WikiLeaks revelations blur policy India (Los Angeles Times)

Escape U.S. diplomatic cables sparked a political battle in India, putting the party in power on the defensive with their revelations about violations of the rights of man and religious extremism.

More damaging to the Party Congress was a first political family descendant reports the India Rahul Gandhi, cable and pegged by many as the next Prime Minister of the nation, said US Ambassador India Hindu extremist groups could be a bigger threat in the Pakistan-based Islamic militants country last year.

Given felt deep mistrust here among others for Pakistan and national attacks in recent years by Muslim and Hindu extremists as, opponents of the party seized the comments published by WikiLeaks Web site.

"I've been asked for long now [how] everyone thinks is a terrorist, State and yet they still the country back" Narendra Modi, a controversial with the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party leader said Saturday, calling Gandhi comments "irresponsible."

"Yesterday, after cables were, he [is] clearly giving inspiration to the United States talk about pro-Pakistan," said Modi, Minister head of the State of Gujarat, who was accused of tacit support of anti-Muslim riots there in 2002.

Communications are also likely to other notch the reputation of 125 years Party Congress, which was struck by a series of corruption and scandals, influence traffic leading up to charges that his leadership was adrift.

A second cable retrieved in the Britain's Guardian newspaper disclosure made a presentation of 2005 by the International Committee of the Red Cross for then-U.s. Ambassador David Mulford on the use of torture in the Indian portion of Kashmir. Torture is illegal in India.

The presentation was based on 177 visits by the Red Cross for the detention centres in Kashmir between 2002 and 2004 involving 1,500 prisoner interviews, cited beatings, electrocution, assault sexual on prisoners, grinding of the muscles and other abuse.

Cashmere, divided between the India and Pakistan is a flashpoint between the two countries and has been the cause of two of the three concerned neighbouring nuclear wars since partition in 1947.

In the presentation, the Red Cross has reportedly expressed its concern that Indian Government had not tried to halt current "abuse" of prisoners in Kashmir.

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, top elected official of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, said last week that the Government has a policy of zero tolerance towards torture, adding that the alleged violations occurred before, he was elected.

Others said that leaks have stressed the need for a new approach in the troubled region of Kashmir.

"Leaks have defended our stand on systematic torture in prisons in Kashmir," Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Chairman of the Group umbrella Hurriyat moderate in Jammu and Kashmir, told journalists. "It is regrettable that United States America was now an intentional on the situation in Kashmir human rights silence while he spoke about human rights in Burma, and other countries."

But the cable 2005 also indicated that the situation in Kashmir was much better that he was in the 1990s to a conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 for two decades, including 100 deaths since June civilians.

Mark.Magnier@LAtimes.com

Rana anshul in The Times New Delhi Office has contributed to this report.

Ivory Coast crisis exposes the hollowness of the beautiful words of West (guardian)

Refusal of Laurent Gbagbo, stand poses challenges as symbolic than practical for the African Union. Photography: Cree Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images

Speaking of the crisis intensified in Côte d'Ivoire, the leaders of the European Union were firm. The legitimate winner of the November presidential election must be allowed to take the Office they declared their Summit in Brussels, Friday. His predecessor defeated shall be cancelled without further delay. Then, duty indeed, leaders are returned.

Unsurprisingly, Laurent Gbagbo, human fort de Côte d'Ivoire who refuses to give up power, took zero notice of non-binding applications. Futile protest of President Nicolas Sarkozy, who called the crisis in former colony "scandalous" France from United States, the economic community of West African States and the African Union have also been ignored.

More dangerously, maintains a 10 000-strong peacekeeping mission in the country, the United Nations, WIPO was summarily ordered. Ban Ki-moon insists that the United Nations, will stay put. But how some is the Secretary General the peacekeepers can contain their land?

When it comes to it, what support practice of the international community may prohibit, in Côte d'Ivoire is paralysed elected President and his supporters) really rely on if things are really bad?

Not many is the awkward response. As with past disruptions, crises West Africa have a way to expose the limits of international jurisdiction, governance and desire - and, without doubt, double standards applied to this part of the world, for example, compared to the Middle East "more strategic important."

British intervention in civil war in Sierra Leone in 2000 to save the besieged, Nigerian UN troops was rare. More typical is what has happened during climax to a threat of rebels in the capital, Monrovia Liberia's civil war, in 2003. A powerful U.S. naval Task-force remained in the offshore, commanded no steps to obtain aspirated military or political.

A recent report by said Djinnit, special representative of the United Nations for the West African highlighted governance and security challenges that are usually ignored by Western countries. He cited the case of Mauritania, Niger, where a military Commission ruling dissolved the Government and seized the President earlier this year, Guinea and Togo. In all these States Djinnit said, most international commitment needed to survive democratic governance.

Contempt opened Gbagbo has therefore challenges as symbolic practices. African Union and others will seek to intervene by force if he refuses to back? So far, only to the Kenya has openly advocated a military action. But Prime Minister Raila Odinga, admits the AU 'lacks teeth', a harshly obvious truth, for example, in Somalia.

