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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Video and Documents of Pakistani surrender of 1971

Our brave soldiers laid down their lives to bring India glory and to liberate Bangladesh from Urdu-Pakistani oppression. Pakistan lost in just 7 days of war, in spite of having started the war on its own schedule with surprise air attacks on India without any formal declaration of war at all hoping to catch India unprepared, and in spite of having superior military hardware from America. India took 90,000 Pakistani soldiers as Prisoners-of-War, had Pakistan by the balls on the Western Front as well, the Indian Army having marched close to Islamabad and Rawalpindi.

Indira Nehru took all the credit for the Indian victory, but the credit should actually go to the valiant Indian Army jawans, and their leader Field Marshall Maneckshaw.

Indira Nehru totally screwed-up with the diplomacy after the war was over. As soon as the war ws over she ordered the Indian Army to retreat from occupied Pakistani lands and gave them back to the Pakistanis. Each inch of land had been fought for by our brave jawans, and hundreds of miles of such land, representing thousands of Indian lives lost in acquiring them, was given away. India severely under-reports the actual numbers of valiant soldiers killed in war. Thousands of solders who laid down their lives are still listed as "Missing in Action" because the amount of compensation that has to be paid for missing soldiers's families is a lot less than the amout of compensation that must be paid to the families of soldiers killed in action.

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto came to Shimla in India in 1972 to meet Indira Nehru begging for his prisoners-of-war to be released. He went back with all 90,000 released prisoners, and promised to solve the Kashmir problem peacefully under the Shimla Agreement. As soon as he went back he started the policy of "forward strategic depth" into India -- en euphemism for terrorism. Soon after that Pakistan started sponsoring terrorism in Punjab, the North-East, and Jammu and Kashmir. While Punjab's brave Sikh son K P S Gill has defeated Pakistani-sponsored Sikh terrorism, the problems in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East are now spreading to the rest of India while India's "secular" (anti-Hindu) politicians have scrapped anti-terror laws like POTA and TADA because they do not care if we innocent citizens get killed in terror attacks.

I am presenting for your viewing pleasure a video of Pakistan's surrender to India in the 1971 War, and the Instrument of Surrender that Pakistan signed after losing the war.

Hopefully these surrenders will not have been in vain. Today's Indians will appreciate these sacrifices made by our valiant soldiers and prepare to deliver terrible and exacting punishment upon our corrupt, lying and cheating politicians for the way they have misled and abused us for 60 years. Jai Hind !


Video of Pakistani surrender.



Scanned Instrument of Surrender signed by Pakistan after attacking India without a declaration of war hoping to take us by surprise, fighting with latest American weapons, and then losing in just 7 days on both Western and Eastern fronts. In Bangladesh on the Eastern front, 90,000 Pakistani soldiers surrended to India. Since this loss, Pakistan has started a policy of terrorism against India. Its attempts have failed in Punjab, but are continuing in Jammu and Kashmir, and the North-East.

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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Hezbollah terrorist leader Nasrallah admits war stops terrorism

Just over a month ago, Lebanon-based Shia terrorist group (armed, funded and supported mainly by Shia terrorist country Iran and partly by Sunni terrorist country Syria) kidnapped two Israeli soldiers from inside Israel, close to the Israel-Lebanon border. Hezbollah planned to exchange the two soldiers for Hezbollah terrorists currently in Israeli jails.

This happened at around the same time with the July 11 2006 terrorist bomb attacks on Mumbai and Srinagar in India carried out by India-based Islamic terror group SIMI and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

While India didn't do anything at all to retaliate against the attacks that killed over 200 innocent Indian citizens and maimed over 700 (beyond making some pathetic pretensions of diplomatic action, like postponing Foreign Secretary level talks with Pakistan) Israel launched a full-scale aerial, missile, and ground war on Hezbollah and its host Lebanon to save the lives of "just two" Israeli soldiers.

