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We feel encouraged by the decision of the Prime Ministers of Pakistan and India, who ensured that the anti- peace forces were not able to derail the talks in New York. The talks have happened despite the fact that the anti peace forces made a bid to spoil the atmosphere by mounting attacks on police posts, army camps and killed many soldiers.. As expected, the Indian counter part of Pakistani war mongers had also started a chorus to stop Dr. Manmohan Singh from meeting Mr. Nawaz Sharif.

The Taliban attack on the Peshawar church that killed scores of people was an opportunity for Pakistan’s leaders to rally the nation against Islamist extremism but they squandered it

Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike, D.K. District (Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum) B.H. Bangera Hall, Old Kent Road, Police lane, Mangalore 575001. Ph: 0824 2225652; 9964071782
Mangalore September 29, 2013
To:
The Honorable Union Home Minister
Government of India
Sub: Attempts to Promote Communal Disturbances in Dakshina Kannada District (Karnataka State) through Public Distribution of Swords to Youth
Respected Sir,
Addressing a press conference in Mangalore on 15 September 2013, (…)

So, the Indian Army has, for the first time and just before the 2014 polls, gotten royally embroiled in a political debate, with many retired generals and now "security" experts bandying their "political" opinions for or against V K Singh and the government. And, for the first time, the shadowy faces of India’s generals are being revealed for the common man - a politicized army in the making.

Workers in Bangladesh have been perishing in tragic, preventable factory accidents for years. Now, in mass uprisings that portend both more violent labor struggles on the horizon and a new dawn for a nascent labor movement, the workers are starting to strike at the factories themselves.