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Dear Editor 6History Mail HR Giger to Twentieth Century Fox 9Editorial

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Deadlock in Israel’s Parliament 12Chautalas get 10 years in jail 13TSI Impact

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� warn pakistan strictlyTh is is in reference to Ranjit Bhushan's story “Battle station Delhi” (TSI, Jan 27). Th e recent LoC incident comes close on the heels of skirmishes in the Uri sector of Kashmir valley last year in which three civilians were killed and two soldiers' bod-ies were brutally mutilated. It is absolutely clear that Pakistan has been waging a proxy war on the borders even though there is repeated denial by the Pakistani authorities. Th ough its troops' involve-ment in fi ring indiscriminately at our sol-diers on the borders without provocation is proved beyond any reasonable doubt umpteen number of times in the past, it is unfortunate that the attitude and behav-iour of the Pakistani army remains the same. Over this backdrop, it is unfortunate and unacceptable that Pakistani troops have once again deliberately crossed the LoC and killed two Indian jawans bru-tally and beheaded one in a brazen man-ner without provocation. Th is reinforces the fact that the whole act has been well planned and executed. As such brutalities committed by Pakistani army has been coming to the fore, one fails to understand as to why the Indian government still in-sists on having cricketing relations with Pakistan when that country does not be-lieve in peaceful co-existence. However, as Pakistan has been totally violating the 2003 ceasefi re agreement with India by frequently resorting to fi ring at the border, it is high time India lodges its protest in the strongest of terms so that the sanctity of the LoC is upheld at all times by Paki-

stan and incidents of unprovoked fi ring ceases once and for all. S Ramaswamy, Secunderabad� revamp the police forceReferring to the article “Patrolling in Bul-lock Carts” (TSI, Jan 20), I would like to add that indeed the present state of police patrolling for combating against the crime is comparable to their move by bullock carts only. In any case, police travelling in bullock carts, on horsebacks or even by cycle is not a new phenomenon in the country. Way back in the 30s or even ear-lier this thing existed. But in the 21st cen-tury, when the world has advanced so much and with that the crime graph has also gone up, the police protection has been increasingly dismal. Additionally, there are other snags also which are very conspicuous in the police force. Th ese are (a) inadequate strength (b) undue political infl uence (c) physically the police person-nel appear to be weak which makes them psychologically timid (d) even the weap-ons are sometimes rusty and vintage whereas the criminals are generally equipped with advanced weaponry (e) a major chunk of police force and vehicles are engaged on various types of VIP duty and very few are available for the common people, thus such a deplorable state of po-lice duty all over the country. However, to overcome this state of policing, it is needed that the government pays adequate atten-tion to all out improvement of policing in order to inculcate a sense of confi dence among the ordinary public. Lt Col (retd) Ranjit Sinha, Kolkata

Th is refers to Arindam Chaudhuri's edi-torial “Th e Modi and secular media tus-sle...” (TSI, Jan 13). He is totally right about the English media. But one chan-nel is an exception. Th at has to be Times Now lead by Arnab Goswami which does not adhere to this view. In the newshour, all analysts take their turns to voice their opinions and each of them hate Modi. But Arnab Goswami always points out the facts and gives Narendra Modi the credit on things he has achieved. Also, I observed that Headlines Today has por-trayed Gujarat's international business convention in a negative light. Th e rea-

son was that corporate India there had praised Modi. To prove their point, they said that 20 per cent of projects in the previous summits were cancelled. Th ey said it in a negative manner. But by their own fact, 80 per cent were a success. Th at means they are running out of negative facts to throw at Modi. I so wish the Gu-jarat riots had never happened. Th en there could be nothing they could say against Modi. And he would have al-ready been declared the prime ministe-rial candidate by the NDA by now.

