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Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits
Nation needs to apologise to Kashmiri Pandits
The nation needs to apologise to Kashmiri Pandits for not doing enough to protect their interests, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha said today.
"The whole nation needs to apologise to the Kashmiri Pandits, because we have not done what we should have done for them," Sinha said, referring to the community being forced out of their home state by terror groups.
Addressing the annual convention of Panun Kashmir, an outfit of Kashmiri Pandits, here, the former governor expressed "total confidence" in the army's ability to protect Jammu and Kashmir, saying: "No matter what anyone says so long as you have an army like the Indian Army the question of grabbing Kashmir does not arise.
Source:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/442468_Nation-needs-to-apologise-to-Kashmiri-Pandits--Sinha
Kashmiri Pandits reject WG recommendation on J&K
Viewing seriously the recommendations of the Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government, Panun Kashmir, an organisation advocating cause of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, today said that it rejects the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis.
"We view seriously the recommendations of Prime Minister's Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government. We reject the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis of unprecedented dimensions," Panun Kashmir's media incharge, Ravi Punjabi told reporters here today.
"This is a retrograde step as would dilute the Indian sovereignty in the Jammu and Kashmir state", he said adding PK rejects all recommendations of political nature in the Report that jeopardise interests of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits, community, people of Jammu and Ladakh.
Source:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/439750_Kashmiri-Pandits-reject-WG-recommendation-on-J-K
Sagir Ahmed report is biased
Panun Kashmir (PK), an organization of displaced Kashmiri pandits, rejected the Sagir Ahmed report on the "Centre-State relations", and protested against it saying recommendations in the report do not address the cause of Kashmiri pandits.
The activists alleged the recommendations do not address the issues of Kashmiri pandits who have been forced out from the valley by the Islamic fundamentalists.
"The report of the prime minister's working group on Centre-State relations headed by former chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court justice Sagir Ahmed is manipulated and is against the wishes of nationalist people of Jammu Dogras, Ladakhi Buddhist, Gujjars and Kashmiri pandits," PK president Ashwani Chrungoo told reporters.
"The report is illogical, unrealistic, biased and anti-Kashmiri pandits," he said during the demonstration where the activists shouted slogans against the recommendations in the report.
Jammu and Kashmir Minority Forum (JKMF)Demands
-There is need to implement the package at the earliest to redress the problems of the displaced pandit community.
-Already the schemes under this package for the community youth have been delayed raising doubts about the intentions of the government.
-The forum has already appealed to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram regarding the enhancement of Rs 7.5 lakhs for return and rehabilitation of the migrant pandits
Saghir Ahmad panel report exposed
The BJP has slammed the Justice Saghir Ahmad panel report recommending autonomy for Jammu & Kashmir. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “not to act” on recommendations of the report, which had been “improperly prepared” and “unilaterally authored”.
The senior BJP leader, who is a member of Justice Saghir-headed Prime Minister’s Working Group on J&K, wrote, “What was the compulsion to bypass the Working Group and produce the report? I have an uneasy feeling that the Government wants to show to some sections of the international community that it is willing to dilute the India’s position on Jammu & Kashmir. Is this report showcased for that purpose?”
Jaitley pointed out to the Prime Minister that the last meeting of the 21-member Working Group, which had leaders of many political parties as its members, was held on September 3, 2007 and the group was virtually abandoned since then.
“I have not received any communication with regard to any meeting for even discussing the report of this group. I have not seen any draft report of the group nor has the same ever been circulated. As per the record available with me, no meeting of this group has been held since September 3. It is, therefore, surprising that the group has come out with the report on various important and sensitive issues,” Jaitley claimed.
He contended that it was improper for a retired judge to have drafted a report on sensitive political subjects impinging on national sovereignty, that too two years after the last meeting of the group without bothering to discuss it with any member of the committee.
National shame
Arguing that a “judge by training is not competent” to comment on sensitive political issues, the BJP leader said a judge can “only adjudicate issues that are judicially determinable” and that “it is an improper practice to drag judges into the political thicket”.
In the group, comprising representatives of the Congress, BJP, National Conference, PDP, Panthers Party and groups of various Kashmiri Pandits, “no consensus could ever be possible”, Jaitley said.
Talking about the September meeting, the BJP leader said Justice Saghir indicated that the next meeting would be held after about a month’s time for taking further steps to finalise recommendations of the Working Group.
