By Krittivas Mukherjee

SRINAGAR, India, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A good turnout at the start of Indian Kashmir state elections may mean separatists misread a desire for development and democracy, analysts and voters said on Tuesday, but is not necessarily a vote for Indian rule.

Posted November 18, 2008

By Badri Raina

19 November, 2008
Zmag

Epigraph:

"underlying these religions were a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire to act, not just for yourself but also for the greater good"

Acknowledging torture and providing compensation is a good first step. But the government has to prosecute those responsible so that those who use torture will not get away with it.

Kevin Freking, Associated Press Writer

In this April 22, 2008 file photo, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, left, followed by current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic officials say Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.

European stocks drop sharply at open
Thursday 20 November 2008
European stocks fell sharply on Thursday morning, following plunges on the Asian markets and on Wall Street. The German Dax fell by 1.82%, London's FTSE slid 2.25% and France's CAC 40 plunged 2.70 percent as trade opened.
http://www.france24.com/en/20081120-european-stocks-drop-sharply-open-fi...

Acknowledging torture and providing compensation is a good first step. But the government has to prosecute those responsible so that those who use torture will not get away with it.

CONGRATULATIONS! BIG HANDS TO DEMOCRATIC GOVT

jub qanoon bunanay walay hee aisa karain gay tou awam kia karay gee????

IMF loan

Tempting fate?
 

I have just read departing message from Iola. Please don't go Iola :o( Please come back

I dont know if this got reported in the Pakistani papers. This is certainly the worst case of psychopathic behaviour reported recently. You can read the entire story at the following link and question.

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,,24530048-5012759,00.html

Three women left their eight beloved children to Edhi Home in its Metadhar office in Lyari due to extreme poverty as they could not feed them having no source of income, said the head of Edhi Foundation, Abdul Sattar Edhi, here on Tuesday.

Please see the link to Rauf Kulasrah Column and get that how our politicians do lie in the name of God

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/nov2008-daily/19-11-2008/col9.htm

our emotional CM(shahbaz shrief is in circle of flattering people. Many of them are misleading him. The Most recent development will be a shock for you too, yet it is not openly stated but in files approval has been taken.

http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=18446

The National Assembly on Tuesday echoed with demands of sacking the chairman of the Council for Islamic Ideology (CII) for his statements and recommendations regarding changes in the divorce law. 

Pirates ??!!!! Are you serious ? Apparently Piracy - the Jack Sparrow
or wooden leg and parrot kind - is rampant these days with as many as
150 ships having been hijacked over the last year and held for 100's of
MILLIONS of dollars. The latest one is a HUGE 300m supertanker carrying
around 2 million barrels of crude oil from Saudi Arabia !!!