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[1] NEWBORN BABY BULLDOZED AFTER MUSLIM EVICTS CHRISTIAN FAMILY A poor Pakistani Christian and his family resided in a home that had been in their family for more than 40 years when a prominent Muslim businessman named Nazar Mohammad laid claim to the property. The Christian, Mansha Masih, was absent from his home in the village of Gadi Wind in the Kasur district of Pakistan when Nazar and several others accompanied by police entered the home, beat his wife and threw their belongings out of the house. Mansha’s newborn son was still inside on a bed when the men bulldozed the building, throwing the child out of the house. The child died of chest injuries, and police fled the scene. Mansha was threatened when he attempted to file a complaint. When Mansha took the baby to the hospital, Nazar was already there speaking with the doctor, claiming that the child had died of starvation. Nazar has already begun construction on the property. (Voice of the Martyrs) ------------------------------------------- [2] From: srinivasa murthy <murthy_srinivasar@yahoo.co.in> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: Re: [indiathinkersnet] RTI definitely works! Dear Kumar, Congratulations for the good work. Thank you both for the activism and sharing of the experirence. In India, we often do not think we can make a difference by individual action. Well done, More such reports will lead to many of us becoming change agents. Murthy EMPOWER INDIA <ttn_empower@sancharnet.in> wrote: Friends, In April 2006 I had gone to Bangalore City Railway Station to drop my daughter off. The contractor charged me Rs 10 instead of Rs 5 for parking my car. I had estimated that the contractor was making about Rs 5,000 extra a day or Rs 150,000 a month on 1000 cars at the front and rear entrance of the station. ------------ [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: Nuclear Weapons in Any Hands Pose Global Threat http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/9418/ Nuclear weapons in any hands pose global threat Author: Jacqueline Cabasso People's Weekly World Newspaper, 06/29/06 14:56 ------------------- [4] From: <pjvraj@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: article from outlookindia.com Flirting With Fire The transient success of communal formations in India has historically not been a consequence of factors integral to their own nature, profile or agenda, but essentially from the failures, miscalculations and rank and habitual folly of secular formations. K.P.S. Gill Link to this story as it appears on the site :- Flirting With Fire <http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060626&fname=kpsgill&sid=1> <www.outlookindia.com <http://www.outlookindia.com> ---------------------- [5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: US Senate Committee Has Backed Outrageous Nuke 'Deal' with India [There remains mercifully still some gap between the cup and the lip. The final passage of the bill through the US Congress, as it appears, is still contingent on a number of future developments. Now the deliberations in the 45-member NSG would presumably assume critical importance. The US, UK, France, Russia, and in all probability Canada, will be spearheading the campaign to obtain a favourable ruling on tampering the rules in favour of this outrageous 'deal' and the 'deviant' India. But there will be many others, hopefully including China - a P-5/NWS, who'd oppose. The global peace movement must do all that it can to scuttle this brazen unilateralist assault on the NPT - and thereby the current non-proliferation regime and the (whatever) prospects for global nuclear disarmament. The NPT is the only multilateral commitment to global nuclear disarmament on the part of the 5 NWSs and all the members of the UN barring the troika of India, Pakistan and Israel signed this treaty. This obnoxious 'concession' to India is openly and shamelessly being flaunted as a bait to coopt it as a sub-junior partner of the American neo-con project to establish its unilateral and unfettered dominance over the globe by foregrounding its awesome military might, including the nuclear firepower, to make up for the deficiencies of its otherwise huge economic muscles and diplomatic/political clout. That’s a crying shame!] Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/5130022.stm http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1691052.cms?headline=N-deal te,~House~panels~take~two~roads~to~same~goal URL: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=70202 ------------ [6] In Thane, Christian tribals victimised Had filed case about assault by Hindus, say police turned on them instead. Express News Service <http://www.expressindia.com/about/feedback.html? mailto=samar@expressindia.com Mumbai, June 20: ''ASK Jesus to call me on my mobile phone,'' was the answer 20-year-old Kalpana Chaudhry allegedly got from a policeman when she and three other tribal Christians asked about progress on a complaint they had filed. ''Just because we had dared to approach the police after an attack on us by Hindu men,'' she says. Along with her husband Sunil (24), Baburao Mahala (32) and Anil Chaudhry (23), Kalpana met Director General of Police Dr P S Pasricha on Tuesday. ''We were asked to demonstrate how we pray,'' said Sunil. ''When we knelt down, policemen at the Kasa police station abused us, kicked us and mocked our faith.'' Kasa, about 200 km north of Mumbai, near Dahanu, is a largely tribal pocket in Thane district. Mostly tillers, about 45 Christian families of Toranpada village are in constant fear of being evicted from their homes, they said. ''We are constantly abused by the Hindus,'' added Mahala. Following an attack on June 8, they registered a police complaint. It was on June 15, when they returned to the police station to check on its progress, that the policemen turned on them instead, they allege. ''The police have, instead of assuring justice, booked the victims for so-called breach of peace and initiated Chapter proceedings against them under Sections 107 and 110 of the Criminal Procedure Code,'' said All India Christian Council General Secretary Dr Abraham Mathai, who accompanied the tribals to Mantralaya on Tuesday. ''This only intimidates the poor tribals, who will fear to report future attacks.'' Superintendent of Police (Thane Rural) Archana Tyagi said she knew of the case. ''I have already deputed an officer to conduct an inquiry,'' she added. --------------------------- [7] From: palash biswas <banga_sss2003@yahoo.co.in> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: Re: [beautifulindia] NE faces threat from Bangla fundamentalists Forwarded. Palash Biswas Pradip Kumar Datta <pradip200@yahoo.com> wrote: ‘NE faces threat from Bangla fundamentalists’ From Our Correspondent SHILLONG, June 29 – The Northeastern region faces threat from ‘religious fundamentalists from a neighbouring country’, stated outgoing Director General of Assam Rifles (DGAR), Lieutenant General, Bhopinder Singh. Speaking at a press conference today, Singh said, the region faces ‘threat from religious fundamentalists’, and also from ‘spillover’ from a neighbouring country. He did not elaborate if the spillover concerns Bangladeshi influx. “I would not comment further, but I have presented facts and figures about such elements’ modus operandi, to the North Eastern Council (NEC),” Singh said when pressed. The DGAR is also the security advisor to the NEC. Although, Singh, did not name the ‘neighbouring country’ it was obvious from his remarks that the country was non other than Bangladesh. Hinting that such elements have been pushed to destabilize the region, Singh said, the “NEC has been sensitized on this vital issue”. Security experts are of the opinion that many such religious fundamentalist groups infiltrate the region to entice youths into their fold. They are trained at various camps in Bangladesh and sent back to India to create social and religious disharmony. That Bangladesh also patronizes and harbours Northeast’s insurgent and terrorist groups is no secret. Singh also said, combating insurgent groups in Northeast India is tougher than fighting such outfits at the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) front due to the region’s hostile terrain. Stating that insurgent and terrorist outfits, especially in Manipur, taking advantage of the rugged terrain slips across and back the international border with relative ease. “This makes the security forces task more difficult. The J&K border is relatively well guarded. Although, the international border in the Northeast is also guarded but the rugged terrain facilitates such illegal movement, which makes the security forces’ task more difficult in Northeast than in other parts of the country”, Singh said. ------------------ [8] Tejeswi Pratima http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?category=National&template=dalitatrocities&slug=Dalits+boycotted+for+raising+voice&id=89587&callid=1 Thursday, June 29, 2006 (Hyderabad): Residents of a village in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa district have reportedly thrown out Dalits for raising voice against alleged discrimination. After being thrown out of their village, denied every opportunity to earn their livelihood a group of Dalits has now come to Hyderabad. The reason for such a harsh punishment was the reported gumption of a Dalit to argue with an upper caste farmer. And even complain to the police when subsequently 80 Dalit families were attacked. "We have been warned by them that either we or even if our cattle venture into the main village or any of their