Hezbollah was punished severely for its crimes against Humanity. Now, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Nasrallah has admitted that if he knew that Israel would respond so aggressively, he would not have kidpnapped the two Israeli soldiers.

In contrast, Pakistan-based terrorists have warned of even more attacks coming against India.

This proves that Israel's approach was right, and India's approach is wrong.

Taking a peaceful and non-violent "Mahatma Gandhi style" ahimsa approach against Islamic terrorists will not work at all. One must punish them severely in order to force them to let us live in peace.

It is true that Lebanon is much weaker than Pakistan and Israel (with money from rich Jews in USA) has a lot more financial and military resources than India does.

So declaring war on Pakistan is not the best move for India at a critical stage of Indian economic development. Pakistan will benefit through war, by succeeding in pulling down Indian economic growth to its own pathetic level.

However, there are other things to do besides war.

For instance, the terrorists could be aggressively investigated, their hide-outs busted, their sympathetizers mercilessly punished, none of which are being done by India.

Indeed, India's UPA Government has sent clear signals of unwillingness to fight Islamic terror by weakening and getting rid of anti-terror laws like TADA and POTA, at a time when other developed countries like USA that value freedom and liberty (and are usually against tough laws that infringe upon citizens' personal liberties) have instituted extremely tough anti-terror laws like the PATRIOT ACT.

As I have pointed out already, the terrorists who carried out the 1993 Mumbai blasts 16 years ago have not yet been sentenced, and continue to enjoy life in three-star comfort, hospitality funded by Indian tax-payers' hard-earned money, while occasioanlly appearing in court to watch the joke: Government lawyers and clerks making various ineffective moves while years lengthen into decades.

This is no way to fight terror.

This is happening only because the "secular" politicians don't care about Indian citizens; they themselves are protected by Black Cat commandos -- our own sons and daughters in the Army and Police are protecting them, funded by our own hard-earned tax money.

They know they are safe; they don't care if we live or die. They are more interested in preserving their account with the Muslim Vote Bank. The mainstream media does not care about us either; they are only interested in profits, which depend on having working relationships with the politicians.

Nobody cares about us. We must. Otherwise we will keep dying. Tomorrow you may be the victim of the nest terrorist attack.. Or me.

We must raise awareness of this issue. Help me stop this injustice by telling EVERYONE in India about this. Only then will this horrible joke end.

Help me. Forward this article to everyone you know.

BBC reports:

Nasrallah sorry for scale of war

Nasrallah ordered the capture of the soldiers on 12 July

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has said he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war.

"Had we known that the kidnapping of the soldiers would have led to this, we would definitely not have done it," he said in an interview on Lebanese TV.

He added that neither side was "heading towards a second round" of fighting.

More than 1,000 Lebanese died in the 34-day conflict which left much of southern Lebanon in ruins.

The Israeli offensive began after two Israeli soldiers were seized during a cross border raid by Hezbollah militants on 12 July.

Annan visit

"We did not think that there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war of this scale and magnitude," Sheikh Nasrallah said.

"Now you ask me if this was 11 July and there was a 1% chance that the kidnapping would lead to a war like the one that has taken place, would you go ahead with the kidnapping?

"I would say no, definitely not, for humanitarian, moral, social, security, military and political reasons.

Many thousands have been left homeless by the offensive

"Neither I, Hezbollah, prisoners in Israeli jails and nor the families of the prisoners would accept it."

Sheikh Nasrallah was speaking on the eve of a visit to Beirut by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to discuss the expanded UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in southern Lebanon.

A force of 15,000 soldiers, 7,000 of them from European Union states, will be deployed to maintain the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

The UN hopes to have some of the troops on the ground within a week, although the foreign minister of Finland - which currently holds the EU presidency - has said it will be two to three months before the whole force is deployed.

The force will be led by France until February, at which time Italy will take command.