Past performance, the United States and NATO will be clear. European Union, despite his strong words and its vaunted rapid reaction force has apparently little appetite for a company in West Africa. Which, in theory, leaves the former colonial power, France.

But the French policy has changed since the 1980s and 1990s Francophonie interventionist. As Great Britain, the focus is now on the business and trade. Power of Paris has dwindled. For the moment this crisis, Sarkozy led clear talk of military action, only threatening sanctions and moral disapproval.

Which is likely to change, but only if, as during the civil war 2002-3, the French community of 15,000 men in Côte d'Ivoire and substantial investments of 600 French companies doing business there appear directly threatened. With 900 soldiers in the country and doing nothing, is an embarrassment. Empêtré become a civil war is still less edifying perspective.

The bottom line is now that the mission of the United Nations is facing a crisis in Côte d'Ivoire proportions potentially dangerous and important - and it is not known to help. Worse still, it was avoidable. And even if disaster is avoided this time, sooner or later a similar upheaval happen.

It should be an international mechanism agreed, permanent, driven to discourage, manipulation and reverse chaotic spoof Africa Ivorian-style that have long plagued the people of West Africa. Without being able to back up the talk with firm action, there may be little point to speak always of good governance, democracy and the rule of law.

Bashir: Sudan North adopted Sharia (guardian)

Omar al-Bashir has been accused of deepening international isolation of the Sudan. Photo: Mohamed Nureldin Abdullah/Reuters

Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese President, said that the country would adopt an Islamic constitution if South split away from the month next referendum, in a speech today in which he also defended police shoot a woman being whipped.

"If South Sudan secedes, we'll modify the constitution and at that time, no there is no time to talk about diversity of culture and ethnicity"Bashir said partisan parade in the eastern town of Gedaref.""

He said: "Islam and Sharia [Islamic law] will be the main source of the constitution, Islam religion official and Arabic, the language ';

The main part of the southern Sudan official criticized attitude Bashir, saying that it would encourage discrimination against minorities in the mainly Muslim north and deepen the international isolation of the country.

The referendum in southern Sudan, where most follow Aboriginal beliefs and Christianity in whether it must declare independence is scheduled to start on January 9.

The vote was promised in 2005 peace agreement ended in a civil war between North and South and make a provisional constitution limiting Sharia in the North and recognized "cultural and social diversity of the Sudanese people.

Analysts expect most people to choose independence in the survey, due to last for a week. Yasser Arman, people's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Sudan said instructions Bashir to encourage law enforcement in the North. "This type of speech is preparing the ground for a police state." North, alone or with the South, is a place very various. »

Arman says radical position of Northern people led to the separation. "If she [North] continues like this will encourage other areas such as Darfur, the Nuba mountains and Eastern Sudan walk," he added, referring to areas on the periphery of the North of Sudan. "It will also result in Sudan with the worst of relations with the outside world."

The leaders of the South said that they are worried about how hundreds of thousands of people living in the North could be processed after a separation.

Arman, main challenger Bashir in the presidential elections in April, is the northern part of the SPLM. He said that his group would form a separate within the northern opposition party if the South seceded.

Bashir has also defended the police showed how tie woman sequences which appeared on YouTube. "If it is set in accordance with the Sharia law he did y no investigation.". Why some people are ashamed? It is the Sharia, "he said."

Main program member Nafie Ali Nafie said Thursday that efforts to keep the country United had failed in the first recognition of the elite North South would probably secession.

Flogging conducted under Islamic law is almost daily punishment in northern Sudan, for crimes, including alcohol and adultery.

Asantehene resumed the illegal sale of land (Ghana News) CN

New General, 19 December 2010 source: joy online

Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II reprimanded the Ghana railway company for research while company land has been sold illegally by its own staff.

It calls the society Council to investigate the issue and develop these unscrupulous persons to book.

Otumfuo speaks to members of the railway Ghana Development Authority which he called for building Manhyia in Kumasi.

The segment of the line of railway of Kumasi has been taken by private promoters who have established permanent and temporary structures.

Despite attempts in the years by the city authorities to stop these constructions, some are the buildings of the floor, the squatters have always had their way.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, Dan Martin, who said he shared the concerns of the said Otumfuo later squatters new Luv will not receive any compensation, that the authority prepares to proceed with the demolition of illegal structures.

He said all that those properties on the lands of the company have no permits, adding that any talk of compensation amounts to legitimize an illegality.

Board was in the Palace of Manhyia informing Otumfuo reorganization of rail transport and to obtain support for a demolition of illegal structures on the property of the company.

That they said, is to pave the way to a six billion dollars in the Ashanti Region Poga Ejisu region railway line is higher.

Mr. Martin said the scope of the encroachment on the track of Kumasi, will force the power to divert the parts of the line running from the metropolis because according to him, engineers had estimated that it will be more expensive to remove illegal to replace structures tracks only to the lay new.

