http://history.world-citizenship.org WORLD-WIDE ASIAN-EURASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:55:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By K.N. Pandit Nine Muslim organizations held a protest in the capital recently slamming Congress for victimizing Muslims who they claim are innocent. This protest was evoked by Delhi police investigations into this month’s Delhi bomb blasts. The phenomenon of protesting against security forces and police conducting enquiries in the light of ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/35 By K.N. Pandita Mr. Jagmohan’s write – up (Kashmir’s new danger April 12, 2007) asks for some vital clarifications. A letter will not do, hence a full write-up. Shri Jagmohan is one most outstanding authority on contemporary Kashmir essentially first by virtue of being an astute scholar, and secondly having headed the ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/34 By K.N. Pandita The roots of Shia-Sunni jihad bedevilling Pakistan’s Punjabi dominated regions in general and more recently the Kurram Agency of FATA in particular, have to be traced in the deep – seated conflict and contradiction existing in traditional ideologues of the Shia and the Sunni sects of Islam ever ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/33 By K.N. Pandita Congress has its patent antics of making scapegoats and passing the buck on. Buta Singh has been a Congress activist for the whole of his life. How can one become Mr. non-partisan over night more so when the same party had catapulted him into the seat of the Governor ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/32 Found in The National Security's Archive NSARCHIVE Oct. 18: Saddam's Iron Grip, Intelligence Reports on Saddam Hussein's Reign. Washington D.C. October 18, 2005 - The National Security Archive today posted a series of declassified U.S. intelligence documents and other U.S. agency reports on Saddam Hussein's human rights abuses, one of which ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/31 Found in the National Security Archive, Washington DC, the following article: Declassified Documents from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 164, Edited by Robert A. Wampler - 202/994-7000. - Washington D.C. August 23, 2005 - Next week, if all goes according to plan, ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/30 Letter to the editor by K.N.Pandita. This is with reference to 'Beyond Muslim condemnation of terrorism' by Louay Safi (AT 5 August 2005). Some Muslim organizations have reacted against the brutality of London bombing. But that is not enough. It is the duty of those Muslims who claim that Islam ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/29 The Tribune, Only jehadis have gained, by G. Parthasarathy WHEN Saudi Arabia’s ruler King Fahd died after a prolonged illness on August 1, his last rites were performed according to strict and austere Wahabi traditions. But one person who reacted as though his beloved uncle had died and mourned publicly, ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/27 By K.N. Pandita, A less expressed view in some knowledgeable Iranian circles is that the new President’s hard-line posture is an exception rather than the rule There are other more baffling issues that must fill the priority list of the President. Un-remitted social and economic baggage, groupism in ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/26 K.N. Pandita, Recently terrorists were holed up in Mecca and Medina, the two historic and holy cites of the Saudi Kingdom. Saudi police found them activists of Al-Qaeda, the crusaders of the 18th century puritanical Sunni ideology of Abdu’l-Wahhab. Ironically, when Banu Saud clan of Nejd was fighting to raise ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/28 Letter to the Editor, by K.N.Pandita - Dear Sir, The Supreme Court of India, the highest institution of justice in the country has delivered its judgement in the case of terrorist attack on the parliament. One of the accused has been given death sentence and the other one served ten ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/24 Found in Asia Times, August 6, 2005, by Sergei Blagov, MOSCOW - Russia's unprecedented joint war games with China can be viewed as a dual message to the United States and the Central Asian republics of the extent to which Beijing and Moscow are prepared to go to protect ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/22 Found in Asia Times of 6th August, 2005, by Adam Wolfe, Russia and China delivered a one-two punch to Washington's ambitions in Central Asia on the eve of the Group of Eight (G-8) summit with a joint statement on "international order" followed by a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/21 Letter to the Editor, The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, by K.N. Pandita, Jammu 01.08.05, Sir - This refers to ‘The metamorphosis of Al-Qaeda’ by Rajeev Sharma (August 1, 2005). A comprehensive subject like terrorism and al-Qaeda demands an elaborate and specialised analysis. The fact is that the Islamic society (ummah) is beset ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/9 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, 01 August 2005, ANALYSIS, by Rajeev Sharma, New Delhi, July 31 - The world of jihad is undergoing a never-before churning process which is set to throw up significant new trends in international terrorism in the months to come. Today’s Al-Qaida has metamorphosed. Al-Qaida as an ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/8 Asia Times-online publishes on 27 july 2005 the following article by Syed Saleem Shahzad: KARACHI - Sophisticated terror attacks using the minimum possible resources to target civilians are the issue of the day, whether it be in Egypt, the United Kingdom or Spain. Invariably, Pakistan is linked to the attacks. In the ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/7 The Osimi Cultural Center is a non-profit organization that was registered on April of 2002 in Denver, USA. The main goal is the promotion of cultural and scientific collaboration between intellectuals for cultural and scientific communications. The Centers library prepares to present in the Internet different aspects of scientific and ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/3 Found in Asia Times, 19 July 2005, by William Fisher, NEW YORK - Today's media have all but forgotten that the emergence of Afghanistan's Taliban can be largely attributed to the policies of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a hard-drinking, party-loving Texas congressman who helped funnel billions of ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/23 Found in Asian Times, July 9, 2005, by Chalmers Johnson, Note from Tom Engelhardt, editor of Tomdispatch: The World Monuments Fund has placed Iraq on its list of the Earth's 100 most endangered sites, the first time that a whole nation has been listed. The destruction began as Baghdad fell. ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/6 By K.N. Pandita The history of a nation is usually interspersed with moments of passivity as well as of activity: it is seldom smooth and even. How the nation reacts to the upheavls or how it conducts itself during the interrugnums of peace and turmoil is the interesting chapter of ... http://history.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/5