Bush Legacy for Obama’s Reference

By Dr. Abdul Ruff

A reckless or devastating legacy left behind by an elected ruler could harm the prospects of a new incumbent any where and USA could be a testing ground for this notion’s efficacy.  President Bush, son of a former president, certainly was egregiously lacking in judgment, knowledge, and experience, for the role he was voted into, is keen to leave his successor Obama a free reign as he assumes offices, rather, he intents to keep a troubled world for Obama to begin worrying about. But a US president never worries even when a natural disaster, let alone a terror attack< takes USA or the world under its grips. And the election of Bush Jr.only showed naivety and lack of competence on the part of Democratic leaders, There has been a lack of vision, and lack of judgment and leadership and ideas and thought and understanding throughout our voting population that has resulted in catastrophic destruction of so many lives in Palestine, Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, and Afghanistan and throughout much of Europe as well.

Earlier indications showed Obama would begin to address the issues earnestly by adapting a new way. Wars and blockades kill civilians and do not achieve any solutions. Obama should help the people of Gaza recover from Bush mistakes by forcing an end to the massacre taking place in Gaza and lifting the siege. He must make the American voices heard loudly about lasting peace in Mideast.

I

Bush does not call himself great, of course. Not an outstanding communicator or a diplomat, Bush George W. Bush won two terms as president. His critics like to paint him as the worst president ever. On his watch, terrorists brought down four planes and two world-famous buildings, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein  was deposed and murdered, chaos continued to reign in two nations, oil prices skyrocketed and the worst recession in decades devastated the world economy The outgoing US president hasn’t won any popularity polls lately and he is upset even otherwise. Legacies are determined by the inevitable march of history and the lasting results of presidential policies over the course of time. WMD, terror wars, genocides, tortures, economic collapse, and Mideast wars- all gave poor grades to Bush. But he was not running for re-election, of course.

Though he enjoyed the White House prestige, pleasures and privileges for 8 long years, Bush did not care for world peace because that is not the real US policy goals. He fueled tresnions in regins, because that in indeed the key foreign policy of USA. Though he had the opportunities to settle the Paleisnt issue to herald new phase of Mideast life, he refused to do that to suit neocon interests. Only towards the fake end of his presidenct did he suddenly woke up to see the nneed to settle the Palestine issue and convened a few conferences with Arab leaders and the the concerned parties in conflcit, Palestine and Israelis. And, again, he spoiled  even the meager gains of his much hyped Peace summit in USA last year.

Bush said he would establish new Mideast, but he indeed wanted to squander the resources there. Terror attacks a new trend to bring down elected governments. Terror experts feel interruption of the supply chain to Tehran, sabotage of the materials used for the reactor (including parts and supplies) and other covert actions are having no effect on the “mullahs” who issue fatwas and prayers for the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel wanted to purchase bombs capable of destroying, totally, the nuclear facility in Iran and the ability to fly over Iraq to get to the site. What Israel wanted was for America to allow her to do what the entire world is too frightened or timid to do itself. Tel Aviv wanted to display its roguish behavior with Arabs. Many in USA also Bush should have allowed Israeli planes to fly over Iraq and the Administration should have provided Israel with the weapons she needed to do what the world will not.

II

Today many strong countries have nukes and latest nuke technology develop more and more high precision nuclear-abled missiles. But the western powers and their media harp on Iran’s nuclear program. The world knows that Iran is producing nuclear material – that is a fact and is not disputed by even Iran. What is disputed is how to deal with Iranian ambitions, unacceptable to anti-Islamic nations, including India. Iran is considered to be a threat by them, more than the terror leaders of the West who converted the Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan as the latest battlefields killing Muslims every where. There is the continued threat of an arms race in every region, including Mideast because of the instability that a nuclear Iran would create in a region where stability is the only thing that keeps one country from invading another. There are few things that can plunge the world into a world conflagration, but one of them is an exchange of nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

The Bush regime maintained secrecy and generated a lot bluff to confuse the world with regard to US intentions of illegal invasion of Islamic world staring with Afghanistan. A report in Associated Press last summer, not widely publicized, talked about the removal of 500 metric tons of yellowcake, an intermediate step in the processing of uranium ores, from Iraq to Canada. Yellowcake is not weapons-grade uranium, of course, but is a sensitive and potentially dangerous commodity. While no nuclear WMDs have been found, Saddam Hussein’s ambitions were obvious. It is said Israel requested and was denied permission to fly through Iraqi airspace in order to rid the world of a nuclear facility that will surely be used to produce a militant Islamic nuclear weapon. Earlier, on June 7, 1981 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the Israeli Air Force to strike the French-built Osirak reactor, located 18 miles south of Baghdad.

Bush wanted to make the nukes and technology a basic prerogative of a selected few like UNSC-5 and a few Western countries and all other are essentially anti-Islamic. By espousing the terror threats widely Bush tries to shift nukes from India, Pakistan and elsewhere to these countries, while Israel should posses them endangering the Arab world. Bush is opposed any Islamic nation possessing nuclear weapons.

Bush as the chief custodian of US policies tries his tricks to support Israel against Arab interests and get the innocent and defenseless Palestinians killed by the fascist Jews. By using dollars he gained the support of Islamic world against all Muslim nations fighting for, independence, self-rule and freedom.

III

Bush encouraged state terrorism globally and used terrorism plank to invade Islamic world. He has provoked Israel to invade Gaza to make the true Palestinian salves. Israel continues to expand settlements and Palestinian armed groups persisted in activities defined by one side as terrorism and by the other as resistance. Bush did not press Israel or the Palestinian Authority to renew negotiations while Yasser Arafat, who had the nationalist credentials to make concessions for peace, was still alive. And after Arafat died, Bush did too little to bolster his moderate successor, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Bush’s mishandling of relations with Iran has also had a destructive effect across a large arc that stretches from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean. Iran supplied useful intelligence assistance when US forces toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan in late 2001, and helped the Bush administration establish the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai at the Bonn conference in early 2002. Bush’s response was to include Iran in a rhetorical “axis of evil.” Irn’s drive to be in good books of the USA thus failed. After US forces swept Iran’s arch enemy Saddam Hussein from power in 2003, Iran offered Bush a grand bargain that would include concessions on its nuclear program, its support for Hezbollah, and security in the Gulf region. Bush disregarded the offer. Israelis, Palestinians, and their neighbors are paying a high price for that mistake. Against the strong objections of both Abbas and Israel, Bush insisted on holding Palestinian elections in January 2006. When Hamas won a legislative majority, Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were stunned. Not only had they rejected the pleas of both their Palestinian and Israeli partners; they refused to take into account the frustration of Palestinians with the corruption and incompetence of the secular nationalist Fatah politicians who had come from Tunis in 1995 to rule over Gaza and the West Bank. Bush’s reaction to the Hamas victory made everything worse. He backed an economic blockade of Gaza, discouraging reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, and arming and training Fatah security forces to seize power in Gaza. That policy backfired in June 2007, when Hamas conducted its own ruthless coup against Fatah security forces and took complete control over Gaza. an anxiety common to nearly all the Arab regimes: a worry that Bush’s fecklessness has allowed Iran, through its arming and funding of Hamas, to supplant the Arab states as prime defender of the Palestinian cause.

