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Damdami Taksal (Ajnala) Call for Punjab Bandh on Jan 10
AMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab— Bhai Ajnala appealed to the whole Sikh nation to ensure a
successful Punjab shutdown in protest
against the Indian Government’s policy of violating the human rights of Sikhs in India by
keeping Sikh detainees behind bars
illegitimately. Bhai Ajnala said that all the
justice lovers should show solidarity with the
struggle of Sikhs on humanitarian grounds.
He said that the State and Central Government should stop politics over Sikh issues.
“Punjab shutdown is just a little attempt to
awake the sleeping governments,” he
added. Damdami Taksal (Ajnala) has given
a call for Punjab Bandh (shutdown) on 10th
January for the permanent release of Sikh
political prisoners languishing in various jails
of India. In a press release issued here,
Damdami Taksal (Ajnala) chief Bhai Amrik
Singh Ajnala said that the rights of Sikhs are
being assaulted by the Indian Government.
Sikh political prisoners, who have completed
their life sentences, are still languishing in
different jails of India.
Sukhbir asks Rajnath to release Sikh detainees
Sikh Youth Federation Bhindranwala
Conducts Awareness March in Favour
of Bhai Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa
New Delhi- Punjab Deputy Chief Minister
Sukhbir Badal today targeted the BJP-led
Central Government by questioning the release of terror convicts in the past, including
those in Punjab and the North-East, and
BJP’s relationship with a separatist leader
of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sukhbir, along with senior party
leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Avtar Singh Makkar,
met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
this morning to seek the release of Sikh
detainees who have completed their
mandated sentence in prison and are eligible for release under the premature
release policy. Rajnath is learnt to have
assured the delegation of looking into
the cases from the legal angle.
Sukhbir later told The Tribune that
the Congress had in the past suggested
names of terror convicts and got them released.
“I am referring to Wassan Singh Zaffarwal and Dr Sohan Singh. How were they
released?” he said. Zaffarwal and Dr Sohan
Singh, a former doctor with the Punjab Government, have been associated with the
Khalistan movement.
“Look at the case of ULFA (a NorthEast insurgent group). Their men are free to
roam about,” he said.
Sukhbir also cited the case of
Jammu and Kashmir separatist leader Sajjad
Lone, who is now a “partner of the BJP”.
“There are more cases in J&K where prisoners have been released or allowed amnesty.
Why this discrimination against the Sikhs?”
he said.
The same yardstick has been used
by the Centre to free some convicts earlier,
he said. “We feel this stand (of seeking release of prisoners) is in consonance with the
reformatory approach in the furtherance of
the criminal justice system,” a statement of
the Punjab Government said tonight.
Sukhbir Badal, who is president of
the Shiromani Akali Dal, said: “My party is
only endorsing the sentiments of the Punjabis and no one should try to label it as an
anti-national party.” Sukhbir’s wife Harsimrat
Kaur Badal is a minister in the Narendra
Modi government.
Badal also took up the case of 13
terror convicts who are languishing in various state jails, including those in Uttar
Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka and Gujarat, besides Chandigarh.
The Punjab Government press note
this evening, however, did not mention
if Badal had requested for release of
such detainees in Delhi. Two of Beant
Singh’s assassins Jagtar Singh Hawara
and Paramjit Singh Bheora are lodged in
Delhi.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh
Badal had earlier sent a request to the
Centre seeking “premature release” for
13 prisoners, but it was rejected by the
Ministry of Home Affairs two days ago. Since
these 13 were not in Punjab jails, the state
could not move their cases for premature release.
In the case of 182 life convicts in
Punjab, who are eligible for release under
the premature release policy, the government cannot exercise the power of remission
following a restraining order passed by the
Supreme Court in July 2014. Sukhbir reiterated what Punjab Director General of Police
Sumedh Singh Saini had said in Chandigarh
yesterday: “We have decided to move an application before the Supreme Court to allow
it to exercise the premature release policy.”
AMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab—Sikh Youth
Federation Bhindranwala conducted an
awareness march on foot for raising aware-
ness about the struggle of Bhai Gurbaksh
Singh Khalsa. The march started from village Meerankot and was concluded at Hall
Gate Amritsar following Court Road. The
organizations gave a memorandum to DC
demanding the release of Sikh detainees.
President of Sikh Youth Federation
Bhindranwala Bhai Balwant Singh Gopala
said that if Bhai Gurbaksh Singh becomes
a martyr, the conditions of Punjab will become uncontrollable. So, the government
should take initiative to ensure the permanent release of Sikh detainees.
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PG 8
Bhai Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa Stopped by Police Near Ambala Jathedar of Akal Takhat Sahib Appeals Sikhs to Unite
to Ensure Permanent Release of Sikh Detainees
AMBALA, Haryana— Poilce today stopped Bhai
Gurbaksh Singh, who was initiate a march to
Sri Darbar Sahib Sri Amritsar. As his “last will”
Bhai Khalsa had announced his programme to
march to Amritsar and pay obeisance at Sri
Darbar Sahib.
Confusion and uncertainty has persisted since this morning as the as police of
both Haryana and Punjab had made all
arrangements to foil this march. This morning,
doctors had examined Bhai Khalsa and held
that his health condition did not allow him to
march to Amritsar, but upon the order of Panj
Pyare he decided to implement his own
decision. However, he and all Sikh sangat
were halted near Ambala.
Heavy police force was deployed on Delhi-Am-
ritsar road to prevent the march. A detailed report of
this march will be published soon.
State DGP's briefing questioned
Hoshiarpur- Dal Khalsa today asked Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh
Badal, who holds the Home portfolio, to explain why it
had "authorised" the state police chief to speak on their
behalf on the issue of Sikh detainees.
"Is Punjab a police state or do they lack the confidence to speak on the issue," asked party chief HS
Dhami and spokesperson Kanwar Pal Singh.They said
since the issue was political, it was the responsibility of
the political leadership to handle it.
The two leaders slammed the Badals for allowing the the DGP to give a policy statement on behalf of
the government.
Joining issue with the DGP that premature release was a concession and not a matter of right, they
said: "It's obvious that those at the helm of affairs decide the fate of convicts as has been done in the case
of police cat Gurmeet Singh Pinki." They condemned the
police crackdown on Sikh activists to prevent them from
mobilising support in favour of Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa.
Bhola seeks CBI probe
Mohali- Alleged drug kingpin Jagdish Singh Bhola has
demanded a CBI probe into the drug trafficking case.
Bhola appeared in the court of Additional District and
Sessions Judge (Senior Division ) Parminder Pal Singh
here today. After the court hearing, he told mediapersons that he had been falsely implicated in the drug
case. He claimed that during the police anti-drug campaign, no drugs were recovered from him.
“I am prepared to be hanged if proved in court
that I was found with even 1 gm of drugs,” he said. The
police whisked him away before he could speak further
on the issue. The next date of hearing is January 19.
Bhola and the other accused, except for Sarabjit Singh Saba, were present for in court. Charges have
already been framed in the case. The police had arrested Bhola and others on November 11, 2013, from
Delhi and claimed to have recovered drugs worth Rs 18
crore from them. Jalandhar: After Enforcement Directorate officials sought the custodial interrogation of the
three key accused in the Bhola case from the Patiala
court, it was today given the custody of two of them
for four days. Sukhjeet Singh Sukha of Sussa village
near Bullowal in Hoshiarpur and Delhi-based Varinder
Raja were brought here in a well-guarded police vehicle
at 6 pm. The two will be confined in the ED lock-up till
Monday. They will be interrogated by Assistant Director-cum-inquiry officer Niranjan Singh and Joint Director Girish Bali. The inquiry officer has already
interrogated Sukha and Raja at the Nabha jail and the
Patiala Jail. The ED could not secure the custody of the
third accused, Amritsar-based Bittu Aulakh.
