Prakash Gurpurb (Birth anniversary) of the fourth Guru, Shri Guru Ram Das ji was celebrated with devotion by Sindhi sangat in Gurdwara Shri Guru Ram Das Sahib, in the city of Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan.
Shri Nanik ram, Shri Ajay kumar, Shri Kantesh kapoor, Shri Ram kumar and other keertanis recited the holy hymns from Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.
(Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’)
The hackers’ collective Anonymous has shared details of hundreds of alleged sympathisers of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) on the internet. The list of alleged sympathisers appears to detail social media profiles of people who had joined or ‘liked’ KKK-related groups on Facebook and Google+.
People usually ‘Like’ FaceBook Pages of groups, politicians, or other individuals to get updates from those pages. It does necessarily not mean that they agree with views expressed on those Pages. Same is with FaceBook Groups. If someone is a member of a facebook group, it does not mean that he/she supports views of Admins of those groups.
By clicking the ‘Like’ button of KKK related Page, one does not become ‘member’ or ‘sympathizer’ of KKK.
For example, I have ‘Liked’ FaceBook Pages of politicians of different countries. I follow a few politicians on Twitter.com as well. It does not mean that I am member of their political parties or I am their supporter or sympathizer.
So, it appears that a big part of the list of sympathisers of the Ku Klux Klan provided by the ‘Anonymous’ is bogus.
Related news: Anonymous posts Ku Klux Klan alleged sympathisers list.
“I though said farewell to him, but I did not know… (that)..
He, who left the home, took the entire home with him.”
(Translation… Poet: Nida Fazli).
October 23, 2004 to October 23, 2015… Eleven Years… It seems it just happened yesterday…
The eleventh Death Anniversary of My Father, Bhai Avtar Singh Ji…
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اس کو رخصت تو کیا تھا
مجھے معلوم نہ تھا
سارا گھر لے گیا
گھر چھوڑ کے جانے والا
(ندا فاضلی)
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ਉਸ ਕੋ ਰੁਖ਼ਸਤ ਤੋ ਕੀਆ ਥਾ, ਮੁਝੇ ਮਾਲੂਮ ਨਾ ਥਾ,
ਸਾਰਾ ਘਰ ਲੇ ਗਿਆ ਘਰ ਛੋੜ ਕੇ ਜਾਨੇ ਵਾਲਾ । (ਨਿਦਾ ਫ਼ਾਜ਼ਲੀ).
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उस को रुख़सत तो किया था, मुझे मालूम न था,
सारा घर ले गया, घर छोड़ के जाने वाला । (निदा फ़ाज़्ली)।
(Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’)
“Father, it’s me, your son,” Chae Hee-yang, 65, from the South Korea told Chae Hoon-sik, 88, from the North Korea, as they wept at their first meeting since the younger man was just a year old.
Countries are partitioned by greed of politicians. However, it is the common person, who suffers badly because of partition of his/her country. The partition of Korea is just a one example.
In 1947, Punjab and Bengal were divided by politicians. Millions of innocent people suffered in the region by India-Pakistan partition. In 1971, the same story was repeated, when Pakistan was divided and a new country Bangladesh was formed.
Only ordinary people suffered from separation of families, rapes, abductions, murders, arsons, looting etc during many such partitions. Those, who were responsible for these partitions remained safe during these massacres.
Separatism is not always the only option of our problems. Yet there are people, who are not ready to understand this. They allow themselves to be played in hands of a few selfish politicians.
(Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’)
To protect the citizens is the main duty of government of any country. If people are not safe, the government is useless.
The government in Syria failed to protect its citizens. Now they have no moral right to stay in power.
With the help of Russian armed forces, Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria can hold the power for more months or years, but it is clear that he is just a failure. He failed to protect his people. Now, he has no right to stay in the government.
Russian armed forces fighting against the Islamic State is fine, but it is the right of Syrian citizens only to decide who would rule the country. Fighting to protect a President who failed to protect his own people is not a good sign for a democracy.
In the past, we have seen that hundreds of men became suicide bombers and killed thousands of innocent people. Now, the rising numbers of female suicide bombers in Nigeria must be a cause for concern for all of us.
When we see men as well women becoming terrorists and taking lives of innocent people, we need to realise that evil ideology can so easily rob people of their ability to think rationally.
~ Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’
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Kano (Nigeria), July 31
A female suicide bomber and Boko Haram gunmen killed 16 persons in Nigeria as the commander of a new multinational force tasked with fighting the Islamists pledged today to crush the insurgency “very soon”.
