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Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in India on August 14th, 2012
Indian Minister Blamed for Suicide of Air Hostess
By Zaheerul Hassan
A 23 year old former Air hostess of domestic a private airline has reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself at her residence in Ashok Vihar in North-West Delhi. According to the reports late Gitika Sharma has named Haryana minister Gopal Kanda in her suicide note. The police have registered a case of abetment of suicode against the minister.
Notably, Gitika was working for MDLR Airlines which is owned by Kanda. He is the Minister of State in the Home Ministry in the Haryana government. The Chairman of the MDLR Airlines, Gopal Kanda, is also the Minister of State (MoS) in the Home Ministry in the Haryana government. The local police have booked the minister for abetment to suicide and a team has been to Mr Kanda’s home in Gurgaon. Police stated that in the note, air hostess has written, “he (Gopal Kanda) has broken my trust.”
The girls’ family too alleges that she was mentally and physically tortured by Mr Kanda. According to NDVT, “When the airline’s operation was suspended, Gopal Kanda offered her another job. She refused that offer and joined Emirates in Dubai. He then wrote a letter to Emirates stating that she had a bad character, which leads to her termination,” alleges Gaurav Sharma, her brother. He also says that when his sister returned home in 2011 she joined Mr Kanda’s company after he convinced her but she was allegedly ‘mentally tortured’. The police are now investigating these allegations. She has been even asked to establish sexual relations by the minister. Women staff of others airlines are going to launch protest against Indian minister and will go for strike till the arrest of the minister.
It is mentionable here that the trend of sexual harassment is very high in India as compare to others Asian countries. According to a survey report 24% self staff of female gender carried out suicide because sexual abuses. Even females working in Indian armed forces are not safe from sexual assaults, since number of cases have been registered that women were assaulted by their seniors or colleagues. Indian media reports females along either side of Indo-Myanmar, Indo- Bangladesh and Indo- Nepal borders are also victims of forced rapes by frustrating Indian soldiers. It is also reported that Indian Govt procuring 1,000 units of condom vending machines to promote safe practice. It is high time that over 20 senior officers (Brig or above) faced charges of corruption, moral turpitude in past 3 yrs.
Maj Gen AK Lal, dismissed after proven guilty of sexually assault a junior woman officer. In 2007 two Lt Gen SK Oahiya, Sahni, two Maj Gen and more than 50 junior officers were charged for irregularities. CBI sorted out Maj Gen Anand Kapoor for possessing disproportionate assets amounting five crore.
Maj Gen Gur Iqbal Singh Multani, found guilty in smuggling of large qty of liquor to his hometown. In Jul 09 Capt Poonam, ASC, has alleged 3 officers for mental sexual harassment. But unfortunately the same lady has been thrown out of army. In Dec 09 Brig Guredeep of 16 Corps earned millions in the name of forest fire. Now again 03 Jun 10, Engr-in-Chief Lt Gen Nanda, was asked by Indian Army chief to quit on molesting the wife of his Tech Sectary but Gen has been made clear through local type inquiry .
Incidentally ,bulk of the corruption in armed forces is because of involvement of Indian intelligence agencies RAW and CBI Both agencies extensively found engaged in blackmailing, bribing, liquor sup, drug trafficking and offering girls to attract senior officers. RAW and CBI have become the symbol of terror amongst the troops.
The graph of a survey report shows, self employed people (24 per cent) are the most vulnerable to suicide: Housewives (21 percent) are the second largest group. Suicides in married women are due to lack of love and respect at home, dowry harassment, mental torture at the hands of in-laws, abandonment and/or sexual abuse is often the cause of despair in women. On the other hand men are driven over the edge mostly because of financial and health related reasons. The report further reveals that in India the suicide rate of younger women (15-25 years) is almost identical to that of men. This is abnormally high if one goes by world trends. The report also dig out that in India the ratio starts improving in favour of women only after the age of 30, but even then, the number of Indian women killing themselves is far higher than in other parts of the world.
