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Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-08-2003
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Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-08-2003
Mudy: Moving your link on Arafat in first post to this second one here. Hope you don't mind <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />Am using you first post for a better cause. Besides, you can take credit for my little tech research up there in the first post <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> -Viren
[url="http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1058298,00.html"]Arafat has suffered heart attack, admits aide [/url]
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Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-08-2003
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_408835,000900030004.htm"]Assam police seize 3.5 tonnes ganja from oil tanker [/url]
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-08-2003
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_408908,000600010001.htm"]Espionage ring busted, ex-armyman among two held[/url]
With the arrest of an ex-armyman and his associate, Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have unearthed an espionage ring active in the capital for about five years
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-09-2003
[url="http://news.indiainfo.com/2003/10/08/08border.html"]15 Pak troops feared killed in retaliatory strike[/url]
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-10-2003
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_410767,0008.htm"]Defence research facility burgled [/url]
Target: Scientific Analyses Grp
Lost: Encryption data on codes used by strategic forces
Application: Securing communication channels of nuclear command chain
Target: Institute for Systems Studies and Analyses
Lost: Assessment of competing weapons systems of rival manufacturers and weapon effectiveness studies
Application: Such scientific inputs are critical in defence buys and analysis of military hardware
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-10-2003
HC permits PoK citizen to stay in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, Oct 9: Jammu and Kashmir High Court has given permission to Raja Mohammad Hussain Khan, a citizen of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to reside in Kashmir till further orders.
The State Government had refused Khan permission to reside in Kashmir after his Indian passport expired and he was conferred citizenship by PoK.
A division bench of the High Court comprising Justices V K Jhanji and Syed Bashir-ud-Din admitted the appeal on October 7 and allowed Khan to reside in Srinagar, reversing an earlier order.
Khan had filed a writ petition in the High Court stating that he was a citizen of Jammu and Kashmir under section 6 of the State Constitution and had a right to reside here.
The Court ruled that, till further orders, the appellant shall be allowed to stay in Jammu and Kashmir.
Khan said in his petition that 1984 he had gone to Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK, on an Indian passport to meet some family members.
He said he had to prolong his stay in Muzaffarabad due to unforeseen circumstances and, as a result, his Indian passport expired. He, therefore, returned to Kashmir on a Pakistani passport with a valid visa.
After the visa period was over he had sought extension of his stay here, apprehending deportation by the authorities.
He was refused permission and he filed a plea in Court, which came up for hearing before a single Judge bench. The Judge had dismissed Khanâs plea.
Khan then approached the High Court against the order. (UNI)
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-11-2003
Discovery to telecast film on IAF
DH News Service NEW DELHI, Oct 8
In a first of sorts, a film highlighting the capabilities of Indian Air Force (IAF), including the key role it played during the Kargil war, has been selected by the Discovery Channel for telecast in its âDiscover Indiaâ series.
Full of breath-taking shots of various IAF aircraft in action, the film âAakash Yodhaâ for the first time shows extensive aerial footage of IAF warplanes from 15,000 feet, shot using cameras fitted on the underbelly of Jaguar aircraft.
To be telecast on October 11 and 12 on the channel, the film has actual footage from the Kargil war to show the pivotal role IAF played in neutralising enemy positions and supply dumps, which helped the Army to counter the ground manoeuvres of the Pakistani forces.
âThe premier of the film on Discovery Channel is a major step towards showcasing the role played by IAF in zealously guarding the sanctity of our skies. The aim of the film is to project the IAF through the television medium, including the role in Kargil,â Vice Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal M McMohan, said after a special screening of the film directed by the husband-wife team of Kunal Verma and Dipti Bhalla.
Shot all over the country â from the Siachen area to the Andamans and from Rajasthan deserts to the North-East â the film took over a year to be completed, and was selected by the Discovery Channel to be telecast under its âDiscover Indiaâ series.
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Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-15-2003
Made change to the first post of this thread. Will delete this post later.
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-15-2003
[url="http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/14/stories/2003101404711100.htm"]http://www.hindu.com/2003/10/14/stories/20...01404711100.htm[/url]
Congress dominance is over : BJP
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-16-2003
[url="http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/16/oic.mahathir/index.html"]Mahathir attack on Jews condemned[/url]
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-17-2003
It is good that this is getting a lot of publicity.
[url="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ISLAMIC_SUMMIT?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME"]Malaysia Explains Anti-Jewish Remarks[/url]
By PATRICK McDOWELL
Associated Press Writer
Misc News Folder - acharya - 10-18-2003
Muslim leaders warn of `counter-terrorism'
By Our Special Correspondent
MUMBAI Oct. 16. Muslim leaders warned here today of Islamic "counter-terrorism" in response to the "Hindu terrorism" of the VHP, RSS and threatened to move the United Nations to carve out a `safe haven' for Muslims in India on the lines of the Kurdish area in Northern Iraq.
