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India warns Pakistan of more pain in Kashmir fighting

India warns Pakistan of more pain in Kashmir fighting Reuters 21 October 2014 India warned Pakistan on Tuesday of more "pain" if it continued to violate a ceasefire on their disputed border in Kashmir and said it was up to Islamabad to create the conditions for a resumption of peace talks. The two sides exchanged mortars and intense gunfire this month, killing at least 20 civilians and wounding dozens in the worst violation to date of a 2003 ceasefire.

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi By Alan Cowell and Declan Walsh 10 October 2014 Reaching across gulfs of age, gender, faith, nationality and even international celebrity, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2014 peace prize on Friday to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India. The award joined a teenage Pakistani known around the world with an Indian veteran of campaigns to end child labor and

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India and Pakistan trade warnings over heavy Kashmir fighting

India and Pakistan trade warnings over heavy Kashmir fighting By Sanjeev Miglani and Abu Arqam Naqash, Reuters 9 October 2014 Pakistan said on Thursday it was capable of responding "befittingly" to Indian border shelling, and warned against an escalation of the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in more than a decade. Nine Pakistani and eight Indian civilians have been killed since both sides' security forces started heavy shelling more

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Al Qaeda says it’s opening new branch in India

Al Qaeda says it's opening new branch in India By Madison Park, CNN 4 Septermber 2014 Al Qaeda announces expansion to India. Ravi Agraeal reports from New Delhi. In a 55-minute long video, al Qaeda announced it will launch a new branch in the Indian subcontinent. Speaking in the video, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said the purpose is to "wage jihad against its enemies, to liberate its land, to restore its sovereignty, and to revive its Caliphate."

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Ex-India PM immune from some claims of Sikh genocide: U.S. judge

Ex-India PM immune from some claims of Sikh genocide: U.S. judge By Daniel Wiessner, Reuters 20 August 2014 REUTERS - Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is immune from claims that he supported the genocide of Sikhs during his decade leading the country, a federal judge has ruled. But U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in the District of Columbia said on Tuesday, Singh, who resigned in May, did not have "head-of-state immunity" from claims arising

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Amritsar ‘genocide’ commemoration: Sikhs march through London

Amritsar 'genocide' commemoration: Sikhs march through London By BBC 8 June 2014  Thousands attended the event, as protesters demanded that the assault of June 1984 be recognised as a genocide. Crowds from all over the country assembled in Hyde Park in support. Sikhs say thousands were murdered when Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent the army into Sikhism's holiest shrine to flush out militants. Recently, British Sikhs have also been angered

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Genocide Alerts: India

Genocide Watch: India By Genocide Watch 3 May 2012 In India, all the global religions are represented: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. Besides religious diversity, there are also indigenous regional tribes recognized under the Constitution. India is thus an extremely diverse country, but because of its pervasive caste system, the nation struggles with polarization based upon religious, regional, caste and economic background.

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Country Profile: India

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="251"] (C) groupsolus.wordpress.com[/caption] THOSE WHO OWN THE PAST OWN THE FUTURE By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton President, Genocide Watch Coordinator, The International Campaign to End Genocide When India became independent in 1947, its founders adopted a secular constitution for a pluralistic society. Gandhi and Nehru’s vision of India’s multi-cultural future guided the Congress Party which ruled India for

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India ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do not Politicise Incidents Involving Kashmiris: Omar Abdullah By PTI for Times of India 03 April 2013 "There are people here who want to give political colour to everything. In Hyderabad a boy (Mudassir Kamran) commits suicide on personal reasons and in Kashmir it is tried to be analysed in a different way. As if he was murdered",

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