“However, no meeting was held after September 3 and for all practical purposes the Working Group stood abandoned,” he said in the letter. “Whose report is it that has now been presented to the State Government? Is it an opinion of a retired Judge of the Supreme Court,” he asked. The BJP leader said he would be sending a copy of the letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Source:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/225267/PM-panel-report-changes-India%E2%80%99s-position-on-JK-says-Jaitley.html
400,000 Kashmiri Hindus murdered (officially)
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced.Islamic terrorists infiltrated the region in 1989 and began an ethnic cleansing campaign to convert Kashmir to a Muslim state. Since that time, over 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus have either been murdered or forced from their homes.
Source:
http://www.house.gov/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_feb15_kashmir.html
Militancy in Kashmir
In late 1989 and early 1990, Kashmiri Pandits had to flee the Kashmir valley because of being targeted by Kashmiri and foreign militants. By the turn of the last century, only 6.4% of Kashmiris were Hindus. The US Department of State reports that, according to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, the Kashmiri Pandit population in Jammu and Kashmir dropped from 15 percent in 1941 to 0.1 percent as of 2006.. According to the 1901 census, "In the Kashmir province they [Hindus] represent only 524 in every 10,000 of population [or 5.24%]..." while the 1941 census estimated the Hindu population of the Kashmir valley to be 4%.. According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, 84 percent of people in Srinagar want to see the return of Kashmiri Pandits. A MORI survey found that within the Kashmir Valley, 92% respondents opposed the state of Kashmir being divided on the basis of religion or ethnicity. Due to muslim militancy assassination campaign to kill pandit community, by early 1990's, most Pandits -- close to 60,000 -- were out of their homes in kashmir.
In 1931 a group of Kashmiri Pandits formed the organization in Srinagar (Kashmir),named Sanatan Dharam Yuvak Sabha later changed to All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference. The 1st conference of the organization was presided over by Late Justice Jia Lal Kilam .
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced. This has been condemned and labeled as ethnic cleansing in a 2006 resolution passed by the United States Congress. Also in 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognize September 14, 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by militants seeking to establish an Islamic state.
The ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits continues, with anti-Hindu threats made to them by militants as recently as 2009
The above information is taken from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit
Please refer Wikipedia which contains valid links for this article
The nation needs to apologise to Kashmiri Pandits for not doing enough to protect their interests, former Jammu and Kashmir Governor S K Sinha said today.
"The whole nation needs to apologise to the Kashmiri Pandits, because we have not done what we should have done for them," Sinha said, referring to the community being forced out of their home state by terror groups.
Addressing the annual convention of Panun Kashmir, an outfit of Kashmiri Pandits, here, the former governor expressed "total confidence" in the army's ability to protect Jammu and Kashmir, saying: "No matter what anyone says so long as you have an army like the Indian Army the question of grabbing Kashmir does not arise.
Source:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/442468_Nation-needs-to-apologise-to-Kashmiri-Pandits--Sinha
Kashmiri Pandits reject WG recommendation on J&K
Viewing seriously the recommendations of the Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government, Panun Kashmir, an organisation advocating cause of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, today said that it rejects the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis.
"We view seriously the recommendations of Prime Minister's Working Group on Centre-State relations released by the government. We reject the recommendations, as it has potential to plunge the entire state into crisis of unprecedented dimensions," Panun Kashmir's media incharge, Ravi Punjabi told reporters here today.
"This is a retrograde step as would dilute the Indian sovereignty in the Jammu and Kashmir state", he said adding PK rejects all recommendations of political nature in the Report that jeopardise interests of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits, community, people of Jammu and Ladakh.
Source:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/439750_Kashmiri-Pandits-reject-WG-recommendation-on-J-K
Sagir Ahmed report is biased
Panun Kashmir (PK), an organization of displaced Kashmiri pandits, rejected the Sagir Ahmed report on the "Centre-State relations", and protested against it saying recommendations in the report do not address the cause of Kashmiri pandits.
The activists alleged the recommendations do not address the issues of Kashmiri pandits who have been forced out from the valley by the Islamic fundamentalists.
"The report of the prime minister's working group on Centre-State relations headed by former chief justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court justice Sagir Ahmed is manipulated and is against the wishes of nationalist people of Jammu Dogras, Ladakhi Buddhist, Gujjars and Kashmiri pandits," PK president Ashwani Chrungoo told reporters.
