[van-announce] Public forum on India & Pakistan

[Hari Sharma]

Dear friends:

SANSAD is organizing an important public forum to take stock of what 
is happening in India and Pakistan, and between them, especially in 
the context of the aggressive US agenda of global domination.

Kindly announce this event through your outlet.

Many thanks.
hari sharma

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SANSAD

invites you to a Public Forum

India and Pakistan:
Fascism, Fundamentalism, and the U.S. Agenda

Sunday, August 24, 2003
1:30 p.m.
Justice Institute of BC
715 McBride Blvd., New Westminster
(corner of 8th Ave., and McBride)

India and Pakistan are at a crossroads. India has been moving rapidly 
toward fascism, with a Hindu chauvinist ideology dominating both the 
state and civil society. Genocidal violence against Muslims and 
atrocities against Christians take place without state intervention 
and even with state support, while the voices of secularism and 
minority rights are increasingly suppressed. In Pakistan a military 
regime, wearing the costume of parliamentary democracy, continues its 
attack on civil liberties, while an Islamist fundamentalism 
increasingly suppresses democratic rights and the rights of women in 
particular. Armed with nuclear weapons both countries are frequently 
on the brink of war. Yet both countries are currently caught in the 
U. S. agenda of global domination, Pakistan providing military bases, 
India performing joint military exercises, and both being solicited 
to act as America's colonial policemen in Iraq. Can this bring about 
a genuine peace on the subcontinent? Will it consolidate the regimes 
of repression?

SANSAD invites you to discuss these issues with

Ms. Teesta Setalvad, editor of Communalism Combat (published from 
Bombay) and winner of many national and international awards for 
journalism.

Mr. Tapan Bose, Secretary, South Asian Forum for Human Rights, 
Kathmandu, author of many books, and publisher of the recently 
released book, Reduced to Ashes : Insurgency and Human Rights in 
Punjab.

Dr. Bilal Hashmi,  Professor Emeritus, Eastern Washington University.
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poetry recitals by well known poets in the Indo-Pak community
K.S. Parmar Nadeem, Zahid Laeeq, Narendra Bhagi, Mohammad Rafiq, Acharya Diwedi
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SANSAD
South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy
For further information contact:
Chin Banerjee 421-6752, Nissar Dalal 431-6237, Harjap Grewal 852-8665,
Abid Pittalwala 325-5092, Abi Sharma 980-1365, Hari Sharma 420-2972

For those relying on public transport, Justice Institute of BC could 
be reached by taking Bus #154 from 22nd Street Sky Train station in 
New Westminster (Bay #3), going to Baird Sky Train Station. The same 
bus could be taken from Baird Sky Train station (Bay#6) going toward 
22nd Street Station.
	On Sundays, this Bus runs every 30 minutes. And the bus 
journey would take approximately 10-15 minutes from either direction.
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