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11 - 17 September, 2017 Vol - 27 No. 32 Email : info@newdelhitimes.com Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 

Rumiyah: ISIS makes its own terror 

guide for truck attacks across the world 

NDT Special Bureau 

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Theory of Mind and Other 

People’s Shoes 

Mark Parkinson 

Is Iran About to Take 

Over Syria? 

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NDT Iran Bureau 

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The truth about 'Siyar Singhi' 

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi 

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Don’t grow up: The Magic of your 

Inner Child 

Dr. Pramila Srivastava 

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South Korean self Defence 

mechanism activated 

Dr. Ankit Srivastava 

Islamic world hypocritical 

about Rohingya Muslims 

Tarek Fatah 

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n an article dated 29th August titled 

“Iran Is Taking Over Syria. Can 

Anyone Stop It?” in New York Times, David 

W. Lesch, a professor of Middle East 

history at Trinity University in San Antonio 

and the author of “Syria: The Fall of the 

House of Assad” provides an excellent 

prognosis of things to come as the Syrian 

war screeches to a halt. He apprehends that 

Iran could eventually take over Syria and 

elaborates the logics for such apprehension. 

Since the end of the Cold War until 

2010, Syria enjoyed ‘a uniquely flexible 

geopolitical position in the Arab world’. 

Syria remained hostile to Israel but directly 

negotiated with it. Syria was steeped in 

Arab nationalism but joined the United 

Nations coalition to evict Iraq from Kuwait 

in 1991. United States labelled the Assad 

government as a state sponsor of terrorism, 

but sought help from Syrian intelligence 

agencies to fight Al Qaeda. 

All those flexible moves are now over. Since 

the civil war in 2011, Assad has relied on 

Iran and its proxy Lebanese Hezbollah to 

stay in power. Though Russia briefly 

played an important role at a crucial stage, 

Tehran still remains Syria’s primary backer 

and could emerge as the big winner to 

control its foreign policy with disastrous 

consequences. 

Iranian revolution and a peace treaty 

between Israel and Egypt (hitherto Syria’s 

Arab nationalist partner) cemented the 

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Author & Columnist, Canada 

@TarekFatah 

tarek.fatah@gmail.com 

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Islamic world hypocritical about Rohingya Muslims 

ohingya Muslims deserve justice, not 

hypocrisy. 

Yet another human tragedy is unfolding 

where an entire population is being 

subjected to atrocities of the worst kind, 

simply for being who they are – an ethnic 

and religious minority. 

As you read this, a rag-tag column of tens 

of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in 

Myanmar is on the march in appalling 

conditions, escaping a ruthless crackdown 

by the country’s military. 

Is Iran About to Take Over Syria? 

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Syrian-Iranian alliance in 1979. When 

isolated Syria needed new powerful 

friends, Iran promptly offered military and 

economic assistance. 

Teheran also supported Hezbollah to help 

Damascus maintain its strategic position 

in Lebanon. But inherent differences have 

forged an uncomfortable relationship. 

Syria is a Sunni Arab majority state, but 

ruled by the secular Baath Party since 1960 

while Iran - a majority Persian and Shiite 

state - has been an Islamic republic since 

1979. 

During civil war, Iran helped Syria’s access 

to Lebanon and blocked Saudi Arabia’s 

influence in the Levant. This throttled 

Damascus’s foreign policy. 

Defiant Assad sought ‘no security 

cooperation with nor opening of embassies’ 

with countries that opposed him. Syria 

looked more to the East than to the West 

It appears Myanmar’s generals, who 

effectively control the government of 

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, have 

made a decision to ethnically cleanse the 

last of the nearly half a million Muslims 

who live in the country’s northern state of 

Rakhine (formerly Arakan), bordering 

Bangladesh. 

The conflict between the Buddhist majority 

of the country and its Rohingya Muslim 

minority goes back to the British colonial 

period. (Myanmar, formerly Burma, 

was part of British India until 1937). 

During the Second World War the 

Rohingya fought on the side of the 

retreating British army while their 

Buddhist neighbours joined the 

invading Japanese, resulting in 

horrific reprisals that sent 100,000 

Rohingya fleeing into British Bengal 

and beyond. 

The latest outbreak of violence took 

place on August 25, when hundreds 

of Rohingya fighters launched coordinated 

attacks on police posts across the north 

of the state, killing 12 members of the 

security forces. 

A group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya 

Salvation Army (ARSA) carried out the 

attack. 

which was hell-bent on undermining the 

Assad regime. So Iran deftly moved in and 

deeply penetrated Syria to corner reconstruction 

contracts. 

Now the war draws to a close and Assad 

still in charge is desperate to break free. 

Assad wants to trade his alliance with Iran 

in exchange for improved relations with the 


United States and the West. He is also 

negotiating with Israel for a grand bargain 

on the Golan Heights. Syria’s political and 

military elites now worry that an overreliance 

on Iran severely limits their strategic flexibility 

on post war reconstruction, economic 

development and future diplomatic 

relations with the West. 

Assad dreads the ‘nightmare scenario’ that 

when the war ends, no country except Iran 

will care for what happens in Syria. Syria 

ending up as a client of Tehran makes for a 

very dangerous situation in Middle East. 

The prospects of permanent presence of 

Some observers believe this was a false flag 

operation that gave the military the 

justification to carry out its plan of attack. 

According to the United Nations, over 

120,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled 

Myanmar for Bangladesh, with fears 

another 400,000 are trapped in the conflict 

zone. 

Sadly, much of the outrage against the 

ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is coming 

from Islamic countries and personalities who 

have little credibility in the matter of 

mistreating ethno-racial minorities. 

For example, it was quite rich of the Indian 

Kashmiri leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, to 

condemn the “ethnic cleansing” of the 

Rohingya, while silent on the ethnic 

cleansing of nearly 500,000 Hindu Pandits 

from Muslim-majority Kashmir in 1990. 

The slogan of that time raised by jihadi 

radicals was: “Ralive, Tsaliv ya Galive” 

(“either convert to Islam, leave the land, or 

die”). 

Then there was Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, 

who taunted her fellow Nobel Laureate 

Aung San Suu Kyi in a tweet, asking her to 

do the right thing. 

This notwithstanding the former’s silence 

on the issue of the ethnic cleansing and 

Iranian jihadist proxies like Hezbollah in 

Golan Heights worries Israel no end. 

If Syria’s Iran-orientation continues, Israel 

could look across the Golan Heights 

seeing Iran staring back!!! 

The Trump administration has so far 

literally delivered Syria to Russia’s lap 

which really means ceding to Iran. 

Moscow is happy with military bases in 

Syria and never wants to provide a 

counterweight to Iran post war. 

Syria traditionally used the United States 

as leverage to pressurize Israel on the 

Golan Heights and to keep Israel off its 

back; all for the prospect of a comprehensive 

Arab-Israeli peace and foreign investments. 

If the United States loses interest in Syria 

and Russia focuses on security issues 

only, Iran could get too dominant in 

Damascus. 

Israel won’t tolerate Iranian control over 

Syria and Assad won’t be able to prevent 

it leading to inevitable Syria-Israel war, 

implying an Iran-Israel war that won’t be 

limited to Syria. 

The author suggests the American and 

Russian policy makers to create and 

monitor ‘de-escalation zones’ while 

working diplomatically to set up Syria’s 

post war future. 

They must all stay engaged with Syria to 

influence the government there. Leaving 

Iran as the only party invested in Syria’s 

future could have catastrophic consequences 

for the Middle East. 

occupation of Balochistan by Islamabad. 

As for Pakistan, the country that carried 

out the horrendous 1971 genocide in 

Bangladesh, it too expressed its deep 

concern to Myanmar on the “displacement” 

on the Rohingyas. 

Meanwhile, Jane's Defence Weekly 

reports Pakistan and Myanmar are in 

“advanced negotiations” to licencebuild 

the JF-17 Thunder aircraft, jointly 

developed by China and Pakistan. 

As if this Islamic hypocrisy wasn’t 

enough, Turkey, perpetrators of the 

Armenian Genocide, said Myanmar’s 

actions amount to “genocide” against the 

Rohingya. 

We Muslims are living under not just the 

tyranny of dictators, but of hypocrites 

and liars. 

The actions of our leaders and mullahs 

have turned us into objects of hatred. 

Thus, even when we are the victims of 

hate, we have few who want to offer a 

hand of help, the way the late George 

Harrison and Senator Ted Kennedy stood 

up for Bangladesh in 1971. 

We are indeed lost in the sands of the 

Sinai with no Moses to lead us out. 


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Editor - in - Chief 

@AnkitNDT 

ankits@newdelhitimes.com 

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South Korean self Defence mechanism activated 

orth Korea-South Korea tensions 

show no signs of abating. When 

Trump felt that Kim Jong-un had become a 

good boy by not continuing with the 

missile tests, Kim promptly reverted to his 

old tricks. Not only three missile tests were 

fired in a single day, the same was followed 

by another test a couple of days later when 

an intermediate range missile flew over 

Hokkaido - the northern most island of 

Japan - that put almost put the entire 

Japanese nation on tenterhooks. Japan 

complained and UN Security Council 

conducted its emergency meeting but Kim 

Jong-un has disregarded all the concerns 

of the world. So all the talks of peace and 

patience are now back to square one. 

