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Congresswoman TulsiGabbard Captivates

Audience at HAFs Annual Northern CA Gala

By Samir Karla, eSq

milpitas, ca
Congresswoman Tulsi
Gabbard (D-HI) captivated
a standing-room only audience of 500 people at the
Hindu American
Foundation (HAF)s Annual
Northern California
Awareness and Gala

Dinner this past Saturday at

the India Community
Center in Milpitas. Since
coming to office in 2012,
Congresswoman Gabbard
has been a strong proponent of the Foundations
work, particularly in the
areas of human rights and
religious freedom.
The Hindu American

Foundations work is based

on the principles of human
dignity, mutual respect, and
pluralism which serve to
break down the barriers
that exist within so many
communities across the
country and around the
world. I appreciate HAF's
efforts to bring diverse
voices and interests togeth-

Zee Melodys Vinod Baba back in Bay Area

er to accomplish the shared

goal of supporting and
defending human rights
and religious freedom
around the world. In
Saturdays keynote address,
Congresswoman Gabbard,
the first Hindu American
elected to Congress,
described her journey as a

public servant and military

veteran, and the inspiration
and solace she drew from
the Bhagavada Gita and her
Hindu faith. She further
spoke about the Syria crisis
and her leading role as an
outspoken critic of military
strikes against the Assad
regime.

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first fiji Diwali festival in

Bay area a great success

October-2013

Mohammed Khan Shaan to

sing at the 2nd Girmit Festival

ith enormous
gratitude, the
famous Fiji
Ghazal and Qawali singer
Shaan accepted to presenmt some of his own
songs he wrtote on Fiji
Girmit.
Shaam is among the
fewwho have written
peoms on Fiji Girmit.
Shaan will be joined by
Hayward Kirtan Smelan
and popular Fiji artist
Nitayand Maiku

editor recites his urdu peotry at Pakistan

american Cultural Center, Mipitas

Our grateful thanks

MILPITAS The PACC holds an

open mushairah every fourth
Sunday of the month. Any one is
welcome to do his or her presentation. Admission is free and the
program usualy attracts more
than 30 poets and particioants. At
the Sunday September 28 gathering, editor read his own piece and
recited a Mitza Galib poem, Ye
na thi humari Kismat .

Zee Melodies Vinod Baba back in Bay area with kishore, lata and asha night
Immensely popular and
regarded as the best Fiji
singer Vinod Baba was given
a rousing welcome for his
comback show at Mehran
Restaurant last month.

fter a 20
year lapse
the Fiji Sun
editor emceed the
program at the
instance of Zahid
Buksh an intimate
friend and fan
Baba. It was the
editor who coined
the name ZEE
MELODIES for
Vinod Baba who is
often very generous and gets a lot
of Bay Area singers

to share time with

him on stage otherwsie Baba is known
for giving a powerful and antertaining
performnce for
straight three
hours. Wiuth a baritone voice, Baba is
ideal for Kishore
numbers which
delivers with
absolute ease and
keeps audience on
the floor throughout his show.

Baba with melody queen Alka Bhatnagar

Show organizer Zahid Buksh with Khans

India Post publisher Dr. Romesh Japora was also present to show his support and sponsorship of the program.
Later he was invited to handout over close to 20 awards to various performers.

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Debts killed 1.98 lakh farmers in a decade

Chopper crashes near

Thane, 5 feared dead

New Delhi. About 1.98 lakh farmers committed suicide in India

between 2001 and 2012 as the benefits of high growth failed to trickle
down to the rural areas, says the
India Rural Development Report
2012-13 released on Thursday.
Indebtedness and lenders confiscating land have been attributed as
the main causes of the farmers
deaths.
Around two-third of the farmer suicides were reported from
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh.
Depicting the darker side of Indias
growth story, the report also shows
why the poorer states show the smallest improvements in the prevailing
multi-dimensional poverty scenario.

Mumbai. A helicopter carrying five

people from the Juhu aerodrome in
Mumbai to Aurangabad on Sunday morning crashed near Murbad village in
Thane. Officials from the Airports
Authority of India (AAI) said that all of the
five people on board were dead. here
were two pilots and three passengers on
board the helicopter. "Our rescue operations team has sighted the wreakage in
Murbad about 38 nautical miles from
Mumbai. We have alerted the local police
conduct rescue operations on ground,"
said VP Chinson, general manager,
(aerodrome, western region). The chopper belong to United Helicharters ltd a
city based private helicopter company.
The identity of the passengers is yet to
be ascertained. "We have asked the
company to submit the name of passengers," said a Juhu airport official.

The report was prepared by a government-funded Infrastructure

Development Finance Company and
released by rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. As per the find-

Mumbai building
collapse : death toll 60

Meet the new Miss World

Newly crowned Miss World Megan Young of Philippine (C) waves, after winning the
Miss World contest, in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Weeks after Muzaffarnagar violence, women allege rape in written complaints

Muzaffarnagar. Weeks after the
Muzaffarnagar communal violence, four
women, all from Fugana village, have alleged
rape in written complaints to the police. The
Fugana police station has registered two
cases of rape and one case of molestation so
far. Confirming this, Kalpana Saxena, SP
(Crime), Muzaffarnagar, said, "The matter
has been transferred to the special investigation team of the Uttar Pradesh Police."
While two complaints were filed on
September 20, the third was filed on
September 24, and the last on September
28. In two cases, the husbands of the victims, now living in relief camps, filed the complaints. One victim is a 23-year-old unmarried

woman, while the rest are aged between 35

and 45 years. The Sunday Express has
copies of all the complaints. Two victims, in
separate complaints, have alleged that fivesix men forced their way into their houses
and raped them. Another victim has said her
house was set on fire, and when she was
fleeing, six men threatened her with
weapons, forced her inside a nearby house,
and raped her. "We are receiving complaints
from all over Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and
other districts. Since Fugana is one of the
worst-hit areas in the district, it also has the
highest number of complaints," said Saxena,
adding that it took time to sift through these
complaints and lodge cases.

Asarams Indore ashrams

illegal gate razed

Indore. The illegally-constructed main gate of an

ashram here, run by controversial godman Asaram, was
demolished by the Madhya
Pradesh Road Development
Corporation. It was from this
ashram that Asaram was arrested by police in the early hours of

ings, around 65% of Indias poor lived

in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam,
Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and
Madhya Pradesh in 2011-12, against
around 50% in 1993-94.
Discussing the report, Ramesh
said India had made 'a great but
spotty advances'in rural infrastructure.
Around 57% of the land degraded
in the country was because of manmade reasons including extensive
use of chemicals in farming.
The report also said that from
modest two lakh pump sets to extract
groundwater exploded to over 20
million in 2009. This has been driven
by green revolution policies and
subsidies on pumps but it has
resulted in one-third of countrys
districts been termed 'unsafe' for
ground water extraction.

September 1. The action was

initiated after the ashrams
authorities concerned failed to
produce permission certificate
for construction of the gate after
MPRDC issued notice to the
ashram a week ago, sources
said. Asaram is in jail for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor
girl in his Jodhpur ashram. The
entrance gate of his (Asarams)
ashram was razed as it was
raised without requisite permission, the sources added.
According to sources, the gate
was also affecting flow of traffic
on the busy Indore-Khandwa
road where it is located.

Mumbai. The confirmed

death toll from the collapse of
a residential block in Mumbai
rose to 60 on Sunday as the
search ended with all the
missing accounted for, officials said. The building located at Dockyard Road on the
harbour line, home to 22 families and owned by the BMC,
came crashing down at daybreak on Friday. "The toll has
now risen to 60 and we have
now called off the search for
more bodies in the debris,"
said Mumbai deputy police
commissioner Tanaji Ghadge,
who will lead a police enquiry
into the disaster.Ghadge said
one person has been arrested over the collapse, the latest of a series to hit the city
and surrounding areas. The
Press Trust of India (PTI)
news agency identified the
man as Ashok Mehta, who
occupied a ground-floor
office-cum-warehouse in the
building. It said he was
accused of carrying out faulty
and unauthorised renovations thought to have caused
the collapse. The had been
listed as needing "urgent
repairs". Employees of the
BMC, which owned the building, and their families were
housed in the structure but
had been asked to leave ear-

Warming up to Navratri

A girl dressed in traditional attire poses as she takes part in

rehearsals for the "garba" dance ahead of Navratri festival in the
western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 29, 2013. Navratri,
held in honour of Hindu Goddess Durga, is celebrated over a period of nine days where thousands of youths dance the night away
in traditional costumes. Navratri starts on October 5.

lier this year. It was unclear

why they had not done so. A
municipal spokesman did not
elaborate on why the families
had been asked to leave or
whether alternative accommodation had been arranged.
Rescuers managed to
save 33 people from the rubble, said Alok Avasthy, commandant of the National
Disaster Response Force.
"We were able to save 33
lives including an entire family which was brought out
from the middle of the rubble
on Friday," he said.
Twenty-six women and
five children were among the
dead, Avasthy said, amending his earlier count. He said
the death toll may rise if vic-

tims in hospital succumb to

their injuries.
"Our operations are now
off and the rubble has also
been removed," Avasthy
said. He had led 150
trained
rescuers
who
worked non-stop for 48
hours with special cameras,
listening devices and tracker dogs. Distraught and
tearful relatives watched
over the two-day rescue,
hoping against hope that
family members would be
pulled alive from the twisted
wreckage. Mechanical diggers were used to lift some
of the larger concrete slabs,
allowing Avasthy's team to
recover bodies and search
for those still alive.

ISI paid IM Rs. 24cr to bomb

India, says Bhatkal
New Delhi. The ISI gave
the Indian Mujahideen (IM)
Rs. 24 crore in the last four
years, a period in which the
home-grown terror outfit
planned or executed almost a
dozen operations resulting in
the death of more than 60
people, Yasin Bhatkal has
told interrogators. "A few
months back, his ISI handlers
asked Yasin Bhatkal to give
an account for the spending
of around Rs. 24 crore that
they claimed was handed
over to Karachi-based top IM
operatives Iqbal Bhatkal and
Riyaz Bhatkal for the group's

activities in India from early

2009 onwards, when they
shifted base from India to
Karachi. Interestingly, Yasin
believes a part of the money
was cornered by Iqbal," a
counter-terror official familiar
with the details of Yasin's
interrogation told HT.

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Terror attack in Jammu, 12 dead

Jammu. At least 12
people, including four
policemen and an six army
personnel, were killed as
terrorists first attacked a
police station in Hiranagar
town of Kathua district and
later stormed an Army camp
in adjoining Samba district
on Thursday morning.
According to a Defence
Ministry spokesperson, three
armymen, including Colonel
Vikramjeet Singh, were killed
and three others, including
the Commanding Officer of
16 Cavalry, were injured.
According to latest information, firing from militants'
side has stopped, but security forces are still holding cor-

don of the officers' mess

area where they have been

holed in.Both the attacks

came a day after Prime

A motorist tries to balance himself as a bus drives past him on

a flooded road after heavy rains in Ahmadabad.

Gogoi admits giving tickets to accused, supports Rahul

termed the controversial ordinance to negate

the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers as 'complete nonsense' and said
what "our government has done is wrong".

Encephalitis claims 5 more

lives in UP, toll 309
Gorakhpur. With five
more children succumbing
to encephalitis at BRD
Medical College in
Gorakhpur during the past
24 hours, the death toll due
to the disease has climbed
to 309 in the eastern district
of Uttar Pradesh this year.
The dead include one
child each from
Maharajganj, Deoria,
Kushinagar and
Siddharthanagar districts
of eastern UP, and one
child from adjoining Bihar,
health officials said,
adding, that 23 encephali-

tis patients have been

admitted to the hospital
during past 24 hours. This
year as many as 1527
encephalitis patients,
mostly children, were
admitted to BRD Medical
College Hospital, of which
309 died, they said.

on peace and dialogue. He

said that this was another
attack and barbarism by enemies of peace.
"These attacks will not
deter us. We are determined
to defeat such forces," said
Singh.
Sources said that the terrorists, who were in Army
uniform, first came to
Hiranagar police station and
before anybody could understand anything, they suddenly opened fire with AK
rifles leaving little chance for
the cops to react. Thereafter,
they fled towards KathuaJammu national highway
and boarded a truck on way
to adjoining Samba district.

