Is Headly Cia Agent ?????

India fears Headley is CIA agent gone rogue

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
NEW DELHI: After being denied access to interrogate American national David Coleman Headley with regards to the Mumbai attacks by US authorities, Indian intelligence sources now suspect that the alleged terrorist could be a CIA agent turned rogue.
Indian officials have been cross with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for not sharing information about Headley’s trip to India last March.
The FBI confirmed that Headley was already under surveillance when the Mumbai attacks took place.
The charges against him say he helped plot and execute the attacks.
In a debate in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) parliamentarian Brinda Karat raised the issue of why Indian officials had been denied access to Headley after his arrest.
A team of Indian officials who travelled to Chicago were not allowed to question Headley. The US has since said that it was "too premature" to discuss Headley's possible extradition to India.
Indian officials said that was an odd response, given that Headley stands charged of plotting India's worst terror attacks.
"Why have Indian investigators been denied access to Headley when the US was given access to Ajmal Kasab (the lone Pakistani gunman captured alive during the Nov 26-29, 2008, Mumbai attacks)," Brinda asked.
"Was this because this would expose the Frankenstein underbelly of the US intelligence agencies," she said.
Home Secretary GK Pillai said the National Investigating Agency (NIA), would continue its efforts to seek access to Hedley for interrogation and his extradition.

but on the other hand cia denies this fact
here is the report on what  Cia officials said:--

America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Wednesday strongly refuted media reports that Pakistan-born U.S. national David Coleman Headley ailias Dawood Gilani, charged with scouting targets for last November's Mumbai terror attack, was its agent at any point of time.

Spokesperson for the agency Marie E Harf told Indian news agency PTI, when specifically asked about Headley and his links with CIA, that he cannot comment on an ongoing investigation, but "any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong."

The CIA's denial came after a report in an American newspaper revealed that Hedley was a drug smuggler and later worked as an undercover agent for the CIA.

It has also been reported that Headley had successfully infiltrated the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT). He also reportedly tipped off the U.S. of an impending sea-borne LeT attack on Mumbai well ahead of 26/11.

Headley now languishing in a Chicago jail was arrested by the FBI on October 3 when he was planning to go to Pakistan via Philadelphia.

Indian officials are peeved with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for not sharing information about Headley's trip to India last March. The FBI confirmed that Headley was already under surveillance when the Mumbai attacks took place.

Raj Thackeray gets fresh death threat

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has received a fresh death threat, this time in the form of a letter, from the Sarvodaya Samaj in Bihar. Written and signed by Ashok Kumar Singh, who claims to be the founder president of the Samaj, the letter states that ‘five revolutionaries of the Samaj have decided that one of them will kill Thackeray before December 25.

Taking the threat seriously, the police have heightened Thackeray’s security. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Zone V, Milind Bharambe, confirmed that Thackeray had received the letter.

“The letter was sent to Thackeray’s residence. It states that Thackeray will be killed before December 25,” he said.

Asked about the letter at a press conference, Thackeray dismissed it saying that he received several such threats earlier. A Marathi newspaper on Tuesday published the alleged contents of the letter.

The letter written in Hindi states: “Five revolutionaries of the Sarvidaya Samaj have taken a decision in the name of our motherland that one among us will kill you in the same way you and your men have persecuted the Hindi speaking population in Mumbai. A few days ago, MLA Abu Azmi was thrashed in the Assembly because he wanted to take his oath in Hindi. We can tolerate everything but not insult to Hindi. Hence, you will be killed before December 25, 2009 .”

ACP Madhukar Sankhe, said, “We have not registered any case in this regard as Thackeray has briefed us about the letter. He has also handed over the letter to us and we have already started the interrogation. The possibility of the letter being a hoax is also not ruled out.”

Fox News says holy river Ganges 'sounds like a disease'

Hindus are protesting against the Fox News channel for remarks that river Ganges (whom Hindus consider holy) 'sounds like a disease'.

Channel's Glenn Beck, talking about India in December nine segment titled 'This is the best America has to offer?' of his opinion show 'The One Thing', said: 'One big river they have there, that sounds like a disease. Come on it does. I mean if somebody said, I am sorry, you have a really bad case of Ganges.'

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Ganges was sacred to one billion Hindus worldwide and such remarks were very hurtful to the devotees. Besides apparently denigrating the religion, it was belittling the entire community.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged Fox and its owner News Corporation to be more sensitive when handling faith related subjects, as television was a forceful medium. He asked News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and Glenn Beck to issue a statement on this matter.


baba ramdev's views:--
Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev condemned the comment and criticized the TV channel for calling Becks a ‘senior reporter’. “People like him should come down to the Kumbh Mela which is being organized next month and take a dip in the Ganga to clean their sins,” he told Zee News.

But there has been no apology from the TV host or the channel. Beck had earlier courted controversy when he had made a racist remark against President Barack Obama. The channel later said it was Beck’s personal opinion.

here is a video of that reporter








sources:--zee news (india)

Accepting Nobel prize, Obama acknowledges controversy

By MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers


President Barack Obama cautiously accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday in Oslo, acknowledging "the considerable controversy" over his award because he's accomplished little on the world stage in less than a year on the job and has just called for sending 30,000 to 35,000 more U.S. troops to war in Afghanistan.

Given the stature of some past winners, and the ordeals faced by humanitarian leaders who've never won, Obama said that "I cannot argue with those who find these men and women, some known, some obscure to all but those they help, to be far more deserving of this honor than I."

In his acceptance speech at Oslo City Hall on a daylong stop that's irked some Norwegians because of its brevity, the president wove themes of optimism and realism. He spoke at once of the inevitability of some war and his belief in a "North Star" of faith in human progress.

Obama hit on perhaps the central reason for the Nobel committee's decision when he emphasized his belief that the United States must rely more on multilateralism to handle evolving conflicts. European frustration with former President George W. Bush's unilateral approach, especially toward Iraq, has helped to fuel their investment in Obama as an alternative.

In turn, the president called on other nations to step up their commitments to U.N. peacekeeping efforts, nuclear disarmament and imposing serious sanctions on regimes that pose a threat to world stability.

"It is also incumbent upon all of us to insist that nations like Iran and North Korea do not game the system," he said. "Those who seek peace cannot stand idly by as nations arm themselves for nuclear war."

"I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war," Obama said. "There is no simple formula here. But we must try as best we can to balance isolation and engagement, pressure and incentives, so that human rights and dignity are advanced over time."

Nobel committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, in remarks before Obama's, defended the choice, saying the prize should be an "instrument for peace rather than stamp of approval" and that "peace must be built again and again."

Obama used his remarks to praise civil demonstrators in Zimbabwe and Iran and in Myanmar, where he singled out pro-democracy figure Aung Sang Suu Kyi by name.

While embracing the nonviolent messages of Martin Luther King Jr., who also won the Nobel prize, and Mohandas Gandhi, who did not, the president said that "as head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone."

