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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Anna Hazare & his favourite mode

Indian leader Anna Hazare on Sunday returned to his favourite mode of protest -- hunger strike. He started hunger strike in Delhi after his flop show in Mumbai three months ago, this time protesting against the "deaf and dumb" government which is "not doing anything" to protect whistleblowers fighting corruption, India media reported. Hazare, after his usual visit to Rajghat before any such protest in Delhi, came to the capital s dharna hotspot Jantar Mantar at around 11 am to loud cheers from tricolour-wielding anti-corruption supporters. He is fasting to demand justice for slain IPS officer Narendra Kumar, murdered allegedly by mining mafia in Madhya Pradesh, and a strong law to protect whistleblowers. Family members of some of the whistleblowers who were killed while fighting corruption, including that of Narendra Kumar, were also present. Before starting his fast, Hazare said many people have sacrificed their lives while fighting corruption and the government has not conducted any probe despite some incidents which happened three years ago. "Their (whistleblowers ) mothers, their children, their fathers, their wives are crying for justice. But this government has gone dumb and deaf. It is not listening to the cries of people. "There will be a big struggle. Then the government will listen. The government came up with MNREGA but these people were killed for trying to improve it," Hazare told reporters. His return to staging protests comes after the Congress performed poorly in the recent assembly polls. This will be the first hunger strike undertaken by the 74-year-old Hazare after he called off his three-day fast for a strong Lokpal Bill in Mumbai last December owing to failing health and poor response. This is the fifth time he is sitting on a fast in the past one year, of which four of them have been in Delhi.

Raped A Girl In Pakistan


An amazing incident has been revealed in Sheikhupura, Pakistan that police abducted a girl and raped her. According to details, the student of first year was returning home after attending her tuition classes at an academy near railway station when two police constables allegedly abducted her and took her to a house situated at Mandyala road and raped her. Afterwards, their three accomplices, another three policemen, raped her and all they fled from the site, leaving her alone. Magistrate of the area directed to have her medical check-up in district head quarter hospital and it was confirmed afterwards that she was raped or sexually assaulted. It is learned that the student along with her cousin was moving to her home when the police constables intercepted them and threatened that they would file fake cases against them whereas the policemen let her cousin go and took the girl to the house and raped her. The B-division police is investigating on the incident.

Female Kurdish rebel fighters killed

Officials say 15 female Kurdish rebel fighters were killed in clashes with Turkish security forces. An Interior Ministry statement Saturday said the rebels members of the Kurdistan Workers  Party, or PKK were killed in fighting that erupted in the mainly Kurdish province of Bitlis. It said a government-paid village guard, helping the Turkish security forces, was also killed. The ministry gave no other information. The death toll is believed to be the highest number of female PKK casualties killed at any one time. The PKK believed to have several units of female fighters is fighting for autonomy in Turkey s mainly Kurdish southeast. Tens of thousands of people have died since the conflict began in 1984.