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To: JPR who wrote (12415)	8/11/2002 9:52:56 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Peace (a lull) brought to you by GE CEO's threat more potent than nuclear threat.-- It is not the nuclear Pakistan, or the diplomats who stopped the nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India. India is the back-office for many large multinational corporations. It is they who stopped this war. Indian Govt., for the first time, was made to realize by the Indian software industry the damage the war can bring to its service and software industry and the foreign exchange. That cooled the passions on the Indian side. The American businesses in India helped cool the war hysteria.JPR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NYtimes.com Op-Ed page India, Pakistan and G.E. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Extract from the article: Some of the reasons given are listed here: G.E.'s biggest research center outside the U.S. is in Bangalore, with 1,700 Indian engineers and scientists. The brain chip for every Nokia cellphone is designed in Bangalore. Renting a car from Avis online? It's managed here. our big American clients send me an e-mail saying: `I am now spending a lot of time looking for alternative sources to India. I don't think you want me doing that, and I don't want to be doing it.' I immediately forwarded his letter to the Indian ambassador in Washington and told him to get it to the right person." "what we explained to our government, through the Confederation of Indian Industry, is that providing a stable, predictable operating environment is now the key to India's development." This was a real education for India's elderly leaders in New Delhi, but, officials conceded, they got the message: loose talk about war or nukes could be disastrous for India. This was reinforced by another new lobby: the information technology ministers who now exist in every Indian state to drum up business. To be sure, none of this guarantees there will be no war. Tomorrow, Pakistani militants could easily do something so outrageous and provocative that India would have to retaliate. But it does guarantee that India's leaders will now think 10 times about how they respond, and if war is inevitable, that India will pay 10 times the price it would have paid a decade ago. In the meantime, this cease-fire is brought to you by G.E. - and all its friends here in Bangalore.

To: JPR who wrote (12415)	8/25/2002 9:26:39 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Gujjars pay the ultimate price. Muslim upon Muslim -- violence The Indian police said today that 10 Muslims, including 3 women, were killed in two overnight attacks in Kashmir. Investigators said the victims were nomadic Gujjar herders, a group embroiled in a local political dispute. The throats of all 10 victims had been slit. In three other attacks today, 2 men were shot dead in different parts of the state and at least 19 people, mostly schoolchildren, were injured when a grenade exploded on a street outside the southern town of Anantnag. The Indian police blamed militants for the attacks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Collected info. on Gujjars The Significance of Caste in Pakistan and Bangladesh Caste exist in a subconscious manner amongst Muslims in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Despite their conversion to Islam, Pakistani Muslims still refer to themselves as Jats, Gujjars, Rajputs, and so on. This is especially so during match-making in an arranged nikah (marriage). One instance of the visibility of casteist feelings among Pakistanis is the reference Benazir Bhutto makes in her book 'Daughter of the East', when she says, "In my veins runs the blood of a Wadhera." Wadheras are a Rajput clan from the Punjab and Sindh. ...the Gujjar clan which is socially regarded to be inferior to the supposedly superior Mastoi tribe. ...Who are these so called criminal tribes - Sansis, Pardhis, Kanjars, Gujjars, Bawarias, Banjaras and almost 200 such communities? The term "criminal tribes" was concocted by the British rulers, and entered the public vocabulary for the first time when a piece of legislation called the Criminal Tribes Act was passed in 1871. With the repeal of this Act (which was condemned by Pandit Nehru as a blot on the legal books of free India, and a shame to all civilised societies) these communities were officially "denotified" in 1952. ... is applicable also to the nomadic communities of Jammu and Kashmir. The Gujjars and Bakarwals descend from the Greco Indians and are interrelated with the Gujjars of Gujarat and the tribes settled around Gujranwala in Pakistan. First, New Delhi needs to drive home the plurality of the State of Jammu & Kashmir (on the Indian side), which, besides the Kashmiri Muslims-in- majority, has diverse communities such as Gujjars, Bakkarwals, Kashmiri Pandits, Dogras and Ladakhi Buddhists for whom the right of self- determination has little appeal.