‘Death penalty for Barua won’t hit ULFA (I)’

‘Death penalty for Barua won’t hit ULFA (I) SUSHANTA TALUKDAR   COURTESY --                     Experts on the north-east say the death sentence awarded to United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent) chief Paresh Barua and 13 others will have little impact on the outfit as both Barua and most of his cadres have already shifted base out of Bangladesh. They were handed the death penalty by a special court in Chittagong on Thursday for smuggling 10 truck loads of arms into Bangladesh in 2004. Intelligence officials in the State, however, feel that the elusive insurgent leader...

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Article 370: The untold story

Article 370: The untold story ByMaj Gen Sheru Thapliyal IssueVol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011| Date : 01 Dec , 2013 courtesy-- Indian Defence Review: Troops patrol in Kashmir It is often not realized that among the causes of Kashmir problem – inclusion of plebiscite in the Instrument of Accession, reference of Kashmir to UN, halting Indian offensive when it was poised to drive out the invaders from Kashmir, Article 370 has played no less a part in preventing J&K from becoming an integral part of the Indian Union. Not many people are aware as how and why this Article was formulated and included in the Indian Constitution...

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वादे क्या सिर्फ भुलाने के लिए होते हैं ?

फिर भी हमारी सार्वभौमिकता पर कोई आंच नहीं ? Still not jeopardized our sovereignty -------------------------------------------------------- कब पीओके छोड़ेगा पाक वादे क्या सिर्फ भुलाने के लिए होते हैं ? शायद नहीं। खासकर वे वादे, जो पूरे मुल्क से किए गए हों, जिनसे न सिर्फ देश के जज्बात जुड़े हों, बल्कि मुल्क की अस्मत और अहमियत के लिए भी खास मायने रखते हों। 22 फरवरी 1994 - यह बेहद खास दिन है भारत की कश्मीर नीति के नजरिए से। करीब 20 साल पहले उस दिन संसद ने एक प्रस्ताव ध्वनिमत से पास करके पाकिस्तान अधिकृत कश्मीर (पीओके) पर अपना हक जताते हुए कहा था कि पाकिस्तान का जम्मू-कश्मीर भारत का अटूट अंग है। पाकिस्तान को उस हिस्से को छोड़ना होगा, जिस पर...

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11 Uyghurs(Musalims) Killed at Kyrgyzstan Border, Triggering Call for Probe

11 Uyghurs (Musalims) Killed at Kyrgyzstan Border, Triggering Call for Probe A bus travels toward the border with China in Kyrgyzstan, July 2012.  HEMIS.FR A group of 11 ethnic Uyghur men from China’s western Xinjiang region have been shot dead after crossing into neighboring Kyrgyzstan, officials in the Central Asian republic said Friday, triggering calls for a probe into the killings amid concerns they may have been refugees fleeing “repression."Nine of them were gunned down by a special Kyrgyz border guard unit while two others were killed earlier by a local hunter who had spotted them in the mountains near the border on...

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Hundreds of Tibetans Detained in Chamdo Over 'Unity' Campaign

Hundreds of Tibetans Detained in Chamdo Over 'Unity' Campaign Chinese flags fly at a monastery in Chamdo in an undated photo.  Photo courtesy of an RFA listener. Chinese authorities have cracked down on a grassroots Tibetan unity campaign in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), detaining hundreds found wearing special armbands or carrying photos of a senior religious figure backed by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, sources said.The crackdown further tightens controls in the TAR’s Chamdo (in Chinese, Changdu) prefecture, where the Chinese authorities have launched what some sources call an intrusive campaign to identify...

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It's Called Bossing Around Big Brotherhood

UN, US Pile Pressure on Myanmar to Investigate Rohingya Killings It's called Bossing around Big Brotherhood. Why is this Big Brotherhood not for Tibbetan, Uygher, Pakistani Shiyas, Ahamadiyas, Sikhs and both Pakistani and Bangaladeshi Hindus ? Muslim family members sit inside their home in Thabyu Chi village near Thandwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, Oct. 3, 2013.  AFP Myanmar has come under pressure from the United Nations, the United States and human rights groups to hold a swift independent probe into the reported killings of at least 48 Muslims purportedly by Buddhist mobs in volatile Rakhine state. President...