"Evil does exist in the world," Obama said. "A nonviolent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al-Qaida's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force is sometimes necessary is not a call to cynicism. It is a recognition of history, the imperfections of man and the limits of reason."

Obama becomes the third sitting U.S. president, after Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, to win the peace prize.

President Jimmy Carter won the prize two decades after his presidency. Former Vice President Al Gore's Nobel came after the end of the Clinton administration.

In studying past acceptance speeches, Obama and his speechwriting team also pored over the words of nonpresidential winners, including George Marshall, the former secretary of defense and secretary of state and the first career soldier to win the Nobel for his initiative to rebuild Europe after World War II.

Obama arrived in Norway shortly after 8 a.m. local time Thursday, or 2 a.m. EST, the sky dusky and flecked with snow and sleet.

Accompanied by his wife and an official entourage, the president went by motorcade to the Nobel Institute for the ceremonial signing of the guest book. The motorcade passed clusters of onlookers, including children with flags, and protesters with a banner that read, "Obama, you won it now earn it."

Then he was off to a bilateral meeting with Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, at which Stoltenberg announced that his country was raising its financial commitment to fund the Afghan army and police to $110 million through 2014.

"I only wish that my family could stay longer in this wonderful country, but I still have a lot of work to do back in Washington, D.C., before the year is done," Obama said.

The leaders took just two questions, one from each press corps.

Obama told U.S. reporters, in response to a question about whether July 2011 really was a firm date to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, "I've been unambiguous about this, so there should not be a debate. Starting in July 2011 we will begin that transition, that transfer of responsibility."

He said the pace and tactics would be conditions-based and that the drawdown would not be sharp, "but July 2011 will signal a shift in our mission."

A Norwegian reporter asked what Obama would do to counter criticism that his Nobel prize was premature.

The president said his foreign policy goal "is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award" but "to advance America's interests, to strengthen our economy at home and to make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world. ...

"If I'm successful in those tasks, then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that's not really my concern. And if I'm not successful, then all the praise and the awards in the world won't disguise that fact."

At the Slottet Royal Palace of Norway, the Obamas met with King Harald V, Queen Sonja, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit.

The queen confessed wishing that she were taller to first lady Michelle Obama, who's 5 feet 11, and when the queen asked whether the Obamas were accustomed to the crowd of news crews following them, President Obama's answer was, "Unfortunately."

Is it safe to eat genetically modified foods?now controvery on food also

The EU will ensure there are no genetically modified foods in Europe that pose a danger to the consumer.

Today genetically modified foods have to be EU approved before they can be sold in Europe.

In order for a genetically modified food to be approved it must go through a Food Risk Assessment. The following points are considered amongst others:

* Is there a difference between the genetically modified food and the non-genetically modified equivalent? A comparison of fat, proteins, vitamins and toxins are made (amongst others).
* Can new substances or quantities of materials in the genetically modified foods affect consumers? Are the nutritional values altered? Can the foods become toxic or cause allergic reactions?
* In some cases, trial feeding of research animals is carried out.

It's difficult to know what the future holds or to predict the possible long-term consequences of eating genetically modified produce.


In 1994, the first genetically modified crop - a tomato came on the market in the USA. Since then there have been many more. Eating genetically modified food has become quite common. People have only been eating genetically modified food for a relatively short period. So there may be long-term effects which we simply don't know about yet.

Americans have eaten genetically modified foods for the longest period. Today they eat genetically modified food produce every day. It's estimated that around 65% of the products available in American supermarkets contain some amount of genetically modified ingredients.

Surveys in the USA have shown that many Americans have a relaxed approach to genetic modification. They reason that it must be safe because they've eaten it for years without getting sick.

Miley Cyrus Bikini Cleavage Jogging Photos Controvery Scandal

Miley Cyrus went for a jog with her hottie 21 year-old underwear model boyfriend Justin Gaston. Justin is way too dangerously hot and tempting for 16 year-old tween role model Miley Cyrus. Look at his sixpack!! That's why Miley is wearing her skimpy push-up tight t-shirt and cut off shorts. Read more about Miley and Justin's half-naked run.

Miley is complaining about her latest half-naked scandal after everyone on the internet is buzzing over her bikini jogging cleavage. Our theory is that Miley is a pretty girl who has a ridiculously hot boyfriend. What is better revenge against her ex-boyfriend Nick Jonas than upping her push-up bra cleavage during a weekend jog with her current gorgeous boyfriend when Nick's Jonas Brother 3D movie opens? Miley told Ryan Seacrest on KIIS FM that she didn't see the big deal about the paparazzi pics. Listen to Miley talk about the jogging pics at the 6:13 minute mark.

Miley Cyrus caused controvery this week when photos emerged of her running down the street in a low-cut shirt that revealed some skin and her bikini top, next to her shirtless boyfriend Justin Gaston. But the 16-year-old pop star said she doesn't get why everyone was making such a big deal about the pics.

"I don't get the big whoop, but whatever," she said Monday on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS FM radio show. "I guess it's just, I'm not allowed to jog any more. I don't get why people are allowed to take pictures and make them something they're not, but I guess that's just how their job works and how they'll make the most money. What they don't know is that I had an 8-year-old little sister traveling behind me, which all she wanted that day was to have a car wash."

Cyrus further explained that she was showing so much skin because she was wearing her mom's baggy T-shirt, which slipped down revealing the bikini top that she wore while washing boyfriend Justin Gaston's "really hideous truck." "So, 'Oh, my goodness, Miley Cyrus wears a two-piece!' " she said. "Kill me! I'm wearing a two-piece, along with an 8-year-old."

Miley also shared with Seacrest that she's got a favorite pastime other than washing cars: toilet-papering her neighbors' houses with a friend, who happens to be fellow Disney star Demi Lovato. "We were really bored, 'cause we were watching the life story of the Kardashians. ... And then we got really bored and watched the life story of Mario Lopez," she joked about the impetus behind pulling the prank on a house that happened to belong to one of Seacrest's friends. She said she and Lovato thought one of their friends lived there.

"We walked to my house and got rolls of toilet paper. So, we took it all, and we started rolling and we got ketchup, mustard," she said, elaborating on their impromptu decorations. "Your friend came and said 'hi' to us and said we were doing a good job."

Former Minister M Satyanarayana Rao starts another controversy

The former minister M Satyanarayana Rao has kicked off another controversy. He is known to be a man of outspoken, in an informal chat with media in the Assembly lobby said that he was told by the Prime Minister, Man Mohan Singh that the Chief Minister is opposed to the Telangana State that created a furor.

He further added that he actively participated in the Telangana agitation the 60s went on saying any Chief Minister from Rayalaseema region depends solely on the support of the party MLAs from the region. The former minister who added ad if he had been in the position, he too would have done the same.

