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54 Indian POWs in Pakistan still waiting for Repatriation

For the last few years I have been reading constantly about India's and Pakistan's reactions toward the issue of release of 54 prisoner of war captured during 1971 war.
Funnier part is none of the government is taking it seriously, even the last well documented news was on 2004 .
The blame was well supported by AII POW- MIA internetwork as well as claim by an eminent UN envoy of Pakistan Asma Jehangir.

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Vipul Purohit was three months old when India and Pakistan last went to war. The plane of Purohit's fighter pilot father was hit inside Pakistani airspace on a chilly December night and he never returned.

The 32-year-old Purohit — along with families of dozens of other airmen, army officers and a navy pilot believed to have been taken prisoner in 1971 — have for three decades asked the governments of India and Pakistan to return their relatives if they are alive, or tell them if they are dead.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said during a visit to India last year that there are no Indian prisoners of war in his country's prisons. India's government says at least 54 Indians are there, and has demanded their return. But the relatives say the officials are not doing enough.

"We are fighting two governments," Purohit told The Associated Press in an interview late Wednesday.

"Pakistan has not returned my father. But even when I go to my own foreign ministry to ask about him, I always get such a cold reply," Purohit said after a news conference in New Delhi with several POW relatives.

Purohit grew up doting on pictures of his father, Flight Lt. Manohar Purohit. He now lives in Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, the city from where the pilot took off after midnight on Dec. 9, 1971.

Six days before, combat aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force had attacked nine Indian airfields along the western border and the two countries were at war.

The Pakistani move came after simmering tensions on the eastern frontier, where Indian forces were training and aiding Bangladeshis fighting for independence in what was then East Pakistan.

The two-week war ended on Dec. 17, 1971, but not all POWs were released when a peace agreement was signed the following year.

Across the country, hope had been kindled for dozens of families through fragments of what they consider proof that their beloved are alive: photographs and reports in Pakistani newspapers and Time Magazine, wartime radio broadcasts, and reports from Indian spies released from Pakistani prisons.

For the families, their battle started when the war ended.

"My mother just endlessly wrote letters to the government for years," Purohit said.

The Indian government formally mentioned the presence of 54 POWs in Pakistan only in 1979. In 2000, Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir, now a special U.N. envoy, said that 53 Indian military personnel and 143 Pakistanis, who may include civilians, had been kept as POWs in Indian and Pakistani prisons for almost 30 years.

On some occasions, Pakistan offered prisoners it said were Indians, but Indian officials refused to take them, saying they could not verify their nationality.

Over the decades, the POW issue got sucked into other knotted political and diplomatic problems between India and Pakistan.

There is no movement on the POW issue now, as India and Pakistan have withdrawn their ambassadors and have their troops on war alert along the frontier.

"This is a humanitarian issue," said Shailash Shekhar, a campaigner for the POW families. "Perhaps the POW release could be the first confidence-building step between India and Pakistan."

Now the issue is with both the governement.
Indian government is not doing enough cause it aint sure of the claim, still letters remain pouring from the Pakistani jail. There was a case when a daughter of minister was abducted , govt immediately prompted with the release of dreaded terrorsits in return of her safe release (http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/research/terrorism/tr_1996_03_001_s.html )...but when it comes to the soldier's relief , govt always keep itself silent, as it fully believes dat there is the oath by indian soldiers to serve their country.. so even if they die in war or in extreme cold in Siachin..govt wont do anything for them..tell me why these people kill themselves for us..and wat we are giving them in return....???? Wat's govt doing for safe return of their own soldier..who followed govt order to go into war..they dint go to pakistan for illegal picnic. So wen they are captured wat is govt doing for their return... why the world's most dreaded secret service files are kept locked or did they ever tried to find out the whether their bretherns really are there or not..I tell u the govt are busy attending their son's marriages or campaigning to win the next election and it is the soldiers responsibilty to die over dere as they have taken the oath to serve and govt is paying them salary ...lolz

And about Pakistan..God save this country..the pak means pure and they are the world's most corrupted beings.they supplied nuclear weapon technology to North Korea and Iran, running terrorist camps in their soil, harbouring Al Qaida and taliban who are making them fool in terms of religion and stupid jihads which ensures stupid peoples of shahidi and jannat killing innocent unarmed peaople with Kalashnikovs... and now they are what ...key partner of US in war over terrorism. ...lolz ...The people who are running terrorist camps in POKs , handling both chemical and biological weapons are now fighting terror..they aren't fighting terror, they are simply killing and crushing the baluchi rebels in the name of Al Qaida , while most of the Al qaidans are given safe protection inside their country..So we cant expect that they will humbly apologise and give back POWs...wehich they have denied for past 36 years straight.
Lets C wat happens.. I m jus clearing out my frustration, but my humble plea is to Pakistani governent is to release those POWs and request to our govt to take suitable measures ensuring their release.
Gudnite
luv n carez Sourish

