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| Pro-Hindu religion news from Pakistan | | Move to import Hindu deities' idols from India | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 21
New winds have started blowing across the India-Pakistan border, with the local government in Pakistan's Punjab initiating measures to import idols of Hindu deities from various monuments in India. These idols are for the restoration of the historic Katas Raj temples, according to official reports from Lahore.
The Katas site houses the Satgarha, a group of seven ancient temples, remains of a Buddhist stupa, a few medieval temples, havelis and some recently constructed temples, scattered around a pond considered holy by Hindus. Reports said that the Pakistani authorities had decided to place idols of Hindu deities in the seven temples and to restore them to their original state to attract visitors.
A three-member archaeological team from Pakistan will soon be on an official visit to India. The team would visit various archaeological sites in India and collect idols of Hindu deities. These sites also include Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Ajmer Sharif, Pushkar, Aurangabad, Daultabad, Ajanta and Varanasi between January 20 and 30. Reports said that the ma... | |
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| Hurriyat leaders, PoK govt for peace process | | Militancy no solution in changed scenario: Umar | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, JAN 21
By far the most significant development in Islamabad this weekend: Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) government and the Jammu and Kashmir Hurriyat Conference delegation have gone against anti-people programme and policies of Muslim militants and terrorists. And to facilitate the ongoing peace process between India and Pakistan, the Hurriyat delegation and the PoK government decided to set up two working groups, one each on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC).
The decision was taken in Pakistan's capital city at a high-level meting. Maulvi Umar Farooq led the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) delegation and the PoK President, Raja Zulqarnain, and Prime Mi... | |
| | | | Aurat Teri Yehi Kahani-4 | | Violence against Women on rise | | | SANDEEP BHAT
JAMMU | JAN 21
Violence against woman is a social crime and many voluntary organizations are working around the world to eradicate this menace.
It is an act of aggression, usually in interpersonal relationship or relations. It may be aggression of individual women against her, suicide, negligence of ailments, sex determination test, and denial of food and so on.
Violence scars the lives of millions of girls in all countries of world because of lack of protective laws, girls (women) are particularly vulnerable to family violence, sexual violence, rape, sexual exploitation, harassment at work and in case of armed conflict rape kidnapping or forced service as soldiers.
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| | | | JU’s biz school scaling new heights, enters elite group of top five | | Exploring possibility of joint MBA program with Carleton University | | |
Devender Padha
Jammu | Jan 21
The Business School, University of Jammu (JU), has set a new benchmark by entering into the elite group of top five B-Schools amongst the Indian Universities and it has also made its presence felt in the top 50 Management Schools of the country, as per the Outlook Survey. Apart from it, sixteen of its students from third semester have secured placement on the package of nearly 40 thousand a month in the top corporate houses of the India including IDBI, ICICI, Tata Tele Services, SBI life etc for the first time in the history of 20 years of its MBA programme.
Dr. Keshav Sharma, Director, Business School said the Placement Cell has been empowered with th... | |
| | | | Independent foreign policy key to improve Indo-Pak relations | | | |
New Delhi, Jan 21
India and Pakistan must keep their relations independent of their individual engagement with the United States and rein in fundamentalists on both sides to resolve all outstanding issues and establish lasting peace in the region, experts suggest.
India, Pakistan and the US are engaged in a ''triangular relationship'' with the US at the top guiding both the governments in a way which serves best its strategic interests in the region, various scholars and activists asserted at a seminar on the India-Pakistan peace process organised by the Delhi chapter of Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy here on Friday.
They also asserted the ''centrality'' of the ... | |
| | | | Militants may use 'toy planes' to target VIPs during polls | | | |
NEW DELHI, JAN 21
Ahead of assembly polls in three states, security agencies have issued an alert to officials that militants were planning to use explosive-laden "toy planes" to target VIPs touring for electioneering.
The alert was issued to Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand, asking officials to ensure various layers of security in the "funnel" area of airports, proper securing of helipads, and round-the-clock vigil at the venue of poll campaign meetings and places where VIPs would stay, informed sources said here.
According to an intercept by intelligence agencies, militants planned to use "remote controlled airborne aerdynamic modules" (RCAAM) to target the VIPs who would b... | |
| | | | Boy arrested for grenade attack, says he got Rs 500 for it | | | |
SRINAGAR, JAN 21
A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly carrying out a deadly grenade attack in Shopian township of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir recently under instructions from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militants and for a sum of Rs 500, a senior police officer said here today.
Basharat Ahmad Teli, an eighth standard student, allegedly threw the grenade at Gol-Chakri in Shopian township on January six, leaving four persons, including two armymen, dead and scores of others injured, Pulwama Senior Superintendent of Police Nitish Kumar said.
Kumar said Teli, a resident of Nildoora village of Shopian, on seeing photographs of the dead and injured in the attack, broke... | |
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