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Kasuri’s ‘Kashmir issue near resolution claim’ nothing but ‘delusion’: Observers

May 11, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Islamabad, May 11 (ANI): Rubbishing former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s claims that the Kashmir issue was about to be resolved during former President General Pervez Musharraf’s, participants of a seminar titled “The Near Agreement. What it was” have described such assertions a mere ‘delusion’.

Speaking during the seminar, Nazir Ahmed Shaal, Executive Director Kashmir Centre London, said there were no evidence which suggested that the Kashmir issue was about to be resolved during the Musharraf era.

While stressing that the right to self-determination of the people of Kashmir was “non-negotiable”, Shaal said people who are revolting against India’s control over the region must be brought to the dialogue table if the two countries are serious about resolving the long pending issue.

Kashmir Centre Brussels Executive Director Majeed Tramboo also rejected Kasuri’s claims, saying none of the prominent Kashmiri leaders were taken on board for any such deliberations.

“Not a single prominent Kashmiri leader was taken on board. India and Pakistan primarily reduced it to a bilateral territorial dispute in the process,” The Daily Times quoted Tramboo, as saying.

“We challenge Kasuri to identify a single person from either part of Kashmir who was part of the discussions,” he added.

Reiterating the Pakistani leadership’s long-standing view, Tramboo said that the Kashmir issue must be addressed keeping in mind the United Nations’ (UN) resolutions.

“No solution to the issue will be acceptable other than the implementation of the United Nations (UN) resolutions or the right to self-determination,” he said. (ANI)

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For Pakistan, Kashmir is a matter of life and death : JUI-F

April 29, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Karachi, Apr.29 (ANI): Describing the Kashmir issue as a matter of ‘life and death’ for Pakistan, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has reiterated Islamabad’s long standing demand of resolving the Kashmir issues in accordance with the United Nations (UN) resolutions.

Speaking during a seminar titled: “Kashmiris Right of Self Determination”, Rahman said Kashmir was of utmost importance for Pakistan.

Citing China’s claims over Taiwan, he said Pakistan should also follow Beijing’s approach while dealing with the Kashmir issues.

“China has been single-mindedly pursuing its case for Taiwan.Much can be learnt from Chinese experience. Unfortunately Pakistan’s foreign policy is not truly reflective of consistency that a matter like Kashmir deserves and requires,” The Nation quoted Rahman, as saying.

“The people of Kashmir enlivened Kashmiri movement with their sacrifices but the Shimla Pact diluted the very international nature of Kashmir dispute. There have been several solutions for the Kashmir problem but the best one will be one that is based upon peaceful accommodation between the two countries,” he added.

Rahman said that post 9/11, Pakistan’s Kashmir policy had suffered great setbacks, and that it has now become a question of Pakistan’s survival.

“Today this problem was no longer Kashmir oriented. It is now a problem of Pakistan’s existence for Pakistan’s agriculture has been facing direct consequences of water terrorism by India,” he said.

Speaking during the seminar, Dr. Moonis Ahmar, chairman Department of International Relations, Karachi University, described the Kashmir issue as a ‘human’ problem.

Ahmar emphasized upon a peaceful solution for the Kashmir problem, saying its solution could fundamentally alter the lives of more than one billion people in South Asia.

“Practical measures should be taken towards the direction of Kashmir’s resolution because the absence of peace has proved to be detrimental to the common interests of common people of the region,” he said. (ANI)

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Sudan ruling party offers opposition govt posts

April 15, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters) – Sudan’s ruling party, in an apparent bid to heal a rift over accusations of vote fraud, said on Wednesday it would invite opposition groups to join the government if it won elections currently in progress.

Sudan is four days into presidential and legislative polls aimed at helping to bring the oil-producing state back to democracy more than two decades after a military-led coup.

The poll’s credibility was cast in doubt after some main opposition parties decided to boycott large parts of the poll, accusing incumbent president Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his northern National Congress Party (NCP) of widespread rigging.

“If we are declared winners in the elections … we would extend the invitation to all parties, even those who have not participated in the elections, to join the government because we believe this is a critical moment in our history,” senior NCP official Ghazi Salaheddin told reporters.