AAPs rejected candidate

sparks protests by volunteers

Gujarat struggles with flood

Guwahati. Assam Chief Minister Tarun

Gogoi said the Congress did not have any
guideline to stop giving tickets to criminals
and he supported party vice-president Rahul
Gandhi's statement denouncing the ordinance to protect convicted lawmakers, on
Saturday. Gogoi admitted that he had in the
past allowed accused persons to contest
elections in the state as per AICC principle
as his "word is not the final word".
"I whole-heartedly welcome Rahul ji's
statement. Politics should be a clean affair...
I am dead against it (the ordinance)," Gogoi
said at a press conference in Guwahati. In a
major embarrassment to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi yesterday

Minister Manmohan Singh

confirmed his meeting with
Pakistan counterpart Nawaz
Sharif in United States on
the sidelines of a United
Nations session.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief
Minister Omar Abdullah condemned twin terror attacks
and alleged that they were
carried out to derail the peace
process between India and
Pakistan.
"It would be a grave injustice to those killed if peace
talks between India and
Pakistan are suspended,"
said Omar.
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh also condemned the
attack terming it as an attack

NEW DELHI. The Aam

Aadmi Party (AAP), which
had hailed the recent
Supreme Court order on
voters right to reject candidates, has got a taste of its
own medicine. Scores of
party volunteers from the
Uttam Nagar constituency
in west Delhi are on a
dharna to protest AAPs
decision to field Deshraj
Raghav. The protesters
claimed most of them had
opted for the none of the
above option during preferential elections from
among the short-listed
candidates. Yet, the party
leadership did not pay
heed to their disapproval.
The original list of volunteers had just 47 names.
The party office bearers
who came to conduct the
voting added 24 names
after which they took away
ballot boxes and declared
Raghavs name, Deepak
Kumar Choudhary, a local
volunteer amongst the protestors, said. Another volunteer, Ranjan Rahee,
claimed: Deshraj had filed
an affidavit before the
Lokayukta wherein he had
agreed that there were
four kerosene oil depots in
his and his family mem-

bers name. He has been

associated with Mukesh
Sharma, MLA from the
area for the past 20 years.
Manish Sisodia, AAP
spokesperson and also a
member of the partys
screening committee, dismissed the corruption allegation as an excuse and
claimed the candidate-designate did not have any
ration shop now. There
was one ration shop in his
wifes name but they surrendered it in 2011. The
allegations about his
fathers pension too are
false. Also, the volunteers
claim about the way voting
was conducted are not
true but it was done

according to the process.

We still say bring concrete
proof of corruption against
him, we will cancel his
candidature.
But the volunteers have
not budged and started the
protests on Saturday. So
what will the party do to
redress their grievance?
Kuchch nahee (Nothing).
These are men from
Sharmas camp, he is
afraid Deshraj will win the
seat, Sisodia said.
Choudhary said: Our actual demand is basic.
Arvindji had promised that
candidates would be
selected with the consent
of local volunteers. Where
has that promise gone?

Modi projects himself as protector of India's pride, alleges insult of PM by Sharif

New Delhi, Addressing his first
public rally in the national capital
after being anointed the BJP's prime
ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi
on Sunday projected himself as the
protector of India's pride, while raising Manmohan Singh's diminished
leadership in the wake of remarks
by Rahul Gandhi and alleged "insult"
by Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif.
He also fashioned the 2014
elections as a contest between a
"whimsical shehzada (prince)",
implying Rahul, and a "chai
bechne wala (tea vendor)" like
him, before ending his speech that
lasted more than an hour with
exhortations of Vande Mataram.

Among those in the massive rally

were several diplomats from
Russia, Japan, Germany and
Spain. Police estimates put the
crowd strength at 1.5 lakh.
At a time when the PM is meeting Sharif, "there is suspicion

whether you can hold your head

high", Modi said about the PM.
"Congress vice-president ne aapki
pagdi uchchaal di (demeaned you).
Why should Sharif respect you
now?" How will Singh assert Indian
rights over the PoK, demand dismantling of terror infrastructure in
Pakistan or get back "heads of
Indian soldiers beheaded by
Pakistani armymen", Modi went on.
Going on to attack Sharif, he said:
"You do not have the status to call
our Prime Minister a 'dehaati aurat'."
Modi used the undermining of
Singh's authority to also rip into
Rahul, saying the Congress leader
had committed a "sin".

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FIJI FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS IOM DIRECTOR GENERAL

The Director General of
the
International
Organization for Migration
(IOM) H.E Mr William Lacy
Swing met this week with
the Minister for Foreign
Affairs and International
Cooperation, Ratu Inoke
Kubuabola to discuss ways
Fiji could benefit from the
organization.
The IOM is the leading
international agency that

Banuve
Blazes
to Glory!

ijis Sprint King

has done it
again and this
time even with more
style! Celebrating his
21st Birthday, Banuve
Tabakaucoro was slow
out of the starting
blocks at Kafika
Stadium, however,
nothing was going to
stand in his way to
achieving his goal to
set another record in
the blue ribbon event.
Tabakaucoro clocked
10.33 seconds breaking Jone Delais Mini
Games record of
10.34 seconds. Fellow
Fijian, Suva Grammar
school student Francis
Kirikirikula won the
bronze and Papua
New Guineas Kupun
Wisil took out the silver. Despite Banuves
blistering record
breaking run, Jone
Delai still hold the
national record of
10.27 seconds set in
1997. Another Fijian
athlete also continues
his dominance in the
field events. Leslie
Copeland won a gold
medal in the mens
javelin event with a
throw of 68.62 metres.
Team Fiji, who are
the defending champions of the Mini Games
currently sit in fourth
place on the medal
tally with 6 Gold, 4
Silver and 3 Bronze
medals. New
Caledonia, after dominating the waters in
the Vaa Outrigger
events lead with 12
Gold, 8 Silver and 7
bronze. The Pacific
Mini Games in Wallis
and Futuna will end on
September 12th.

works closely with governments and civil society to

advance the understanding
of migration issues, encourage social and economic
development through migration, and uphold the human
dignity and well-being.
At the meeting, Minister
Kubuabola expressed Fijis
enthusiasm at becoming a
member of the IOM and that
relevant processes are well

on its way for Fiji to become

a member.
Ambassador
Swing
expressed his gratitude over
this and looked forward to
Fijis membership. He also
discussed the core functions
of the IOM, which include
amongst others, humanitarian emergencies, migration
health, counter-trafficking,
migrant training, migration
and climate change, reset-

Fiji Chairs Annual G77

Senior Officials Meeting
Fijis
Permanent
Representative to the United
Nations, Ambassador Peter
Thomson chaired the annual
G77 Senior Officials Meeting
(SOM)
at
the
UN
Headquarters in New York
this week. The SOM was a
preparatory meeting for the
annual
G77
Foreign
Ministerial Meeting, scheduled to be held on 26
September at the margins of
the United Nations General
Assembly. The meeting
adopted the Report of the
Twenty-eighth Meeting of the
Committee of Experts of the
Perez-Guerrero Trust Fund
for South-South Cooperation.
It also took note of the outcomes of the G77 High-level
Eminent Personalities of the
South, which was held in Fiji

in May this year. The meeting

further discussed the draft
G77 Ministerial Declaration
and recommended for its
adoption by the Foreign
Ministers when they meet
later in the week. One of the
highlights of the SOM was the
accession application of
Kiribati as the 133th member
of the Group of 77. The representative of China, as the current Chair of the Asia-Pacific
Group in the UN informed the
meeting that Kiribati has the
full support of the Group. With
the support of other regional
groups, the meeting recommended the acceptance of
Kiribatis accession application as its newest member for
formal endorsement by the
Groups Foreign Ministers at
their meeting.

PPSEAWA INTERNATIONAL
COMMEMORATES 85TH
ANNIVERSARY IN FIJI

he
Pan
Pacific
Southeast
Asia
Womens Association
(PPSEAWA)
members
representing 13 international countries had gathered at Fijis Peace Garden
yesterday to commemorate the 85th anniversary
of
the
PPSEAWA
International and 25th
anniversary of the PPSEAWA International Triennial
Conference. The dual
anniversaries were marked
through the unveiling of a
plaque and cake cutting
ceremony, followed by an
official address from the
Fijis Ambassador for
Women, Madam Nazhat
Shameem.
In her opening address
Madam Shameem congratulated
PPSEAWA
International
for
its
achievements and contributions for promoting
peace around the world.
The
Pan
Pacific
Southeast Asia Womens
Association is the only
international
womens
organization devoted to
families, peace and understanding in the Pacific and
in Southeast Asia. Since
the founding of PPSEAWA
in 1928 in Honolulu,
Hawaii its membership has
grown to 23 national asso-

ciations, many having several

local
chapters.
PPSEAWA
has
Consultative Status in
Category II to the United
Nations Economic and
Social (ECOSOC) with the
privilege of making its
voice heard in international
decision making. The
organization is represented at the United Nations in
New York and Geneva and
at ESCAP, UNICEF and
UNESCO,
Madam
Shameem
said.
The
PPSEAWA International
President, Mrs Teresa
Hintzke said that Peace
Garden is a special place,
symbolizing a peaceful
environment.
The celebrations today
are very inspiring for
PPSEAWA members and it
represents the achievement of this international
organization that is dedicated to promoting peace
and harmony. The Peace
Garden reminds us of
Paddy Walker, one of the
pioneers of PPSEAWA as
she was the one who had
envisioned this garden to
be developed as a monument of peace. Paddy is
now 95 years old and lives
in Cook Islands and the
celebration here today is a
great tribute to her.

tlement assistance, immigration and boarder management, labour migration,

assisted voluntary return
and reintegration, and
migration
policy
and
research.
Moreover Ambassador
Swing said that the IOM
conducts a number of
capacity-building exercises
which include country profiling on its diaspora commu-

Fiji passes fourth

constitution
Fiji has passed yet
another constitution, the
fourth since 1970. The military regime which is currently running the country
says that this is another
step forward
towards
a
free election
next year.
But
many
say that the
new constitution is self
serving to the regime.
Frank Bainimarama, the
leader of Fiji said that the
constitution
enshrines
many civil, socio-economic
and political rights, an
independent judiciary and
a secular state. Fiji police
on Friday arrested a handful of peaceful protestors
including a former prime
minister present at the
scene.

nities and this would be a

good venture for Fiji and the
Pacific.
In response, Minister
Kubuabola highlighted the
plight of our Pacific low-lying
islands challenged by the
effects of climate change,
and that IOM would be a
platform to explore avenues
to assist. With the many
capacity building ventures
organized by the IOM, Fiji

and its Pacific neighbours

would greatly benefit from.
The Minister also briefed
Ambassador Swing on the
Pacific Islands Development
Forum (PIDF) and suggested that this is something that
the IOM could closely network with since migration
and climate change are
related issues which affect
most Pacific Small Islands
Developing States (PSIDS).

TAVUA STUDENTS WELCOME

HEAD OF STATE

The move to create awareness on HIV/AIDS in schools by

His Excellency the President
Ratu Epeli Nailatikau has been
welcomed by students in Tavua.
Fijis Head of State spent this
week visiting schools in the
western division advocating for
more awareness on HIV/AIDS.
President Nailatikau told the
students of Tavua District High
School and Tavua College that
despite the efforts of all relevant
stakeholders
to
address
increasing statistics, there is a
general lack of understanding
by the public on this global disease.
While he highlighted the
value of contraception in reducing statistics in the country, he
also urged students to concentrate on their studies and their
future. Some of the challenges

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State, who is also the United
Nations AIDS Ambassador to
the Pacific, include the low number of people testing voluntarily,
data collection, stigma and discrimination and low condom
usage. His Excellency said that
There are quite a few challenges that our health ministry is
facing regarding HIV/AIDS and
one is data collection. Data is
a very important document that
will assist our health professionals. We also have people who
shy away from having their
blood tests. With current testing
facilities only available in Suva,
Lautoka and Labasa, Ratu Epeli
who is also the United Nations
(UN) AIDS Ambassador to the
Pacific said Government will
open more in especially in rural
and out islands.

