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No exit: Human rights activists denied foreign travel at Karachi airport
05/03/2015 iaoj	1 Comment
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: Abdul Qadeer Baloch, also known as Mama Qadeer, the vice-chairperson of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), was stopped from travelling outside the country at the Karachi Airport on Wednesday night.
Qadeer, accompanied by his organisation's general secretary, Farzana Majeed and a relative of one of the Baloch missing persons, Faiqa Baloch, was travelling to New York for a conference on the alleged human rights violations in Balochistan and Sindh, to be held on March 7.
"They [FIA] officials told us that Farzana and I could not leave the country as our names have been placed on the exit control list [ECL]," Qadeer told The Express Tribune. "They even stopped Faiqa as her visa was issued in my name." He added that the FIA officials also off-loaded their luggage from the plane. "They forced us to stay at the airport for at least three-and-a-half hours until the plane flew off, during which time they mentally tortured us," he alleged.
"The US government has given us a five-year visa, but we cannot fly to the USA now," he lamented. "I just want to ask the government what we have done wrong that made them stop us from travelling abroad," he questioned, adding that there was no case registered against him and he had never heard about his name being put on the ECL.
"What is the government doing with us since the last six years? We are human rights activists, not anti-state activists, but the government has always tried to label us in the latter category," he decried. "They [government] should be ashamed of such activities."
On contact, the FIA officials confirmed that the name of Qadeer and Farzana Majeed had been placed on the ECL. "We do not know why their names were put on the ECL as it does not concern us," the FIA's Immigrations deputy director, Asim Qaimkhani, told The Express Tribune. "We only follow the system. We put their names on the computer and found them on the ECL. It is our job to stop those people whose names are on the ECL and we only did our job." He said that only the interior ministry would be able to tell why their names were put on the ECL.
HRCP condemns
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the denial of foreign travel to the rights activists, reportedly on account of their 'anti-state activities'.
In a statement issued on Thursday by chairperson Zohra Yusuf, the commission said:
"Apart from the obvious denial of the freedom of movement, the decision to prevent them from traveling abroad is bound to add to the sense of deprivation felt by the Baloch. It also demonstrates the many difficulties that human rights defenders face in their work in the country."
This manner of arbitrarily adding citizens' names to the ECL has been severely criticised by the Supreme Court in the last few years and the government has committed on more than one occasion to introduce parameters to introduce safeguards to prevent abuse. The safeguards are meant to inform the individuals in time about inclusion of their names to the list in order to enable them to challenge the inclusion, read the statement.
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Canada drops in worldwide justice index
Access to justice is discriminating against poor and immigrant populations, says a new report by the World Justice Project.
By: Jeff Green, Staff Reporter
A new report from suggests immigrant and poor populations are being discriminated against in Canada because of a limited access to justice. Canada dropped since last year in six of the eight "Rule of Law" factors listed in the report from the World Justice Project.
The report ranked Canada among 97 countries worldwide in categories including government power, corruption, order, fundamental rights, open government, enforcement, and civil and criminal justice.
Some 97,000 people were polled worldwide, in addition to 2,500 experts in 97 countries to compile the report.
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Human Rights, Life, Pakistan, Religion
Dalit women in Pakistan – denied a life in dignity and respect
A new report documents the situation of Pakistan's Dalit women; one of the most socially excluded and impoverished sections of the population. The shadow report for a UN CEDAW review of Pakistan in February calls on the Government to focus on education, access to basic services, and laws and special programmes to protect the rights of Dalit women.
For the first time, a report to a UN treaty body committee specifically addresses the situation of Dalit women in Pakistan. The report finds that these women are triple victims of discrimination – due to caste, gender and religion.
The report 'SCHEDULED CASTE WOMEN IN PAKISTAN – Denied a life in dignity and respect' has been prepared by the Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network in association with IDSN for the examination of Pakistan by the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The review is scheduled to take place in Geneva on 12 February 2013.
In Pakistan, Dalits (officially known as 'scheduled castes') experience multiple forms of discrimination among the country's 180 million people. Already considered a religious minority in an Islamic society, Dalit Hindus and Christians are further victimized as 'untouchable' by the rest of the society and their own communities.
The situation of Dalit women is even worse due to the discrimination they face on the basis of caste and gender. They are extremely vulnerable to social exclusion, and are often subject to severe discrimination and physical assaults.
Dalit women are marginalised due to their weak socio-economic status, low education levels, and their location in harsh conditions of work – such as bonded labour, cotton picking and working in brick kilns. In the rural provinces of Pakistan, the majority of bonded labourers come from a scheduled caste background. Rape of female bonded labourers is widespread, and there is little legal recourse to address the problem.
