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Daily News and Analysis, November 30, 2008
The television has been turned off finally for the first time in two and a half days. The ensuing space and silence allows reflection and a reaction but little relief. The human cost paid has been unbearably high. As we grieve the losses, the grief gives way to a rightful anger, to necessary questions that demand more than routine, banal answers. Helplessness and defeat is what we just cannot afford.
Was it a siege, or a war, or a fullblown (…)

www.sacw.net, December 1, 2008 This Joint Statement was released to the press simultaneously in Pakistan and India on November 30 2008.
We are deeply shocked and horrified at the bloody mayhem in Mumbai, which has claimed more than a hundred and ninty lives and caused grievous injuries to several hundred people, besides sending a wave of panic and terror across South Asia and beyond. We convey our profound feelings of sorrow and sympathies to the grieving families of the unfortunate (…)

New Age, December 1, 2008
Editorial
Secular forces must organise against bigots
THE attempted destruction of the Balaka sculpture in Dhaka’s Dilkhusha area on Saturday night by a radical Islamist group adds to concerns over the growing impunity with which religious extremists are attacking political, cultural and social freedoms in our society. Just over a month ago, a group of bigots tore down a monument to commemorate mystic and folk philosopher Lalon Shah, claiming that (…)

National Alliance of People’s Movements 29-30, ’A’ Wing First Floor, Haji Habib Building,Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar ( East) Mumbai- 400014 Phone: 91-22-24150529 , E-mail: napmindia(AT)gmail.com _____________________
We at NAPM unequivocally condemn with shock and deep anguish the brazen and brutal terror attacks in Mumbai that have claimed over 250 lives, and injured about 300 people besides creating mayhem at CST, the lifeline of ordinary toiling Mumbaikar; the Hotel Taj, Oberoi (…)

Inter Press Service, November 29, 2008
Empathy, Grief in Pakistan at Mumbai Mayhem
KARACHI, Nov 29 (IPS) - The terrorist attacks unleashed in the Indian port city and financial hub of Mumbai continue to reverberate through Pakistan at a personal level and on the media.
The crisis, that began Wednesday night and lasted through Friday, dominates conversation, newspaper headlines, television coverage and Internet chatter on indigenous websites and e-mail lists run by Pakistanis at home (…)