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October-2013

Transparency International Fiji focuses on reform and prevention efforts

TransparencyInternation
al Fiji has defended its
approach of not publicly
asking too many questions
on accountability of government and public officials.
The NGOs chairperson,
Api Tudreu, says it is not TI
Fijis policy to be reactionary, but rather to focus
on systemic reform and
prevention efforts.
He says that along with
Fijis independent commission against corruption,
theyve made real gains in
placing issues of corruption
in the national discourse.
Johnny Blades spoke to
him.

API TUDREU: Because

theyve been in the news
and because they began
with a whole range of investigations, particularly with
high-profile figures, theyve
had a high profile on that
front, not so much until
recently on the prevention,
on developing awareness
and commitment at the
community level.
JOHNNY BLADES: But
you guys are Transparency
International, and it seems
like the government is not
always transparent about
things they demand other
political movements to be
transparent about, like their

salaries, for instance.

AT: Yeah, for sure. They
are supposed to be
accountable to the public
and we are supposed to
make public some of these
details. I havent seen any
publication, official publication, on salaries and terms
and conditions. But its certainly something the goverment should consider they
can do just to allay any kind
of suspicions that might be
in the public. After all, what
every government wants is
to be able to continue to be
trusted by the rest of society.
JB: So do you push them

Fiji fails to
retain Mini
Games Title

Smoke causes thousands

to be evacuated

Over 1000 workers

housed at Downtown
Boulevard in Suva were
evacuated this morning
after heavy smoke was
seen bellowing out of the
building, located on Ellery
Street in the heart of the
capital. Quick response
from a person who
arrived early in the morning triggered the alarm
and the National Fire
Authority were at the
scene a few moments
later. All occupants were
evacuated safely. After
preliminary inspections
the National Fire Authority
(NFA) told local media

that they believe the

smoke was from a fire
that started from one of
the kitchens in food court
on the first floor, and had
spread into an exhaust
vent making its way up to
the top of the building.
Firefighters found all
electrical wire around the
vent had melted in the
four stories of the building
and they are working with
the
Fiji
Electricity
Authority to identify and
repair the effected wiring.
The NFA has ordered the
closure of Plaza Two of
Downtown
Boulevard
until further notice.

eam Fiji failed to

retain the 2013
South Pacific Mini
games title which ended
today in Wallis and
Futuna. Fiji only managed to pip Samoa by 7
silver medals to finish in
fourth place with 13
gold, 12 silver and 17
bronze. Papua New
Guinea stormed to win
the games with an
amazing 30 gold, 26 silver and 31 bronze
medal haul. Team Tahiti
finished second overall
with 26 gold, 9 silver
and 5 bronze while New
Caledonia was third with
21 gold 13 silver and 9
bronze. Norfolk Islands
will host the next Mini
Games in 2017 while
next up will be the
Pacific Games in PNG
in 2015. According to
FBC Sports, overall for
Team Fiji, athletics
brought in the most
medals. Vaa men finally
recorded some medal
wins while Hobie Cat
Sailors, Shane and
Torika Brodie hauled in
Fijis final gold medal
yesterday.

Fire destroyed part of school

Students and teachers of
Sigatoka Methodist School
were in shock as they arrived
on Monday morning to find part
of their school burnt to ashes in
an early morning blaze.
The fire which started at
around 5:30 am destroyed 12
classrooms and a teachers living quarters and the windy conditions made the situation
worse for the firefighters who
struggled to bring the fire under
control and stop it from spreading to other parts of the building. An eye witness Rahul
Prasad told FBC News that He
was asleep when he heard
what he thought were firecrackers. Actually I was sleeping at night and I could hear
sound of fire crackers like
blowing up across the bridge. I
didnt care much but when I
was wake up I saw through my
window, I saw this huge fire

and when ran I saw the school

was on fire. When I reached
the scene, the blaze was really
high, actually the fire fighters
arrived five to ten minutes
later. There were about 7
classrooms that got burnt, two
partly which the fire fighters
managed to stop and they
saved other classrooms. The

teachers quarters was burnt

very badly, they couldnt save it
but the headteacher, his wife
and children are safe.
Prasad says, some school
children have arrived at the
school.
As I look from my house I
can still see some smoke,
theres no other thing I can
see. When I went in the morning and to see what happened,
I only saw ashes. I see people
stopping by in their cars and
some school children standing
out there but nothing we can
do to help them right now. As
a safety precaution, the
Ministry of Education has
stepped in and decided to shut
down the school today and a
decision is expected to be
made on how the school can
continue to operate and
accommodate the 400 affected
students.

on this?
AT: We havent really
had any cause to ask,
because the work of TI Fiji
has not really been about
asking questions because
there is suspicion. Weve
assumed that they have
conducted themselves in
the way any government
has done in the past,
through whatever systems
are available within the law.
But weve certainly gone to
work with them in areas
where there have been
problems.
Were
now
beginning to engage, for
example, the area of public
procurement and trying to

get the systemic reform

closer as a result of invitation tours by the public
accounts committee on
past experience with government operations. So its
more proactive engagement that we would rather
be involved in. The highprofile
reactionary
approach, we leave that
really to the media and
other organisations. It
doesnt seem to be our purpose in the long run.
JB: Is that just because
of the personalities involved
with leading the current
government, or would that
be
generally
your

approach, anyway?
AT: In Fiji at the present
time, much of the comments that come to the
media are related to what
government is actually
doing, comments by its
leaders. It prevents any
kind of useful comment like
that, because our comments are not evenly used
by the media in Fiji. So I
guess my answer is yes. Its
an avenue that is risky
because your opinions,
when it actually reaches the
press, is not as free as you
would like it to reach the
press, so we dont want to
get engaged at that level.

Rev Peter Loy Chong delivers keynote address at

world association for Christian Communication

he Head of
the Catholic
Church in
Fiji, His Grace
Peter Loy Chong
did not hold back
on the issue of
Politics,
Democracy and
the coup culture
in Fiji while
addressing participants at the
World Association
for Christian
Communication
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40 killed, 80 injured in Peshawar car blast Polio virus found in

Peshawar, At least 40
people, including nine
members of one family,
were killed and 80 others
injured when a huge car
bomb ripped through a historic market here on
Sunday, third such attacks
in the troubled northwestern Pakistani city in a week
claiming nearly 150 lives.
Police said a car carrying 220 kg of explosives
detonated
in
Qissa
Khawani market, damaging
at least 50 shops and setting afire many vehicles.
The blast occurred when
the police official on duty
asked a driver of a car to
remove it from the site.
They said 13 members
the family had come to the
city from the adjacent
Charsadda district to take
part in a marriage function
and the blast left nine of
them dead. The blast killed
at least 40 people and
injured over 80 others,
Commissioner Peshawar

Sahebzada Muhammad
Anis said. Doctors at Lady
Reading Hospital said six
women and four children
are among those killed in
the blast.
The bomb was triggered
with a remote control,
Additional
Inspector
General of Bomb Disposal

Body of raped schoolgirl

found at Karachi beach
KARACHI: The body of a
teenaged schoolgirl was found
on Karachis Seaview beach on
Thursday. The autopsy report of
the girl confirmed that she was
sodomised, a medico-legal
officer informed Dawn.com on
condition of anonymity. The
MLO said the girl was smothered after being sodomised.
She added that the girl died 36
to 48 hours before her body was
recovered and sent for postmortem today. Moreover, the
report revealed that her skin
had peeled off from one side of
the face due to seawater abrasion. Apart from that, there were
small bruises on her body.
According to the police, the girl
aged between 13-14 years was

killed before being dumped near

the sea. Her body was discovered by bystanders who subsequently alerted authorities. She
was wearing a school uniform.
The police had earlier suspected that the girl might have been
raped before being murdered.
However, Head of Emergency
Ward
at
the
Jinnah
Postgraduate Medical Centre
Dr Seemin Jamali did not confirm then since the autopsy was
underway. Preliminary details
by the police suggested that the
victim was a resident of the
citys Banghoria Goth in
Azizabad. A day before, her
family had filed a report regarding her kidnapping, police
sources told

Squad Shafqat Malik said.

The market also known as
the "storytellers' market"
was the site of a massacre
in 1930 when British soldiers fired on peaceful
demonstrators, killing hundreds. Pakistani Taliban
were generally blamed for
such attacks. However, the

banned militant group

denied its involvement in
Sunday's blast that took
place in Peshawar, the
main city of troubled
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
province. Meanwhile, the
trading community of Qissa
Khawani
Bazaar
has
announced three days of
mourning to express solidarity with the bereaved
families. This is the third
blast in the city since last
Sunday when over 80 people were killed as twin suicide bombers struck a historic church. On Friday, 19
people were killed when a
blast took place inside a
bus carrying government
employees. Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif, who is in
New York for the UN
General Assembly, strongly
condemned the blast.
"Those involved in the
killing of innocent people
are devoid of humanity and
all religions," he said in a
statement.

Hundreds of thousands
of people were rendered
homeless after their houses were razed to the
ground by the earthquakes
which also destroyed wells
and their other sources of
water. Citing an initial
assessment, officials said
180,000 to 200,000 people
had been affected by the
quakes. About 35,000
houses collapsed or were
badly damaged. Some vil-

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi
might lose its polio-free status
in the coming days as the
National Institute of Health
(NIH) has found traces of polio
virus from the citys sewers for
the third time in the last three
months. Recently, the NIH
reported that the polio virus
had been detected in the
sewage-water samples collected from the cities of
Rawalpindi and Multan. In
Rawalpindi, samples were collected from Safdarabad area
on August 25, while samples
from Multan were collected on
August 25. The report in this
regard, which was recently
issued, found samples of the
virus in both cities of Punjab.
Similar reports had confirmed
the presence of the polio virus
in Rawalpindi in June and July
this year, while the virus was
last found in Multan in June
2012. The samples were collected from Leh Nullah at

Safdarabad
between
Pirwadhai and Dhoke Hassu
and adjoining areas of Fauji
Colony. In Multan, these samples were collected from Kot
Abdul Fateh. A Punjab health
department official told Dawn
that prior to the report, polio
eradication activities in Multan
were being considered satisfactory but the report had
proven this wrong. If adequate measures are not taken
immediately, the polio virus
might spread from Multan to
neighboring districts of Punjab
including Muzaffargarh, DG
Khan and Rajanpur in addition
to the adjoining belt in Sindh
from Kashmore to Sukkur and
Larkana.

MPAs told not to ask questions in English

KARACHI: Sindh Assembly
deputy speaker Shehla Raza
directed the provincial lawmakers on Friday not to ask questions in English. Her advice was
meant to save from embarrassment her colleagues who did not
appear to have adequate knowledge of the language. The directive was issued when a minister
faced difficulty in reading out the
answers or in responding to
supplementary questions asked
in English during the question
hour. Ms Raza was presiding
over the session in the absence
of speaker Agha Siraj Khan
Durrani. She gave the directive
after a noisy scene, punctuated
with loud laughter from fellow
legislators more than once, was
created by some legislators who
asked questions in English and
insisted that the minister answer

in that language. The question

hour was related to the Zakat
and Ushr department and the
minister in the line of fire was
Dost Ali Rahimoon. All the three
questions taken up during the
session were asked by Nusrat
Seher Abbasi of the Pakistan
Muslim League-Functional. First
Ms Abbasi asked Mr Rahimoon

Thousands still without shelter in earthquake-hit areas

AWARAN: Although the
government, the army and
some non-governmental
organisations have been
providing relief to people
affected by two earthquakes in Awaran and
Kech
districts
of
Balochistan, thousands are
still living without shelter
and food.
The provincial government admitted that relief
goods could not be transported to several areas
because of security reasons and dilapidated condition of roads. Meanwhile,
looting of relief was reported from Mashkay area.
Armed men took away
three trucks and abandoned them after offloading supplies. Confirming
the incident, officials said
the government was making arrangements to provide security for smooth
supply of relief to the
affected areas.