Speaking in Brussels on Friday, Mr Annan said the plan would only work if the enlarged UN force, called Unifil 2, was "strong, credible and robust".

Mr Annan said the force offered the possibility of a "durable ceasefire and long-term solution" to the Middle East crisis.

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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Friday, August 25, 2006

Iran implementing Taliban-style laws

Iran has accelerated its journey into the 7th Century Middle East after the election of the new President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad.

Sometime back I posted this sad story of the tortured short life of an Iranian teenage girl. Earlier today also posted about how the Left-leaning anti-Bush US TV channel CBS is trying to make Ahmadinijad look good by failing to expose holes in his claims about Iran and its foreign policy.

I believe that Ahmadinijad is a new Hitler in the making. At this point it is only a suspicion impossible to prove, and it will probably not become clear to everybody till this new rising Hitler manages to get nuclear weapons and shows his true colours to everybody, not just America and Israel. At that point it is not clear what will happen.

On the one hand we will have the Al Qaeda Sunni terrorist group, and on the other hand we will have the Iran and its Shia terrorist organizations like Hezbollah to contend with.

If the Sunni and Shia terrorist organizations and countries work together, they can conceivably wipe Humanity and Civilization off the face of the earth. USA, UK, France, Germany, Russia, and India will the first targets for destruction of these Radical Islamists. Godless Communist states China and North Korea will be their allies at first. Later the Radical Islamists will destroy or convert the Communists too. Radical Islam will be the only remaining ideology on the planet, as bin Laden has several times said Allah has asked Muslims to do. And it is true that the Koran specifically asks Muslims to work for this circumstance to be brought about.

If the Shias and Sunnis fight among each other first, or if people in the Civilized world (the West and India) wake up earlier than expected, then it is possible that Radical Isam will be defeated and Civilization will survive. It is too early to tell what will happen.

It seems that the world is at a critical statge. There are many possible futures at this point.

Time Magazine reports:
Inside the Creeping Restrictions in Iran
For the past few months, Iranians have been subjected to stronger enforcement of Islamic codes. Is this a revival of the dogmatic strictures of the country's revolutionary past?

By AZADEH MOAVENI/TEHRAN
Posted Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006


An Iranian volunteer militiawoman.

When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at the Najdad Institute in Tehran this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar sitting in mixed circles. Last month, the language institute divided male and female students into separate classes held on separate days of the week. Not long after, female staff began arriving at work dressed in full-length black chador, at the government-run institute's request. Now plans are under way to move the women's classes to a separate building, to eliminate altogether the possibility of illicit mingling. Promptly, a third of Mohsenian's classmates dropped out of the institute, preferring to study English elsewhere in integrated classrooms, or not at all. "It feels like your rights are being amputated," she says. "As if we're all incapable of behaving like normal people, and need to be regulated at all times."

Over the last few months, various branches of the Iranian government have stealthily worked to roll back social freedoms, re-institute gender segregation in some public academic institutions, and impose repressive Islamic codes that have been ignored here since the late 1990s. Because the Iranian system is composed of ministries with overlapping mandates and multiple security apparatuses that often act upon their own initiative, it is difficult to tell whether these measures signal a government-wide crackdown, or the individual efforts of radical government appointees emboldened by the Islamic conservatism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

There is nothing new about the restrictions themselves. They were the grim reality of life here before the 1997 election of the liberalizer Mohammad Khatami. The difference today is the sporadic and velvet-gloved implementation of the old codes. Instead of announcing new bans or dispatching morality police onto the streets of Tehran to harass and arrest young people — the crude, classic measures that fomented much anger and discontent — the system is employing more subtle means that seek to make Iranians themselves, instead of uniformed agents of the state, the enforcers.