Rahul Mazumder, Online

GIVE CREDIT TO MODI

� choose words carefullyTh is refers to the article “Mind your lan-guage” (TSI, Jan 27). It is sad and unfor-tunate that derogatory remarks are made against women not only by the politi-cians but also the so-called spiritual lead-ers. Many times, these sexist remarks against women even get cheap. Despite knowing that they are followed by mil-lions of people, they make such irrespon-sible remarks and target women at large. It is so unfortunate that because of these people, the patriarchal mindset is rein-forced in our society again and again. Th e item numbers in the Bollywood fi lms are no less degrading to women. Being a public fi gure, particularly those who sport old school thoughts, one must choose his words very carefully. What-ever these leaders say is picked up by the media and if they are politically incor-


FROM NEGOTIATING

WITH TERRORISTS

TO ZERO TOLERANCE

On January 8, 2013, Pa-kistani soldiers illegally entered Indian territory through the Poonch

sector of Jammu & Kashmir, at-tacked an Indian patrol team and eventually killed two soldiers. Th ey went ahead and beheaded one of the soldiers too. Th is cold-blooded murder is not only inhuman but is also against the international conventions on armed confl icts. A few days thereaft er, Pakistani troops attacked two Indian army posts in the Mendhar sector of Jammu & Kashmir, followed subsequently by another series of attacks in the Krishna Ghati sector. In spite of a fl ag meeting between the defence personnel of both these nations, Pakistan violated the ceasefi re agreement and entered the Indian side of the LOC, not once but fi ve times! Against this backdrop, our Prime Minister continued to have an obsequiously soft approach and announced restrictions on the visa-on-arrival facility for Pakistani citi-zens. Furthermore, Dr Singh found it “tough to conduct business as usual with Pakistan” and also man-aged to send some nine Pakistani hockey players back to their nation!

Hilariously, every time we have been attacked by our fi nagling neighbour in the past, Indian PMs have been seen taking soft and abject approaches of suspending bus-services or train services or business-ties or hockey/cricket matches with the attacking nation. Th e animosity between India and Pakistan is not new and the recent incident is an example of the incor-rigible attitude of the latter. Going by any notion, the recent attack cannot be swept under the carpet by terming it as a mere “ceasefi re violation”; by all decrees of human-ity and national sovereignty, it qualifi es as an act of terrorism. In a parallel timeframe, even Algeria was under terrorist attack when 30 militants illegally entered Al-gerian territory, and killed around 40 people. But unlike India, the aggressive Algerian government

decided not to negotiate with the terrorists and executed a counter-strike, subsequently killing most of the militants! Today, most nations have decided not to let terrorists and militants take them to ransom and have adopted a no-negotiation policy with terrorists.

Negotiating with terrorists invar-iably means the government giving in to violence and terrorists being rewarded for activities for which they should have been incarcerated instead. Negotiating unfortunately not only provides legitimacy to ter-rorists and their extortionist meth-ods but also undermines the eff orts of those who seek political change or solutions to a particular problem in a rather peaceful way. Such ser-vile negotiations have the ability to destabilize the political system of the nation, and above all, dilute the hard work put in by international committees and nations cooperat-ing in countering terrorism at large. Moreover, this subservience pro-vides incentives for the terrorists to repeat the same course of action at a later stage and thus sets a danger-ous precedent for the society and the citizens of the nation.

A recent Massey University study, titled ‘Negotiating with ter-rorists: the cost of compliance’, found that complying with ter-rorists’ demands might encourage terror groups with a positive terror-negotiation rate elasticity of 0.72. Further the Value at Risk (VAR) analysis (of terrorist attacks and ne-gotiation eff orts in Colombia, Leba-non and Iraq) concluded that on an average, negotiating with terrorists increases the terror index. While

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“Training camps of both BJP and RSS are promoting Hindu terrorism. Whether it is Samjhauta blast or Mecca Masjid blast or Malegaon blast, they plant bombs and blame it on the minorities” SUSHIL KUMAR SHINDE, Home Minister, blaming BJP and RSS for promoting “Hindu terrorism”

“I salute everybody who took part. I wish I could also have been there, but I can’t”ALTAMAS KABIR, Chief Justice of India, on the recent protests against the Delhi gang rape case.

“I have met the prime minister ten times. I cannot do more than this. Shall I go and beat (him up)? Th en you will say I have become a ‘goonda’. Without doing anything I am (called) a ‘goonda’”MAMATA BANERJEE,West Bengal Chief Minister, expressing displeasure that no heed is being paid to her protests against fertiliser price hike.

