South Asia Citizens Web

Bhagwat Singh Gohil frets for the future of his bountiful orchards in Mithi Virdi village in western Gujarat state’s coastal district Bhavnagar. “After contending with droughts, rough seas and earthquakes we are staring at the possibility of a man-made disaster in the shape of a nuclear power park.”

Muslim outfits along with Human Rights Association are planning to hold a demonstration in Kolkata on March 30 demanding the stepping down of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Haseena amid the war crime tribunal’s verdicts against Jamaat-e-Islami’s leaders in connection with the atrocities committed by them during 1971’s Liberation War

Bangladesh has awarded 13 Pakistani friends for their contribution during the war in 1971. According to the Bangladesh government, these Pakistani nationals raised their voice for the freedom of Bangladesh against all the odds in their home country, which attacked unarmed Bangladeshis on the night of March 25, 1971.

We are disturbed by the continuing propaganda in a section of the media against the NGO, Citizens for Justice and Peace and its sister organisation SABRANG. CJP and Sabrang led by the indomitable Teesta Setelvad have been in the forefront to seek justice for the victims of Gujarat 2002 riots since 28 Feb 2002.

The main challenge before the country’s politicians is to infuse more substance into the framework of a parliamentary democracy. If they don’t, and if they remain part of a corrupt establishment cut off from the masses, they may prepare the ground for the Islamists’ revolutionary discourse and seal the fate, not only of the regime, but also of the cohesion of Pakistan’s society.