Page 10 - tHE CANADIAN INDIA TIMES � ' October
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Another I�id�"P�ife
war?
"By K.K. Duggail � .'� � '
N c w Delhi: Will t h e re be another war between. India
'.and Pakistan? � ' ���;'." ; This question, asked repeatedly in recent weeks'^ only proves how fragile the �relations between the two countries are.
A good deal of euphoria w a s c r c a \ cd by Foreign. Minister P.V. Narasirnha Rao's visit �p Pakistan. And people on both side$ of the border thought that, a � new chapter, oi friendship and ;.nuty had : begun in the
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.N:\rasimha Rao had assured Hi$hoscs that India has ;�;. vested interest in Pakis-' i a' n ' s. s c a 6 Hit y -a n d res pe c t e d - i t .'V s o v i4 r i: I $ n t v � a n d t e r r i tor-
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i ,-?. 1 , i n to g r i t y . He d i s rn i s s e d as "Fantastic" the .fear that India wanted to gobble up Pakistan; � ' ..''��._�-.'� : ' ��
Presicktnt Zia-ul-Haq told 'i n d i a n jo u!r n a 1 i s t s a c com -p.a nying the Foreign .Minis-
ter that he wanted to start a new chapter of friendship
�Wnd amity. "As a. soldier 1 extend my hand of friend -..hip to India,," he said.
The Press in both the :oun tries hailed Narasimha ''. Rao's visit as a "worthwhile
'visit!" which had removed �misunderstandings and set
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India-Pakistan relations On :i ' ' more positive footing. "
The euphoria v/as shortlived. The baclc-slapping g a ve way .'�'� to m u d - s 1 in g ing soon after' Narasimha Rao .turned his back on Pakistan. Reason: Pakistan's bid to acquire sophisticated; rnili-:arv hardware from the
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Unitecl States. As the news c a m e f ram \ s 1 am a b a d t h a t the U.S., had offered to supply Jo 6r 16 F-16 fighter-' bbrnberE to Pakistan Indian defence analysts 'went to work; they saw a monster ;.n. the F-16. �� " ' -�-.�';' ,-'. ".; The Indian Press lost little 'time in toeing by and large the defence analysts' line.
Not to be left behind the State-controlled Pakistari-Press splashed;' the. , canard �:hat India was planning .an Israeli-type raid \ orv Pak nuclear installation. 14 collusion with Israel. The blanket usage of the PPI .story from New York, indicated, th^.t n was officially inspired. . �. ;. ��'��'�:.. �'".-.
The farhiliar propaganda w a r i p. the India n and Pakistani' papers ;has -star-.
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The : vows of fidelity and friendship exchanged by Agha Shahi and Narasimha Rao have been forgotten almosc overnight;
Nobody knows when the U.S. v/ill start shipping the F -16s. Som ere port s s a y it will be next year. Accord; ;.ng to Others, the shipment will start the year after next � rvr later: '�� � -. . ;-�;�' � " " .;'.,'
Assuming that Pakistan gets a squadron of the rl e ad ly fig h t e r - bom her s will iJ tik tne. scales against India? � . �; . '. : �/. ':.;'' '' '�'.'�'�'� The short and simple answer ip "no." India too is going in for the new generation of Mirage-2000 from France and has in its ar-
-.h'l'Ju.i y;;;- M% ''W& and:/ J ng- . uars. ..-'it is adequately armed to repel any aerial or attack by Pakisiap.
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, f n rmer editor of the Indiao K x p re s s � , w r o t e i n the S t a -
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fesman: "India is one of the earliest victims of the cult of insecurity fo$tered .-so assiduously by the nightmare merchants; domestic and "foreign ; .... They all thrive on promoting fears of insecurity. The tragic, vie tims are the people, most usually hungry and always undernourished, while the monqy collected by the . Government for their de-' f e n c e a n d d e v clop me n t is frittered away on counter-in t t hreats that are unlikely to arise./' . �'.�'�.-' �� ; . �� ':. '�'���:-v.
Who wains war, death and destruction? Nobody Pakistan . and India have had three wars -- in 1947, 1965 and 1971. What did they gain ? .Nothing. What d id t. h e y lose ? E ve r y th i ng .....'.� Young soldiers in the prime of life, Little children orphaned. Young wives widowed. M ou r n i n g in countless homes . pconomy ruined^ Dependence on foreign aid increased.
