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India's violent north-east A wave of violence in the north-eastern Indian states of Assam and Nagaland has again highlighted the tensions and fissures in this part of the country. News Online looks at why there is so much violence in north-eastern India. Why is north-eastern India so...

The Bengali Holocaust London, 6/13/71). The Sunday Times....."The Government's policy for East Bengal was spelled out to me in the Eastern Command headquarters at Dacca. It has three elements: The Bengalis have proved themselves unreliable and must be ruled by West Pakistanis; The...

Hearing New Voices In Kashmir By Mariana Baabar Mariana Baabar is the diplomatic editor of the Islamabad-based newspaper, The News. She was one of a group of Pakistani journalists who recently visited Indian-administered Kashmir - the first time either country has invited journalists from...

Hindu hardliners attack magazine Hardline Hindus have ransacked the office of an Indian news magazine in protest over an article that described their leader as a villain, police say. An accompanying Outlook cartoon showed Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray dressed as German war leader Adolf...

Army And The Peace Process In Kashmir By Ram Puniyani Mufti Mohammad Sayeed of People's Democratic Party, the party ruling in alliance with Congress in Kashmir, recently called for demilitarization of the state and withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (April 2007). This...

The average Indian Muslim wants room to survive Dr Arjun Appadurai, anthropologist It is not always that an academic book published by a university press gets national attention across America, and leads its writer to speak on National Public Radio and appear on several...

Detroying Human Rights,Desecrating Kashmir By David Devadas Muzaffar (name changed) is a handsome 22-year old who lives in a middle class Srinagar locality. Over the past couple of years, he has developed a close friendship with a married woman of the neighbourhood who is separated from...

Assam: ULFA’s Intensified Terror before Independence Day ULFA has been itching to do something horrible before the Independence Day as it has been doing for many years in the past. The government of India and its security agencies were also aware of this. The increased pressure of security...

Why do Indian Muslims lag behind? By Soutik Biswas BBC News Muslims make up India's largest religious minority As historians tell it, during India's first election in 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru was already worrying about the feeble representation of Muslims in the country's positions of...

Is not India anti-Muslim? Any show of patriotism for money or other favors is ridiculous in principle as that displays hypocrisy. It has been the habit o India, leaders, media an etc, to make feel apologetic an inferior by resorting to the "patriotic" tactics. Of late there have been lot...

An Army Insider's Honest Expose of Atrocities in East Pakistan Debacle Following is a review from a book written by an insider close to power in 1971. It is a confession from a Pakistani high official about the attrocities caused to Bengalees by their so called "muslim" brothers from West...

Banner organisations, opposition parties call for 12-hour Assam bandh today A high-level team of the Ministry of Home Affairs arrived here on a day's visit to take stock of the situation in the wake of the killing of Hindi-speaking people in central Assam's Karbi Anglong district on...

Co-joined With Kashmir By F. S. Aijazuddin One would have to possess a heart of granite not to have been moved by the plight of the Iranian twin-sisters Ladan and Laleh Bajani. Co-joined at the head for all the twentynine years of their common life, they showed unbelievable...

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Disappearances' In Kashmir By A G Noorani It is hardly surprising that the disappearance of large number of persons in Kashmir evokes little sympathy in our country, least of all from the ones who loudly proclaim that Kashmir is an integral part of India. Even from some professional civil...

Pakistan:The Push toward the Borders Radio Pakistan announced last week that Pakistan International Airlines has resumed its internal flight between the East Pakistan capital of Dacca and the town of Jessore, formerly a stronghold of rebel resistance. The broadcast failed to note that the PIA...

How to manage foreigners working illegally in Bangladesh Is there large number of foreign workers working illegally in Bangladesh? That is very surprising. Who are those foreign workers, why they are in Bangladesh and what sorts of works they do? Wages in Bangladesh are low and quality of...

Kashmiri Students In India Face Discrimination By Rama Lakshmi MUZAFFARNAGAR, India -- Three months ago, Ejaz Husain Jaan was just another Kashmiri student living away from home, nervously studying for his finals and taking short breaks to catch the World Cup cricket scores on television...

Pakistan:Round 1 to the West THERE is Do doubt," said a foreign diplomat in East Pakistan last week," 'that the word massacre applies to the situation." Said another Western official: "It's a veritable bloodbath. The troops have been utterly merciless." As Round 1 of Pakistan's bitter...

Kashmiris want Peace, Azadi by Amit Chakraborty Almost all Srinagar residents want peace, azadi, and an end to the authoritarianism of Indian forces. AMIT CHAKRABORTY, who observed the recently-concluded elections in J&K, explains why the polls were a farce, and how the will of the people...