farmlands. They have announced a fine of Rs 5000 and that they will beat us five times with footwear," said Venkatesh, a dalit. What seems like the throwback to a bygone era happened in Kothapally village in Chief Minister YSR Rajasekhar Reddy's native district. "I am not aware of it. Please give me the details and I will definitely get it examined," said Rajashekhar Reddy, state Chief Minister. Social boycott The Dalits say the social boycott has been on for almost a month and they are not allowed to work in their own village nor in neighbouring villages. "How many days should we tolerate being humiliated and beaten in our own village? I have almost grown old and my children will slowly become like me. Enough is enough, we live or we die. This has to come to an end," said Terasamma, a Dalit. "Social Boycott is an inhuman practice because in our civil society there is no practice like that. In olden days there was caste system, untouchability but this is enough evidence that the caste mindset is prevailing in the present society also," said Vinay Kumar, President, Dalit Bahujan Front. Dalits not being allowed into temples and not being treated as equals is not uncommon in several villages of Andhra Pradesh. But with Dalit welfare groups getting into the act, at least in Kothapally, hopefully, the Dalits will be allowed to live and let live. ------------------- [9] From: kashif <kaaashif@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: Fwd: S.Y. Quraishi appointed election commissioner New Delhi, June 29 (IndianMuslims.info) After weeks of intense speculation, S.Y. Quraishi, secretary in the ministry of youth affairs and sports, was Thursday appointed the third election commissioner of India. Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is a Haryana Cadre IAS officer of 1971 Batch. He is famous for his integrity and respected by his colleagues and media alike. Born on June 11, 1947, in Delhi, Quraishi is a post-graduate in history. He did his Ph.D in the areas of communication and social marketing. The title of his doctoral thesis was "The Role of Communication and Social Marketing in Development of Women and Children". His book 'Social Marketing for Social Change' has broken new ground in the field of development communication and is considered as a pioneering effort with special reference to women and children. He has authored two papers, "Islam, Muslims and Family Planning in India', and "Islam & AIDS". He is the first Muslim to be appointed as the election commissioner of India. Quraishi fills the slot following the appointment of N. Gopalaswamy as chief election commissioner succeeding present incumbent B.B. Tandon who steps down Friday. Navin Chawla is the other commissioner. Tandon had come under criticism from the Left parties for his handling of the office-of-profit issue, particularly on the poll panel's action on the disqualification petitions against Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and nine other MPs of the Communist Party of India-Marxist. for Indian Muslims news visit : http://www.indianmuslims.info/news_front/ ---------------- [10] From: Arif Khan <ank2000pk@yahoo.com> Date: Fri Jun 30, 2006 Subject: Re: [Pakistan Post] Scientists migrating because of low-pay structure Our leaders in every walk of life, are responsible for promoting VIP culture and abandoning simplicity. That is the cuase of discontentment. We pay 10 times more to Cricket Professionals than a college Professor and a scientists. As the world is shrinking to global village, our Government and political leaders as well as the leaders in trade and industry should adopt a culture of simplicity as the glitter of the rich countries would cause more discontentment and corruption besides brain drain. Ultimately, living simply must be our philosophy of life in the tradition of Holy Prophet. As Duane Elgin elegantly says in his book Voluntary Simplicity, “To live more simply is to unburden our lives—to live more lightly, cleanly, aerodynamically. It is to establish a more direct, unpretentious and unencumbered relationship with all aspects of our lives: the things we consume, the work we do, our relationships with others, our connections with nature and the cosmos.” It is, he says, “a manner of living that is outwardly more simple and inwardly more rich.” Arif Khan http://www.paklink.info Scientists migrating because of low-pay structure By Our Reporter http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/29/nat9.htm > ISLAMABAD, June 28: More than 50 PhD scientists have > given up their > services in the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council > (PARC) because > of the low-pay structure and immigrated to Canada to take > up blue- > collar jobs at gas stations and fast-food outlets. ------------------ |
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