IV

Generally, a new incumbent in White House generally tries to be over smart and undo what has been done by his predecessor. Bush took office in 2001 assuming that whatever the Clinton administration had attempted in the Mideast was wrong and not to be pursued. Since Bill Clinton had invested a great deal of time, energy, and prestige in a failed attempt to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement at Camp David, Bush in his first term took a passive stance toward that central conflict. During a speech at the United Nations in the fall of 2001, Bush did explicitly say he envisioned the creation of a Palestinian state, eventually. But he did nothing to shepherd Israelis and Palestinians into peace talks. His passivity allowed a peacemaking opportunity to fade away unexplored even during the most of his time at the zoOval House enjoyng the fights in Mieast and wartching the deaths of innocent Muslims all over the world.

President-elect Barack Obama has an enormous cleanup task ahead of him; he cannot put off for a single day the work of peacemaking and rehabilitation in the Mideast. And Obama must embark upon this most import ant globla task not in search of a Nobel Prioze, but for wrold peace , a main ot that is Palesitne, and another Kashmir, lthird, Chechnya and then the rest would follow towards a peaceful raod.

Obama says the US will take a new approach to dealings with Iran under his leadership. Obama said in a US TV interview screened on Sunday that “Iran is going to be one of our biggest challenges”. Obama, who won the US presidential election in November, takes office on 20 January and had earlier said there should be no pre-conditions in discussions with the Iranian leadership. He said he was concerned about Iran‘s support for Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah and Tehran‘s nuclear enrichment program and that engagement is the place to start. He added he believed his administration would “move swiftly” in its new approach with Tehran.

In the wide-ranging interview, Obama also said he planned a special team to deal with conflict in the Middle East. The Bush administration had accused Iran of developing nuclear technology in order to produce nuclear weapons, but Iran has insisted the processes will only be used to generate electricity. Obama also said a new team would begin work on a wider Middle East peace process when he began his presidency.

At one point, Obama was not ruling out prosecution for possible crimes committed by Bush administration official, but is now reluctant to do so. And he repeated his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, but suggested it might not happen within his first 100 days in office. Obama also criticized the outgoing administration’s handling of the $700bn (£459bn) federal bailout plan to help the US banking system amid the global financial crisis. And he said his attorney general could investigate accusations Bush administration officials had abused their power.

However, for every thing he wants to do in the USA and elsewhere as President, Obama needs the concurrence of the Pentagon-CIA and the support of American-Jewish support, not just the popular5 support alone. That is the key tragedy of USA and the entire world.

V: Post-Script

The course of world events will in time determine Bush’s place in the history books. Wars are usually traceable to a failure of statecraft. In the case of the current Israeli assault on the Hamas regime in Gaza, that failure belongs not only to the leadership of Israel but, most tellingly, to the serial blunders of President Bush. The humanitarian catastrophe imposed on civilians in Gaza, the Iranian-supplied rockets fired into Israel by Hamas, and the Israeli missiles landing in densely populated neighborhoods of Gaza City are among the consequences of eight years of Bush administration policy in the Middle East. The disasters of war in Gaza come as the culmination to a long skein of bad decisions, and those errors will burden President-elect Barack Obama with a tangle of crises that he will have to begin addressing immediately.

Obama, marketed to the American electorate as the “candidate of change,” seems to be taking primer lessons now from the same neocons who trained both father Bush and his son Bush Jr on terrorism plank. The election of Democrat Barack Obama as president of the United States was driven in large measure by the disgust of broad sections of the American people with the criminal policies carried out in the name of the Bush administration’s “global war on terrorism” which in practice only means anti-Islamic terror wars with “like-minded” forces. Inevitably, to serve the economic, social and political interests of “his country”, an Obama administration is likely to incorporate much of the same criminal methods that were employed by its predecessor.

US politics of late is infested with pseudo patriotic rhymes. Obama is no different president, when he used hollow emotional statements: “I think that’s a basic principle of any country—is that they’ve got to protect their citizens.” Osama thus would stick to Bush terror strategies. That is, one of the pledges that Obama made repeatedly on the campaign trail, something that was supposed to symbolize a break with the past, would remain just a poll gimmick to fool the educated Us voters and the US policy of torture and detention without charges of thousands of individuals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and CIA “black sites” scattered around the world, would continue.

Obama made it clear that he has no intention of holding accountable those responsible for the political and international crimes carried out over the past eight years. He would let the Republic presidents before him to escape scot-free all terror crimes against humanity. And Sept11 background truth would remain a mystery under Obama. After all both Republicans and Democrats share power and crimes in some ways. And, after all, the Pentagon-CIA global networks plan and execute plans for advancing the American interests every where with the help of similar infrastructures in every country.

Palestine, Chechnya and Kashmir, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, among other freedom nations, remain under virtual siege from the colonial and imperialist powers. Look up for instructions form Neocons and other terror advisers on US goals and his own future strategies, Obama is scared of making any statements now defending them in any way. After all, Obama has to survive in the USA, playing politics with Europe, Russia, China and the rest of the world as his predecessors did before him.

Palestine is burning now, blood is flowing endlessly. Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Kashmir are under foreign custody and genocides. Iran is under siege. Islamic world and the Arab nations play fiddle in desperation, while the anti-Islamic forces continue their rampages destroying Muslim nations, kill and and torture Muslims. Will Obama be able to reach out to them? May God save the Humanity, including the terrorized global Muslims, who are deceived also by their own leaders!

