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Defence, Home Secys in Kashmir

KT NEWS SERVICE

SRINAGAR, Apr 2: Union home secretary, Madhukar Gupta and defence secretary, Vijay Singh arrived here today.
They are scheduled to attend a high level security meeting tomorrow morning. Besides chief minister Omar Abdullah, heads of various security and intelligence agencies and police chief will take part in the meeting, official sources said.

Gupta and Singh are here to monitor the situation in view of the Lok Sabha elections and particularly after the increase in encounters along LoC and hinterland. The incidents led to the killing of nearly two dozen militants and eight army personnel including an officer.

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Israel/US: Clinton Should Press to End Gaza Blockade
Secretary of State Silent on Collective Punishment of Civilians
April 30, 2009

(Washington, DC) – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should speak out forcefully against Israel’s blockade of Gaza as unlawful collective punishment against the civilian population, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to Clinton today. As the major political, military, and financial backer of Israel, the United States should press its ally to abide by international law, Human Rights Watch said.

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Al-Aqsa Facing "Real, Immediate” Danger
Khaled Amayreh

 
Continuing Israeli excavation threaten the foundation of the Haram al-Sharif and Al-Aqsa.

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS – Palestinians are sounding the alarm that Israel’s continuing excavation works beneath the Haram al-Sharif (Noble sanctuary) in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) is posing a "real and immediate" danger to its Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine.

"Israeli excavations and continuing digging right beneath the Haram al Sharif’s esplanade have already caused irreparable damage to the stability of Al-Aqsa Mosque’s foundations," Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement, told IslamOnline.net.

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(source: Kashmir Media Service)

In Geneva, a Kashmiri delegation urged the international community to take note of the current human rights situation in occupied Kashmir where Indian troops and police personnel were committing genocide of Kashmiris.

The delegation urged the council to hold an urgent debate on the situation and impress upon Indian to allow the United Nations special repporteurs, special representatives and working groups to visit the territory and investigate the human rights violations perpetuated by the Indian army and paramilitary troops.

Altaf Hussain Wani, while addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that besides killing over hundred thousand innocent people of all ages during the last two decades, rape, extra judicial killings, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and harassment was order of the day.

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