So discreet is this steady creep toward Talibanism that it only hit me last week, after a visit to the beauty salon. Usually, framed photos of coiffed brides adorn the walls, but I arrived to find the coffee-colored walls blank, save a clinical advertisement for fungus-fighting nail polish. Authorities had raided the salon two weeks prior, declaring images of unveiled women illegal and demanding they be taken down. In Iran, women's hair salons are off limits to men anyway, so it makes little sense why photos of coiffed women should be banned in a room full of women getting their hair coiffed.

Of course, in the spectrum of ways the clerics can oppress women and restrict their rights, this is perhaps not the most alarming. What is worrisome is the shift of focus. Under Khatami, the state relaxed many of its most repressive codes, especially those aimed at restricting women's access to public space and discouraging their participating in civic life. Women's singing, for example, banned for years after the revolution became permissible in group ensembles. But the sort of mentality that seeks to ban images of women typically wants also to control and restrict women's place in public life. At a recent concert in the town of Sari, the female members of Iran's only non-government orchestra were asked to play from behind a black curtain. They have been disinvited from an upcoming concert in northwestern Iran altogether.

There have been other warning signs, of course. But until that day at the beauty salon, I had ignored any hint of a return to 7th-century mores, preferring to savor a few extra weeks of denial before the government-issued burqa arrived at my doorstep. A month ago I met a few girlfriends for coffee at a café popular with young people. Upon lighting a cigarette, one of them was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in cafés. Now half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. An ingenious way of stifling Tehran's bustling café scene without resorting to a single raid.

That same week, I showed up at the gym wearing the standard uniform of young, urban Iranian women: a veil, short coat and jeans. The receptionist told me the authorities had also paid them a visit; unless their women patrons started dressing more conservatively, the gym would be shut down. Again, the official warning was smoothly delivered via a civilian intermediary without ugly confrontation, and was perhaps even more effective for its underlying threat: if you don't dress the way we want, we will take away your ability to exercise. At the same time, authorities have targeted retailers of those popular short-coats, known as manteaus, and warned shop owners against stocking them. You still see women in the street wearing their fashionable, clingy manteaus, but over two weeks it took real effort to find them in shops. The idea is to make life difficult enough for retailers that they stop selling the sinful frocks altogether.

So who is behind these new restrictions, and why now, just as the establishment heads toward a collision with the West over its nuclear program? When President Ahmadinejad took office last summer, everyone watched nervously to see whether Islamic dogma would shape his domestic policies. To much delight, nothing changed; bootleg alcohol continued to flow, Western films and music were sold everywhere, women wore skimpy veils and tight pants, and couples held hands in the street. At the time, former officials and foreign policy analysts explained the surprise leniency as a triumph of Ahmadinejad's canniness: by staying out of Iranians' private lives, he built support across class lines for the country's nuclear program.

Some observers say Ahmadinejad himself has not ordered up the crackdown, but that it reflects the religious extremism of the officials he has appointed throughout national and provincial government. Others argue that hardliners throughout the system, not necessarily presidential appointees, have been emboldened by Hizballah's success in Lebanon; they consider the militia's feat a major victory for political Islam, and a validation of their radical mentality. Such hardliners have criticized Ahmadinejad's administration for being Hizballahi (religiously extreme) in appearance, but not in practice. "The president has shown he's not after imposing social or cultural pressures on people," says Amir Mohebbian, a prominent conservative analyst. "But when the atmosphere heats up, some officials start imposing their own tastes."

What's clear is that the restrictions are expanding by the day. Just this past week, trucks overflowing with confiscated, spindly satellite dishes rolled through my neighborhood in Tehran. Police have been systematically raiding neighborhoods throughout the city, rounding up illegal dishes, but unlike in the past, without issuing fines. Whether these measures are a temporary flare-up or here to stay remains to be seen. So far, the government seems undaunted by the marked lack of public enthusiasm for its Islamic causes. On the eve of the ceasefire in Lebanon and Israel, the establishment celebrated Hizballah's success as though it were an Iranian military victory. In addition to cooking the world's largest victory kebob (over 21 ft. long), the establishment asked Iranians through the state-controlled media to go up to their rooftops at an appointed hour, and shout "Allaho Akbar," or "God is Great." The tradition, borrowed from the early days of the Islamic Revolution, used to draw Iranians out en masse, and the city reverberated with their cries. But few heeded the call last week, and across most of Tehran there was silence.

