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Indian Govt may ask Gmail, Yahoo to route all emails through servers in India
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Yahoo, Gmail and others would be asked to route all emails accessed in India through the country.
NEW DELHI 22-Feb: The Indian government plans to ask email service providers such as Yahoo, Gmail, Microsoft and others to route all emails accessed in India, through servers based here, even if the mail account was registered or made in a foreign land. It also plans to establish an India-centric Skype service.According to documents seen by ET, the Department of IT has been asked to inform email service providers on it, at the earliest. During a high-level meeting held in the office of Union More >
Kashmir is a Flashpoint
Kashmiri girls cry over the detention of their relative
By Brig Asif Haroon Raja 21. Feb, 2012 Under the partition plan worked out by the British in June 1947, the 600 princely states had been given the choice of either joining up with India or Pakistan, giving credence to communal demographic milieus and geographic proximity. India in connivance with British Viceroy Lord Mount Batten annexed all the princely states including Junagadh, Hyderabad Deccan and Manavadar whose Muslim rulers had desired accession to Pakistan. India annexed these states on the pretext of communal affinity and More >
Pakistan Army works up its own ‘iPad’
1 day ago
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LAHORE 21-Feb
In this Feb. 8 photo, Mohammad Imran holds a Pakistani-made PACPAD computer tablet at his electronics store in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) also makes an e-reader and small laptop. (AP)
“PACPAD”Pakistan Army” “iPad” “The Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) “: Pakistani military was working to develop a homegrown version of the iPad (PacPad) at the Kamra Air Force Complex, a leading American news agency, has reported.
The $200 iPad tablet was manufactured at the Kamra Air Force facility that produced fighter jets and was the latest addition to More >
Robbed of a future
(21 February, 2012) By Maliha Lodhi -Three years before the world was captivated by the Arab awakening young people in Indian-held Kashmir were attempting something similar. In 2008 the first flicker of a Kashmiri ‘spring’ was seen. The year witnessed the largest demonstrations against Indian rule since the uprising of 1989-90.
The following two years showed the Kashmiri resistance movement entering a new phase. Mass protests were used to press the people’s case for freedom. The spirited protests of 2009 and 2010 foreshadowed many aspects of the ‘Arab spring’. They were youth-driven and by More >
Kashmiri woman’s 15-year wait for husband
By Firdoose ul Islam, IANS 19 February 2012 Keran (Jammu and Kashmir): Whenever a postman enters this village in Kupwara district of Kashmir, Jameela Rayees cannot stop herself from rushing to the door in anticipation. What she is waiting for is her passport, so that she can go to Pakistan and look for her husband Shakir.
Shakir Ahmad Rayees fled to Pakistan along with a group of people in 1995 when militancy broke out in the state.
“I want to meet Shakir once before my eyes close forever,” Jameela, 42, told this correspondent.
The last time she saw her husband was in 2004, some months after More >
Why India gets away in Kashmir
Aakar Patel Feb 19, 2012 Kashmiris resent, quite rightly, the intrusive presence of India’s jawans on their streets. But the jawans don’t want to be there. New Delhi doesn’t want the jawans there either. So why are they there? India says the army is in Kashmir because of terrorists, who can only be handled militarily. This is only partially true. The reason the army is deployed in Srinagar city is mainly to block its citizens from coming out on the streets and demanding azadi, as they did in the early 90s.
If Kashmiris would elect their leaders and not demand azadi, the army would go away. More >
UN demands AFSPA, PSA repeal, probe into HR abuses in IHK
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15 (APP): The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, recommending the repealing of black law,Armed Forces Special Powers Act and Public Safety Act, called for “prompt, thorough and impartial investigations on violations committed against human rights defenders” in Held Kashmir.“The lawyers, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, were asked by the authorities whether they were with them or against them. Six lawyers were killed in recent years because they were representing victims of human rights violations,” according to the text of the More >
Bulla, the martyr
Sopore, Kashmir 15 Feb 1975: Ghulam Muhammad Bulla,who was tortured to death in the Central Jail Srinagar on 15 February,1975 for braving the Indra-Abdullah Accord 1975 to uphold the right of self-determination of the Kashmiris.
Zahir-ud-Din(15/02/2012)
Bulla happens to be the last person to be killed in custody in the pre-accord era
A family in apple town Sopore has been waiting for justice for the past thirty-seven years. On February 15, 1975 one of its members was subjected to extra-judicial execution. The government also ordered a probe but the findings have not been made public More >
Kashmir: the mental price of conflict
Kashmir- "Thousands of people have killed,disappeared and many are in truama,stress.
SRINAGAR, Feb 13, 2012 (By Sana Altaf): Maheen was nine years old when she witnessed the death of her elder brother. At the age of 10 she saw the dead body of her neighbor, killed in the crossfire between Kashmiri rebels and Indian security forces, his guts spilt out on the road. The incidents left Maheen restless, irritable and insomniac, for which she was prescribed five milligrams of Valium by a local physician. But even in her sleep she was haunted by the horror she had witnessed. Just two months later, More >
Message on Martyrdom of Ghulam Muhammad Bulla by Farooq Rehmani
Islamabad:The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has paid glowing tributes to the great sacrifice of Ghulam Muhammad Bulla Shaheed,who was tortured to death in the Central Jail Srinagar on 15 February,1975 for braving the Indra-Abdullah Accord 1975 to uphold the right of self-determination of the Kashmiris. He said that Bulla Shaheed was a brave young Kashmiri, and remained committed to the cause of Kashmir’s freedom to the end of his short life. It was after his martyrdom that the youths of Kashmir ventured their indigenous enduring, which bore fruits More >
Uneasy calm prevails in Rafiabad as bereaved family lives in trauma
Rafiabad Kashmir-Unidentified relatives comfort sister of Ashiq Hussain who was killed by Indian army.
Rafiabad-Kashmir 13 Feb 2012(Amin Masoodi): In grief-struck Lasier village of Rafiabad, uneasy calm prevailed for the third consecutive day today as hundreds of people visited the bereaved family members of deceased youth to express their solidarity. The bereaved family members are still shell-shocked and apparently inconsolable.
Tension and uneasy calm gripped the area after the killing of Ashiq Hussian Rather in Army ambush on February 10 evening. Although the army and civil administration More >
Kashmir Bulla killing: 31 years, and people await probe findings
Sopore Kashmir 15 Feb 1975: Ghulam Muhammad Bulla,who was tortured to death in the Central Jail Srinagar on 15 February,1975 for braving the Indra-Abdullah Accord 1975 to uphold the right of self-determination of the Kashmiris.
EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Feb 14: A family in apple town Sopore has been waiting for justice for the past thirty-one years. On February 15, one of its members was subjected to extra-judicial execution. The government also ordered a probe but the findings have not been made public till date. Hectic political activity was going on in February 1975. The Plebiscite Front More >