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Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan extends beyond simply a modernist urge to secure economic and political resources

Economic and Political Weekly, 8 November 2008
The brutal suppression of the peaceful mass protests that swept across Kashmir in August has restored New Delhi’s "control" of the Valley. The centre may have won this battle, but it has lost the war and if it was not apparent before it should be obvious now that the people of Kashmir no longer have faith in the constitutional processes. The allocation of land for the Amarnath yatra controversy that triggered an explosion first in Kashmir and (…)

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22.11.2008
Press Statement
We would like to bring to your attention the reports in the Delhi press today, that a doctor is being investigated for possible connections to the alleged conspirators in the Malegaon blast cases in Maharashtra. The doctor, Dr Ram Pratap Singh is the same man who had filed cases against painter MF Husain in Delhi courts in 2006. In the report in (…)

www.sacw.net | 21 November 2008
THE SILENCE AND OUTRAGE
Suddenly there is ambiguous silence on GUJCOC —(Gujarat Control of Organised Crime) Bill — after the of arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh. The euphoria that was on wheel has come to a sudden halt, where one after another related to Ahmedabad serial bomb blast and Surat are arrested. The ambiguous silence is very meaningful. The fate of the euphoria depends on the so called ATS’s finding of the involvement of so called terror trio, (…)

sacw.net, 21 November 2008 The appointment of Sonal Shah to Barack Obama’s transition team has rightly garnered the headlines. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Activists, writers, scholars, and others bearing right wing Hindu extremist ideology have been gradually carving themselves a niche in the American politics, academia, and intelligentsia.
With all the attention of successive administrations almost singularly focused on Muslim extremists, their Hindu counterparts have managed (…)