Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Aksai Chin, Arunachal Pradesh, China, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kashmir, Line of Actual Control, Manmohan Singh, McMahon Line, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Prime Minister, Sino-Indian War, Wen Jiabao
Beijing has refused to change its visa policy on residents of Indian Occupied Kashmir. China refuses to accept the credentials of residents of Indian Occupied Kashmir and thus will not give them a visa on their Indian passports. India and China are in a war of words over Kashmir ahead of Prime Minister’s meeting with [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Central Asia, Dmitry Medvedev, Gazprom, Igor Sechin, Nabucco pipeline, Pipeline transport, Russia, Turkmenistan
MOSCOW: – Russia is in talks with Turkmenistan over plans for a cross-border gas pipeline that will run through Taliban-controlled areas in a bid to weaken Europe’s future gas project, a report said on Saturday. The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan, which sits atop the world’s fourth-biggest natural gas reserves, is looking to diversify energy [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Arundhati Roy, Bharatiya Janata Party, India, Indira Gandhi, Kashmir, Kashmiri Pandit, Kashmiri people, Syed Ali Shah Geelani
Image by jeanbaptisteparis via Flickr Ms Roy reminded the Kashmiris at the meeting that she was hurt by their slogan – bhooka nanga Hindustan, jaan se pyara Pakistan New Delhi: Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy who has been canvassing for freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from years of military occupation said on Tuesday that [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Iraq, Islamic Dawa Party, Julian Assange, Nouri al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Shia Islam, Tareq Aziz, Wikileaks
Image via Wikipedia BAGHDAD: Iraq‘s supreme criminal court sentenced former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to death on Tuesday, the first death sentence handed down against the long-time international face of the Saddam Hussein regime. “The supreme criminal court issued an execution order against Tareq Aziz for his role in eliminating religious parties,” state television [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: David Koresh, Jim Jones, Jonestown, London, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Vegetarian Society, Waco Texas
The image of Mahatma Gandhi in his homespun loincloth – peering through his round wire glasses and leaning on two sari-clad women – is as fresh today as it was the day he was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1948. To the world he was the spiritual leader of India’s independence movement, a pioneer [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Mehsud, Mohibullah Samim, Pakistan, South Waziristan, Taliban, United States, Water and Power Development Authority, Waziristan
Image via Wikipedia Engineer Liu Zhangteng’s employer, China’s Sinohydro, is completing the biggest building project in Pakistan‘s tribal region along the Afghan border, where the army is fighting Taliban militants. The U.S.-funded Gomal Zam dam is a key part of Pakistan’s effort to undermine the appeal of Islamic guerrillas in Waziristan, whose northern region U.S. [...]
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Posted on 26 October 2010. Tags: Al-Waleed bin Talal, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Fox News Channel, Kingdom Holding Company, Muslim, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Saudi Arabia
Juan Williams has joined Fox news. He was fired for making unseemly comments about Muslims. He said that Muslims wearing their traditional garb makes his nervous. Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as of Febuary, 2010 owned a 7 percent stake in Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel, making him the company’s largest shareholder outside of [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Faisal Shahzad, Fox Broadcasting Company, Juan Williams, Muslim, National Public Radio, Saddam Hussein, Terrorism, United States
An Open Letter to Juan Williams Dear Juan, Sorry to hear you got fired by National Public Radio for saying on Fox that you get nervous when you see Muslims on a plane with you. It was dumb to say such a thing, but I don’t think saying one dumb thing should be a firing [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Abdul Rashid, Asif Ali Zardari, Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Baitullah Mehsud, Benazir Bhutto, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, United States
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency has completed its probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and held the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan responsible for her death in a gun-and-bomb attack, sources in the FIA told Dawn on Monday. The FIA is likely to submit the investigation report before an anti-terrorism court on Oct 30. [...]
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Posted on 25 October 2010. Tags: Constitution of Pakistan, Hindu, Islam, Law, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Muslim, Pakistan, United States
Rebuttal to all Bharatis, Secularists in general and Mr. Yassar Hamdani’s article titled “Basic structure myth”. =============== How can you tell that a Skunk has been threatened. One can smell it a mile away. When the skunk has lost a battle, he sprays his enemy indiscriminately destroying the ecology for days and weeks. One such [...]
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