S.u pe r' ' pow e r s hay e ; no-pernianent Friends or foes; they; have only permanent interests. President Nixon, who a t o ri e t i me shun n e d Communist China like plague, made a pilgrimage of Beijing tp shake ^ hands with Chairman Mao. He forgot Formosa.
In 1971 when India and Pakistan went to war Nixon
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dispatched the Seventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal but the Fleet remained anchored there while Dacca was v being bombed by the
Indians.
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Chines� made loud noiies and issued threats to India, but did not intervene. Thfc.y-.let India" an^ Pakistan
fight it out. '-. . .. ;.C-."'\- �'� i.:
Again� the Shah of Iran ,'wa^ a close friend and ?dly of \the United States )>ut wh^n he was dethroned by Ayotullah Khomeini, President Carter did nothing to rescue him � The king died in exile, a forlorn, disillusioned maa let down by his fri(*nd$. ' , '��;'��."�'.'���.'. v: ";,'��: '; The moral is no big power is going to fight a small power's wair. A super power m ay pou r sop histic a -.:, ted arm s into a smal 1
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country *s arsenal but it will hot pull its chestnuts from ;thevfire. � . : '�.'�',::'. ':-;, ': '��.:��.'�-',''��' Gen Zia �; should know his hisitory better! ; TThev 1965 war sealed Gen Ayub Klian's fate. The 1971 war kn(ikeid out :
Pakistan dare not; take oo India -- the F-16s notwith-standing r,- for such ; a istep will be suicidal for Islama-ba;d. Gen Zia said as much at; his press conference in
Rawalpindi on Tune 9,
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However,^ ..-the war of words will go on between the two ixniniries as it has gone on all these years. It is a part of their love-hate
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According to 1980 UVSv census there were 361,50 persons of Indian origin Jn
the U'.S.;;::;' �:.;:.i^-V;' , . .va'v New York state claimed
60,51! of them fallowed by California (57,989), New; Jersy (29,507), Texas; (22,226); Pennsylvania; (15,212), M\&\%*n j (14.,680), Maryland (13,705)
arid Florida (9,138). f
For the first time the census-has vplaced; ' Indiansr' in a separate
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ointment
Dr. Radhey
man Department of Phiar-macology at the Univeriity of Ottawa) has been nained by the ^Hpnpurable Minister of Health|fMrr Timbrel!j to the Advisory Medical Board of the Ontario Mental H e a 1th Foundation 1 Th i� body plays a key role I in setting up policy mattersifor establishing pripritieis Ifpr research in mental health and psychological and psy-chiatriq disorders mithe Province of Ontario. I
DrISinghal/ currently holding the piFfice of jthe
President of the Ganadian College of Neurppsycho-pharmacologyv will ialsoi be serving as Chairman of bne of the two Research Review Coimrnittees of this tio-ri. ' - ; ;.. � :.�'� ��;-,.-
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Vedanta Society of Toronto will hold PUBLIC I^C-TURE BY SWAMI BHAS-
HYANANDA at If MacPlier$on Ave. r
;''Nature of Devotion According to yedantaV at 8:00 pm Sauirday, Octoiber;
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�; ;;'-: tf*Devpiion and F"ulfili-ment:*;' at 3:X)0 pm SuiiQay, October 18. f
and STUD Y CIRCLE wijl be held on Sunday, October 25 at 3:00 prri;'.- ?
-.ALL; ARE -CORDIALLY .IN-;
VITED. :-;V:J :.''::��;
sex-
- Sharda, a
16-year-old girl from Ashta town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh^ was to go to her husband's home for the first time next month, but she may now tvave to Ipok for a bride after a sex-change operation/ - Sharda Prasad; as the f 1 a t - c he s ted t eenager wishes to be kno>vn now, said from her bexi in the pliastic stirgery wdrd of the Hamidia Hospital here, that she first felt she was becoming a � 'bacha frbmta bachi'1 (boy f ram a girl)v after reading about a similar case published in a Hindi daily last month.