The remarks made by M Satyanarayana Rao crated a flutter in the Congress circles and advised the Chief Minister to change his mindset. TSR floor leader in the Assembly G Vijaya Rama Rao said it is time for the Congress from the Telangana region to decide whether they support the cause of the Telangana. He commented that the Dr.YS Rajasekhara Reddy should not forget the fact that he became Chief Minister only with the support of the people of Telangana Regio

Cult & Controversy: the story of Asaram ashram

For the phenomenally influential religious guru, Asaram Bapu, his 37-year-long spiritual career had never been a cakewalk and the four mysterious deaths in his ashramss here and in Madhya Pradesh and the public ire he has been courting are only the latest that he hopes to shrug off.

His spiritual domain is spread across 300 ashrams throughout India, as also in the US, with lakhs of his followers and admirers flooding his commune with funds. Sixty-seven-year-old Bapu has even delivered a speech at the parliament of world religions.

Few controversies connected with his ashrams have invited media attention the way the deaths of four children in his two ashrams — in Ahmedabad and Chhindwara — did in just one month. His ashram, in both the cases, is facing serious problems, with investigators finally getting down to grilling inmates of the ashrams in connection with the deaths.

Asaram Bapu may not have had to look back ever since he set up his first kutia or hutment in Motera village here in 1971, but the path had all along been strewn with scandals.

Sindh-born Asaram, who had migrated to Ahmedabad with his parents during Partition, is facing about dozen-odd cases at different places — all of them pertaining to alleged land grabbing by his Sant Asaram Bapu Trust. One of the villagers in Motera, Ashok Thakore, has moved the court to get back five acres of his family’s land allegedly grabbed by the ashram. According to Thakore, the land is situated adjoining the ashram and was used for erecting tents on the Guru Purnima day. Permission to this effect was given by his father to the ashram. After his father’s death, the ashram grabbed it by saying that Thakore’s father had ‘gifted’ it to the ashram. However, the ashram has not been able to substantiate its claim with proofs.

In another case, Anil Vyas, a farmer from Jehangirpura village near Surat, where the ashram is facing several allegations of land grabbing, is fighting a prolonged battle for recovery of his 34,400 square metres of prime land from the ashram. According to Vyas, despite the fact that the ashram’s claim over the land was challenged in the court, the state Government regularised the unauthorised encroachment on January 24, 1997. However, the Gujarat High Court on December 8, 2006, held the regularisation illegal and decreed in favour of the farmer. The Ashram then appealed to the Division Bench against the order.

A Delhi-based widow, Sudarshan Kumari, is also fighting a legal battle against Asaram Bapu whose Trust, she alleges, had fraudulently got some papers signed by her. The paper later turned out to be a ‘gift deed’ to the ashram. The documents say that she has gifted the ground floor of her house in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, to the ashram. According to her complaint, on July 6, 2000, on the pretext of taking her to Asaram satsang, she was taken to the office of Sub Registrar in Janakpuri, New Delhi. One of the inmates of the ashram, identified as Mani Kaka, hypnotised her and made her sign a number of documents, without allowing her to go through the content. The other person who signed the papers there, according to her, was Narayan Swamy, son of Asaram Bapu. She came to know about the gift deed when officials from the Municipal Committee of Delhi came to confirm it.

The ashram authorities at Rajokri village, near Gurgaon, have allegedly forged documents pertaining to the registration of the ashram. Bhagwani Devi, a resident of Rajokri, has also approached the Delhi High Court levelling allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Rajokri ashram.

Even Government agencies have levelled allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Trust. A few months ago, the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts (BSBRT) had served a notice to the Trust’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, asking it to vacate a land belonging to BSBRT, worth Rs 80 crore. And in April 2007, a retired judge of the Patna High Court had filed a criminal complaint in Kadamkuan police station, Patna, alleging grabbing of his land by Asaram Bapu and others.

In Ratlam, Asaram’s Trust had to vacate a piece of land after a prolonged litigation. In January 2007, power theft amounting to Rs 4.7 lakh was detected from his Rajkot ashram.

Despite all these cases and allegations, Asaram Bapu’s popularity is on the rise — particularly among the ruling party politicians in the state. “It is due to the clout of Asaram that no criminal case was registered against any of his ashram-members nor was anyone from the ashram arrested after the two boys of his gurukuls died under mysterious circumstances,” said a rebel BJP leader, requesting anonymity.

The popularity of Asaram can be gauged from the fact that his photographs can be spotted in every government office across the state and even state transport corporation’s buses display his photos and messages.

When the Gujarat Government in 2005 decided to rejuvenate the Saraswati river by filling long tracts of land considered to be the vestiges of the mythical river at Sidhpur town in Mehsana district, Asaram Bapu was the chief guest at the launch of the project. Though there are other religious leaders in the state, inviting him to such a high-profile programme as the chief guest explains the popularity of the man among the ruling party.

Again, when the state Government temporarily launched Vande Gujarat TV channel, telecasting its developmental achievements on the eve of December 2007 Assembly polls, the channel regularly carried footages of Asaram Bapu.

This explains the clout of Asaram Bapu whose religious movement has taken the shape of a cult, having followers in every section of the society. With his influence growing, there are many politicians, including Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, visiting his ashram regularly.

Senior BJP leader L K Advani is also believed to be one of the regular visitors to the ashram. The Ashram manager in Ahmedabad, Arvind Patel, is a senior BJP functionary.

Telangana Controversy starts in Prajarajyam party.

controversial tiger woods

Jamie Jungers, one of the women at the center of the Tiger Woods controversy, appeared this morning on the “Today Show” in an effort to “clear the air,” because she claims that of what’s been reported, it’s “99 percent not true.”

OK, so then what is true?

Jungers recalled how, at a charity event in Las Vegas in 2005, one of Woods’ people came up to her and said, “Tiger Woods would like to meet you.”

After an evening of drinking and more drinking, they spent the night in his hotel room. She said she “absolutely” thought it was a one-night stand, but received a call from him the next day. The disgraced golf star rang Jungers to give her his number, and told her, “save it as a different name, in case she loses the phone.

Jungers claims they instantly had a “connection,” and though she knew he was married to Elin Nordegren, she continued the relationship because “I had a crush on Tiger for years.”

Over the course of Woods’ one and a half affair, Jungers said it became more of an “actual relationship – boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.”

She even recalled how she spent the night in Woods’ L.A. home. After flying her out to L.A., Woods himself picked her up at the airport, and they went back to his place. But the pick-up at LAX wasn’t the only public display. She said they went out to restaurants on several occasions, and that he didn’t try to hide the relationship.

Jungers told Meredith Veiera on the “Today Show” that she never even received a birthday card from Woods. “I got nothing out of this relationship but a broken heart.”

Although she never told him when they were together, Jungers said she loved Woods.

But it all came to an end when she was in financial straits and asked the multimillionaire, “Can you help me out,” and he replied, “I can’t.”

Jungers said she told Woods, “That shows how much I mean to you – I can’t do this anymore.”

