In the decisive Battle of Waterloo (1815) forces of the French
Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte were defeated by those of the
Anglo-Allied army under the command of Duke of Wellington. Duke of
Wellington addressing Napoleon Bonaparte said “You French are
fighting for the land and we on the other hand are fighting for
Honour and Glory”. To this Napoleon Bonaparte replied “One fights
for thing one doesn’t have”. The fight between PML (N) and the PPP
is following the same pattern for one doesnt have land (Government)
and the other Honour & Glory.—Islamabad
Shadow of Hindu terror
Qudrat Ullah
India, the 7th largest country by its geographical area is
controlled by a tiny fundamentalist community called Brahman.
Although, claiming to be the world’s largest democracy and the 2nd
most populous nation in the whole world, India is a conspicuous
symbol of religion based terrorism. Their centuries old
socio-religious norms of hatred and minorities’ genocide make India
a neo-Nazi of 21st century. While claiming to be secular and
democratic, the Indian government has given new meanings to state
sponsored violence, with its innovative approach towards minorities’
persecution as a state policy.
In his manifesto ‘We, Our Nationhood Defined’ (1939), Madhav
Sadashiv Golwalkar, Supreme Director of the RSS from 1940 to 1973,
said that Hindus could profit from the example of the Nazis, who had
manifested race pride at its highest by purging Germany of the Jews.
He said the foreign races in Hindustan must either adopt the Hindu
culture and language, they must respect and hold in reverence Hindu
religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the
Hindu race and culture, or may stay in the country, wholly
subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no
privileges. This is true portrayal of Hindu mind.
Of the 1139.96 million total Indian population, mainly consists of
well over 800 million Hindus (80.5%), Muslims (13.4%), Christians
(2.3%), Sikhs (1.9%), Buddhists (0.8%), and Jains (0.4%); while
Jews, Zoroastrians, Baha’is and other minority ethnic groups are
roughly 8.1% of the total population. For the last 62 years since
1947 when India got independence from the British, its minorities
are living in a constant state of fear & reprisal and their
persecution by various state agencies and zealot Hindu organizations
like the RSS, has become a major state policy, as major resource
mobilization and policy planning is done by fanatic Brahmans.
Therefore, there are practically no chances of minorities’ welfare
and development.
The violent attacks on Indian Muslims are part of a concerted
campaign of assorted Hindu terror organizations for promoting and
exploiting communal tensions to further the Hindutva’s political
rule. BJP is an important socio-political movement which is
supported by Hindu militant groups that function with total
protection and under the patronage of the state. These groups are
directly responsible for bloodshed against innocent Muslims in
Gujarat including the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal, the
BJP, and the umbrella organization Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangh, all
of whom collectively form the Sangh Parivar. These organizations,
although different in many respects, have all promoted the argument
that because Hindus constitute the majority of Indians, therefore,
it should be a Hindus State.
Pakistan, being an enduring hurdle in the designs of extremist
Brahman elite, is a particular itch for them. Hindu history proves
that they try to win through conspiracies and espionage what they
cannot win in open war wares, therefore; Indian government and its
various terror sponsoring agencies are waging a constant war of
terrorism and destruction in Pakistan, in connivance with some fifth
columnists. Experts have divulged that as many as 40 different
training camps at Rajasthan, East Punjab, Indian occupied Kashmir,
Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India are run by RAW’s Special
Service Bureau to sponsor terrorism in Pakistan and other regional
countries. RAW is also sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan through its
various ‘consulate offices’ set up in bordering areas in Afghanistan
to excel its sabotage activities in Pakistan. Therefore, the nation
needs to remain alert of Hindu terrorists in guise of Taliban.
—Lahore
Foreign hand in Balochistan
Sattar Baloch
Balochistan, has been in a grip of foreign sponsored sporadic acts
of terror. Most active in the province has been the Indian
intelligence agency ‘RAW’ which wanted to open a second front in a
bid to divert the government focus from FATA where it has invested
hugely in fanning the militancy. There are other foreign agencies
operating in Balochistan besides the Indian one. There unequivocal
support to the failed and irrelevant militant Baloch leaders, who
enjoy superior authority over Baloch, has been immense. These
agencies thrive by exploiting the colonial mind sets of these
leaders to destabilize the province.
The daily target killing of non-locals leads to indicate the foreign
involvement to create miss-understanding between Baloch and Punjabis
and also escalate the hatred between two nations. The same game plan
ne of East-Bengal is applying inside Balochistan to destabilize
Pakistan. Couple a month more then 30 persons have been killed most
of them were teachers; the situation inside Balochistan is going to
worse. For India, Balochistan has been another soft target in its
bid to destabilize Pakistan. Whereas India fuels the militancy in
Pakistan’s North Western and FATA through a series of Consulates
along the Pakistan borders, it sponsors Balochistan Liberation
Front, Balochistan Republican Army and Baloch Liberation Army
through its Consulates located at Zahedan and Mazar in Iran and
Kabul in Afghanistan. Not only these Consulates provide funding and
guidance to the insurgents in Balochistan they also provide
explosives and weapons for terror activities inside the province.