The latter was said to be close to Revenue Minister Bikram Majithia. Majithia too has been quizzed by
the ED in the case.
Sirsa Cult Impotency Case: CBI Files FIR Against Sirsa Cult Chief
NEW DELHI— Following the instructions from Punjab &
Haryana High Court, the CBI has filed an FIR against
Sirsa Cult Chief. It is notable that singular bench of Justice K. Kanan gave the decision of a CBI investigation
against Sirsa Cult Chief on the petition of former Sirsa
Cult devotee Hans Raj Chauhan. Chauhan blamed the
Sirsa Cult Chief for making him impotent along with 400
other devotees.
AMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab—
While paying homage to the
sacrifice of Shaheed Bhai Satwant Singh and Shaheed Bhai
Kehar Singh, Jathedar of Sri
Akal Takht Sahib Giani Gurbachan Singh appealed the Sikh
community to unite to ensure
the release of Sikh detainees.
While expressing deep concern
about the division among the
Sikh community, Jathedar
said that the
whole
Sikh
community is
busy in promoting trivial
issues and nobody cares for
the sacrifices
of great martyrs. Jathedar
Giani
Gurbachan Singh
was addressing Sikh sangat
after the bhog
of Sri Akhand Path Sahib at Gurdwara Jhande Bunge in Sri Harmandir Sahib complex.
Jathedar said that Shaheed Bhai Satwant Singh, Shaheed Bhai Beant Singh and
Shaheed Bhai Kehar Singh kept
the pride of the Sikh community
by punishing the former Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi, who was
responsible for the holocaust of
June, 1984. It is notable that
thousands of Sikh devotees
were slaughtered by the Indian
Armed Forces during the holocaust of June, 1984 and the
building of Sri Akal Takht Sahib
was destroyed completely by
tanks and mortars. Jathedar
Giani Gurbachan Singh rewarded the families of Bhai Satwant Singh and Bhai Kehar
Singh with siropao.
Bhai Papalpreet Singh
(General Secretary, Sikh Youth
Front) said that the issue of release of Sikh detainees is primary for the Sikh community.
He said that missionaries and
Sant Samaj should leave this
egoistic
clash
on
the
Nanakshahi Calendar for the
sake of Sikhism. He said that
the life of Bhai Gurbaksh Singh
is in danger, so it is the duty of
every Sikh to support his struggle to force the Governments to
permanently release the Sikh
detainees. He appealed the
Jathedar of Sri Akal Takht Sahib
Giani Gurbachan Singh to postpone
the
discussion
on
Nanakshahi Calendar for at
least two months, so that the
energy of the Sikh community
could be used in a positive way.
Bhai
Dhian
Singh
Mand(Shiromani Akali Dal(Amritsar)), Jathedar Baldev Singh
Sirsa(Shiromani Akali Dal(Panch
Pardhani)), Bhai Mohkam Singh
(United Akali dal), Bhai Sukhjit
Singh Khela(Sen. Vice President, Sikh Youth Front), Bhai
Gurdeep Singh Bathinda, S. Karnail Singh Peer Mohammad
(AISSF), S. Wassan Singh Jaffarwal, S. Rajeev Singh, S. Kanwarpal Singh (Dal Khalsa), S.
Jarnail Singh Sakhira, S. Harbir
Singh Sandhu, S. Satnam Singh
Kot Khalsa, S. Mukhwinder
Singh, S. Sucha Singh, S. Kashmir Singh and devotees in huge
count were present on this occasion.
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January 9th 2015
Journalism has made targets for violence in Canada
OTTAWA -- Ottawa teenager Nora Sharmarke was only ten when her journalist father, Canadian Al Iman Sharmarke, was
killed over his coverage of Islamic extremism
in his native country of Somalia.
