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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 (…)

(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 (…)

[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 (…)

[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 (…)

Dawn, December 1, 2008
“When I send my child to the market with Rs10 to buy something, I demand an account of the money when he returns home. Similarly, when the government spends my money, I have the right to ask for an accounting of these expenditures.” — Susheela Devi
A GHOST project is like a ghost school. It consumes money and resources, benefits a small group of delinquents and does nothing for its intended beneficiaries. With 30,000 ghost schools already under its belt, Pakistan (…)