Indo-Pak Bickering After Mumbai Taj Mahal Terror Attack: Following Bushism

By Divas

Isn’t India pressing too hard on the Pakistan government for taking action against the suspected militant jihadi fighters in Pakistan? India should not forget that putting a relatively moderate & democratically elected government of Pakistan in difficulty would only help either the military or the extremists increase their influence. Indian leaders seem to be diverting the public anger they’re facing after the Mumbai terror attacks toward Pakistan government. The India Government, media, & public better remember their own slogan which every Bollywood flick repeats these days, that “a terrorist belongs to no religion”. The fueling of Pakistan hatred by the India politicians & media which would ultimately boil down on the Isalm in general is bound to incur a heavy human cost for a multicultural society like India.

India & Pakistan have different government systems. While India is a secular democracy, Pakistan is officially a Muslim nation. This is a major fact that the Indians seem to overlook. If the rulers of a secular India can not take action against the Hindu atrocities against the Christians in Orissa & elsewhere, how can they expect a government in a Muslim nation crack down on the Muslim extremists the way India likes? Indian politicians are taking the same position that George Bush took after the 9/11 attack.

The Bush government fought its war keeping a safe distance from its ‘enemies’ – far away in the foreign lands – so it could ignore the immense human cost that the civilians in the war zone had to pay. The conflict between the born twins & close neighbors like India & Pakistan (whether you accept or not that you’re close neighbors) would not offer the same benefit. Why don’t India & Pakistan learn from the Kashmir mess they’ve created?

A proverb in Nepali goes like, ‘Burning your house to get rid of the mice’. One can merely wish that the India Government & its cunning politicians would refrain from proving the proverb.

Justice Denied: Are Indian Judges above Law?

By Dr. Abdul Ruff

In every society, secular, democratic, autocratic and totalitarian, some people are more important and more powerful than the rest and hence are not affected general rules and laws meant for common people. Ruling elite, rich business magnets, top officials, top politicians are among those who enjoy the confidence of the government and hence are kept out of frame legal structure and are free to do whatever they feel good for themselves. Since bribery is an accepted phenomenon in Indian life, rich traders class bribe the political class and government officials and also finance the legislators and parliamentarians during the poll campaign are also exempted from all legal problems as they are taken care of by the government. Although it is only the head of the state officially enjoys immunity from legal actions, many of these sections also claim and enjoy the same unofficially.

However it is the corpus of security personnel who are totally law-free citizens of the country and this “security’ offers them the right to kill or torture the people the state dislikes. Judiciary, generally, takes sides with the state agencies and endorses the state terrorist actions of the security forces.

Police and military personnel have an important place in every system, including liberal democratic, and their actions are above any legal jurisdiction. Military people are obviously placed higher than the police as the former serves the state government. There are instances when military personnel are detained by policy on wrongful actions, but they are relaxed by the military forces by getting the central government offices intervene on their behalf. The illegal or immoral actions of police are nullified by the central government.

Inefficiency

The rotten sate of affairs in India and other so-called democracies and secular setups got obtained because the system suffers from the judicial lacunae since they protect the state agencies as a priority matter. Judges generally enjoy respect in the society because they the ultimate lawmakers and, if they want, the law breakers of the society. They decide the fate of every individual in the country or province with their judgment delivery affecting the lives of people. Rampant corruption has become reality of every society because of corruption in every section including judiciary. While the judiciary at times finds fault with corruption and huge money “transfers”, but when it comes to their own cases, they protect themselves. This has happened quite openly in India.

There have been instances of lawyers bribing the judges and politicians “getting hold” of the judges, apart from the usual government interferences. The Judges at every level, as a result, try their best to help the corrupt politicians and the powerful; rare is a judicial officer who does not bow to the ruling class or the state rogues of India.

Unilateral
Claiming special status, the Judges in India refuse to declare their assets and want to hide their wealth and money making.. Terming the details of the judges’ wealth as “personal information” which cannot be made public, the Supreme Court recently informed the CIC, that there is no law, which makes the declaration of the Judges assets mandatory. Judges do not wish, to let the citizens know, how they increase their assets. It sounds illogical, if not anti-democratic.

Chief Justice of US Supreme Court John Marshall had once said: “Power of Judiciary lies not in deciding cases, nor in Imposing sentences nor in punishing for contempt, but in the trust, faith and confidence of the common man”. The RTI Act was introduced to check corruption, by opening up information to citizens. Unfortunately the Information Commissioners entrusted with the job of overseeing the proper implementation of the act, are trying to sabotage the act.

In this highly volatile and terrorized world, where the anti-Islamic forces and their originating nations torture or kill the defenceless Muslims by branding them as terrorists, the new revelations show the just opposite being the crude fact, in Indian case. That is radical Hindu terrorists and militants harbouring ill feelings and spreading hatred towards Muslims are involved in terrorist activities with aids from state and central government agencies, most importantly the military. Hindu fanatics have plated bombs in various Indian towns but the media in India with their wide investigative journalistic networkings have not detected anything about Hindu terrorism, they are mischievously harbouring fictitious news items and hurl “terrorist charges” against Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir as if they have complete water-proof evidence for that.

Deficiency
Judiciary goes by the “notes” they receive form the government agencies on cases they are dealing with and don’t exercise their real power independently to bring out the truth about a case, especially in “terror” related cases. In rare cases, truth is discovered quite late when the innocent convicts have suffered sufficiently under the boot of the terror security and intelligence forces. With the latest revelation about military promoting terrorist attacks in Indian towns and Indian media loyally toeing the lines reserved for them by the intelligence agencies, the conditions of Muslims generally and Kashmir Muslims in particular could be best imagined now. Not only the Indian terror forces occupying Jammu Kashmir have killed thousands of freedom seeking defenseless Kashmir Muslims, they have also meticulously planned the terror attacks by supplying the “materials” to Indian “spots”.

In modern days with the advent of advanced technology, judges are supposed to know the latest remote techniques for information sharing and troubling creating for the people, being employed by government and private agencies. One doubts if many judges know about the remote mode operations to make rains or move clouds by the government agencies, possibly by the defense personnel. Similarly there are so many remote machines available to ordinary people to do surveillance and watching activities.

In deciding a case on merits of the issue, the judges should know the remote gadgets that are operated in a hidden manner by state agencies violating, seriously, the basic rights of individuals. There are devilish remote machines to make noises, create dreams, and make terrorist actions on living beings and the like.