Pindi for the third time

lages in Awaran and Kech

have been flattened. A
meeting presided over by
the chief secretary on
Sunday reviewed rescue
and relief activities in the
quake-hit areas and decided to immediately provide
35,000 tents to the affected
families. They will also be
given ready-to-eat food
and dry ration for one
month. The Balochistan
government has been

making efforts and utilising

all its available resources
to provide shelter, drinking
water, food and medicines
to the affected families,
the chief secretary said.
Besides, he added, the
federal and provincial governments, the army and
Frontier Corps and Edhi
Foundation and some
NGOs were also providing
relief to the affected people.

to read out the written reply,

which after much hesitation and
the lawmakers insistence, he
read out slowly. Sensing the
ministers unease at answering
the questions, Muttahida Qaumi
Movement legislator Sumeeta
Afzal asked a simple question
but in English, putting the minister in a more difficult position.

The MQMs Heer Ismail Soho

and Mohammad Hussain also
asked questions that the minister found difficult to answer.
Fellow ministers and legislators
Sharjeel Enam Memon, Jam
Mahtab Dahar, Nisar Khuhro,
Taimur Talpur and others, sensing minister Mr Rahimoons
unease, stood up and started
talking on his behalf, but the
lawmakers asking the questions
demanded that the minister,
who was supposed to be more
knowledgeable about his
departmental matters, should
himself respond. At that time Ms
Raza came to the ministers rescue and directed that questions
should not be asked in English
unless she allowed it, and only
Sindhi and Urdu be used for
asking questions in the assembly.

Balochistan CM
seeks foreign help
QUETTA: Balochistan
Chief Minister Dr Abdul
Malik
Baloch
has
appealed to the international community and
non-governmental
organisations to come
forward and extend help
to carry out rehabilitation
work in earthquakestricken
areas
of
Awaran. Talking to delegations of NGOs in
Awaran after visiting
Gishkor, Malar and other
quake-hit
areas
of
Mashkay sub-division,
he said it was hard time
for the people of Awaran
and Kech districts where
hundreds of people had
lost their lives and suffered massive financial
losses.

The
international
community
should
extend help and cooperation for rehabilitation of
people of Awaran district, the chief minister
said, adding that NGOs
and philanthropists could
also help people of this
backward
district.He
held out the assurance
that full protection would
be provided to those who
came forward to carry
out relief work in quakehit areas.

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Ulema urge govt, Taliban to stop fighting

ISLAMABAD: Ulema and

representatives of various religious seminaries functioning
under Wafaqul Madaris
expressed
concern
on
Monday over the civil warlike situation in the country
and appealed to both the government and the Taliban to
observe a complete ceasefire till the completion of the
process of talks.
The appeal was made in a
joint statement issued after a
consultative meeting of the
Ulema and teachers of seminaries held at a hotel. It was
presided over by Wafaqul
Madaris chief Maulana
Salimullah Khan.
Abdul Quddoos, the
spokesman for Wafaqul
Madaris, a conglomerate of
seminaries of Deobandi
school of thought, said it was

a routine consultative meeting to discuss the prevailing

situation in the country and
that was why the media had
not been invited to cover the
event or for a press briefing.
In reply to a question, he
said the organisation wanted
to play a mediatory role in the
peace process, but at the
same time it was mindful of
the past when the establishment used our shoulders, but
ultimately did what it had
already decided.
Mr Quddoos recalled that
Wafaqul Madaris played a
mediatory role during the Lal
Masjid episode in 2007 and
later in Swat, but on both the
occasions its efforts went in
vain because of the use of
military force. This time we
dont want to put our reputation at stake.

Moreover, he said, the

organisation had no links with
the Taliban. But he added that
it would try to establish contacts with all three stakeholders the government, the
army and the Taliban in an
effort to know the real issues.
Mr Quddoos wondered if the
United States could hold talks

Fazl demands
judicial probe
into Peshawar
church attack

Rs35m paid to militants

for release of doctors
QUETTA : Over Rs35 million was paid to Taliban militants for the release of three
doctors belonging to Loralai,
sources said on Sunday. They
were set free on Saturday. The
government officials had
claimed that the doctors were
freed without payment of ransom to the kidnappers.
There is no truth in the
officials claim that the doctors
have been freed after successful negotiations between
local tribal elders and the militants and that no ransom

amount was paid to the kidnappers, the sources said,

adding that the ransom
amount of over Rs35m had
been arranged by the doctors
relatives and friends. Loralai
Civil
Hospital
MS
Dr
Mohammad Anwar Shabozai,
Dr Nasrullah Ghalzai and cardiologist Dr Ayaz Ahmed had
been kidnapped, along with
two paramedical staff, by
armed men in Gawal Ismailzai
area of Qila Saifullah district
on gunpoint on June 12 when
they were going to Zhob.

ISLAMABAD:
Jamiat
Ulema Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Tuesday demanded a high level
commission of Supreme Court
to probe the twin suicide bombing at a Peshawar church. He
said that anti-peace elements
were involved in the incident to
destabilise
the peace in
the country.
In a statement issued
by his partys
spokesman
Jan Achakzai,
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said
that Taliban have no connection
with the incident as they neither
take responsibility of the incident nor expressed any link with
it. The main spokesperson for
the umbrella Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) group told a foreign news agency that they
were not responsible of the
attack that killed more than 80
and injured at least 140 on
Sunday.

with the Afghan Taliban after

indulging in a bloody war for
10 years, why the army and
the government could not
hold negotiations with those
who belonged to Pakistan.
The participants of the meeting, who had come from different parts of the country,
expressed sorrow over the

cases. Of 32 gang-rape cases,

only seven were discharged
because of being fake while 15
others were solved but still
being probed into. Out of 110
accused involved in gang-rape
cases, police only arrested 22
during the first eight months of
the year. A senior police investigator told Dawn that mostly the
victims in rape cases were
teenaged girls. He said there

could be several cases which

were not reported to police
because of the stigma attached
to being victim of the crime. He
claimed the police solved a
majority of cases, arresting the
rapists who were usually nominated.
The investigator said the
police had to rely on physical evidence and suspects confessions in rape cases as eyewit-

ceasefire and not to indulge in

any armed activity till the outcome of the talks.
The meeting was attended
by Mufti-i-Azam Pakistan
Mufti
Muhammad
Rafi
Usmani, Sheikhul Islam
Maulana Mufti Muhammad
Taqi Usmani, head of Jamia
Uloomul Islamia Binnori Town
Maulana Dr Abdul Razzaq
Iskandar, Maulana Fazal
Muhammad, Maulana Sher
Ali Shah of Jamia Haqqania,
spiritual leader from tribal
areas
Maulana
Mufti
Mukhtaruddin Shah, Mufti
Syed Adnan Kakakhel and
Mufti Abu Labab of Jamiatur
Rasheed,
Maulana
Muhammad Hassan of Jamia
Madina Lahore and Secretary
General of Wafaqul Madaris
Maulana Qari Muhammad
Hanif Jalandhary.

Taliban be allowed to open

office for talks: Imran
PESHAWAR,
PTI
Chairman Imran Khan urged
the
government
on
Wednesday to allow Taliban to
open an office for the peace
dialogue to be held in accordance of a decision of the
recently held all-party conference.
If the government is serious about pursuing the dialogue process with the
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan it
should allow them to have
their own office like the one
opened by the Afghan Taliban
in Qatar, Imran Khan told
reporters outside the Lady
Reading Hospital in Peshawar.
If the Americans can allow the
opening of office in Qatar to
facilitate talks with the Afghan
Taliban, why cant we do in our
own country, he said.
Mr Khan visited the hospital for the second time since
Sundays twin suicide attacks
on the All Saints Church and
met the injured in different
wards. He said he was sur-

113 cases of rape, 32 of gang-rape registered

LAHORE: The capital city

police have registered as many
as 113 cases of rape from Jan 1
to Aug 31 this year, out of which
62 have been resolved and 86
accused arrested.
The police, however, failed to
submit complete challans in 27
cases they claimed to have
solved but awaited forensic evidence results or lack of evidence. In some of these cases
suspects were on bail. Similarly,
the police registered 32 gangrape cases during the eight
months of which only 10 were
resolved with their challans submitted and 22 accused arrested.
Official statistics available
with Dawn show that out of the
113 rape cases reported to the
police, 24 turned out to be fake
after investigations were conducted into them. The police took
86 accused into custody out of
113 wanted in as many rape

loss of innocent lives in the

recent incidents of terrorism.
But at the same time they
expressed satisfaction over
the fact that the government
and the Taliban had agreed to
come to the negotiating table.
It was the only way of resolving the issue, they observed.
The Ulema regretted that
some elements were trying
to sabotage the peace
process.
It is a matter of satisfaction for Ulema and Mashaikh
that the government, the
armed forces and the Tehrik-iTaliban Pakistan all have
agreed to end civil war in the
country through negotiations,
the statement said. We
appeal to the government of
Pakistan,
Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan and the countrys
armed forces to observe

ness accounts were hardly available. Senior Superintendent of

Police (Investigation) Abdul Rab
Chauhdry said many of the incidents had their roots in
unchecked access of youth to
internet and cable network.
Mostly parents neither properly
guide their children nor keep an
eye on their activities on the
internet, he added. He said as
such cases are hard to investigate, it usually led to submission
of incomplete challans in courts.
Non-preservation of evidence, mishandling of DNA by
forensic experts and doctors,
delay in collection of victims
swabs, involvement of innocent
people in cases, delay in complaints to police and compromise
between victims family and the
accused party were among
major factors behind submission
of complete challans in courts,
he said.

prised that while there were

prospects of talks with the
Taliban, acts of terrorism were
continuing. How is it possible
to negotiate, he asked, when
terror
strikes
continued
unabated. He said that
although the APC had decided
to go for negotiations instead
of using force, so far no mechanism had been put in place
for the dialogue. The government should demonstrate
some seriousness and declare
a ceasefire to pave the way for
result-oriented talks and to
establish peace in the country.

Without holding talks with the

militants, he said, it would not
be possible to end terrorism.
He warned that the war
against terrorism would continue to haunt the people of
the country if his suggestion
for a Taliban office was not
taken seriously.
People could no more live
with terrorism because it halted progress, he added.
Unfortunately, the church
bombing in which innocent
people were killed has been
politicised by some politicians.
It is shameful. We should
stand by Christian brethren in
these trying times, he said.
Mr Khan said people wanted
peace and for that they had
voted for candidates of his
party. We will make every
effort to get rid of terrorism so
that people can heave a sigh
of relief. He said that nine
years ago there was only one
Taliban group but now 35
groups were operating in the
country.

Steps being taken

to promote tourism
ISLAMABAD: Minister
for
Information
and
Broadcasting
Pervaiz
Rashid on Friday said the
federal government was
supporting provinces for
promotion of tourism in the
country. Speaking at a
World Tourism Day event
organised by the Capital
Development
Authority
(CDA), he said tourism
helped promote friendly
and
cordial
relations
between nations and it
was vital for boosting economic activity, income
generation, job creation
and poverty alleviation.
Tourism has 10 per cent
share in the global economy and it makes the world
more stable by creating
goodwill and bringing peo-

ple together from far-off

places, he added. The
minister observed that
Pakistan had tremendous
potential to boost tourism
on a sustainable basis
because of its landscapes
and
diverse
culture.
Pakistan, the land of
5,000-year-old
Indus
Valley civilization, has rich
traditions of art and architecture and its people are
hardworking and talented.
The minister said it was
right that Pakistan had religious and cultural diversities and the country a cradle of old civilizations of
Gandhara, Buddhism and
Moenjodaro but it was
unfortunate that we have
problem of narrow mindedness.

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No problem in taking tea with Khaleda: Hasina

She urges Khaleda to scrap with war criminals Decisive movement after Oct 25 if CG goes unheeded: Khaleda

NEW YORK : Prime

Minister Sheikh Hasina has
said she does not have any
problem to have tea with her
arch rival Khaleda Zia
though the opposition leader,
her sons and cabinet members had tried to kill her
through grenade attacks on
August 21, 2004, reports
UNB.
I like tea and Ive no
problem to have tea with
Khaleda Zia weve always
been flexible time and again
for the welfare of the countrys people although the
opposition leader, her sons
and cabinet members tried to
kill me through grenade
attack on August 21, 2004.
she said.
The Prime Minister said
this replying to a query of a
journalist whether she would
be a bit more flexible ahead
of the next general election
during her press briefing at
the Bangladesh Permanent
Mission at the United
Nations on Saturday afternoon. Is there anyone in

Bangladesh who is more

flexible than me? she told
the
journalist.
Urging
Khaleda Zia to part with the
war criminals and stands in
favour of their trial, the Prime
Minister on the opposition
leader to come to parliament
and discuss how she wants
the next general election to
take place. Please come
(Khaleda Zia) to parliament
and discuss issues. Weve
proved that free, fair and

neutral elections are possible, and we want credible

polls. Make it clear how you
want the election to be
held? she said. Alleging that
the BNP chairperson had
created a crisis in the country to save the war criminals,
Hasina said, If the opposition leader leaves her association with the war criminals
and stands in favour of the
trial, then there would be no
crisis in the country.

