Posted on 08/25/2007 9:01:49 AM PDT by Brian_Baldwin
Twin blasts rock Hyderabad, 20 dead
Reuters
Posted online: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1953 hours IST
Updated: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 2023 hours IST
Hyderabad, India, August 25: Two explosions within minutes killed at least 20 people in Hyderabad on Saturday, police said.
"At least 20 people have been killed in the two blasts within a gap of 10 minutes," a senior police officer said.
One blast was at the Lumbini amusement park where a laser show was taking place, and the officer said it could have been caused by an 'improvised explosive device'.
Seven people were killed immediately in the park explosion, and two died later in hospital.
The same police officer said another explosion at a street-side eatery was caused by a exploding gas cylinder and killed 11 people.
A total of 50 people were wounded in the two explosions.
Darn Amish again?
Do I even need to say who them, is?
Bangladesh’s HuJI behind Hyderabad blasts: Report
Press Trust Of India New Delhi, August 25, 2007 First Published: 22:44 IST(25/8/2007) Last Updated: 22:49 IST(25/8/2007)
Central security agencies on Saturday said that banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (Huji) militant outfit of Bangladesh was possibly behind the twin blast in Hyderabad in which 30 people were killed.
Sources said that there could be similarities between the explosives used in Mecca masjid blast in Hyderabad in May this year and Saturday night’s explosion.
It was suspected that Shahid and Bilal, who were the masterminds of the the Mecca masjid blast were also behind Saturday’s explosion.
Shahid is reported to be Karachi(Pakistan) and is instrumental in bringing people for arms training to Hyderabad.
CBI has already procured a red-corner notice from InterPol against Shahid.
BJP - the right wing hindu party supposedly firm on terrorism, but even it compromised when it came to terrorism as was evident in the flight highjacking case. All politicians in India are oppurtunists of the worst kind.
India doesnt need a Hindu right wing or any ideologically extremist party.
It needs a pragmatic, conservative party like the older, reaganesque GOP. One that believes in less taxes, strengthens national internal security and handles the threat of communism and Islamist terrorism firmly, in a sane, rational manner.
The closest India had to rightwing pragmatism was the Swatantrata party of Rajaji-it was the largest Non-Congress party in the 60s,before clearing that space for the likes for the Communists,Jan Sangh or assorted socialists.
Reuters headline has been changed, death total now given as 38. Can the FR headline be corrected/updated? thx.
my daughter had dinner with her two friends last night who are from this town. Noone in their family affected, thank God. But that didn’t stop them from crying.
There must be a Jew in there somewhere. </sarcasm>
What can only be said to this leftist POS article.
IT IS ALL BUSHS’ FAULT.
There were absolutely no terrorists in this world the day before GW won the election and took office. Everything is Jorge’s fault. If you listen to the left, everything was either caused by the Republicans or happened because the Republicans were in office. For example, the whole time BJ Clinton was in office, you never heard about the homeless problem in the United States. The minute a republican took office, there were millions of them. Is that like spontaneous combustion??
I am not familiar with that party but no wonder it ceased to exist in a diverse country that fancies mob rule like India.
See Sukhoi, dont you see the futility of having universal suffrage in a country like India now ?
I bet most of our illiterate countrymen could care less if even half of India gets nuked out by Islamist radicals in future. They will still continue to vote for their BJP, BSP, Congress, Communist and other such scumbag politicians who are morally corrupt by rule rather than exception. Simply because they dont even know what is happening in one part of the country.
Is it too much to ask to ONLY let those people who have the ability to absorb information and logically interpret a sequence of current events, than every john doe who is eligible to vote simply due to him being physically older than 18 yrs of age.
Most illiterate bums from the BIMARU states dont even know what happened in Hyderabad.. hell why go there, bet even those in AP wouldnt know what happened in Hyderabad. And they keep making wrong decisions that cost the lives of Indians.
& what is the alternative to universal adult suffrage??The moment one starts to think about such things,he or she starts heading towards authoritarian tendencies.If one wants to restrict voting to educated folks,then the next step would be to restrict it among religious or caste lines.This is the exact way Indian politicians think.
Indira Gandhi & her cronies were convinced that the democratic situation was too chaotic & India needed a course correction.The Emergency not only tarnished India’s image but ensured that very forces that Indira feared emerged-including the Social Justice parties of people like Lalu & Mulayam-while the Communists & the BJP all got strengthened.
About people voting-well you can only vote on the basis of what you hear in the manifesto & rallies.I have not heard one Indian politician openly talk about the need for serious fiscal reform & widening the tax net/reforming the Bureacrat/Police apparatus among other issues.So who do people vote for??Even reformers like Chandrababu Naidu use populist slogans to get around.
Democracy remains the least harmful option for India.It is maturing-one evidence for that is the the anti-incumbency factor which exists today.Nobody will vote constantly for you just because your surname is a Gandhi or if you promise a Temple or 2 in your manifesto.
No, it need not be authoritarian nor have an “elite ruling class” like in China. All I am saying is, confine voting rights to educated people ONLY.
Isnt it a matter of common sense to let only those people who can demonstrate some ability to THINK and UNDERSTAND the current political scenario of the country rather than a bunch of idiots who dont know anything about their own state, let alone their entire country.