As for allegations made late last evening by a madam named Michelle Braun that Jungers used to work for her, Jungers vehemently denied that she has “ever been an escort, never will be an escort.”

Despite everything that’s gone down with Woods and the revelations of multiple mistresses, Jungers still declared, “There will always be a place in my heart for Tiger.”

Bandit Queen (1994, India)

This biodrama (in Hindi with subtitles) told the true-life legendary story of indomitable female folk outlaw-heroine Phoolan Devi (portrayed by Seema Biswas). It was based upon Devi's "dictated prison diaries," made after she was arrested, in real life, in 1983, and imprisoned for eleven years. [She ran for Parliament in 1996 and was assassinated in 2001 when she was just 37, reportedly to avenge the Behmai Massacre.]
It portrayed many scenes of her continued rape and sexual humiliation in her society. As a lower-caste Indian girl, she was married off at age 11 (Sunita Bhatt), and repeatedly 'raped' and ill-treated by her husband. After she left her husband (and was now regarded as a loose woman and fair game), she became defiant against forced female subservience, which led to her banishment as a social outcast from her patriarchal-based village.
After being arrested (framed for a robbery), raped, and beaten in prison, she was kidnapped by a local gang of bandits and again, raped, but won the respect and love of the gang's temporary leader Vikram Mallah (Nirmal Pandey), who became her lover and eventually made her co-leader (with resemblances to Bonnie and Clyde and Robin Hood tales). When jealous upper-caste Thakurs returned to rule the bandits in the village, they killed Mallah, gang-raped Devi (for three-days), and forced her to walk naked through the village's main streets to fetch water from the well. Her retaliatory vengeance took the form of a brutal massacre that killed 20 upper caste men in Behmai (in Uttar Pradesh) where she was assaulted. Her last defiant words in the film were: "I am Phoolan Devi, you sisterf--kers."
Due to its controversial nature, consciousness-raising and powerful indictment of Indian society (for its sexism, ritual misogyny, and the inequalities of the caste system), it was banned in India by censors due to its nudity, sex and violence. Devi herself issued her own lawsuit in an effort to prevent its release. Bandit Queen was financed by Britain's Channel Four, and received critical acclaim at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and at the 1995 New Directors New Films Festival in New York.

Mallika Sherawat caught in controversy over her skin-suit

Mallika Sherawat, after leaving many disappointed at her performance on New Year’s eve at a suburban hotel in Mumbai, is caught in another controversy. A social worker has approached the Mumbai police seeking an action against the celebrity for wearing ‘obscene clothes’.



Mallika Sherawat recently hit the headlines when she walked off the stage even after charging Rs 75 lakh for 45 minutes-long performance on New Year’s eve at a Mumbai hotel.This time she is hit by an obscenity case for the clothes she wore at the same show. Sherawat wore a skin-suit for her 45-minute performance at the hotel, which has now left the social worker fuming.


The social worker Vinod Jain had seen Sherawat’s performance on certain television channels and was offended. While talking to the news agencies he quoted, “The actress was wearing obscene clothes and dancing in a manner that was very offensive to our culture and women.” He also said that he has approached the Santa Cruz police station to take up the matter since the hotel lies within its jurisdiction.He has sought the filing of a complaint against Sherawat and the organisers of the function under the IPC and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
Additional Commissioner of Police Bipin Bihari said, “We received an application from Jain today. We will study the footage of the event and if the performance attracts the concerned sections of law, the complaint will be filed.”


However, the show was not worth, its charge said people who had coughed up between Rs 5,000 to Rs 9,000 for the show.

all time 3 famous controversies in sports

Number 3

Mike Danton - The Blues Lagoon
In 2004, Mike Danton, a former St. Louis Blues player, enlisted the help of a 19-year-old girl to hire a hit man, who was actually a police dispatcher. The FBI was quickly alerted and Danton was convicted of plotting to commit murder, with the exact target still unknown. The details were muddy and the suspected motives were varied. Some believed Danton was trying to remove a gay lover threatening to out him, while others claimed he was attempting to end a miserable relationship with his svengali-like, mind-controlling agent, David Frost. People close to the situation came forward and disclosed how Frost manipulated Danton to the point where he became his hand puppet, even forcing Danton to sever his relationship with his parents. Given these strange details, the common hypothesis was that Frost was the target.

What makes it stranger: Frost's influence over Danton was frequently discussed but remained indistinct until the transcript of a prison telephone call was revealed to the public after Danton's arrest. At the end of the phone call, Frost asked Danton, "Do you love me?" and pressed him to reinforce his positive response twice.

Number 2

Patrick Dennehy - The Basketball Diaries
The story started when Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy was reported missing in June 2003. A month later, after teammate Carlton Dotson was charged for murder, Dennehy's dead body was found in chest-high weeds. The police had been tipped off after Dotson told a cousin of his that he shot and killed Dennehy during an argument.

But the black eye didn't end there for Baylor University's basketball program, as Dennehy's girlfriend reported violations to the NCAA. Investigations revealed that head coach Dave Bliss had been improperly paying for Dennehy's tuition, had not reported players' failed drug tests, and had told players and coaches to lie to authorities by claiming that Dennehy had been dealing drugs. The school is now under probation until 2010.

What makes it stranger: In October 2004, Dotson was deemed to be psychologically incompetent and was sent to a mental hospital where he was evaluated. He was returned to jail after doctors doubted his accounts of hallucinations, and a week before his trial was to begin, with no plea bargain in hand, Dotson pleaded guilty in the death of Patrick Dennehy. He is currently serving a 35-year jail sentence.

Number 1

Tonya Harding - Knee-High Goodbye
The leg bone is connected to the knee bone, and knowing that, American figure skater Tonya Harding calculated that it would be more difficult for her rival to compete if she hired a man to take out her knee. Harding hired Shane Stant to put fellow American Nancy Kerrigan out of commission at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, paving the way for Harding's victory. Soon after, her ex-husband cut a plea bargain deal in which he spilled the beans of their scheme to implicate Harding. When her time came, she had no choice but to plead guilty and received three years of probation, a $160,000 fine, a ban from U.S. figure skating, and was stripped of her 1994 title.

What makes it stranger: Tonya Harding didn't just climb into a grimy cave and disappear after the scandal, though, as she kept her face in the limelight with a pornographic sex tape, of which stills were posted in Penthouse magazine. She also had a brief boxing career that included a celebrity bout with well-known Paula Jones, and ran into the law on several occasions for drunk driving and domestic violence.

