Uttar Pradesh - “Worst place to be a Woman”

A spate of exceptionally brutal rapes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked India. Many of the victims were young girls. The BBC’s Geeta Pandey reports from Lucknow. For Sarika, 16, it was like any other day when she went out to the fields for her evening ablutions with her friend Chhaya. It was a cold February evening and it was pitch dark. “I was feeling a little scared so I wanted to get back quickly,” she tells me. On the way back, she says, she was attacked by Shivam and three other men from the village. “Shivam grabbed my hand and asked me to marry him. I said: ‘No, how can I marry you? We live in the same village, you are like my brother.’ I kicked him and tried to run away. “With the help of his friends, he dragged me to a secluded area and began to assault me with knives and axes. I was conscious for some time, but once they cut me on my head and neck, I fainted. When I became conscious, I was in hospital.”

 

The poor victim girl Sarika

Sarika shows me her injuries - a fist-size wound on her scalp, her jaw which has been sewn together, her right hand which had to be re-attached, her right earlobe from where big chunks are missing, and long scars on her arms. Shivam has been arrested, but the others are still free. One told the BBC he had been wrongly accused.
 

A terrified Sarika and her family have abandoned their home and land in Fatehpur district’s Udrauli village to stay with relatives in another village nearly 45km (30 miles) away. The assault on Sarika is one among the hundreds of rapes and attempted rapes this year in the state. “It’s a very difficult situation here,” says Roop Rekha Verma of Sajhi Duniya (Shared World), a Lucknow-based organisation which works with women. “There is a lot of violence: Crimes are escalating; gender problems are increasing; girls are being attacked, both in rural and urban areas,” she says. 

Caliphate:The System Of Peace `No Dictatorship,No Democracy`

Engr. Sharique Naeem

Lahore, Pakistan

With the Arab spring in full flow, it is becoming clearer that many players are competing for the space created by the overthrow of some rulers in the Middle East. Whilst the masses braved the brutal crackdown on the streets to end the architecture of client rulers, foreign interference and foreign dependency constructed by the Western colonial powers, the West continues to call the Arab spring as a call for democracy, Western values and more Western involvement. The decades of oppression by the dictatorial rulers has led to some confusion on where Capitalism ends and where Islam begins.

India:Hell For Nuclear Scientists~Are Indian Nuclear Assets Safe?~

According to media reports Mahalingam went on morning jogging and got disappeared. As per his family members, he did not carry money or his cell phone with him and went for walk whereas the security guards on duty said that they didn’t see him leaving the campus. It is worth mentioning here that he also disappeared 10 years back when he was working at the Kalpakkam Atomic Station. On his return, after five days, Mahalingam expressed that he had gone to seek spiritual consolation.

Nuclear Reactor Maps : India

A DNA test was performed just to ascertain the identity of the dead body. But that also raised the question: why was he cremated in such a hurry even before the results of the DNA test and the post-mortem report? The presence or absence of air in his lungs, any signs of torture on his body and the level of decomposition could have pointed to the circumstances in which he met his final end.

BJP Imposing Hindu Ideology on Muslims, Christians in Indian Schools

Bangalore A four-year-old effort to teach Bhagavad Gita to students in primary and higher secondary schools in Karnataka has courted controversy on its final lap with several groups opposing a January 2011 order of the BJP government launching the programme in Kolar district. And the matter has been compounded by a remark by Education Minister Vishveshwar Kaggeri that people must “leave the country, if they do not respect the Bhagavad Gita”.

Kaggeri made the remarks on July 14 at a meeting in Kolar where the programme has reached after covering 26 districts in the state. Kaggeri has said the programme is not compulsory for all students, as it is in Madhya Pradesh. “Our circular only says that the programme is good and schools can cooperate. We are not funding it in any way,’’ he said.

Poll: Germans Consider US To Be Bigger Peace Threat Than Iran

Press TV
A recent survey conducted in Germany has revealed that the people of the European country perceive the United States as a more serious threat to global peace than Iran.

Results from the opinion poll carried out by the German social research and statistical analysis, Forsa, indicate that 45 percent of those surveyed believe that the US is a more serious threat to world peace than Iran. 
Twenty-eight percent of the respondents deemed Iran a bigger threat than the US, with 27 percent unable to choose between the two. 

Iranian ground forces are invading Iraq

Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have taken control of three bases of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighboring Iraq, the state news agency reported Monday. IRNA quoted Colonel Delavar Ranjbarzadeh, a local commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guard, as saying“a large number” of members of the Iranian Kurdish opposition group PEJAK have been killed in fierce clashes over the past two days. The clashes are still ongoing. “Three bases in Iraqi territory were providing assistance to the terrorists. … All the bases have fallen into the hands of the (Iranian) forces”, IRNA quoted Ranjbarzadeh as saying. He said PEJAK rebels have sustained a “heavy and historic defeat.”

PEJAK rebels say Iranian forces entered Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region to fight them. 

Israhelli terrorists enter south Lebanon

Israhelli commandos have reportedly advanced into Tel Aviv-occupied territory in southern Lebanon, conducting sweeping operations there. On Thursday, 20 of the crack forces changed positions from the Ruweisat Alam village to the Shebaa Farms, a Press TV correspondent reported. Tel Aviv retains a state of hostility with Beirut by refusing to return farms, which it occupied alongside vast expanses of other Arab territories in 1967. The forces carried outmilitary operations over great swathes of land for an hour. However, Israhell’s unmanned reconnaissance aircraft flew for more than two hours over the occupied area and the Lebanese territory.