For Sharmarke, the targeted attack
Wednesday against the journalists of Charlie
Hebdo magazine in Paris hits close to home.
The aspiring nurse said she understands the
motivation of such reporters to take the risks
they do -- her father's final words were that
his attackers would not silence him.
"It's absolutely astonishing that the people
who committed these crimes claim to do it
in the name of the religion that I follow, that
my father followed. It's disgusting," said
Sharmarke, 17.
"He lived and died for freedom of
expression, just to see this happening is
devastating."
Al-Shabaab member Hassan Hanafi
Haji was arrested last summer in connection
with Sharmarke's murder and that of several
other reporters fighting for free expression
in Somalia.
Al Iman Sharmarke is just one of
several Canadian journalists who have faced
threats and violence over the years, at home
and abroad.
Former Journal de Montreal reporter
Michel Auger, who covered the crime beat
including Quebec's biker gangs, survived
being shot six times outside the newspaper's
offices in 2000.
"You can't allow this to discourage
you because journalists do a very important
job to keep our democracy alive," son and
MLA Dave Hayer told the Vancouver Sun this
week. "We have to encourage and support
our journalists all over in all different types
of media." Vancouver Sun reporter Kim
Bolan, who has also investigated
Sikh extremism, received faced
numerous threats as she delved
into the Air India file, as did the
CBC's Terry Milewski.
"I didn't want to bend to
that, because obviously if more
journalists would get threatened, it would be a successful
strategy," said Bolan, who still
receives threats as a crime reporter covering Vancouver's
gang scene.
"I felt obligated to carry on."
Bolan reports some threats
to authorities, and she's had different levels
of police protection over the years. But she
says it's often difficult in today's era of social
media to suss out which ones to be afraid of
-- an issue she thinks newsrooms should be
actively discussing.
The veteran reporter also worries
about an attitude that views journalists as
responsible for the danger they encounter - a notion that has crept into discussion over
Charlie Hebdo and its provocative cartoons.
"I also think that sometimes police
tend to dismiss threats that journalists receive because we're the kind of people that
are walking into trouble -- 'Well, you can
mitigate the problem if you just walk away
from trouble,' but we do have the constitutional right to do our jobs."
Nora Sharmarke in Ottawa says that
although her father, and so many other journalists last decade, were killed for their
work, he was right about not being silenced.
Al Iman Sharmarke had started up a media
network called HornAfrik and hosted a radio
show. His family now helps to train journalists who want to work there.
"Now today in Somalia there are broadcasting corporations all around, and that wasn't
the case when he started HornAfrik," she
said.
"He had the first radio station in Somalia,
broadcasting across Somalia. What he did
really lived on."
Canada at war with Islamic State movement : Harper
OTTAWA -- Canada is at war with the Islamic
State and will do what is necessary to eliminate the threat it poses, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper said Thursday.
His comments came as the military
revealed that CF-18s have carried out another seven attacks in Iraq over the last couple of weeks.
A decision to extend the air mission,
which is due to end in April, has not been
made, but prime minister said when the
time comes one of the criteria will be "the
kind of risk it poses to our country."
And Harper said the risk is significant. "This is a movement that has declared
war on Canada specifically and has shown it
has the ability to develop the capacity to execute attacks on this soil," he said at an
event in Delta, B.C.
His use of the word "war" is important because it carries specific, legal connotations and the government generally
avoided using it during the long campaign
against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The word
does not appear in the parliamentary motion
which authorized the mission in Iraq.
Underscoring that the campaign
against extremists in Iraq is a war sets up
and reinforces Canada's responsibilities
under international law, particularly when it
comes to the treatment of any prisoners and
in the protection of civilians.
The U.S. announced this week that
it is reviewing data surrounding two coalition
bombing missions -- one in
Iraq, the other in Syria -looking into concerns that
civilians may have been
killed. The U.S. Central
Command, which oversees
coalition operations, says it
is investigating those strikes
and examining the results
of three other missions to
see if reviews are warranted.