Sexual abuse and kidnappings are some of the worst problems for Dalit women and girls in Pakistan. Ms. Radha Bhil, a Dalit woman working as a social mobilizer, says: "Women and girls from the lower caste or religious minority are easy targets for harassment, because the majority knows that they are weak and cannot take any action."
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Forced conversion of Hindus in Pakistan jolts US out of slumber
By Chidanand Rajghatta
WASHINGTON: Pakistan's state-endorsed discrimination, and in some cases extermination, of its minorities has finally caught the eye of Washington lawmakers. Coming on the heels of support in Congress for a Baloch homeland in the face of Islamabad's depredations in the region, a US Congressman has zeroed in on the abduction and forced religious conversion of Hindus in the country highlighted by the case of Rinkel Kumari.
In a sharply-worded letter to Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, Congressman Brad Sherman urged him to take action to ensure the return of Rinkel Kumari to her family, pursuant to reports that she had been abducted with the help of a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) lawmaker. In a case that has been widely reported in the liberal Pakistani media, Rinkel, who was abducted on February 24, was forced to marry one Naveed Shah and convert to Islam.
She was subsequently produced before a civil judge twice, but she was reportedly coerced into claiming that she had converted on her own will, even as her family was denied access to her in kangaroo court proceedings that revealed in video clips to be led by a frenzied mob of zealots, including armed followers of the Pakistani lawmaker. According to Pakistani civil liberties activists in Washington DC, Rinkel was allegedly threatened while in police custody that if she did not change her statement, she and her family would be killed.
"Rinkel Kumari's case is just one case of abduction and forced religious conversion in Pakistan," Congressman Sherman said in the letter to Zardari, citing the Asian Human Rights commission figure of 20-25 kidnappings and forced conversions of Hindu girls in Sindh every month. "I urge you to take all necessary steps to bring an end to this practice and other harassment of Hindus in Pakistan."
The Rinkel Kumari case was brought to the attention of US lawmakers not by Hindu activists but by the Sindhi American Political Action Committee (SAPAC), a lobby group that, like the Baloch groups, is increasingly asserting the secular and syncretic identity of Pakistan's Sindhi community in the face of growing Islamization in the country. Sapac activists are telling US lawmakers that state sponsored discrimination against minority groups in Pakistan is rampant and is causing Hindus to migrate out of Pakistan in droves.
Hindus, who constituted more than 15 per cent of Pakistan's population soon after Partition, have now dwindled to less than two per cent, mostly in some districts of Sindh. There have been several reports in recent months of Hindu families seeking to migrate to India in the face of growing radical Islamization of Pakistan, including abduction and forcible conversions, but it is the first time that Washington, which literally slept over Pakistan's genocide of Bengalis in 1970-71, is paying attention to the issue.
US interest in the Rinkel Kumari case comes close on the heels of sudden support in Congress for Baloch self-determination, an effort led by California lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher. That effort has rattled Islamabad to the extent that it has told American interlocutors that Pakistan-US ties will be deeply affected if Washington interfered in Balochistan, even though the Obama administration has clarified that support for an independent Balochistan is confined to the Hill, where lawmakers are free to introduce any legislation they deem appropriate. That in turn resulted in Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S.,, writing to House Speaker John Boehner, expressing deep concern over Congressional action on Balochistan.
Courtesy: TOI
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Women's Day and Rinkle Kumari
The Sindh High Court Chief Justice, Mushir Alam, has ordered by March 12, the production of 19-year-old Rinkle Kumari, a girl kidnapped from Mirpur Mathelo in Sindh's Ghotki district. She is said to have been subsequently forcibly converted to Islam and married off to a Muslim man — or that's the version of her family members. The judge was outraged by the event and pledged that law would no longer tolerate such crimes.
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International Dalit Soliderity report 2011 – Plight of Dalit of Pakistan
The Pakistan Dalit Solidarity Network (PDSN) has been instrumental in raising public awareness of caste discrimination in Pakistan in 2011 and creating a stir in the media. Media reports on caste discrimination have included issues such as bonded labour, untouchability, kidnapping and forced conversions of Dalits.
Media have also reported widely on discrimination in flood relief work in Pakistan following new monsoon rains, causing one of recent history's worst disasters. Dalit communities were denied access to relief camps because of their caste and were forced to live under the open sky. The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardai, has spoken out against this discrimination against Dalits in the on-going flood relief work saying that any discrimination in extending rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations to anyone on the basis of caste is unacceptable. Nonetheless the discrimination continued throughout 2011. PDSN has worked to support Dalit victims of the flooding and bring their plight to the attention of authorities, International NGOs and agencies involved in relief operations.
2011 also saw an increased visibility of Dalit women in Pakistan and Ms. Kalavanti Raja joined PDSN as Coordinator of the women's wing of the network. Ms. Raja participated in several events, including the Dalit Women's conference in Kathmandu, a South Asian Dalit conference in Bangladesh, and the IDSN International Consultation on Caste-Based Discrimination and council meeting in Nepal, where PDSN Coordinators also took part. She spoke at several events and monitored Pakistani media attention to the issue of caste discrimination, with regular updates to IDSN on the situation.