German HIV/AIDS ad causes controversy over images of Hitler and Stalin

The creators of an HIV/AIDS awareness advertisement that shows a woman having sex with a series of dictators, including Hitler and Stalin, defended it amid growing criticism.
The ad is due to run until World AIDS Day on 1 December. Das Comitee, a Hamburg advertising agency, said the advert's shock value was aimed at highlighting the dangers of unprotected sex at a time when public awareness about the risks was diminishing. "We knew the face we gave to the illness could not be a pretty one," said Dirk Silz, the creative director.
The advert was trying to "show the ugliness of the illness, not of AIDS victims", he added.
But organisations representing people with HIV and AIDS across Europe have condemned it, saying it only adds to the stigma they already suffer by appearing to put them on a par with mass murderers.
Others criticised the campaign for failing to offer any prevention advice, such as the use of condoms.
The 45-second advert, which is being launched on German television and in cinemas this week but cannot be broadcast before the 9pm watershed because of its content, shows a couple having sex. Towards the end the man's face turns into that of Adolf Hitler, along with the slogan "Aids is a mass murderer". In poster versions for the campaign the images of other dictators such as Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein have also been used.
The campaign was the brainchild of the German Aids awareness group, Regenbogen eV, and is due to run until World Aids day on December 1. Das Comitee said it had worked for nothing on the film, and had received a positive response so far. "If it wakes people up to the dangers of unprotected sex, we've been effective," Silz said.

all about mns controversies(maharastra nav nirman sena)

[edit] 2008 violence against North Indians in Maharashtra

Rally at Shivaji Park,Mumbai in which Raj spoke out against North Indians.

Main article: 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra

In February 2008, some MNS activists clashed with Samajwadi Party (SP) party workers in Mumbai when Samajwadi Party supporters attended a rally at Shivaji Park, Dadar, Mumbai, a stronghold of MNS, where Samajwadi Party leader, Abu Asim Azmi made a fiery speech. After the clashes, 73 MNS activists and 19 SP workers were arrested by Mumbai Police for indulging in violence.^[4]
On February 6, 2008, reportedly, about 200 Congress and NCP party workers quit the party and joined Maharashtra Navnirman Sena to support against MNS's so-called pro Marathi agenda.^[5]
A petition was filed in the Patna civil court on February 8 against Thackeray for his alleged remarks over Chhath, Bihar's most popular festival of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.^[6] Mr. Thackeray maintains he is not against Chhath Puja^[7], but against the "show of arrogance" and "Politicization of Chut Puja" displayed by some people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on this occasion.
On February 10, 2008, MNS workers attacked vendors and shopkeepers from North India in various parts of Maharashtra, and destroyed government property to vent their anger against the reported move to arrest Raj Thackeray.^[8] Nashik police detained 26 MNS workers for the violence.
In February 2008, Raj Thackarey's speech on the issue of uncontrolled migration into Mumbai from other parts of India created a well publicized controversy. Maharashtra's economy leads other states in India and its capital Mumbai has become a magnet to migrant population from states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. MNS supporters clashed with activists of the Samajwadi Party, a regional party for Muslims from Uttar Pradesh leading to street violence. Thackeray also criticized noted film actor turned politician Amitabh Bachchan, a native of Uttar Pradesh, for business toward UP and Bihar because of Amar Singh. Bachchan came into fame and fortune in Mumbai's film industry – Bollywood. ^[9][10]
On September 8, 2008, Infosys Technologies announced that 3,000 employee positions had been shifted from Pune due to construction delays caused earlier that year by MNS attacks on North Indian construction workers in Maharashtra.^[11]. On 15 October 2008, Thackeray threatened to shut down Jet Airways operations in Maharashtra if they did not rehire probationary employees that had been shed in a cost cutting move forced by the economic downturn.^[12]
In October 2008, MNS activists beat up North Indian candidates appearing for the all-India Railway Recruitment Board entrance exam for the Western region in Mumbai.^[13] One Bihari died because of train accident in third class and Hindi Media with support from NCP/Congress successfully potrate it as guy died ensuing rioting.^[14] In retaliation for the MNS' attack on Biharis and North Indians in general, the Bharatiya Bhojpuri Sangh attacked the residence of a Marathi official of Tata Motors in Jamshedpur.^[15] Following the uproar in the Indian parliament, and calls that there was no pressure to arrest the MNS chief,^[16] Raj Thackeray was arrested in the early hours of October 21. He was produced before a court on the day itself and would return the next day after spending the night in jail.^[17] Following the arrest, however, MNS party activists took out their anger on parts of Mumbai city and the region at large.^[18] The arrest resulted in applause, fear and calls for a ban on the MNS.^[19][20][21] The Shiv Sena, however, maintained a cool response, although senior party leader Manohar Joshi said they were close to supporting the MNS in their agitation against the non-Marathi candidates for the railway board exam.^[22]

Iraq war

The Iraq War, also known as the Occupation of Iraq^[34] or Operation Iraqi Freedom,^[35] is an ongoing^[36] military campaign which began on March 19, 2003,^[37] with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States and the United Kingdom beginning on March 20, 2003.^[38]
Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies.^[39][40][41] In 2002, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1441 which called for Iraq to completely cooperate with U.N. weapon inspectors to verify that Iraq was not in possession of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles. Weapons inspectors found no evidence of WMD, but could not verify the accuracy of Iraq's weapon declarations.^{[42][43][44][45]} At the time Hans Blix, the lead weapons inspector, advised the UN Security Council that while Iraq was cooperating in terms of access, Iraq's declarations with regards to WMD still could not be verified.^[42][46]
After investigation following the invasion, the US-led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical, and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted.^[47] Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before 1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been the pretext for the invasion.^[48] Some US officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda,^[49] but no evidence of an operation connection was ever found.^[50][51]
Other reasons for the invasion included Iraq's financial support for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers,^[52] Iraqi government human rights abuses,^[53] and an effort to spread democracy to the country.^[54][55]
The invasion of Iraq led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later executed by the new Iraqi government. Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and al-Qaeda operations in Iraq.^[56][57]
In June 2008, US Department of Defense officials claimed security and economic indicators began to show signs of improvement in what they hailed as significant and fragile gains.^[58] Iraq was fifth on the 2008 Failed States Index,^[59] and sixth on the 2009 list.^[60]
Member nations of the Coalition withdrew their forces as public opinion favoring troop withdrawals increased and as Iraqi forces began to take responsibility for security.^[61][62] In late 2008, the US and Iraqi governments approved a Status of Forces Agreement effective through January 1, 2012.^[63] The Iraqi Parliament also ratified a Strategic Framework Agreement with the U.S.,^[64] aimed at ensuring cooperation in constitutional rights, threat deterrence, education,^[65] energy development, and other areas.^[66]
In late February 2009, US President Barack Obama announced a new 18-month withdrawal window for "combat forces", with approximately 50,000 troops remaining in the country "to advise and train Iraqi security forces and to provide intelligence and surveillance".^[67][68] General Ray Odierno, the top US military commander in Iraq, said he believes all US troops will be out of the country by the end of 2011,^[69] while British forces ended combat operations on April 30, 2009.^[70] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said he supports the accelerated pullout of US forces.^[71]

Controversy over death of prime minister of india (lal bahadur shastri)