KHULNA : BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on

Sunday threatened to wage
a decisive movement after
October 25 if the government does not restore caretaker government system
by the time and sought the
cooperation of all, including
the members of administration, army, police and
Ansar-VDP, in forcing the
government out, reports
UNB. We want to see until
October 25 as the government tenure will expire by
the timewell announce
stronger programmes after
October 25, she said.
Khaleda Zia said this
while addressing a mammoth public rally organised
by the BNP-led 18-party at
the citys circuit house
ground in the afternoon.
Pointing at the both civil
and military officials, the former premier said, Please
dont do anything that can
obstruct democracy. We
want everybodys help to
save the country and its

Polytechnic students go berserk across country

DHAKA : Polytechnic students went on the rampage
and clashed with cops in different districts on Sunday
demanding an end to professional discrimination against
diploma engineers and
appropriate promotion of
teachers at the institutes,
reports UNB. Students of
polytechnic institutes across
the country boycotted the
board final examinations of
the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th
semesters on Sunday as per
their earlier announcement.
Instead, they took to the
street in the morning to press
home their demands.
In the capital, polytechnic
students vandalised scores
of vehicles and clashed with
law enforcers in Tejgaon and
Mirpur areas of the city in the
morning while demonstrating

for immediate change in the

2008 gazette that identifies
diploma professionals as
supervisors, not engineers.
In Comilla, at least 35 people, including 15 policemen,
were injured when the students of Comilla Polytechnic
Institute clashed with police
in Kotbari area in the city.
In Rajshahi, at least 15
people were injured in a
clash between the students
of Rajshahi Polytechnic
Institute and police in the
campus area on Rajshahi-

Naogaon highway.
In Sirajganj, a clash
between the students of
Sirajganj
Polytechnic
Institute and police on
Sirajganj-Kazipur highway at
Fakirtala left 50 people,
including five policemen,
injured. In Satkhira, 10 people, including a sub-inspector of police, were injured in a
clash between police and
students
of
Satkhira
Polytechnic Institute on
Satkhira-Jessore highway at
Polytechnic College inter-

Over 100 hurt in RMG workerscops clash in Narayanganj

NARAYANGANJ : Over
100 people, including 15
policemen, were injured as
garment workers clashed
with police at Fatullah
while staging demonstration for minimum wage of
Tk8,000 for the 6th straight
day on Thursday, reports
UNB.
Witnesses said several
thousand of workers from
10-12 garment factories
took to the streets and
blocked
the
DhakaNarayanganj Link Road
near Shibu Market and
Lama para around 10 am,
disrupting traffic for three
and a half hours. When

police fired rubber bullets

and tear shells to disperse
the unruly workers they
attacked police, triggering
a fierce clash.
Some of the garment
workers, including Pintu
Mollah, Babu, Sabur and
Russel, received bullet
wound during the clash.
At one stage, the agitated workers vandalised 15-

20 vehicles, including five

vehicles
of
Utsab
Paribahan, two covered
vans, one auto-rickshaw
and one vehicle of
Narayanganj
City
Corporation. The injured
policemen were admitted
to 200-bed hospital at
Khanpur in the city.
Additional police super
Masud
Ahmed
of
Narayanganj
Industrial
police-4 said over 100
rounds of rubber bullet and
tear shells were fired to
bring the situation under
control. Additional police
have been deployed to
avert further trouble.

section. Police said the students of the Polytechnic

Institute blocked SatkhiraJessore highway by placing
logs, electric poles and
bricks to press home their
two-point
demand.
In
Munshiganj, the students of
Munshiganj
Polytechnic
Institute staged demonstrations in front of the institute.
Munshiganj
District
Convener of Bangladesh
Diploma
Engineering
Student-Teachers Songram
Parishad threatened to continue their movement until
their demands is met.
In Kurigram, around 1000
students
of
Kurigram
Polytechnic Institute staged
demonstrations and blocked
road and formed a human
chain in front of the local
press club.

Lightning kills
6 in 4 dists
Dhaka : Six people,
including three farmers,
were killed and eight others injured in separate incidents of lighting strike in
Chapainawabganj,
Meherpur,
Moulvibazar
and Dhaka districts on
Friday, reports UNB.
In Chapainawabganj,
two people, including a
woman, was killed when
they were struck by lightning in Shibganj upazila in
the afternoon. In Dhaka,
two farmers were killed
and four others injured by a
lighting strike at Baherchar
village in Savar upazila at
noon.
The deceased were
identified as Abul Kalam,
28, and Ruhul Amin, 30, of
Kurigram district.

democracy as well as welfare of the country.

In the mammoth gathering, Khaleda urged the government to immediately roll
back the coal-based power
plant
at
Rampal
of
Bagherhat as it will destroy
the
world
heritage
Sundarbans. Pointing at
The National Committee to
Protect Oil Gas Mineral
Resources Power and
Ports, which has been wag-

ing a movement to resist

the governments effort to
build power plant in the
area, Khaleda said, Were
with you. Were ready to
work together in the countrys interest. Khaleda
observed that the government wants to hold the election under its own arrangement to avert the debacle it
will face if it is held under a
non-party caretaker government system.

World Tourism
Day celebrated
DHAKA: The World
Tourism Day (WTD) was
celebrated across the
country like elsewhere
around the world focusing
on formulating a sustainable tourism and water
management strategy for
ensuring balanced and
proper use of water in
tourism industry, reports
BSS.
Bangladesh
Tourism
Board (BTB), the National
Tourism
Organization
(NTO) and Bangladesh
Parjatan
Corporation
(BPC) under the supervision of Aviation and
Tourism Ministry arranged
a series of programmes to
celebrate the day under
the theme of Tourism and

Water: Protecting Our

Common Future.
President Abdul Hamid
and Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina gave separate
messages on the occasion. The days programme began with a
colourful rally, led by Civil
Aviation and Tourism
Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk
Khan. The rally beginning
in front of Ramna restaurant at 9.00am ended at
TSC of Dhaka University
via Doel Chattar. Civil
Aviation Secretary , Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of
Bangladesh Tourism Board
(BTB) and Chairman of
Bangladesh
Parjatan
Corporation (BPC) joined
the rally.

HAJJI MOIDIN TO
SET UP DEBATE
WITH AHMADIS
In a discussion with editor,
Hajji Moidin gave the Fiji
Sun notification that he will
set up a debate soon on
Ahmadiyya beliefs.
Details are being sorted out of the
format, content, date and venue.

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community appreciation day a combined

effort of fiji and Pakistani muslims in sacramento, ca
exceeded $100,000 fundraising in less than 2 months

ARTICLE bY
Mohammed shaheed
PhOTOs bY
Zeshan Javaid
e have great pleasure to
inform the readers of
FIJISuN uSAthat our
first community Appreciation day
celebration was very successful.
our intention was to give an opportunity to our community members
to come, meet, greet and have a fun
filled day. We live in a country with
a vast landscape at many times we
only talk to people thru emails or
phone. This event was to have most
of the community people together
and have a picnic like environment.
We also liked to thank many who in
last 2 months made donation to our
Non-profit and in this time we were
able to collect close to $100,000 for
down payment to purchase a property for a future Mosque for
Maunatul Islam Association of
Sacramento cA. We hope to close
the deal on this property by midNovember.
during the day we had food and
drinks for all attending. We also had
games, Jumping castles and other
sporting events for Kids. Kids had a
blast. A session of quiz for young
generation on various issues and
many came with correct answers.
They were awarded with gift cards
and other awards.
We had over 300 people (adults
and kids in attendance). We had
people
coming
from
San
Francisco, east Bay, Stockton, live
oak, Yuba city, Woodland, West
Sacramento and the people of
greater Sacramento county. Food
was marvelous and entertainment
beyond expectation. We look forward to having many more similar
events for our community each year
and make it better by adding other
entertainment to this. We had various guest speakers coming from as
far as live oak (Maulana Amin
Nauman), Yuba city (qariHaafiz
Mohammed
ShariffShelvi),
Woodland (Haafiz Aamir Hussain &
qari
Basheer),
and
West
Sacramento
(Haafiz
Taiyab
Naseer). Who were also available
to speak to attendees on any issue
relating to the religion of Islam. We
also would like to give a special
thanks to some of our elders with
whose guidance and leadership we
follow: Maulana Amin Nauman, Haji
Aiyub, Haji Mohammed Kadir, Haji
Nazir Ahmed, Haji Moidin, Haji
Mohammed Sarwar, Faiyaz Khan,
Mohammed Rafique, and Moidin
Koya. We also would like to thank
business community in Sacramento
for their help namely; viti Imports,
east West Foods, J.T. Tire & Wheel,
Tire 4 less, california Tire &
Wheels, San Pablo Tire & Wheels,
qs low cost Jumpers and Prime
Properties of cA, We once again
would like to thank the community
for their help and support. May
Allah reward you for all your good
deeds here and here after.
(Rated as best community project
with lots of kids participation, good
write up and great pictures. We
encourage other communities to
follow this example to keep our
readers informed, editor)

PREsIDENT
VICE PREsIDENT
VICE PREsIDENT
sECRETARY
AssIsTANT sECRETARY
TREAsURER
AssIsTANT TREAsURER
sPEAKER

:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:

Br. Mohammed Tariq

Br. Ali Ahmed
Br. IrfanMahmood
Br. Mohammed Shaheed
Br. Abdul Rahim (Aiyub)
Br. AzharJabbar Khan
Br. Abdul Islam
Br. NavidIqbalRahmani

WORKING COMMITTEE
EIGhT (8) MEMbERs
Br. Abdul Kaiyum,
Br. Ali Khan,
Br. Mohammed Hafiz,
Br. Mustaq,
Br. Faraaz Malik,
Br. Bob Koya,
Br. Rahmat Ali,
Br. Mohammed Khalil.

EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL:
Haji Nazir Ahmed
Maulana Amin Nauman
Haji Moidean
Haji Mohammed Kadir
Br. Mohammed Yusuf
Haji Mohammed Sarwar
Br. Mohammed Rafique

Hajji aiyub resigns from al medina academy

SoMe oBSeRveRS, MAINlY oF MAuNATul ISlAM BAcKgRouNd, queSTIoN
THe vAlIdITY oF FoRMINg THe SAN BRuNo-BASed AcAdeMY.
SAN BRUNO-In a dramatic move,
Hajji Mohammed Aiyub after serving as secretary of the Al Medina
Academy here for several years
resigned last week. The place is
too small. It is a dwelling house
on a tight and busy street. The
cannot hold Juma Prayers. It is a
private property said to be held in

the name if group leader Munnu.

There is no evidence or plan to
transfer the property to the academy. The group leader is hesitant
to publish the financial report.
Some allege that it is a ploy to pay
the mortgage. With a large number of current members being
from mainstream, the officials

want to keep the Malayalam and

Maunatul Islam connection hurried very deep in the mud. One
official, now being skeptical, cautioned the editor not mention the
name of Malayalam/Maunatul
Islam. Members are said to be
afraid of Munnu who they say is
dominating, over ruling, lacks in

professional management training

and meeting procedures. What
was initially thought to be a recall
last week that got Hajji Aiyub to
respond with cheer turned out to
be an embarrassment as he was
not allowed to lead a Maulid.
Instead, the job was given to
another relative of Munnu.

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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am

not against arranged marriages," Ranbir told media in
an interview. "Personally, love is very important for me...

