SRINAGAR: Chairman of Kaskmir All parties Hurriat Conference (APHC), Syed Ali Gilani has extended the "Quit Kashmir Movement"for 10 more days. Syed Ali Gilani said that the occupation authorities were trying to suppress the movement by preparing to hold Panchayat and Municipal elections, adding that such tactics would have dangerous consequences.
The calendar includes relaxations on [...]
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As India and Pakistan opened talks Thursday, Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani was detained under a tough law and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was put under house arrest.
Geelani was booked under the Public Safety Act for making provocative speeches inciting youths to violence, Srinagar District Magistrate Mehraj Ahmad [...]
By ALI SUKHANVER
“INDIA can chain my limbs but she cannot shackle my heart; India can break my bones but she cannot crush my will and determination,” Jalil Andrabi, the Ex-Chairman, Kashmir Commission of Jurists uttered these words in Geneva, addressing the UN Sub Commission on Kashmir, on August 17, 1995. He is no more [...]
GHULAM MUHAMMED, Mumbai
MAY I draw your kind attention to the fact or fiction that more and more people are coming out with the realisation that 'communal riot' in India is the HALL MARK of Congress party administration.
It is sad that while Gujarat’s BJP Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been summoned by SIT under the [...]
A UN project aimed to help millions - but it brought them water contaminated with arsenic
By Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
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In the 1970s, up to 250,000 children a year died in the country from drinking dirty water; today water can still be fatal
Up to 20 million people in Bangladesh are at risk of [...]
By HABIB YOUSAFZAI
LIFE threatening challenges motivate and stimulate creative thinking of the human brain. There is a popular Arabic proverb, “the need is the mother of Invention”. The scarcity of the resources has caused vital problems to human life. Real breakthroughs can be done by setting priorities. It should always be remembered that chronic problems, [...]
By AFSHAIN AFZAL
THE moment Indian authorities came to know through media that Mumbai has been attacked at different locations on November 26, New Delhi did not waste any time in leveling allegations that all attackers were Pakistanis. Later all attacker were killed leaving lone attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab to dance on the tune of Indian [...]
SAJJAD SHAUKAT
DESPITE the continued employment of various methods of state terrorism on the freedom fighters and the innocent protesters in the occupied Kashmir, Indian armed forces have been demoralised in crushing the war of liberation.
In the Indian-held Kashmir, since 1947, Indian military troops have been using barbaric tactics of extra-judicial killings, burning the houses, torture [...]
A Grain in My Empty Bowl
By AJIT SAHI
HAD Shahid Azmi been gunned down in Russia, China or Iran, his news would have been all over The New York Times the next morning. Working on the principle that the enemy’s enemy is a friend, the western media offer spectacular support to internal dissent against regimes that [...]
By OMAR KHALIDI
OF all the postcolonial states of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, India is regarded in academia and media as a secular state. This paper challenges the academic and media consensus of the notion that India is a secular state. It does so by marshalling empirical evidence that far from being state practicing [...]
