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08 Aug 2010
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| Complicated Encounters |
Complicated Encounters
AK Doval
Beware of half truths - because you may be holding the wrong half. After having seen and read so much about the Sohrabuddin episode in the last five years, one might believe one knows it all. Sohrabuddin is now cast as an innocent victim of police excess. However, it would be worthwhile to explore the real facts about Sohrabuddin, the nature of police encounters, and the real issues at stake. Sohrabuddin was an underworld gangster who was involved in nearly two dozen serious criminal o...
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| UK Exports Islamism |
UK Exports Islamism
Daniel Pipes
Twenty-eight countries, including India, have suffered on this count Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by UK-based radical Islam. The Heritage Foundation calls British Islamism "a direct security threat" to the US ...
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| Editorial: Hindus Are Kafirs in Pakistan |
Editorial: Hindus Are Kafirs in Pakistan
The Editorial Team
The plight of Hindus in Pakistan is a matter of grave concerns. While the Hindus who constitute a microscopic minority in Pakistan (around 1.6%) are daily subjected to persecution of every kind including forcible conversions, abduction, forcible marriages, attack on property and lives, there is little effort to bring their condition into the focus of world community. Hindus are treated with contempt and in most inhuman manner. The result is that a large of number of Hindus is...
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| Dubious Followers of Islam | Dubious Followers of Islam
 Lt. Col. (Retd) Mahendra Mathur
Just during last one week eight stories in the media told really one story: followers of Islam - they may belong to any part of the world - are naturally dubious. World will be safe only when people who follow Islam are humanized.Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washingto...
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| The God That Failed in Kashmir | The God That Failed in Kashmir
Amba Charan Vashishth
It seems to be a case of the god that failed. When the present youthful chief minister of Jammu & Kashmir, Mr. Omar Abdullah, took over about two years back, there was a great media hype that raised the hopes sky high. He was projected as a man who meant business and could cater to the aspirations of the youth. But Mr. Omar Abdullah has proved a man of little vision, little action and little guts and courage. His policies have pushed the Kashmir Valley back to tu...
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