tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post526275861431445867..comments2024-03-18T16:01:13.871-07:00Comments on Haq's Musings: Pakistan Day: Looking at the 1940 Lahore Resolution in HindsightRiaz Haqhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-80708993814674242892022-11-18T10:26:19.011-08:002022-11-18T10:26:19.011-08:00Modi’s Double Engine Sarkar by Pervez Hoodbhoy
ht...Modi’s Double Engine Sarkar by Pervez Hoodbhoy<br /><br />https://www.pakistanlink.org/Opinion/2022/Nov22/11/07.HTM<br /><br />These are substantial, undeniable achievements that hubris-filled Hindu nationalists say derive from their greatness as an ancient civilization. But wait! China has done still better. And, though far smaller, many emergent countries of East Asia — Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore — also boast of better performance than India’s.<br /><br />In every case, the secret of success is well-known — strong systems of education that create skills, knowledge, attitudes and social behavior’s suited for modern times. Together with that, a strong work ethic in the labor force. Stated differently, high national achievement springs naturally from the quickness with which a country universalizes or ‘Westernizes’ its education and creates positive attitudes towards work.<br /><br />Here’s how India grew into the present. Empowered by the scientific and industrial revolutions, Britain colonized India and sought to spread Western education and values. Conservative Hindus emphatically rejected this modernization butsar reformist movements such as Brahmo Samaj under Ram Mohan Roy and others made deep inroads.<br /><br />By 1947 under Jawaharlal Nehru — an avowed Hindu atheist devoted to the ‘scientific temper’ — India was already intellectually equipped to enter the modern world. For the next 50 years, India’s education sought to create a pluralist, secular, scientifically minded society. It reaps rich harvests to the present day — which the BJP happily appropriates as its own.<br /><br />But Hindu nationalists now want India’s goals and self-image drastically revised. Modi’s second engine, fueled by febrile imaginations, pushes India towards emulating some kind of Hindu rashtra from an idyllic past. My friend Prof Badri Raina, now retired from Delhi University, says that “this backward engine would have us believe that in ancient times we had knowledge of plastic surgery, aeronautics, satellite vision, even as streams of foaming white milk flowed down our plains, and golden birds perched on the branches of trees”.<br /><br />---------<br /><br />The loudest call for reforming Muslim education was that of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. Madressahs, he said, are entirely unnecessary. Using religious idiom, he passionately argued for science and modernity. While his efforts led to some measure of functionality and to jobs within the colonial system, they were nowhere deep or wide as that of Brahmo Samaj. Conservative backlash limited Sir Syed’s influence.<br /><br />Thus, by the time Partition came around, there was a massive Hindu-Muslim gap. Nevertheless, for the first few decades, Pakistan’s engine #1 steadily gained strength and was consistently stronger than its second engine. Among other things, Pakistan’s space program (born 1961, now dead) much preceded India’s.<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-77785735608741034122018-04-09T11:44:06.344-07:002018-04-09T11:44:06.344-07:00What's about Kashmir? Read the article on Kash...What's about Kashmir? Read the article on Kashmir-solidarity Day: http://defencebarta.com/kashmir-solidarity-day-being-observed-today/Mudassarhttp://www.defencebarta.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-53191596451224385522016-07-30T17:15:56.595-07:002016-07-30T17:15:56.595-07:00One In Every Four 'Beggars' In #India Is #...One In Every Four 'Beggars' In #India Is #Muslim: Report http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/07/29/one-in-every-four-beggars-in-india-is-muslim-report/ …<br /><br /><br />Nearly 25 percent of the 3.7 lakh Indians categorised as "beggars" in the 2011 Census are Muslim, according to data released last month, reported The Indian Express. That's a total of 92,760 Muslim beggars in India.<br /><br />While most of beggars in India are Hindus—about 72.2 percent—Hindus are also the majority religious group in India, accounting for almost four-fifths of the country's population. The number of Muslim beggars is significant as compared to their overall population in India, which stands at 17.22 crore as per the last Census.<br /><br />A majority of the Muslim beggars are women, which is contrary to the national trend, where there are fewer women beggars compared to men.<br /><br />Earlier, reports have indicated that Muslims have the lowest living standard in India, and spend less than ₹33 every day. The steadily increasing Muslim population in India is neglected, reported The Economist.Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-68379654985262661902016-05-24T09:48:29.133-07:002016-05-24T09:48:29.133-07:00Most people choose not to migrate in spite of pove...Most people choose not to migrate in spite of poverty and oppression as obvious from lowest rates of migration out of sub-Saharan Africa. <br /><br />Results show that despite increase in the absolute number of migrants, Africa, particularly SubSaharan Africa has one of the lowest rate of emigration in the world and a majority of them migrate to other African countries signifying the importance of south-south migration. Poorer countries generally have lower rate of emigration and higher rate of intra-African migrant. Bad socio-economic conditions generally seem to lead to higher rate of emigration by highly skilled individuals. Generally, migration is driven by motives to<br />improve livelihoods with notable evidence on changes in labor market status. Often, self-employed or unemployed émigré ended up in wage employment. The paper outlines policy issues emerging from the migration trend in Africa.