Jinnah Institute, a think tank working on minority issues, released a report in 2011 highlighting caste discrimination in Pakistan. According to the report the vast majority of Dalits in Pakistan do not own lands and work on daily wages, a consequence of them not having any permanent settlement. The report said, "One day, they are with one landlord, the next day with another. And this is how they spend a life of debt, with no accountability or education." Their castes have translated into daily life. For instance, Dalits may be restricted to separate water wells in school, "from which also Muslims will not drink." Dalits working in bonded labour continues to be a central issue in Pakistan. They are often forced to work under terrible conditions in what has been deemed 'modern slavery' with no view to ever repaying their debts. This form of slavery is particularly prevalent in the agricultural sector, construction work, mining and textile industries.
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Lahore High Court shows true colors of strategic depth of Pakistan
Review board orders Malik Ishaq's release
By Asad Kharal
LAHORE: A review board of the Lahore High Court (LHC), on Friday, denied an extension for the detention of Malik Ishaq, former leader of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, for one more month and issued orders for his release. ….
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Washed away by the tide of history – By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The Baloch, Sindhi and Pashtun children are made to read and revere Mohammad bin Qasim, Mahmud Ghaznavi, the Mughals and the heroes of Pakistani wars with India while nothing is taught about their own history, heroes or culture as if these nations had no history, no heroes, and no culture prior to August 14, 1947
When colonisers occupy a place, as in Australia, the Americas, Balochistan, Kurdistan and Palestine, the indigenous people are dispossessed and denied their inherent rights exercised since eons. The colonists rely primarily on force; however, to ensure permanent supremacy they try to eradicate their indigenousness, culture and history. They employ the lethal tool of demographic changes to physically occupy, dominate and exploit the new land. Needless to remind that Jinnah ordered forcible annexation of Balochistan in March 1948.
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Pakistan PM hits out at army amid ouster fears
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said conspirators were plotting to bring down his government and delivered an unprecedented tirade against the powerful military.
In astonishing confirmation that he fears being ousted, he angrily denied the government was subservient to the army, long considered the chief arbiter of power in Pakistan as his administration grapples with a damaging scandal.
Pressures are at boiling point over a memo, allegedly written with approval from the president, asking for US help to prevent a feared military coup after Osama bin Laden was killed in May.
Rampant speculation that President Asif Ali Zardari could be forced out of office over the scandal and illness has refused to ease, despite his return to the capital following two weeks of medical treatment in Dubai.
"I want to make it clear today that conspiracies are being hatched here to pack up the elected government," Gilani told a gathering at the National Arts Gallery, without naming anyone.
"But we will continue to fight for the rights of people of Pakistan whether or not we remain in the government," Gilani said, declaring himself the country's longest serving premier, with 45 months on the job. ….
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In Israel, women's rights come under siege
By Ruth Marcus
Women are forced to board public buses from the back and stay there. Billboards with images of women are defaced. Public streets are cordoned off during religious holidays so that women cannot enter.
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A Pakistani Christian student's question to the High Court
Is a Pakistani Christian equal to a fellow Muslim?
"A young Pakistani student belonging to the Christian faith has posed an interesting question through a petition in the Lahore High Court. The question is: Am I, a Pakistani Christian equal to a fellow citizen who is a Muslim ? For those of the readers who missed the news item reported by an English daily, this young student belongs to a low income group, is a practicing Christian and extremely bright. She has been competing to get into the King Edwards Medical College but was beaten on the list by 20 marks by a Muslim student who got the extra 20 marks for being Hafiz–e-Quran. So, now this young Christian girl has filed a plea in the Lahore Court declaring that she and the Muslim student had equal marks but the latter got the advantage of religion. The young Christian student claims that "this is discrimination against religious minority students and a violation of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution of Pakistan." The petition admitted by the Lahore High Court demands that either the LHC should rule to abolish the policy or should declare that a parallel policy should be made to award twenty additional marks to religious minority students on the basis of their religious knowledge. Fifty eight years after the creation of the country to ask such a question through the courts is both tragic and hopeful".
Constitution of Pakistan, Part II, Chapter -1, Fundamental Rights, Article 22 says:-
(1) No person attending any educational institution shall be required to receive religious instruction, or take part in any religious ceremony, or attend religious worship, if such instruction, ceremony or worship relates to a religion other than his own.
(2) In respect of any religious institution, there shall be no discrimination against any community in the granting of exemption or concession in relation to taxation.
(3) Subject to law: (a) no religious community or denomination shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for pupils of that community or denomination in any educational institution maintained wholly by that community or denomination; and