Major General Iliya Abbah’s appointment in an Abuja ceremony as chief of the 8,700-strong force came as a woman bomber on a tricycle killed six persons in a busy market in Maiduguri, the largest city in Nigeria’s restive northeastern Borno state.
The jihadists also struck neighbouring Yobe state, killing at least 10 people including two women on Wednesday evening in a revenge attack against local vigilantes, a local official said.
The suicide attack was the latest in a wave of Boko Haram bombings — often by female bombers — targeting markets in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon that have killed and wounded scores in the past month. Boko Haram has kidnapped thousands of civilians, including women and children, with many either forced or indoctrinating into joining the extremists, official say.
“The attack (on the Gamboru) market happened around 6:30 am (local time) as the grocers were arriving,” said Babakura Kolo, a vigilante in Maiduguri. — AFP
Peace in Afghanistan is a distant dream. After the withdrawal of NATO forces from combat duty, Taliban fighters are becoming stronger.
Taliban fighters will continue shed blood of government forces and civilians. As if it is not enough, Taliban fighters will not hesitate to kill one another for the power.
Taliban fighters killing Taliban fighters is nothing new. And now again, amid a widening rift over succession following the previous Taliban supremo Mullah Omar’s death, Taliban fighters have started killing each other.
At least nine Taliban fighters including a senior commander were killed in a clash broke out between rival Taliban militants that took place in western Herat province of Afghanistan following a verbal clash between the militants regarding the appointment of the group’s new supreme leader.
Warmongers cannot live peacefully…
~ Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’
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Islamabad, August 3
Amid a widening rift over succession following Mullah Omar’s death, senior Taliban leaders opposed to Mullah Akhtar Mansour’s nomination as the group’s supremo have launched a parallel council, according to a media report.
The senior Taliban members, opposed to Mullah Mansour’s ascendancy, yesterday launched their parallel ‘Shura’ or council and declared themselves as the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’, the Express Tribune reported.
“A few people announced Mullah Akhtar Mansour as the new leader at a meeting where neither majority of the Shura members nor Ulema were invited,” the council said in a statement.
“They imposed Mullah Mansour’s leadership on the Islamic Emirate for vested interests,” it said.
The dissidents were quoted as saying that they would convene a meeting of the council members, Islamic scholars and national figures to elect a new chief.
Mutasim Agha Jan, the former finance minister and a close confidant of Mullah Omar, has also refused to submit to the leadership of Mullah Mansour, an official close to Mutasim told the daily.
Similarly, Mansoor Dadullah, who leads the Dadullah Front, has also refused to endorse Mullah Mansour’s election. Earlier, Mullah Omar’s family has also refused to pledge allegiance to Mullah Mansour.
Mullah Omar’s younger brother Mullah Abdullah Mannan, in an audio message recorded in the Pashto language, has demanded that a council meeting of pro-Taliban clerics and militant commanders be called to deliberate and resolve the challenge facing the group.
“Our family… has not declared allegiance to anyone amid these differences,” Manan said in the audio message.
Meanwhile, a clash broke out between the Taliban militants for the first time since the confirmation of Mullah Omar’s death.
The incident reportedly took place in western Herat province of Afghanistan today following a verbal clash between the militants regarding the appointment of the group’s new supreme leader, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported.
At least nine Taliban insurgents including a senior commander were killed during the infighting, the report said.
The militants were divided in two groups over allegiance to Mullah Mansour which led to the gun battle, it said. — PTI
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is absolutely right, when he says, “The reality is that Europe is threatened by a mass inflow of people, many tens of millions of people could come to Europe.”
“Now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this.”
“All of a sudden we will see that we are in minority in our own continent.”
However, it is clear that European leaders have no idea how to deal with escalating migrant crisis…
~ Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’
www.AmritWorld.com
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Brussels/ Budapest/Bicske/ Lisbon, September 4
European leaders, shocked by the horrifying image of a drowned Syrian child, rushed out new proposals to address the escalating migrant crisis despite deep divisions in the 28-member bloc. Hungary, however, hardened its stand, with its right-wing prime minister claiming the growing migrant crisis in Europe threatened to make Europeans a minority in their own continent after hundreds spent the night stranded on a train surrounded by police.
The heartbreaking images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi lying dead in the surf after the boat taking his family to Greece sank brought home the horror of the refugee crisis — the worst of its kind since World War II.