<br /><br /><br />http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Procurement/Project-related-Procurement/WORKING%20119%20word%20document%20AA.PDF<br /><br />t is often said that the only way to reduce migration from poor countries is to boost development, but this ignores the inconvenient fact that development is generally not associated with lower levels of emigration. Important emigration countries such as Mexico, Morocco, Turkey and the Philippines are typically not among the poorest countries. Meanwhile – and against popular perceptions of a “continent on the move” – Sub-Saharan Africa is the least migratory region of the world.<br /><br />Development drives migration<br /><br />In fact, when you examine the data, human and economic development is initially associated with increasing emigration. Any form of development in the poorest countries of the world is therefore likely to lead to accelerating emigration. Such findings contradict conventional thinking and force us to radically change our views on migration. Such rethinking can be achieved by learning to see migration as an intrinsic part of broader development processes rather than as a problem to be solved, or the temporary response to development “disequilibria”.<br /><br />http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-makes-people-migrate-21442Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-37424544296977127892016-02-26T21:49:30.588-08:002016-02-26T21:49:30.588-08:00#Pakistan 4th largest source of remittances to #In...#Pakistan 4th largest source of remittances to #India. $5 billion sent annually from Pakistan to #Indian relatives. http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/pakistan-4th-largest-source-of-remittances-to-india-115122400035_1.html#.VtE2Ian44zg.twitter …<br /><br />Surprising as it may seem, but Indians who have migrated to Pakistan are expected to remit back home a staggering $4.9 billion in 2015. This would make Pakistan the fourth largest source of India's remittances this year, according to a new study by the World Bank.<br /><br />Why #WorldBank Says #Pakistanis Sent $5 billion to #India? It's from India-born relatives in #Pakistan http://on.wsj.com/1VFN1P7 via @WSJIndia<br /><br />Pakistan is home to more than 1.4 million people who were born in India. However, these immigrants are not your traditional non-resident Indians. They are a remnant of partition when colonial India was split and millions of people moved as they picked a country or were kicked out and displaced by violence.<br /><br />The World Bank attributes a large slice of India’s annual remittance income to Pakistan because there is such a large group of India-born citizens there. The money also flows the other way, according to the bank’s model, as there are around 1.1 million Pakistan-born people living in India. The World Bank estimates Pakistan received remittances of more than $2 billion from India.<br /><br />Some readers of The Wall Street Journal who first saw these numbers in a story titled “The Difference Between Indian and Chinese Migrants,” were shocked, skeptical and scared. The amounts had to be a mistake, some said in comments, or proof that money is being sent to finance terrorism or organized crime in India.<br /><br />Mr. Ratha still stands by the bank’s best guess and says the origin of the cash is much less sinister.<br /><br />The billions of dollars flying back and forth between the two countries are from the same place as the rest of the world’s remittances: family and friends supporting each other across borders.<br /><br />There are literally millions of family connections between the two countries and millions of reasons a person in Pakistan might find a way to get money to relatives in India. The money could be sent for a brother in need, a cousin’s wedding, an uncle’s funeral or even to help educate a niece.<br /><br />Despite the animosity between the two countries, as well as the rules, regulations and restrictions, family and finance finds a way.<br /><br />Sometimes that means using informal avenues like the hawala money transfer system or arranging for the money to be sent via a different country. Sometimes it means an envelope of cash carried by a friend traveling to India.<br /><br />“These are two big economies right next to each other. The money must be flowing,” Mr. Ratha said. “That number we put out could even be an underestimation.”<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-34631402913214915162015-03-10T08:19:49.197-07:002015-03-10T08:19:49.197-07:00Here's a piece in Caravan magazine on the Jami...Here's a piece in Caravan magazine on the Jamiat Ulema Hind (JUH) opposition to partition: <br /><br />The JUH now formed a separate party, the Azad Muslim Parliamentary Board, to fight the elections and ward off the criticism that it was merely a handmaiden of the Congress. Its chief campaigner was Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani, the principal of the Darul Uloom, Deoband, and one of the foremost Islamic scholars in the country. Madani, as his name suggests, had an intimate connection with Medina as he had been a renowned teacher of Hadith in that holy city for nearly fifteen years. Madani remained steadfast in his advocacy of a composite undivided India and emerged as the most prominent alim opposed to the ML and its Pakistan demand. Reacting to the accusation that he had ‘joined the Hindus’, he wrote to a correspondent in Rawalpindi<br /><br />You write that I have joined the Hindus and you are stunned by that. Why do you get affected by such propaganda? Muslims have been together with the Hindus since they moved to Hindustan. And I have been with them since I was born. I was born and raised here. If two people live together in the same country, same city, they will share lot of things with each other. Till the time there are Muslims in India, they will be together with the Hindus. In the bazaars, in homes, in railways, trams, in buses, lorries, in stations, colleges, post offices, jails, police stations, courts, councils, assemblies, hotels, etc. You tell me where and when we don’t meet them or are not together with them? You are a zamindar. Are not your tenants Hindus? You are a trader; don’t you buy and sell from Hindus? You are a lawyer don’t you have Hindu clients? You are in a district or municipal board; won’t you be dealing with Hindus? Who is not with the Hindus? All ten crore Muslims of India are guilty then of being with the Hindus.