(b) no citizen shall be denied admission to any educational institution receiving aid from public revenues on the ground only of race, religion, caste or place of birth.
(4) Nothing in this Article shall prevent any public authority from making provision for the advancement of any socially or educationally backward class of citizens.
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Pakistan's Dalits denied flood relief because of caste discrimination
– Desperately needed shelter and relief items are not reaching hundreds of thousands of Dalits who are left homeless after the severe flooding in Pakistan's Sindh province. Dalits are being discriminated against because their caste relegates them to the bottom of the social order in Pakistan and 'untouchability practices' exclude them from sharing the same shelters as other members of society.
The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardai, has spoken out against this discrimination against Dalits saying that any discrimination in extending rescue, relief and rehabilitation operations to anyone on the basis of caste, creed or religion is "Unacceptable" and has called for a report from the provincial government on the situation. ….
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Flood relief by caste, creed!?
– By Zofeen T. Ebrahim
Excerpt;
…. But, Ram saw something in the camps which left him disturbed. "The school I teach in has been turned into a camp for the flood-affected people, but when three Hindu families from the Kohli caste sought refuge there, they were denied it.
"When the Kohli families insisted on staying, one of the men from the displaced Muslim community began contemptuously urinating in full view of the Kohli women and they had little choice but to leave," said Ram. "They treat dogs better than they treat us human beings," said Ram in anger and helplessness.
Moolchand Sakromal, a Hindu government official who tried to give refuge to the Kohlis, says low-caste Hindus are probably the "most neglected" of Pakistan's minorities.
"It's a double whammy for them – they are poor and then they belong to the scheduled caste," says Vikio Rajwani, a Hindu and head master at the government primary school. …
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Dying to Tell the Story
By UMAR CHEEMA
Islamabad, Pakistan: WE have buried another journalist. Syed Saleem Shahzad, an investigative reporter for Asia Times Online, has paid the ultimate price for telling truths that the authorities didn't want people to hear. He disappeared a few days after writing an article alleging that Al Qaeda elements had penetrated Pakistan's navy and that a military crackdown on them had precipitated the May 22 terrorist attack on a Karachi naval base. His death has left Pakistani journalists shaken and filled with despair.
I couldn't sleep the night that Saleem's death was confirmed. The fact that he was tortured sent me back to a chilly night last September, when I was abducted by government agents. During Saleem's funeral service, a thought kept haunting me: "It could have been me."
Mourning journalists lined up after the service to console me, saying I was lucky to get a lease on life that Saleem was denied. But luck is a relative term.
Adil, my 2-year-old son, was the first person in my thoughts after I was abducted. Journalists in Pakistan don't have any institutionalized social security system; those killed in the line of duty leave their families at the mercy of a weak economy.
When my attackers came, impersonating policemen arresting me on a fabricated charge of murder, I felt helpless. My mouth muzzled and hands cuffed, I couldn't inform anybody of my whereabouts, not even the friends I'd dropped off just 15 minutes before. My cellphone was taken away and switched off. Despite the many threats I'd received, I never expected this to happen to me.
Sure, I had written many stories exposing the corrupt practices of high-ranking officials and pieces criticizing the army and the intelligence agencies. After they were published, Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's prime security agency, always contacted me. I was first advised not to write too much about them and later sent messages laced with subtle threats. But I never imagined action was imminent.
On Sept. 4, I was driven to an abandoned house instead of a police station, where I was stripped naked and tortured with a whip and a wooden rod. While a man flogged me, I asked what crime had brought me this punishment. Another man told me: "Your reporting has upset the government." It was not a crime, and therefore I did not apologize.
Instead, I kept praying, "Oh God, why am I being punished?" The answer came from the ringleader: "If you can't avoid rape, enjoy it." He would employ abusive language whenever he addressed me.
"Have you ever been tortured before?" he asked.
"These marks will stay with you forever, offering you a reminder never to defy the authorities," he replied.
They tortured me for 25 minutes, shaved my head, eyebrows and moustache and then filmed and photographed my naked body. I was dumped nearly 100 miles outside Islamabad with a warning not to speak up or face the consequences.
The following months were dreadful. I suffered from a sleep disorder. I would wake up fearing that someone was beating my back. I wouldn't go jogging, afraid that somebody would pick me up again and I'd never return. Self-imposed house arrest is the life I live today; I don't go outside unless I have serious business. I have been chased a number of times after the incident. Now my son asks me questions about my attackers that I don't answer. I don't want to sow the seeds of hatred in his heart.
When Saleem disappeared, I wondered if he had been thinking about his children, as I had. He had left Karachi, his hometown, after receiving death threats, and settled with his wife and three children in Islamabad. From there, he often went on reporting trips to the tribal areas along the Afghan border. Tahir Ali, a mutual friend, would ask him: "Don't you feel scared in the tribal areas?" Saleem would smile and say: "Death could come even in Islamabad." His words were chilling, and prescient.
