ISLAMABAD: The Executive Director of Kashmir Centre Washington, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai has said that changes in the global community, in general, and the United States after November 2008 election, in particular, are creating a surge of expectations among the people of Kashmir for fulfilling the international promise of self-determination. According to Kashmir Media Service, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai in a statement issued in Washington said that hundreds of petitions had been presented to the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) in Srinagar during the unprecedented peaceful protest processions in 2008. He said that the global community has the opportunity to focus its attention in setting a stage for a final settlement of the Kashmir dispute. An appointment of a special envoy on Kashmir, Dr. Fai said, as suggested by then candidate Barack Obama would go a long way to hasten the progress of peace and reconciliation in the region of South Asia.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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