 Death at Tashkent

Shastri statue in Mumbai

the name is seen in the plaque in Mumbai in Maharashtra, India

After the declaration of ceasefire, Shastri and Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan attended a summit in Tashkent (former USSR, now in modern Uzbekistan), organised by Kosygin. On 10 January 1966, Shastri and Khan signed the Tashkent Declaration.
The next day Shastri, who had suffered two heart attacks earlier, died supposedly of a heart attack at 1:32 AM. ^[7]. He was the only Indian Prime Minister, and indeed probably one of the few heads of government, to have died in office overseas.^[20]

[edit] Mystery of Shastri's Death

Although officially it was maintained that Shastri died of heart attack, his widow, Lalita Shastri kept alleging that her husband was poisoned. Many believed that Shastri's body turning blue was an evidence of his poisoning. Indeed a Russian butler attending to him was arrested on suspicion of poisoning Shastri, but was later absolved of charges.^[21]
In 2009, when Anuj Dhar, author of CIA's Eye on South Asia, asked the Prime Minister's Office under an RTI plea (Right to Information Act), that Shastri's cause of death be made public, the PMO refused to oblige, citing that this could lead to harming of foreign relations, cause disruption in the country and cause breach of parliamentary privileges.^[21]
The PMO did inform however that it had in its possession one document related to Shastri's death, but refused to declassify it. The government also admitted that no postmortem examination had been conducted on him in USSR, but it did have a report of a medical investigation conducted by Shastri's personal physician Dr. R.N. Chugh and some Russian doctors. Furthermore, the PMO revealed that there was no record of any destruction, or loss, of documents in the PMO having a bearing on Shastri's death. As of July 2009, the home ministry is yet to respond to queries whether India conducted a postmortem and if the government had investigated allegations of foul play.^[21]
Circumstances of Shastri's death do indeed make a case for close inquiry. On the night of January 11, Shastri was awakened by a severe coughing fit. Dr. R.N. Chugh came to his aid. Shastri was unable to speak and pointed to a flask kept nearby. A staffer brought some water which Shastri sipped. Shortly afterward, Shastri became unconscious and attempts to revive him proved futile.
A cold case forensic enquiry which keeps these facts in consideration, could point to three causes - in order of probability.
(i) Myocardial Infarction (ordinarily known as Heart Attack)
(ii) Café Coronary (impaction of food in windpipe - in this case, drops of water)
(iii) Poisoning by some very quick acting poison, say cyanide although its probability is minimal.

Memorial

All his lifetime, Shastri was known for honesty and humility. He was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, and a memorial "Vijay Ghat" was built for him in Delhi. Several educational institutes, Shashtri National Academy of Administration (Mussorie) is after his name these were some examples. The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute was named after Shastri due to his role in promoting scholarly activity between India and Canada.^[22]
In 2005, the Government of India in Delhi University

The Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement

The Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, known also as the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal, refers to a bilateral accord on civil nuclear cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of India. The framework for this agreement was a July 18, 2005 joint statement by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then U.S. President George W. Bush, under which India agreed to separate its civil and military nuclear facilities and place all its civil nuclear facilities under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and, in exchange, the United States agreed to work toward full civil nuclear cooperation with India.[1] This U.S.-India deal took more than three years to come to fruition as it had to go through several complex stages, including amendment of U.S. domestic law, a civil-military nuclear Separation Plan in India, an India-IAEA safeguards (inspections) agreement and the grant of an exemption for India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an export-control cartel that had been formed mainly in response to India's first nuclear test in 1974. In its final shape, the deal places under permanent safeguards those nuclear facilities that India has identified as "civil" and permits broad civil nuclear cooperation, while excluding the transfer of "sensitive" equipment and technologies, including civil enrichment and reprocessing items even under IAEA safeguards. On August 18, 2008 the IAEA Board of Governors approved,[2] and on February 2, 2009, India signed an India-specific safeguards agreement with the IAEA.[3] Once India brings this agreement into force, inspections will begin in a phased manner on the 35 civilian nuclear installations India has identified in its Separation Plan.[4]

The nuclear deal was widely seen[by whom?] as a legacy-building effort by President Bush and Prime Minister Singh.[citation needed] But while the deal had to pass muster with the U.S. Congress twice (once when the Hyde Act was passed in late 2006 to amend U.S. domestic law and then when the final deal-related package was approved in October 2008), Singh blocked the Indian Parliament from scrutinizing the deal. The deal proved very contentious in India and threatened at one time to topple Singh's government, which survived a confidence vote in Parliament in July 2008 by roping in a regional party as a coalition partner in place of the leftist bloc that had bolted.

On August 1, 2008, the IAEA approved the safeguards agreement with India,[5] after which the United States approached the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) to grant a waiver to India to commence civilian nuclear trade.[6] The 45-nation NSG granted the waiver to India on September 6, 2008 allowing it to access civilian nuclear technology and fuel from other countries.[7] The implementation of this waiver makes India the only known country with nuclear weapons which is not a party to the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is still allowed to carry out nuclear commerce with the rest of the world.[8]

The US House of Representatives passed the bill on 28 September 2008.[9] Two days later, India and France inked a similar nuclear pact making France the first country to have such an agreement with India.[10] On October 1, 2008 the US Senate also approved the civilian nuclear agreement allowing India to purchase nuclear fuel and technology from the United States.[11][12] U.S. President, George W. Bush, signed the legislation on the Indo-US nuclear deal, approved by the U.S. Congress, into law, now called the United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Non-proliferation Enhancement Act, on October 8, 2008.[13] The agreement was signed by Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterpart Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on 10 October.[14][15]

Chandrayaan find affirms claims of water on moon

Bangalore/New Delhi: India’s maiden lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, found the strongest evidence yet that the moon isn’t the dry place it was thought to be, a finding that has been validated by a US space probe and which itself supported data that’s a decade old.

Water-ice formation: A schematic showing the stream of charged hydrogen ions carried from the sun by the solar wind. One possible scenario to explain hydration of the lunar surface is that during the daytime, when the moon is exposed to the solar wind, hydrogen ions liberate oxygen from lunar minerals to form hydroxyl and water, which are then weakly held to the surface. At high temperatures (red-yellow), more molecules are released than adsorbed. When the temperature decreases (green-blue), hydroxyl and water accumulate. University of Maryland/F Merlin/McREL

