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Ambedkar’s Boys at the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM):

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At first sight, 27-year-old VV Selvaraj looks more the assistant manager with Idea Cellular that he was until six years ago than the firebrand — and controversial — dalit leader he has quickly turned out to be in Kerala. He appears even less the man with the dubious distinction of being India’s first dalit activist [...]

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Peace & Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

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I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and west end of our island. I find no other way to explain the close [...]

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IMU & Taliban eye Central Asia again

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AfPak countercurrents beyond the Oxus to AfPakAzUzbKazTurkKyr-istan. Several recent incidents on the Amu darya (Oxus River) which forms the boundary line between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have caught the attention of international analysist and Afghanistan watchers. This autumn, many Afghan officials, including Mr. Karzai have expressed repeated concern bordering on panic that the Taleban are transferring forces to the north of the country. Discussion the move, on September 23, Afghan General Mustafa Patang said hundreds of militants had arrived in the north. They should have not have been surprised. The insurgent control most of Southeastern and Western Afghanistan. It is but logical that they go after the last remnants that they do not control. The move to the North was all the more obvious since the warlord Dostum was in exile abroad.

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Is Pakistan ready for Mr. Pervez Musharraf

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News reports are once again emerging about the palns of Mr. Pervez Musharraf who wants to stage a comeback in Pakistan and make a run for the elections. There are die hard supporters of the President who reminise for the days of the General when the economy was good, there was realtive stability, and the [...]

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Indo-Iranian relations in downward spiral

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The Indian Iranian relations have gone down from they heyday when Iranian President Seyyed Mohammed Khatami’s five-day India visit went to India in Juanuary 24th 2003 to celebrate Bharat’s republic Day. At the time there were huge expectations on both sides to develop an Indo-Iranian axis against all powers in the area. There was euphoria in the Bharati [...]

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Evidence against India-ISI Chief confronts CIA head about Terror in Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD – Serious differences are understood to have cropped up between Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI and US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the latter’s dismal role in countering terrorism in Pakistan, TheNation reliably learnt on Friday. According to well-placed sources, the differences between the two strategic partners in war against terror cropped up when [...]

Evidence against India-ISI Chief confronts CIA head about Terror in Pakistan

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Terror in Pakistan: ISI Chief confronts CIA head with evidence against India

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ISLAMABAD – Serious differences are understood to have cropped up between Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency ISI and US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the latter’s dismal role in countering terrorism in Pakistan, TheNation reliably learnt on Friday. According to well-placed sources, the differences between the two strategic partners in war against terror cropped up when [...]

Terror in Pakistan: ISI Chief confronts CIA head with evidence against India

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US trying to quash UN laws against “Hate Speech”

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Islamic nations pressing UN panel for treaty that would ban blasphemy Pakistanis protested against cartoons depicting Mohammed in 2008. Officials in Pakistan and Algeria are calling for a treaty that would protect religious symbols from mockery. (Arshad Butt/Associated Press) By Frank Jordans Associated Press / November 20, 2009 E-mail this article To: Invalid E-mail address [...]

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City state of Bombay: Independent Republic of Maharashtra

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  Shiv Sena activists demonstrate in Mumbai.— Photo from Reuters/File IT is happening too often. Parochialism is rearing its ugly head in Mumbai too frequently. The Shiv Sena is threatening to throw out ‘outsiders’ from Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra.   Self-centred party chief Bal Thackeray has created a ruckus once again, this time [...]

City state of Bombay: Independent Republic of Maharashtra

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NRO indicted criminals: Throw all the bums out of office, try them, & jail them if guilty

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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is estimated to have lost a staggering Rs.150 billion ($1.8 billion) thanks to the immunity granted to politicians, bureaucrats and senior military officers charged with corruption and the scrapping of the country’s corruption watchdog, a media report said Saturday. Thirty-four prominent politicians benefited from the NRO, Sindhu said. Some of the names [...]

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