"The report is illogical, unrealistic, biased and anti-Kashmiri pandits," he said during the demonstration where the activists shouted slogans against the recommendations in the report.
Jammu and Kashmir Minority Forum (JKMF)Demands
-There is need to implement the package at the earliest to redress the problems of the displaced pandit community.
-Already the schemes under this package for the community youth have been delayed raising doubts about the intentions of the government.
-The forum has already appealed to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram regarding the enhancement of Rs 7.5 lakhs for return and rehabilitation of the migrant pandits
Saghir Ahmad panel report exposed
The BJP has slammed the Justice Saghir Ahmad panel report recommending autonomy for Jammu & Kashmir. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh “not to act” on recommendations of the report, which had been “improperly prepared” and “unilaterally authored”.
The senior BJP leader, who is a member of Justice Saghir-headed Prime Minister’s Working Group on J&K, wrote, “What was the compulsion to bypass the Working Group and produce the report? I have an uneasy feeling that the Government wants to show to some sections of the international community that it is willing to dilute the India’s position on Jammu & Kashmir. Is this report showcased for that purpose?”
Jaitley pointed out to the Prime Minister that the last meeting of the 21-member Working Group, which had leaders of many political parties as its members, was held on September 3, 2007 and the group was virtually abandoned since then.
“I have not received any communication with regard to any meeting for even discussing the report of this group. I have not seen any draft report of the group nor has the same ever been circulated. As per the record available with me, no meeting of this group has been held since September 3. It is, therefore, surprising that the group has come out with the report on various important and sensitive issues,” Jaitley claimed.
He contended that it was improper for a retired judge to have drafted a report on sensitive political subjects impinging on national sovereignty, that too two years after the last meeting of the group without bothering to discuss it with any member of the committee.
National shame
Arguing that a “judge by training is not competent” to comment on sensitive political issues, the BJP leader said a judge can “only adjudicate issues that are judicially determinable” and that “it is an improper practice to drag judges into the political thicket”.
In the group, comprising representatives of the Congress, BJP, National Conference, PDP, Panthers Party and groups of various Kashmiri Pandits, “no consensus could ever be possible”, Jaitley said.
Talking about the September meeting, the BJP leader said Justice Saghir indicated that the next meeting would be held after about a month’s time for taking further steps to finalise recommendations of the Working Group.
“However, no meeting was held after September 3 and for all practical purposes the Working Group stood abandoned,” he said in the letter. “Whose report is it that has now been presented to the State Government? Is it an opinion of a retired Judge of the Supreme Court,” he asked. The BJP leader said he would be sending a copy of the letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Source:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/225267/PM-panel-report-changes-India%E2%80%99s-position-on-JK-says-Jaitley.html
400,000 Kashmiri Hindus murdered (officially)
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced.Islamic terrorists infiltrated the region in 1989 and began an ethnic cleansing campaign to convert Kashmir to a Muslim state. Since that time, over 400,000 Kashmiri Hindus have either been murdered or forced from their homes.
Source:
http://www.house.gov/list/press/nj06_pallone/pr_feb15_kashmir.html
Militancy in Kashmir
In late 1989 and early 1990, Kashmiri Pandits had to flee the Kashmir valley because of being targeted by Kashmiri and foreign militants. By the turn of the last century, only 6.4% of Kashmiris were Hindus. The US Department of State reports that, according to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, the Kashmiri Pandit population in Jammu and Kashmir dropped from 15 percent in 1941 to 0.1 percent as of 2006.. According to the 1901 census, "In the Kashmir province they [Hindus] represent only 524 in every 10,000 of population [or 5.24%]..." while the 1941 census estimated the Hindu population of the Kashmir valley to be 4%.. According to a 2007 poll conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, 84 percent of people in Srinagar want to see the return of Kashmiri Pandits. A MORI survey found that within the Kashmir Valley, 92% respondents opposed the state of Kashmir being divided on the basis of religion or ethnicity. Due to muslim militancy assassination campaign to kill pandit community, by early 1990's, most Pandits -- close to 60,000 -- were out of their homes in kashmir.
In 1931 a group of Kashmiri Pandits formed the organization in Srinagar (Kashmir),named Sanatan Dharam Yuvak Sabha later changed to All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference. The 1st conference of the organization was presided over by Late Justice Jia Lal Kilam .