With tensions growing in Europe over how to handle the situation, France and Germany said they had agreed that the EU should now impose binding quotas on the numbers that member states should take in, having failed to reach such a deal in June.
“We agree that… we need binding quotas within the European Union to share the burden. That is the principle of solidarity,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters during a visit in the Swiss capital.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will next week unveil a plan for the relocation of at least 120,000 more refugees to ease the burden on frontline EU nations Greece, Italy and Hungary, a European source said.
EU president Donald Tusk also called on member states to share the resettlement of at least 100,000 refugees — far above the current agreement for 32,000.
In Britain, the Guardian newspaper reported that Prime Minister David Cameron was preparing to respond to growing pressure to accept a bigger share of refugees, by accepting thousands directly from UN camps on the border with Syria.
“Final details of the numbers, funding and planned location are being urgently thrashed out in Whitehall,” the Guardian cited government sources as saying.
Cameron earlier promised the country would fulfil its “moral responsibilities”, after having only accepted 216 Syrian refugees over the past year. He said the numbers allowed would be kept “under review”.
EU foreign ministers are set to meet in Luxembourg on on Friday to discuss the escalating crisis, after pressure for action was heightened by the images of the drowned child.
Kurdi was seen in photos in a red T-shirt, blue shorts and shoes and lying motionless on the seashore before a rescue worker picks up his limp body.
“I was holding my wife’s hand. But my children slipped through my hands. We tried to cling to the small boat, but it was deflating. It was dark and everyone was screaming,” his grieving father Abdullah Kurdi told Turkey’s Dogan news agency of the sinking. — AFP
Hungary’s Orban warns of ‘tens of millions’ of migrants
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said: “The reality is that Europe is threatened by a mass inflow of people, many tens of millions of people could come to Europe.”
Viktor Orban’s regular interview to a public radio came as hundreds of migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, woke after a night on a packed train stranded at a railway station west of Budapest, refusing to go to a nearby camp to process asylum seekers.
“Now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this,” he said.
“All of a sudden we will see that we are in minority in our own continent.”
Shouts of “No camp, freedom!” broke out; Using shaving foam, they wrote on the side of the train: “No camp. No Hungary. Freedom train.”
The migrants had wrestled with police on Thursday, some throwing themselves on the tracks insisting they be allowed to remain on the train bound for a border town near Austria.
The train had left Budapest on Thursday morning after a two-day standoff at the city’s main railway station as police barred entry to some 2,000 migrants. Hungary says they must be registered, as per European Union rules, but many refuse, fearing they will be sent back to Hungary if caught later in western and northern Europe.
Hungary has hit out at Germany, the most popular destination among the migrants, for saying it would accept asylum requests from Syria regardless of where they entered the EU.
Parliament in Budapest is expected to endorse on Friday a raft of measures to effectively seal Hungary’s southern border with Serbia to migrants, creating holding zones on the frontier where migrants will be held while their papers are processed and potentially sent back into Serbia.
“Hungary cannot ignore Schengen rules in its procedures,” said Orban, referring to Europe’s zone of passport-free travel.
“Migrants must cooperate with Hungarian authorities, with the German authorities and if Germany wants to admit Syrians, it should issue permission for them to go into Germany.” Orban said the new measures being debated by Parliament would be implemented from September 15.
“Everyone should be prepared for this: Serbia, Macedonia, the immigrants, the human traffickers. We ourselves will prepare for this, and a different era will start from September 15.”
UK to accept thousands more refugees from Syria: Cameron
Britain will take “thousands more” refugees from Syria, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday.
Cameron said Britain had already accepted around 5,000 Syrians under its existing resettlement schemes, which would continue to take in more refugees.
“Given the scale of the crisis and the suffering of people, today, I can announce that we will do more in providing resettlement for thousands more Syrian refugees,” Cameron told reporters in Lisbon after meeting his Portuguese counterpart.
Britain’s government has faced calls to take in many more refugees after broad media coverage of the image of a dead Syrian toddler washed up on a Turkish beach. — Reuters
सच अपने मानने वालों की तादाद का मुहताज नही (Hindi)
धनु दारा स्मपति सगल जिनि अपुनी करि मानि ॥
इन मै कछु संगी नही नानक साची जानि ॥५॥
(वाणी श्री गुरु तेग़ बहादुर साहिब जी)।
श्री गुरु तेग़ बहादुर साहिब जी के इस शलोक की व्याख्या इस वीडियो में की गयी है…