Maulana Saiyad Musannah Miyan, chief patron of the Jamia Qadria Ashrafia, alleged in a statement circulated at a press conference that the Prime Minister was according "tacit endorsement" to the VHP and the RSS.
"It would be a mistake to imagine that Muslims in India are not capable of self-defence against religious terrorists," they said. They were reacting to the reported statement of VHP leaders that the Government action against its proposed rally in Ayodhya could start riots.
The statement, also signed by the Tanzeem Aimmae Masjid president, M. Khalilurrehman Noori, and the general secretary of the Raza Academy, Mohammed Saeed Noori, said: "Hindu terrorism would breed Muslim counter-terrorism, making India the largest breeding ground of terrorism in the world. It seems that the `War on Terror' initiated by the U.S. may have to be extended to India to fight Hindu terrorism."
It praised the Uttar Prades Government and the Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, for the crackdown on the VHP activists. The statement applauded the Hindus who opposed the VHP and the RSS.
Misc News Folder - acharya - 10-24-2003
The colour of blood
Tarun Vijay
A close collaboration between Communist terrorist
organisations from different parts of the country is
strengthening their âarmed revolutionâ against the
Indian State
During the last year, Communist terrorist
organisations have registered an unusual increase of
36 per cent in their activities. The precision with
which mines were blasted with the intention to take
Chandrababu Naiduâs life speaks a lot about the
preparedness of the Peopleâs War Group (PWG).
Since the 1917 October revolution, violence has been
an inseparable part of the Communist âpractical party
lineâ. From Stalin and Mao to EMS and Jyoti Basu,
violence has always been the hallmark of Communist
partiesâ growth even as banners inscribed with the
words âPeace, Harmony, Peopleâs power, Condemn the
Bourgeois, Long Live the Revolutionâ continue to
flutter on the graves of the âenemies of the working
classesâ (read dissidents and opponents). Terrorism is
used as a tool to perpetuate their hold on the masses
as well as their own party workers. Another
interesting facet of the Communist violent movements
in this subcontinent is their presence in the only two
Hindu majority countries, i.e. Nepal and India. They
are, surprisingly, not active in any of the Islamic
countries in our neighbourhood.
What is most worrying the government is the
realignment and rejuvenation of Communist extremism
and its spread to new frontiers. The close
collaboration between the Maoist Communist Centre
(MCC) and the CPI(M-L) Peopleâs War has almost
crystallised into a broad âunited frontâ of Communist
terrorism in India. This is one of the three
pre-requisites laid down by Mao for a successful armed
revolution, the other two being a âpeopleâs armyâ and
a âstrong Communist partyâ.
The main purpose behind the unity of the MCC, CPI(M-L)
Peopleâs War as well as the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist) [CPN-M] is to carve out a âcompact
revolutionary zoneâ from Nepal through Bihar and the
Dandkaranya region to Andhra Pradesh. This arrangement
also involves imparting training and supplying arms
and ammunitions to Nepalese Maoists, while maintaining
close âfraternal relationsâ with anti-national outfits
like the ULFA and the NSCN(I-M).
Chandrababu Naidu is on the hit list of the PWG mainly
because its cadres were attenuated by a series of
debilitating losses inflicted upon it through the
anti-PWG drive of the Andhra police. But the PWG still
retains enough manpower, organisational network,
arsenal and striking power to remain a major threat to
internal security. It has raised companies on the army
and paramilitary pattern by upgrading its existing
military platoons.
It is also engaged in training its overground
sympathisers in guerrilla warfare, development of
capabilities to make wireless sets and form a
âpeopleâs guerrilla armyâ.
Intelligence inputs indicate that in pursuit of their
efforts to evolve a united platform of Communist
revolutionaries for strengthening their âarmed
revolutionâ against the Indian State, the MCC and the
Revolutionary Communist Centre of India-Maoist
(RCCI-M) have agreed to merge into a single entity, to
be christened the Maoist Communist Centre of India
(MCC-I).
It is significant that the erstwhile CPI(M-L)-PWG had
been similarly formed in 1980 by the merger of seven
splinter Communist outfits operating in Andhra Pradesh
and Tamil Nadu. The CPI(M-L)-Party Unity of undivided
Bihar merged with the CPI(M-L)-PWG in August 1998 in a
new avatar called the CPI(M-L) Peopleâs War. Since
then, the outfit has acquired a national dimension and
today accounts for about 64 per cent of country-wide
Communist violence, with its activities being reported
from 12 states.
In Kerala, the main targets of Communist terrorism
have been RSS and BJP workers.
Recently, a local court awarded capital punishment to
five CPI(M) workers who were found guilty of killing
Jay Krishnan, a BJP worker. Since 1969, more than 60
RSS workers have been brutally killed by the
Communists. And how! A teacher was hacked to death in
front of his students in the classroom, students of
the ABVP were drowned in a river, a former CPI(M)
workerâs legs are knifed in front of his ageing
parents for the âsinâ of joining a RSS shakha.
