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“Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.”

Robert H. Schuller (born 1926);
Pastor, author

“Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.”

— Stephen Covey

Why USA is imposing conditions on release of Dr.Aafia Siddiqui? When can’t she be given the presidential pardon by the USA and sent back to Pakistan? Why such a harsh sentence for a fragile lady compared with the US serviceman who killed and burned the bodies of dozens of Afghans?

Pak doctors save Thane (India) man after mid-air heart attack | Mumbai Mirror | Jul 19, 2013

Pakistani officials allow unprecedented emergency landing and deploy ambulance to airport to take Vasant Bondale (76) to Aga Khan Univ
ersity Hospital, where doctors treat and release him in a fortnight.

Amid frequent reports of cross border firings along the LoC comes an India-Pakistan story to soften the heart of even the most ossified cynic.

The ministry of external affairs yesterday confirmed that on June 24, Vasant Bondale, a resident of Thane, was given life-saving treatment in a Karachi hospital after he suffered a heart attack on board an Istanbul-Mumbai flight. This despite the fact that Vasant, his wife Nalini, and her brother Vijay Phadnis, did not have Pakistani visas.

Nalini told Mirror yesterday, “I was not scared of landing in Pakistan as the priority was to save my husband. It was of course on my mind that we had no visas, but the Pakistani authorities never brought it up. In-fact, their cooperation is something that we don’t have words to express. They treated us like family.”

On June 24, Vasant (76) and Nalini (72) were on their way back to India after a 10-day Scandinavian tour when Vasant suffered a heart attack mid-flight. “It was around 3.30 am (IST). After finishing my dinner I wanted to discuss something with my husband. However, when he didn’t respond to my words I realised something was wrong,” Nalini said.

Our Lives Begin to End the Day We
Become
Silent about Things that Matter
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

An appeal to the PM Pakistan, to make conditional, the grant of the MFN status and the normalisation of relations with India, with the withdrawal of Indian military and para military forces, from the occupied Kashmir and the Siachin.

India kills unarmed protestors (a must read letter published on 21 July, 2013 by the daily “Pakistan Observer”

Professor Kabil Khan

Sunday, July 21, 2013 – This is with reference to the news of six unarmed protestors that were killed when the Indian security forces opened fire upon them. The mindset of the Indian army is evident from its brutal handling of the innocent and unarmed people of Kashmir and the grotesque manner in which they are maimed and killed. It is also reflective of the collective Indian psyche that has legitimized the use of brute force in order to attain and maintain a dominant status in the region.

After acting as a brute force, with full blessings from its government, the Indian army has surelyforgotten how to act as a civilized one. To raid a seminary in the holy month of Ramadan where Muslims are more emotional and sensitized towards religious activity, is nothing but sheer mischief making on the part of the Indian soldiers.

First the Imam of a mosque was harassed and the holy Quar’an desecrated upon which the local people were fired upon indiscriminately when they protested this act of brutal violence. This, manner in which the Indian forces operate is surely nothing new as they are regular customers of HR violations. And all this is being done with the relentless support of the institutional culture of moral, political and juridical impunity. Indian writer and human rights activist Arundhaty Roy states that India will suffer because of what it has done in Kashmir. That the “troops involved in various heinous crimes including custodial killings, disappearances, rapes and declared accused through FIRs and other reports have evaded action which has resulted in making them habitualoffenders. These habitual offenders when deployed in other states will commit the same offences against innocent people.”

—Peshawar

“Problems are in your life so that you can discover potentials
that you didn’t even know you had.”

— Barry Michels

India Iran Defence Cooperation and Silence of Pakistan on Iran Gas Pipe line
Posted by Syed Nayyar Uddin on July 21, 2013 in My Views |
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I am surprised that in yesterday’s foreign office briefing the PM gave his new guidelines for relations with countries from America to India but there was no report for PM’s policy input regarding Iran with particular reference to the gas pipe line. Whereas our leadership may read with interest the news of the latest developments in military cooperation between Iran and India quoted as below.
India welcomes defense cooperation with Iran: Minister
Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony
Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:59PM
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.
Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony has welcomed the expansion of defense cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in different sectors.
During a meeting on Saturday, the Indian minister and Iran’s Ambassador to New Delhi Gholam-Reza Ansari stressed the development of bilateral defense cooperation, exploring ways to expand relations in this regard.
Pointing to achievements made by Iran and India in the defense and military industry, the Iranian envoy expressed Tehran’s readiness to enhance relations and exchange experience with New Delhi.

I am surprised that in yesterday’s foreign office briefing the PM gave his new guidelines for relations with countries from America to India but there was no report for PM’s policy input regarding Iran with particular reference to the gas pipe line. Whereas our leadership may read with interest the news of the latest developments in military cooperation between Iran and India quoted as below.

India welcomes defense cooperation with Iran: Minister
Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony
Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:59PM
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.
Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony has welcomed the expansion of defense cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in different sectors.
During a meeting on Saturday, the Indian minister and Iran’s Ambassador to New Delhi Gholam-Reza Ansari stressed the development of bilateral defense cooperation, exploring ways to expand relations in this regard.
Pointing to achievements made by Iran and India in the defense and military industry, the Iranian envoy expressed Tehran’s readiness to enhance relations and exchange experience with New Delhi.

Shame on America which threatens Pakistan for getting gas from Iran but on the other hand gives free hands to India for enhancing defence cooperation with Iran.

Pakistani leaders wake up..!

India welcomes defense cooperation with Iran: Minister

Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony
Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:59PM
In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.

Indian Defense Minister A. K. Antony has welcomed the expansion of defense cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in different sectors.

During a meeting on Saturday, the Indian minister and Iran’s Ambassador to New Delhi Gholam-Reza Ansari stressed the development of bilateral defense cooperation, exploring ways to expand relations in this regard.

Pointing to achievements made by Iran and India in the defense and military industry, the Iranian envoy expressed Tehran’s readiness to enhance relations and exchange experience with New Delhi.

In recent years, Iran has made great achievements in its defense sector and attained self-sufficiency in producing essential military equipment and systems.

The Iranian Army is equipped with a wide range of domestically-manufactured military and defense equipment, including ground surveillance radar systems, personnel carriers, drones, destroyers, submarines, and missile-launching frigates.

The Islamic Republic has also held several military drills to enhance the defense capabilities of its armed forces and to test modern military tactics and equipment.

Tehran has repeatedly assured other countries that its military might poses no threat to other states, insisting that the Islamic Republic’s defense doctrine is entirely based on deterrence.