It is a matter of shame caste and, creed and religion plays crude role in selection and promotion of judges in democratic-secular India. Every step is ensured to see only Hindus become judges and only one of them becomes the chef justice of India. Corruption, nepotism and favoritism thus remain the hall mark of judiciary too. Under these circumstances one can visualize the justice part of the Indian judiciary and this explains why grand Babri Mosque tragedy destroyed by the militant Hindu terrorists in 1992 is yet not resolved by the judiciary. Judges are appointed by the ruling party and their government and these judges depend solely on the politicians and bureaucrats for their onward march in their profession.

Nepotism, Crime & Dominance: A case study
It is a known phenomenon the judges behave like authoritarian leaders who pursue their own agenda by being in high seats. They are corrupt and encourage rivalries and tensions in the society. A former chief justice of AP High court who also was an acting governor of Andhra Pradesh, belonging to the most powerful caste Reddy, got his own daughter in a federal government educational institute in Hyderabad (CIEFL) to become a professor in German with a flawed language and pronunciation. She is a militant like person who thrash teachers on the campus. Invariably, a Reddy becomes chief-minister of AP and Reddys are specially sent to USA and other Western nations to study and employment. Reddys occupy important positions in administration, judiciary, police and other important domains that control the entire state. In fact the Reddys occupy the chuck of Indians living in USA and West.

Andhra Reddys who constitute not even 4 % Telugu population, are the richest class having spread their poisonous tentacles every where in the province as well as country and control the entire AP state through all possible mechanisms. The fact that Reddys are the most powerful in Andhra Pradesh has been capitalized by her and other at the institute to influence the police and judiciary in AP. Today, the CIEFL, started to train school teachers of English has been controlled by extremists and people with criminal records. The current director, originally form Delhi University, had assaulted teachers and had cases in courts of sexual harassment by female teachers. The Manmohan government with Arjun Singh as Human resources minister has chosen him to direct the CIEFL. This small institute is known not for its academic excellence, with its almost zero output, but vicious circles and gangs that the director manipulates to keep himself safe. Any one who does not agree with the gangisms is kicked out physically and handed over to police for punitive measures by the courts. (This writer has been one among the victims at this horrid CIEFL who were forced to seek voluntary retirement and yet is denied their benefits after agreeing to for that).

The state criminals in CIEFL are protected by the police, court and the state and central government which is least bothered about the educational standards, except the reports about terrorism in India and abroad. One can visualize the standards of higher educational institutions in India. But the judges should have stayed away from influencing the offices for the selfish ends. Indian government seems to have supplied remote gadgets to some of the inmates of the residential campus of the CIEFL, who, in the name of security, are keen to watch what their neighbors are doing in their bedrooms.

With the falling standards of judiciary, the higher educational standards also fall significantly as they have become the certificate issuing agencies on prescribed (plus extra) charges. Indian government is eager to make this retched CIEFL a university now. If judiciary takes decision to promote wealth making efforts of the lawyers and judges, how can the universities and institutes be properly organized and effectively used by the public?

Post-script
Indian Apex court has ruled that judges need not declare their assets. Judiciary conversely states that judges can accept bribes and make wealth of their choice, but, unlike their counterparts in military, executive, legislature, intelligence, police and media, judges are above law and cannot be questioned about their hidden wealth made in profession or other wise. That being the judicial state of affairs, is Judiciary above law? Are judges above Law? Independent judiciary also means freedom to distort facts to protect the state terrorism?

Only an efficient judiciary can be productive and responsive to the changing mood of the society and guide the nation by its righteous rulings. Kashmir genocide has been going on for decades by Indian terror forces mainly because Indian government has taken the support of the judiciary for granted. Judiciary should shoulder the prime responsibility for the poor state of affairs in India and worsening the fate of Indian Muslims as well as Kashmiris. The active, though hidden from public view, nexus among the executive, security, intelligence and media have harmed the lives of Muslims in Kashmir and India, but when the judiciary joins the nexus, in order to protect their own “future”, the situation becomes quite torturous. That has indeed happened to Muslims around. They are under state siege and have no hopes whatsoever.

All these years judges also said Muslims are terrorists and hence they should be watched carefully and this converse suggestion emboldened the state agencies to torture the Muslims, more so the Kashmiris. The slow revelations about the Hindu priests abetting terrorism with the support of anti-Muslim Indian media has clearly exposed Indian mind-set pretty clear about its inhuman and terrorist intensions and terror activities. That is to say Indian state is engaged in terrorist activities and Muslims take the blame. Where is the UN? Where is UNSC? Where are the global Human Rights activists? And what the ICJ in The Hague and judiciaries of these democracies are doing? When will the Grand Babri Mosque be rebuilt in India at the original site where it stood before being pulled down by the Hindu terrorists? What is the fate of Afzal Kashmiri who was trapped on falsified charges and has requested the India government to kill him also like other thousands of Kashmiris, in stead of torturing him in Indian jails?

Father Gandhi vs. Mother India

Iswor Allah Tero Naam: Abdul Gaffar Khan & Gandhi

BY Dr.Abdul Ruff Colachal
Although denied the Nobel Prize for his freedom movement leadership, MK Gandhi is a historical phenomenon who led successfully the last part of Indian freedom struggle to regain independence from UK colonizers and is hailed as father of Indian nation. Although he championed the freedom cause and fought against UK oppression, Gandhi did not have a proper vision of future India except that the country should pursue a sort of “non-violent” course. However, he did not oppose to India becoming a weaponized nation, becoming another colonial hegemon in annexing its neighbor Jammu Kashmir and consequently, becoming a terrorist state in genocides, rapes, destructions, tortures and various other forms of state atrocities.

A British Favorite?
If the British rulers, who had killed many in groups, really wanted to make Gandhi “disappear”, as many Kashmiris and their leaders have been meted out thus far by an arrogant India, they could have done it in a matter of minutes. But they seemed to groom him for Indian cause. Similarly, the Britishers did care about MK Gandhi and, unlike what terror India has done to Kashmiri freedom leaders like Syed Geelani, the English men were quite considerate about the well-being of him. Look at the way the Indian government has done to Kashmiris. Over a lakh Kashmiris have been murdered by occupying India terror forces. Even Kashmiri women children are tortured and harassed on their own lands by foreign forces. Senior freedom leader Geelani has been ailing for quite some time due to harsh treatment meted out him for decades, arresting him on a regular basis and mentally torturing for sadistic pleasure of Indian strategists.

