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Pakistan May Resort to Terrorism Terrorism After Global Isolation On NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-01/4124/17-19 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 16 Rs. 7.00 19 - 25 August 2019 Vol - 29 No. 29 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Japan-China resume To Russia strategic dialogue after seven years with love? Japan-China relationship has evolved during A good measure of a society’s place in the the last couple of years. Right from the days community of nations is how it treats the in 2015 when Japanese Prime Minister Abe disabled, and the behaviour of its citizens was in India campaigning vigorously for towards them. the US-Japan-India-Australia quadrilateral to counter China, the clock has turned a full On this particular count, post-communist circle. Currently, the emphasis has shifted to Russia has little to be proud of. The scene of economic cooperation with Beijing... a female Russian immigration... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Tarek Fatah Page 2 Pakistan may resort to Terrorism after global isolation on Kashmir issue By NDT Bureau Page 2 Indian meat industry uses Ractopamine: A Admitting mistakes makes one Australia aims to increase banned feed additive in many countries more courageous supply of rare-earth materials Some time ago I wrote an article about the cocktail of Admitting that you are wrong is the first right step that The rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen drugs in meat in India. One of the drugs that I mentioned you take towards self-actualisation and self-improvement. metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides was Ractopamine... In a long journey undertaken, striving for one’s... on the periodic table plus scandium and yttrium... By Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Page 14 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 13 By NDT Special Bureau Page 3 For critical insights One Year* Five Year* Subscribe Rs. 350 Rs. 1500 For more information Contact : +91-9999 337 800 To Subscribe E-Paper Whatsapp +91 9999 748 735 * Details on Page 13 1 twitter@NewDelhiTimes facebook.com/newdelhitimes www.NewDelhiTimes.com 2 19 - 25 August 2019 Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES Pakistan may resort to terrorism after global isolation on Kashmir issue failed each time. Diplomatic option remains into the mainstream. Rants notwithstanding, situation forcing the international community ◆ By NDT Bureau the only viable and decent option available. it is a right step by to correct a historical to take notice. Islamabad must now put @NewDelhiTimes wrong. Rather than adventuring a fitting emotions aside, think objectively, accept it Pakistani propaganda howls existential threat and robust response, Pakistan must accept as fait accompli and move on. [email protected] to Kashmiri Muslims and a grave threat to Kashmir as an integral and inalienable part Pakistan itself since it needs to hold on to of India and move on. It must focus on development, rule of law and ndia’s abrogation of Article 370 and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Gilgit - chose economy, not Kashmir to make Pakistan I 35A came as a rude shock to Pakistan Baltistan. Kashmir settlement could force Islamists talk of voices of conscience but a place people would love to immigrate to. which reacted sharply despite luke-warm a review of the Pakistan-China boundary where was that when Kashmiri Pundits India’s emergence as a major power, an international response. Shell-shocked, Pakistan agreement. Pakistan made Kashmir a territorial were forced to leave overnight leaving economically and politically dysfunctional is still groping for an appropriate response dispute while Kashmiris represented it as a even after a week. A desperate and fuming popular struggle. Pakistan promptly ruptured all diplomatic and political interactions with India. Islamists raise serious questions for South Asia and the Indian Ocean region where Indian abrogation pre-empted Pakistan's Islam roughshod over much more evolved plea for talks and probable progress over and pre-existing peaceful religions like Siachen and Sir Creek. Various parties have Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism. challenged revocation in the Supreme Court Overpowered, tortured and harassed for but rather than legal remedy, Pakistanis banks centuries those peaceful religions have lost more on fomenting trouble and is hoping for patience with Islam especially because of its violence in Kashmir to defy Delhi. virulent strain that recognises no other religions except fundamentalist Islam, branding them as The terror state Pakistan mulls military Kafirs. Even fellow Muslims-Ahmadiyas and and militancy solutions, even extending Shias-are not spared. material and diplomatic support to lift the so-called Kashmiri morale. It could go to Kashmir was the land of Hindu hermit Kashyap “any extent” to support Kashmir militancy. but fundamentalist Wahabi Islam