India and Pakistan
February 25, 2010 - 10:46am
India and Pakistan held wide-ranging discussions Thursday about terrorism, Kashmir and other disputes in the first talks between the rival nations since the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
India said the four-hour meeting between the two countries' foreign secretaries in New Delhi was intended to begin the process of rebuilding a relationship badly damaged by that deadly siege, which India blames on Pakistan-based militants.
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Kashmir Death Toll Rises
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0807/1224276378630.html
"The demonstrators, mostly young men have been joined by thousands of women, some carrying sticks and stones and chanting: 'We want freedom' and 'blood for blood'..."
India's Brutality Has Turned Kashmir Into a Living Hell - by Giogiana Violante
http://www.thecommentfactory.com/indias-brutality-has-turned-kashmir-int...
"But you're a Westerner. You see how they are here. We have been living like this for twenty years. When you go back to your country you tell them. You ask them why they aren't helping us?"
Mrs Preeti Saran - Consul General of India (Toronto)
Email: cgindia@cgitoronto.ca
Pakistan's Floods, Partitions and Imperialist Oppression
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/pers-a30.shtml
"This is a calamity of monumental dimensions. Yet for the rival national bourgeoisies of Pakistan and India, who have been locked in a reactionary military and geo-political rivalry since their states' birth as a result of the 1947 Partition of the subcontinent, it has been business as usual.."
Kashmir's Abu Gharaib
http://www.countercurrents.org/sengupta100910.htm
"For the past several weeks, I have been watching and forwarding several videos uploaded on to Youtube and Facebook from Kashmir. Every video that I have seen contains evidence of the brutality of the Indian state's footprint on the Kashmir valley, and of the steadfast yet resilient courage of its people, and of the innovative use they have been making of the internet to bear witness to their oppression.."
Rise of Hindu Fascism in India Threatens Muslims
http://crescenticit.com/news-a-analysis/1913-december-2010/2961-rise-of-...
"the reprehensible actions of India's Hindu population against the Muslim minority of more than 200 million over many decades is often forgotten...With much discussion about India becoming one of the world's new superpowers alongside China, it is worth taking a clever look at the politics of anti-Muslim hatred that is rapidly becoming a defining characteristic of Indian society..."