Sliarda was admit ted to the hospital. Before her admission- she had her long hair cut short in a boyish rriian-ne'iv renounced all femmine objects like bangles and
ear-rings arid cliahged her petticoat for a pyjama � ^all on the advice ofDiv Syed
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Zaheer-ul-lslam, the plastic
surgeon who would opefate ;.on,:h;e.r. -/^-V;;. ;vy.: .'_V �.�';;;;�. '^;; .-�
�Dj. Zahee r- ul^- lislani s aid he had suecessfully performed a similar operation on a 13-year-oid girl from filiind district 10 years ago, altering Munrii Bai to^^ M ;'ta-t Now a married police constable whose wife is five months' pregnant. Sliai'da; lie said, would also be a normal male after the operation. .-. :-�;��;-;";::' -. ,.Y'; ' ( .^ �'-'-
.':� Asked if Sharda's operation could: be termed traiis-
's-.;:;;:- - -''.-;. -�' .�.-.:;-; ;v.:;:. :;.;��/��,,-' \;\ � :� isexuai, the surgeon said '4 no,'' explaining that Sharda had a vagina but no iovaries ami uterus and was ithus incapable of cpnceiv-jing. Shairda, who has neve? imenstruated, has testicles, he added^ v
Dr. Islam said Sharda had ajl the male morpiho-logical features and attributed her not having the tnale cxrgan to an ^erni)ryological mal-developrnent,'' He said he would set the nature's fault by removing the yagina and shaping the clitoris into a penis by aiito-grafting.
Dr. Islarn pointed out that a layrnan w^s sometimes unable to recognise rriprphV o logical body developments leading to misconception, about a person's sex. This; he saidy had happened IB the case of Sharda who was brought up a female.
Sharda, who appeared psychologically receptive to the coming change^, said i;> her high-pitched voice that she felt happy at the prospect of beeoming a boyv
Asked if she would like to m arry after her op era tion; Sharda came put of her ward, apparently to escape the ogling cyfthre nurses and ward boys f and said in a barely audible whisper that she would * 'definitely'r rriarry. � �;;"::;;:,"/:.-..-'-��'<' ', � - ;�-;';�;.' :;.
The M ul t i He ritage Com -munity Alliance and the Toronto Board of Education are sponsoring a sympos: mm on "Multilmgjualism in a Multicxilturai Society>'.-...'
The symposium is to take place Saturday, October 24, 1981 frpm 9;00 a. m. to 3:30 |>,m. at Hart House, Uni^ versity of Toronto.
The objectives pf the symposium are:;
- To provide an understand-ing of Kentiage: languages and their role iii society.
- Tp d<sv<eiop an awareness of the nieed for multilin-gualism: ',�;: � �'-'-�<;' � "�.'-��'��''- :� � -.; ^ � �-;- TTo receive ^input from
commumties to the Toronto Board vs Workgroup on Third Latiguage Instruction. - To explore the linkage between personal growth, ethrio-culturalism and :lan-:
Attendance is open to the public with an emphasis towards school principals^ teachers/ government representatives and cortinurnity leaders^ ;:v^ �� �,� /':.-'-':-
For rriore information oh the symposium and for reg> istration:please contact M. t aFbuntaine V Tor onto Boar d *of Educa;tioh at 598-
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�/- New DeIh^ Pakistan has developed comedy as a major dramatic art form and comedy; shows in solos and in groups have become an integral part of the cultural milieu of: the country, say the four iPak-Istani comedians currently visiting India. j
Saiahuddin Toofani, Jam -eel Khan V'Jimmy,'1 Kaiser Khalii and Sakhi Kamal �-four purveyors of the art of making people laugh ^ 4 fin<i Indian comedy slow, spying ' 'it seems an age before the punchline comes through.^ They feel India lacks the tradition of comedy jStand-ing on its own and commanding audiences for the sheer reason of its be^ng a
comedy. � V-"-'��''t'���;:'"!�'�.�?,, " In Pakistan, they $�y, in spite of the censorship, comedy played through television and radio makes
these media a vi^al source of en te rta i nirii en tv
Convinced that there is no endeavour more worthwhile than making other people laugh, these four artists purposefully ptirsue the goal of spreading alughter. They say: * 'l.Pok at the poverty that surrpunds us everywhere; why can^'t we add a little pep to the lives of these unfortyinate peo-
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Television, they concede�,-.-"must inform 4nd educate, but its prim ary responsibility in a society like ours must be to entertain,; �
And this is where Pakistani �V scores, they; say.