<br /><br />Madani believed that the ‘fundamental institution of contemporary political life was the territorial nation-state’ and India was indeed such a State . The main problem facing India was British imperialism which could only be overthrown through a joint Hindu-Muslim struggle. This would have the effect of also freeing other parts of Islamic world from British yoke, since it was control over India that allowed them to hold on to their worldwide Empire. Madani opposed Pakistan since he saw it as a British ploy to divide and weaken the nationalist movement and extend British control over the subcontinent. He pointed to their dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire and reducing its component parts to colonial appendages. Madani therefore attacked ML and Pakistan in a number of different ways. To begin with, he accused Jinnah of deliberately not coming up with a concrete plan about Pakistan. Quoting a news report from the Haqiqat of Lucknow, he pointed out that when Jinnah was asked at a press conference in Karachi about what Pakistan meant, the Qaid asked for more time to provide clarifications on the matter. On being pressed further, Jinnah directed the inquisitive newsman to existing writings and his own statements on Pakistan. When a Muslim editor reportedly pointed out that he had read all the existing literature and concluded that Pakistan was suicidal for the Indian Muslims, Jinnah got upset and refused to take further questions. For Madani this meant that Mr. Jinnah till date had not fully thought through or worked out the implications of Pakistan.<br /><br />- See more at: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/madani-jinnah-muslim-league-partition#sthash.uK7DCe34.YzTRIOuP.dpufRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-16345880605706941782014-12-15T07:48:32.425-08:002014-12-15T07:48:32.425-08:00Excerpt from BBC News on housing discrimination in...Excerpt from BBC News on housing discrimination in India:<br /><br /><br />Segregation has inevitably led to curious business opportunities. Sensing that mixed neighbourhoods were fast disappearing and even well-to-do-Muslims were finding it a problem to buy property, Ahmedabad-based entrepreneur Mohammed Ali Husain began a property fair connecting Muslim builders with buyers.<br /><br />More than 40,000 potential buyers have turned up for the two fairs he's held so far, checking out and buying housing offered by 25 Muslim builders.<br /><br />"Earlier communities lived in segregated neighbourhoods for cultural reasons," say Mr Husain. "Now the reason is the fear of the other."<br /><br />Deep divisions<br />In a deeply divided and hierarchical society like India, segregated living - and housing - has existed for centuries.<br /><br />Mumbai has community-based "vegetarian only" housing societies. Delhi and Calcutta have Muslim ghettos, crowded, run-down and neglected. A planned apartment coming up in Delhi promises "dream homes for elite Muslim brotherhood".<br /><br />Ahmedabad has been always divided on caste, community and religious lines. But, as analysts say, the ghettoisation was relative in the sense that Muslim-dominated areas co-existed with Hindu-dominated ones.<br /><br />"These mixed neighbourhoods disappeared after Muslims became the main victims in communal riots which have gone on a par with their growing socio-economic marginalisation," write Christophe Jaffrelot and Charlotte Thomas in their study of ghettoisation in Ahmedabad.<br /><br />The divisions of the past appeared to be more cultural in nature; the divisions of today appear to be rooted in fear, distrust and anomie.<br /><br />Mr Kadri says he was picking up an order at a burger chain drive-thru a few years ago when he overheard the manager asking one of his delivery boys to not to deliver to Juhapura because, "people will chop you into pieces if you go there".<br /><br />Rising urbanisation was expected to blur religious and social boundaries, but that hasn't happened fully.<br /><br />So despite the fact that more than a third of India's Muslims live in cities and towns - making them the most urbanised community of a significant size - poverty and discrimination continues to easily push them into ghettos.<br /><br />Even Dalits - formerly known as untouchables - who escape the stifling caste-based discrimination of their villages to live and work in the cities find that they still end up living in ghettos.