear psychosis' others hold community's 'mercantile culture'
responsible for it.
By
IF ever the Pak-US co-operative alliance against terrorism would
crumble it will under the unbearable weight of drone attacks ordered
by the CIA into the Pakistani territory. Invariably, these predators
kill more innocent non-combatant civilians than suspected terrorists.
It is not that the
Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh reminds Hillary Clinton that her husband has
condemned the murder of Sikhs during his visit to India in the year
2000, and accuses the Indian government has murdered over 250,000
Sikhs since 1984, more than 300,000 Christians in Nagaland, over
90,000 Muslims in Kashmir,
What can they (Americans) do to us? We control congress, we control
the media, we control show biz, and we control everything in America.
Another Israeli spokeswoman, Tzipora Menache, stated that she was not
worried about negative ramifications the Israeli onslaught on Gaza
might have on the way
February 24, 2009
Col Ghulam Sarwar (R)
India and Israel have been hobnobbing with each other for the past
many decades but the world at large has been unmindful of their hush
hush activities. Likewise, hidden ties with both USA and Israel have
not seen light of the day and only recently details
By Hari Sud
Column: Abroad View
Published: February 27, 2009
Toronto, ON, Canada, - India's main supplier of advanced military
hardware is Israel. In the 1990s India took a major decision to
procure arms from Israel after its much-touted Defense Research and
Development Organization failed to
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By Beena Sarwar
04 March, 2009
Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 4 (IPS) - South Asia seems to be caught in a vortex of
violence as the countries that form this region - from Sri Lanka at
the southern-most tip, Bangladesh to the east, Nepal
Victor Ivanov, head of the Russian anti-narcotics service, has made
some extraordinary comments - which amount to an admission that the
country is experiencing a devastating heroin epidemic.
While conceding to the press that Russia is now the world's absolute
leader in the opiate trade and the
By Amaresh Misra
Right now, a new kind of a battle is going on in India. For the first
time since Independence, Muslims of a whole region right in India's
heartland-the district of Azamgarh in Poorvanchal (East Uttar
Pradesh)-have launched an Independent mass movement. Till date, from
its own
By Zaheerul Hassan
On 8 March, 2009 Ronald Noble along with Interior Advisor, Rahman
Malik while addressing a Press Conference said that Mumbai attacks
were partially planned in Pakistan. He revealed that seven countries
including India were used for Mumbai attacks. On this occasion,
interior
By S G Haque,
The Indian Government has admitted that the cases of human rights
violation against minorities have increased and Indian Muslims, the
largest minority community are the worst sufferer. Several communal
riots instigated by Hindu nationalists, have caused heavy damages to
the Muslims.
By Adnan Gill
Despite what some American foreign policy hawks, like Kim Holmes (Vice
President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International
Studies) suggest, Obama-Biden team was spot on when they set
“Restoring Our Standing” to be one of the prime objectives of
formulating the
By Javed Aziz Khan
PESHAWAR: Busy preparing for the colourful religious festival of Holi
on Wednesday, the Hindu community from across the NWFP alleged the
Hindus seeking Indian citizenship in Amritsar had a “personal agenda”
as there was no threat to their lives and families in Pakistan.
By Priyanka Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI - Often it becomes apparent that India's slow-to-move
government agencies are caught in a time warp, struggling to catch up
with the efficient private sector rooted in high-tech paperless
functioning.
Take the case of the state of Haryana that adjoins Delhi and
By Abdul Hannan
As election temperature increases across India, political parties and
their candidates are trying to use new political stunts to catch
public's attention.
Earlier, in Utter Pradesh Mulaym Singh joined hands with Kalyan Singh,
in Bihar RJD and LJP came closer, in Jharkhand former
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Baroness Warsi named Britain's most powerful Muslim woman
AFP
LONDON (AFP) - Britain's most powerful Muslim woman is Baroness
Sayeeda Warsi, who notably helped rescue a Briton jailed in Sudan for
calling a teddy bear Mohammed two years ago, a panel of judges said
Wednesday.
