Posted on 29 November 2010. Tags: AJK TV, Black Day, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir conflict, Kashmiri people, Pakistan
The 560 states in Post Independence 1947: Wikipedia ALL over Pakistan as well as in AJK and Occupied Kashmir, a Black Day was observed to condemn the brazen occupation of Kashmir by India on 27 October 1947. It was a reminder for the world that the Kashmir conflict still remains unresolved despite UNSC resolutions and [...]
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Posted on 28 November 2010. Tags: Council of Foreign Relations, Home Ministry, India, Kashmir, Nawaz Sharif, New Delhi, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf
Indian authorities continue to be nervous on Musharraf’s visit to India New Delhi : Bracing for a comeback in domestic politics, former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is going to India in the first week of December. However, the government is jittery, given his recent public statements, especially the latest one in which he accused Indian [...]
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Posted on 28 November 2010. Tags: Dal Khalsa, Gurdwara, Lahore, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, Prime Minister, Sikh, Yousaf Raza Gillani
LAHORE: A delegation of Sikh representatives met with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday and presented him with a list of their demands. The prime minister reiterated his government’s commitment to protecting the rights of minorities and women. Indian Sikh leader Sardar Swinder Singh complained to the PM stating the Evacuee Trust Property Board [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, Pak CA
Posted on 28 November 2010. Tags: Ahmed Mukhtar, Al-Khalid, Asif Ali Zardari, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Pakistan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Sri Lanka
Pakistan, Sri Lanka ink accords on visa, customs, agriculture, arts. There are also defense accords, but the details are not mentioned publicly. It is pedagogical to note that Pakistan’s Al-Khalid tanks and timely delivery of arms to the battlefield in Jaffana and other places helped the Lankan army defeat the Bharati sponsored LTTE terrorists. Lanka [...]
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Posted on 28 November 2010. Tags: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, CHANDIGARH, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
CHANDIGARH: Haryana, reeling under a skewed sex ratio, is faced with yet another startling fact – an NGO has found that girls are being “bought” and brought to Haryana from 20 states across the country. The state’s sex ratio stands at 837 in the 0-6 years age group, its lowest in the last five years [...]
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Posted on 28 November 2010. Tags: Bashar al-Assad, Golan Heights, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, List of heads of state of Syria, Middle East, Six-Day War, Syria, UEA, United Arab Emirates
The Bharti media is full of announcements about support for its bid for the UNSC. We were a bit surprised about Syria and skeptical about the UAE. The Indian Express known for its sensationalism which is typical of the Bharati media blared this headline “After UAE, Syria backs India’s permanent UNSC seat claim”. We actually [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Politics
Posted on 27 November 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, English language, Hindu, Hindu American Foundation, Hinduism, Indian American, Newsweek, Shiva
Newsweek‘s depiction of President Obama on its latest cover has irked some Indian Americans who, fresh off Obama’s visit to the world’s largest democracy, are not happy with the image of the U.S. president as the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva. The Newsweek cover shows Obama with several arms carrying policy issues while balancing on one [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2010. Tags: Amrita Bazar Patrika, India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kashmir, Kashmiri people, Pakistan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, United Nations
In a broadcast to the nation on 3rd November, 1947, Pandit Nehru said, “We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the people. That pledge we have given not only to the people of Kashmir and to the world. We will not and cannot back out of it.” My [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2010. Tags: Amnesty International, Central Reserve Police Force, Government of India, Human Rights, India, Indian Army, Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmir
Examples of Indian atrocities in Kashmir “As the conflict in Kashmir enters its fourth year, central and state authorities have done little to stop the widespread practice of rape by Indian security forces in Kashmir. Indeed, when confronted with the evidence of rape, time and again the authorities have attempted to impugn the integrity of [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2010. Tags: Aseem Shukla, Bikram Yoga, Diana L. Eck, Hindu American Foundation, Hinduism, Indian American, Sara Jean Underwood, United States, Yoga Journal
Image via Wikipedia Yoga is practiced by about 15 million people in the United States, for reasons almost as numerous — from the physical benefits mapped in brain scans to the less tangible rewards that New Age journals call spiritual centering. Religion, for the most part, has nothing to do with it. But a group [...]
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