South Korea is now compelled to further 

tighten its self defence. South Korean 

President has already instructed his 

officials to put an offensive military plan 

into place. In response his defence ministry 

has briefed him of a slew of measures to 

‘quickly switch to an offensive posture in 

case North Korea stages a provocation that 

crosses the line or attacks the capital 

region’. As per the strategy, South Korea 

is reportedly training its special forces to 

track down and assassinate Kim Jong-un 

and his closest advisers if the rogue state 

attacks. Seoul has also lined up plans to 

identify and eliminate 1000 primary targets 

that include nuclear weapons and missile 

launch facilities at the same time as halting 

a strike from the dictatorship. The strategy 

was discussed a day before Pyongyang 

fired a missile over Northern Japan. 

All these defence preparedness comes 

amidst joint military drills by both Seoul 

and Washington regarded as defensive 

exercises in the event of a strike by North 

Korea.The Ulchi Freedom Guardian is an 

annual operation which previously 

involved training for land and sea 

operations. About 17500 US troops are 

taking part in the current drill, almost 

double the number of US deployments in 

Afghanistan. 

Exercises in the air are more awe-inspiring. 

South Korean and Japanese jets joined 

exercises with two US nuclear-capable 

bombers above and near the Korean 

peninsula two days after North Korea fired 

a missile over Japan. The drills, involving 

two supersonic US B-1B bombers, four US 

stealth F-35B jets as well as South Korean 

and Japanese fighter jets, came at the end 

of annual joint US-South Korea military 

exercises. 

“North Korea’s actions are a threat to our 

allies, partners and home land and the 

destabilising actions will be met accordingly. 

The complex mission clearly demonstrates 

our solidarity with our allies and underscores 

the broadening cooperation to defend 

against this common regional threat. Our 

forward deployed force will be the first to 

the fight, ready to deliver a lethal response 

at a moment’s notice if the nation calls,” 

said General Terrence J O’Shaughnessy, 

Pacific Air Forces Commander. 

All these developments have come in the 

same week that India and China returned 

from the brink of war at Doklam. Much 

before world could heave a sigh of relief 

over defusion of Doklam crisis, the missile 

test over Japan have aggravated the crisis 

in Asia. 

Since threats and counter threats have been 

exchanged times beyond number by both 

US and North Korea over the last couple 

of months, such warnings of doom have 

now lost significance. 

May be a minor, silly provocation could 

trigger the war any time. And that’s what 

the world community is worried about. 

Rumiyah: ISIS makes its own terror guide for truck 

attacks across the world 

SIS is one of the biggest threats to 

peace in the world not because of their 

skill or weapons, but having emerged in 

the era of social media, the terror group 

has completely utilized the internet in 

propagating their hateful agenda in places 

previously impenetrable by the caves and 

dessert bound terrorist from the Al-Qaeda 

era. 

Now anybody can be a terrorist and any 

mundane object like a vehicle can be 

fashioned into a weapon. This knowledge 

is being passed on into the world through 

various mediums and one of them is ISIS’s 

magazine Rumiyah that means Rome. The 

magazine was earlier called Dabiq. The 

name declares a change in strategy for ISIS. 

Dabiq is a town in Syria, where Islam is 

meant to triumph over infidels in the last 

big battle or the venue for Armageddon, 

but after losing the territory, they shifted 

their focus on attacking the heart of 

western spiritual power, which according 

to them is Rome, hence the new name 

Rumiyah. 

The magazine’s tagline reads: “O muwahhidin 

(mujahideen) rejoice, for by Allah, we will 

not rest from our jihad except beneath the 

olive trees of Rumiyah (Rome).” Recently 

there has been a series of truck attacks 

across Europe, the most deadly being the 

truck attack in Nice, France. On 14th July 

2016, while people in Nice where out 

celebrating Bastille Day when a lorry driven 

by Mohammed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel 

ploughed into the crowd watching the 

beautiful fireworks display. Bouhlelkilled 86 

people including 10 children and teenagers 

and around 434 people were injured before 

being killed by the police. 

The other attack took place in London 

when Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old with 

ties to ISIS drove a car at high speed at 

pedestrians killing 5 people before being 

shot dead by the police. In December, a 

man hijacked a truck and slammed into 

shoppers at a Christmas market in Berlin, 

killing 12 people. The attacker was shot 

dead by police in Milan. Most recently in 

April a truck drove into a store in Sweden 

killing at least 3 people. 

In November 2016, Rumiyah’s third issue 

had an entire article devoted to vehicular 

attacks that was titled “Just Terror 

Tactics.” The author wrote: “Having a 

secondary weapon, such as a gun or a 

knife, is also a great way to combine a 

vehicle attack with other forms of attacks. 

Depending on what is obtained, the kill 

count can be maximized and the level of 

terror resulting from the attack can be 

raised.” Following the article almost 4 such 

attacks have taken place. The author of the 

article in Rumiyah gives explicit details on 

how to carry out such a truck attack, the 

magazine says “Islamic State members, or 

sympathizers anywhere in the world, to hop 

in vehicles, steal them, if need be and attack 

outdoor markets, public celebrations, 

political rallies, and pedestrian-congested 

streets. All so-called ‘civilian’ (and low 

security) parades and gatherings are fair 

game and more devastating to Crusader 

nation,” Adding the dimensions of the 

vehicle saying the “most appropriate killing 

vehicle, is a load-bearing truck” that is 

“double-wheeled, giving victims less of a 

chance to escape being crushed by the 

vehicle’s tires.” It should be “heavy in 

weight, assuring the destruction of 

whatever it hits.”. 

All these instructions were given while 

giving credit to Bouhlel, the article said 

“This was superbly demonstrated in the 

attack launched by the brother Lahouaiej- 

Bouhlel”. It goes onto giving a detailed 

description of the attack and how well it 

was done. 

One of the article of Rumiyah shows a 

picture of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day 

parade alongside the article and suggests 

it as an excellent target. The Parade is one 

that attracts millions onto New York’s roads 

and rooftops. Rumiyah has been propagating 

different forms of violence and methods to 

perpetrate it, governments across the world 

have to now be wary of terrorists 

weaponizing the humble goods truck or any 

vehicle. 



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World 

Rights group 

urges UN to pay 

Kosovo lead 

poisoning victims 

A 

human rights group urged the United 

Nations on 7th September to reverse 

its policy and pay compensation to 

members of the Roma and other minority 

communities in Kosovo who were resettled 

in U.N.-run camps in the late 1990s and 

now suffer from lead poisoning. 

Human Rights Watch said in a report 

launched at U.N. headquarters that about 

600 people forced from their homes in 

Mitrovica after the 1998-1999 Kosovo war 

were resettled in camps know to be 

contaminated by lead from a nearby 

industrial mine. The rights group said it 

interviewed 19 men and women in June 

whose families, including more than 30 

children, were affected by lead poisoning 

in the U.N.-run camps. It found many are 

experiencing myriad health problems 

including seizures, kidney disease and 

memory loss. 

Last year a U.N. human rights advisory 

panel found that the U.N. mission in 

Kosovo was aware of the health risk in 

November 2000 but failed to relocate the 

displaced people, violating their rights to 

life and health. It recommended that the 

U.N. pay compensation and apologize. But 

in May, the U.N. announced it was creating 

a voluntary trust fund for projects to help 

"more broadly the Roma, Ashkali and 

Egyptian communities." It made no mention 

of compensation or an apology. 

Katharina Rall, a Human Rights Watch 

environment researcher, said "the U.N. 

should stop ignoring its own experts' sound 

advice and compensate the people who are 

experiencing lifelong damage and hardship 

due to the U.N.'s shortcomings." She said 

parents also asked the U.N. to provide 

good health care and education to all 

affected children. 

Credit : Associated Press (AP) 

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Cambodian PM: I'll rule 10 more years; 'don't be jealous' 

ambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen 

vowed to continue leading his 

impoverished Southeast Asian nation for 

another 10 years on 6th September, days 

after the arrest of his leading opponent. 

Speaking to some 10,000 garment factory 

workers in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, 

the capital, Hun Sen said he has decided 

to run for another two terms. After that, he 

said, and would think about leaving office. 

"Before I was very hesitant of when I shall 

leaving office, but after witnessing the 

treasonous acts of some Cambodians in 

recent days, I have decided to continue 

my job for another 10 years," the 65-yearold 

said. 

In power for 32 years, Hun Sen is already 

the world's longest-serving prime minister 

and among its longest-serving leaders. In 

2007, he said he wanted to retire at age 90, 

but backtracked on the claim in 2015. 

"May I ask all the foreigners, please don't 

be jealous of me that I've become the world 

Ex-presidents accused of 

forming criminal group 

in Brazil 

razil's top prosecutor accused former 

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on 

5th September of leading a criminal 

organization, along with several of his 

political allies, in order to extract millions of 

dollars in bribes. 