Warsi, a 38-year-old
By IANS,
Ahmedabad/New Delhi : Maya Kodnani, who resigned Friday as Gujarat's
minister for higher education, surrendered later in the day before the
Special Investigation Team (SIT) that has named her as among those who
led mobs in the Naroda Gaam and Naroda Patiya localities here in which
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Virginia M. Moncrieff
International Correspondent
President Hamid Karzai has blamed foreigners for exaggerating the
amount of corruption in Afghanistan. Last week he reiterated the
dastardly plot, sounding like a Burmese general fulminating against
foreign stooges.
The government is not what
AS long as the mutual suspicions persisting between Washington and
Islamabad are not removed, it will be hard to root out terrorism from
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Islamabad rightly thinks it has rendered
vital help to the US in the War On Terror, but is still being not
trusted. Pakistan's
Vatican City, 7 April (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI will reflect on the
plight of Christians in India this Easter when he leads the Way of the
Cross ceremony on Friday at the Colosseum in Rome. The Vatican has
asked Indian Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil to write the meditations
for the ceremony,
By Sajjad Shaukat
On January 20, 2009, in his first address, President Barack Obama had
stated: To the Muslim World, we seek a new way forward, based upon
mutual interest and mutual respect. But instead of reversing the
anti-Muslim policies of ex-president Bush who had used the term
'crusade', a
Missing Two Children in Gulshen-e-Iqbal, Help us to search these little Kids.
Dear All,
My 11 year old girl, Noha Waleed El Hoseiny and my little boy 7 year
old son Seif El Din Waleed El Hoseiny, are missing.
They have been missing for 8 months now. Maybe if everyone passes this
on, someone
As support for Afghan leader wanes, rivals go to Washington for
meeting with new President
By Jerome Starkey and Kim Sengupta in Kabul
Barack Obama's arrival in the White House and the wind of change
sweeping through Washington could lead to the ousting from power of
Hamid Karzai, President of
By Firdaus Ahmed
Countercurrents.org
A party's manifesto is not taken too seriously since the compulsions
of power impact the promises in it considerably. In the coalition era,
this is even more so. Therefore to assess the BJP's position on
security through its manifesto may be neither fair nor
By Asif Haroon Raja
One of the most read English newspaper of Pakistan, The News ,
controlled from Karachi projects mainly the views of liberals and
so-called enlightened moderates. The bearded Muzaffar Iqbal is one of
the lucky ones to find space in this prestigious paper. Articles of
Masooda
By Emaad Qureshi
The extremists of a Hindu religious organization, Shri Ram Sene
attacked a group of Pakistani journalists here on Wednesday
INDIA :NEW DELHI: In a very unfortunate incident today Hindu
extremists of Shri Ram Sena swarmed Delhi's International center and
manhandled Pakistani
Ram Puniyani
In the worst ever communal carnage of this century, the post Godhra
Gujarat violence, over 2000 innocents lost their lives. Most of the
survivors not only lost their livelihood and shelter but also have
been degraded to the status of second class citizens. Most of the
perpetrators of
By Shamshad Ahmad
It is good news. President Zardari is a changed man and is said to
have improved as a leader. This is the breaking news story emanating
after a group of notable journalists and columnists had a two-hour
discussion-cum-dinner meeting with our president this last Monday in
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 7 Issue: 11
By: Abdul Hameed Bakier
In a quest to spread security and military knowledge that is vital for
successful Salafi-Jihadi terror operations, jihadi internet forums
intermittently release training lessons in all kinds of subjects. This
article will
Ramachandra Guha (INDIA)
One of the forgotten heroes of Indian democracy is Kumaraswamy
Kamaraj. This withdrawn, monosyllabic, self-educated man from a
backward caste background was instrumental in building a base for the
Congress party in South India. Later, as President of the national
party,
Rahul Singh, Hindustan Times
The Indian military fears a 'Chinese aggression' in less than a
decade. A secret exercise, called 'Divine Matrix', by the army's
military operations directorate has visualised a war scenario with the
nuclear-armed neighbour before 2017.
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The McMahon Line boundary dispute is at the heart of relations between
China and India. China has land and sea boundary issues with 14
neighbors, mostly for historical reasons. The Chinese have two major
claims on what India deems its own territory. One claim, in the
western
By Tomichan Matheikal
Countercurrents.org
We did not convert because we are poor. If I am poor but accepted by
my community, there is no [social] terror in that poverty We did
not convert for money. We converted because of the society that saw us
as lesser, not worthy. We were 'lower caste',
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