“We are facing important decisions like self-determination in the south and would like to garner as much support and as much consensus as we can.”

The elections were set up under a 2005 peace accord that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war and also promised a referendum on whether the south should secede in January 2011.

The decision by south Sudan’s dominant Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) to boycott the vote and most polls in northern Sudan had raised fears of unrest in the build up to next year’s referendum.

No one from the SPLM or other boycotting groups, including the opposition Umma party, was immediately available to comment on Salaheddin’s offer.

(Reporting by Andrew Heavens; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)

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Tibetan experts meet to decide strategy on saving Tibet flora

March 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh), Mar 27 (ANI): Representatives of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN), a consortium of more than 150 Tibet groups have converged at Dharamsala to discuss and evolve further strategy on Tibet in a non-violent manner.

Fifty-two delegates from 11 different countries are participating in the three-day conference that kicked off on Friday.
“ITSN is running an Asia regional meeting and what we do is to gather all of the Tibet support groups who work within Asia, like from India, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong,” said Mandie Mcknown, an ITSN activist from England.

“We brought every one together and the idea of the three day meeting is to strategise and plan on how we can coordinate and built the Tibet movement,” Mcknown added.

ITSN was founded in 2000 in an attempt to strengthen individual member organisations campaigning for human rights and self-determination in Tibet.

“The main outcomes we looking for to all groups we have to built their capacity within themselves so they can understand the process of building strategy, how important strategy is and being able to bring themselves together on similar ways of involving each other together to campaign for the better sort of cause for Tibet,” said Mandie Mcknown.

Dharamsala is the seat of the Tibetan government in-exile and also the base of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama ever since he fled from Lhasa in his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. (ANI)

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UN says racism entrenched in Australia

August 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Aug.27 (ANI): THE United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous rights has said there is “entrenched” racism in Australia.

James Anaya didn’t pull any punches after his two-week visit of the country, saying the Rudd Government should reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory “right away” because the intervention into remote Aboriginal communities is clearly discriminatory.

“It undermines the right of indigenous peoples to control their own destinies, their right to self-determination,” news.com.au quoted him, as saying.

He also slammed Labor’s policy of demanding 40-year leases over indigenous land before building new houses and said the stolen generations should be paid compensation.

The Racial Discrimination Act was suspended in the NT by the former Howard government so the intervention’s more extreme measures, such as quarantining welfare payments, could be rolled out.

The Rudd government has promised to introduce legislation to reinstate the act in the Spring session of parliament, but wants to continue many of the compulsory measures.

“It’s a mistake to assume that indigenous peoples … aren’t capable of taking care of their homes,” Professor Anaya said, adding “Indigenous control can be appropriate to indigenous peoples’ development, to their aspirations, to indeed being in control of their lives like all others.”

As for compensation for indigenous people taken from their families by government agencies, the UN rapporteur was unequivocal: “There should be reparations,” he said. (ANI)

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Health disparities in indigenous people tied to cultural loss

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 3 (ANI): The health disparities prevalent in indigenous people around the world are closely tied to cultural loss including, loss of language, globalisation and removal from the land.

Dr. Malcolm King, lead author of the paper, says that Indigenous well-being is distinct, and includes physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

There has to be a balance between the person, his/her family, community, and environment.

“Wellbeing for Aboriginal Peoples is more than physical health or absence of disease, it’s about ‘being alive well’ or ‘mno bmaadis’ as they say in the Anishinabek language,” The Lancet quoted King as saying.

“All four elements of life – physical, emotional, mental and spiritual – are traditionally represented in the four directions of the medicine wheel, and traditional healing often implicates the whole community, cleansing the environment around a person as well as his or her body,” he added.

He further said that language was crucial to identity, health and relations. Therefore, according to him, its revitalization can be seen as a health promotion strategy.

“That’s why factors like retention of Aboriginal languages, cultural practices, self determination, and respect for Elders is so important,” said King

“And that’s why we have so much to do to repair the damage done by so many disruptive assimilationist practices in the past, such as cutting off children from their families at residential schools, or suppression of cultural practices that conflicted with European ideas,” he added. (ANI)

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India snubs OIC’s Kashmir resolution

May 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 29 (ANI): India has rebuffed OIC resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir passed by 36th session of the Council of Ministers in Damascus, Syria recently.

