[Assam] Pak media more liebral now: HPI, December 16, 2006

Sun Dec 17 10:05:22 PST 2006

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C08%5Cstory_8-12-2006_pg7_11

  now they have started giving space to Hindu groups also it seems.

  Umesh

Hindu Press International <hpi.list at hindu.org> wrote:
  From: Hindu Press International <hpi.list at hindu.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:41:25 -1000
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Subject: HPI, December 16, 2006

             December 16, 2006 

   Babri Masjid Riots: 14 Years Later  
   Judges Chastise -- Follow Your Guru, Don't Litigate  
   Asia Urged to Tackle Air Pollution

    1. Babri Masjid Riots: 14 Years Later  www.dailytimes.com.pk
  LAHORE, PAKISTAN, December 16, 2006: The Hindu community on Thursday demanded the reconstruction of more than 1,000 temples across Pakistan which had been demolished by Muslims who rioted in December 1992 as protest against the demolition of the Babri Masjid in India. While Muslims in India commemorated December 6, the day Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindus, as a "day of resistance" and demanded the Indian government reconstruct the Babri Masjid and take action against those responsible for the incident.

The All Pakistan Balmik Sabha (APBS) Balochistan President Atnay Ram Chohan said that more than 1,000 Hindu temples had been damaged in Pakistan following the Babri Masjid incident and the government had assured the Hindu community that their places of worship would be restored, but that promise has yet to be fulfilled. APBS Punjab General Secretary Dr Munohar Chand said that though the government had started reconstructing several temples in Multan, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Kohat, Bahawalpur and Lahore, the pace of work was slow and must be completed on priority to promote religious harmony in the country. He added that several temples in Lahore including Jain Mandir, Krishna Mandir, Balmik Mandir in Nila Gumbad, Balmik Mandir and Bawa Mandir in Taxali Gate and Shah Alam Mandir had been damaged in the violent protests in 1992, but the government had only reconstructed the Krishna Mandir on Ravi Road.

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    2. Judges Chastise -- Follow Your Guru, Don't Litigate  epaper.timesofindia.com
  NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 15, 2006: (HPI note: This dispute does not involve the BAPS branch of the Lord Swaminarayan sampradaya.) Thanks to television, religious leaders have taken their discourses on spiritual life to the living rooms of people. But recently it was their turn to get a discourse from the Supreme Court. The case before the court was an offshoot of the litigation between two leading followers of Swaminarayan, Ajendraprasadji and Swami Keshavprakashdasji, and originated from a suit filed by the latter before the Bhavnagar civil judge in 2002. The suit sought a declaration from the civil court that Pande, having ceased to be the Acharya of Vadtal Gaddi, and his supporters are not entitled to any privilege or right in respect of the Vadtal Gaddi at Vadtal, Gadhada and Junagadh, as well as within any of the trust property and that they have no right to declare their successor as acharya of the gaddi. 

Justices A. R. Lakshamanan and Altamas Kabir dismissed the petition filed by Pande, deplored the litigious attitude that has crept into religious sects and exhorted the members devote more time to the propagation of their gurus' teachings. "If the time, energy and money was spent for carrying on the wishes of the founder of the institution, things would have reached very great heights," the justices said.

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    3. Asia Urged to Tackle Air Pollution  english.aljazeera.net
  WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, UNITED NATIONS, December 16, 2006: Experts say Asia is too slow to enact regional pacts limiting harmful emissions and reducing pollution. Air quality researchers at a regional conference this week called on Asian nations to formulate a pollution control mechanism after studies showed an increasing number of cross-border environmental problems. Japan says soot from Chinese power stations is poisoning its lakes. Coal emissions from India and China are polluting the air in Bangladesh while land-clearing forest fires in Indonesia routinely send a choking haze across Singapore and Malaysia. These factors, experts say, have turned Asia into the world's most polluted region. 

Michal Krzyzanowski, a regional adviser on air quality and health for the World Health Organization said, "Transboundary air pollution is a big problem, especially in densely-populated areas in East Asia. At the moment, there is no mechanism to regulate this transboundary problem. You need to agree on emission ceilings and common efforts to reduce the pollution." He said it took more than 10 years for Europe to come together to work out a similar regional mechanism.

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