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2005-10-31 Afghanistan-Pak-India

What cross-border terrorism? Let's celebrate survival

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Posted by john 2005-10-31 16:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The tone in the Indian press is decidely harsher. The Indian government will pay a heavy political price if it doesn't show some backbone soon.

Posted by john 2005-10-31 16:26|| 2005-10-31 16:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Backlash from the Indian public as well...

Pakistani onions get dropped like hot potatoes in Navi Mumbai

Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Sunday, October 30, 2005 22:45 IST

More than essential commodities, patriotism seems to be flooding the wholesale market in Navi Mumbai.

In protest against Saturdayâs bomb explosions by terrorist outfits in New Delhi, consumers and retailers at the Maharashtra Agriculture Farming Corporation (MAFCO) and Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) and the community at large have refused to buy onions imported from Pakistan.

âItâs a silent protest. Retailers and consumers just check the Pak variety out, but buy Indian dry onions saying they donât want either Pak or Chinese ones,â said stockist Datta Sayaji Pawale (shop no 145) at MAFCO market. Of the 19 wholesalers at MAFCO only two have bought the Pak variety from APMC commission agents. Mast, like Narayan Botre, Kamlesh Kand, and Vitthal Atkari, have not bought it because âconsumers refuse to purchase itâ.

âLook at the bombings. We donât want produce from that country,â said retailer Sakharam Shinde. He said his earlier stock of Pak onions and Chinese garlic had gone waste. Businessmen and Vashi residents Prabuddha Raje and Usha Kamath said Pakistan always made âour people cry by shielding terroristsâ.

Others like Deepak Salunke and Rajaram Gautam said Pakistani onions consumed more oil while cooking as there were not dry. âIt also weighs more,â Salunke said.

The protest has come as another jolt for importers of Pakistani onions, who have already suffered a huge loss as the variety got heavily damaged due to delay in offloading consignments owing to custom clearance at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). Besides, the onions, which were imported for Rs 14 per kg, were being sold for Rs 12 per kg.

Moreover, the onion crisis seems to have blown over, as consignments from Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, besides from Nashik, Dhule and western parts of Maharashtra are flooding the market, thus bringing down the price of the vegetable. âWhy would we need Pakistani onions now?â quipped a retailer.

Posted by john 2005-10-31 16:33|| 2005-10-31 16:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Fill in the blank test:

France is to USA as _________ is to India.

I guess Pakistan just lost itself a market.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2005-10-31 17:39|| 2005-10-31 17:39|| Front Page Top

#4
The geriatrics that rule India fondly remember their youth in Lahore and Karachi and yearn for brotherhood.

The PM Manmohan Singh was born in what is now Pakistan. Even the BJP hawk LK Advani (born in Karachi) wistfully recalls his boyhood and hopes for some economic union with Pakistan.

The youth of India have no such fondness. They know nothing of the time before partition. Pakistan to them is simply a terrorist neighbor.

A rage is building. The political system may yet throw up someone who will wage war on Pakistan.

Posted by john 2005-10-31 17:53|| 2005-10-31 17:53|| Front Page Top

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