Not many Indians have either realized or recognized a crude fact that their “Bharat mata” (mother India), has been an anti-Muslim, invader, illegal militarizer, oppressor, a fraud and killer– all in one- in her neiborhood and its greed for Muslim blood, like its strategist partner USA, has been too much. Bharat mata has clearly and conveniently ignored Bharat pita (Father India), Gandhi and his non-violent advices. Bharat mata has buried deep in the nuclear arsenals the name of pita and pretends she has not done any thing wrong. On the one hand, the mata laments that Indian young political “children” have totally forgotten about rashtra pita (nation’s father), and on the other, it has systematically sidelined the principles of pita and values of his ‘ism’.

It is alarming that Gandhian India has occupied its neighbor Jammu Kashmir, built up its weapons arsenals, both nuclear and conventional, in a reckless spree threatening its neighbors. Bhatat mata’s double speak is exposed as it also talks about regional speak. Her dutiful “children” worship her perhaps not aware of its Doctrine to destabilize the regional nations. But they should tell their beloved mata not to kill the children of Kashmir and not to kill the innocent children there to quench her Islamic blood thirst.

Not many Indians know that behind the shield of mother India the terrorist instinct hides comfortably and gaily kills innocent Kashmiris is a sustained manner as a matter of routine matter. Can these children of Bharat still love blood thirsty mother India? Bharat Mata still pretends she is not aware of the whereabouts of Bharat pita, whom she had berried underneath the nuclear arsenals. She is even ashamed of him, because invocation of his name would jeopardise the new Indian nuclear goals.

An Effective Fascist Tool
Over decades of its existence even by fighting wars with Kashmiris and Pakistanis along with wars, terror India has used the slogan as an effective tool to terrorize Muslims. It is the military forces occupying Jammu Kashmir, killing innocent Kashmiri Muslims that accord greatest importance to Bharat mata on whose behalf they do these atrocities in that nation making Kashmiri blood bleed profusely.

Indian media harp on the theme of Islamic terrorism and try with the help of the secret service agencies to fabricate illusionary links with Muslims who are denied their due in national development and denied even payment for the their government services at times. As it is known, national and regional media are atrociously anti-Muslims. Recently a few Kerala Muslims were murdered by Indian terror forces in Jammu Kashmir, but the Kerala media and intelligence try to ink them with “terrorism” and ISI, “trained in Pakistan”, and etc…in order to justify the killing of Muslims by state Hindus far away. Bulk of Kerala media are run by Christian-Hindu lobbies and they, at par with their counterparts in other states, brand the Muslims as potential terrorists. When a Hindu is killed in JK, obviously the media would paint a different picture stating that Kashmiris terrorists have killed a Malyali Hindu, cleverly supported by fiction photos.

State Hindu fascism could be observed every where in the country. Bharat Mata is invoked more vigorously by military forces as they equate Bharat mata with themselves. It is a known fact not many would stick to military services if his salary is cut by a few rupees a or the facilities and privileges are removed, like free or duty-free liquors and that they are more bothered about their “power’ and status in the establishment. Any one who travels by Indian trains any where would testify the fact that military personnel would take the bogies to ransom and even beat and thrown passengers out of running trains. And they would go scot-free. They show their “power’ to the ordinary passengers and want them to salute them literally. The military personnel disregarding and discarding their place in society, drink heavily in compartments by sharing the “bottles’ with TTEs and other important passengers, because the liquors come cheap if not free. Once fully down under kick, they terrorize the passengers.

Recently, during the monsoon, I was travelling from New Delhi to Trivandrum by super fast train which was diverted to a different route due to some rail damage on the regular track. Since the train route was changed, not many reserved passengers boarded the train. In the night some military guys came to my side with bottles and started boozing. I requested them to go to another side that was also empty. But these “powerful” guys did not care and drank with a loud slogan of Bharat mata ki jai (great India …) etc., and started abusing Muslims and me. One of them broke a bottle and came to kill me with the bottle piece. But another civil passenger came to rescue and I was safe. No TTE was available in the entire train; I ran inside the bogies all around but located none). What exactly was the matter is not clear to me, but the military had chosen people form the South to terrorize me.

Eventually, the “Bhatrat mata” means state terrorism, military power, privileges, destruction and genocide. A state terrorist mother India can not do miracles for its own people, even if her children love her too much for her Muslim blood thirst.

Indian Double-mindset
India very systematically maintains double standards in every aspect of its affairs both at home and abroad. In foreign policy, it says it follows a peaceful one while it tries to destabilize its neighbours and terrorises its neighbour Kashmir by showcasing its weapons muscle, it threatens its neighbours in particular the Kashmiris. In economic front, it claims to be the “Asian giant” making its neighbours feel insecure and shaky. India has squeezed the economic power of common people to make a strong capitalist class. On the other hand, New Delhi goes on begging the Western powers in all possible ways.

Mother India has comfortably showcased its image in a dichotomy too. On the one hand, India claims to be an economic giant, and on the other, goes around the developed world with a begging bowl. It depends on Japan, USA and EU for the required boost of the Indian capitalist class under former reserve bank chief, Manmohan. One does not know why the cash rich India needs money form Japan, EU, USA and other developed nations, when it is also trying to find suitable avenues to invest its own money in Mideast, Central Asia, and Russia etc.?

Bharat mata is unable to arrest the upward inflation trends in the country. One striking phenomenon is that owing to the reckless spending on non-human needs, Indian Rupee value also has plunged downwards. Corruption has been rampant in every sector. The rupee last week reached its crucial 50-level against the greenback on sustained dollar purchases by foreign banks and stronger dollar overseas. The rupee tumbled to 50.05 levels after resuming weak at 50.00/01 a dollar ahead of Reserve Bank’s mid-term review of monetary policy later in the day. It is not quite clear as yet as to who all are effectively cornering the wealth in the country under the slogan of mother India, energy, anti-Pakistanis terrorism!

Post-script: Gandhian or Mother India.
One wonders as to why Gandhi failed to clinch the Nobel peace award and why India has remained anti-Muslim. In spite of strenuous efforts by Indian state and central governments to make the Nobel Peace prize Jury to favor “Mahatma” Gandhi with a prize, Gandhi could not get the Prize and more than once he was rejected after being short-listed under pressure from Indo-UK leaders. The obvious reason was Gandhi had nothing for universal truth as his actions were predominantly pro-Hindu and Hindutva. At one point, he even advocated a war against Pakistan. This explains why post-Gandhian “Bharat mata’ has become so arrogant, so manipulative and a state terrorist. It is atrocious how India has been managing to woo all the terrorist powers, including USA and Israel for securing a seat on the UNSC!

