Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Children Of The Taliban

    21 April 2009

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    See also:
    Pakistan’s Taliban Generation
    – by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  • India - Pakistan: Unending War Over The Siachen Glacier

    by Jawed Naqvi, 20 April 2009

    Dawn
    Was Indira Gandhi low on oxygen in Leh to have ordered Siachen fiasco?
    A seemingly intractable problem stalking India and Pakistan is their inability to say sorry, mea culpa, and move on. The mulish tendency has led to absurd levels of crises, including nuclear close calls, which would be considered anathema in most cases even among very hostile neighbours.
    Conciliatory efforts are discouraged. I remember the bemused face of a Pakistani delegate at a Track III peace conference in (…)

  • Slaughter in Trilokpuri: An eyewitness account on the 1984 Anti Sikh Pogrom in New Delhi

    by Rahul Bedi, 19 April 2009

    From Tehelka Magazine, April 25, 2009
    A Darkness Unforgotten
    As charred bodies lay in hundreds, it was the utter silence that was haunting
    The Denial of party election tickets to Congress leaders Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar is little recompense to the over 3,000 Sikhs who died in the pogrom following then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination in October 1984. The wave of ethnic cleansing that raged unchecked for nearly three days across the country after Mrs Gandhi was shot (…)

  • Pakistan: The Tenants’ Struggle on Okara Military Farms

    by Aoun Sahi, 19 April 2009

    The News
    The tenant commandments
    Confrontation between the tenants and the security forces at Okara military farms pushes AMP into action
    By Aoun Sahi
    The murder of three tenants allegedly by an agriculture land contractor of the military farm in Kulyana Estate, Okara, on April 6, 2009, has once again brought to light the growing tension between the farm authorities and the tenants in the region.
    On April 7, 2009, thousands of tenants from different military farms gathered at Chak (…)

  • Loosing of Their Hold on Kashmir Bad for Business of India’s Military Industrial Complex

    by Kashmir Times, 19 April 2009

    Kashmir Times, 20 April 2009
    Editorial
    Defending the indefensible
    Army chief’s objectionable observations on repeal of draconian AFSPA and reduction of troops
    The assertion by the Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor that the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act cannot be repealed and that there is no question of reduction of troops from the civilian areas in Jammu and Kashmir makes its obvious that contrary to its claims the Indian state is not in a mood to honour the Prime Minister’s (…)

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