Attorney General Rodrigo Janot also named 

Silva's successor, former President Dilma 

Rousseff, and several members of their 

administrations or party in the charges filed 

with the Supreme Federal Tribunal. He 

accuses them of orchestrating the receipt 

of around $480 million in bribes from 2002 

to 2016 through their control of state 

bodies. 

Those dates roughly coincide with Silva's 

and Rousseff's tenures in office. Silva was 

elected in 2002 and Rousseff took over after 

his second term. She was impeached and 

removed from office for illegally managing 

the federal budget in 2016. 

The charges are part of a huge corruption 

investigation into a scheme to inflate state 

contracts in order to pay kickbacks and 

longest-serving prime minister," he said. 

After the opposition Cambodia National 

Rescue Party mounted a strong challenge 

in 2013, Hun Sen and his Cambodian 

People's Party have sought to stifle dissent 

and weaken challengers ahead of elections 

in July 2018. 

His party has often been accused in the 

past of using violence or threats against 

opponents, but in recent years has stalked 

its foes mostly in the courts. 

Legal threats forced opposition leader Sam 

Rainsy to resign this year; he now lives in 

exile. 

Cambodian authorities on 3rd September 

arrested his successor, Kem Sokha. On 5th 

September, he was formally charged with 

treason for allegedly conspiring with the 

United States to topple the government, 

and could face up to 30 years in prison if 

convicted. 

The move sharply escalates political 

Photo Credit : AP Photo 

bribes to politicians. The probe has 

already netted dozens of executives and 

senior politicians. Next, the justice 

handling the probe will decide whether to 

accept the indictment. 

Silva, who is commonly known as Lula, is 

already facing several charges and has 

been sentenced to 9½ years in prison in 

one case. He is appealing. 

He has maintained that the 

charges against him are 

politically motivated, as has 

Rousseff. Requests for comment 

from representatives of both 

former leaders were not 

immediately answered. 

According to Janot, "Lula, 

from 2002 until May 2016, was 

an important leader" of the 

alleged criminal organization, 

both because of the way the 

bribery scheme was organized 

and because as president he 

had the power to name people 

to public posts. 

Janot said Silva maintained this power 

even after he left office because of his 

influence over Rousseff. 

The indictment also says members of two 

other Brazilian parties — President Michel 

Temer's Brazilian Democratic Movement 

Party and the Progressive Party — were 

part of the criminal organization. 

Janot said that after Rousseff left office 

and Temer took over the presidency, 

members of his party in Congress took over 

the leadership role of the conspiracy. 


tensions and raises questions over 

whether upcoming elections can be free 

or fair. The opposition party says 

treason allegation is false and politically 

motivated. Hun Sen urged the factory 

Kenya's 

electoral body 

changes team to 

oversee new vote 

K 

enya's electoral commission has 

announced changes in its top 

personnel to oversee the new presidential 

election next month, while campaigning 

officially began on 6th September. 

Six officials have been appointed to run 

the new vote ordered by the Supreme 

Court after it nullified President Uhuru 

Kenyatta's re-election, a statement by 

commission Chairman Wafula Chebukati 

said on 5th September. The appointments 

appear to be in response to opposition 

leader Raila Odinga's demands for reforms 

to the commission before the new election 

on Oct. 17. 

Kenyatta's Jubilee party objected to the 

changes, claiming in a letter to the 

commission chairman on 6th September 

that nine of the people listed on the project 

team for next month's vote "are people 

known to be partisan." The letter did not 

give details. 

Odinga, who had challenged the results of 

the Aug. 8 vote in court, did not 

immediately comment on the changes to 

the electoral commission. His spokesman 

Dennis Onyango said the National Super 

Alliance coalition would announce its 

position later. 

The court's decision that the electoral 

commission committed irregularities in last 

month's vote shocked the country, with 

some observers calling it a first for Africa. 

Odinga continues to demand access to the 

electoral commission's servers as ordered 

by the court. A separate statement by the 

commission on 6th September announced 

the start of campaigns, saying they will end 

on Oct. 15. 



workers he spoke to vote for him next 

year, promising that he would give them 

better jobs and health care. 




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World 

Putin says 

Trump 'not my 

bride, and I'm 

not his groom' 

ussian President Vladimir Putin 

refrained from criticizing U.S. 

President Donald Trump at a news 

conference in China on 5th September, but 

said a decision to shutter Russian 

diplomatic outposts in the U.S. was poorly 

handled. 

Speaking at a news conference during a 

summit in China on 6th September, Putin 

dismissed as "naive" a question about 

whether he was disappointed in Trump. 

In comments carried by Russian news 

agencies, Putin said Trump is "not my 

bride, and I'm not his groom." 

Asked how Russia would feel if Trump 

were impeached, Putin said it would be 

"absolutely wrong" for Russia to discuss 

domestic U.S. politics. 

Russian officials cheered Trump when he 

was elected last year, and Putin praised 

him as someone who wanted to improve 

ties with Russia. However, further U.S. 

sanctions on Russia and the U.S. decision 

to close Russian diplomatic outposts have 

raised concerns that the two countries 

remain far apart. 


UN: Yemen Catastrophe Man-made 

T 

he United Nations calls suffering 

endured by millions of people in 

Yemen after more than two years of civil 

war an entirely man-made catastrophe. 

The world body reports there have been 

more than 11,700 civilians killed or injured 

in Yemen since the Saudi Arabian coalition 

began airstrikes against Houthi rebels in 

support of the government in March 2015. 

It blames more than 8,000 of the casualties 

on the coalition and more than 3,700 on 

the Houthis. 

The report says conflict, cholera and severe 

food shortages have made Yemen the 

world's largest humanitarian crisis. 

The U.N. Human Rights Agency’s Chief of 

Middle East and North Africa, Mohammad 

Ali Ainsour, says Yemen’s 18.8. million 

people need humanitarian aid and more 

than 10 million are in acute need of health 

care. “The catastrophe is entirely manmade 

and a direct result of the behavior of 

the parties to the conflict, including 

indiscriminate attacks,” said Ainsour. "We 

have seen attacks on markets, residential 

areas, hospitals, schools, funeral gatherings 

and even fishermen and small civilian boats 

at sea.” 

The report says civilians may have been 

directly targeted in some cases. The report 

documents a wide range of continuing 

human rights violations and abuses. It 

expresses concern at the increasing number 

of arbitrary or illegal detentions and forced 

disappearances of human rights defenders, 

religious leaders, journalists, and political 

opponents. 

Ainsour says there are at least 1,700 cases 

of child recruitment, most by Houthi forces 

and 20 percent by pro-government forces. 


“OHCHR [the Office of the High 

Commissioner for Human Rights] monitors 

frequently observed children as young as 

10, who were armed and uniformed and 

manning Houthi ... checkpoints,” said 

Ainsour. 

U.N. Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad al- 

Hussein is repeating his call for an end to 

the fighting and for an independent, 

international investigation to be 

established. He says it is crucial to hold to 

account perpetrators of violations and 

abuse. 

Credit : Voice of America (VOA) 

The Trump administration last week 

ordered the closure of three Russian 

facilities in the U.S.: The San Francisco 

consulate and trade missions in New York 

and Washington. It was the latest in a 

series of escalating retaliatory measures 

between the former Cold War foes. 

Putin said the U.S. had a right to close 

consulates but "it was done in such a rude 

way." 

"It is hard to hold a dialogue with people 

who mix Austria with Australia," he 

continued, an apparent reference to a 

decade-old gaffe by George W. Bush, who 

during a 2007 visit to Sydney referred to 

Austrian troops when he meant Australian 

troops. 

"The American nation, America is truly a 

great country and a great people if they 

can tolerate such a big number of people 

with such a low level of political culture," 

Putin said. 





Delhi/NCR News 

Delhi HC 

seeks answer 

on withdrawal 

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he Delhi High Court sought the 

response of the AAP government 

on a plea seeking a stay on the order of 

the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection 

Board (DSSSB) withdrawing a notice on 

appointment of 8,914 school teachers. 

HC’s notice came on a plea filed by NGO 

Social Jurist that DSSSB must adhere to 

a 2001 order where the court had directed 

the board to ensure zero vacancy of 

teachers in Delhi government schools on 

the commencement of each academic 

year. 

The Delhi government had introduced 

the Board with the purpose of recruiting 

capable, competent and highly-skilled 

individuals by conducting written tests, 

professional tests and personal interviews. 

The court asked the authorities to file their 

responses within a week and listed the 

matter for September 21. 

It alleged that the DSSSB, without 

informing or seeking permission from the 

court, had on August 24 “abruptly 

withdrawn the advertisement” regarding 

these vacancies. 

“The respondents have been deliberately 

and for some political motives delaying 

recruitment of regular teachers to the 

detriment of the interest of as many as 

23 lakh students studying in schools run 

by the Government of Delhi and three 

municipal corporations,” the plea said. 

 

 

 

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Delhi Metro announces the launch of 1000 e-Rickshaws 

for better commuting facilities 

elhi Metro in collaboration with 

Smart E, an electricity powered 

mobility service has planned to launch 

1,000 electric rickshaws. Such step insures 

better last-mile connectivity at metro 

stations which are located in the outskirts 

of Delhi like Gurugram and Faridabad. 