By insistently ignoring the ideas of the father India for a peaceful existence, mother India has made the country a nuclearized power that flirts around the capitalist nations for reasons known only to herself. By renouncing peaceful path and non-capitalist path of development India has also shed its Non-aligned mission quite conveniently. Indian leadership decides according to the dictates of the USA and its own military intelligence that has got its own hidden terror agenda in the region, not just in Jammu Kashmir.

Today, Gandhians are fond of extra cash, special privileges, foreign liquors and full non-vegetarianism. They also make a lot extra money too and one does not know how many of modern Gandhians have accounts in Swiss bank! Eventually, the “Bhatrat mata” means state terrorism, military power, privileges, fraud, destruction and genocide. A state terrorist mother India, therefore, can not do miracles for its own people.

India is indeed a fascist, terrorist state. When mother India has become synonymous with military power and genocide of Kashmiri Muslims, one can easily conclude that both mother India and father India have done enough damage to India, Muslims in India and Kashmiris. The awkwardly emotional slogan “Bharat mate ki jai” is being raised at many spots in the country, quite violently, for the sake of special privileges for a few persons. The pro-India Kashmiris leaders, who are playing in the bloody hands of Bharat mata in taking part in her mischievous polls in JK, are in fact betraying Kashmir cause. Indians would have boldly called them the traitors if they were Indians. The pro-Hindutva leaders in Kashmir are no less anti-Kashmiris as the plain pro-India elements trying to come to power to kill the innocent Kashmiris by getting more terror troops from New Delhi. Bolo Nuclear mata ki jai! Then one should also praise lavishly about Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals, too?

Bangladesh Polls: Drama of Democracy?

By DR.ABDUL RUFF

Although political parties had feared that the elections might be delayed, Interim government has announced the Parliamentary (General) elections to be held in Bangladesh on 18 December with 13 November the deadline for nominations. Since January 2007, Bangladesh has been run by a military-backed interim government, which promised to curb corruption and hold free elections. Authorities have also said local government elections would be held on the 28 December.

The Bangladesh Election Commission has said it has recorded the identities, fingerprints and photographs of more than 80 million voters to ensure that the elections will be free and fair. The authorities claim that the new register is the most accurate in Bangladesh’s history. The government came to power a year and a half ago President Iajuddin Ahmed cancelled general elections and declared a state of emergency following months of street violence.

Awami League (AL) and BNP — yesterday expressed rather opposing feelings about the developing political scenario in the country vis-à-vis the December 18 parliamentary election.

General elections due last year were postponed after several months of street protests and political violence triggered by a standoff between two former premiers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia, both of whom face trial on corruption charges involving millions of dollars which were siphoned off in the poor country. The interim government cancelled elections due to be held in January last year.

Local Poll

Elections to local councils in Bangladesh, the first under an army-backed interim government – would be for four city corporations and nine municipalities, were to be held on 4 August 2008. The Awami League, the party of ex-Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed — out on bail from corruption charges and in the United States — swept all four city mayoral posts and eight out of nine municipalities. Sheikh Hasina, who led the country from 1996-2001, said the polls paved the way for a return to democratic rule. The announcement was initially criticized by the main political parties, who said holding local votes before national elections were unconstitutional. The two major political groups, the Awami League and the BNP, have called for outright cancellation of the non-party local polls, claiming they can disrupt the crucial parliamentary vote. However, the Awami League said it would participate in polls for city and town councils on August 4 in a dramatic U-turn on its earlier stand to boycott all polls except the parliamentary elections and that came as a major boost for the military-backed emergency government.

Emergency

The country has a long-running reputation for deep-seated corruption. The current caretaker administration, backed by the military, has pledged to eradicate corruption. Many analysts say the government is determined to destroy the political power of the two women as part of its drive for political reform.

The former prime ministers and leaders of the two main parties, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina are released now. Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina have dominated Bangladeshi politics for many years. Both have alternated as prime minister since 1991. They are bitter rivals and barely speak to each other. Their mutual loathing is reflected among their respective sets of supporters. As a result, political life has been marked by, at best, ceaseless bickering. Released now from jails, they were in custody, charged with extorting money when they were in power. The “battling Begums’” are being held in detention in the grounds of parliament in Dhaka. Khaleda Zia has been charged with corruption in relation to the choice of who should run two state-run container depots during her second term in office as prime minister. Earlier this year she was charged with tax evasion. Sheikh Hasina faces a new charge of taking illegal payments of some $435,000 from an electricity company. She is already under investigation for extortion and murder. Both women deny any wrongdoing.

A state of emergency was declared on 11 January 2007, caretaker government, backed heavily by the powerful military and important donor countries like the UK, is still in charge. Emergency rule was declared ostensibly to uphold law and order. When the (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) BNP’s term of office ended in October, the country was gripped by a series of violent clashes in which many people were killed. In the end President Iajuddin Ahmed bowed to pressure and declared a state of emergency and the postponement of general elections.

At first glance, the current state of Bangladesh appears to be a paradox: a country under a state of emergency, but where the general public seems quite content. But there is little outward sense of repression, and Dhaka’s social elite, usually most vocal against human rights violations, appear most pleased. The reason for this apparent sense of satisfaction is not difficult to see. The treatment meted out to politicians is not being seen as repression. People across the board see them as retribution for the corruption and abuse of power of the past fifteen years. By the time the state of emergency was declared in January, the public had also become fed up with the constant bickering and street-fighting between the two main political parties.

Normalcy

The caretaker government had elections would be held only once it had rid the country of corruption. Political parties have been banned from holding meetings. Trade union activities, including rallies and demonstrations are also banned. Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina and BNP leader Khaleda Zia face rumblings of discontent against their leadership from within their respective parties. Now the two main parties, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Awami League, have resumed political activities.

If anything interrupts Bangladesh’s peaceful return to democracy in 2008, however, many people believe it is likely to be the spiraling price of food. The food ministry says its stocks are half full and running out. It blames the devastating impact on November’s cyclone and floods last year, as well as record global food prices. But businessmen also blame the government. Its anti-corruption drive, some say, has at times resembled a witch-hunt and so scared away legitimate investments. Whatever the causes, the government’s reputation for competence has dropped as the prices have risen. So far, the public has largely supported the caretaker government. That could easily change if the food crisis continues.