The killing of Syed Saleem Shahzad is yet another terrifying reminder to Pakistani journalists. He is the fifth to die in the first five months of 2011. Journalists are shot like stray dogs in Pakistan — easily killed because their assassins sit at the pinnacle of power.
When Daniel Pearl was brutally murdered by militants in Karachi in 2002, his case was prosecuted and four accomplices to the crime were sentenced. This happened only because Mr. Pearl was an American journalist. Had he been a Pakistani, there would have been no justice.
Today, impunity reigns and no organization is powerful enough to pressure the government to bring Saleem's killers to justice. Journalists have shown resilience, but it is hard to persevere when the state itself becomes complicit in the crime. Now those speaking up for Saleem are doing so at a price: they are being intimidated and harassed.
Pakistan is at a crossroads and so is its news media. In a situation of doom and gloom, Pakistani journalists offer a ray of hope to their fellow citizens and they have earned the people's trust. Even the former prime minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has admitted that people who once went to the police with complaints now go to the press.
But this trust will be eroded if journalists continue to be bullied into walking away from the truth. News organizations throughout the world must join hands in seeking justice for Saleem and ending the intelligence agencies' culture of impunity. An award for investigative journalists should be created in his honor, as was done for Daniel Pearl. No stronger message could be delivered to his killers than making him immortal.
Umar Cheema is an investigative reporter at The News International, Pakistan's largest English-language daily. He was a Daniel Pearl Fellow at The Times in 2008.
Courtesy: The New York Times
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Let us strengthen Pakistan
– Let us Unite to Uphold 18th Amendment including Devolution of HEC
By Khalid Hashmani
As more and more information comes out in the waning days of Higher Education Commission (HEC), most Sindhis are shocked to know that out of ten thousands (10,000) foreign and domestic scholarships that have been distributed by HEC so far, Sindh received only 892 (http://ejang.jang.com.pk/4-7-2011/Karachi/pic.asp?picname=99.gif). This amounts to about one third of the number that Sindh would have received even if the NFC award rules were applied. There is no province/ state or ethnic group anywhere in the world that has suffered as much as Sindhis have when it comes to scholarship opportunities in Pakistan. Instead of defending an institution that has denied Sindhis their due share in educational opportunities for so many years, we should be demanding trial of those officials who were responsible for denying Sindh its due share in scholarships. It is doubtful that an agency of such dreadful performance should even be given a role of standard setting and quality assurance. The Government of Pakistan should seriously consider creating a new agency with proper representation from each province/ state to oversee the jurisdictions that 18th Amendment allows at the federal level.
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WSC participated in The 16th Session of UNHRC to inform about the worsening human rights situation in Sindh
London, UK, 19 march 2011: Press Release – A delegation of World Sindhi Congress (WSC) comprising of Dr Hidayat Bhutto and Dr Lakhu Luhano participated in the 16th session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. WSC delegation made statements at events organised by Interfaith International and RADDHO (Rencontre Africcaine Pour La Defense des Droits de L'Homme).
The delegation also met with numerous ECOSOC NGOs, human rights defenders from South Asia region and from nations oppressed by Pakistan and with the office of UN's Special Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. In these meetings, the delegation had detailed discussions about the worsening situation of human rights for people of Sindh.
In his statement, Dr Hidayat Bhutto presented detailed views about the worsening human rights situation in Sindh. He mentioned the recent killings of Sindhi political leaders Zulfiqar Kolachi, Yonus Khaskheley and Haji Khan Noonari. He said that the disappearances of political activists continue to occur in Sindh where currently 39 Sindhi people are missing believed to be kidnapped by the agencies. He informed the international community about the second-time disappearance of one of the most prominent Sindhi leader, Muzaffar Bhutto, in daylight by the agencies. He requested the UN and the international community to press upon the agencies for the release of all kidnapped Sindhi and Baloch people. Dr Bhutto mentioned that the agencies are illegally settling people from Punjab and Pakhtunkhwa to colonise Sindh and enhance religious extremism. He detailed how Sindhi people are being systematically denied their social, cultural, political, educational and lingual rights by the Pakistani establishment. He said that the international community to be aware of these issues and requested to support people of Sindh in their struggle for their genuine historical and human rights including right to self-determination.
Dr Lakhu Luhano in his statement said that the Pakistani state is practicing a systematic policy of fanning, patronising, training and funding the violent religious extremism not only for their regional strategic extension but also to suppers, subjugate and colonise Sindhi and Baloch people. This policy has huge and serious implications for regional and global security and peace and for viability and continuance of tolerant Sindhi nation and society. He requested the international community for an immediate, effective and urgent action before it becomes too late. He warned the price for the entire humankind of the spread of this disaster would be unimaginable.
The other delegates at the events extended their support to Sindhi people in their struggle for their human rights including right to self-determination.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Life, Pakistan, Religion
Taliban & The Girl from the Swat Flogging
The Girl from the Swat Flogging
An interview with Saira Bibi
Tell us about the day of the flogging.
