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Letter to Mr. ASIF ALI ZARDARI |
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Sunday, 22 April 2012 08:32 |
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To
Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
President,
President's Secretariat
Islamabad, PAKISTAN
Tel: + 92-51-9204801-9214171
Fax: + 92-51-9207458
Email:
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Sub.: Abduction of Dr. Rajesh Kumar s/o Dr. Nand Lal from Quetta.
Respected President Sir,
Greetings!!
We wish to bring to your notice a case of abduction of Dr. Rajesh Kumar, a Hindu who was abducted by unknown armed men on 13th February 2012 in broad daylight from Zargoon Road, Quetta, Pakistan. He was going back to his home after closing his clinic. His car was intercepted and he was taken to unknown place by the abductors. The abductors have demanded twenty million Pakistan rupees from his family.
His father Dr. Nand Lall is a well known social activist, a member of the Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD), and also a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Quetta chapter. Recently he was in India to attend a joint convention of the PIPFPD held in Allahabad.
First Information Report (FIR) was lodged. Up till now his whereabouts are not known.
The rising incidences of abduction for ransom have put people in Balochistan province in difficulties and especially the minority community is in a terrible condition, and we are aware that many Hindus have been kidnapped for ransom in the recent past from Balochistan and Sindh.
We appeal to you to personally look into the case of Rajesh Kumar’s abduction and take appropriate steps for the immediate recovery of Dr. Rajesh Kumar. Kindly ensure that he is not harmed during captivity. We are confident that you would take appropriate measures for the security of the other family members of Dr. Rajesh Kumar. We appeal to you to take measures to stop the kidnapping of Hindu traders.
We look forward to your intervention and help!
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
I.A. Rehman
PIPFPD, Pakistan Chapter
Tapan K Bose
PIPFPD, India Chapter |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 22 April 2012 08:45 |
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Conventions
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Monday, 02 January 2012 05:50 |
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Allahabad Declaration of the Pakistan India
Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy
(31 December 2011)
We, the delegates of the 8th Joint Convention of the Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) held in Allahabad from 29—31 December 2011, note with concern that the relationship between India and Pakistan has deteriorated since the last convention, which took place in New Delhi from 25—28 February 2005. The past seven years have seen the Mumbai terror attacks and a continuing assault on Pakistani sovereignty by NATO forces headed by the United States.
Against this backdrop, it has become incumbent on the peoples of the two countries to restore India-Pakistan friendship and revive the cooperative relationship that prevailed twelve years ago.
The Convention pledges to reinforce democracy, ensure socio-economic justice and defend the security as well as the right to life and livelihood of the peoples of the two countries. All these are under threat from the policies of the global hegemon and its accomplices in our two states who are currently wielding the levers of power.
The Convention is perturbed by the fact that hostility and suspicion continue to haunt the two peoples. The PIPFPD regrets that although it is a peoples’ forum, whose objective is to promote fraternal relations between the two countries, it has not been able to assert itself adequately.
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Press Release
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Monday, 02 January 2012 05:41 |
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JOINT INDO-PAK CONVENTION DECRIES GLOBAL HEGEMONY
Allahabad, 31 December 2011
The 8th Joint Convention of the Pakistan India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) concluded in Allahabad today while calling on the people of India and Pakistan to resist global hegemonism and support peoples’ resistance movements in a spirit of international solidarity.
The three day event comprised cultural programmes, including performances by Seema Anil Sehgal, the Gundecha brothers, Mahmood Farooqi and Nadira Babbar.
In a keynote address to the convention, Dr. Ravi Sinha of the New Socialist Initiative discussed the dangers posed by global hegemony, pliant nation states and totalitarian communities.
In another special lecture, Dr. Jean Dreze rejected the doctrine that mutually assured destruction guarantees peace.
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