Love should
be extraordinary

Vidya Balan

shedding extra kilos for

her next with Emraan

ollywood's favourite yo-yo dieter

Vidya Balan is at it again. This
time the actress is on a dieting
spree to shed the pounds for her next
venture with Emraan Hashmi. Vidya had
cut a rather full figure in her last film with
the actor, 'Ghanchakkar', where she
played a loud mouth Punjabi housewife.
But in the upcoming Mohit Suri project
produced by Vishesh Films, Vidya will
portray a florist working in a posh hotel
chain and the actress is in a bid to quickly lose the pounds in a bid to fit the prim
mould of the character. A source close to
the film told. "The filmmakers did not ask
Vidya to lose weight, but she knew that
the role demanded that she be trim.

he heartthrob of
many, Ranbir
Kapoor's heart
throbs for true love. The young
star says he treats love as
sacred and wants to keep it on
the highest pedestal. The 30year-old, one of Bollywood's
most eligible bachelors, does
not intend to settle for an
arranged marriage. "Today's
new generation takes its own
decisions. I don't think I will
go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against
arranged marriages," Ranbir
told media in an interview.
"Personally, love is very
important for me. There
are lots of ordinary things
in life, so love should be
extraordinary. I hope I
achieve that," he added.
He is young and successful. His fans want to know
whom he will marry.
Currently, the Yeh
Jawani.. star is reportedly
crazy about Katrina Kaif.
They worked together in
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab
Kahani and Raajneeti.
He neither accepted nor
denied the relationship,
but said: "I am single till I
get married." "If I am in
a relationship and if I
talk about it and in case
my relationship doesn't
work, that puts a lot of
pressure on the girl
and her reputation.
People get very
judgmental and
our society
judges girls a

Soha Ali Khan

supports fashion for a cause

ollywood actress Soha Ali

Khan supports 'Design One',
an annual fund-raising initiative of Sahachari Foundation, in its mission to fund for non-governmental
organisations. She interacted with kids
at Muktangan, an NGO that supports
underprivileged children up to the middle school level. "It's refreshing to see
children being encouraged to make
decisions, and explore their own ideas
to develop their own understanding,"
the actress said in a statement.

Neetus petition to

Bhansali's perfectionism
made 'Ram Leela' tough movie

make martial arts compulsory for girls

n the wake of the

recent gangrape of a
22-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai, actress
Neetu Chandra has filed an
online petition asking the
Government of India to make
martial arts training compulsory for girls from classes 4 to
12. Neetu is a 4th Dan black
belt in Taekwondo and has
represented India at the Asian
level twice. The actress, who
is supported by an NGO in

this cause, asserts that martial

arts training will "give our girls
self-confidence, a sense of
security and the willpower to
fight back instead of surrendering meekly when shown a
knife or a gun." The petition
states, "It might not train them
to use a gun or carry a knife,
but it will certainly give them
the voice to scream, teeth to
bite and limbs to pack a punch
on the face of her tormentor,
and bounce back when he is

Ranbir Kapoor

Deepika

trying to force himself on her."

She adds, "It's time we unite
to affect a change in people's
mindset and get the authorities to act seriously."

eepika Padukone terms

'Ram Leela' a very tough
film, saying that director
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is such a
perfectionist that he doesn't settle for anything less that what he
has in mind. This is her first film
with Bhansali, known for making
hits like Hum Dil De Chuke
Sanam and Devdas. He also
went behind the camera for
Saawariya and Guzaarish, but
they failed to appeal to the audiences. Now the director-producer is coming up with Ram Leela
with Deepika and Ranveer

lot," he added. The Rockstar

star wants to keep his love life
under wraps but says he will
share the news of his marriage. "Of course, if I get married, I will not hide it, or even
if I want to live my life like a
free bird," he said. "I have
realised that as much as I
can, I should hide my personal life and save it and not
make my life a reality show. I
will try my best," he added.
When asked if this was the
lesson he had learnt from his
previous relationship with
Deepika Padukone, he replied:
"Yes." "The last time when I
was in a relationship, I used to
talk about it, but the spotlight
gets to your personal life,"
said the actor. "Wherever
you go people ask the same
question. At times it gets
difficult. You work so much
on a film and people only want
to know about your personal
life. I feel bad that they
don't talk about your work, but
it's part of my job," he said.

Singh in the lead roles. "It has

not been easy, it has been
really mentally, physically, and
emotionally demanding film,"
said the 28-year-old, who spent
over a year on the project, in
an interview. "The fact that he
is a perfectionist, he doesn't
let go of anything. He looks at
things a certain way and it has to
be more or less that way.

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First Hindu elected representative key note Hindu American

Foundation 10thGala Dinner at ICC for peaceful co-existence
nEws FroM pAGE-1
n
Saturdays
keynote
address, Congresswoman
Gabbard, the first Hindu
American elected to Congress,
described her journey as a public servant and military veteran,
and the inspiration and solace
she drew from the Bhagavada
Gita and her Hindu faith. She
further spoke about the Syria
crisis and her leading role as an
outspoken critic of military
strikes against the Assad
regime.
Congresswoman Gabbards
inspiring story captures the
imagination of all Hindu
Americans, whether young or

old, said Anju Sharma, an HAF

volunteer and coordinator for
the event. She instills a sense
of pride in the community and
serves as a role model for
young Hindus across the
nation.
Attended by several local
and state elected officials, community leaders, and high-profile
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs,
the
event
marked
the
Foundations largest and most
successful Gala Dinner to date.
The program celebrated HAFs
10th Anniversary and a decade
of advocacy on behalf of the
Hindu American community,
including highlights of its human

rights and policy work, textbook

reform initiative, and the Take
Back Yoga project.
In
addition
to
Congresswoman Gabbard, the
event featured guest speakers
Congressman Mike Honda (CA17),
Congressman
Eric
Swalwell
(CA-15),
and
Congressional Candidate Ro
Khanna.
California State
Senate Majority Leader Ellen M.
Corbett was also honored with
the Foundations Friend of the
Community award for her
authorship and successful passage of Senate Concurrent
Resolution 32, designating
October 2013 as California

Hindu American Awareness &

Appreciation Month.
Moreover, HAF was presented with several commemorative
resolutions to mark the occasion, including from State
Senate Majority Leader Corbett
and Dave Cortese on behalf of
the Santa Clara County Board
of Supervisors, among others.
Similarly, earlier in the week,
Congressman Swalwell recognized HAF's work with a statement on the floor of the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Finally, the event featured
two of HAFs Capitol Hill Interns
and current students at the
University of California at

Berkeley, Tejas Dave and Rupa

Subramaniam, and culminated
with a passionate speech by
Jay
Kansara,
HAFs
Washington,
D.C.
based
Associate
Director
for
Government Outreach.
While the evening acknowledged HAFs milestones and
achievements, it was more
importantly a celebration of the
Hindu American community and
how far it is has come over the
past decade, said Kansara. It
was truly special to see so many
elected officials and interfaith
leaders present to recognize the
Foundation and the community
as a whole.

Ganpati Bappa Morya!... ViSarJan in inDia

Large crowds at Bombays beaches for Ganpati Visarjan

Muslims take part in Ganesh Chaturthi procession in Ahmedabad.

Devotees carry the statue of Hindu god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, to a place of worship on the first day of Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai. (lEFT) Army soldiers carrying an
idol of Lord Ganesh to their batalianon on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi in Patiala. An artist stands near Ganesh idols for sale on the first day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in New Delhi.

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Global Scholars Call for End to Afghan War WJ Approves Law

KABUL - A daylong international conference on Islam

and Peace, featuring noted
religious scholars from 24
Muslim countries, began in
Kabul on Tuesday.
Afghan officials urged participants of the event -- a joint
initiative of the Afghanistan
Ulema Council and the High
Peace Council (HPC) -- to
break their silence on the situation in the country.
Scholars from Egypt, India,
Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait,
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,
Tajikistan,
the
US,
Kazakhstan, Turkey, Sudan,
Iran and Jordan are attending
the OIC-supported gathering.
In his address to the opening session of the conference,
HPC Chairman Salahuddin
Rabbani urged the participants to cooperate with the
Afghans in bringing peace and
stability to their country. As

Roadside
bombs kill 5 in
Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan
Provincial officials say two separate roadside bomb attacks
have killed five Afghan civilians
in the eastern and southern
parts of the country. Shafiqullah
Nang, who is spokesman for
the eastern province of Ghazni,
said three civilians died
Saturday when their minivan
was struck by a roadside bomb
as they were driving from
Dayak district to Ghazni city.

religious scholars, share your

views with us on how the
Afghans could get rid of their
suffering resulting from three
decades of conflict. The
Afghans are impatiently awaiting the return of peace and
prosperity to their homeland,
he told the participants. He
sought support from Muslim

scholars for ending the war in

Afghanistan and unrest in the
wider region. While recalling
ulemas support for the
Afghan jihad against Russian
occupation, Rabbani queried
their silence on dealing with
the countrys current situation.
HPC
member
Qazi
Mohammad Amin Wiqad

called for getting to the bottom

of Afghanistans problem
through the involvement of
religious scholars, who could
effectively spread the peace
message to the masses in line
with their religious duty.
Prominent jihadi leader Abdul
Rab Rasul Sayyaf -- in a notso-veiled reference to the
Taliban -- said the militants
were uneducated people, misguided by outsiders. There
are other people behind planning attacks in Afghanistan,
he alleged. While declaring
suicide attacks as un-Islamic,
he said the perpetrators were
unaware of the punishment
they would face for killing the
masses. Regarding the
Talibans unwillingness to
enter negotiations with the
government, the MP said: A
warring party staying away
from peace parleys is called
insurgent.

improve in the lead-up to

presidential and provincial
council elections. He
alleged some external and
internal elements did not

want the MEC to operate

and oversee illegal activities during the elections.
Kos asked the IEC to
address concerns about
the
voter
registration
process and reject nomination papers of those
having committed corruption in the past. The expert
said the MEC had asked
the IEC not to appoint
biased election staff and
make available voter registration facilitates in remote
areas.

IEC Asked to Reject Corrupt Candidates

KABUL
The
Independent Joint AntiCorruption Monitoring &
Evaluation
Committee
(MEC) on Saturday feared
insecurity could threaten
next years elections in
parts of the country and
cautioned against the
appointment of corrupt officials. Drago Kos, an international MEC member,
told a press conference in
Kabul
the
committee
hoped the security situation in troubled parts would

Remembering
War Victims
O

RAlly AgAinst
educAtion ApARtheid
pashtunist government of
Afghanistan wants to limit nonpashtuns access to high education
by regulating a new system for
national exam. Activists in
Afghanistan call this as Afghan version of education apartheid. hazara
and uzbek students are the primary
target of the new regulation.

n Monday, the government and the people of Afghanistan began a two-day

nationwide mourning in the capital and
across the country for remembering thousands of
the Afghans killed or disappeared during the
Afghan communist state in late 1970s. The
memorial being held has once again exposed the
dilemma the Afghan government faces regarding
keeping a balance between political stability and
justice. The latest release of death lists of about
5,000 people killed in 1970s by then-communist
state and the memorials being observed is also
rekindling debates in the media, civil society
organizations and the political arena of
Afghanistan over the need for seeking justice and
commitments of the Afghan government. As the
government is drumming up for public support for
the ongoing peace efforts and the long-awaited
negotiations with the insurgent groups, the
release of names of thousands of Afghan war victims by the Netherlands intelligence once more
highlighted the fact that Afghanistan needs to find
a way out for responding to the calls for justice
and establishing a legal and political ground for
addressing the war crimes occurred in the past
decades. According to Afghanistan Independent
Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), the death
list had been obtained by the International Crimes
Unit of the Netherlands National Police after it
investigated immigration and later criminal case of
an ex-interrogator of the intelligence agency of the
former communist regime in Afghanistan.

against Land Grab

KABUL - The Wolesi

Jirga (WJ), lower house of
the parliament, on Monday
unanimously approved a
draft law against usurpation of government and private lands, a major problem facing the war-torn
country.
The house commission
on monitoring government
activities submitted the
three-chapter law, having
17 articles, to the assembly for endorsement today.
Fazal Azim Zalmai
Mujaddedi, the commission head, said a key
objective was to provide
assistance to judicial
organs in wresting back
illegally grabbed lands and
preventing the seizure of
such properties in future.
Based on the proposed
law and in light of other
regulations, the government reserves the right to
charge lease on the land
and properties unlawfully
seized and fine and
imprison grabbers, he told
the house.
Mujaddedi
revealed
regional warlords and government officials had illegitimately seized more
than half a million acres of
land across the country.
The practice continues
apace, thanks to corrup-

tion in state institutions

and the absence of an
effective law in this
regard. In response to
calls for exposing the
accused, Mujaddedi said
the commission had prepared a detailed report on
land grab that would be
placed soon before the
legislators.Sher
Wali
Wardak,
the
panels
deputy head, told Pajhwok
Afghan News the report
contained
names
of
15,000 individuals who
had illegally occupied government and private properties. He claimed the
grabbers included ministers, governors, police
chiefs, senior government
officials and tribal elders.
But lawmaker Abbas
Ibrahim said the house
panel could expose land
sharks, particularly top
government officials. Only
small-time land grabbers
and low-level government
servants will be named.

