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[1] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sat Dec 8, 2007 10:48 am Subject: Prosperouns Gujarati NRIs running campaign in Modi'ssupport Prosperouns Gujarati NRIs running campaign in Modi'ssupport http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=9788&Itemid=8\ 8 By Parveen Chopra New York, Dec 8: In the run-up to the crucial state assembly elections in Gujarat, a group calling itself the Support Gujarat Progress Group as well as the Overseas Friends of BJP--USA (OFBJP) have been drumming up support among NRIs in the US and elsewhere to call and email their family and friends in the state to vote and support Chief Minister Narendra Modi. ----------- [2] "Indo-Lanka Relations Presently Seem To Be Moving On An Even Keel":R. Swaminathan By Nilantha Ilangamuwa & R. Swaminathan http://www.countercurrents.org/nilantha081207.htm The question should not be whether Sri Lanka can find an effective and durable solution, but whether Sri Lanka can afford not to find such a solution. Ideally, the solution should be totally indigenous and arrived at by consensus. Less ideally, it can be achieved with the help of mediators or intermediaries from outside. It is very clear to me that any solution imposed only by military force or majoritarian fiat would neither be effective nor durable Pakistan PCOed By Naeem Sadiq http://www.countercurrents.org/sadiq081207.htm Pakistan is suffering from an acute disease of compulsive constitutionlessness. The citizens of Pakistan must intervene to save this country. The politicians will not do so. They are only awaiting the next oath taking ceremony that would clear the way for their endless global junkets and Umrahs at the tax payers' expense, aboard the 14 luxury aeroplanes parked in the VVIP section of Islamabad airport Pakistan: Our Narcissistic Legacy By Mir Adnan Aziz http://www.countercurrents.org/aziz081207.htm Narcissism is defined as a pattern of traits and behaviours which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self. This to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. There is, as the British novelist Elizabeth Bowen put it, just one 'redeeming' factor: Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist if you react to life but on his own terms. This trait is the scourge of Pakistan, tragically afflicted by it since birth ---------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com Date: Sat Dec 8, 2007 8:10 am Subject: Nuclear Power: Lessons from Iran and Japan I/III. http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1495 SEIZE THIS MOMENT FOR A NUCLEAR-FREE WORLD December 7th, 2007 by Alice Slater, New York Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation II/III. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/world/middleeast/05weapons.html? ref=world December 5, 2007 The Thin Line Between Civilian and Military Nuclear Programs By WILLIAM J. BROAD III. http://thebulletin.org/columns/m.v.-ramana/20071205 Nuclear safety lessons from Japan's summer earthquake By M. V. Ramana and Ashwin Kumar 5 December 2007 --------- [4] GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RULES TO ALLOW ADOPTIONS BY NON-HINDUS Sources: Compass Direct News, WorldWide Religious News, IANS Ending a long era of discrimination against non-Hindus, the government of India has cleared the way for all religious communities in every Indian state to adopt legally. Until now, Christians and other non-Hindus could only be “guardians” of adopted children and did not enjoy full parenthood that Hindus had. On Oct. 26 the government’s ruling coalition of political parties, the United Progressive Alliance, gave notice of new rules under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act of 2006, making room for all communities to adopt. Richard Howell, general secretary of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, said his group welcomed the “significant move” by the federal government “to enhance the legal rights of adopted children and the couples who adopt them.” It is estimated that only about 5,000 children a year are adopted in India even though there are more than 56 million orphaned and destitute children. “This has ended a long wait by the Christian community which for many years has been urging the government to grant them the right to adopt,” a representative of the Christian Legal Association said. ------- [5] MUSLIM MILITANTS STEAL PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN’S RICE CROP Source: BosNewsLife A Christian rice farmer in Pakistan was without income Sunday, Dec. 2, after armed Muslim militants stole his harvested rice crop. Robby Simon said he had been robbed of “ripened rice crops” worth the equivalent of nearly US$7,000 -- a huge sum in the impoverished region around his village of Tara Tibbi in Pakistan’s Punjab province. He said the attack happened on Wednesday, Nov. 14, “in broad daylight,” but police have so far refused to arrest any suspects. Police officials were not immediately available for comment; however, security forces have been criticized by several advocacy groups of not doing enough to prevent attacks against Pakistan’s Christian minority. Pakistani advocacy group Rays of Development and relatives of Simon said militants carrying AK-47 rifles and other weapons forcibly entered the farmhouse and tied up Simon’s workers. “[The assailants] finished the harvest and took away the looted rice crop with them, waving firearms and saying: ‘Christians are born to clean manure, therefore go and clean the cesspits and you are not supposed to do cultivation,’” said witness Yousaf Masih, his voice trembling. ---------- [6] From: syed rahman <surahman2000@yahoo.com Date: Sat Dec 8, 2007 6:32 pm Subject: Modi replies to EC, says he was misquoted on Sohrabuddin Modi replies to EC, says he was misquoted on Sohrabuddin http://www.khabrein.info/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=9807&Itemid=8\ 8 Ahmedabad, Dec 8: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Saturday evening sent his reply to the Election Commission's notice, saying he was misquoted in media reports of his speech allegedly justifying an extra-judicial killing, even as he demanded a notice against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters here that the party has replied to the poll panel. - |
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