Farmers (15 per cent) form the next biggest group. India has seen a lot of farmer suicides in recent years. It is notable that due to poverty and unevenness of society because of poor economy, more than 25,000 farmers have killed themselves in India, mostly by consuming pesticide since the year 1997. Debt and the resulting harassment at the hands of money lenders is a major cause.
Farmers fell into debt because of a combination of high farming costs (exorbitantly priced hybrid (so-called high yielding) seeds and pesticides sold by multinationals and a lack of a good price for their produce, partly due to imports. Drought added to their woes. Irrigation was too expensive for these farmers and the state government didn’t help. This lack of interest from the state government (in the initial years) is in stark contrast to the efforts of the Gujarat government.
So what used to happen before the advent of globalisation? Well, farmers went in for low yield, low risk farming. Their crops may have failed, but they didn’t sink into debt which they could not repay…they managed to survive. It was their decision to go for high yielding crops with its resultant high cost of farming which did them in…it’s also a failure of our banking system that these poor farmers had to fall back on money lenders. Money lenders in rural areas are notorious for charging 30-40 per cent interest and then if the farmer does not pay, they make his life miserable. Threats to life and intimidation of family members are common. Murder is also not unheard of. Farmers often see no way out but to die. In Maharashtra about 1,448 farmers, mostly cotton growers, committed suicide, in 2006 alone.
Concluding, I must say that Indian government should pay heed to the actual problems of the society rather than posing glorious picture of Indian masked society. There is a need to take ruthless actions against corrupt mafia of armed forces, intelligence agencies and political elite. World associations rights should condemned ruthless brutality against women and should launch an organize campaigns for protection of women rights in India.
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Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in India on August 1st, 2012
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in India on July 30th, 2012
New Delhi: A new global survey on sexual well-being conducted by the condom manufacturer Durex shows that Indians are low on sexual satisfaction.
Achieving an orgasm is a key driver of sexual satisfaction. Just 46 per cent of Indians said that they usually have orgasm.
Moreover, the level of sexual satisfaction was half for women as compared to that of men in India. While 55 per cent Indian males achieve orgasm, only 26 per cent Indian women can say the same.
This difference in gender pretty much holds true globally, where twice as many men (64 per cent) as women regularly have orgasms.
The survey says Italians, Spaniards and Mexicans have the best sex lives, with 66 per cent of them reaching the peak, while the people of Hong Kong and China (24 per cent achieve orgasm) and the Japanese (27 per cent achieve orgasm) have the worst sex lives.
Are people sexually satisfied?
Sex worldwide could be better. Apparently, we have lost our sense of adventure, our libidos and our interest.
60 per cent of us say that sex is fun, enjoyable, and a vital part of life. However, only 44 per cent of people are fully satisfied with their sex lives.
The survey establishes that we become less satisfied with our sex lives as we get older, more so for men than women. This is partly because we tend to have sex less often and we have been in relationships for longer.
We tend to find things less exciting and more monotonous. Interestingly, having children doesn’t negatively impact upon satisfaction.
Emotional Drivers
Sexual priorities are changing. People are looking for the softer, more sophisticated side of sex — quality time with partners, romance and a sense of security within the bedroom.
Feeling close to your partner, feeling loved, respected and secure all impact strongly on our ability to achieve sexual satisfaction. Mutual respect plays a vital role in a satisfying sex life.
Eighty-two per cent of people surveyed (who are sexually satisfied) say they feel respected by our partner during sex, while 39 per cent are looking for more love and romance.
Thirty-six per cent would like more quality time alone with their partner, 31 per cent would like more fun and better communication and intimacy with their partner and 29 per cent, a higher sex drive. Thirty-seven per cent want to feel less stressed out and tired.
Having an exciting sex life is also important, although this decreases during a relationship. Those who have been in a relationship over three years tend to be less inhibited.
It’s important to try to keep your sex life as exciting as possible. Fifty-three per cent of us see the benefits of introducing a little experimentation into our sex lives
What is sexual well-being?
Sexual well-being is a balance of physical, emotional and sociological factors. It’s about protecting and nurturing the sexual health of both you and your partner, getting the most from your sex life and feeling confident and happy about yourself.
Sexual well-being is a fundamental part of human well-being and health.