I don't remember the exact date, but it was in January 2009. My husband works at a coalmine in Hyderabad and he was away. He had asked us to organize a lunch for one of his friends who had recently got married. After the lunch guests left, we heard noises at our door. They were shouting for us to quickly come out of the house. My mother-in-law asked them who they were. They said they were the Taliban. They said there were some allegations against me, and they wanted to question me. I told my mother-in-law I had no reason to face them. They kept shouting, threatening to drag me out themselves. My brother-in-law took me to them. He said we have no choice, that I should trust Allah.
What did the Taliban say to your family? How were you feeling when you left with them?
They said I would have to defend myself in their Shariah court which was set up at a government-run primary school for girls about 200 meters from our home. So we walked there. I was scared. In my mind, I was walking toward my death.
What happened at the school?
When I got to this self-declared Shariah court, I saw three men with long beards who were fully equipped with weapons. One of the Taliban there accused me of having an illicit relationship with the friend of my husband whom we had had the lunch for. He said I would have to face punishment; that I will have to be flogged because that is what Islam says. I denied the allegation, but they didn't listen to me. One of them told me to bend my head toward my knees, and then they started flogging me. Another one counted up to 15 for each time I was struck. They told me to walk to the nearby ground for the final decision. As I walked there I was thinking they are going to slit my throat and kill me like they have others. There was a mob gathered there. I was told to lie face down on the ground. Two men held my hands down, another had his hand on my neck, a third one held my feet. I kept shouting I am innocent. I kept crying to Allah to help me. They lashed me another 15 times. After the second round of flogging, I wasn't able to walk and my brother-in-law had to assist me back home. ….
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Justice for Few
U.S. And Justice for Few – William Fisher
NEW YORK, 14 Dec (IPS) – Poor defendants on death row, immigrants in unfair deportation proceedings, torture victims, domestic violence survivors and victims of racial discrimination – all these groups are consistently being denied access to justice while those responsible for the abuses are protected, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU Human Rights Programme, told IPS, "Access to justice is a fundamental human right and bedrock tenet of American democratic system – it was even codified by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which the U.S. championed 62 years ago."
"Unfortunately, access to the courts and effective remedy have been severely curtailed over the last decade, especially for those who need it most," he said. "It is time for our government and judiciary to recommit to respecting and promoting this essential right." …
Read more : ipsnorthamerica.net
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Culture, India, Pakistan, Sindh, Sindhi
THE UNIQUE FIVE MILLIONS SINDHIS : WITHOUT A MILIMETER OF LAND … STATELESS!?
They were the people, Who were denied their ancient land 5000 years old Civilization. Moen Jo Daro. They paid supreme price for FREEDOM OF INDIA. They were the people, Who dwelled on the banks of river Sindhu, Where Rig Veda was evolved, Then Upanishads took shape, Who believed in peace and tranquility and in universal brotherhood. But in the year 1947, were forced to migrate. They came empty handed, many with only clothes on their back. Assigned in dilapidated barracks, leaking roofs and missing privacy and had to stand in line for free rations. But, instead of whining or moaning, they stood proud and erect. They took, not arms, but creative intelligence, they believed in knowledge and education and went forward.
Next 50 years, they traversed many lands and oceans by hard work and perseverance. They spread prosperity everywhere. They built new houses. They built new hospitals. They built new schools and colleges. Gave free aid and scholarships and advanced trade and industry.
The Original Unique five Million Sindhis of Sindhu-Sarswati Civilization, the peaceful people, the hospitable people, the generous people, the proud and independent people, the self-reliant people without a millimeter of their land. They survived, they are survivors,they are tough, they are SINDHIS LIVING IN INDIA.
SINDHIS HAVE BUILT MORE COLLEGES AND HOSPITALS IN INDIA AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PEACE LOVING & HARD WORKING COMMUNITY… BELIEVE IN BROTHERHOOD IS STATELESS.
Courtesy: Sindi e-lists/ e-groups, Sat, September 11, 2010.
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Culture, Human Rights, Pakistan, Politics, Sindh, Sindhi
The Tragedy with the ORIGINAL owners of Sindh
The Tragedy of Sindh!!!
On the Globe of this earth, Sindh is the territory with the rich culture, identity, and language but after the partition of subcontinent, it is discriminated, dishonored, and behaved within not good way possible by almost all the governments of this country.
This discrimination can be shown in the recent event of refusing the issuing of CNICs (identity cards) for indigenous people like BHEEL, KOLHI, DALT, JOGI, and OODE [The ORIGINAL owners of Mother Sindh]. These people are the REAL sons of soil, since before 2000 to 3000 years ago. They are even more real, more original, more Sindhi than any MIR, PIR, SYED, .., and ALL other migrated and settled in Sindh.
Today, thousands of illegal immigrants have the domicile of Sindh, WITHOUT even knowing anything about the culture, tradition, language, history of Sindh. HOWEVER! The REAL and TRUE SONS of Sindh are DENIED an IDENTITY CARD FOR THEIR OWN LAND!? They should STOP this Racism, Discrimination, and Cruelty.
Continue reading The Tragedy with the ORIGINAL owners of Sindh →
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Erisa Ssekisambu (born 28 August 1995) is a Ugandan footballer who plays for Kiyovu Sports Club in the Rwandan Premier League and the Uganda national team as a midfielder.

