Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Terrorist Attack On Mumbai - What Should Be Done

    by Asghar Ali Engineer, 3 December 2008

    www.sacw.net, 3 December 2008 I was in Singapore for a seminar on secularism when horrible terrorist attack took place in Mumbai on the evening of 26th November. I came to know about it through BBC television report. From there I had to go to Istanbul for another seminar on religion and democracy and returned to Mumbai on 1st December when all was over and hence could not react to these barbaric events in time.
    Many questions are troubling our minds - who were these terrorists and why did (…)

  • Children Against Dow-Carbide Formed

    by bhopal.net, 3 December 2008

    International Campaign For Justice in Bhopal - Press Release Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action
    December 1, 2008
    Bhopal: at a press conference today, leaders of three organizations of the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster announced the formation of a new organization "Children Against Dow-Carbide" on the eve of the 24th anniversary of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster. They said (…)

  • Malegaon Bomb Blasts and Hindutva Extremists

    by Asghar Ali Engineer, 3 December 2008

    (Secular Perspective December 1-15, 2008)
    Now the BJP leaders are protesting, and rightly so, on use of the term ‘Hindu Terrorists’. But they would have been indeed more consistent if they had similarly objected to the use of the term ‘Islamic Terrorist’s. Mr. L.K.Advani who is so exercised at the use of the term ‘Hindu Terrorists’ is not known to have ever objected to the term ‘Muslim Terrorists’, let alone ‘Islamic Terrorists’. I wish he had objected to use of the term ‘Islamic (…)

  • Uphold the parliament’s authority in Pakistan

    by I A Rehman, 3 December 2008

    [Dawn, 20 November 2008 >http://www.dawn.com/2008/11/20/op.htm#2]
    PRIME Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s oft-repeated pledge that his government will uphold the parliament’s supremacy in all matters could, if earnestly honoured, solve a host of the problems of governance in Pakistan.
    A cursory look at Pakistan’s history is sufficient to establish the huge harm caused by repeated denial of the parliament’s sovereign authority. Apart from the bar to its supremacy created by mixing belief with (…)

  • Towards a Secular Nepal

    by Babu Gogineni, 2 December 2008

    [IHEU >http://www.iheu.org/node/3338]
    Just a few hours after Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of the new Secular Federal Republic of Nepal, a happy Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, the Party’s second-in-command, and now Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, one of the most powerful men in Nepal today, spoke to Babu Gogineni, International Director of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
    The discussions, which centred around (…)

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