Since
Canada
joined the bombing campaign in late October, Canadian military officials have said they are
confident no civilians have been hurt by CF18 missions.
Brig.-Gen. Dan Constable, the Canadian task force commander, said Thursday
Canadian missions are not part of the coalition investigation.
"That I am aware of, we have not
had any reporting of any civilian casualties
associated with any of our strikes," he said.
imam condemns Paris terrorist shooting, urges
caution while exercising freedom of speech
Westerners should be careful
about publishing offensive material, even if it is in the spirit of
free expression, so as not to provoke “insane” people who are
particularly sensitive to having
their faith attacked, a Toronto
imam told CP24 Thursday.
Muhammad Afzal Mirza,
from the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Mirza said he hopes the
incident will not reflect badly on
all Muslims, but that he will not
be surprised if there is a backlash against the Muslim community. There were reports of
grenades being thrown into the
courtyard of a mosque in France
following the massacre at Charlie Hebdo.
community, a branch of the Islamic faith, told CP24 that local
Muslims of all denominations are
condemning Wednesday’s terrorist attack at Charlie Hebdo, a
Paris newspaper that is known
for publishing provocative cartoons mocking several religions,
including Islam.
“It’s horrific, nobody’s
proud of it,” Mirza said. “I couldn’t sleep last night when I was
thinking of those innocent people who were just killed because
they made a cartoon or they
wrote something against the
prophet of Islam Muhammad,
peace be upon him.”
The
Paris
shooting
claimed 12 lives – eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker and a visitor.
One of three suspects has
turned himself in to police and a
massive manhunt is underway
for two gunmen.
Mirza, who has lived in
the west for 40 years, told that
he strongly supports freedom of
speech, but questioned what
would be accomplished by uttering controversial and offensive
comments.
“[If it is] just for your
satisfaction or you want to prove
that you are free in this part of
the world, that’s okay, but how
about the other people who are
sensitive to these things?” Mirza
asked. “I am all for freedom of
speech… but at the same time,
if somebody is insane and he’s
sensitive about one thing, I think
it would be better not to just do
it. What do we accomplish by
doing so?” “I think the wise
thing would be not to provoke
them,” Mirza added. “We’re no
longer isolated people. So, I
think we should be careful while
we are exercising our freedom of
rights.”
Washington took a similar line until
just recently when it acknowledged it is
looking into claims that innocents were
caught in 18 separate
strikes aimed at Islamic
State militants. Most of
the accusations relate to
missions in Syria.
Canadian warplanes
don't operate over Syria.
A U.S. military official, in
a statement released
earlier this week, said
the cases under active
investigation
were
flagged by the military's
own review of the damage and not by complaints.
Canadian fighters,
as of Wednesday, had flown over 200 sorties
in support of the air campaign to dislodge
the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant from
territory it seized last summer.
Some of the more recent strikes -including missions on Dec. 19, 20 and Jan.
1 -- were in support of Kurdish peshmerga
forces. They recently broke the roughly fourmonth siege of Mount Sinjar, where more
than 10,000 Yazidis fled in August to escape
massacres. It was their plight that prompted
the U.S. to organize the air campaign.
A defence expert in Washington
says limiting civilian casualties is important,
but the U.S. should not let the fear of it paralyze the air campaign. The coalition has a
responsibility to uphold the laws of war, but
it is facing an enemy that deliberately uses
civilians as shields and will exploit western
integrity to its advantage.
"Human rights and the laws of war
become political and military weapons in the
hands of terrorists and extremists that have
no practical limits and constraints," said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
While the U.S. and Canada have
fought these kinds of wars before in
Afghanistan, Cordesman says the Islamic
State has brought the use of human shields
to a higher level.
There is no such thing as a "perfect
war," he says.