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in India on July 25th, 2012
Nur Khan was a highly respected and regarded officer within the IAF before partition. Originally a product of the Royal Indian Military College (now Rashtriya Indian Military College), he was commissioned into the Indian Air Force as a Pilot Officer on 6 Jan 1941. Those were still the days when entrants were given commission on the date they reported to the IAF. He belonged to the 6th Pilots Course (PC). 6PC was unique in that it had other Muslim officers who later formed the backbone of the new PAF. There was Pilot Officer Asghar Khan, who due to his Army service had seniority, and there was M Akhtar and M M A Cheema , all of who would rise to senior positions in the PAF.
After training at the Initial Training Wing at Lahore till May 41, Nur Khan reported for flying training at the Flying Training School in Ambala, completing his flying syllabus by late November 1941. During this time he was flying types like the Westland Wapiti, Hawker Hart and Hawker Audax biplane aircraft.
His first posting after training was to No.3 Squadron at Kohat in December 1941, then equipped with Hawker Audaxes. Over the following year, he would fly proscription sorties in the Miranshah area, dropping leaflets, flying road opening sorties, occasionally undertaking punitive bombing against villages. In October 1942, he was promoted to Flying Officer, along with Asghar, Cheema and Akhtar who happened to be with the same Squadron as well.
Nur Khan stayed with 3 Squadron till mid 1943 at which point he may have been posted for Vengeance Conversion at the Operational Training Unit in Peshawar.
With Flt Cdr Henry Runganadhan
On 8th May 1944, he reported to No.7 Squadron which was at that time operating the Vultee Vengeance Dive bomber under Sqn Ldr Hem Chaudhary. Nur Khan was put in ‘B’ Flight then under the command of Flt Lt Erlic Pinto. (As a matter of interest – the other flight commander in the Squadron was none other than P C Lal, who would go on to command the IAF in 1971). Nur Khan flew his first dive bombing sorties two days later on the 10th. Over the next month Nur Khan flew several missions. However his time on the Burma Front lasted just about a month when the movement orders for 7 Squadron came through. By 12th June 1944, the Squadron found itself relocated to Charra. During this time Nur Khan took over the role of the Squadron Sports Officer. In November 1944, the Squadron converted to the Hurricane fighter bomber. Towards the end of January 1945, Nur Khan was posted to No.9 Squadron, which was then on Hurricanes on the Burma Front.
It was here that Nur Khan honed his flying skills and soon made himself quite famous, sometimes bordering on being a reckless showoff! Air Chief Marshal Idris Latif, who served in 9 Squadron remembers that Nur Khan would show off landing approaches in a Hurricane – while inverted! This involved approaching the runway for landing in inverted position, then at the right moment lower the undercarriage (which in this case would open upwards) and then do a last minute roll before flare out and touch down. Handling a Hurricane in such a regime required utmost confidence and handling skills.
One can easily deduce that Nur Khan was a flying “hog”, never losing an opportunity to fly a new type of aircraft. Even in his last years in the PAF, he ensured that he was upto speed on all new aircraft being inducted, flying such types as the F-6 and the Mirage III.
After less than six months with 9 Squadron, Nur Khan earned his promotion to Flt Lt Rank and was posted to No 4 Squadron RIAF in June 1945. No.4 Squadron was at Yelahanka flying the Spitfire VIII under the command of Sqn Ldr Boyd-Berry. No.4 soon moved to Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in early 1946. In one of the first display flights over Japan, Nur Khan led a formation of Ten Spitfires in the shape of a “4”. His stint as a Flight Commander lasted about 18 months and in November 1946, Nur Khan transferred to the HQ BCAIR (The Air component of the BCOF) as a Staff Officer in the rank of Sqn Ldr. When the Indian component of BCOF wound up in Japan, Independence was around the corner. It was a natural decision for Nur Khan to opt for the Pakistan Air Force.
The rest of his career with the PAF and his long stint with the PIA had been well chronicled, as is his role as PAF chief during the 1965 war with India. Some points however are worth recounting.
