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BNP members resign from Baluchistan Assembly
‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed in freak stingray attack
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New York to host exhibition on Sikh beliefs, ideals
Musharraf a security threat to Pak: MMA
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BNP members resign from Baluchistan Assembly
Quetta, September 4 After putting in their papers, the BNP, which has four representatives in the Assembly, said that after the killing of Baluch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, this Assembly had no meaning, and the people of Baluchistan had lost complete faith in the provincial and National Assemblies. The BNP has also decided to resign from the National Assembly. Its representative Rauf Mengal and Senator Sanaullah Baloch have put in their papers. The resignation of the BNP from both the National Assembly and the Baluchistan Provincial Assembly is being read as a further deterioration of the prevailing political situation in Pakistan, especially in Baluchistan. In another development, the leadership of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), has announced in Quetta that they are adopting a wait and watch policy to see whether Islamabad opens a political dialogue process with the Baluch leadership. If Islamabad does not do so, then the MMA, which has more than 16 members in the provincial assembly and runs the government in Baluchistan, would also seriously consider quitting the provincial Assembly. Another important player, Kachkol Ali, who heads the six-member National Party, is also on the brink of resigning from the National Assembly. "We are no longer fighting for autonomy, but for survival. The Pakistan Army has been attacking Baluchi nationalists on land and through aerial bombings since December 2005. Combat jets, helicopter gunships and artillery have been used. The military has been pounding tribal areas in gas-rich and strategically crucial Baluchistan. Hundreds have so far been killed. The military-backed government and the army is claiming a tactical victory (with the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Baloch), but this is nothing but a tactical defeat," said Akbar Baloch. He further warned that the BNP would intensify its opposition towards the Musharraf regime, as well as the movement for Baluch independence till such time as the Musharraf regime reconciled itself to the inevitability of granting self-determination rights to Baluchistan. On Sunday, the four-party Baluch Alliance announced its resignation from the National and Baluchistan Assemblies. The party has one Senator, one member in the National Assembly and two in the Baluchistan Assembly. The killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti nine days ago in the Bhambore Hills of Kohlu during a militaryu operation has reverberated throughout Pakistan. So damaging has been the impact of the killing of Bugti that the provincial head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and a district-level functionary of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) in Baluchistan have also quit their posts in protest. The resignations of various Baluch parties from the provincial and National assemblies and the Pakistan Senate is being seen as a rallying point for the Baluchistan nationalist cause, and a complete condemnation and rejection of the policies of the Musharraf regime. There is a hope that the resignations will create a domino effect, and prompt other parties into taking similar action. The BNP has been holding mass rallies across Baluchistan, including in Quetta, attended by teachers, doctors and students, as well as bearded tribesmen.
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‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed in freak stingray attack
Sydney, September 4 Irwin, 44, tangled with some of the world's most dangerous animals but he died in an extremely rare attack by a normally placid sea creature while he was diving on a reef off Port Douglas in northern Queensland. ''He came over the top of a stingray and the stingray's barb went up and went into his chest and put a hole into his heart,'' Irwin's shocked manager John Stainton told reporters in Cairns, south of Port Douglas. A helicopter rushed paramedics to nearby Low Isles where Irwin was taken for treatment, but he was dead before they arrived, emergency officials said. ''It became clear fairly soon that he had non-survivable injuries,'' Dr. Ed O'Loughlin, who treated Irwin, told Nine Network television. ''He had a penetrating injury to the left front of his chest. He had lost his pulse and wasn't breathing,'' he said.Irwin's death was likely only the third recorded fatal stingray attack in Australia, experts said. They said stingray venom was agonizingly painful but not lethal, although the barb was capable of causing horrific injuries like a knife or bayonet. ''It's not the going in, it's the coming out,'' Australian Venom Research Unit deputy director Bryan Fry told Reuters.
"They have these deep serrations which tear and render the flesh as it comes out,'' he said Known around the world for his catchphrase
"Crikey'' during close encounters with wild animals, Irwin made almost 50 documentaries which appeared on the cable TV channel Animal Planet. "I really do feel Australia has lost a wonderful and colourful son. He brought immense joy to millions of people, particularly to children, and it's just such a terrible loss,'' emotional Australian Prime Minister John Howard told reporters. British naturalist and broadcaster David Bellamy described Irwin as a great performer and an excellent natural historian. Born on February 22, 1962, in the southern Australian city of Melbourne, Irwin moved to tropical Queensland where his parents ran a small reptile and fauna park. He met his U.S.-born wife Terri at the Australia Zoo and the footage of their honeymoon -- which they spent trapping crocodiles -- formed the basis of his first
"Crocodile Hunter'' documentary. They had two children, Bindi Sue and Robert Clarence. — Reuters
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New York to host exhibition on Sikh beliefs, ideals
THE US-based Sikh Art and Film Foundation and The Sikh Foundation are jointly sponsoring “I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion”, an exhibition that brings together works of art that identify core Sikh beliefs and explores the plurality of cultural traditions reflected in both objects and the ideals.
The Sikh exhibition will be held at the prestigious Rubin Museum in New York City from September 17 this year to January 29 next year. The film festival will be held from September 17 to October 1. This is the first time an exhibition of such a magnitude is being held in north-east America. The event is possible through the support of Sikh Indian Americans in the USA and prominent Sikh Indian American people such as Mr Tejinder Bindra, Dr N.S. Kapany and others. Major exhibitions have been mounted over the past 15 years at mueums throughout the world, but until now, no exhibition has been held in New York, the most polyglot society in the USA. The
exhibition is being divided in four sections. Section A (Being Is One -Ikk Oan Kar) will deal with the life and teachings of Guru Nanak. Section B ( A Series of Torches from a Single Flame) The growth of early Sikhism will be shown in paintings of the Gurus — who, though said to be one, had eventful individual histories. Section C (The Guru Eternal: The Written Word) will exhibit a canopy and the implements surrounding the display of the book (chauri, morchaal, rumal, etc) will be installed in the gallery, and accompanied by photographs of the illuminated Bagrain Adi Grant on a monitor in the gallery near the installation. The installation will include musical instruments. Section D (The Art of Life): Works collected will reflect the skills of Sikh craftsmen and women in textiles, objects of everyday life, and metalwork.
— TNS
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Musharraf a security threat to Pak: MMA
Lahore, September 4 Addressing a workers convention of MMA at Murree, Hafiz said Musharraf had only a status of a 22-grade government employee and had violated the Constitution of Pakistan. He said due to Musharraf government's controversial policies, Baluchistan was going towards disintegration. Analysts in Pakistan have expressed fears that the general belief among the Balochis that the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti's was orchestrated by the Punjabi military establishment, would further widen the gap between the Baluchis and the Punjabis. He said the federal government's act of not handing the body of Nawab Bugti over to his legal heirs was a violation of Shariah, reports The News. Jamil Bugti, Nawab Bugti's son had said the manner in which he was buried was appalling.
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