Pakistan, India set road map for peace
NEW DELHI (AP) — India is redrawing its political map again. Parliament has approved a proposal by the Hindu nationalist-led government that strips statehood from Jammu and Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state, splitting the region into two union ter
The Unites States government owns almost one-third (28 percent) of the entire nation. Through various agencies that include the United States Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Fish and Wildlife Service, the total owned “by the people, for the ...
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The modern history of the Punjab is riven by Partition, which split the region in two. Gopika draws on the stories told by Urvashi Rutalia of those whose lives were upturned by the tectonic dislocation of peoples between India and Pakistan. And she finds it still today in the song of em...
About 6,000 Jews were killed, many of them recent Holocaust survivors, and 17,000 Arabs. These casualties were a cause for much grief on both sides, but they pale in comparison to other armed conflicts during the same period (e.g. India-Pakistan). More Palestinians were killed by Jordan...