Asia

NOVANEWS   FAISALABAD; SHUMALIA, WIFE OF FAHIM, ONE OF TWO MEN KILLED BY RAYMOND DAVIS (SUICIDE) DAVIS FOR AAFIA SWAP DEMANDED “Enclaves of Americans, CIA, Blackwater, “diplomats,” are said to be all over Pakistan.  Webster Tarpley (video below) claims they are recruiting and training terrorists.” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Americans have been told one of their diplomats is being held illegally in Pakistan after killing two terrorists.  The American government has made every imaginable effort to secure his release.  Why would America’s most powerful ally, a nation dependent on American aid to survive, a nation who has lost more troops supporting America’s wars than America herself, suffered more terror attacks and more economic disruption simply, as the news reports, hold s...

NOVANEWS   Enough is enough; Kashmiris want their right to self determination By Ayesha T Villalobos It is sufficient to mention that Kashmir’s protest against India’s atrocities for self-determination  is timely and long  overdue, while it is complex to locate the origins of Kashmir in those events from the time of the Raj and how it came into existence and how Kashmir were transformed by these events of the late 19th century . From that event emanated a series of bloody era, perpetual uncertainty and suffering among the people of Kashmir. India who occupied the centre was in a privilege position vis-a-vis the source of all power and authority, dominated the social and economic life of the inhabitants. They have power over the whole scenario, denying the meaningfulness of the human ex...

NOVANEWS By Air Commodore ® Khalid Iqbal                                                                                          Recently, Indian Home Secretary, G K Pillai floated the test balloon that Indian government was contemplating reduction of the Force level in IHK by 25 per cent, in the next 12 months, as a confidence building measure. The idea has however stirred up an interesting controversy in India. While commenting on Indian government’s intent to cut down the troop’s strength in IHK, BJP’s state president Shamsher Singh said, “It is an open fact that India’s administration over Jammu and Kashmir is based on presence of armed forces here. So if there is troop-cut then neighbours like China Pakistan and Afghanistan won’t sit silent… decision of reducing troops in J&...

NOVANEWS   Sixty three years have lapsed but Kashmir dispute remains unresolved. During this period, besides several military  standoffs, two full fledged Indo-Pak wars and two localised conflictsin April 1965 and in summer of 1999 took place on account of Kashmir issue. India has been defying UN Resolutions on Kashmir and playing monkey tricks all these years to avoid resolving the dispute. Indian security forces have kept the people of Kashmir suppressed through use of brute force and has hid its gross human rights abuses under the cover of blatant lies and deceit. Today Kashmir has turned into a dangerous nuclear flashpoint.  The peace loving and docile Kashmiris patiently waited for 43 long years in the hope that India would fulfil its solemn commitment and hold a fair plebiscite b...

NOVANEWS   Why the world is silent on Indian brutalities, will they ever answer this question? By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan The Asia Watch and Physician for Human Rights carried a joint investigation of human rights violations by Indian security forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir in 1990s. In the summary of the report, the investigators clearly mentioned that; “In their efforts to crush the insurgency, Indian forces in Indian Kashmir have engaged in massive human rights violations including extra-judicial assaults on health care workers. Indian security forces have systematically violated international human rights and humanitarian law. Among the worst of these violations have been the summary executions of hundreds of detainees in the custody of security forces in Kashmir. Such killings a...

NOVANEWS In solidarity with the Kashmiris in their freedom struggle, the people of the world who are engaged in similar movements, or have gone through the experience, stand shoulder to shoulder with them.    By Shahid R. Sidiqi When Mohandas Gandhi, the god-father of India who will be revered as the leading light of its freedom movement by the present and future generations of Indians, was arrested by the British colonialists for his role in exhorting the people to rise against the British rulers and charged with sedition in 1922 in Ahmadabad, he pleaded guilty. He told the judge: “I have no desire whatsoever to conceal from this court that to preach disaffection towards the existing system of government has become almost a passion with me…”. “Sedition”, said Gandhi, “in law is a de...

NOVANEWS By Brig Samson S Sharaf The story of Kashmir is a Greek Tragedy with successive lines drawn in blood. The struggle of the aspirations of the people aside, it is also an endless tale of betrayals, geo strategic intrigues and cantankerousness.  The intrigues within, Nehruvian biases, Patel’s Machiavellism, the Kashmiri uprising followed by the tribal invasion, Radcliffe Award, the divided riparian, accession of Bikaner, Tibet, the Ceasefire Line and now the Line of Control. If Narendra Singh Sarila the ex ADC to Lord Mountbatten is to be believed, all this was the fallout of the British geostrategic designs to contain a communist Russia and China. He goes on to write, “In agreeing to Jinnah’s project, the British also managed to whittle down Jinnah’s territorial demands to the m...

NOVANEWS By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan There exist a misperception that Pakistan has not implemented the UNCIP resolutions of August 13, 1948 and January  5, 1949. Indeed, this is an allegation, taken as an excuse by Indian authorities for the non-implementation of these two famous resolutions as well as many others.  India indeed, knew that, implementations of these resolutions would expose her act of aggression on Kashmir on October 27, 1947, against whom; Kashmiri were fighting a war of their national liberation from India. The fact of the matter is that, as a result of UNSC Resolution number S.726 of April 21, 1948, United Nations constituted a   five-member commission in June 1948 and named it as the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP). Its first meeting was held ...

NOVANEWS By Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui As like always that happens in every case especially that has relevance to the American hegemony as in the case of Raymond Davis, the case in which  our typical set of people who are born to a typical line whether raised  inland or overseas Pakistani to be Scare Crows in our yards and  on our walls are once again trying to drag the country into continued factor and fear of loss. These scare crows are so un-restive that they are screaming   on our electronic screens to tell us all in general and to those poor bereaved families in particular, that what has happened to their love ones has happened as destined. What happened has happened as a ultimate fate of those two who have been so skillfully shot down by that Yankee the doodle do the real live nephew of...