The initiative was flagged off by Nitin 

Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport and 

Highways at HUDA City Centre metro 

station on 4th September. 

“This step was taken in accordance with 

the government’s plans to promote 

alternative fuels like bio-diesel, bio-CNG 

and electricity –run vehicles”, said Gadkari 

in his speech. 

He also added that electricity – run 

motorcycles, taxis and auto-rickshaws 

 

 

 

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would be available in the 

country by the year-end. 

Minister of State for Urban 

Development Rao Inderjit 

Singh and DRMC’s Managing 

Director Mangu Singh were 

also present at the event. 

Further it was also stated that 

as part of the ongoing ‘Made 

in India’ campaign, the 

vehicles will be made in India 

and will use GPS tracking 

and sensors to help the 

commuters. 

The vehicles are designed keeping 

passenger safety and comfort in mind. 

The starting fare for the services will be 

Rs 10 for the first two km and Rs 5 thereafter. 

Mr. Srivastava, co-founder and CEO of 

Smart E, said it was a proud moment for 

the company as they took a step towards 

realising the government’s vision of 

making India a 100% electric vehicle nation 


by 2030. The services will cover HUDA City 

Centre, IFFCO Chowk, MG Road, Sikandarpur 

and Guru Dronacharya metro stations. 

Local MP Rao Inderjit Singh insured that the 

main idea behind this decision was to revamp 

the road and transport resources in Gurugram 

and promised that within a few months the 

area might have the best transport connectivity 

in Delhi. 

Bid to save women passengers: Child-lock sticker 

mandatory on Delhi cabs 




n a bid to increase safety for women 

passengers the State Transport 

Authority (STA) passed a resolution in 

which, it is mandatory for all the drivers in 

the city to paste minimum of four stickers 

on each cab asking passengers to disable 

its child lock before starting the journey. 

Cabs in Delhi will get permit only if the 

driver put the stickers which inform 

passengers about the car’s child-lock 

system. 

“To ensure safety of passengers, especially 

women, the STA Board has approved the 

transport department’s child-lock proposal 

for cabs,” said Madan Lal, STA member 

and Kasturba Nagar MLA. The Delhi 

government cleared that the Motor 

Licensing Offices, not to issue taxi 

permits until a vehicle has the stickers on 

it. Besides, to implement the law on the 

two lakh taxis running on city roads, the 

traffic police and the enforcement team 


of the transport department have been 

asked to prosecute violators. 

The move comes after the Delhi 

Commission for Women (DCW) took suo 

motu cognizance of the issue and 

maintained that the presence of child 

lock decrease the possibilities of crime 

against women, as passengers cannot 

open cab doors from inside if the child 

lock feature is enabled. 

A child safety lock is a special purpose 

lock built into the rear doors of most cars 

to prevent children in the rear seat from 

opening the doors during transit and 

when the vehicle is stationary. 

It locks down the doors and windows of 

car and once the child lock is on, the doors 

and windows cannot be opened. 

In all the reported rape cases that took 

place in cabs, the driver had turned the 

child lock ON in the car, locking it 

completely and making it impossible for 

the victim to open the door or window to 

escape. 



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Neighbourhood News 


Pakistan to Tighten Terror Financing of Suspects Possibly Joining IS Ranks 

fforts by Pakistan's security forces 

to counter terrorism are proving 

successful, but the government also needs 

to adopt a tougher approach toward 

terrorist facilitators, say security and 

political analysts. 

"Now Pakistan has to make sure it will not 

spare those who facilitate the terrorists," 

said Rasul Baksh Raees, a Pakistani 

political scientist. 

Raees told VOA that a comprehensive, 20- 

point "National Action Plan," involving 

the intelligence agencies, police, 

government and army, has contributed to 

a significant drop in attacks. Raees issued 

his assessment when asked about a new 

report which noted a significant decline in 

terrorism and sectarian violence in the past 

few years. 

The report, from Pakistan's National 

Counter Terrorism Authority, or NACTA, 

concluded that security forces have killed 

more than 1,800 militants and arrested 

around 5,500 suspected terrorists since the 

action plan went into effect two years ago. 

NACTA’s progress report was presented 

before a committee in the National 

Assembly last week and based on 

terrorism data from December 2014 to the 

present. 

The report recommends that concrete 

steps be taken to completely cut the money 

supply of terrorists, while highlighting 

NACTA’s efforts to compile the data of 

suspected Pakistani citizens who have 

traveled to war-torn countries and possibly 

joined the ranks of Islamic State. 

"There were reports that scores of Pakistani 

citizens have traveled to the conflict zones 

to join the Islamic State. Through a databased 

system, we are compiling information 

of such suspects; after verification we will 


hand it over to the federal and provincial 

governments," Ihsan Ghani, the director of 

NACTA, said in an interview with VOA. 

The citizens in question traveled to places 

such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, 

but did not return after their visas had 

expired. 

Ghani said the initial list for suspected 

militants has been compiled, adding that, 

"Once the verification of the data is 

completed, NACTA will work to devise a 

Sri Lanka Parliament 

passes Inland Revenue Bill 

 

 

 




he Parliament of Sri Lanka has passed 

a major tax reforms bill - The Inland 

Revenue Act- to simplify the tax system 

and increase the government revenue. It 

is expected that this reform should 

of 26-year-old war against Tamil separatists, 

the IMF had increased pressure to increase 

revenue after repeated balance-ofpayment. 

“We have faced several risks under the 

current complicated income tax framework 

we have faced several risks. Sri Lanka has 

become one of the countries with the lowest 

tax revenue in the world,” said Mangala 

Samaraweera, Finance Minister of Sri Lanka 

in the Parliament. 

The Finance Minister declined to delete a 

section which allows foreign authorities to 

request income tax details of tax payers. 

Further the religious organisation which got 

wealth from the Royal grants before 1815 

would be exempted, provided that the 

profits were used for the charitable 

purposes. 

framework based on the recommendations." 

He also said, "There should be strict laws 

to stop these nationals from going and 

joining terror groups or to punish them." 

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump 

put Pakistan "on notice" for failing to crack 

down on some militant groups, and for 

providing covert support to others such 

as the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani 

network. He threatened to reduce U.S. 

assistance to the country unless Pakistan 

did more to crack down on banned groups. 

Islamic State has become a growing concern 

in Pakistan lately. Although IS does not 

have a stronghold in the country, many 

militant groups and individuals have 

pledged allegiance to the terrorist group 

and have conducted terror attacks on their 

behalf in Pakistan. 

Pakistan's army recently launched a ground 

offensive, called Operation Khyber-4, to 

eradicate the Islamic State group’s militants 

from the semi-autonomous tribal region. 

In addition to curbing extremism, 

authorities are making efforts to stop hate 

speech in the country, said the report. 

Officials say the government will launch a 

mobile phone app aimed at providing help 

to assess hate speeches so that the 

provincial and federal governments can act 

accordingly. 

The report said a new biometric verification 

system was introduced to verify mobile 

phone SIM cards and around 93 million 

chips have been blocked as a result. 

Hundreds of passports of suspected 

militants have also been blocked in an effort 

to curb extremism, said the report. 

"Another big challenge that we are dealing 

with is terror financing. We want to cut all 

the channels through which the terrorists 

could possibly collect funds. 

It is not easy but we are heading in the 

right direction and have formed a task force 

for this purpose," Ghani said. 

The statistics in the NACTA’s report say 

around $3 million and 5,000 bank accounts 

of suspected terrorists have been frozen in 

an effort to cut the terrorists' money 

supply. 

But securing the country's shared borders 

also remains critical to Pakistan's security. 

"Pakistan has to secure the porous border 

along Afghanistan to make sure the 

terrorists who find refuge on the other side 

of the border do not come back to resume 

their activities," Raees said. 

Bilateral relations plunged to new lows in 

recent months with Islamabad and Kabul 

accusing each other of harboring anti-state 

militant groups and sponsoring terrorist 

attacks on their respective soils. 

Credit : Voice of America (VOA) 

increase government revenue by at least 

45 billion rupees per year. The law has been 

passed in the Parliament with 90 voting 

for and 25 against in the third reading. The 

new act is aimed at extracting direct taxes 

and reducing indirect taxes. 

Samaraweera said that more of the 

proposals will be implemented from the 

next fiscal year while some will take effect 

from October 1. After the depreciation of 

29 per cent in the Sri Lankan Rupee since 

2008, and the sudden increase in the 

external borrowing during the final phase 

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna made a 

request to conduct the committee stage but, 

Samaraweera declined the request. 

However he said that the amendments could 

be moved forward after the budget, if there 

were any requirements. Most amendments 

have already been made as suggested by 

several parties and stakeholders. 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), 

which approved its loan to Sri Lanka last 

year, has said that the reforms are expected 

to support the fiscal system and make the 

tax system more efficient and more 

equitable. It will also help to generate 

resources for social and development 

programs. 