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India, US agree on first deal in civil N-power

Washington. India and the
US have reached the first commercial agreement on civilian
nuclear power, five years after
a landmark deal between the
two countries was clinched.
Addressing a joint media
interaction after talks with
Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh, President Barack
Obama on Friday said the
two countries had sealed the
agreement.
"We've made enormous
progress on the issue of civilian nuclear power, and in fact,
have been able to achieve just
in the last few days an agreement on the first commercial
agreement between a US company and India on civilian

nuclear power," Obama said.

Singh and Sharif are expect-

ed to hold a meeting on the

sidelines of the UN General

UN General Assembly commences

External affairs minister Salman Khurshid and his counterparts shake hands
during a luncheon under the framework of the 68th session of the United Nations
General Assembly, at the UN headquarters in New York.

Sikh driver in US called "terrorist" by police

New York. A Sikh truck driver in the US
has alleged that traffic police in Mississippi
called him a "terrorist" and a county judge
later humiliated him by describing his turban as "that rag." Jagjeet Singh, 49, a
trucker from California, was driving
through the Mississippi State when he was
pulled over for driving with a flat tyre in
Pike County on January 16, according to
a complaint filed by the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) and United Sikhs.
Police officers called Singh a 'terrorist'
and had him arrested for declining to
remove his kirpan, a small, sacred sword
of the Sikh faith, which Singh was lawfully
wearing in accordance with his religious
beliefs. When he returned to Mississippi

for his court date in Pike County, Judge

Aubrey Rimes ordered him out of the
courtroom because he did not like his turban, calling it 'that rag'and threatened to
punish him unless he removed it, the
ACLU said in a press release.
"The officers' shameful treatment of Mr.
Singh was an abuse of their authority and
a betrayal of the public's trust that law
enforcement officials will carry out their
duties free from prejudice," said Bear
Atwood, legal director at the ACLU of
Mississippi."The fact that officers may be
unfamiliar with Sikhism or other minority
religions does not give them license to
harass and degrade members of the public who follow those faiths," Atwood said.

Assembly in New York on

Saturday, as they reach for
better relations despite heightened cross border tensions.
I look forward to the meeting with ... Nawaz Sharif even
though the expectations have
to be toned down, Singh told
reporters in the Oval Office
after the meeting. Singh told
Obama India was facing difficulties because the epicentre
of terrorist activity remains
focused in Pakistan.
Deadly skirmishes across
the border Kashmir have
jeopardised plans for the
meeting in New York, which
would come months after
peace talks again stalled
between the two neighbours.

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US police officers brand

Sikh man 'terrorist' for
failing to remove 'kirpan'
New York. A Sikh truck driver
in the US has alleged that traffic
police in Mississippi called him a
"terrorist" and a county judge later
humiliated him by describing his
turban as "that rag."
Jagjeet Singh, 49, a trucker
from California, was driving
through the Mississippi State
when he was pulled over for driving with a flat tyre in Pike County
on January 16, according to a
complaint filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and
United Sikhs. Police officers called
Singh a "terrorist" and had him
arrested for declining to remove
his kirpan, a small, sacred sword
of the Sikh faith, which Singh was
lawfully wearing in accordance
with his religious beliefs.

Defiant Obama blames

government shutdown on
GOP ideological crusade

President Obama declared defiantly Tuesday that his signature

health-care law is here to stay and
urged Republicans to abandon what
he called a right-wing ideological
crusade to derail it, saying they
have the ability to reopen the government following a shutdown that
took effect at midnight.
Appearing in the White House
Rose Garden to tout the benefits of
the Affordable Care Act, which
began enrolling millions of
Americans in new health-insurance
plans starting Tuesday, Obama
harshly accused the tea party wing
of the House GOP of trying to hold
the entire economy hostage and
demanding ransom in return for
approving a short-term budget. He
vowed that he would not give in to
reckless demands to dismantle the
health-care law.As he spoke, the
first government shutdown in 17
years began to take hold.
Thousands of government workers
cleared out of federal office buildings, Washington museums and
memorials closed, and government
Web sites including features
such as the National Zoos popular
panda cam shut down or reduced
their functionality.
For their part, Republican lawmakers sought to blame Obama and
Senate Democrats for the shutdown, using a series of floor
speeches and interviews to make
their case. House GOP leaders,

meanwhile, began pushing a new

approach Tuesday that would break
up the federal spending bills into
small pieces and move them separately over to the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M.
Reid (D-Nev.) quickly rejected the
idea. The White House, as expected,
also is not supporting the House
GOPs plan to pass three individual
continuing resolutions rather than a
regular one.
These piecemeal efforts are
not serious, and they are no way to
run a government, White House
spokeswoman Amy Brundage said
in a statement. If House
Republicans are legitimately concerned about the impacts of a shut
down which extend across government from our small businesses
to women, children and seniors
they should do their job and pass a
clean CR to reopen the government. Brundage added that Obama

would veto the individual CRs. The

president and the Senate have been
clear that they wont accept this
kind of game-playing, and if these
bills were to come to the presidents
desk, he would veto them, she
said. The Senate passed a clean
CR that would pass with majority
support in the House, and the
House Leadership should give it an
up or down vote right now. It is time
for Congress to do its job. This
Republican shutdown did not have
to happen, Obama said in the Rose
Garden, standing in front of a group
of Americans eligible to sign up for
new health-insurance plans. He said
it was strange that a political
party would make keeping people
uninsured the centerpiece of their
agenda. He also underscored what
he said was the irony that the
shutdown will not affect the healthcare law, widely known as
Obamacare, because its funding
sources are already in place.
Among those most affected, Obama
noted, were furloughed government
workers, who arrived at federal
office buildings Tuesday morning to
clean off their desks, set out-ofoffice e-mail messages and make
whatever arrangements were necessary to stay off the job indefinitely. Others, including Border Patrol
officers, prison guards and air traffic controllers, were required to
work but were told their pay may be
delayed.

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Rouhani over phone - the first highestlevel contact between two countries in
more than 30 years - signalling hope of a
rapprochement that has potential to
transform the West Asia.
In a hurriedly arranged telephone call,
Obama called Rouhani who was headed
to the airport after spending a hectic
week at the New York during which he
met a host of world leaders and gave
interviews to major US media outlets.
"Just now I spoke on the phone with
President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of

Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing

efforts to reach an agreement over Iran's
nuclear programme," Obama told reporters
at a hurriedly convened press conference. "I
reiterated to President Rouhani what I said

in New York. While there will surely be

important obstacles to moving forward and
success is by no means guaranteed, I
believe we can reach a comprehensive
solution," he said in his statement to the
press at the end of which he did not take
any question. He spoke to the Iranian
president soon after his meeting with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, wherein the
latter praised his diplomatic efforts towards
Iran and Syria. Obama said he has directed
Secretary of State John Kerry to continue
pursuing diplomatic efforts with the Iranian
government, a sign that the two countries
are serious in repairing their fractured ties
after decades of hostilities.

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Will Improve Bilateral Ties, says US

he meeting between
the prime ministers of
India and Pakistan that
was held on the sidelines of
the UN General Assembly in
New York would help the two
nuclear-armed neighbours
improve their bilateral ties,
said a US official.
"Dialogue is a positive step
forward and we'll continue to
encourage
that,"
State
Department spokesperson
Jen Psaki told reporters during the daily press conference
when asked about the meeting between the two prime
ministers.
Manmohan Singh met his
Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz
Sharif, on Sunday in a closely-watched meeting that went
along for about an hour, during which he raised the issue
of terrorism emanating from
Pakistani soil and urged
Islamabad to put in more
efforts to curb cross-border
terrorism.
Tensions
were
high
between the two countries
after a series of border incursions which left six Indian soldiers and three Pakistan soldiers killed.
"Well, we welcome any
and all high-level discussions
between Pakistan and India.
That would improve their bilateral relationship. As President
Obama said last week, we

Manmohan Singh, Nawaz Sharif

meeting a 'zero outcome meet'
New York: Meeting between Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart
Nawaz Sharif at the UNGA session was the least productive meet. Tension along the Line of Control (LoC)
dominated the talks and both leaders agreed that the
ceasefire must be restored. But experts believed that
the meeting was a zero outcome meet. There was no
eye contact and restricted smiles when the two Prime
Minister met and were an early indicator of how little
could be expected from the meeting. After hours of
discussion the key takeaway was that the ceasefire
must be restored. The meeting came just hours after
another controversy broke out over reported comments by Sharif where he allegedly called
Manmohan Singh a 'dehati aurat' (village woman).
share an interest with both
countries in seeing a peaceful
reduction of tensions on the
subcontinent, and we continue to support, strongly, efforts
by India and Pakistan to
improve all aspects of their
bilateral relations, and we
encourage further dialogue,"
said Psaki. The Barack
Obama administration has
been encouraging the two
countries to resume the
peace process along their
border.
However,
Psaki
refrained from making any
public evaluation of the results
of the talks between the two

I never called
Manmohan a 'village
woman': Sharif
ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to end a
controversy over his purported remarks
about his Indian counterpart, Pakistan
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said
that he never called Manmohan Singh a
"village woman". Sharif also denied
charges that Pakistan was sponsoring
terrorism in India, saying his country
was itself a victim of the menace.
Just a day before the two Prime
Ministers met on the margins of the UN
general assembly in New York on
Sunday, a Pakistani TV talk show host
claimed Sharif had described Singh as
a " dehati aurat" (village woman) during
an informal chat over breakfast with
journalists. The talk show host withdrew
his remarks after an Indian journalist,
who too was present at the interaction,
said Sharif had made no such remarks.
Sharif told the media in London that he
never called Singh a "village woman",
Pakistani dailies reported today. He said
he was satisfied with the outcome of his
meeting with Singh. He said external
forces were involved in terrorism inside
Pakistan and "far from being a sponsor,
Pakistan was actually a victim of a foreign-funded well organised wave of terrorism". During his meeting with US
President Barack Obama and in his
speech at the UN general assembly,
Singh had referred to Pakistan as the
"epicentre of terrorism". Sharif said he
had discussed with Singh "all important
issues", including Kashmir, sharing of
river waters, Siachen, Sir Creek and
Balochistan.

heads of states. During the

UN
General
Assembly
address Sharif insisted again
upon a UN Security Council
resolution regarding the disputed border of Kashmir, to
which the State Department
official said there has been no
change in its stance on this
issue. "Our position on
Kashmir has not changed. We
still believe the pace, scope,
and character of India and
Pakistan's
dialogue
on
Kashmir is for those two countries to determine, and we
continue to encourage dialogue," Psaki added.