The 57-member grouping has made a direct reference to the last year Amarnath land row in Jammu and Kashmir.

A statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs said: “We note with regret that the OIC has chosen to comment on India’s internal affairs during the 36th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers held in Syria on 23rd – 25th May 2009. The OIC has no locus standi on India’s internal affairs”.

The OIC in its resolution expressed concern over use of force against the economic blockade during the Amarnath land row agitation and have also regretted that following the Mumbai incident Indian government have put a pause on the composite dialogue.

The Islamic conglomerate also urged India to resume composite dialogue.

India also took umbrage over OIC calling catastrophic 26/11 Mumbai attack as merely an incident.

The MEA statement said: “We also note with dismay that in the resolution adopted, the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November, 2008, has been referred to as a mere “incident.”

For almost two decades, the OIC has been has been advocating the issue of self-determination and resolution of Kashmir in accordance with the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949, but this time it went a step further by directly referring to the Amarnath Land row in its resolutions.

Pakistan, which is a member of this group, has vociferously raised issues pertaining to Kashmir at this forum. By Naveen Kapoor (ANI)

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Brit, Canadian Tamils vow to sustain Ealam struggle

May 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London/Ottawa, May 22 (ANI): Large Tamil communities in Britain and Canada have vowed to continue the struggle for Tamil self-determination rights in Sri Lanka following the death of LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran.

Holding portraits of Prabhakaran, who was killed by Sri Lankan army soldiers earlier this week, the Tamil diaspora in these two countries are mobilizing to play a part in what leaders describe as a new phase in their struggle for an independent homeland.

According to The Telegraph, following the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers, the talk now is of employing democratic means to address Tamil concerns.

The paper says this goal could be tested, however, by a growing number of young expatriate Tamils who have become radicalized by the oppression of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Like others around the world, British Tamils say their priority is the welfare of tens of thousands of refugees.

British Tamils have always donated generously to Tamil charities, but not without controversy.

Suren Surendiran, a spokesman for the British Tamils Forum, an umbrella organization, says that in the longer term, the events of recent weeks have radicalized the younger generation of Tamils abroad.

“The first phase of the fight for freedom, from 1948 to 1983, was about political negotiations,” he said.

“Then, the armed struggle from 1983 until last week ensured that the oppression and discrimination of Tamil people was highlighted on an international stage, Surendiran said, adding that in the third phase, Tamil diaspora will pursue their goal through political and democratic channels, the ultimate goal being a Tamil homeland in some form.
Young second-generation Tamils have been the driving force behind a largely peaceful occupation of Parliament Square, in front of the House of Commons, although protesters have clashed with police when hundreds of demonstrators attempted to block traffic during peaks in the recent fighting in Sri Lanka.

Across the Atlantic in Canada, home to the world’s largest Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, community leaders are holding up Quebec as a path for resolving Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem.

“This model of autonomy could work for us,” says Ramani Balendra, an ethnic Tamil from Sri Lanka who is a member of the Tamil Action Committee that has been organizing protests in recent weeks.

Sympathy for the Sri Lankan Tamil struggle has in fact been highest among Quebec’s nationalist intellectuals, according to Narendra Balasubramanian, an associate professor of political science at McGill University who has been studying the conflict.

“The Quebec nationalists feel an affinity with Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism,” he says.

Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon earlier this week said Canada was prepared to assist Sri Lankan efforts to “find political reconciliation and a lasting peace.”

Professor Balasubramanian, however, says Canada’s role will be limited to humanitarian assistance, and perhaps monitoring. (ANI)

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Srinagar observes shutdown on poll day

May 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Srinagar, May 13 (ANI): A shutdown is being observed in Srinagar today to thwart planned protests by separatists during the fifth and last phase of general elections.

Troops patrolled deserted streets in Srinagar, cutting off access to residential areas after separatists called for a two-day strike from Tuesday. Shops and businesses also remained closed.

Voting, however, is taking place in the Baramulla region of the valley.

The appeal by the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference to stay away from the vote in Baramulla, is seen as an attempt to deny New Delhi any credit for holding elections in the Himalayan region.

