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[5 Aug 2009 | No Comment | ]

This video shows the true face of Indians and their intentions about Pakistan. None of the country needs such kind of extremism. If nuclear bombs are ever used in the region, it won’t be just Pakistan, major part of India and neighboring countries will also be wiped off the earth. Is it not extremism?
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[16 May 2009 | No Comment | ]

Indian Primeminister Monmohan Singh told reporters, “The people of India have spoken, and spoken with great clarity”. The victory over the opposition Hindu-nationalist-led alliance means the left-of-center Congress may find it easier to form a stable coalition with smaller parties and be less vulnerable to pressure on issues like economic reforms.
“Eventually the people of India know what’s good for them and they always make the right choice,” Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress party, told reporters. Congress party supporters carrying banners of star campaigners Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, …

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[9 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Indian Army is a sacred cow – Arundhati Roy

“Women to Reclaim Public Space” Women’s Action Forum held a program of defiance and resistance at Karachi-Pakistan Press Club on 8th May 2009. Arundhati Roy was the closing speaker.
Taliban boy’s interview who asked the interviewer that government can ban the plastic shopping bags by making law then why can’t government of Pakistan ban women to not to come out of the houses? The point is that the plastic bag was made in a factory but so was the boy. He was made in a factory that is producing this kind …

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[20 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]
Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali for Sale?

Did Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali’s father try to sell her?

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[3 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]

More than 100,000 young women were killed in fires in India in a single year, and many of those deaths were tied to domestic abuse. Young Indian women are more than three times as likely to be killed by fire as their male compatriots, according to an article published on the Web site of the British medical journal, The Lancet. The victims largely fell within a 15 to 34-year age group.
Domestic abuse is a serious problem in India. Women are sometimes killed in disputes over dowries; often in such disputes …

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[6 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Singh accuses Pakistani agencies behind Mumbai attacks

Indian Prime minister is coming out of his shell accused involvement of Pakistani agencies in the Mumbai attacks last year. The Indian official stated yesterday that there is no evidence of involvement of ISI in the attacks. However,  Mr. Singh has said while speaking at a conference, ”There is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan”.  If there is enough evidence then why do not provide it and just keep on playing blame …

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[30 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
Monster in the Mirror Part-6

The Monster in the Mirror
Arundhati Roy
How should those of us whose hearts have been sickened by the knowledge of all of this view the Mumbai attacks, and what are we to do about them?
There are those who point out that U.S. strategy has been successful inasmuch as the United States has not suffered a major attack on its home ground since 9/11. However, some would say that what America is suffering now is far worse.
If the idea behind the 9/11 terror attacks was to goad America into showing its true …

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[30 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Monster in the Mirror Part-5

A Shadowy History of Suspicious Terror Attacks
Arundhati Roy
Though one chapter of horror in Mumbai has ended, another might have just begun. Day after day, a powerful, vociferous section of the Indian elite, goaded by marauding TV anchors who make Fox News look almost radical and left-wing, have taken to mindlessly attacking politicians, all politicians, glorifying the police and the army, and virtually asking for a police state.
It isn’t surprising that those who have grown plump on the pickings of democracy (such as it is) should now be calling for a …

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[29 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Monster in the Mirror Part-4

Releasing Frankensteins
Arundhati Roy
Thanks largely to the part it was forced to play as America’s ally, first in its war in support of the Afghan Islamists and then in its war against them, Pakistan, whose territory is reeling under these contradictions, is careening toward civil war.
As recruiting agents for America’s jihad against the Soviet Union, it was the job of the Pakistani Army and the ISI to nurture and channel funds to Islamic fundamentalist organizations. Having wired up these Frankensteins and released them into the world, the U.S. expected it could …

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[29 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Monster in the Mirror   Part-3

It is the third part of article by Arundhati Roy titled Monster in the Mirror. The second part is entitled Terrorism and the Need for Context.
 A Close Embrace of Hatred, Terrifying Familiarity, and Love
by Arundhati Roy
On this nuclear subcontinent, that context is Partition. The Radcliffe Line, which separated India and Pakistan and tore through states, districts, villages, fields, communities, water systems, homes, and families, was drawn virtually overnight. It was Britain’s final, parting kick to us.
Partition triggered the massacre of more than a million people and the largest migration …