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Pictures of Fascist UPA Government beating up Indian students

Our UPA Government talks with terrorists and beats up innocent school students. What a lovely set of morals it has.









The above pictures from the Times of India and Rediff show Indian medical students in Delhi being brutally attacked with painful and often deadly water cannons, and tear-gas by the UPA Government's police. Their crime: they were peacefully protesting against the 49.5% Reservations proposed by Human Resource Destruction Minister Arjun Singh. You can also see pictures of police beating up Indian students during anti-reservation protests in May 2006 here.

The Government has no backbone to fight with terrorists who have been attacking us daily in J&K and every few months in other parts of India. But when it comes to beating up harmless people like you and me, it is ready.

Help put a stop to this infamous injustice. Forward this information to everyone you know.

Make sure everybody appreciates the Government's priorities: being nice to terrorists, and beating up harmless and innocent students. The mainstream news media is not at all mentioning this contrast in behaviour. It is simply reporting the news as if all this is normal, as if there is no ridiculous and outrageous imbalance in the Government's behaviour.

Forward this article to everyone you know. We want EVERYBODY in India to say in one thundering voice all around, all over the country: " Down with UPA. Down with Arjun Singh. Down with Sonia Nehru. Down with Nehru Dynasty. Down with Congress."

It is time for Congress Party to either get rid of Nehru Dynasty, or die.

Make that happen. If we are united, they will be afraid of us.

We are the people of India. If we speak, all "leaders" must listen. Nehru Dynasty will tremble in fear and disappear when it sees our righteous rage.

Just speak up. Stand up. Be heard. See the new India being born. The India our Freedom Fighters like Bhagat Singh, Netaji, and others imagined. The India that was killed at birth by the treacherous Nehru Dynasty that has controlled ever since.

It is finally time for the treachery and corruption to end. Just like common people like Chandragupta Maurya and Chanakya Kautilya got rid of the stinking corrupt Nanda Dynasty, common people like you and me will get rid of the stinking corrupt Nehru Dynasty.

Before he became Emperor, Chandragupta was a poor boy of the Mori tribe who collected and sold peacock feathers for a living. Chanakya was a poor Brahmin who begged for a living. And yet they were able to topple the Nanda Dynasty. How ?

When corruption and injustice rises to a peak, the regime in power becomes an empty shell; even a light impact can crack its facade of power and send it tumbling down like a pack of cards. The Nehru Dynasty is rapidly approaching such a state.

Let's unite to bring it down. To bring down all the corruption and injustice it represents. Let's send Sonia Nehru to jail for the murders of Rajesh Pilot and Madhav Rao Scindia, and for the stolen Bofors money. Let's send Lallu to jail for the innumerable murders he committed over a 15-year misrule in Bihar. Let's send Arjun Singh and Ambubani Ramadoss to jail for trying to divide Indian Hindus on Caste lines for their narrow political gians. In 60 years since Independence, in spite of so many scams, no politician has ever been actually convicted; they are always acquitted. They are sometimes kept in judicial custody while in trial (like Lallu during his trial) but that is before conviction; so they are not really sent to jail but just kept in "judicial custody" in a five-star hotel or guest-house on tax-payer expense. That's not like being in jail at all.

Let's change all that. It is our country. We can do whatever we want, if we just go about it unitedly. Is it that hard ? Not any more, thanks to the internet. The Govt controls TV radio newspapers books and cinema. But the internet revolution caught it unprepared. Use this opportunity.

Be a part of the Revolution. See the Rising India.

Communication is the first step towards organization. Forward this communication to everyone you know.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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