<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30204806Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-90764136958651842842014-04-14T16:07:30.339-07:002014-04-14T16:07:30.339-07:00Sindh's Muslim landowners were big beneficiari...Sindh's Muslim landowners were big beneficiaries of partition. It freed them from heavy debts they owed to Hindu moneylenders:<br /><br />1. From the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=RooIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA368&lpg=PA368&dq=Sindh+landowners+indebted+to+Hindu+moneylenders&source=bl&ots=A817RIA-AK&sig=J2h546t0IanRqEd_gx0ts-mjSvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1mRMU7G-NsrM8QHOpoGYDg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Sindh%20landowners%20indebted%20to%20Hindu%20moneylenders&f=false" rel="nofollow">Imperial Gazetteer of India by W.W. Hunter 1881</a>:<br /><br /><i>"They (Muslim landowners) are almost always in debt to t,he Hindu moneylenders who exact as much as cent per cent on their advances"</i><br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=RooIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA368&lpg=PA368&dq=Sindh+landowners+indebted+to+Hindu+moneylenders&source=bl&ots=A817RIA-AK&sig=J2h546t0IanRqEd_gx0ts-mjSvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1mRMU7G-NsrM8QHOpoGYDg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Sindh%20landowners%20indebted%20to%20Hindu%20moneylenders&f=false<br /><br />2. From <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zqz3bnuX7LsC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=Sindh+landowners+indebted+to+Hindu+moneylenders&source=bl&ots=YIVGubP9q7&sig=VMtwTeecpQXCVwmEIqjgkH_44u0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1mRMU7G-NsrM8QHOpoGYDg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sindh%20landowners%20indebted%20to%20Hindu%20moneylenders&f=false" rel="nofollow">The Empires of the Indus</a> by Alice Albinia:<br /><br /><i>"Partition increased the economic power of the landowners because many of the Hindu moneylenders to who they were indebted fled for their lives to India"</i><br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=zqz3bnuX7LsC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=Sindh+landowners+indebted+to+Hindu+moneylenders&source=bl&ots=YIVGubP9q7&sig=VMtwTeecpQXCVwmEIqjgkH_44u0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1mRMU7G-NsrM8QHOpoGYDg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sindh%20landowners%20indebted%20to%20Hindu%20moneylenders&f=falseRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-89164041968560793352014-03-25T10:44:25.626-07:002014-03-25T10:44:25.626-07:00Here's a Dawn piece by Indian journalist Javed...Here's a <a href="http://www.dawn.com/news/1095469" rel="nofollow">Dawn piece</a> by Indian journalist Javed Naqvi on Dalit leader Amberkar:<br /><br /><i>As the intellectual and academic focus shifts to the Dalit worldview in India with Arundhati Roy’s fresh evaluation of Dalit mascot B. R. Ambedkar, who like Jinnah was also Mahatma Gandhi’s bête noir, fresh perspectives are expected to be unearthed from that largely masked historiography.<br /><br />For all his sharp and often sympathetic assertions on Pakistan, and despite the fact that Ambedkar and Jinnah shared the laurels at the Round Table Conference and together won short-lived victories for their communities, the Dalit view of the freedom movement has been largely airbrushed at every stage of academia in both countries.<br /><br />The deletion of Jaswant Singh’s and Advani’s perspectives on Jinnah is of a piece with the fate assigned to Ambedkar’s kindred bonding with Jinnah. But why has he been shunned in Pakistan? There will be hopefully a renewal of interest in the great Dalit intellectual not the least because of the interest shown in him by Ms Roy, whose word counts for something even among the most India-phobic Pakistanis.<br /><br />Ambedkar’s appreciation of the Muslim quandary flowed from his view of the Congress as an upper caste Hindu party, not willing to do away with the horrors of the caste system in a free India.<br /><br />“At the Round Table Conference, the Muslims presented their list of safeguards, which were formulated in the well-known 14 points. The Hindu representatives at the Round Table Conference would not consent to them,” notes Ambedkar dispassionately in his work Pakistan, or the Partition of India, which he wrote in 1940.<br /><br />“There was an impasse. The British government intervened and gave what is known as “the Communal decision”.<br /><br />By that decision, the Muslims got all their 14 points. There was much bitterness amongst the Hindus against the Communal Award. But, the Congress did not take part in the hostility that was displayed by the Hindus generally towards it, although it did retain the right to describe it as anti-national and to get it changed with the consent of the Muslims.<br /><br />“So careful was the Congress not to wound the feelings of the Muslims that when the Resolution was moved in the Central Assembly condemning the Communal Award, the Congress, though it did not bless it, remained neutral, neither opposing nor supporting it. The Mahomedans were well justified in looking upon this Congress attitude as a friendly gesture.” Ambedkar’s observations were unbiased, neutral.<br /><br />He then notes characteristically without fear or favour: “The victory of the Congress at the polls in the provinces, where the Hindus are in a majority, did not disturb the tranquillity of the Musalmans. They felt they had nothing to fear from the Congress and the prospects were that the Congress and the Muslim League would work the constitution in partnership.<br /><br />“But, two years and three months of the Congress government in the Hindu provinces have completely disillusioned them and have made them the bitterest enemies of the Congress. The Deliverance Day celebration held on the 22nd December 1939 shows the depth of their resentment. What is worse, their bitterness is not confined to the Congress. The Musalmans, who at the Round Table Conference joined in the demand for Swaraj, are today the most ruthless opponents of Swaraj.”<br /><br />What has the Congress done to annoy the Muslims so much?<br /><br />Ambedkar answers his own question: “The Muslim League has asserted that under the Congress regime the Muslims were actually tyrannised and oppressed. Two committees appointed by the League are said to have investigated and reported on the matter. But apart from these matters which require to be examined by an impartial tribunal, there are undoubtedly two things which have produced the clash: (1) the refusal by the Congress to recognise the Muslim League as the only representative body of the Muslims, (2) the refusal by the Congress to form coalition ministries in the Congress provinces.”