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Mr. Karamat Ali, Executive Director, Pakistan Institute of Labout Education and Research (PILER), Karachi has urged the Indian Home Minister Mr. Sushil Kumar Shinde to help implement the visa liberalisation agreement between the two countries, which has been lying in the cold storage till now.

Three recent developments highlight the issue of weapons of mass destruction and India’s policy towards them. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has gone to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), dealing with armaments that figure prominently in the Syrian crisis.

Ask yourself a few questions: which organisations still remain ideologically committed to the revered Guru Golwalkar’s vision of treating religious minorities as second-class citizens? Which organisations have worked overtime in the last three decades to turn Muslims (and Christians) into hate objects, poisoning Hindu minds, attuning millions to the idea that "Muslims must be taught a lesson"? Which organisations are still so proud of pracharak Modi having turned Gujarat into "the first successful laboratory of Hindutva"? Who can guarantee there are no more "laboratories" on Modi’s and his parivar’s agenda hiding behind the development chant? Which organisations are quick to denounce every half-hearted attempt at redressing legitimate grievances as "Muslim appeasement"? Which organisations even today are keeping the communal pot on the boil with their malicious "love jihad" propaganda? If you know the answer to these questions, you’ll know what Muslims will do in the Lok Sabha polls.

one-day seminar was organised by the Folklore Research Academy (FRA), Amritsar, in association with the Akhil Bhartiya Rachnatmak Samaj to mark the 84th birth anniversary of peace crusader Nirmala Deshpande at Harpal Tiwana Performing Arts Academy. On the occasion, well-known peace crusader and executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karamat Ali was honoured with Didi Nirmala Deshpande memorial award.

As the ASI officials start digging the ‘grave’ of enlightened India questions are being asked about the authenticity of the claims made Hindu seer Shobhan Sarkar and the way the government of India jumped into it and engaged ASI in it. For days, it became the favorite on our TV channels and all the bluff masters of Hindutva were there to justify and interpret ‘dreams’ until Narendra Modi jumped and suggested that the ‘world was laughing at us’. Word of wisdom by a communal fascist whose party is unable to come out of ‘Ram Temple’ complex and therefore making a bigger joke of itself.