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...conflicting ages make prosecution a cumbersome process, and the pervasive social and cultural acceptance of poor children working in India hasn't helped. A 2006 UNICEF report showed girls between the ages of 12 and 15 are the preferred choice of domestic help in 90 percent of Indian households. Mohammad Aftab of Save the Children says child domestic labor can be curbed only by making it, "socially and culturally unacceptable...
...defence. The army, particularly during the period of General Zia ul-Haq, also engaged in systematic Islamization of the state by bringing in the Wahabi concept of Islam from Saudi Arabia and discarding the more gentle type of Islam as it had grown up and was practiced in the Indian subcontinent. It was, among other things, a determined effort to cut the historical links with India and to project Pakistan as a part of the larger Muslim world in the Middle East. Darshan Khanna, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND...
...watching the results of the Indian general election when my copy of TIME was delivered. On one side of the border Indian political leaders were gracefully accepting defeat and congratulating the winners, while their neighbors on the other side of the border were struggling. Yes, India has more problems than Pakistan but it has decided to resolve them democratically. Pakistan needs to learn from India or her days are numbered. Navin Joshi, LONDON...
...were to use all of this, I'd be facing this headline the next day, 'Glenn Beck: There are too many things we don't want on our soil ... [such as] Mexicans.' As far as the spelling-bee bit - I'd still be risking the inevitable 'Glenn Beck says Indian children grow up to be failures ... and he says it extra-racistly' headline." ((See the top 10 post-SNL careers...
...Mufti the former chief minister, says the region and its people will continue to suffer economic and personal losses in incidents unless Indian armed forces are recalled from populated areas and the laws which give them impunity are repealed. In a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, he asserted that the effort that had gone into creating a new atmosphere of peace, reconciliation and resolution in and around Indian-administered-Kashmir "seems at a real risk of going waste unless immediate retrieval is made." Ostensibly in an acknowledgement of the situation being serious enough, Indian home (interior) minister...