NPC group committed to revitalize the party election 2012 (Ghana News)

New General, 19 December 2010 source: neg

Bolgatanga, 19 December, GNA - the group committed to the National Convention peoples (PNC) a group of political pressure at the end of week announced plans to revitalize the party election 2012.

The group which is described as Nkrumaists committed and dedicated, said the police, which is an offshoot of the now defunct National People's Party was the most viable option on all variants since the overthrow of the administration of Limann 31 December 1981.

Mr. Somtim Tobigo, spokesperson said in an interview with Bolgatanga Ghana news agency that: "we believe that patriotism is lost and governance has been reduced to machinations, intrigues and sometimes lies."We expect Nkrumah Limann Patriots before everything and stretch us our gun all Ghanaians especially young people and women to join us in our quest for authentic real political and economic freedom and justice. "Dr. Somtim Tobiga said that committed groups sought to bring dynamism to the part of the Ghanaian political landscape requires a viable third force to balance the political antagonism between the Democratic Congress and the Patriotic Party.

"We have a third force constantly torment two political forces to respect the principles of democratic governance focus on human centered policies and talk to ordinary people in this country."Unfortunately the current structures of minority parties are low for this vital role in our political dynamism, hence the urgent need to revitalize the police a balance between the base of power in the country. "Dr. Tobiga former Treasurer of national NPC also said concern about developments in the party who seemed to undermine internal cohesion and progress and urged the Council to intervene and to find a settlement out-of-court seniors.

"State of the part requires now the full cooperation of all members and rank."

Mr. Tobiga said that the actions of the members of the police must be used to promote unity and peace, and doesn't create disharmony.

He requested an interim Executive to put in place to oversee the restructuring of the party.

He said that current leaders have demonstrated their inability to lead the party to achieve the objective that themselves have loudly and proudly defended.

"We have observed with concern and disappointment situation of lack of effective organization and a common goal in the police."The fact is that there is a crisis of leadership of the party, which led to the affected part disastrous outcome of national elections. "Mr. Tobiga, a lawyer said:"In the coming weeks, we will organize a strategic plan a roller press conference for the revitalization of the part." »

Sachin Tendulkar becomes first drummer mark 50 centuries test (Indian Express)

It was a century that the entire nation eagerly Sachin Tendulkar and it has ensured that Indians had a "super' Sunday he completed a test against the Centurion South Africa 50th century history."

When Sachin found a gap in the region of additional coverage to push delivery of Dale Steyn for one, all thrown Stadium welcome a true legends of the game.

It is 175th test match Sachin - more by any player in the history of the game. It took him four matches test to achieve the step after scoring his 49th against Australia in October this year.

He played 197 deliveries and 258 minutes to reach the milestone. He struck 12 limits and more long-off large six with arm left spinner Paul Harris as patients. This is its seventh century in 2010.

If some Indians as Sreesanth players were observed salvation Sachin on its achievements, as skipper Graeme Smith African players Hashim Amla congratulated the maestro.

Vince Cable admits new bank fee is only a possibility (ft.com - Westminster blog)

Yesterday, we reported that David Cameron is Nick Clegg warning of new action against banks which show no bonus retained.

David Cameron has warned banks Friday they faced taxes higher if they continue to pay premiums "unjustified", adding to an increase in pressure policy and regulatory city before bonus season beginning next think Prime Minister of industry, speaking after an EU Summit Brussels European, said that the public, these payments "galling", adding: "" any decision banks are as this makes it more difficult to maintain a tax system which they could promote. ""

Says Vince Cable Andrew Marr today show this morning has continued in the same vein. But if you listened carefully to the words indicated a threat rather than an imminent punishment.

"If they behave, they do take into account their responsibilities more broad Government has an opportunity to form any taxation," said Cable.

Understand that the Government's position would be much easier - like I said Friday - if they could indicate that they want to banks, which are already lower than last year's bonus recovery position. A little less than last year? Half that figure? 10 Per cent? For the moment it is not clear.

In opposition, what must do us suggestion of Alan Johnson Bank one-time year last sampling could be made permanent? Is it credible? This is official policy work?

Johnson told Sky:

Last year we introduced a tax on the premiums of bankers; It has drawn approximately £ 3. 5bn. Person has fallen, nobody is made abroad, all sorts of things that we heard that occur. So you know there is more money to banks. Especially when consider you a fair share not as punishment; as a fair to bring the budget deficit share '. "

The advocate is that banks only remained on the Mainland was because they knew it is off. for the regularization of the royalty may change their calculations.

In the meantime, Cable is keen for banks to implement the new rules established disclosure on the book by labour - law forcing them to the list of staff how (although unnamed) received £ 1 m-plus bonuses.

In this regard, it disagrees with George Osborne, the Chancellor, who last month watered rules - as revealed in the FT George Parker. Which makes it a genuine spat at the top of the Government.

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