And do you really think anti-incumbency factor could alone save India from communists and Islamists ?
Anti-incumbency factor still exists WITHIN the confines of the system which itself doesnt work properly. Status quo is atrocious.
If Indians are reactive, the only thing that could happen AT MOST is that BJP and its allies would come to power. But they are equally useless as is evident in history.
If you consider Islamist terrorism and maoist rebellion as problems to be solved... just look at our “problem solvers”.. they are representatives of the lowest and basest of the MOBs.. they will always play to their own demographic .
In response to the murder of our countrymen, our politicians will INCREASE affirmative action for muslims.
They are afraid to bring about any anti-terrorism laws fearing how the muslim votebank will react in the upcoming polls.
In brief, Indians politicians and ruling classes have made it apparent that their concept of survivability is defined by the well being of THEIR political party and THEIR people. They could as well offer the heads of 3400 people each year as HUMAN SACRIFICE to muslims, who are treated as their overlords.
The prime minister on the eve of the first anniversary of Bombay blasts refuses to even pay lip service to the victims. He further goes on record to state that MUSLIMS have the first claim on India’s resources and 20% of India’s GDP belongs to them.
His policy of “appeasing terrorists” is probably unheard of in the history of any civilization or country in the world.
Is that the kind of thinking that would even ensure the survivability of India in the next 50 years ? Honestly, I doubt if there will even be an India in the next 50 years..There is probably no country in the entire world that has devalued the lives of her own citizenry like India has.
Its not that India is filled with cold hearted barbarians and traitors.
It just has lost its way by selfish individuals who have used ideological extremities to promote their own interests rather than that of the nations. They have done their best to promote APATHY and intellectual lethargy as reasonable and viable solutions to any pressing problem facing the nation.
But anyway, it reflects poorly on 1.1 billion Indians that they cannot govern themselves properly and allow inept morons to rule over them. The illiterate masses probably dont even know the name of the prime minister of the country and cant be blamed. So, its up to us to do something. Unfortunately, its easier said than done. What we need is just ONE leader with a real desi heart, an above average brain and balls of steel.
The city police were investigating the role of terrorist organizations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well as Maoist guerrillas in the blasts. "We are yet to get clear leads, but are exploring all possible angles," a senior police official said on condition of anonymity. "We will also probe whether Maoist rebels who are active in the state, had a link with the blasts," he added. - LINK
It may not be authoritarian to confining voting to a particular group of people-but it is a significant stop on the way to authoritarianism,which will in essence undo India itself.
About India’s Muslims-fact be told that irrespective of what Governments think,they are increasingly looked upon with a level of suspicion by ordinary Indians(irrespective of religion or affiliation)-be they landlords,the Police,employers among others.That offsets a lot of what any government thinks or says.Besides,what exactly can India do about it’s Muslims???Carry them along??Cull them??Ignore them??No easy solutions there....
If you think India won’t exist in 50 years,well I guess you’re losing the plot buddy!!Point is India will chug along like an elephant-it’s unlikely it will ever run like a tiger.One reason why Indians seem to lack the level of cohesion & compassion towards fellow citizens can be found in the casteist mentality that still permeates every Indian-irrespective of his religion.Most of us have seen such biases even among the Christian settings we grew up in.So we are hardly bothered if a guy in the neighbourhood gets blown up in a cafe.Add to this,a State apparatus,which has essentially remained unchanged from the British era-which was for promoting colonial rule,not to serve a democracy.
More than balls,India needs a leader who is enlightened & sensible.50 years ago during the agitation for linguistic states,many “nationalists” were pressuring Nehru that if hindi is not impossed,India would crumble.If anything,linguistic states have kept India together.India has to progress at a pace which is in tune with it’s diversity & it’s inherent problems.
I am not denying that there are some biases among educated people as well. Of course, having such biases and some kind of prejudices are common all over the world.
But isn’t it assumed as an underlying principle of democracy that citizens ponder over a bunch of candidates based on a variety of issues affecting them, their community and their nation and then vote for a suitable candidate ?
How can an illiterate person who doesn’t even know anything about his own state, let alone his country and current events make that decision ? If Dawood Ibrahmin offers them roti, kapda aur makaan they would not flinch a second to vote for him. Or they are simply goaded on by their Caste/ religious leaders and blindly vote for whoever their neighbors or Jhopadpatti votes.
Of course, having a selective franchise system is not flawless either, since having an education doesn’t mean people would be necessarily objective in selecting the right candidate.. but an educated person could at least be trusted to have a broader perspective facilitated by his ability to absorb news and current affairs from a wide variety of media sources - TV, radio, internet and newspapers.
The uneducated one, either handicapped by poverty or lethargy or (as communists would like us to believe) society, just cannot do that.
If India ever went for selective franchise-it would be reversing a global norm.From selective to universal-which is a very bad thing.Besides if the illiterate or poor lose the right to the ballot-they will be easy prey to the usual suspects-the maoists or their ilk.Democracy is India’s safety valve to vent steam.It’s not perfect,but’s it working.Proof of that is the fact that India has survived & progressed from having a population which had 85% literacy & 80% poverty.
Citizens do ponder about the issues affecting them...the problem is that many do it having a localised perspective of the national scene.So someone from Bihar may vote for Lalu because they think that he will do a better job for the state at the Centre.
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