We the citizens of India and Pakistan are concerned and dismayed by the decision of the Government of India to call off the Foreign Secretary Level talks between India and Pakistan that were scheduled on 25th August 2014 at Islamabad in the background of Pakistan High Commissioner Mr. Abdul Basit’s meeting with a leader of Huriyat Conference.
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Statement by Citizens of India and Pakistan on Cancellation of Secretary Level Talks
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Pakistan: Ziaul Haq — History’s verdict
by , 20 August 2014Gen. Zia’s greatest disservice was an almost complete transformation of the state into a controversial, theocratic entity
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Political Turmoil in Pakistan: A Discussion on Indian Television
20 August 2014India’s World - Rajya Sabha TV Programme, Aug 19, 2014
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Partition by W. H. Auden (1966)
20 August 2014The consequences of partition are the subject of hundreds of books, but they are nowhere better summarized than in “Partition,” a poem by W. H. Auden describing the plight of Sir Cyril Radcliff, a British administrator having no familiarity with the Indian subcontinent who chaired the committees set up to define the boundaries of the new India and Pakistan.
W. H. Auden captures beautifully how ruthlessly partition was decided in his poem Partition that he wrote in 1966
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India: Full Court of Supreme Court Must Apologise To Judge, J-1
20 August 2014With in a span of less than four weeks two retired judges of the Supreme Court facing sexual harassment charges are being treated differently. What about the equality before the law clause as enshrined in the Indian Constitution?