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Editorial 


Theory of Mind and Other People’s Shoes 

♦ By Mark Parkinson 

@Mark_Parkinson 

markp.india@gmail.com 

markparkinson.wordpress.com 

ompassion is a key part of empathy. I 

believe any person’s ability to be 

compassionate or to practice empathy is 

completely dependent on one’s ability to 

step in to another’s shoes, or even beyond. 

In a lot of communication training, 

especially associated with Neuro Linguistic 

Programming (NLP), this is translated in to 

first, second and third positions adopted. 

First position is where I see a situation or 

perceive through my own eyes, my own 

experience and beliefs. 

Second position entails the ability to put 

myself in to the other person’s shoes – for 

example in an argument or disagreement. 

Third position goes even further and 

entails the ability to float above the 

situation and both me and you’ to see the 

situation, to hear the communication and 

perceive the surface and deep level 

emotions on all sides from the position of 

a third party – a person who can see the 

situation without direct emotions related 

to it, the archetypal fly on the wall’. 

One of the things that has been clear from 

research for some time is that not every 

person grows up with the same levels of 

 

 

 

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empathy. Secondly, there is a growing body 

of evidence that empathy can be taught 

and a belief that ultimately we will prepare 

people for a better future (and maybe even 

contribute to a better world for all). I find 

that, all too often, one meets leaders (let 

alone others) who lack the ability to move 

to second position, let alone third position. 

Some may have lost the ability out of habit 

and some might never have really had it. 

Some seem to fear that taking anything 

other than first position will lead to them 

being perceived as weak, vulnerable in their 

leadership. The truth is really quite the 

reverse. The most effective leader is a 

listener, has the humility to admit when 

wrong and to adopt another’s position. 

Also, if we are unable or unwilling to step 

in to second position we will always 

struggle to understand the acceptability 

or otherwise of decisions we make. 

As I’ve touched on in a number of other 

articles, we’ve seen some fascinating and 

intriguing discoveries over the last few 

years as a result of MRI scanning 

technology and the ability to understand 

what is happening in the developing human 

brain. 

As the following article explains, we now 

know what is happening in the brain of a 

young child at the time that they are 

developing a sense of ‘other-ness’, the 

sense that leads to the ability to see the 

perspective of others and to empathise. 

In time, I hope that this will lead to 

greater refinement of our understanding 

about how and when to teach empathy, 

to increase the level of social emotional 

skills of more children. 

However, I also believe that we will 

likely learn in time that there are some 

negative impacts and influences to be 

avoided or minimised, as well as positive 

habits and skills to be taught if we are 

to enhance the empathy levels of 

children. 

Greater Good – Berkeley – What 

Happens in a Child’s Brain When They 

Learn to Empathize? 

This is certainly a fascinating field of 

study to be followed in the future. 

Challenges Facing Matteo Renzi in Italy 

♦ By NDT Italy Bureau 



atteo Renzi faces a number of 

challenges despite returning to the 

political forefront in Italy by regaining the 

leadership of the ruling centre-left 

Democratic Party (PD). In the primaries 

held on April 30, 2017, Matteo Renzi won 

and received more than 70% of the votes 

polled for the party’s leadership, in which 

around 2 million party workers voted. 

Justice Minister Andrea Orlando received 

19% while Michele Emiliano, the governor 

of the southern Puglia region managed to 

receive about 9% of the votes. “Forward, 

together”, Renzi tweeted after his win and 

remarked “The alternative to populism isn’t 

the elite. It’s people who aren’t afraid of 

democracy”. 

Matteo Renzi had resigned as the Italian 

Prime Minister in December 2016, after the 

overwhelming rejections in a referendum 

to reform Italy’s constitution. Now, Renzi’s 

win has bolstered his political standing in 

Italy and some analysts are even 

predicting that he might push for the 

national elections ahead of the scheduled 

2018 due date. 

Despite this win, Renzi faces a number of 

challenges. One of such major challenges 

is to counter the rising popularity of the 

Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy Led by 

Eurosceptic Beppe Grillo. According to a 

poll published by Corriere della Sera in 

March 2017, the Five Star Movement had 

a record high support of 32.3%, while that 

of PD fell to 26.8%. Since its inception in 

2009, the Five Star Party has seen an 

upsurge in support and became the second 

most voted party in the 2013 Italian general 

elections. As regards its stance on major 

issues, the M5S says that if elected to 

power, it will pull Italy out of NATO, 

counter deals such as Comprehensive 

Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) 

and Transatlantic Trade and Investment 

Partnership (TTIP), which European Union 

(EU) has negotiated in the world and which 

endanger workers’ rights, social rights, 

environmental protection, biodiversity and 

territorial resources. M5S also aims to 

promote an alliance with the countries of 

southern Europe to overcome the rigour of 

austerity. work for the immediate withdrawal 

of sanctions imposed on Russia and for the 

relaunch of cooperation with what it 

considers to be a key strategic partner, and 

expand Italy’s economic and diplomatic 

relations with new strategic allies. A major 

challenge for Renzi will thus to keep a check 

on the defections of the PD supporter to 

Eurosceptic parties like M5S or the 

emerging centre right party, the antiimmigrant 

Northern League. Eurosceptic 

parties also stand to benefit from the Italian 

debt crisis. Italy’s debt to GDP ratio has 

climbed among the highest in the world. 

According to a poll in August in Italian 

newspaper Corriere della Sera, M5S could 

win could win 27.6 per cent of the vote in 

the election with the PD on 26.9 per cent. 

However, it is from inside the PD rather than 

outside that Matteo Renzi faces his most 

difficult challenge. There are a lot of 

dissenting voices against Renzi in the PD 

and this was visible when many of these 

rebels had opposed him in the December 

2016 referendum. Schisms in the PD once 

again came to the fore when the president 

of the southern region of Puglia, Michele 

Emiliano, challenged former Prime Minister 

Matteo Renzi for leadership of PD. Further 

fissures in the left emerged when in 

February 2017, Uniting left-leaning 

defectors from the ruling Democratic Party 

(PD) and part of the Sinistra Italiana (the 

Italian Left) formed a new political party — 

the Progressive and Democratic Movement 

(DP). 

The new party is headed by ruling party’s 

former leader in parliament, Roberto 

Speranza, and Enrico Rossi, the head of 

the Tuscany region. The party’s manifesto 

says that “We want to build an open 

movement … that is also the beginning of 

a center-left renewal”. Thus, one of Renzi’s 

major challenges would be to put an end 

to the schism in the left. 

In his bid for victory in the national 

elections, Renzi must counter an important 

challenge. This pertains to the dissatisfaction 

among many common Italian citizens to 

many of the policies of Paolo Gentiloni, 

who replaced Renzi in December. The 

Italian banking sector still faces many 

troubles. Non-Performing Loans in Italy 

stood at 17.3% of the total loans (or EUR 

349 bn) at the end of 2016.EU is demanding 

Italy to keep its budget deficits under 

control. 

There is discontentment on account of the 

immigration crisis which has mounted 

significant political pressure on the 

government. Italy has put place a 

controversial code of conduct on how 

non-governmental organisations involved 

in migrant rescues can operate in the central 

Mediterranean. According to Italian 

interior ministry data, more than 97,000 

migrants have arrived by boat since the 

start of the year, down 4.1 per cent from 

the same period of 2016. Still the migration 

crisis continues to fuel support from the 

populist opposition parties. 

Thus, Renzi faces a multitude of challenges 

in his quest for winning the Italian national 

elections. Moreover, the Italian national 

election also hold much greater significant 

for the European integration project as the 

contest is between the binaries of pro- 

European integration forces and the 

Euroscepticism. 



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Think- Tanks 

♦ By Dr. Pramila Srivastava 

@PramilaBK 

ps.a@iins.org 

♦ By International Institute 

for Non - Aligned Studies 

@iinsNAM 

iins@iins.org 


Don’t grow up: The Magic of your Inner Child 

child can teach an adult three things: 

To be happy for no reason, to always 

be curious, to fight tirelessly for something 

Paulo Coelho 

All too often we hear people telling us to 

grow up, they say don’t be a child, you’re 

a grown up now. We spend our entire lives 

rushing to grow up, we force our children 

to behave themselves and grow up. Why 

the rush I ask? 

Growing up is inevitable but do we really 

need to forsake every single thing from our 

childhood and put on our grown up pants. 

The world we live in is so competitive and 

that precisely makes our entire life a rat 

race, when did we forget to find the joy in 

a spectacular rainbow or relish the last 

piece of chocolate. We eat for fuel and 

that’s about it, if you’ve seen children eat 

something they love, you’ll see how they 

drag out the process, making the memory 

last. 

If you remember your childhood, you’ll 

recall a few things that set you apart, that 

incredibly contagious happiness which 

leaves us all pumped up. We’ve forgotten 

what unadulterated joy looks like, 

somewhere along the way we have started 

viewing the world as one big bad place 

Non-Aligned Movement and Disarmament 

on-Aligned Movement has been 

advocating to end the nuclear arms 

race, as a cohesive voice it wants to 

eliminate the threat of a nuclear war 

altogether. In the past, one of the main 

focus areas of NAM was to sought 

national security of Member Nations 

through non- involvement in military 

alliances with the major power blocks. The 

advent of nuclear weapons has radically 

changed this traditional concept of 

security. The traditional security agenda 

centred on military preparedness based 

upon conventional weapons and strategy. 

