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To: JPR who wrote (12336)	6/24/2002 6:52:01 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

He admits he is a dictator and he wants to hold plebiscite in Kashmir. What an atrocious paradoxical attitude! No more atrocious than India claiming that it is a democracy and then saying that the decision of the king of Kashmir to accede to the Indian Union (without any concern to what the people of Kashmir actually wanted -- which, by all accounts, was independence) was a legitimate one.

To: JPR who wrote (12336)	6/24/2002 10:39:43 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Taslima's Home away from Home--Kolkata Talisma's Inkblot test on a nation, people and Government Dacca's loss, Kolkata's gain Taslima to seek visa extension KOLKATA JUNE 24. The exiled Bangladeshi author, Taslima Nasreen, has said that she would leave for Sweden on June 28 to approach the Indian Embassy there for a visa extension to extend her stay in Kolkata. Talking to presspersons here on Sunday after releasing a music cassette, "O Meye Sunchho", which comprise song compositions of her poems, Ms. Nasreen said: ``since my chances of returning to Bangladesh are nearly impossible, I want to stay in West Bengal. If I am granted a six-month visa stay every year, I would be too happy.'' ``Moreover, I write in Bengali. Unless I live in a place where the language is spoken, my talents would not be properly harnessed,'' she added. "Kolkata is my second home after Bangladesh. Though Sweden has given me citizenship status, it is this country I long for." Expressing a strong desire to visit her motherland, Ms. Nasreen said: ``I have always wanted to visit Bangladesh. I have remained away for nearly nine years. I have appealed to the authorities there to at least allow me to visit my ailing father. But they are not ready to accept me.'' Even the moderate Awami League Government had blocked her entry four years ago when she wanted to visit her ailing mother who passed away without seeing her. Taslima's latest book "Utal Hawa" is ready to hit the stands today. ``Utal Hawa is my autobiography and portrays my life from the age of 16 to 26, spent in a family which has its roots in a fundamentalist society.'' It is about life as seen through the eyes of the author who matures from her childhood days as revealed in her earlier autobiography ``Amar Meyebela'', banned by the Bangladesh Government in 1999.

To: JPR who wrote (12336)	6/25/2002 8:39:10 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

From Mohajir to Kashmir-in-my-blood Jingo The Mush-head's metamorphosis from a displaced Indian to the First Patriot of Pakistan. It is a providential help to the pakis that Kashmir didn't go to Pakistan from the terrorist activity for Pakistan would have been the killing fields. Now that things cooling down, Mushraff should try to erase Kashmir from the national psyche and try to improve the economy of Pakistan instead of keeping the Kashmir issue on the front burner. Let it fade away by benign neglect and talk about something else like educational changes in Madrasas. For once Mushhead should talk about national interests and stop being a Kashmir-in-my blood Jingo. For a change, give Kashmir to the Pakis and give them the taste of their own medicine. Just a hypothetical and rhetorical suggestion--JPR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dawn.com Opinion page India's real intentions By Shahid Javed Burki Was it ever in Pakistan's interest to obtain the accession of Kashmir by encouraging the victory of jihadi groups over the Indian forces occupying Kashmir? What would have happened to Pakistan if the Islamic groups battling the Indian forces succeeded the way the Mujahideen had triumphed against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the eighties? How would Pakistan have accommodated a 'talibanized' Kashmir into its body and into its own political structure? There is the same answer to these three questions. Kashmir's accession to Pakistan, secured as a result of a military victory by Islamic militants, would complicate enormously Pakistan's own situation. At this point President Musharraf is engaged in a difficult project - to rescue Pakistan from the grip of the obscurantist elements in society who want the country to be thrown back into the dark ages. He wants Pakistan to join the rest of the world by modernizing its economy, its society, and its political structure. Such a project would suffer a great set back if the jihadis were to succeed in Kashmir and bring it into the fold of Pakistan.