The spy planes frequently violate Lebanon’s airspace. Tel Aviv has launched several wars on Lebanon, killing around 1,200 Lebanese — mostly civilians — in the most recent round of offensives in 2006.

China: “Pakistan is our Israel”

When a USZ delegate once confronted a Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s uncompromising support for Pakistan, the Chinese reportedly responded with a heavily-loaded sarcastic remark:“Pakistan is our Israel”. But judging by China’s unrelenting support for some of its allies, including North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan, its protective arm around these countries is no different from the USZ and Western political embrace of Israel – right or wrong. While China is battling the West over exchange rates, import tariffs and its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Beijing is also lobbying furiously to stall a Western- inspired proposal for a Commission of Inquiry on possible war crimes by the military junta in Burma (Myanmar).

Murdoch threat to expose Obama as Anti-Christ Ignites Western Fury

An amazing report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by the Federal Security Service (FSB) states that the ever-growing scandal in the United Kingdom related to the phone-hacking and police bribery claims being made against the global media empire of the man Time Magazine in 2007 called “The Last Tycoon” is, instead, due to the Australian-American billionaire Rupert Murdoch planning to publish a new book claiming that the American President, Barack Obama, is a “direct-line” descendent of Jesus Christ.

Iran halts oil supply to India

Iran has upped the ante in an oil payments row with India and halted crude supplies in August, company sources said on Thursday, forcing Indian refiners to seek shipments from alternative suppliers including top exporter Saudi Arabia. Since December, India and Iran have struggled to find ways for New Delhi to pay for 400,000 barrels per day or 12 percent of its oil demand after the Reserve Bank of India halted a clearing mechanism under USZ pressure.That move won praise from Washington, which is using sanctions in a bid to get Tehran to halt its nuclear programme. Indian firms Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd , Iran’s biggest Indian client, BPCL , IOC , HPCL and Essar buy crude from the Islamic Republic and their collective debt to Iran since the crisis broke out has risen to more than $5 billion.

Fai Arrest: Pakistan blasts USZ on slander campaign

Pakistan slammed United States of Zionism on Thursday on a “slander campaign” against Islamabad over the arrest of a man accused of acting as a Pakistani government agent in the United States of Zionism. Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a Kashmiri-born USZ citizen detained Tuesday, is out of nowhere now suddenly being suspected of links to a decades-long effort that allegedly funnelled millions of dollars to Washington to lobby USZ politicians on behalf of Kashmiri causes. “Dr Fai is a USZ citizen. A demarche was made to the USZ Embassy in Islamabad Thursday to register our concerns, in particular the slander campaign against Pakistan”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. “Upholding fundamental rights of Kashmiris is the fundamental responsibility of the international community and all conscientious people who value human rights and values”, the statement added. “Campaigns to defame the just cause of the Kashmiri people will not affect its legitimacy”, it added.

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai

Meanwhile, Kashmiri leader slammed the arrest and called it unfortunate. “It is unfortunate that a leader like Fai is being dubbed an agent. He has been representing Kashmiris at various forums to make the world hear our views”, said Shabir Shah, a senior freedom fighter in Kashmir. “We strongly condemn his arrest. It is aimed at suppressing the voices who call for Kashmir’s freedom from India”, Shah told AFP. Hardline Kashmiri freedom fighter Syed Ali Geelani said: “It has been done at the behest of India and under a conspiracy to weaken the movement of Kashmiris at the diplomatic level.”

China Daily slams USZ's overtly pro-India stance

China has taken careful note of USZ Zionist Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech pitching for a larger global role for India in East Asia, with an official Chinese think tank saying Washington's "overtly pro-India stance" will hurt its larger goal of fighting militancy in Pakistan."Not surprisingly, counter-terrorism is one of the top issues on Clinton's agenda during her (recent) visit to India", says an article titled "USZ-South Asia policy", published in the state-run China Daily.

USZ, Western Diplomats (spies) under strict surveillance

LAHORE - Authorities will keep the American and Western diplomats under strict surveillance to prevent them from going to places they are not authorised to, knowledgeable sources told the Daily Nation of Pakistan.Checks on their movements have been enhanced following the release of Raymond Davis, a CIA contractor who killed two innocent citizens in the metropolis in January, an episode that fuelled anti-Americanism in the country. The CIA-led May 2 Abbottabad operation, carried out without the knowledge of the Pakistan Army, in which Osama bin Laden was killed for the 8th time in the last 10 years, widened the gulf between the two allies in the war on terror. According to sources, the security agencies have written a letter to the Foreign Office requiring it to inform them about the places a USZ diplomat(s) had been allowed to go to perform his/her official duties.

USZ delayed information about IED factories to embarrass Pakistan: General Rizwan

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) in South Waziristan, Major General Rizwan Akhter on Thursday blamed the USZ for attempting to embarrass Pakistan by delaying information about explosives factories located in the agency. Talking to media persons here in Wana,Major General Rizwan Akhter said that a third force was creating hurdles in Pak-Afghan ties.He also spoke on the situation in South Waziristan and stressed that priority is to win the hearts and minds of people as peace has been restored in most parts of the agency. To a question about the issue of foreigners in South Waziristan, he said that they were not present in most of the areas but could not confirm their complete elimination.

Epic Hypocrisy - Zionist UN cashes in Somalian Famine to boost its falling credibility

After butchering millions in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Palestine and Pakistan's "humanitarian" drone attacks, the Zionist UN has called for immediate action to contain the “widespread famine” in the Horn of Africa, where some 12 million people are in need of emergency aid in the drought-hit region. It is ironic to note that this area has been in need of emergency aid ever since America toppled the popular Somalian leader Siad Baree (former fighter in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union) and pushed Somalia into the crisis in which it is today.