What is wrong in Balochistan is due to foreign involvement and
recklessness of our federal government. It is obligatory that the
federal government should give more opportunities of development in
Balochistan.The FC should be deployed on Afghan border rather then
cities. Levies force and police should take the control. It is
humbly requested to Baloch brothers to create tolerance and respect
the law and order inside province. Unfortunately the whole system of
government is in the hand of corrupt leaders, that is why our enemy
is taking the advantages, we must reform and look into our self. The
daily target killings of the innocent locals have become a sensitive
issue in Balochistan. The Indian Agencies are involved to kill the
innocent people to fuel the situation more hazardous. It is true
that past governments were responsible for the present situation in
Balochistan and India is just exploiting the bad situation. The
Baloch public should not expect any compassion from these so called
leaders and Sardars.
The greatest sin of our rulers has been that they have never tried
to better the economic and political conditions in Balochistan
despite repeated promises from them since the creation of Pakistan.
Balochistan remains the most neglected province and 88 per cent of
its population lives in miserable conditions. It is important to
remove the mistrust between the Baloch and the Federation by
adopting Confidence Building Measures coupled with cessation of all
violent activities from both sides. After creating a positive
environment, the negotiation on actual demands for Baloch rights
should begin. The opportunity of Jobs must be created for the Baloch
young educated people and the question of deprivation must be
removed. However, there is a need to identify the Baloch
representatives who can influence the outcome of any negotiation.
Equally important is the identification of Indian designs of
targeting development activities in Balochistan. —Via email
Indian civil calendar
Zahid Rashid
Farmers in slum area of Punjab and Azad Jummu & Kashmir use Indian
civil calendar to sow the seed and cut crops in harvest. All the
ritual festivals, seasons in the year, change of weather,
possibility of rain snow falling, cold nights and hot days and even
the birth of a child counted from Indian civil calendar. People from
villages especially those who lived in undivided India are well
aware of the date and month but even they do not know exactly where
this century starts and why we write this ( BS) with year name like
we have 2066 B now a days. There are few people who know about this
calendar and the exact date and month of this year.
Bikram samwat (BS) or Vikram samwat is the calendar established by
Indian Emperor Vikramaditya. Vikramaditya. (102 BC to 15 AD) was the
king of Ujjain, an ancient city of Malwa in central India. It is
said that Bikram samwat was originated by Tuar Rajput Vikramaditya
Invaded Ujjain and drove away the Sakas. The original Vikramaditya
(56 BCE to 58 BCE). Rule start from Ujjain .The King was famous for
his wisdom, velour and majesty. The increasing common naming of
Hindu children by the name of Vikram can be attributed in the part
of Vikramaditya.
Bikram samwat is very popular in India and the official calendar of
the Nepal, though Gregorian and original Nepalese calendar are also
used in Nepal.. The Western or Gregorian year based on the sun in
which a year is the time required for the earth to complete its
orbit around sun. Bikram samwat (BS) year is based on sun and moon
both. It is a solar calendar based on ancient Hindu tradition. This
calendar is 56.7 year ahead of Gregorian calendar .In Bikram samwat
calendar season follow the sun month follow the moon and days both
the sun and the moon.
Numbers of days in a month of Bikram samwat year are thirty and
thirty one, even in Nepal there are 2 month with 32 days, but
actually it is not exist in original calendar. The months in Indian
civil calendar and there equivalent days in Western calendar are
like this .Caitra is the month with 30 days and its start from 22
march in western calendar. Vaisaka , Jyaistha , Asadha ,Sravana and
Bhadra are consist of 31 days and started with April 21, May 22 June
22 July 23 Respectively. Months like Asvina, Kartika, Agrahayana,
Pusa, Magha and Phalguna are consist of 30 days and their equalance
in western calendar are August 23 , September 23, October 23,
November 22, December 22 January 21 and February 20.
The Indian civil calendar uses seven days week system like most of
the world in other calendars as well. In this calendar we have the
days name like this Ravaare, For Sunday, Somavara stands for Monday,
Mangalva for Tuesday , Budhavara for Wednesday Guruva stands for
Thursday Sukravar and Sanivar for Friday and Saturday respectively.—Rawalpindi
Lessons from Berlin Wall
Khalid A
Berlin Wall came down crashing 20 years ago,on 10th Nov 1989. This
event changed the world for ever. Journalists report that Mrs
Thatcher was very anxious that the West should not display excessive
jubilation that may backfire. She advised France and Germany to
maintain restraint, Mr Gorbachov also privately urged restraint,
fearing a coupe.
We should learn some important political lessons from the above.
Excessive jubilation displayed when one’s opponent is suffering from
a political disadvantage, is always counterproductive. One may
recall P M Gilani’s negotiations with Manmohan Singh in
Sharm-al-Shaikh. Our boisterous celebrations made it difficult for
Manmohan Singh to continue on the path of appeasement. There were
other similar episodes during 1965 war and Kargil misadventure. We
must not rub political salt on opponent’s wounds, yet we can quietly
pocket the ‘prize money’.—London, UK