There could be winners and losers in such 

a war fought through conventional 

weapons but the hard learnt fact is that a 

nuclear war cannot be won and in the end 

produces more harm than intended. 

Disarmament and nuclear disarmament, in 

particular, is necessary for world peace. 

Disarmament has been the cardinal 

principle of Non-Aligned Movement from 

its very inception after the Second World 

War. The successive gatherings of the 

Member States have repeatedly urged for 

general and complete disarmament. Peace 

and disarmament constitute basic principle 

of the Non-Aligned Movement. Different 

types of confrontations take place within 

the global community, confrontations 

with no room for crazy pure joy. If you’ve 

seen adults who get excited about the little 

and the big things, who give you fist 

bumps and literally jump for joy, you’ll be 

able to see how fully they are embracing 

their inner child. That translates into every 

aspect of their lives, they are truly joyful 

and report higher levels of happiness than 

the cynical and every day adult who has 

left his inner child buried deep inside. 

Because our inner child never leaves, it 

always exists inside of our hearts and 

minds. It may be difficult to reconnect with 

our inner child, but I promise it’s possible 

if you look deep enough within. So do 

something, get excited and allow yourself 

to feel pure happiness without the taint of 

cynicism. 

Believe in the unbelievable at times, one 

beautiful thing about children is that they 

don’t research to reach conclusions. They 

truly believe in things like miracles, Santa 

Claus, the tooth fairy. One reason the book 

Harry Potter worked so well, was that it 

drew you on an imaginative journey of a 

lifetime, she made the mythical world of 

wizards so real and adults rushed to read 

that because that transported them to a 

world of endless possibilities. Let yourself 

get lost in the unbelievable sometimes, 

never lose that sense of wonder and 

imagination that can truly transform us 

from within. Believe in miracles, because 

not everything in this world can be 

explained and instead of rushing to 

disprove the unbelievable, revel in it. Play, 

don’t think it is undignified to play a little, 

between major nuclear powers, wars of self 

determination and independence, internal 

civil wars (resulting from political 

secessionist movements and armed 

conflicts between Member Nations that 

could result in confrontation between the 

major powers). Non-Aligned countries 

have always insisted that the United 

Nations should become a basis for 

resolution of such conflicts between the 

major powers and have suggested special 

sessions on disarmament to draw attention 

to the problems of nuclear arms race. 

Attempts to reduce tensions between 

major power blocks have been a constant 

endeavour in the recent years. 

The Non-Aligned Movement recognises 

that in certain situations it becomes 

imperative to engage in an armed struggle. 

Armed struggle in the context of elimination 

of exploitation and colonialism is not 

disapproved by its directive principles. To 

the Non-Aligned Movement, wars of 

national liberation and wars of independence 

are justified and therefore should be 

supported. The approval to take up arms 

to resist colonialism clearly distinguished 

it from a commonly held view of the Non- 

Aligned Movement as a pacifist group in 

world politics. Non-Aligned Movement 

believes in territorial integrity and 

sovereignty of its Member Nations. Hence, 

the secessionist and divisive movements 

are not genuine and do not merit support. 

However, the movement recognises that 

internal conflicts cannot be ignored 

be silly with friends or family. Life doesn’t 

always have to be a hardship, let loose 

and play around a little bit. Children enjoy 

their games and dance with a sense of awe. 

So don’t let something as small as 

adulthood stop you from playing. 

Get curious and adventurous: never stop 

being curious, children learn an abundance 

of things by being extremely curious and 

fearless. So often we get into comfort zones 

in our lives and refuse to explore around 

us, be fearless the world has so much to 

offer; go out and grab all the life 

experiences that you can. Be an explorer, 

never lose your sense of adventure. Be it 

trying out new food, new cultures, new 

travel experiences instead of sticking to 

your routine do something new. Break your 

self made mould for your life and draw 

inspiration from your inner child. 

because they can easily turn into 

international wars. 

Nuclear disarmament has always been one 

of the core agendas of NAM’s principles, 

a number of members and observers have 

played an important role in the development 

of the international Non-Proliferation 

Regime. For example countries like Brazil, 

Egypt, Mexico, Sri Lanka and South Africa 

have at different times in the treaty’s history 

committed to disarmament principles, The 

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 

Weapons (NPT) works under three 

principles: Non-Proliferation, disarmament 

and peaceful use of weapons. The Member 

States have significantly influenced not only 

the policies of the treaty that entered into 

force in 1970, but also the outcome of the 

subsequent five-year NPT Review 

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love unconditionally, they don’t hold back. 

They love their families, friends etc like 

there’s no tomorrow. 

They give back the love that they receive 

twofold and somewhere along the way we 

hold ourselves back, stop loving so purely, 

maybe we’re afraid of being hurt, you do 

have to take care of yourselves so pick the 

right people to be a part of your life and 

love them unconditionally, your life will be 

better for doing so. So laugh loudly, jump 

up for joy, play, explore the world around 

you, be fearless and bold, and love 

unconditionally. Find that inner child 

again and you’ll thank yourself for doing 

so. 

of ‘unity in diversity’, from the negotiations 

of the NPT in the 1960s to the latest Review 

Conference, there have been variations 

among the NAM states’ views, priorities and 

approaches to the treaty, which have often 

been masked by the ‘official’ NAM position. 

However, its impact on the NPT can be 

attributed to a variety of factors. 

As of mid-2011, all but three of the 

movement’s 120 members were parties to the 

treaty, out of a total membership of 189 states. 

The influence over the NPT affairs is not only 

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♦ By Smt. Maneka 

Sanjay Gandhi 

@ManekaGandhiBJP 

n the last two weeks, my team at 

People for Animals has been 

examining all the religious sites on the Net 

to see what kind of nonsense is being put 

on in the name of Hinduism. Ever since I 

learnt about the Hathajodi “magic 

Talisman”, which is just the penis of the 

giant monitor lizard, being sold by sites 

that claim it brings health, wealth and 

attraction, we have been looking for more 

rubbish being sold. 

Siyar Singhi is supposedly the horn of a 

jackal. For one thing, the jackal is protected 

from killing by the Wildlife Protection Act 

1972. For another, the jackal does not have 

a horn. The sites selling this agree that it 

“normally” does not have a horn. 

But when it “hoots” (they probably mean 

howls) with its head facing downwards (a 

technical impossibility) then suddenly a 

horn emerges from its forehead. If the jackal 

is killed and the horn is taken with a tuft of 

hair on it, the hair will keep growing forever 

The truth about 'Siyar Singhi' 

and in different colours as long as it is kept 

in vermillion powder. It supposedly keeps 

away evil spirits – if you do regular havans 

round it for which, of course, you have to 

get havan priests and spend a lot more. 

Otherwise it doesn’t work (of course, then 

it is your fault). 

This nonsense about the Siyar Singhi 

doesn’t just extend to Hindus. It seems to 

be all pervasive in Muslims and Buddhists 

as well. In Srilanka some illiterates use it 

(its called narric – combo) as an amulet to 

win in gambling. The Tharu tribes of Nepal 

and India believe it will grant the men the 

ability to see in the dark and seduce women. 

In Bengal it is placed in safes (as is the 

hathjodi) to increase wealth. However, 

since this can only be done if a puja is done 

before the safe, the gang that passes off as 

priests usually take the opportunity to rob 

it later. Some sites have gone even further 

and said that the Bible has written that the 

jackal is the mother of the Devil and so 

keeping the horn of the mother will ensure 

that the devil stays away. 

The Golden Jackal had 13 subspecies. It is 

now down to 7. It is a small dog-like animal 

that eats fruit, insects, small reptiles, birds 

and small rodents. The family lives 

together in small groups of parents and 

children. They are portrayed in the Jatakas 

and Panchatantra as intelligent creatures 

and to hear a jackal howl was a sign of 

good luck. The Jackal is associated with 

the goddesses Kali, Chamunda. The jackal 

is eaten by Koli and Vaghir tribes of Gujarat 

and Rajasthan and by the Narikaruravas in 

Tamil Nadu who eat anything from rats and 

squirrels and stolen pet dogs and cats from 

Chennai’s houses. But the real reason for 

the decline is this mumbo jumbo rubbish 

of people wanting an imaginary bone in its 

head to bring them luck. According to these 

sites, which are now on the radar of the 

police and will be shut down and the 

owners arrested, this bone of a scavenger 

considered unclean by most of the shastras 

will now bring wealth, win law cases, help 

you get on with your married partner, 

restore health, acquire property, remove 

depression. If “activated” (this means a 

set of expensive poojas running into 

lakhs) it will cure autism, mental diseases, 

Panic Disorders, Attention-deficit or 

hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Autism 

spectrum disorder (ASD), Eating disorders, 

Schizophrenia, Substance abuse etc. 