While the formation of an earth-like, liquid reservoir on the moon is impossible because of the weak atmosphere on Earth’s only natural satellite, there are chances of fresh and bigger chunks of water-ice forming over several years on the lunar surface.Although there’s little evidence to suggest that life existed on the moon ever, water on its surface in any form is necessary to set up a base—both to exploit the moon’s resources such as helium-3, a clean nuclear fuel, and setting up a transit point for possible exploration of planets beyond, such as Mars.
Ice that on heating vapourizes without the intermediary liquid state is called water-ice. Such ice naturally occurs in certain planets and their satellites.
“Certainly, it will increase man’s interest in the moon,” P. Sreekumar, chief scientist of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, said over phone, calling the finding a “major discovery” and adding that the theory of the origin of the moon may have to be re-examined.
The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), an instrument provided by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and fitted on board Chandrayaan-1, made the discovery. Scientists validated the finding when Deep Impact probe, another Nasa spacecraft, flew by the moon in June.
Researchers also went back to data sent in 1999 by Cassini, a probe that passed the moon on its journey to Saturn.
India’s first lunar mission, launched on 22 October 2008, was aborted prematurely on 30 August after its power systems failed and it lost contact with earth. Mission objectives included finding evidence of water and minerals such as helium-3.
Scientists found a thin layer of hydrogen and oxygen—the two elements that make up water—bound together.
The finding is a boost for India’s ambitions for deep space exploration. The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will follow up by landing a rover on the moon by 2013 and send probes to asteroids and Mars in the future amid a renewed burst of global interest in exploring outer space.
India is targeting a human spaceflight by 2016 and eventually landing a man on the moon in the 2020s.
The US plans to return a man to the moon by 2020, around when China plans to send a manned mission.
Still, the most powerful evidence of water on the moon is likely to come from the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite that will crash into the moon’s south pole on 9 October to sense the presence of water in the resulting debris, Lawrence Taylor of the University of Tennessee and one of the authors of three papers to be published in Science magazine on Friday, said in an email.
In the past, researchers have found signs of ice in the moon’s polar region, located in deep craters that have never seen sunlight, but the latest findings indicate water on its surface.
While the quantity is not precisely known, as much as 1,000 water molecule parts-per-million could be in the lunar soil, according to Carle Pieters, principal investigator of the M3 instrument and the author of one of the papers.
Harvesting one tonne of the top layer of the moon’s surface would yield as much as 32 ounces, or about a cup of water, according to scientists involved in the discovery.
“When we say ‘water on the moon’, we are not talking about lakes, oceans or even puddles,” Pieters said in a statement. “Water on the moon means molecules of water and hydroxyl that interact with molecules of rock and dust specifically in the top millimetres of the moon’s surface.”
Experts are also prescribing caution.
“There’s an expression that describes the moon as dry as a bone. In this case, the bone may be much wetter than the moon,” said Paul Lucey, a physicist at the University of Hawaii, in an email. “Somehow water trapped in the cold regions must be protected from ultraviolet rays (for a chunk of water ice to develop). Liquid water is not possible.”
Lucey has published a commentary on the findings in Science journal.
Last October, Junichi Haruyama of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and his team published a report in Science analysing images from the Japanese lunar probe, Selene or Kaguya, and stating that there was no water-ice at least on the surface of the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold water deposits.
Significantly, the latest studies suggest a new theory to explain how water-ice could have formed on the moon. Hydrogen, an essential component of water, comes from solar wind that reacts with the oxygen. Over time, these drops of water gradually move towards the poles and form chunks of water-ice, said Jessica Sunshine of the University of Maryland, and one of the authors of the papers published in Science.

Indian scientists stir controversy over nuclear capability of New Delhi

Barely a week after an Indian atomic scientist raised a major controversy by claiming that the country's nuclear tests in Pokhran in 1998 were not "as successful as claimed", a couple of other top Indian scientists have also added fuel to the fire by calling for further tests to establish India as a true nuke power.

Experts say that the claims of atomic scientist K. Santhanam, who was associated with the Pokhran nuclear tests, and P.K. Iyengar, the former head of India's main nuclear body Atomic Energy Commission, have only stirred up doubts about India's nuclear capability not only in the "volatile" South Asian region but also in the world arena.

"Their colleagues have already contradicted the claims. Even the Indian government has refuted the claims, saying that the nuclear tests were successful. So, raising a sensitive issue like this at this time means an unnecessary controversy that puts India's nuclear capability at stake in South Asia, with Pakistan always trying to undermine it," said Delhi-based defense analyst R.K. Basu.

"Pakistan may take advantage of the controversy. Recent reports have suggested that Pakistan has been using U.S. security aid to beef up its military against India by illegally modifying the Harpoon anti-ship missile and maritime surveillance aircraft P-3C for land attacks against New Delhi. Raising the issue of its nuke capability now may turn out to be a threat to India only," he added.

In fact, blowing the lid off the claims by India about the success of the nuclear tests, Santhanam, who was director for 1998test site preparations in Pokhran, had said last week that the yield for the thermonuclear test or hydrogen bomb in popular usage was much lower than what was claimed by the then BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government.

"Based upon the seismic measurements and expert opinion from world over, it is clear that the yield in the thermonuclear device test was much lower than what was claimed. I think it is well documented and that is why I assert that India should not rush into signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)," Santhanam told an English daily here.

And, political analyst Professor Ajay Singh claimed that Santhanam's assessment will bolster India's opposition to signing the CTBT.

"The issue is likely to come up in the discussions when Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to the U.S. in November. India has opposed CTBT on grounds that it is discriminatory and divides the world into the nuclear haves and have-nots. So, this could also be the reason, though it has led to a major controversy," he said.

Contended political scientist Professor S.K. Gupta: "Why blame Santhanam only? Even Iyengar bolstered his claim by saying that he had already made it clear in 2002 that India's nuclear tests were inconclusive and ambiguous. His calls for more Indian nuclear tests raise fear in the volatile sub-continent at a time when the domestic scenario in Pakistan is not up to the mark."

Supporting his colleague Santhanam, Iyengar had said in an interview: "If India wants to declare itself as a nuclear power and confirm to the military that you have all the means of designing a thermo-nuclear device which can go into a missile, which can be dropped from an aircraft or can be launched from a submarine, you need many more tests."

Indian nuclear weapons program started in 1964. The country blasted five nuclear devices in Pokhran, three on May 11 and two on May 13, 1998, which led to international sanctions against the country.

"Now, being an Indian scientist how could one possibly denigrate India's nuclear capability. Even if the tests were not successful, the scientists should not have said it in public," said Ajay Singh.

Source: Xinhua

ISI Summons RAW Chief over Terrorism in Pakistan

ISI Summons RAW Chief over Terrorism in Pakistan

• In the Sri Lankan cricket team case, Indian operatives crossed the border from Indian to join other Indian-origin or Indian-trained terrorists who traveled all the way from Afghanistan to Lahore
  
• Indian terrorism training bases, intelligence outposts and personnel in Afghanistan identified
  
• In some cases, Indian intelligence was indirectly supporting attacks against US soldiers in Afghanistan in order to worsen Pak-US military relations
  
• India’s friends, advocates and lobbyists in Washington stunned
  

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was stunned when Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Reza Gilani handed him a dossier containing photographs of Brahamdagh Bugti and other terrorists meeting Indian agents not only in Afghanistan but also during their visits to India and the names of the Indian officials who met them. This was part of more evidence about India’s involvement in recruiting, training, financing and arming terrorists in Afghanistan and sending them to Pakistan. India’s links to the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore and other high profile terrorism cases have been established, shocking even Indian’s many advocates in Washington. Mr. Gilani gave this surprise to the Indians behind closed doors. Now India fears that Pakistan would use this meeting to expose Indian connections with two anti-Pakistan terrorist leaders and their foreign-funded terror armies: Brahamdagh Bugti and his BLA [Balochistan Liberation Army] and Baitullah Mehsud’s Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, both being supported from bases in US-controlled Afghanistan.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—ISI Chief Shuja Pasha has summoned his Indian Counterpart, K C Verma for a meeting through the Indian defense attaché in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

The Indian government has not responded to ISI’s request yet, and is reportedly assessing the implications of a possible meeting carefully.