"The United States is also again
fighting a movement in the Islamic State (or
Daesh) which will do everything possible to
exaggerate civilian casualties for propaganda purposes, claim its own casualties are
civilians and claim its own facilities are civilian facilities."
January 9th 2015
PG 10
Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa concedes defeat in bid for 3rd term as president
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat in
his bid for a third term in office, his
spokesman said Friday.
Rajapaska has bowed to the people's decision and left Temple Trees, his official residence, said Wijeyanda Herath, his
media secretary.
In a result unthinkable just weeks
ago, Rajapaksa lost to his former friend and
health minister, Maithripala Sirisena, who defected from the ruling party and turned the
election into a referendum on the president
and the enormous power he wields over the
island nation of 21 million.
Elections Commissioner Mahinda
Deshapriya said the election was peaceful,
although some voters were prevented from
casting ballots in the Tamil-dominated north,
according to the Center for Monitoring Election Violence.
Until just a few weeks ago, Rajapaksa was widely expected to easily win
his third term in office. But that changed
suddenly in November when Sirisena split
from him, and gathered the support of other
defecting lawmakers and many of the country's ethnic minorities, making the election a
fierce political battle.
Rajapaksa was still thought to be
tough to beat because he controlled the
state media, has immense financial resources and is still popular among the Sinhala majority, some of whom see him as a
saviour for destroying Tamil Tiger rebels and
ending a decades-long civil war in 2009.
But polling was notably strong
Thursday in Tamil-dominated areas, where
voting had been poor in previous elections.
Many Tamils have felt abandoned since the
war's end, when Rajapaksa largely ignored
Tamil demands to heal the wounds of the
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fighting and years of ethnic divisions. They
were thought to have voted heavily for
Sirisena. Both Sirisena and Rajapaksa are
ethnic Sinhalese, who make up about threequarters of the country. Neither has done
much to reach out to Tamils, who account
for about 9 per cent of the population, but
Rajapaksa is deeply unpopular in the Tamil
community. The wider world was watching
the election in case violence should erupt
after the results are announced, especially
since Pope Francis is scheduled to arrive in
the country on Tuesday.
While Rajapaksa's campaign centred
around his victory over the Tamils and his
work rebuilding the country's infrastructure
and economy, Sirisena's focused on reining
in the president's expanding powers. He also
accused Rajapaksa of corruption, a charge
the president denies.
The economy has grown quickly in
recent years, fed by enormous construction
projects, many built with Chinese investment money. But Sri Lanka still has a large
underclass, many of whom are increasingly
frustrated at being left out.
Rajapaksa's power grew immensely
after he defeated the Tigers. Following his
victory in the last election in 2010 he jailed
his opponent and used his parliamentary
majority to scrap a constitutional two-term
limit for the president and give himself the
power to appoint judges, top bureaucrats,
police officials and military chiefs. He also orchestrated the impeachment of the country's
chief justice. He also installed numerous relatives in top government positions. One
brother is a Cabinet minister, another is the
speaker of Parliament and a third is the defence secretary. His older son is a member
of Parliament and a nephew is a provincial
chief minister.
Sikh Body condemn France massacre
The World Sikh Council - America Region
(WSC-AR) is extremely saddened by the
barbaric act of violence on the Charlie
Hebdo office in downtown Paris, France on
January 7, 2015.
Currently, at least 12 persons have
been reported dead including 2 police officers in and around the satirical magazine
'Charlie Hebdo' office. The police are still
trying to apprehend the main suspects who
maybe on the run and outside the northeastern part of Paris's suburbs and possibly
in hiding.
The WSC-AR sends its heartfelt
condolences to the families and loved ones
of those who have been taken away by this
terrible tragedy. We pray for a speedy and
full recovery of the injured. Our prayers are
with all the victims, their families, and local
community. May Almighty God lighten your
burden, and grace you with hope and healing under these very difficult circumstances.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you at
this time of profound tragedy and grief.