...</i><br /><br />http://www.dawn.com/news/1095469Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-77647394163641407722013-11-15T19:57:50.595-08:002013-11-15T19:57:50.595-08:00Urban elite of cities now in #Pakistan was #Hindu,...Urban elite of cities now in #Pakistan was #Hindu, #Sikh. #Muslims were peasants. #Lahore now "overrun by villagers” <br /><br />http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/57YwvcZC4oXwM0Evqj7s4O/Remembering-Pakistans-intellectual-wanderer.html …Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-63667804306141247832013-08-22T08:04:25.214-07:002013-08-22T08:04:25.214-07:00Muslims have lowest living standard in India: Govt...Muslims have lowest living standard in India: Govt survey<br /><br />Muslims in India continue to be the worst off. Indian Muslims are worse off than even the untouchables...they are the new untouchables<br /><br />http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Muslims-have-lowest-living-standard-in-India-Govt-survey/articleshow/21936020.cms?intenttarget=noRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-90851514773894729702013-06-24T19:39:33.650-07:002013-06-24T19:39:33.650-07:00Here's a WSJ report on Indian media's reje...Here's a <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/06/24/indian-media-rejects-hyphenation-with-pakistan/" rel="nofollow">WSJ report</a> on Indian media's rejection of India-Pakistan hyphenation:<br /><br />If you want to understand how far away India and Pakistan are from détente, take a look at how Indian newspapers are reacting to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments about the peace process at an event in New Delhi last night. <br /><br />Mr. Kerry made the point that India and Pakistan, who have fought three wars since 1947, could use trade as the thin end of the wedge from which to improve overall relations. What’s more, he said, there were low-hanging economic benefits from increased trade. <br /><br />“If India and Pakistan can confidently invest in each other, then the rest of the world will more confidently invest in you,” Mr. Kerry said. <br /><br />This might seem anodyne to the casual observer. But this is not the kind of talk that goes down well in India, where efforts to put the two countries on a level are often frowned upon. <br /><br />From the perspective of many in India, Pakistan’s continued sponsoring of Islamist militant groups means there should be no comparison.<br /><br />The Times of India, the country’s most circulated English language newspaper, in a front-page story, said Mr. Kerry “may have ruffled a few feathers when he sought to draw parity between India and Pakistan.” <br /><br />The headline of the story said the secretary “hyphenates India and Pakistan” – a dirty verb in India. <br /><br />It was the Bush administration that pushed for the “dehyphenation” of India and Pakistan. This resulted in a U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement in 2008, a deal that was not extended to Pakistan. <br /><br />The Hindu, another popular daily, said Sunday’s speech had “displeased” Indian diplomats because Mr. Kerry “has the perception of being soft on Pakistan unlike Ms. Clinton.” <br /><br />Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was popular in New Delhi in part because of her tough stance on Pakistan for failing to do more to stamp out militancy on its soil. <br /><br />In 2008, after 10 Pakistani militants laid siege to Mumbai, India’s financial capital, killing more than 160 people, Ms. Clinton leaned on Pakistan to take steps to cut off militant groups. <br /><br />On a visit to India in 2011, Ms. Clinton said Pakistan had an obligation to prosecute the perpetrators of the 2008 attacks “transparently, fully and urgently.” <br /><br />“We have made it very clear that Pakistan needs to bring people to justice,” she said. “There is a limit to what both the U.S and India can do, but we intend to press as hard as possible.” <br /><br />Indian officials blame Pakistan for failing to push ahead with the prosecutions of the seven suspects it has charged in connection with the Mumbai attacks. Islamabad says it does not have enough evidence from Indian authorities to move on with the trials. <br /><br />The Hindu appeared to chide Mr. Kerry for commenting on recent floods in northern India, which have killed hundreds of people, rather than bringing up those who died in Mumbai. <br /><br />In an article titled “Kerry’s soft line on Pakistan a sore subject,” the paper said: “Departing from his predecessor Hillary Clinton’s line of commiserating with the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, he opted to sympathize with the victims of the Uttarakhand flash floods instead.” <br /><br />On Sunday, Mr. Kerry acknowledged there were contentious issues between the two countries, but said he hoped the recent election of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could herald a “new era” between the nations. <br /><br />http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2013/06/24/indian-media-rejects-hyphenation-with-pakistan/Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-18258633471718894782013-05-16T16:42:59.296-07:002013-05-16T16:42:59.296-07:00The idea of racial purity is central to Hindu nati...The idea of racial purity is central to Hindu nationalists in India who have a long history of admiration for the Nazi leader, including his "Final Solution". <br /><br />In his book "We" (1939), Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, the leader of the Hindu Nationalist RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) wrote, "To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races -- the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by." <br /><br />http://www.riazhaq.com/2010/06/hindu-nationalists-admire-nazis-and.htmlRiaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-23859883211052830352013-05-15T17:23:44.521-07:002013-05-15T17:23:44.521-07:00According to World Values Survey done by two Swedi...According to <a href="http://www.wvsevsdb.com/wvs/WVSIntegratedEVSWVSvariables.jsp?Idioma=I" rel="nofollow">World Values Survey</a> done by two Swedish researchers, India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong by far the least tolerant. <br /><br /><i>In only three of 81 surveyed countries, more than 40 percent of respondents said they would not want a neighbor of a different race. This included 43.5 percent of Indians, 51.4 percent of Jordanians and an astonishingly high 71.8 percent of Hong Kongers and 71.7 percent of Bangladeshis.