After the July 16 Sharm el-Sheikh joint statement between India and Pakistan, India fears that Pakistan would use this meeting as a forum to expose Indian connections with two terror leaders and their foreign-funded terror armies: Brahamdagh Bugti and his BLA [Balochistan Liberation Army] and Baitullah Mehsud’sTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

Pakistan has piles of evidence against Indian consulates in Afghanistan being used to fund terrorism in Pakistan through the TTP as well as the terrorists who claim to be self-styled representatives of Pakistan’s Baloch vast Baloch heritage.

Pakistan’s DAWN reports that a dossier containing proof of India’s involvement in “subversive activities” in Pakistan was handed over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during their meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh last week.

The evidence has also been shared with the US and Afghanistan, with Kabul being asked to prevent the use of its territory for disruptive activities against Pakistan.

“Although the information given to India is being kept highly secret, broad outlines of the dossier available with Dawn reveal details of Indian contacts with those involved in attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Manawan police station,” the newspaper said.

“Operatives of RAW who remained in touch with the perpetrators of the attacks have been identified and proof of their interaction has been attached,” it added.

A description of Indian arms and explosives used in the attack on the Sri Lankan team has been made part of the dossier, besides which the names and particulars of the perpetrators, who illegally entered Pakistan from India and joined their accomplices who had reached Lahore from Waziristan, have been mentioned, the report said.

The dossier is also said to list the safe houses being run by RAW in Afghanistan where terrorists are trained and launched for missions in Pakistan.

“The dossier also broadly covers the Indian connection in terror financing in Pakistan.

A substantial part of the shared material deals with the Balochistan insurgency and Indian linkages with the insurgents, particularly Brahamdagh Bugti, Burhan and Sher Khan,” Dawn said.

Ahmadinejad reiterates Iran right to nuke program

Iran will persist with its nuclear program despite international concerns, the country's president said Tuesday, as the world awaited Tehran's response to a nuclear deal that could ease tensions with the West.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has long insisted Iran has a right to pursue its nuclear ambitions, but the remarks Tuesday were his first since the U.N.-drafted offer was put forth last week.
Ahmadinejad did not directly refer to the draft, but his comments could indicate Iran's hardening stance toward the U.N. proposal. Tehran is expected to respond to the offer this week.
The plan envisages Iran sending out most of uranium abroad for enrichment, which would reduce its stockpile and limit Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapon.
Ahmadinejad on Tuesday lashed out at archenemy Israel, which is believed to have nuclear weapons.
"When an illegal regime has atomic weapons, it's impossible to block others from the right to have peaceful nuclear energy," Ahmadinejad said during a meeting with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The remarks came as U.N. inspectors are visiting a formerly secret uranium enrichment site in Iran.
Fears about the nature of Iran's nuclear program were heightened in September with the disclosure of a uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom. U.N. inspectors made their first visit to the site on Sunday, kicking off a three-day mission that will include taking soil samples from the site. No results on their findings were expected until they leave Iran later this week.
Iran agreed to the inspections during a landmark meeting with the U.S. and other world powers at the beginning of October in Geneva, where the idea of Tehran shipping uranium to Russia for further enrichment was first raised.
The draft U.N. plan was formalized last week after Iran held talks in Vienna with the United States, Russia and France.
Under the draft, Iran is required to send 2,420 pounds (1,100 kilograms) of low-enriched uranium to Russia in one batch by the end of the year in order to receive the nuclear fuel it needs for a research reactor that makes medical isotopes.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad also praised Erdogan's stance over Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the Turkish leader's "clear stance toward the Zionist regime has had a positive impact on the world of Islam."
At an international conference in January, Erdogan strongly condemned Israel's offensive in Gaza and the steep Palestinian casualties inflicted there. The Iranian leader is known for his anti-Israeli remarks since 2005, when he said the Jewish state should be "wiped off the map."
Iran's stance on the plan has so far been unclear.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki hinted Monday Tehran could agree to ship some of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for processing as reactor fuel — but also left the possibility open that Iran may snub the proposal altogether.
A partial acquiescence to the offer is unlikely to defuse the controversy or allay Western concerns over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

Kashmir Controversy

Lately, in the national news, Kashmir has been the hot topic. The intense religious, political, geographical, and economical debates have been heard all over the world, and yet, there has been no conclusion to this war between Pakistan and India. As an Indian myself, it is almost impossible to be unbiased in any kind of analysis of the subject, so I will not attempt to be impartial, but yet present the story as how I, first of all see it, secondly, researched it, and thirdly, believe it. There is a truth behind the Kashmir story, and the Indians and the Pakistanis must understand it. There are real people involved in this governmental affair, and being such an affair, one must realize that it is time to stop the killing and resolve this century-old war between the Muslims and the Hindus.Kashmir was once a tourists' paradise. The land has been known for centuries as the greenest and most temperate spot in the Himalayas. A land so beautiful, one could not even picture it in their dreams. Clear blue lakes reflects the snow-capped mountains, and lush forests of fir, pine, and spruce lining the rivers. The land was once the summer vacation spot for the British raj as well as the wealthy Indians


These rivers are the primary sources of water for Pakistanis. But, this is the twentieth century we are talking about, and nowadays no one just "gives up. One might say that it is a geo-political, socio-economic debate, and there are a million reasons to why Kashmir should be handed to one country or another, but why have the civilians of the country not been asked to their fate. From Kashmir, the rivers Indus, Chenab, and Jhelum flow. The issue has been on the United Nations docket as long or longer than any other-a U. In the past 50 years, India and Pakistan have fought three wars-two over control of Kashmir. The people have lived quietly and humbly for this long, why not let them be free to run their own regime? This problem has been going on far too long, and its time that people recognize how beautiful and peaceful the land used to be before the governments of India and Pakistan ravaged it with warfare. However beautiful Kashmir is, the land is valued more than for it natural beauty. who wanted to escape the heat of the intense summers of India. Muslim Kashmiris have always challenged the Instrument of Accession; India regards it as final. No more is the Kashmir issue a geo-political issue is it an economic one. A treaty was supposed to follow, allowing the Kashmiris to decide their future.