“I didn’t invent the culture, but I didn’t try to stop the culture” LANCE ARMSTRONG, banned cyclist, on the drug culture in cycling, during his confessional interview to Oprah Winfrey

“We will show the courage to try and resolve our diff erences with other nations peacefully — not because we are naive about the dangers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear”

BARACK OBAMA, US President, during the inauguration of his second term as US President

So They Said

QADRI NOT TO CONTEST POLLS

HARRY’S BIZARRE REMARKS

ALLY RUSSIA DESERTS SYRIA

Britain’s Prince Harry caused himself much embarrass-

ment with his comparison of the war against Taliban to play-ing video games on a PlaySta-tion. Th e Taliban was quick to react to the remark, saying that Harry, third in line to the throne, “has probably devel-oped a mental problem”, which it claimed was quite similar to what many foreign soldiers face on their return from Af-ghanistan. In the course of the interview, the Prince even

Pakistani Sufi scholar and politician Tahir-ul-Qadri

has announced that neither he nor anyone from his family would be contesting the up-coming general elections in order to discourage “dynasty politics”. Qadri had recently led a massive protest from La-hore to Islamabad to demand electoral reforms in the coun-try. Th ough he has claimed that this decision is not on the basis of any legal issues, his oppo-

nents allege that he has done so to retain his Canadian citizen-ship. As per Pakistan’s laws, to contest elections in the coun-try, a candidate must let go off dual nationality. Major politi-cal parties have raised ques-tions on Qadri’s decision to not contest the polls and yet press for electoral reforms. Qadri leads the Pakistan Awami Te-hrik party and has been making confl icting statements in the recent past about contesting.

Israel’s Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu has been

left scrambling to gather num-bers to stitch together a coali-tion government aft er the par-liamentary elections in the country ended in a dramatic deadlock. Th e Benjamin-led hard-line bloc and its rivals the centre-left have won 60 seats

With the civil war in Syria gathering momentum, its key ally Russia has begun evacuating its citizens from the

country. With UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon saying that it was unlikely that the war would see a diplomatic solution, even Moscow’s confi dence in Syrian President Bashar Assad’s ability to hold on to power seems to be waning away.

each out of the 120 seats. Th e country could well witness delicate and yet complex nego-tiations to form a coalition government. However, under normal conditions, Israeli President Shimon Peres could give the fi rst call to Benjamin to form the new government as he heads the largest single list.

DEADLOCK IN ISRAEL’S PARLIAMENT

claimed that he himself had killed many from the cockpit of the Apache attack helicopter while he was deployed in Af-ghanistan during the war.

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F A R P A V I L I O N S

PROF. DR ANWAR NASIM, eminent scientist, short-

story writer and the newly-elected secretary general of the Pakistan Scientifi c Society, is credited with

ground-breaking work in botany and biochemical

genetics. He holds a distinguished position among the world-class

Pakistani scientists like Prof Salimuzzaman Siddiqui,

Prof Abdus Salam, Dr Raziuddin Siddiqui and

Dr Nazeer Ahmed. In an interview with Shahid

Husain during his visit to Karachi, Dr Nasim

maintains that Pakistan cannot make economic

progress unless the state attaches importance to

scientifi c research

“Unfortunately, my dream remains unfulfi lled”

Please tell us about your educational background and your scientifi c achievements. I completed a Masters in Botany from the Punjab Univer-sity in 1957 and bagged a gold medal. Th en I taught for two years at the Emerson College, Multan. Aft er that, I joined the Government College, Lahore, and taught Botany there until 1962. Th ereaft er, I went to the Edinburgh University, Scotland, and did a PhD in biochemical genetics in 1966. Aft er completing my doctorate, I moved to Canada and stayed there until 1989. During my career in Canada, I was simultaneously involved in research in Germany and the United States. From 1989 to 1993, I was associated with the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I was there for four years. Th en I returned to Pakistan where I worked as the executive secretary of the Pakistan Academy

of Sciences for two years, and between 1996-2011, I was the science adviser for the Organisation of Islamic Coopera-tion’s Standing Committee on Scientifi c and Technological Cooperation. Th e most recent development is that I have been elected as Secretary General of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Th is is a non-governmental organisation. I was also chairman of the Natural Commission on Biotechnol-ogy under the Science and Technology Ministry. Unfortu-nately, the commission was wrapped up by the government in 2009.

India, People’s Republic of China and other countries have made enormous progress in biotechnology and ben-efi ted immensely. Why has Pakistan lagged behind?Th is is because the policies of the government in Pakistan

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