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Ex-Chinese Premier's Letter 'Sidesteps' Reports of Family Wealth

Ex-Chinese Premier's Letter 'Sidesteps' Reports of Family Wealth (L-R) Former Chinese president Hu Jintao, newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping and former premier Wen Jiabao sing the national anthem at the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 17, 2013.  AFP A letter penned by former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao denying he abused his power to bolster his family's wealth has failed to address key questions about high-ranking ruling Chinese Communist Party officials and their families' finances, analysts said on Monday.In a letter to a columnist for Hong...

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Nepal holds landmark meeting of constitution drafting body

Nepal holds landmark meeting of constitution drafting body After two months of election, Nepal is holding first meeting of Constituent Assembly on Wednesday afternoon (CA), opening avenues for drafting the new constitution within a year. The first meeting has been regarded as a landmark event of the Himalayan country because it has aroused the hope of a new constitution which is expected to end the political turmoil in the country.Nepal's octogenarian lawmaker Surya Bahadur Thapa chairs the meeting until the election of CA chairman and vice-chairman. The meeting of CA was delayed as parties engaged in several disputes including the UCPN...

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क्या फिर वही इतिहास अमेरिका दुहरायेगा

क्या फिर वही इतिहास अमेरिका दुहरायेगा  Sanjeev Jayaswal क्या आप जानते हैं कि ... अमेरिका किस प्रकार अपने हितो के लिए किसी भी देश में ...अपना राजनैतिक आधार तैयार करता है ...?इतिहास देखिये ...ईराक में 70 के दशक में ईराक में अस्थिता का माहौल अमेरिका ने बनाया और ...शुन्य से एक नौजवान को ...एक छात्र जीवन से उठाकर ...उसका टीवी के द्वारा प्रचार करवाकर ...रातों रात ईराक का हीरो बना दिया ...जानते है उसका नाम क्या था ...???उसका नाम था ...सद्दाम हुसैन ...जो की एक कोलेज का छात्र था ...छात्र राजनीती में भाग लेता था ...उसको अमेरिका ने इतना प्रसिद्ध करवा दिया की उसको रातों रात " बाथ " पार्टी का अध्यक्ष तक बनवा दिया ...और यही बाद में ...ईराक का राष्ट्रपति बना ...जब वह ...अपने देश को आगे ले जाने की सोचने लगा तो ...अमेरिका हो अखरने लगा ...और ...बाद में सब जानते है की अमेरिका ने उसके साथ...

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साजिश के तार ----- दुर्घटना घटते-घटते सम्भल जाओ

साजिश के तार ----- दुर्घटना घटते-घटते सम्भल जाओ  केजरीवाल का सच............... यह शिमिरित ली कौन है, शोधार्थी या अमेरिकी एजेंट? दस्तावेज बताते हैं कि वह बतौर शोधार्थी ‘कबीर’ संस्था से जुड़े थी। इस संस्था के गॉड-फादर अरविंद केजरीवाल रहे हैं। शिमरित ली को लेकर अटकलें लग रही हैं, क्योंकि शिमरित ली कबीर संस्था में रहकर न केवल भारत में आंदोलन का तानाबाना बुन रही थी, बल्कि लंदन से लेकर काहिरा और चाड से लेकर फिलिस्तीन तक संदिग्ध गतिविधियों में संलिप्त थी। शिमिरित ली दुनिया के अलग-अलग देशों में विभिन्न विषयों पर काम करती रही है। भारत आकर उसने नया काम किया। कबीर संस्था से जुड़ी। प्रजातंत्र के बारे में उसने एक बड़ी रिपोर्ट महज तीन-चार...

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Uyghur (Muslims) Villagers Forcibly Relocated to Make Way For Tourist Resorts

Uyghur (Muslims) Villagers Forcibly Relocated to Make Way For Tourist Resortsl A mountain village in Kumul prefecture in an undated photo. Photo courtesy of an RFA listener Chinese authorities have forcibly relocated more than half of the ethnic minority Uyghurs—mostly farmers and herders—from three mountain townships in the Xinjiang region to make way for tourist resorts without providing them adequate compensation or job opportunities, according to area sources.Villagers from the three townships in Kumul (in Chinese, Hami) prefecture, in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Uyghur Region, told RFA’s Uyghur Service that in...

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