Career
Ssekisambu has featured for different clubs in Uganda such as SC Villa, Express, Uganda Revenue Authority SC, Vipers SC and of recent he played for currently in KCCA FC.

SC Villa
Ssekisambu started his career in 2011. He made his debut on 23 September 2011 against Police FC and he scored his first goal on 18 January 2011 against Gulu United, SC Villa won 4–0. Ssekisambu left SC Villa for Express hoping to get the playing time he had not got at Villa Park since coach Srdjan Zivojnov, had not given him the playing time.

Express
Ssekisambu joined Express in January 2012. He played his first game on 22 February 2012 against Water FC and the game ended 0–0. He scored his first goal against Masaka Local Council FC on 29 May 2012 and Express won 1–0.

Uganda Revenue Authority SC
In June 2012 Ssekisambu joined Uganda Revenue Authority SC from Express

SC Villa
Ssekisambu returned to SC Villa in 2015. He played against Soana FC as his first game on a comeback to SC Villa. He scored his first goal of the season against Express and the match ended in favour of SC Villa 2–1.

Vipers SC
In July 2015, Ssekisambu moved to Vipers SC in 2015., He played his first game against Bidco FC, Vipers SC won 1–0. He scored his first goal for Vipers SC against Saints FC. Ssekisambu completed the season with a tally of 16 goals even when some pundits argue that he scored 17 during the Uganda Premier League season of 2015–16 Sekisambu scored a historical goal for Vipers SC against Enyimba FC on 12 February 2016 in the preliminary round of CAF Champions League first leg.

Gor Mahia
On 1 November 2018, it was announced that Ssekisambu had joined Kenyan club Gor Mahia on a two-year contract. On 16 February 2019 he scored his first hattrick for Gor Mahia against Mount Kenya United.

International career
On 20 June 2015, he made his senior debut on the Uganda against Tanzania and scored 2 goals on his debut. He was one of the shining stars at the 2016 CHAN Finals in Rwanda as he netted in the 2–2 draw with Mali.

In the 2014 African Nations Championship, Erisa was top scorer for Uganda.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club
Express
 Ugandan Premier League: 2011–12

Uganda Revenue Authority SC
 Uganda Cup: 2013–14:

SC Villa
 Ugandan Cup: 2014

Vipers SC
 Ugandan Cup: 2015–16
 Ugandan Premier League: 2017–18

Uganda
CECAFA Cup: 2015

Individual
 Most Valuable Player Ugandan Cup: 2015, 2016
 Most Valuable Player Nominee Uganda Premier League: 2015

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Association football midfielders
Ugandan footballers
Ugandan expatriate footballers
Uganda international footballers
Uganda A' international footballers
SC Villa players
Uganda Revenue Authority SC players
Vipers SC players
Gor Mahia F.C. players
Kampala Capital City Authority FC players
Uganda Premier League players
Ugandan expatriate sportspeople in Kenya
Expatriate footballers in Kenya
People from Wakiso District
2016 African Nations Championship players

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Tour Operator theme is an absolutely unique theme concept. First theme ever on themeforest that includes simple and easy to use reservation system. You can use the theme to set up powerful website for tour operator agency, hotel resorts, guesthouses, B&Bs, campsites or any other businesses that require reservations.


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IP interests should join the Trademark Clearinghouse meeting on Tuesday
Kevin Murphy, October 5, 2012, 12:31:52 (UTC), Domain Policy
ICANN is to hold a webcast and teleconference next week to discuss alternative models for the new gTLDs Trademark Clearinghouse.
It will be the last time the community gets to discuss the issue before ICANN 45 kicks off in Toronto next weekend.
Neustar, ARI Registry Services, Verisign and Demand Media have jointly proposed two models for the mandatory new gTLD Sunrise period and Trademark Claims service that differ from ICANN's.
While the proposals are enjoying general murmurs of support from the domain name industry side of the community, the trademark lobby has yet to have any substantial presence in the talks.
Most of the discussions to date have been hindered by this lack of input, and by a frustrating lack of hard feedback from ICANN and its two contractors, IBM and Deloitte.
Tuesday's meeting might be a good opportunity for members of the Business Constituency and IP Constituency to brush up on the issues before Toronto.
The meeting will start at 9am US Eastern time, according to Neustar vice president Jeff Neuman, who provided the following information:
The documents are posted at:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/sunrise-model-26sep12-en.pdf
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/claims-model-26sep12-en.pdf
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/model-issues-26sep12-en.pdf
The call-in information is:
Conference ID: 93759
Dial-in numbers for each country: http://www.adigo.com/icann/
Adobe Connect Room at: http://icann.adobeconnect.com/tmch/
Trademark Clearinghouse coming in October
Trademark clearinghouse signs up 40 registrars
New ICANN chief pours cold water on new gTLD trademark protection demands
Tagged: cybersquatting, ICANN, new gTLDs, sunrise, trademark claims, trademark clearinghouse
And to think that no one from the IPC or "trademark lobby" was otherwise planning to attend. . . . Good grief.
Kevin Murphy says:
They've been conspicuously absent from all the other TMCH meetings to date, leading to people making assumptions about what they want.
Two reasons for that: 1. All of the work since the TMCH IAG disbanded has been portrayed as being "purely technical." It was directly communicated to several of the trademark-based members of the IAG that unless we had a technical background we weren't welcome. 2. If ICANN had scheduled the "summit" for a time other than peak holiday season with more than 2 weeks notice, I suspect you probably would have one or two trademark people there. I would have gone had it not entailed missing 1/2 of my family vacation and paying $2500 for an economy ticket to Brussels.
Eugénie says:
I do agree with Kristina, being informed of this "summit" only two weeks before and during August was a very strange choice. Some of us attended only as we were in paris, wanted to know the technical aspect and not in vacations at this time …
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I have finally found what the Holton "Mammoth" tuba I purchased from Lee Stofer last August really needs! A player with much better air support and diaphragm strength. I had thought that there was a pitch issue on at least two of the notes and perhaps slide cutting would be in order. After playing the horn for the last six weeks every day, what a surprise! The pitch is just fine. It was and is the operator that needs to improve. Yes, there is some slide movement necessary, however considering the horn is over 100 years old it plays very, very well indeed. Really looking forward to playing this horn for the summer and then using it in one of the two concert bands I play in starting in the fall. The King bell front tuba will be used in the other.