overwhelmed War is an apocalyptic scenario but not for it through centuries of demographic explosion Islamist-Jihad-driven- Pakistan. It could and mass radicalisation, driving out local Photo Credit : Shutterstock agitate at international forums including Kashmiri Pandits who inhabited Kashmir for behind their property and womenfolk? Their Pakistan dispirits the Kashmiris and South the UN Security Council and human rights decades in 1990s. Islamists made Kashmir mass exodus in 1990 drastically altered the Asian Muslims. Trump’s proposal to mediate fora despite not being heard. With FATF an abominable swamp of militancy, jihadist demographics of the valley. Islamists sowed at Imran’s insistence triggered Indian response. breathing down Pakistan’s throat any jihadi philosophy and religious obscurantism of the wind, now Kashmiris reap the whirlwind. or military option will be pure adventurism. deserts of centuries gone by that are totally Needless howling by Pakistanis creates an Throughout the world, diplomatic options outdated in the 21st Century. Pakistan has no locus standi in Kashmir; impression that the sky has fallen on Kashmiri are normally tried as first, second, and whole of it belongs to India. Kashmir Muslims whereas, reality checks reveal that third preferred options and war as the last The Modi-Shah-Doval (MSD) troika obsession has brought Islamabad to this each Kashmiri will avail equal protection which, once taken, renders all other options revoked Kashmir’s special status to rid its pass. Pakistan hopes that compulsive reaction and full democratic process irrespective of redundant. Pakistan tried this thrice but people of Islamist demons for integration and ratcheting up tensions will worsen the religion. To Russia with love? autistic girl broke down in tears, looking chairs, I saw able-bodied parents pushing make it disappear, even if the incidents stare ◆ By Tarek Fatah Author & Columnist, Canada at her father for help, who was told in curt their children to occupy the seats by lying back to embarrass us. language “No … Don’t come here.” across many, just to ensure that the disabled @TarekFatah would have no place sitting next to them. Not the Russians. They became the world [email protected] Not able to hold back, the father, shot back: leaders in erasing facts to distort history. “Are you guys not human … Can’t you The scene again was appalling. Maybe it was Stalin could very well claim patent infringement good measure of a society’s place in see she is terrified and needs help?” With my mistake after having lived among the against today’s Photoshop. A the community of nations is how it people watching this scene and staring most civilized and dignified self-respecting On May 5, 1920, Lenin gave a famous treats the disabled, and the behaviour of its disapprovingly at the immigration officer, people on earth — Joe Canuck. A society speech to a crowd of Red Army troops in citizens towards them. the father was permitted to join his daughter where no one has ever brought a tear to the Sverdlov Square, Moscow. In the foreground and answer the woman’s eyes of my own autistic daughter; where no was Leon Trotsky. question while the child one disrespects the homeless and the less cried inconsolably. fortunate. But after Lenin’s death and the takeover of the USSR by the Georgian gangster Stalin, Had this been the only Both Lenin and Trotsky, leaders of the Lenin’s epic photograph was altered by air- such incident, it would not October Revolution that overthrew centuries brushing and erasing the image of Trotsky, have qualified to be in this of oppressive Czarist rule, wrote about how the Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik who column. a “New Man” would emerge in Russia with was chased out of the very country he helped But a week on the streets qualities reflecting selflessness and service create. of Moscow and St. to each other, but the failure of their dreams Petersburg introduced me is today only invisible to the new breed of Today, a far worse crime against history is to the new Russia where millionaire Marxists who sip champagne being committed. hustlers abound, pockets and delve into gender-neutral pronouns. are picked, sex workers There is no mention of the heroic struggle abound and where torn- If a “new man“ and a “new woman“ were of the Russians who were trapped inside jeans represent a youth created, they were the result of our very own Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg) for three who have little interest Tommy Douglas, John Diefenbaker and years from 1941 to 1944, but refused to in the 30 million of Lester B. Pearson, not Stalin, Brezhnev or surrender to Hitler’s armies. A million died Photo Credit : Shutterstock their great grandfather’s Gorbachev. for their country, but no memorial exists. On this particular count, post-communist generation who gave their lives to destroy We Canadians may have flaws, but we learn Similarly, in Moscow, it seems the Second Russia has little to be proud of.
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