You, of course, have to recite mantras that 

vary from site to site – and religion to 

religion - Mumkaraya Kuru Namah, 

Om Padma Shrim, Om Hariram Purva 

Dakshin Uttar Paschim, Adhik taral padarth 

sabhi janya agyakari kuru kuru nama, gidar 

singhi amuk mother vashayan kuru kuru 

sawah. None of them make any sense in 

Sanskrit but, depending on the site, you 

have to say these, ranging from 21-108 

times. And even then it won’t work unless 

a crystal mala is bought from the same site 

and “charged” regularly – which costs 

even more money. 

The Muslims are told that Allah has put a 

special power inside it. And buying just 

one is not good enough. You have to get a 

male and female. According to them the 

horn is collected only on the waning moon 

on a particular nakshatra which is only 

known to the “masters”. You must put the 


siyar singhi in your hand and say “I own 

you... my name is so and so... you have to 

obey me” and then put this in a silver box 

along with 3 cloves and 2 cardamoms. You 

can use this item to cause extreme pain and 

even death to your enemies. 

In order to make it even more expensive, 

the sites have gone into incredible detail: 

The jackal is not any jackal, but a rare 

species called Motiya. And not any motiya 

either. It has to be the leader of the pack. 

And how will you know that he is the 

leader and carries the horn. Because “he 

dies after he hears a regular outburst of 

strange voices”. 

He cannot be old, as the singhi disappears 

from his head, so he has to be a young 

leader of a pack – which is even rarer. How 

does one make out the horn is real – put 

the singhi in mercury (the kind you get in 

old thermometers). The horn will eat it up! 

If that wasn’t bad enough, one type of Siyar 

Singh, called Linga Siyar Singhi which 

comes from the jackal penis, is now being 

pushed as a sacred object. I suppose it is 

easier to verify than an imaginary horn. 

Every site claims that every other site and 

shop selling this Siyar Singhi are selling 

fakes taken from dogs and pigs and stuck 

onto bones with glue. In the 21st century 

if you believe that a bone and a hank of 

hair can get you what you can’t get 

through work, prayer, education and 

ambition, then go ahead and make these 

fake site owners rich! 

To join the animal welfare movement 

contact gandhim@nic.in, 

www.peopleforanimalsindia.org 

Dry mouth (XEROSTOMIA) - Overview and Management 

♦ By Dr. Mugdha 

Gulati Motani 

@mugdha2801 

ry mouth is a condition that many of 

us may experience in our daily lives - 

when we are upset, under stress or 

extremely frightened. Xerostomia ( Zeeroh-stoh-mia) 

is different - the individual’s 

mouth is dry most of the time due to 

inadequate saliva formation. 

Saliva is an essential body fluid that 

protects the mouth and preserves oral 

functions. Decreased saliva and chronic 

dry mouth can have a major impact on 

general wellbeing. Health of your teeth, 

gums, speech, appetite and taste sensations 

are particularly affected. 

It is a very unpleasant condition which can 

drastically alter quality of patients’ lives. 

Xerostomia is a symptom, not a disease 

entity, and can be temporary, reversible, or 

sometimes permanent. The hardships 

patients experience with xerostomia are 

sometimes overlooked or underrated. It is 

found that detecting symptoms of dry 

mouth in its initial stage and with right 

diagnosis, one can lower the risks 

associated with oral and general health. 

What causes dry mouth? 

mugdha@dantah.com 

• Ageing: An inevitable cause of mouth 

dryness 

• Medications: Many prescription and 

over-the-counter medications are responsible 

for dry mouth symptoms. Common 

examples include high blood pressure 

medicines, anti-allergy medications and 

number of anti-depressants. 

• Cancer treatment- Radiation treatment in 

the area of head and neck can damage the 

saliva producing glands, resuting in 

reduced saliva production. 

• Nerve damage: Injury or surgery to the 

head and neck area can lead to some nerve 

damage resulting in dry mouth. 

• Health conditions- Depression , Anxiety, 

Poorly controlled Diabetes, yeast infection 

(thrush), Sjögren’s Syndrome, Parkinson’s 

disease, HIV/AIDS etc. 

• Lifestyle choices: Consumption of 

alcohol, tobacco (chewing/ smoking), 

caffeine conntaining drinks. 

• Snoring/ sleeping with the mouth open. 

• Weather conditions such as humidity 

Do you have xerostomia? 

• Do you have a feeling of stickiness/ 

dryness in your mouth? 

• Do you suffer from constant bad breath? 

• Do you have to get up in the night to 

drink water? 

• Have you noticed any taste changes and 

burning in the mouth? Any difficulty 

chewing, speaking or swallowing? 

• Are your lips cracking too much? 

• Have you noticed your teeth getting 

decayed and gums being swollen even 

after maintaining an excellent oral hygiene? 

• Are you having problems wearing your 

dentures? 

• Are you prone to sore throats? 

• Besides DRY MOUTH, are there any 

other associated symptoms like dry eyes, 

vaginal dryness , bone pains etc.? 

These are a few but most common 

symptoms one can experience in dry 

mouth. 

If your answer is “YES” to most of the 

above written questions, then you could 

be suffering from xerostomia (dry mouth) 

and you must contact your dentist soon. 

Your dentist will review your medical history 

and examine your mouth in detail. Blood 

investigations/ imaging scans could be 

needed to confirm the cause of xerostomia 

in a particular case. 

What should I do if I have Xerostomia? 

• If medications have been established as 

a cause of your dry mouth, contact your 

physician for dose change or an alternative 

medicine. 

• Individuals with xerostomia must avoid: 

Tobacco, sugary/acidic foods or drinks, 

spicy foods. 

• Minimize consumption of alcohol and 

caffeine. 

• Sipping of water and sucking on ice chips 

can give temporary relief. 

• Lanolin/ Vitamin-E based lip balms can 

soothe cracked lips. 

• Sugarless or xylitol containing chewing 

gums can help stimulate saliva. 

• Saliva substitutes (gels/rinses/alcohol 

free mouthwashes) can help moisten the 

mucosa of the mouth and give some relief. 

• Medications can also be prescribed by 

the dentist in cases of severe xerostomia. 

• If snoring/ breathing from mouth is 

present and the cause of dry mouth, 

contact your physician for necessary 

treatment to the underlying condition. 

•A humidifier can add moisture to the room 

and reduce dryness in the mouth during 

sleep. 

Conclusion: 

• If xerostomia continues, the focus 

becomes prevention, maintenance, comfort, 

and emergency treatment. Since it can be 

quite a challenge for patients to maintain 

good oral health, brushing twice with 

fluoride toothpaste, using a dental floss/ 

inter-dental brush, application of fluoride 

varnish by your dentist is especially 

important. 

Frequent recall appointments become 

mandatory to prevent decays and gum 

diseases. 

By Dr. Mugdha Gulati Motani, BDS, Associate 

Dental Surgeon, Former Trainee, CDER, 

AIIMS,Certified Aesthetic Dental Surgeon 

Specialist at Dantah 



11 

Entertainment & Lifestyle 

Oprah Winfrey 

and Alec Baldwin 

among Emmy 

Award presenters 


BS says Oprah Winfrey, Alec Baldwin 

C 

and Jim Parsons are among the stars 

who will be handing out trophies at the 

69th Primetime Emmy Awards. 

Other presenters include Riz Ahmed, 

Anthony Anderson, Jason Bateman, 

Jessica Biel and Edie Falco; Anna Faris, 

Allison Janney, Rashida Jones, Nicole 

Kidman, Debra Messing and Lea Michele. 

Rounding out this first roster of presenters, 

announced, are Shemar Moore, Kumail 

Nanjiani, Tracee Ellis Ross, Adam Scott 

and Reese Witherspoon. More presenters 

will be announced later. 

Stephen Colbert will host the Emmys, to 

air live on CBS at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 

17. 


Sutherland, Burnett, Roizman, 

Varda to get honorary Oscars 

A 

ctor Donald Sutherland, writer-director 

Charles Burnett, cinematographer 

Owen Roizman and Belgian director Agnes 

Varda are getting honorary Oscars this year. 

The film academy said on 6th September 

that the four honorees will receive their 

Oscar statuettes at the ninth annual 

Governors Awards ceremony in November. 

"I'm just so pleased with these four very 

different kinds of people, their different 

crafts and the different kinds of films that 

they make," academy president John Bailey 

said in an interview. "This shows the best 

of the whole notion of what the academy 

and the governors of the academy espouse 

to do, which is honor many different kinds 

of filmmakers." 

The board of governors selected the 

honorees on the night of 5th September. 

None has previously won an Oscar, Bailey 

said. 

"One of the things that's so wonderful 

about these (recipients) is they can come 

from anywhere inside the filmmaking 

community," he said. "These are our 

awards. These are the people that we feel 

we want to single out." 

Burnett is an independent filmmaker whose 

work has been celebrated for its portrayals 

of the African-American experience. He 

wrote, directed, produced, shot and edited 

his first film, "Killer of Sheep," in 1977. 

Roizman has received five Academy Award 

nominations for his work on such films as 

"The French Connection," ''The Exorcist" 

“I think that phase of my life is 

over”: Hema Malini on acting 

 

 

 

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and "Network." He also served as a 

governor of the academy's cinematography 

branch from 2002 to 2011. 

The 89-year-old Varda wrote and directed 

her first feature film in 1956 and released 

her latest film this year. 