But Kashmiris are questioning whether such tactics have brought them any closer to the long-held goal of self-determination.

This is not the first time that separatists have given a call for poll boycott in the Kashmir Valley.

The separatists have had to suffer a major setback after residents defied a boycott call given by the Hurriyat during the State Assembly polls held in November 2008 and came out in large numbers to cast their votes.

A prominent Kashmiri separatist leader, Sajjad Lone, who had given a call for poll boycott during the state elections, has decided to contest during these general elections and raise the voices of Kashmiris in Parliament.

Besides the Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are also contesting the elections. (ANI)

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US needs to make ‘gestures,’ not Cuba: Raul Castro

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr.30 (ANI): Cuban strongman Raul Castro has said that it is the United States that needs to come forward with gestures to show that it is keen on improving relations with Cuba.

Echoing his ailing older brother Fidel, the Daily News quoted Cuban President Raul Castro as saying: “Cuba has not imposed sanctions against the U.S.” and “therefore it is not Cuba that has to make gestures.”

At a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Havana, Castro brushed off President Obama’s easing of travel and money transfers by Cuban-Americans to the island as “fine, positive but [they] only achieved the minimum.”

Obama and Clinton have said they expected “signals” from Cuba, including the release of political prisoners, before beginning a dialogue on improving ties.

Castro said: “We are willing to talk about everything with the United States, in equality of conditions, but not to negotiate our sovereignty, nor our political and social system, the right to self-determination, nor our internal affairs.”

“Look, we’re interested in a dialogue with Cuba. But I think the international community wants to see some steps, from Havana, to see, to gauge, how serious the government there is,” said State Department spokesman Robert Wood. (ANI)

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Pak Taliban denies entering Jammu and Kashmir to disrupt elections

April 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Apr 22 (ANI): Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has said that it had nothing to do with parliamentary elections being held in India, and dismissed reports of its militants entering Jammu and Kashmir.

The chief spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban, Haji Muslim Khan, strongly refuted reports that the Taliban had entered Jammu and Kashmir.

“We fail to understand why India has unleashed a propaganda that the Taliban had entered the Kashmir Valley. By such tactics, India wants to harass Kashmiris,” he said, adding that they only wanted to enforce the will of Allah (Islam) all over the world.

“If we decide to fight the Indians in Kashmir, no power on earth can stop us,” The Nation quoted Khan, as saying.

“Elections in India are not a matter of Taliban’s interest. We are fighting for a bigger cause. Why should Taliban enter Kashmir to disrupt the Indian elections,” he asked.

Khan wondered why Muslims were waiting for the Taliban to enforce Islam everywhere instead of rising to the occasion themselves.

He said Pakistani leadership had stopped aiding Kashmiri fighters.

“But they cannot dampen their faith nor deter their resolve for attaining their right to self-determination. Whether or not Pakistan supports the militants, they should continue their struggle for the cause,” Khan said.

“Fight for territory is not jihad. The real jihad is to enforce the divine law based on justice, which breaks the shackles of human slavery,” Khan said.

He said India and America had been justifying the use of gun for themselves and not for others.

“And, when Muslims use it (gun) in self-defence, it is viewed as dangerous. If use of gun by India and the US is justified, why not by the Muslims, in self-defence,” Khan asked. (ANI)

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Separatists take to street against elections

April 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Srinagar, Apr 18 (ANI): Separatists affiliated to the moderate faction of the All Party Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference took to the street here on Saturday to protest against the ongoing general elections.

They held up banners and raised anti-election slogans in the Lal Chowk area of Srinagar.

“The Election is not a solution to Kashmir problem. Our reason to protest is that those who are agitating for the Kashmir cause should neither participate nor fight elections,” said Zaffar Akbar Bhatt, an executive member of the moderate faction.

Saturday’s protest comes two days after Hurriyat Conference acting chairman Maulana Abbas Hussain Ansari announced that his party would not boycott elections.

In a surprise development, the APHC faction led by Ansari had on Thursday reiterated that the elections were no alternative to ‘the right to self-determination’ but did not specifically call upon the people to keep away from the polls.

