Posted on 27 August 2010.
KASUR – Fifteen low-lying villages of Kasur have been inundated as India has released floodwater into River Sutlej at Kikar and Talwar posts and the populace has started shifting with their belongings to safer places on Thursday. According to sources concerned, though water level is 18 feet, its flow is fast and creating difficulties for [...]
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Posted on 27 August 2010.
China has refused the visa to a Bharati General who had wanted to lead the Bharati delegation to China. China had refused visas to people living in Kashmir and South Tibet (aka Arunchal Pradesh)–correctly claiming that they legally were not Bharati nationals. NEW DELHI: India has suspended defence exchanges with China after Beijing refused a [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2010.
After the defeat of Bharati diplomacy in Afghanistan and Iran–Delhi now faces the prospect of being dumped by another ally–Israel. Bharat has carefully nurtured the relationship with Tel Aviv for the past few decades, abandoning Bharat’s principled stand on Palestine. In affect Delhi sold out the Palestinian cause for a few Shakels and a fist [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2010.
NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram warned on Wednesday that Hindu extremists posed an increasing risk to national security, dubbing the threat as “saffron terror”. The colour saffron is associated with Hindu nationalism in India, and some right-wing groups have been linked to militant attacks in the north and west of the country. “We [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2010.
THE United Nations says 3.5 million children in Pakistan are at risk from waterborne diseases, warning of a “second wave of death” from the country’s devastating floods. U.N. humanitarian spokesman Maurizio Giuliano said Monday as many as six million people in Pakistan face the risk of contracting diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses if donors do [...]
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Posted on 26 August 2010.
The ANP should stop supporting the Bharati machinations. The ANP leadership has taken decisions which have wittingly and unwittingly supported the Bharati water wars on Pakistan. The brave people of KP deserve better. The ANP has to be dumped. The ANP has worked against the interests of the Pakhtuns for the past century, and has [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2010.
The floods were due to India releasing excess waters into the Chenab, Jhelum and Indus rivers, while its agents in Afghanistan did the same in the Kabul river, thus resulting in the ‘most destructive floods ever seen in Pakistan this century or the last’ and ‘whose devastating effects were still being felt’. It said UN [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2010.
There is a very sinister aspect to the floods in Pakistan that no one is discussing in the media. While there were rains and flooding in some rivers of the country, the size, scale and the gush of water suddenly pumped into these rivers defies logic. This is especially true considering that rains have slowed [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2010.
Dozens of villages in Punjab province were inundated in the border areas of Sialkot district and the Pakistani officials blamed it on India, saying authorities across the frontier had released excess flood Besides the Chenab, the water level in Tawi River too has increased. As a result, several villages in Bajwat area have been cut [...]
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Posted on 25 August 2010.
ISLAMABAD: The drying effect of the devastating floods is expected to begin in 2 to 3 days, amid hopes for higher than estimated wheat output in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but worries about lower yield in Sindh, a senior government official said on Monday. Chairman of the Federal Flood Commission (FFC) Zarar Aslam told a [...]
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