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Knee-jerks after Peshawar

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By K.N. Pandita

Pakistani nation came together to condemn terrorist attack on school children in Peshawar. Nawaz Sharif called all party meeting and resolved to lift moratorium on capital punishment. Unconfirmed sources say about a thousand terrorists of different hues remain interned in Pakistani jails.

Prime Minster hastened to announce that his government believes there are no good or bad Taliban. He has vowed to eradicate terrorism from Pakistani soil.   Continue Reading…

Putin-Modi dimensional meet

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By K.N. Pandita

This year’s India-Russia two-day annual meet has concluded and President Putin is back in Moscow.

Indian side focused on energy while Russia bid for expansion of trade in Asian Continent, India in particular. Putin wants Indo-Russian trade touch 100 billion dollars a year from present 10 billion dollar. Continue Reading…

Universal Human Rights Day

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By K.N. Pandita

By 1948, the United Nations’ new Human Rights Commission had captured the world’s attention. Under the dynamic chairmanship of Eleanor Roosevelt—President Franklin Roosevelt’s widow, a human rights champion in her own right and the United States’ delegate to the UN—the Commission set out to draft the document we now know as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Roosevelt, credited with its inspiration, referred to the Declaration as the international Magna Carta for all mankind. It was adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. Ever since, 10 December came to be observed year after year as Human Rights Day.   Continue Reading…