Last week another key Hurriyat leader Sajjad Gani Lone declared he would contest the polls.owever, the hard-line Hurriyat group headed by Geelani and the United Jehad Council (UJC) of the armed separatist groups have called for an election boycott. (ANI)

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Rebel ambush kills policeman in Indonesia’s Papua

April 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jakarta – Separatist rebels ambushed a police truck in Indonesia’s Papua province Wednesday, killing one officer and wounding five others, state media reported.

The officers were travelling in Jayawijaya district to pick up ballot boxes from last week’s elections when they were attacked, Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto said, according to the Antara news agency.

One officer died while being airlifted to the provincial capital Jayapura, Bagus said.

Last week, five people were killed in separate attacks blamed on rebels hours before Indonesians went to the polls for legislative elections.

Police said at least five migrants from other parts of Indonesia have been killed since last month in attacks by suspected separatists.

Papua, home to a low-level separatist insurgency, has seen a surge in violence this year. Independence supporters have also staged rallies since last month demanding a referendum on self-determination for the predominantly Christian region.

Papua was a Dutch colony and remained one after 1949 when Indonesia gained independence. In 1961, Indonesia invaded Papua, sparking a brief war with the Netherlands.

The United Nations intervened, and ceded Papua to Indonesia in 1962. It formally became part of Indonesia seven years later, after a referendum that Jakarta was accused of manipulating. (dpa)

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LTTE says no threat to Sonia, SL tells India not to believe

April 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Colombo, Apr 10 (PTI) The LTTE has refuted reports that there was a Tamil Tiger threat to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her children, a claim rejected by the Sri Lankan Government which today cautioned India not to trust the outfit as it has “well organised” international network. The Home Ministry in New Delhi had last week issued an alert to states to provide tight security cover during the visit of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her children — Rahul and Priyanka — as they face a threat from LTTE. The LTTE assassinated Gandhi’s husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during an election rally in Tamil Nadu in 1991.

LTTE political head B Nadesan refuted the reports and described it as a “malicious propaganda intended to divert the plight of the sufferings of the Tamil civilians and their quest for self determination”. Military Spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara told PTI today that LTTE cannot be trusted.

“Even if LTTE’s Nadesan has denied that outfit was planning to attack Sonia Gandhi and her family, the LTTE should not be trusted as it has well organised international network to carry out any kind of attacks,” Nanayakkara said. He said the LTTE has links with external forces that makes it possible to undertake any mission.

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Give diplomatic recognition to Tibet: US senate

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

WASHINGTON: An American state Senate
has adopted a resolution asking the Obama Administration and the US Congress to give “diplomatic
recognition” to Tibet and take “forceful” action to end “repression” of human rights by China in the Himalayan region.

Passed by the Vermont state Senate, the resolution called on the US Congress and the international community to treat the plight of the Tibetan people as an “urgent matter of highest priority.”

The resolution adopted last week sought recognition of the Tibetan political autonomy and also urged the US Congress and the Obama Administration to ask China to sincerely negotiate with the representatives of the Dalai Lama to solve the Tibet Problem.

Condemning the continuing “repression” of the Tibetan people, the Vermont state Senate expressed its solidarity with the individuals who participated in the anti-China protests that occurred around the world on March 10.

The resolution emphasised that the people of Tibet “lived in peace and harmony for centuries” and that the “army of the People’s Republic of China illegally invaded” the peaceful Himalayan region.

Alleging the Tibetans have been deprived of any right to self-determination, the resolution said “it is now nearly impossible” for the people of Tibet to continue their “distinctive cultural practices and religious observances.”

The resolution also highlighted those Tibetans who were killed, and those who remained missing or were in prison in the aftermath of China’s crackdown on Tibetans in March 2008.

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Give diplomatic recognition to Tibet: US senate

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Passed by the Vermont state Senate, the resolution called on the US Congress and the international community to treat the plight of the Tibetan people as an “urgent matter of highest priority.”

The resolution also highlighted those Tibetans who were killed, and those who remained missing or were in prison in the aftermath of China’s crackdown on Tibetans in March 2008.

PM to address public meeting in Dibrugarh today

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Dibrugarh (Guwahati), Apr 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will address a public meeting in Dibrugarh, about 400 km from Guwahati, today.