Advantage

Although it is advantageous for Awami League which has won the recent local polls, poll fortunes could shift depending on the course of the campaign. Both parties said it is imperative to lift the state of emergency to make the upcoming election credible. BNP said as a pro-election party it wants to contest in the poll, but an atmosphere conducive to holding a credible election has not yet been created as the military backed caretaker government has not yet met any of its seven demands. After separate meetings with visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a capital hotel, AL said it will contest in the election and hopes that a peaceful appropriate environment will be created through withdrawal of the state of emergency.

The problem of corruption is so deep-rooted that it will not have time to clean things up before the elections promised by the end of 2008. Many still argue that as long as the two women – even if they are not themselves corrupt – continue to hold run their respective parties, a culture of corruption will remain. The new incumbent ruler would do well pay urgent attention to arrest the corruption tendencies.

It is of paramount importance that a total lifting of he emergency is an imperative for holding a free, fair and credible election. The people won’t have fundamental rights under the state of emergency, so that will be a problem for an acceptable poll. It is expected that a peaceful environment will be created through withdrawal of the state of emergency, as one adviser has already said the restrictions on fundamental rights will be withdrawn and the process will start from tomorrow. Hopefully, Bangladesh will go to polls in a free atmosphere without emergency rule.

* Article except the title posted as sent by the author

Hindu Festivals: Roots of Indian Terrorism ?

Joy Sans Religion: Muslim boys enjoying Dipavali

By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal(Updated)

Hindus breed terror seeds in order to terrorize and kill Muslims. Equipped with colossal weapons, India never seeks peaceful solutions. It wants to use force to coerce those who disagree with its colonial and imperialist drives. Indiahas thus created a corpus of militant Hindus who are arrogant and seek terrorist means to settle issues. Kashmiris seek peaceful resolution of sovereignty issue, butIndia continues to add terror forces to occupied Jammu Kashmir and kill the defenseless Kashmiri Muslims. Yet, Indiaclaims to a secular democracy and seeks a UNSC seat to pursue its hidden agendas.

Like the USA, the world terrorist nation, India also off and on makes loud noises about the now famous “terrorism”, though of late it come refrained, for no reason, using the phrase “cross border terrorism. The intelligence wing with the help of essentially anti-Muslim Indian media is never tired of “tracking” the Muslims as “terrorism” causers. The paid media agents do churn out “interesting” stories about Muslim terrorists and how they were tracked and argue, quite convincingly, how important it is to finish off the Muslims in stock and barrel.

One of the major Hindu festival Divali (or Deepavali in the south India) has been, as usual celebrated, rather blasted, in all parts of India from Kanyakumari to Punjab and Haryana (Jammu Kashmir is an alien nation though presently under Indian military occupation and brutal control) in the usual fun and fair with a lot more noise pollution and atmosphere pollution, but also glorification of terrorism actions in a legally fitting matter.

Many a Hindu festival in India is marked by terrorism shows like loud crackers and semi explosives. Fascist tendencies are explicit on these occasions. Hindus expect Muslims to cooperate with Hindus in expressing solidarity with Hindu festivities by aggressively exploding semi-explosives. If it only Hindus blast explosives, it is one matter, but Muslims living among the Hindus also, for fear of onslaught form the Hindus if they also do not do same, for expressing their own terrorist instincts at part with fellow Hindus, waste quite a lot of money on “fire-works’ creating nuisance, pollutions, both noise and atmospheric, as well inconvenience to the moving public in streets and roads.

Inspired by terror based festivities, the Hindus make more powerful explosives to terrorize the nation.

It is strange that whenever India or Blue wing of Indian team inside India wins a match similar terrorism blasts do happen almost every where in India and this is done in a systematical manner and no an isolated phenomenon. This aggressive _expression of joy at victory in a match takes very ugly form in many parts of India when Hindus blast bombs.

1. Indian Fascism

Ghastly destruction of Grand Babri Mosque remains the glaring specimen for the Indian and Hindu fascist culture, rather vulture culture. Hinduism, thus, has become a symbol of intolerance, terrorism, apart from being a major source of colonialism and imperialism.

In fact these explosives situation in India only showcases fascist trends in Hindu thinking. The attitude is very simple: “it is our country (read Hindus’) and we will do whatever we please and if you don’t want to tolerate us (read Indian democracy and secularism) then go to Pakistan”. This has been the standard response from the Hindus to any Muslims who even silently resent such anti-social terrorist activities in the society in the name of festivities. Muslims have no ways to defend their freedom in India, imposing fascist attitudes on Muslims.

USA and India must foster tolerance through deliberate policies and efforts, because all societies are now essentially multi-ethnic. Indian text books must teach the children respect of each other, to respect Muslims as part of the society as equal citizens. But children are taught ills about other races and cultures. Muslims are not unwanted elements as the Indian media project them.

2. Islam, a peaceful Religion

Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. But the world wants to make and see it a religion of “terrorism” and “fundamentalism” just like that. India wants to siphon off the resources form Muslims and take every fruit of development exclusively for Hindus. Hence they harass Muslims. Islamophofia is being successfully created around the world to generate hatred against Muslims and threaten their very existence. In countries where Muslims are in minority, such as India, USA and UK, Muslims are being ill-treated the worst possible ways and they are branded as “terrorists”, real or potential.

Evil of intolerance has been indeed on the increase in the so-called democracies. Intolerance to Islamic faith in a covert manner is being religious practiced not just in USA, UK and the rest of the West, but even in countries like Hindu India that make tall claims about their tolerance and what they practice in fact amount to contempt for tolerance. Muslims at global level still refused to combat this nasty phenomenon. The phenomenon has thus resulted crudely in the anti-Islamism projections the world over, causing death, genocide, violence, religious persecution as well as confrontations on different levels. While talking about tolerance, the global state machinery has been targeting on Muslims as its perceived enemy. Majority Indians, the Hindus, show disrespect to Muslims and expect total obedience to Hindus and their institutions, including culture. They expect Muslims to renounce Islamic rituals eventually and imbibe Hindu customs and practices in stead in due course.

3. Congress-BJP communal-terrorist Nexus

Under the sinister garb of “secular democracy” India has promoted Hindu terrorists in a hidden manner and these terrorists plant bombs in select places across the nation and Indian media-cum-intelligence-cum-police cleverly place the blame on Muslims, while “patriotic’ terror organizations, while RSS and Bajrang Dal continue to terrorize India. Indian governments, both central and state, intentionally hide the information about Hindu terrorist activities, though Indian intelligence agencies do supply the information to the government circles for “necessary actions”.

