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Taliban shoot dead Afghan politician who championed women’s rights Two gunmen behind killing in Kandahar Legislator’s colleagues had warned her of attack
Jon Boone in Kabul The Guardian, Monday 13 April 2009
A leading female Afghan politician was shot dead yesterday after leaving a provincial council meeting in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, which her colleagues had begged her not to attend.
Sitara Achakzai was attacked by two gunmen as she arrived at her home in a rickshaw - a (…)

The Invisible Millions
Standing Up and Standing Out
[Daily Star, March 7, 2008]
Begum Rokeya’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’ was an early work of fantasy fiction. But if any group of women have come close to achieving that state, it is the 18 lakh garment workers in the 4,500 factories all over the country. In a society where a woman’s first responsibility is always seen as the caretaker of the house and mother to her children, where her career is secondary to her husband’s, it is these garment (…)

The affinity between the Pakistani establishment and the BJP is not recent. It is grounded in a common ideological corner they shared during the Cold War. A large number of Pakistanis seem to prefer the rightwing religious revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to rule India.

Ekal Vidyalayas, or one-teacher schools, are run by the Friends of Tribals Society (FTS), one of the many wings of the Sangh Parivar.

A Committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development and headed by Avdhash Kaushal reported on Ekal
Vidyalaya schools in the Singhbhum district in Jharkhand and in the Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts in Assam. The
Committee’s report, submitted to the MHRD in 2005, brings out the communalisation that is rampant in these schools and in their curriculum and textual materials.

The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) welcomes United States President Barrack Obama’s call for a “world without nuclear weapons”; We call upon the Indian government to respond to this historic call by committing itself to the goal of nuclear weapons elimination.