According to sources, Dr. Singh, who represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha, will also address a public meeting in Dispur.

The visit is being held a day after at least seven people were killed and 61 others injured in two bomb blasts triggered by suspected ULFA militants in Maligaon area in Guwahati and Dhekiajuli near Tezpur.

Dr. Singh, who was earlier scheduled to address an election rally at Diphu in Karbi Anglong today, postponed his visit due to security reasons.

The decision to postpone the visit came after militant outfit, Karbi Longri N.C.Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) called for a 36-hour shutdown in the twin hill districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar from Monday evening.

The KLNLF, which has been waging an armed battle for “self determination” of the Karbi people, has called for the shutdown in protest of the government’s negative response towards the outfit’s desire to hold talks.

The two districts NC Hills and Karbi Anglong, which constitute the autonomous district parliamentary constituency, will go to polls in the first phase on April 16. (ANI)

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Manmohan Singh to reach Dibrugarh on Tuesday, postpones Diphu visit

April 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Guwahati, Apr 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to attend an election rally at Dibrugarh on Tuesday.

An Assam Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman informed that Singh will arrive in the town at 11.30 a.m. to campaign for the party candidate, former Union Minister Paban Singh Ghatowar.

The constituency is going to polls in the second phase of election on April 23.

Singh, who was earlier scheduled to address an election rally at Diphu in Karbi Anglong on Tuesday, postponed his visit due to security reasons.

The decision to postpone the visit came after militant outfit, Karbi Longri N.C.Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) called for a 36-hour shut-down in the twin hill districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar from Monday evening.

The KLNLF, which has been waging an armed battle for “self determination” of the Karbi people, has called for the shut-down in protest of the government’s negative response towards the outfit’s desire to hold talks.

Another date for Diphu visit would be set up later.

The two districts NC Hills and Karbi Anglong, which constitute the Autonomous District parliamentary constituency, will go to polls in the first phase on April 16. (ANI)

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Democracy has failed to take root in Pak for 60 years: Chaudhry

February 18, 2009 By admin 2 Comments

Peshawar (Pakistan), Feb.18 (ANI): Deposed Pakistan Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday told a lawyers convention here that democracy has not been allowed to thrive in the country since it attained indepedence more than six decades ago.

Claiming that dictators had usurped civilian government powers, Chaudhry said that a year ago, the citizens of Pakistan had used their right of self-determination to vote in a democratically elected government.

“The lawyers are very well aware of the fact that Allah Almighty is the only supreme power over the Constitution under which the country’s affairs are being run,” The News quoted him, as saying.

“What must be a point of concern at this point in time is no one ever tried to determine the underlying reasons for the problems that the country continued to face,” he added.

“The existence of our country and ourselves is possible only through establishment of true democracy in the country,” he said.

Earlier, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry administered oath to the newly elected office bearers of various bar associations. (ANI)

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Pak Kashmir committee to remind Obama of his promise to resolve Kashmir issue

February 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Feb. 4 (ANI): Pakistan’s Special Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir has decided to send a memorandum to US President Barack Obama to remind him of his commitment to resolve the Kashmir issue.

The decision came after the committee’s meeting at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief, Fazlur Rehman.

“US president had pledged to resolve the Kashmir issue therefore the parliamentary committee should remind him of his promise. The committee would soon draft a memorandum to send it to President Obama,” the Daily Times quoted one committee member as saying.

The committee also passed a unanimous resolution saying the Kashmiris had a right to self-determination, and that Pakistan would continue its moral, diplomatic and political support to them. The committee urged the nation to observe February 5 as solidarity week with the Kashmiris.

Rehman told reporters that the US president had not taken any practical steps to resolve the Kashmir issue so far.

He said the US administration had earlier promised that the newly appointed US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, would also work for resolution of the Kashmir issue, but the promise has not been fulfilled.

The JUI-F chief criticised New Delhi for moving the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) after the Mumbai terror attacks, adding it should also stick to the UN resolutions for a peaceful resolution of the Kashmir issue.

He also said that India was involved in creating trouble on Pakistan’s western border. (ANI)

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