Similarly, in Bengal, Trinamool Congress workers have
been the main targets of the Communist violence. Their
hands were chopped off when found âguiltyâ of ânot
voting for the CPI(M)â. More than one hundred cases of
murders, rape and plunder have been reported by the
Trinamool Congress, but the Communist government
ensured that nothing happened to their ideological
comrades. Neither the âsecularâ parties, nor their
fundamentalist Taliban-like âcombativeâ allies feel
concern for the victims of Communist violence, which
is as despicable as any other form of violence.
According to home ministry sources, more than 9,773
(till June 2003) people have been killed by various
Communist terrorist organisations active in 55
districts declared âLeft-extremism affectedâ in eight
states. Those killed were mostly farmers, teachers and
students coming from tribal, scheduled caste and low
and middle-classes. All these murders were done in the
name of janyuddha or revolution.
India, already bleeding under attacks by Islamist
jehadis, cannot afford to tolerate another jehad of
the red hue. Ironically, the âMarxist mediaâ and the
so-called secular parties keep a studied silence over
the barbaric Communist terrorism and try to
romanticise the entire movement under the cover of
some bizarre ideological shades. If this strange
ideological apartheid continues to reign, the victims
will feel driven to the wall. There just cannot be two
kinds of responses to savagery in a civil society.
When Hindus are killed, the response is a muted
condemnation for the sake of ârecordâ. If non-Hindus
face a similar fate, âsecular hurricanesâ arrive with
global dimensions. If the faith in the fairness of our
institutions has to be maintained, the murderers of
9,773 Indians should also be brought to justice.
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-24-2003
[url="http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=42529"]Pakistani expats Enthusiastic About Saudi Citizenship Possibility [/url]
Thursday October 23, 2003 (0441 PST)
JEDDAH/RIYADH, October 24 (Online): The Kingdom's possible move to debate rules for granting citizenship to foreigners has met with a largely enthusiastic response from expatriates here .
Ehsanul Haque, a Jeddah-based Pakistani electrical engineer and social worker, said: "I welcome the Shoura debate. I've read some letters in the media that citizenship will be restricted to certain nationalities. If that is the case then it is unfortunate. I consider this the best opportunity for professionals like me to apply for Saudi citizenship.
But I would not like to do this at the cost of my own nationality." S.M. Arshad, an American national who has been living in Jeddah for over 12 years, was enthusiastic. "I'll be among the first applicants.
If accepted, I won't mind giving up my American nationality." The two holy cities were a major consideration for Linogaranao Mapandi, a Filipino civil engineer from Mindanao who has been living in the Kingdom for 24 years. "I wholeheartedly welcome the debate in the Kingdom. This is a very good move for people like us, as we can be close to the holy Haram. It will be difficult for me to visit with my family once I return home for good."
In Riyadh, Indians and Pakistani expatriates welcomed the proposal, which they described as a long-awaited move. Atiq-ur-Rahman Geelani, a manager, said it would boost Saudi manpower .
According to Abdul Malik Mujahid, general manager at a publishing firm, it is a landmark move. "However, I believe that the Shoura Council should also consider key professionals like doctors and engineers who only have a smattering of Arabic."
Siddique Veliankode, a translator and author of several books, welcomed the move but said the citizenship rules required some clarification. "It is not clear whom the intending candidates should approach for a character certificate," he said .
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-27-2003
[url="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26139158.htm"]Pakistan says will not send troops to Iraq -report[/url]
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Sunday it had told the United States it would not send any troops to Iraq, the state news agency reported.
Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was quoted by the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) as saying it had been made clear to the United States that "Pakistan will not send its troops to Iraq at any cost".
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-27-2003
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_433848,0008.htm"]Engine, 5 coaches of Shalimar Exp derail after blast on track[/url]
In the second attack on a train in six months, terrorists on Sunday night blasted a rail track derailing the engine and five bogies of Delhi-bound Shalimar Express at a place about 50km from here but there was no casualty, senior railway officials said.
Jammu Station Superintendent Mulkraj Sharma said the blast on the rail track went off at a place between Sambha and Gagwal stations at around 2206 hours, almost an hour after Shalimar Express left Jammu Tawi station.
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-27-2003
[url="http://us.rediff.com/news/2003/oct/26ayo.htm"]No talks, only courts can solve Ayodhya: Mulayam[/url]
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-27-2003
[url="http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=34175"]Army may not vacate LoC posts this winter[/url]
Misc News Folder - Guest - 10-28-2003
[url="http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_433906,00430004.htm"]2 held for vandalising temple in London[/url]
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One of the men snatched the mike and allegedly shouted there was only one God, the Jesus Christ, and they (the gathering) were stupid to worship a stone. The other man, it is said, then went up to the Ram idol and started shaking it. As a result the idol fell on the ground and one of its arm and the bow and arrow broke..
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