When Nur Khan took over command of the PAF in July 1965, he had but two weeks notice about the launch of Operation Gibraltar. He would say later that his staff reacted with disbelief and he was himself perturbed and shocked hearing about the plan from the Army Chief. But he went about “doing as he was told”. He got himself immersed in the business of fighting a war which had flared up as Nur Khan expected. The PAF did well in the war, enough to actually save the Pakistani Army from disaster many times. But the writing was on the wall: Pakistan was ill-equipped to fight a long term war, and Ayub Khan very wisely accepted the ceasefire when it was offered.
The relatively good performance of the PAF masked the actual truth about how close the Pakistan Army had come to running out of gas while fighting. Subsequent chest thumping and propaganda completely overshadowed any effort to take an unbiased and impartial look into how the war was conducted. Nur Khan himself would lament later that an opportunity was lost by not conducting an impartial study. He opined that many things that went wrong later on would have been avoided if there had been a serious study conducted by the Pakistanis.
Nur Khan remained PAF chief well into 1968, and would have served more if not for the transfer of power to General Yahya Khan of the Pakistan Army. Yahya imposed Martial Law and offered Nur Khan the Governorship of West Pakistan. Nur Khan bought into the theory that military rule and martial law was good for the country and took up the offer as the Deputy Martial Law Administrator. Since he could not hold two offices at the same time, Nur Khan resigned his post as the Chief of the PAF and went on to serve six months as the Governor of West Pakistan before resigning in early 1970. If it hadn’t been for the Martial law and the offer of Governorship, he may well have been the air chief during the 71 war (Going by the fact his predecessor served six years at the helm). More importantly he may have had given some sane advice that would have prevented the Pakistani Army from self imploding in 1971.
But from another perspective, it was better for Nur Khan to have retired earlier as he left public service with his stock and reputation still intact. The debacle of 1971 rendered quite a a battering to his successor Air Marshal Rahim Khan.
Perhaps the results of the 1971 war had reshaped Nur Khan’s views on the earlier conflicts. He had come to arrive at the belief that the Pakistani Army chiefs were the root of the problems that Pakistan had faced throughout. He became a strong proponent of the fact that it was Pakistan which instigated the 1965 war and India was merely defending itself (which runs contrary to the thought process of many Pakistanis). In an interview, when prodded if the conflict of 65 was a “decisive class of arms between Hinduism and Islam”, Nur Khan shot down the idea with a curt “I do not believe there were any ideological compulsions behind the war”. His recent interviews with Dawn TV (available on Youtube) re-iterate these view points again and again. One could not but wish that Nur Khan’s views percolate down to the history lessons that common Pakistani students study, which would result in less hostility between the two nations.
While I never knew Nur Khan directly, several IAF officers have expressed high opinions about him over time. Air Chief Marshal Idris Latif’s comment on his flying skills have been mentioned earlier in this column. Another officer – Air Marshal S Raghavendran, who retired as Vice Chief, recently wrote that Nur Khan was one of the two of the greatest pilots & commanders of the undivided Indian Air Force that the IAF lost to partition. The other being Asghar Khan who was also well regarded by the veterans of that time. Such respect from officers of the opposing air force does not come easy.
Jagan Pillarisetti, a well-known voice on military aviation and its history, is the co-author of The India Pakistan Air War Of 1965, a seminal work for which he was awarded a Commendation by the Chief of Air Staff in 2007. Jagan is based in the United States. He wrote this obituary exclusively for Livefist on request.
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On Air Marshal Nur Khan (1923-2011)
By Jagan Pillarisetti
Flt Lt with 4 Sqn, 1945
Jagan Pillarisetti is a historian of the Indian Air Force
Posted by Dr. Manzer Durrani in India on July 25th, 2012
The police beat a woman during an eviction drive in Raipur.
A country headed by a woman President and powerful women as chief ministers in four influential states should have been safest place in the world for women.
On the contrary, India is the fourth most dangerous place in the world for women. A Thomson Reuters Foundation global poll reveals this shocking fact. It’s an unflattering irony for a country where women make it to the top political positions – President Pratibha Patil, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, chief ministers Mayawati of Uttar Pradesh, Sheila Dikshit of Delhi, J. Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu and Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, ruling Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj. Yet there are women deprived of their basic right to be born.