The violent Islamic insurgency has specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandit minority and 400,000 have either been murdered or displaced. This has been condemned and labeled as ethnic cleansing in a 2006 resolution passed by the United States Congress. Also in 2009 Oregon Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to recognize September 14, 2007, as Martyrs Day to acknowledge ethnic cleansing and campaigns of terror inflicted on non-Muslim minorities of Jammu and Kashmir by militants seeking to establish an Islamic state.
The ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits continues, with anti-Hindu threats made to them by militants as recently as 2009
The above information is taken from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Pandit
Please refer Wikipedia which contains valid links for this article
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Indian Voice at UN
Shreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam
This title is the last line of the song 'Maithreem Bhajatha'. This song was written by Jagathguru Sankaraachaarya Sri Chandrasekarendra Sarashwathi Swamigal of Kanchi Kaamakoti Peetam who was famously known as 'Periyavaa' and 'Paramaachaaryaa'. I think the occasion was 50th anniversary of United Nations Organization. The Queen of Carnatic Music, Bharath Rathna Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi was invited to sing at UNO on this occasion. Acaaryaa wrote and gave to her this Sanskrit song when she mentioned about the UNO invitation to Acaaryaa. We can appreciate the importance and relevance of this song even after 40 years of writing this song, if we look into the meaning of each line. I think we should listen to this song daily and meditate on the meaning so that we can consciously follow the advise given by Acaaryaa in this song for the World Peace.
Maithreem Bhajatha Akila Hrith Jeththreem - Serve with Friendship and Humility, which will conquer the Hearts of Everyone.
Atmavat Eva Paraan api pashyata - Look upon others similar to yourself.
Yuddham Tyajata - Renounce War
Spardhaam Tyajata - Renounce unnecessary Competition for Power
Tyajata Pareshwa akrama aakramanam - Give up Aggression on others' properties which is wrong
Jananee Prthivee Kaamadughaastey - Mother Earth is wide enough and ready to give us all we desire like a Kaamadenu
JanakO Deva: Sakala Dayaalu: - God, Our Father, is very Compassionate to All
Daamyata - So, Restrain yourself
Datta - So, Donate your wealth to others
Dayathvam - So, Be Kind to others
Janathaa: - Oh People of the World
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam - May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam - May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam - May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.
When this song was rendered at UNO, all the delegates from the World Nations were given the translation of this song. The rendering of this song by MS and the meaning was so melting that most of the delegates were very moved and some of them started weeping at the profundity of this song and the voice.
Source: http://maithreembhajatha.blogspot.com/2005/10/shreyo-bhooyaath-sakala-janaanaam.html
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Great Speech By Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad . *Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths,
our achievements?
We are such a great nation.
We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.
Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit.
There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so NEGATIVE?
Another question:Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?
We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.
Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture,
when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph.
I asked her what her goal in life is.
She replied: I want to live in a developed India
For her, you and I will have to build this developed India.
You must proclaim.
Indiais not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
Do you have 10 minutes?
Allow me to come back with a vengeance.
Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,
The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say, say and say.
What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore
Give him a name - YOURS.
Give him a face - YOURS.
YOU walk out of the airport and you are
at your International best.
In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU?
YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .
YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to 'see to it that my STD and ISD
calls are billed to someone else.'
YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,
'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?).
I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.'
YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia
and New Zealand ..
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ?
Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??
We are still talking of the same YOU.
YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system
in other countries but cannot in your own.
You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground.
If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same herein India ?
Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr.Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,he said. 'And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements.
What do they expect the officers to do?
We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms
but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide
the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to
stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
When it comes to burning social issues like
those related to women, dowry, girl child!
and others, we make loud drawing room protestations
and continue to do the reverse at home.
Our excuse?
'It's the whole system which has to change,
how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights
to a dowry.'
So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of ?
Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government.
But definitely not me and YOU.
When it comes to us actually making a positive
contribution to the system we lock ourselves
along with our families into a safe cocoon
and look into the distance at countries far away
and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles
for us with a majestic sweep of his hand
or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to
America to bask in their glory and praise their system.
When New York becomes insecure we run to England .
When England experiences unemployment,
we take the next flight out to the Gulf.
When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government..
Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country.
Nobody thinks of feeding the system.
Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too....
I am echoing J. F. Kennedy 's words
to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....
'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA
AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA
WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'
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