Sakhi Kamalv a star for many years of the celebra ted Pakistani ccwnedy show, '* Fifty-F*ifty, *' says; it gave him great pleasure to be
able to entertain millions of rhis ��: oountrymen^; wi.th..;. /-'hi^..
gags; and his unique capacity to reproduce musical sounds of as many as a dozen musical ihstruments. ! Toofani, who teams up j with Jimmy, has been the i star -of many talk shows � i on TV^ radio and the stage; i Besides he has also acted in ; some 20 films.;
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f:;:":-' l}-":.- ,.'-:-^:--k^'- ^^V-;:^:;^v. | Kaiser Khalili one of the
; most perceptiv^ young � comedians and Sakhi Katriai j are the other twosome. I Kaiser has widely travelled ! and depends more on the eff-ectiveiiess of the spoken word than what he calls V4 action comedy. '*
One complaint that the four comedians Have is that some of their best programmes are being pirated arid sold as cassettes in the name of Moin Akhtar, another well-known Pakistani
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j Vegetables were ignored t number of years. Sometimes ti aijid heavily sauced and laid be as an afterthought or a decorat The fitness revolution and th brought; out the best of fresh beat the sight of steamed brigl aj^listen of butter and eaten iiaye a chance to discolour. 1 vegetables has created a den erotic vegetables are now r stores , Canadians are develop ^ndiye;, green papaya, Italian p^eas and so on. Eve,n root veg<
turnips are selling well. Peopk vjege tables as a starter or in soi elven ba.ked vegetables 'rather
time to enjoy all th paying foreign prices. Market; a[re full with zucchinis, tomato
T:.,-^ ;::"V/;':.:,;:; -. ;�-� STUFFED'Z' S small zucchinis (about 6 inc J4 cup cooking oil or ghee pli 14 cup coarse fresh bread crur
1 Ib. lean ground lamb
|2 cloves Of garlic, minced
2 tbsp. chopped cprriander le !4 ts p. ground chili or 1 gree: 1 tsp. salt or to taste
1 can (10 oz.) condensed crea
tsp. paprika
cup dry white wine or mill< i to 2 tsp . grated fresh ginge
| Trim zucchini and halve len
�'�'amount of. boiling salted water
^minutes. Lift out with a sloi
jscoop out seeds. Chop the se
the filling. In an oiled or butt
|c r u m bs u n til golden brow n an
ithe same pan brown lamb,, sti
|the fat. Add 1 tbsp. butter,
jzucchini pulp: Cook until the
jcorr lander leaves and ginger
[zucclaLiiii -With oil inside and c
ibaking dish. Combine soup, p
add a few tablespoons of this
moisten. Spoon the filling im
little of the remaining sauce o^
browned crumbs . B ake at 350
25 to 30 minutes or until zuccl
is hot and crisp. Serve imme<
BARBECUED C(
8 Cornish hens (about 1 V4 pel Salt and freshly ground pepp
cup dark soya sauce
cup solid honey 2 tbsp. grated fresh ginger r 4 garlic cloves, minced V4 tsp. ground chili powder 1 small bay leaf/ V4 cup melted butter
cup oil
Combine together soya sauc Leaf and butter in a stnall p; syrupy. Dry the bird well rowels. (if -the bird is not -dr; i n stead of c ri s p ) . Se a s o n t h < including the cavity and rub to 400F. Place the birds in a for 1 5 minutes. Lower th'el
Continue roasting until tenj them during the last 30 thickened soya sauce mjixti Remove from heat and let each hen in half and place side down. Just before sen the oven rack in the middle about 8 inches away from with the remaining sauce broiler, keeping the oven marinade sizzles and ./makes! hens watching carefully be Serve immediately. Make:
;W.I.G; - Association ol Women in Canada, invite: you with family and f riendj to join them in celebrating * 'Diwair; - on Saturday,
October l^rh at Earl Haij Collegiate Institute, 100 Princess Avenue, Willowl dale. (5 blocks North o Sheppard Avenue, off