Pakistan & Kashmir

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...

NOVANEWS  Death sparks protests in Kashmir    Aug 25, 2010 Kashmiri teenagers throw stones and traffic cones at a police vehicle as protests escalate in Srinagar August 25, 2010.nagar on August 25, 2010. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir after a teenager died of injuries he had suffered during an earlier clash with Indian forces. The demonstration held in protested at the killing of the teenager turned violent in Srinagar on Wednesday. Police fired warning shots to disperse the protesters who were attending the funeral of 13-year-old Umar Qayoom, who died of severe injuries earlier in the day. Witnesses say he was beaten by government forces during a protest rally days earlier. The demonstrators also hurled stones at Indian security forces ...

NOVANEWS Rajeesh | August 16, 2010 at 11:17 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1TT By Fayaz Wani Srinagar, Aug 15: In a major embarrassment to pro-Indian government in Indian administered Kashmir, a police officer hurled a shoe towards chief minister of the region Omar Abdullah during a function of India's Independence Day on Sunday. The August 15 (India's Independence Day) function was being held at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian administered Kashmir, under tight security cover. As 41-year-old chief minister of the region, Omar Abdullah unfurled the Indian flag, a police officer sitting in the VIP enclosure stood up and raised pro-freedom slogans. The police officer hurled a brown colour shoe towards the chief minister. The...

NOVANEWS     The Gathering Storm of Mass Protest against Indian Occupation in Kshmir Rajeesh | August 15, 2010  | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pglpM-1Tu August 14, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/world/asia/13kashmir.html Indian Forces Face Broader Revolt in Kashmir By LYDIA POLGREEN SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Late Sunday night, after six days on life support with a bullet in his brain, Fida Nabi, a 19-year-old high school student, was unhooked from his ventilator at a hospital here. Mr. Nabi was the 50th person to die in Kashmir’s bloody summer of rage. He had been shot in the head, his family and witnesses said, during a protest against India’s military presence in this disputed province. For decades, India maintained hundreds of thousands of security f...

NOVANEWS Obama’s Pakistan Katrina? Helicopters for War, But Not Flood Relief August 12, 2010  by Michael Leon   Pakistan Flooding - - A “political decision in Washington” means a decision by President Obama. That senior U.S. military official is exactly right. The decision to allocate more resources to flood relief isn’t a decision for the military, and it would be absurd to blame the military for whatever decisions are made, because they are political decisions by the White House. It is difficult to believe the administration does not realize the political ramifications of turning its back on this suffering. The Pakistani people will not forget. - By Robert Naiman “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel said, correctly, in November 2008, referring to the economic c...

NOVANEWS Frozen jet stream links Pakistan floods, Russian fires August 12, 2010 by Michael Leon     Heatwave in Russia has caused nearly 800 wildfires (Image: Igor Kharitonov/Corbis) By Michael Marshall Raging wildfires in western Russia have reportedly doubled average daily death rates in Moscow. Diluvial rains over northern Pakistan are surging south – the UN reports that 6 million have been affected by the resulting floods. It now seems that these two apparently disconnected events have a common cause. They are linked to the heatwave that killed more than 60 in Japan, and the end of the warm spell in western Europe. The unusual weather in the US and Canada last month also has a similar cause. According to meteorologists monitoring the atmosphere above the northern hemisphere, unusual h...