"She made the first truly French new wave 

film in 1955," Bailey said. "It's only been in 

the last decade that really, internationally, 

people have understood what an important 

filmmaker she has been and continues to 

be." 

Sutherland has appeared in more than 140 

films, including "Invasion of the Body 

Snatchers," ''Ordinary People" and "The 

Hunger Games" series. 

Bailey was the cinematographer on 

"Ordinary People," which went on to win 

four Academy Awards, including best 

picture. He said he remembers being 

surprised Sutherland wasn't nominated 

then. 

"He's a man who has an incredibly 

distinguished body of work of so many 

different kind of movies and different kinds 

of directors," Bailey said, "and incredibly 

he has never been nominated." 

The private, untelevised Governors 

Awards gala is set for November 11 at the 

Ray Dolby Ballroom, just upstairs from the 

Dolby Theatre, where the 90th Academy 

Awards will be presented on March 4, 2018. 



ctress turned politician Hema Malini 

says that she is no longer attached to 

acting and it is no more a part of her life. 

But she further stated that if any 

interesting project comes in her way then 

she won’t hesitate to take that up. Hema 

Mailini is currently the BJP MP from 

Mathura constituency. 

“Even people in Parliament asks me 

whether I am working in films or not. I feel 

like doing film but I must get a proper story. 

I can’t do any film that comes in my way,” 

said Hema Malini. “If anything similar to 

my role in previous project like ‘Baghban’ 

comes in my way then I will definitely go 

for it,” she added. 

The statement of the actress came on the 

side-lines of the press conference for her 

upcoming programmes “Synergy-2017”, 

an international cultural festival. 

On asking about her role in the event, she 

said that she is not going to present dance 

performance, she will only presenting the 

event. She further added that this doesn’t 

mean that I will end dancing. She wants to 

continue her work in the field of dance and 

continue serving the country. Through the 

Synergy 2017 programme, Hema Malini will 

be promoting many young talents across 

the country that performs classical dance 

performance. 


Country singer Jo 

Dee Messina 

announces cancer 

diagnosis 

C 

ountry singer Jo Dee Messina, whose 

hits include "I'm Alright" and "Bye 

Bye," announced on 6th September that 

she has cancer and will be postponing her 

2017 show dates after Oct. 7. 

A statement posted on her website didn't 

specify the kind of cancer the 47-year-old 

Messina has been diagnosed with, but 

said she's "working closely with a team to 

explore all options." 

Messina, who is from Framingham, 

Massachusetts, had a string of hit songs 

in the late '90s from her sophomore record, 

"I'm Alright," on Curb Records. She was 

the first female country artist to score three 

multiple-week No. 1 hits from the same 

album. She also won the Horizon Award 

for new artists from the Country Music 

Association in 1999. 





Sports 

 

 

 

T 

WADA Annual Report outlines priorities 

to fight doping 




he World Anti-Doping Agency 

(WADA) has published its 2016 

Annual Report and has outlined it’s 

priorities towards furthering its objective 

of worldwide movement for a doping free 

sport. WADA was largely successful in 

achieving the 2016 priorities which 

included the development of new detection 

methods for doping, conducting new 

research, equipping Anti-Doping Organizations 

(ADOs) with tools to protect the integrity 

of sport and monitoring global anti-doping 

activities. 

The 2010 report outlines ten priorities for 

WADA to deter, detect and prevent doping 

in sports. First, the report calls for 

increasing cooperation of WADA with 

National Anti-Doping Organizations 

(NADO), Regional Anti-Doping Organizations 

(RADO) and International Federations to 

enhance anti-doping capacity. Towards this 

end, WADA has established Partnership 

Programs with NADO and RADO. In 2016, 

NADO Partnership Programs were 

established with Argentina, Azerbaijan, 

Belarus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, 

Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Morocco, 

Nigeria, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine 

and Uzbekistan. There are now 16 

independent RADOs which assist the less 

developed countries. 

Second, the report calls for developing and 

implementing a strong WADA led 

Compliance Program that includes 

meaningful and proportionate sanctions for 

non-compliance by Signatories through a 

new International Standard. WADA 

strongly believes that all signatories should 

be held to the same standards within the 

code to establish a level playing field. 

Third, there is a recommendation to manage 

the outcome of the McLaren investigation 

report which highlighted the state 

sponsored subversion of the drug testing 

process. As a result, a task force will be 

established before the Summer and Winter 

E 

ngland will start a test match on a 

Saturday for the first time in 63 years, 

playing India in the third test at Trent 

Bridge next August. 

It will be the first time England will start on 

a Saturday since facing South Africa at the 

Oval in 1955. 

Along with the five-test series, England 

and India will also play three Twenty20s 

and three one-day internationals. 

England must negotiate two home tests 

Olympic Games to oversee that participating 

athletes are subject to proportional, and 

well-designed, anti-doping testing to 

maximize both detection and deterrence in 

the lead up to the Games. 

Fourth, WADA will focus on an increase 

and enhance research-led anti-doping 

education including the development of an 

International Standard. The aim is to ensure 

that all stakeholders in sports develop 

value-based education program. In 

addition, WADA has also set up its e- 

learning tools to further such research. 

Fifth, the recommendations seek to 

strengthen WADA’s investigation capabilities 

through measures such as the he creation 

of a strong anti-doping investigations 

network among Anti-Doping Organizations 

(ADOs) and a robust Whistleblower 

Program. 

Sixth, there are calls for reviewing and 

strengthening of the WADA- accredited 

laboratories that analyse samples and report 


test results. This is a part of the objective 

to ensure a high quality results and enable 

a high-performing analytical system. 

Seventh, the recommendations call for 

further developing the Athlete Biological 

Passport (ABP) Program which monitors 

select biological parameters such as blood 

and urine and thus allows anti-doping 

organizations to generate individual, 

longitudinal profiles for each athlete and 

to look for any fluctuations that may 

indicate the use of performance-enhancing 

drugs or method. Developing the ABP 

program would enhance the traditional 

drug testing model. 

Eighth, WADA prioritises research and 

development in scientific-based knowledge 

in areas including the Prohibited List and 

the assessment of the prevalence of 

doping. Towards achieving this WADA 

has committed more than USD70 million to 

scientific research. The Agency has also 

announced a global partnership with 

pharmaceutical companies to check the 

misuse and abuse of medicines for doping 

in sport. 

Ninth, WADA’s priority is to ensure that 

Anti - Doping Administration and Management 

System (ADAMS) works technically and 

securely to support the global anti-doping 

program. ADAMS is a web- based database 

management system which coordinates 

anti-doping activities worldwide under the 

World Anti-Doping Code. 

The tenth and final priority outlined in the 

report pertains to increasing commitments 

and financial support from governments, 

sport and other sources to ensure ongoing 

sustainability of WADA in light of 

its expanded role. Despite an average 

growth in WADA’s budget by 1.4% per 

year during 2011-2016, there are limits to 

traditional sources of funding and WADA 

has outlined to explore additional funding 

strategies. 

WADA management has developed a fouryear 

plan (2018-2021) which seeks to raise 

funds from resources for activities such as 

monitoring ADO’s compliance, enhancing 

investigations capacity, and developing 

and managing Whistleblowers program. 

The above priorities outlined highlight 

WADA’s commitment to harmonise and 

strengthen anti-doping actions and rules 

across all sports and countries. It is 

imperative that all stakeholders extend 

their support towards achieving the 

above. 

England to begin test series against 

India on a Saturday 

against Pakistan in late May. 

That will be followed by a one-day 

international against Scotland in Edinburgh 

on June 10, while Australia's limited-overs 

tour will take place from 

June 13-27. 

"England's white-ball 

contests against India, 

Australia and Scotland 

will give a fascinating 

guide to form ahead of 

the 2019 ICC Cricket 

World Cup," ECB chief 

executive Tom Harrison 

said in a statement. 



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nthony Joshua will defend his world 

heavyweight titles against Bulgarian 

boxer Kubrat Pulev in Cardiff on Oct. 28. 

Joshua beat Wladimir Klitschko at 

Wembley Stadium in April to add the WBA 

belt to his IBF title. Pulev is the mandatory 

challenger for Joshua's IBF belt. 

"October 28 can't come soon enough. I 

have been eager to get back in the ring 

since Wembley and now we are confirmed 

and ready," Joshua said on 5th September 

in a statement. "I'll be locked away focusing 

on fight No. 20 for the next eight weeks. I 

am excited to experience the atmosphere in 

a sold out Principality Stadium and aim to 

give the fans a spectacular night." 

The 27-year-old Joshua is 19-0, winning 

every fight by knockout, since turning 

professional in 2013 after winning gold at 

the 2012 London Olympics. 

The only loss of Pulev's 26-fight career 

came against Klitschko in 2015, but the 36- 

year-old Pulev has won his last five fights. 

The Bulgarian was the 2008 superheavyweight 

European champion as an 

amateur before turning professional in 

2009. 

"Anthony is a formidable opponent," Pulev 

said. "My preparation will be very intense, 

and I will be perfectly ready when I enter 

the ring so that he will have no chance to 

beat me." 


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