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the Swedish economists did not include all of the World Values Survey data in their final research paper. So I went back to the source, compiled the original data and mapped it out on the infographic above. In the bluer countries, fewer people said they would not want neighbors of a different race; in red countries, more people did.<br /><br />Pakistan, remarkably tolerant, also an outlier. Although the country has a number of factors that coincide with racial intolerance – sectarian violence, its location in the least-tolerant region of the world, low economic and human development indices – only 6.5 percent of Pakistanis objected to a neighbor of a different race. This would appear to suggest Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch.</i><br /><br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/<br />Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-33312213098834961572013-05-07T10:04:03.521-07:002013-05-07T10:04:03.521-07:00Here's an NDTV report today:
Of every 100 new...Here's an NDTV report today:<br /><br />Of every 100 new-borns that die in the world, 29 are in India. In real, heart-rending numbers that is three lakh babies who die on the day they are born, every year. <br /> <br />Infants fare better even in Pakistan and Bangladesh, says a new report. <br /> <br />Non-governmental organisation Save the Children compared first-day deaths in 186 countries for its "State of World's Mother Report". Luxembourg has the least new-born deaths, India the most, the reports says. <br /><br />While infant deaths in India have come down by almost half compared to 1990, the rate has been slower than that in, say, Nepal.<br /><br />The statistics only get worse. More than half the child deaths in India happen in the first month. And India has the biggest disparity between the rich and poor in child deaths. <br /><br />The country's report card on mother and child health too is abysmal; India is behind Pakistan and Bangladesh on this list. <br /><br />http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/most-new-born-deaths-in-india-says-report-pakistan-bangladesh-fare-better-363552Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-89102013325663393422013-05-02T20:36:18.997-07:002013-05-02T20:36:18.997-07:00Here's a Daily Times story on KSE-100 closing ...Here's a <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C05%5C03%5Cstory_3-5-2013_pg5_16" rel="nofollow">Daily Times</a> story on KSE-100 closing over 19,000 points, record high: <br /><br /><i>KARACHI: The Karachi stock market closed at a historical high level of 19,000 points on Thursday as emerging clarity on timely elections compelled investors to take fresh positions. <br /><br />The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100-share index gained 52.11 points or 0.27 percent to close at 19,034.53 points as compared to 18,982.42 points of the previous session. The KSE 30-share index was up by 23.55 points to close at 14,664.29 points as compared with 14,640.74 points. <br /><br />“With the emerging clarity on timely elections, investors continued to take fresh positions,” said Topline Sec dealer Samar Iqbal. “Fauji Fertilizer continued to rally after its result announcement.” <br /><br />Investors remained skeptical on Engro Corp on gas supply issues, she said and added that telecom sector remained under pressure after heavy penalty by Competition Commission of Pakistan. Fauji Cement remained the volume leader with 26 million shares while its share price rose by 3.0 percent. <br /><br />The market turnover went down by 24.43 percent and traded 147.36 million shares as against 195 million shares of the previous session. The overall market capitalisation gained 0.51 percent and traded Rs 4.687 trillion as against Rs 4.663 trillion. Gainers beat losers 225 to 148, while 22 stocks were unchanged. <br /><br />“Stocks closed at a record-high level post-major earnings announcements for the quarter-end session at KSE led by second-tier stocks on strong valuations,” said Arif Habib Corporation Director Ahsan Mehanti. “Bullish sentiments prevailed amid thin trade after Consumer Price Index inflation for April stood at 5.8 percent.” <br /><br />Higher local cement prices, recovery in global commodities and easing political concerns played a catalyst role in the bullish activity at KSE amid concerns over dismal earnings outlook for the banking sector....