India has secretly told the US and UK that it will wait two weeks. If "infiltration" does not significantly drop, a senior Army official says India plans a 10-day assault in Kashmir. The military action will be predominantly infantry led and intensively supported by the Air Force.

Buddhists are up in arms against attempts to project
Lord Buddha as an incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu

(May 27-June 21, 2002).

followed by a
discussion with the film-maker:

Some 200 women culled from women's organisations and groups in Mumbai
brought the unprecedented violence against Muslim women in Gujarat to
the attention of Mumbaities with a one-day protest that drew
attention to the plight of Gujarati women, like nothing else since
the violence began.

(JAC) condemn in the strongest terms possible the unprovoked police
brutality against members of the Alliance for the Repeal of
Discriminatory Laws in Islamabad on May 2nd 2002

The time for action is now, said the Army Chief, General Padmanaban, the other day but with wise moderation added that the final decision is for the nation to take.

The conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir is edging ever closer to a nuclear war.

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Last week Colombo city was host to a multi-national gathering of
highly influential and renowned women who joined together to
participate in the international conference on 'Women, Peace Building
and Constitution Making'.

The authorities in Bangladesh have banned the first film from the
country invited to be shown at Cannes, one of the world's top
international film festivals.

Police in Jharkhand have arrested a journalist working
for a top Hindi daily under an anti-terrorist law for allegedly helping
Maoist guerrillas.

Let’s force the multinationals to refund the workers of bananeras in Nicaragua

The longstanding notion many Arabs were contemplating that if the USA wanted something done, at any time in any part of the world, it would simply get it done, has apparently resisted the September 11’s events. This vision while being to some degree emphasized by the “victory” of the USA in the cold war and extensively in the contest with the ex-USSR since the collapse of the latter, as well as by the henceforth prevailing role of the US in the search for peace in the Middle East during the last decade, has also its roots anchored in the Arab mind.

...California energy crisis and Enron collapse, Congress continues to deregulate energy industry. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Wenonah Hauter, director of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project.

In the second week of May, news services around the world reported that the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) had killed over 500 Maoist "terrorists", and that the final tally of dead could reach as high as one thousand. At the same time, they also claimed that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) had ordered a unilateral ceasefire in the People's War that has been shaking this mountain kingdom for over six years.

Estimating the maximum number of casualties so far, in the event of a nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan, a US Air Force report has said about 100 million people in the region would die. A Pentagon report had earlier said that nine to 12 million people in the subcontinent would die and two to seven million suffer injuries, if a nuclear war breaks out between the two south Asian countries.

In the fight against the proliferation of GM Crops a whole industry is being forgotten the, Pharmaceutical industry. In this secret corporate world it is developing viruses that will destroy all Human and Animal Life on our Beautiful Planet. If this story does not show a direct threat to life on Earth and worthy of action, the complete destruction of such an industry. Then we are lost. Now is the time to confront the nightmare and destroy its roots....

From Sydney Australia.www.whiteknights.com.au/ How a cunning accountant swindled $1m from clients.