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outtopic : Just find out a better order http://archiesoniconline.com/main/index.php?topic=79.0 I learn the origin of freedom fighter because kid sonic was in firstly.
However, there is a fundimental difference between the two guides. The Archie Sonic Online one has every story in chronlogical order, which means a lot of jumping all over the place as you read. Whereas the one here is more following the order the comics, and where they intersect with each other.
I can see the appeal of the timeline version, but it's a lot harder to read. And means that sometimes wierd things from the early comics that can usually be handwave as 'early installement weirdness' are a bit harder to ignore.
I know you might not see this but oh my god, thank you for this. I've wanted to get into the comics forever and then I found this website and was still just like. Ah....where do I start what is the BEST WAY AND NOW HERE YOU ARE thanks buddy!!
Just popping in again as I am wondering when this will be updated. No pressure, sorry if I am being too pushy, I'm just really enjoying these comics and I don't want em' to end!
Yeah, but the guide kinda stopped mid-crossover, so I'm a bit stuck.
I've fallen a bit behind with the comics tbh. Once I catch up, I'll update the list.
Sonic Universe -> Sonic Boom -> Sonic the Hedgehog -> Mega Man -> repeat. Hope that helps.
Thanks! Is that the same order for Worlds Unite and Worlds Collide?
That's for Unite. Collide doesn't have Boom in it, and it's already on the reading list.
I'm just going to change the subject a little and say how every recent issue (even stand-alone ones) has a recap at the beginning, and footnotes for who each character is, including Sonic. That way, you can just read the latest one and even if you're kind of lost you'll still be able to understand some of it thanks to the exposition. As of this writing, Sonic #285 and SU #88 are the most recent issues, so read them if you just want to just get to the latest story.
How do the stories mentioned here fit into the continuity, and where can I read them?
They don't appear to be important, but I wanted to ask anyway. Thanks for the list!
If you mean the bodyswap story, I'm pretty sure that was published again later in one of the Sonic Super Specials, so it will be on the reading list at some point.
If you mean the Off Panel, those are just fun little asides.


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It contains 35 grams of protein, which is a pretty good amount for those who are trying to lose weight. With 7 grams of carbs and only 2 grams of sugar, PhD Nutrition Diet Whey is an ideal choice. It also contains Waxy Vol. Although it contains a number of ingredients, there is no excess calorie intake.
It works incredibly well for people trying to lose body fat. If you think you can handle clumps or mix it well, there is no reason to not to purchase this product.


I've discovered an issue with how Plant Simulation is logging statWaitingTimePerPredecessor related to the start of statistics collection.
In the model, there are 4 setups of three predecessors to an assembly station. The predecessors have different processing times. I log the waiting times for each predecessor and the waiting time for each assembly in EndSim.
When i run it with a startstat of 1:00:00, the waiting time of the station and the predecessors differ by about 1:00:01. Then I tried changing the startStat (I've added it as a dropdownlist in the model) to 59:59 and 1:00:01. For 59:59 I also get a mismatch between predecessors waiting time and station waiting time, but 1:00:01 gives me the same results for parts and station.
It seems like Plant Simulation is logging the WaitingTimePerPredecessor when the MU arrives at the assembly without regards to if in fact the InitStat has occurred during that waiting time.
Most of my MUs had moved already when 1:00:01 had passed, giving the correct results.
Am I on the right track with my conclusion? Has anyone else experience this?
you are right, for statWaitingTimePerPredecessor the InitStat value is not considered.
We will fix this in the next maintenance pack for the version 14.
Thank you very much Karola!


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Always happy to get your posts Mike. Whenever they arrive, they are like someone opened the window and a breeze blew in. Great thoughts and always welcome in some pretty hectic days.
Pat, totally grateful for that. Thanks!
Always great to read your comments! Thank you!
A great reminder to those of us who are Type-A AND creative. It can be a deadly combination. Our obsession with our own projects at the expense of others' needs can get out of hand fast if we aren't focused on the One. Thanks, Mike.
Love your new blog Jean!
2.5 has a good ring to it…welcome back Eric. Maybe there are more than four seasons not to measure our lives by.


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"""fix query and saved_query null schema

Revision ID: b5a422d8e252
Revises: b8d3a24d9131
Create Date: 2022-03-02 09:20:02.919490

"""

from alembic import op
from sqlalchemy import Column, Integer, String
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base

from superset import db

# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
revision = "b5a422d8e252"
down_revision = "b8d3a24d9131"

Base = declarative_base()

class Query(Base):
    __tablename__ = "query"

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    schema = Column(String(256))

class SavedQuery(Base):
    __tablename__ = "saved_query"

    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
    schema = Column(String(128))

def upgrade():
    bind = op.get_bind()
    session = db.Session(bind=bind)

    for model in (Query, SavedQuery):
        for record in session.query(model).filter(model.schema == "null"):
            record.schema = None

        session.commit()

    session.close()

def downgrade():
    pass