</i><br /><br />http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C05%5C03%5Cstory_3-5-2013_pg5_16Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-33317613367519976782013-04-28T04:06:57.529-07:002013-04-28T04:06:57.529-07:00I have noticed that you always and I mean always ...I have noticed that you always and I mean always see the worst in India and the best in Pakistan. Which i find very unfair. I mean every country has a good and bad side, unlike you i do know that India has alot of problems but I do take in to account that has a population of 1.2BILLION PEOPLE!!! That means it will take alot of time to get everyone on an equal footing. Where as Pakistan has 200million people so whats your excuse. Besides it very easy to past judgement when you are sitting nicely in the U.S. As for the muslim part of your biased view you realise that only reason Muslim were being that way was because of partition, if it had not happened things would have been so different. Another when talk about the KSE vs the BSE you forget that The Bombay Stock Exchange is bigger and more developed than the KSE. also when the SENSEX outperforms the kse 100 you never say anything and when do it is always bad, i would like to know why act like such a jerk!?Krishanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521283463098763334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-88174113530280269452013-04-25T16:55:07.878-07:002013-04-25T16:55:07.878-07:00HWJ: "So it looks like Indian Muslims, Sikhs ...HWJ: "So it looks like Indian Muslims, Sikhs & Jains are represented more or less in proportion to their population percentage in India."<br /><br />Indian Muslims make up <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21572785-steadily-rising-muslim-population-continues-fall-behind-growing-and-neglected" rel="nofollow">14.6% of India's population</a>, almost 50% higher than the <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Demographics/Asian%20Americans%20religion%20full%20report.pdf" rel="nofollow">10% of Indian-American Muslim population</a>. In addition, every Indian minority other than Muslims is over-represented in America.<br /><br />http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Demographics/Asian%20Americans%20religion%20full%20report.pdf<br /><br />http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21572785-steadily-rising-muslim-population-continues-fall-behind-growing-and-neglected Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-39983818599226575882013-04-25T16:52:56.419-07:002013-04-25T16:52:56.419-07:00HWJ: "So it looks like Indian Muslims, Sikhs ...HWJ: "So it looks like Indian Muslims, Sikhs & Jains are represented more or less in proportion to their population percentage in India."<br /><br />Indian Muslims make up <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21572785-steadily-rising-muslim-population-continues-fall-behind-growing-and-neglected" rel="nofollow">14.6% of India's population</a>, almost 50% higher than the <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Demographics/Asian%20Americans%20religion%20full%20report.pdf" rel="nofollow">10% of Indian-American Muslim population</a>. In addition, every minority other than Muslims is over-represented in America.<br /><br />http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Demographics/Asian%20Americans%20religion%20full%20report.pdf<br /><br />http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21572785-steadily-rising-muslim-population-continues-fall-behind-growing-and-neglected Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-58988919611495163752013-04-25T16:02:25.403-07:002013-04-25T16:02:25.403-07:0051% of Indian-Americans self-report as Hindus
18% ...51% of Indian-Americans self-report as Hindus<br />18% of Indian-Americans are Christians<br />10% of Indian-Americans are Muslims<br />5% of Indian-Americans are Sikhs<br />2% of Indian-Americans are Jains<br />2% of Indian-Americans belong to 'Some Other' Religion.<br />10% of Indian-Americans are Unaffiliated (No-religion)<br /><br />See Page 44:<br />http://alturl.com/r5vgx<br /><br />So it looks like Indian Muslims, Sikhs & Jains are represented more or less in proportion to their population percentage in India.<br /><br />But Indian Christians are HEAVILY over-represented in US, and Indian Hindus are SEVERELY under-represented.<br /><br />So where is this under-representation of Muslims and over-representation of Hindus in the Indian-American community that you have been mentioning?<br /><br />In addition, look closely at the Table on pages 74-75 on "Is your religion the ONLY way?"<br /><br />Also take a look at the ASTONISHING data in graphs on pages 34-35 on 'Education & Income'.Hopewinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885301987622998733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-12797580705629189932013-04-15T17:39:03.875-07:002013-04-15T17:39:03.875-07:00^^RH: "Here's a PakistanToday story on Hu...^^RH: "Here's a PakistanToday story on HuT's campaign against voting and democracy..."<br />----<br /><br />But isn't there some truth in what they say?<br /><br />Hasn't democracy failed Pakistan? Haven't the same old corrupt faces gone through the revolving door and resulted in no real change?<br /><br />Did Einstein not say that insanity was "doing the same thing repeatedly" (elections) and "expecting different results" (better governance)? So are the HuT not correct in a scientific sense when they call for the abandonment of Democracy because of its demonstrated failure in Pakistan? <br /><br />Please explain.Hopewinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885301987622998733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-71017267514550821002013-04-14T22:40:39.333-07:002013-04-14T22:40:39.333-07:00Here's a PakistanToday story on HuT's camp...Here's a <a href="http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/04/14/news/national/hizbut-tahrir-campaigns-against-democracy-polls/" rel="nofollow">PakistanToday</a> story on HuT's campaign against voting and democracy:<br /><br /><i>The banned outfit Hizbut Tahrir (HT) has started its campaign across the country to convince people not to participate in elections and join hands with the outlawed organisation for the unification of Muslim world as a single state under the leadership of Sheikh Ata Abu Rishta.<br />The campaign has been started in almost all parts of the country and the HT activists have started holding public gatherings and corner meetings to convince people on a point that democracy was against Islam.