Such heinous acts must be condemned in the strictest manner and WSCAR stands in solidarity with the civilized
world. The World Sikh Council - America
Region (WSC-AR) is the umbrella organization representative of Sikhs in the United
States. It is an elected body of Sikh Gurdwaras and institutions. Currently 61 Gurdwaras and other Sikh institutions across the
nation are members of WSC-AR. The major
governing purpose of the organization is to
represent the collective view of Sikhs in the
United States. WSC-AR works to promote
Sikh interests at the national and international level focusing on issues of advocacy,
education, and well-being of humankind.
MISSISSAUGA RESIDENTS GATHERED TO CONDEMN
THE PESHAWAR SCHOOL MASSACRE IN PAKISTAN
Lakes.
Work began Thursday in southern
Lake Huron, Lake St. Clair, the Detroit River,
Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Crews are breaking ice jams that
can delay shipping and cause flooding along
the shore. The two Coast Guards say they'll
Ships haul iron ore, coal, salt, limestone, oil and cement.
Last winter produced some of the
most widespread ice cover on record. In
early March, about 92 per cent of the lakes
were frozen over, the highest percentage
since 1979.
Mississauga – Mississauga residents gathered at Streetsville Square to condemn the
Peshawar School massacre in Pakistan and
held a candle light vigil in support of the
grieving families and the people of Pakistan.
On December 16, 135 little Pakistani souls
and 9 members of the school staff in Peshawar, Pakistan returned
to
their
Creator. Their lives
were taken by Taliban
who attacked a mili-
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kind of act or terror in any part of the world,
he added”
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird have
already conveyed the Canadian response to
the Government of Pakistan and the people
of Pakistan condemning the attack on school
children, said Bob Dechert, Mississauga
Erindale MP” “In Canada we live in multicultural society with peace and harmony and
we are oppose to any act of terror against
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tary private school in
Peshawar in the day
time. The gunmen
came into school disguised in military uniform
and
start
shooting in the classrooms.
The Peshawar carnage is the
worst incident in the
history of Pakistan.
“Canadian
stands
with the victims of
this barbaric attack
on innocent civilians
and little school children who were killed
by those who have no
respect for human
life, said Brad Butt,
M i s s i s s a u g a
Streetsville MP” “We
will not tolerate any
said Bob Dechert” “I am very much encouraged to see that today people from all faith
are gathered to pray for the victims of terror
attack in Pakistan, said Patrick Brown an MP
from Barrie-New Market” “Today’s candle
light vigil is a clear message to the terrorists
that they cannot intimidate us, Patrick
added”
WladyslawLizon,
MississaugaCooksville MP; newly elected Mayor Bonnie
Crombie, TahirQureshi of Mississauga Citizens Voice; Samiullah, VP of Heartland Community Services and Health Center; also
addressed the gathering.
ZubairChoudhry, a prominent South
Asian community leader, presented the resolution on behalf of the residents of Mississauga showing the solidarity and support for
the victims of terror attack at School in Peshawar Pakistan and remembering the lives
of people killed in Sydney, Australia, in the
suburb of Philadelphia, Canadian Parliament
in Ottawa and Boston Bomb attack and
Bombay terrorist attack.
Border agents should be able to chase
drivers who don't stop, union says
Canadian border guards should be allowed to pursue drivers who
flee border inspections, the head of the Customs and Immigration
Union and a security expert say. Current Canada Border Services
Agency (CBSA) policy prohibits guards from chasing after those who
don't stop at border checkpoints or ignore orders to be
inspected.Jean-Pierre Fortin, head of the Customs and Immigration
Union, and Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS intelligence officer,
are calling for change after a U.S. man blew past the inspection point
at North America's busiest land border crossing in Windsor, Ont., on
Wednesday. The man, who was thought to be armed, abandoned
the stolen car he was driving and fled on foot after refusing to stop
at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing. His actions prompted
schools in the area to be temporarily placed under lockdown and a
manhunt ensued.