The recent revelations in the Malegaon blasts put every ongoing blast investigation under a cloud and a question mark. Clearly, the police suppressed all the trails that led to Sangh outfits and BJP leaders – allowing these terrorists to roam free and contest and campaign in elections – while misleading the nation by framing innocents of a minority community. Is it not all too possible that this is happening in every single blast investigation?

Indian politics is communal. Congress has a very long communal history that goes back to 19^th century when Indians were fighting for freedom form UK. It is not just BJP leaders, however, who are linked with the terrorist sadhvi. Pragya is a disciple of Swami Avadheshanand Giri: and her fellow disciples include Union HRD Minister and celebrated ‘secular’ figure Argon Singh and his son Ajay. The list of VVIPs, cutting across the political, executive and judiciary wings, could be too long, indeed! Ajay, head of the Congress campaign panel for the upcoming state polls in MP, rushed to deny Avadheshanand’s links with Pragya. VHP is trying to make the world Hinduized.

Intelligence and policy pretend ignorance of the secret Hindu organizations engaged in terrorist activities in the country. The Governments at State and Centre did not know all along about the activities of hidden Hindu terrorist originations, especially the Bhonsala Military Academy, which has been openly holding arms training camps for Bajrang Dal terrorists/goons from all over the country. Blasts aside, how come such training camps for communal outfits were not deemed illegal and banned even as Bajrang Dal brigades repeatedly conducted anti-Muslim and anti-Christian violence?” The Congress and UPA Government is hoping to let the state machinery ‘leak’ out a tiny part of the truth about the involvement of Sangh outfits in terror, in order to get the upper hand in the elections. But we won’t be satisfied with such scraps.

Known for its hidden agendas and terrorist activities in Jammu Kashmir, India does not ban Hindu extremist organizations even after Babri Mosque was pulled down by Hindu terrorists. Congress plays hidden tricks with BJP, while several Hindu organizations are connected Congress party just as they are close to BJP. Military, police and media are under the control of both of these parties. The nexus among all these Indian anti-Muslim components create terrorism and harm the national harmony and problems for innocent Muslims. Is it not a dangerous trend?

An Observation

Hindus derive a lot sadistic pleasures out of sufferings of Muslims both by promoting terrorism themselves and branding the Muslims as terrorists, while the hon. judiciary maintains silence as if the judges are deaf and dumps. Indian governments must ban the Hindu terrorist organizations, “social explosions” by Hindus disturbing social peace in the country, apart from causing serious climatic problems.

The terrorist instincts are inherent in Hindu mind. And this is indeed a very serious matter, because Hindus as the majority section of this predominately and predominately Hindu nation influence the Muslims in the country who for the sake of mere existence under the control of Hindus and their governments also and provoke them to engage themselves in terrorism activities. Political outfits run by Hindus incite violence by sung Muslims as henchmen.

Hindus terrorize Muslims and Muslims are also punished because the media and intelligence brand them as “terrorists”. India evades and violates human rights; but it tolerates the practice of tolerance against subjugation of Muslims by the state. It inversely advocates toleration of social injustice, the abandonment and weakening of one’s convictions. But tolerance means that one is free to adhere to one’s own convictions and accepts that others adhere to theirs. India is just opposed to this universal approach.

India must now admit that Hindus are terrorists and terrorize Indians and the entire region and kill the Muslims in Jammu Kashmir. India should not dream about justifying its terrorist activism by using USA, its newly found strategic partner with which it has been “nuclearily” flirting for quite some time. Time is up for India to go a through introspection and remedial measures for itself, its media and police, military and other variety of security services. Indian security forces are making the life of Muslims more and more insecure.

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Congrats Paks!

Mount K-2 in Pakistan is the second highest peak after the Everest in Nepal

Despite Pakistan being a Muslim & Nepal a Hindu nation until recently, both the countries enjoy what Ambassador Mr. Sohail Khan said, “cordial & cooperative relations.”

I’d like to add, “both at the despotic & democratic levels.”

The then Royal Nepal Govt’s supression of the students’ protests in Kathmandu against the execution of Pak’s 1st elected PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto provoked a massive student unrest throught the country that paved the road toward democratization in Nepal.

Nepalis still write letters & articles in the papers lamenting the merciless killing of the ‘daughter of the east’ Benazir Bhutto.

When King Gyanedra dismissed the elected govt on the charges of inefficiency & corruption and grabbed all the power imposing a military rule through a bloodless coup, people of Nepal enjoyed calling him the Nepali version of Prez Musharraf.

And the recent successful elections in Pak have greatly boosted the Nepali morale for holding the Constituent Assembly polls on April 10.

“If Pak people dare to vote in such a difficult conditions, why can’t the Nepalis?” ask the writers in Nepali dailies.

At the peoples level - cricket, Pak tele-serials, & ghazals - have played key roles in changing the ‘jihadi’ perception of Muslims in Nepal.

Nepalis are fiercely divided when it comes to Indo-Pak cricket.

The tarai people favor the Indian side, while the hill ones go for the Paks.

Similarly, that Nepali heroes like Shiva Shrestha & journalist Bijay Kumar once enjoyed stardom in Pak films & media also brought the two culture in close communication.

I still remeber being literally glued to my seat while watching Pak teleserials aired by Nepal Televison during the 90′s.

Many a times, the viewers have cried & laughed at the life-like portrayal of human emotions in those serials.

“Daswi jamat pass hoon, direct hawaldar hoo, koi majak nahi hoo” presented the most tragicomic character.

And who could forget the ‘yeh dil yeh pagal dil mera’ fame Ghulam Ali who also lent his voice to some Nepali Songs, & is perhaps the most popular along with Jagjit among Ghazal lovers.

Happy National Day to Paks!

Busharraf!

 

So, American senators, overwhelmed by their democratic conscience, have called Prez Musharraf for a ‘graceful’ step down.

As if Mush was obliged to others’ call of conscience who never listened to his own!

Does one need to be a Mush fan to ask the Rev. senators impeach their own president for waging a war against Iraq under false pretexts?

American senators would do a great favor in fostering democratic values all over the world, if they could make the Bush Team face judgement while they’re still in office.

How can Prez Mush step down while his great friend Prez Bush is still preaching from the White House?

After all, Pakistanis enjoy their regime calling ‘Busharraf’!