The report says the country is worse than war-torn Somalia because of high instances of female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking.
It is only a little better than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Congo. The African nation is saddled with the ignominious title of “rape capital of the world”. India can, like it always does, take pride in the fact that it is a notch below its arch-rival Pakistan on the shame list. South Asia, as can be deduced from the poll, is the most dangerous region for women.
Evidently, India’s apparent economic progress finds no reflection in the status of its girl child – most of whom are even denied the right to be born.
“This survey shows that hidden dangers like lack of education or terrible access to healthcare are as deadly, if not more so, than physical dangers like rape and murder which usually grab the headlines. In the top five countries, basic human rights are systematically denied to women,” Monique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said.
The poll conducted among 213 gender experts who ranked countries on their overall perception of danger, as well as by six key categories of risks – health, sexual violence, nonsexual violence, harmful practices rooted in culture, tradition or religion, lack of access to economic resources and human trafficking.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation explained why it ranked India so low on the list. The main reasons were female foeticide, infanticide and human trafficking. In fact, it quotes the government’s own horrific statistics on trafficking. A CBI report in 2009 says 90 per cent of trafficking took place within the country and there were some three million prostitutes, of whom about 40 per cent were children.
Criticising the government’s response to prevent trafficking of women, who invariably end up in decrepit brothels, Cristi Hegranes of the Global Press Institute said: “The practice is common but lucrative so it goes untouched by government and the police.”
The report goes onto quote the US state department’s 2010 dossier on trafficking, which cites sex slavery, forced labour and forced marriage as crime against women taking place unabated in India and the other countries mentioned on the list. Worst of all, traffickers hardly get caught and punished in India.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation highlights the plight of missing girls in India, citing the UN Population Fund report. It says up to 50 million girls have gone “missing” over the past century because of female infanticide and foeticide.
Human Rights Watch’s South Asia director Meenakshi Ganguly more or less agreed with the report. “It is true that South Asians don’t, in general, value their daughters. This for instance is apparent in the dwindling gender ratio in India. Domestic violence is rampant and various forms of sexual assault often remain an untold horror that women endure,” she said.
Domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, incest, acid attacks and dowry deaths, gender experts say, are just the tip of the iceberg.
Women continue to have little say over their lives. They have practically no access to finances, land, inheritance rights, education, employment, justice, healthcare and nutrition.
Mona Mehta, leader of Oxfam’s We Can campaign against violence against women in South Asia, said: “It’s not enough to have a law. The implementation needs to be resourced well enough for it to work.”
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/india-is-fourth-most-dangerous-place-in-the-world-for-women-poll/1/141639.html
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Pakistan’s nuclear bombs are meant for defense against India only, because Pakistan learn’t the real meaning of the machinations of India after India had trained Mukhti Bahani terrorists for years on Indian soil, sent them to East Pakistan to destablise it, and failing all that India INVADED and broke of East Pakistan from Pakistan.
Half of Pakistan was lost due to machinations of India.
India’s blood thirst is very deep. While India was invading East Pakistan, India had also encouraged Russia and Afghanistan to invade West Pakistan from the Durand line to carve out, not only Bangladesh, but also Pashtoonistan from the remaining Pakistan.
Pakistan had to divide and redeploy its army to avoid the Indian-inspired-Russian/Afghan invasion at the same time.
In subsequent years India has openly threatened Pakistan again that it will cut-off Karachi, the very large metropolitan city of Pakistan, from the rest of the country. “K for K” is the expression used by the Indians meaning Karachi for Kashmir.
It is only the Pakistani nuclear bomb that has kept India at bay for the last few decades, but India’s blood thirst has not dried up.
Iran does not have any nuclear bombs.
There is a huge double-standard when it comes to Iran in the West and America and it is clear to one and all who is really behind that double standard, a country with 400 illegal nuclear bombs called Jewish Israel. It is Israel with the nuclear bombs that is threatening to bomb Iran, without nuclear bombs, on a daily basis.
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