<br />The intelligence agencies have started operation against the HT and arrested two of its activists from outside a mosque for distributing leaflets among the worshipers and preaching them not to participate in elections.<br />Through the leaflet, the banned outfit invited people to join hands with them to abolish democracy from Pakistan and establish caliphate.<br />The leaflet reads further, “Muslims have not been stung merely twice, but countless times by the current system in Pakistan. Each time new faces come through coup or election, the people curse the old faces. However, only after a while, the new faces appear even uglier and more despised than the older faces. The current system is incapable of looking after the affairs of the people and securing the rights that Allah guaranteed humankind, regardless of their race, language, gender or religion.”<br />It reads further, “Pakistan's current system is a continuation of the British rule occupation that abolished Islamic rule in the Indian subcontinent in the first place. Even though the Muslims shed their pure blood to establish Pakistan in the name of Islam, it was the British Parliament that created Pakistan’s initial legislation under its Indian Independence Act of 1947.”<br />“It is democracy, designed by and inherited from the colonialist kufr that separates our ummah from Islam and its ruling system of khilafah, whether in Pakistan, Egypt or Turkey, Tunisia or Indonesia. The claim that yet more elections within this system would bring change of system is a lie made to secure this system from abolition,” it also reads.<br />“It is the Khilafah alone that ensures our education, foreign policy, economy, judiciary, consultation; accounting and removing of rulers are all according to Islam,” the leaflet adds.<br />Talking to Pakistan Today, a leader of HT confirmed that they had started a campaign across the country for abolishment of democracy and establishment of khilafah in Pakistan.<br />“We will hold public gatherings, corner meetings and door-to-door campaign to boycott the elections as the democracy is un-Islamic,” he added. </i><br /><br />http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/04/14/news/national/hizbut-tahrir-campaigns-against-democracy-polls/Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-68080598700726333892013-04-11T12:46:31.283-07:002013-04-11T12:46:31.283-07:00This is a good photocopy from the archives...
htt...This is a good photocopy from the archives...<br /><br />http://alturl.com/w2uy2Hopewinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885301987622998733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-32920289342657676432013-04-09T20:55:41.394-07:002013-04-09T20:55:41.394-07:00HWJ: "Kallmeready is a COMMIE"
Quaid-e-...HWJ: "Kallmeready is a COMMIE"<br /><br />Quaid-e-Azam M.A. Jinnah was despised by both the left and the right in his campaign for Pakistan; I see it as a compliment to him.<br /><br />The Muslim right thought he was not Muslim enough and the secular left believed he was not secular enough.<br /><br />That continues to be the case in India today...in fact the hatred of Jinnah and Pakistan is the only thing that unites all varieties and shades of Indians.<br /><br />In Pakistan, however, both sides are now trying to co-opt his legacy---each side citing their preferred speeches while ignoring or re-interpreting the parts they don't like. Riaz Haqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00522781692886598586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848640164815342479.post-66133535009237684082013-04-09T18:56:01.314-07:002013-04-09T18:56:01.314-07:00Yassir Latif Hamdani RESPONDS in challenge to Kapi...Yassir Latif Hamdani RESPONDS in challenge to Kapil Kallmeready's article maligning our QeA.<br /><br />Hamdani writes with charged emotion: <br /><br />"Consider for example jingoistic Indian columnist Kapil Komireddi’s piece.." <br /><br />"Komireddi then goes on to lie – yes lie- about..."<br /><br />"..an ignorant fanatic like Komireddi as way to excuse the behavior of vile majoritatianism of Modi and others"<br /><br />"... one wonders what possesses Komireddi to write so viciously if it isn’t jingoism and bigotry without a mask?"<br /><br />"Grow up Mr. Komireddi. The world has moved on. So should you. Update yourself. Educate yourself."<br /><br />Wow! Strong words!<br />READMORE: http://alturl.com/xej2f<br /><br />Notes:<br />1) When you see charged emotion and name-calling like this, you can be sure that a "raw nerve" has been touched somewhere.<br /><br />2) Kallmeready is a COMMIE. He hates Modi. He hates RSS. He despises all forms of jingoism as bourgeousie ignorance. He rails against the bigotry of Hindutwa groups. He does not believe in Nation States. He is an international secular-socialist inspired by Karl Marx. And while he could well be wrong, he is certainly well educated and well-read-- certainly not worthy of the tag "ignorant fanatic".<br /><br />Given all this, Hamdani really looks silly. Perhaps he should have spend more time STUDYING Kallmeready's background and work before lashing out emotionally like this?<br /><br />Isn't it strange that you keep quoting Kallmeready in your blog as a rare Indian "truth teller", and here Hamdani is accusing him of lying!<br /><br />History cannot really be changed by changing the narratives, as many of our countrymen seem to think. <br /><br />The theories of the past are not abstract debates, they are actually living-on in terms of the events that are now unfolding before our eyes. <br /><br />Evil were the seeds; now see, evil is the crop. <br />Evil were the deeds; now see, evil is the recompense. --Quran 42.2<br /><br />Hamdani will keep repeating his viewpoint while watching helplessly as his worst nightmares come true all around him....<br /><br />Hopewinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07885301987622998733noreply@blogger.com