Manmohan Singh, Nawaz Sharif agree

to work towards LoC ceasefire
New York/New Delhi: Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
and his Pakistani counterpart
Nawaz Sharif agreed in talks on
Sunday agreed to reduce violence
over their disputed border in
Kashmir.
Both agreed that the precondition for forward movement in the
relationship, which they both
desire, is really an improvement of
the situation on the LoC, national
security adviser Shivshankar
Menon told reporters, referring to
the Line of Control in Jammu and
Kashmir. Menon said that Singh
and Sharif, in talks on the sidelines
of the UN General Assembly, decided to task military officers to find
effective means to restore the
ceasefire.
Prime
Minister
Manmohan Singh spoke of terrorism and the need for effective
action on bringing the perpetrators
of the Mumbai attacks to book,
Menon said. Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif said that that was indeed
Pakistans intention.
The talks come after militants
raided an army base in Jammu and
Kashmir on Thursday, killing 10
people in an attack seen as aimed
at holding back reconciliation
efforts between the historic rivals.
The impression gathered by the

Indian side was that the meeting

was useful because it provided an
occasion for high level contact and
discussion on issues which are
troubling the relationship. And this
was necessary at this time. We will
now see how both sides take it forward over the next few months,
Menon said. Menon said Sharif also
promised there would be action
on punishing extremists linked to
the 2008 raid on the Indian city of
Mumbai, which killed 166 people.
Menon said the talks were
friendly, but added: As for how
useful and productive the meeting
was, I think the only proof will be in
the months to come.
Sharif, in his first talks with
Singh since sweeping to power in
May, has appealed for the two
countries to improve their historically tense relationship.
The run-up to Sundays meeting
was rocky. First came the twin terror attacks in Kashmir last week on
a police station and an Army camp,
considered the worst in a decade.
At least 10 people, including a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army,
were killed, and this came just a
day after Singh confirmed the meeting with Sharif in a departure statement as he left for the US.
Despite opposition anger over

the Kashmir attacks, Singh said he

would meet Sharif. On Sunday,
hours before the crucial meeting,
came Sharifs reported comment
that Singh, who met US President
Barack Obama on 27 September
and discussed cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan, was
behaving like a dehati aurat (rustic
woman). Sharif, who met journalists
Hamid Mir of Pakistans Geo TV
and NDTVs Barkha Dutt over
breakfast, reportedly told them that
Singh seems to have met Obama
for the purpose of complaining
about him. Later in the day,
Pakistani journalists and Dutt contradicted Mirs remarks that Sharif
had made derogatory remarks
against Singh. Mir also retracted his
statements on Twitter. On Saturday,
a tough talking Singh set the tone
for Sundays meeting in his address
to the UN General Assembly where
he did not mince words as he
described Pakistan as epicentre of
terrorism in South Asia and urged
the UN member countries to show
zero tolerance towards states sheltering, arming, training or financing
terrorists. Terrorism remains a
grave threat to security and stability
everywhere and extracts a heavy
toll of innocent lives around the
world. From Africa to Asia, we have

seen several manifestations of this

menace in the last few days alone,
Singh said in a statement.
Analysts said this underlined a
parallel between the terrorist attack
on Nairobis Westgate Mall on 21
September by the al Qaeda-linked
al Shabaab group, in which about
70 people were killed, and the twin
attacks in Kashmir last week, in
which 10 people were killed.
State-sponsored cross-border
terrorism is of particular concern to
India, also on account of the fact
that the epicentre of terrorism in our
region is located in our neighbourhood in Pakistan, Singh said in his
speech.
India accuses Pakistan of using
terrorism as a means to undermine
its rule over Kashmir that both
countries claim in full but administer
in parts.
India also blames Pakistan for
its support to Islamist groups that
have targeted India through suicide
attacks and bomb blasts, including
the November 2008 Mumbai attack
in which 10 terrorists from the
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) targeted
many locations in Mumbai. India
has also been unhappy with the
slow pace of the trial in Pakistan of
the seven detained for planning the
Mumbai attack.

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Speakers at the UNO International Peace Day Sept 21

Held at the Rebuilding Alliance Office, San Mateo

An outline by Dr. H. Koya of his presentation

BREACH OF PEACE TO BRANCH OF PEACE
Peace: an agreeable state of coexistence in human society conducing to harmony, understanding
and appreciation of common values so as not to create any conflict or disorder on earth.
Prerequisite to: Peace is prerequisite for a stable, safe and progressive society.
Breach of Peace : When there is a
fear that a breach of may be
committed, a peace officer may
arrest person(s) who pose the
threat.
human society has Been in
Breach of Peace

Cane and Able

Conflicts at various times and ages/
Moses/People Pharaoh
Tribal living/norms/traditions etc.
Family norms/domestic violence
Land disputes/ Landlord & Tenant
disputes
Nation shall rise against nation
moDern Day Breaches of Peace
Israel / Palestine
The Gulf War
Iraq War

Continuing Afghan war

Pakistan/India/Kashmir issues
Egypt upheaval
Iran
Syria on target

Peace PrefaceD in islamic law

In it are manifest Signs; it is the place of
Abraham; and whoso enters it, enters
peace. And pilgrimage to the House is a
duty which men those who can find a
way thither owe to Allah. And whoever
disbelieves,let him remember that Allah is
surely independent of all creatures.
offer of Peace fact in islam
Except those who are connected with a
people between whom and you there is a
pact, or those who come to you, while
their hearts shrink from fighting you or
fighting their own people. And if Allah had
so pleased, He would have given them
power over you, then they would have
surely fought you. So, if they keep aloof
from you and fight you not, and make you
an offer of peace, then remember that
Allah has allowed you no way of aggression against them.

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STAR AGE

October-2013

aries

March-21
to
April-20

caNcer

June-22
to
July-23

libra

September-24
to
October-22

caPricoN

December-23
to
Januar-20

The major areas of interest in the first

part of October are connected with the
highlighting of your personality and creative sides. For the romantic Aries this
means showcasing your charm and
personality and there is no doubt that
this is a period when your erotic and
emotional life can blossom. However
loved ones are under pressure at this
time and they may feel undervalued in
some way.

The new moon on October 4th

highlights dynamic changes in your
life centered on your home and
family and connected with experimental change in your career and
unavoidable facts in relationships.
In the first week of this month your
efforts to create balance are
stymied by a real need to grasp the
nettle and consider a change of
professional direction.

The month starts with a new moon in

your sign, which emphasizes a new period when you will be seeking more autonomy in relationships and in your family
life. Some circumstances you will feel like
changing, and some people you have an
everyday relationship with may want to
make some changes too. This is an
excellent time for experimentation, for
throwing off restrictions from the past and
for starting anew.
The new moon in your house of career as the
month of October starts, heralds a shakeup of
leadership, as people realize that a spirit of compromise cannot work if there are no teeth. In other
words weak leadership is eliminated at this time
and the necessity for change and reorganization is
accepted. October is in fact a fascinating month
for you, but it will require all your patience and
perseverance. What happens is that Mercury, the
planet of communication, conjoins your sign ruler
Saturn, goes retrograde around the 21st, and
goes back to conjoin Saturn again.

taurus

April-21
to
May-20

leo

July-24
to
August-23

scorPio

October-23
to
November-22

aquaries

January-21
to
February-19

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October brings an intense focus on relationships in your life working relationships, casual relationships and also the
more intimate sort. Last month there were
many tests and trials, and most of the frustrations you kept bottled up inside you.
Partners and family members may have
seemed self-centered or autocratic, but in
the second week of the month you extricate yourself from their power and try to
talk about and understand the emotional
undercurrents that are crucial for intimacy.

gemiNi

You are strongly motivated to be a listener as the month of October begins

and ever ready to compromise for the
sake of peace and harmony in most
of your everyday dealings with people, though perhaps not in your love
life. Nevertheless this attitude is really
put to the test around the new moon
on the 5th perhaps because your
patience runs out, or there are certain
situations at work that seem impossible to put up with.

virgo

The planet of communication Mercury

enters your sign as the month of
October starts, and because of retrograde motion it will be there for the
unusually long period of two months,
where it will conjoin Saturn three times.
This shows that you will be deeply
involved in untying some very complex
knots which will open the door to crucial information which will help you in a
kind of personal transformation.

Last month was characterized by a professional relationship with someone who may have
been a bit of a drain on your resources, but
this month another person may well come
along who you will be strongly involved with for
some time to come. It is an incredibly intense
period professionally when you bury yourself in
research and perhaps find all pathways
blocked at first. Only by trying time and again
can you break through the barriers to learning
and start getting creative results.

May-21
to
June-21

August-24
to
September-23

sagittarius

November-23
to
December-22

Pisces

February-20
to
March-20

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This month you embark on a campaign to pierce what is concealed or

hidden in your working life to create
better conditions for partnership, and
although it is a long process with
many obstacles and difficulties, you
will succeed. Circumstances are very
unusual indeed, not least because of
a conspiracy of silence which prevents and information being presented. This is a month when your detective abilities come to the fore, and
they are impressive.
With your sign ruler Mercury now in mysterious
Scorpio, where because of retrograde motion it
will be for a record long period of over two
months, you are powerfully motivated to dig
deep and unearth information that has been
hidden for very many years. This is very good
for your personal education, as secrets are
divulged due to your efforts, which eventually
remove a lot of obstacles in your path. The kind
of areas that will interest you now are connected with your local environment and its history,

In early October the planet of love and

pleasure, Venus, moves into your sign,
where it will be for the rest of the month.
This will evoke an outgoing and very
sociable mood in you, and you may be
fortunate enough to have a charming,
intelligent and cultured person coming
into your life, either at work or in your private life. Mars too changes sign and
makes this an extremely busy time in
your professional life.

October is an extraordinary month for digging up amazing insights and learning something new through deep study or perhaps
travel. It is as if you manage to pierce the
veil of perception through a combination of
intuition, investigation and hard study.
Whatever you learn over the next two
months is connected with the past or something historical. You may unlock the key to
some injustice. This is also a month when
partners are deeply involved in a mental
quest which is very difficult and challenging.

How To

Feng Shui
A

Your Bedroom

good feng shui bedroom

is a bedroom that
promotes a harmonious
flow of nourishing and sensual
energy. A good feng shui bedroom is a bedroom that invites
you, lures you in, excites and
calms at the same time. A good
feng shui bedroom is fun and
pleasurable to be in, either
you are there for a quick nap, a
good night sleep or to make
passionate love! To create a
good feng shui bedroom, you
can use a variety of simple,
practical feng shui tools, such as
the basic feng shui tips below :

1.

Let go of the TV, computer

or exercise equipment in
your bedroom. The good
feng shui energy in your bedroom is destroyed when these
items are present in your bedroom. Watch the Feng Shui
Bedroom Tips Video (2 min).

Open the windows often

or use a good quality airpurifier to keep the air fresh
and full of oxygen. Be mindful
of the quality of air in your
bedroom. You cannot have
good feng shui in your bedroom if the air you breathe in
is stale and full of pollutants.
Please note that plants in the
bedroom are not good feng
shui, unless your bedroom is
fairly large and the plants are
located far from the bed.

3.

Have several levels of

lighting in your bedroom,
or use a dimmer switch to adjust
the energy accordingly. Good,
appropriate lighting is very
important, as light is our # 1
nutrient and one of the strongest
manifestation of energy. Candles
are the best feng shui bedroom
lighting, but be sure to buy candles with no toxins.

Use soothing colors to

4.
achieve a good feng shui
balance in your bedroom. Feng

shui bedroom decor is a balanced decor that promotes the

best flow of energy for restorative sleep, as well as sexual
healing. Best feng shui colors for
the bedroom are considered the
so-called "skin colors", and we
know the colors of human skin
vary from pale white to rich
chocolate brown. Choose colors
within this range that will work
best for your bedroom decor.
Watch the Feng Shui Color Tips
Free Video (2 min)

Choose the images for

5.
your bedroom wisely, as
images carry powerful feng shui

energy. Best feng shui advice for

the bedroom art is to choose

images that you want to see
happening in your life. Unless
you enjoy being sad and lonely,
do not use sad and lonely
images in your bedroom.
Follow the basic feng shui
6.
guidelines for your bed,
which are: have your bed easily

approachable from both sides,

have two bedside tables (one on
each side), and, avoid having
the bed in a direct line with the
door. A "good looking" and wellbalanced bed is very important
in creating a perfect feng shui
bedroom. Good mattress, a solid
headboard and high quality
sheets from natural fibers are
also very important in creating
harmonious feng shui energy.

Keep all the bedroom

7.
doors closed at night, be it
the closet doors, the en-suite

bathroom door or the bedroom

door. This will allow for the best
and most nourishing flow of energy to strengthen your health, as
well as the health of your relationship. Keeping your bedroom
closet clean and organized will
further create a sense of peace
and calm in your bedroom.

The idea of a perfect feng

shui bedroom may bring different images to different people,
but they will all have one thing in
common - Pleasure and
Dreaming as the keywords. In a
good feng shui bedroom, every
item will reflect the clear intent
for love, healing and relaxation.

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