By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT
On the midnight of 18-19 February 2007, India-Pakistan Samjhauta Express train was bombed in which 68 people were killed, including at least 42 Pakistanis who were among the victims of the Hindu terrorist attack.
A Hindu extremist Sadhu Aseemanand Swami, alias Naba Kumar Das, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had confessed that he was involved in several bombings incidents. He also claimed to have been a part of the Samjhauta Express blast.
In fact, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails in every field at the cost of other minority groups. It is even supported by Indian defense forces secretly. This could be judged from the incident, when on April 6, 2008 in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigation proved that these militants were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested a serving Lt. Col. Srikant Purohi
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Covid-19: UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access
AP/United Nations Filed on February 18, 2021
A healthcare worker receives Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at the American University Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon. AP
Antonio Guterres says 10 countries have administered 75 per cent of all vaccinations while 130 countries haven t received a single dose
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticised the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75 per cent of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in every nation vaccinated as soon as possible.
The UN chief told a high-level meeting of the Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine and declared that “at this critical moment, vaccine equity is the biggest moral test before the global community.”
Antonio Guterres sharply criticises “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, as 10 countries have administered 75 per cent of all vaccinations.