Lmx1a and Msx1 Are Expressed in Midbrain Dopamine Progenitor Cells

To identify HD proteins expressed in DA progenitor cells in the vMB, embryonic day (E) 10.5 mouse embryo vMB cDNA was used as a template to screen for HD-encoding transcripts by PCR. This approach, combined with a large-scale in situ hybridization screen, identified Lmx1a and Msx1 as two transcription factors with relevant expression patterns. Whole-mount in situ hybridization at E11.5 showed that Lmx1a and Msx1 were both expressed in the vMB and at the caudalmost part of the diencephalon (Figures 1A and 1B). We applied immunohistochemistry to further examine the expression of Lmx1a and Msx1 relative to defined markers of postmitotic DA neurons, including Nurr1, Lmx1b, Pitx3, and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme in DA synthesis (Figures 1F–1K and 1V; data not shown). At E12.5, a stage when DA neurons are actively generated, Lmx1a and Msx1 were coexpressed in DA progenitors located immediately above differentiating DA neurons (Figures 1C–1F). Expression of Lmx1a was maintained in postmitotic Nurr1⁺/TH⁺ DA neurons (Figures 1C and 1D), while Msx1 expression was exclusively confined to mitotic DA progenitors that had not yet initiated expression of Nurr1 and TH (Figures 1C, 1E, and 1F).

Lmx1a was expressed prior to Msx1 and was first detected in ventral midline cells at E9 (Figure 1G). At this stage, Lmx1a was coexpressed with Nkx6.1, a HD protein that is broadly expressed in ventral progenitor cells (Vallstedt et al., 2001), including motor neuron progenitors located lateral to DA progenitors (Figure 1K). From E9.5 and onward, the expression of Nkx6.1 was progressively extinguished in presumptive DA progenitor cells (Figures 1K–1R). The downregulation of Nkx6.1 expression correlated precisely with the initiation of Msx1 expression at E9.5 (Figures 1O–1R). Msx2 was also expressed in a pattern similar to Msx1 but at lower levels (data not shown).

Lmx1b is structurally related to Lmx1a and has previously been implicated in the maturation of DA neurons (Smidt et al., 2000). While expressed in vMB progenitors, Lmx1b was not restricted to DA progenitors at early developmental stages (Figures 1S–1V). Also, expression of Lmx1b was downregulated in DA progenitors at E11.5, approximately 2 days before the cessation of midbrain DA neuron generation, while the expression of Lmx1a and Msx1 was maintained throughout this period (Figure 1V; data not shown). Thus, the expression patterns of Lmx1a and Msx1, but not that of Lmx1b, correlate with DA neuron specification. Taken together, a Lmx1a⁺/Msx1⁺/Nkx6.1⁻ expression profile defines DA progenitor cells in the vMB.


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ALL HAIL TO INDIAN RAILWAYS

Few days back , I ve been to one of my memorable trips ..it was a workshop on IPR( intellectual property rights) in IIT kanpur, India. And dere I had da privilage to witness a ..neva seen before tale..dat I always heard but never actually seen it..
It's a legend come true

It's Indian railways neva heard before train
RNC GARIBNAWAJ EXPRESS
(Ranchi to Ajmer weekly)

Actually i had planned to skip da tour..but den i made my mind and gone to reservation counter to find da reservation of all the trains except this is full and on waiting dan also more dan 100, so i purchased da ticket ..and checked for its route

Varanasi>>> Mirzapur>>> Allahabad>>> Kanpur

And journey less dan 6 hours...
Wen i told my frnds about dis train no 1 actually heard abt it and every1 was excited about dis new train...

So here goes da date of my departure to Kanpur, March 30th.
Train was scheduled to arrive at 8 55 and to depart at 9 45...i reached station at 9 30 and found dat train is late and will arrive shortly on platform 8 ( wow!!! i learnt dat dat only dat Varanasi has 8 platforms..)..I was happy dat since it has a long waiting time here ..it will manage its delay.. but
hehehe
train came at 10 15 and waited dere for exactly one hour as scheduled..and left da station only on 11 20.
Ok
about the train

i was da lone passenger dere wid reservations..and all oders were widout tickets... :D oops haan all means in the reservation compartment dere were only 15 people..not even the vendors boarded da train.. :D

Den it reached Mirzapur..taking da one hour journey in 3 hours..stopping on every urinals it can stop ... :D means every places where lil bit bushes were dere...
Den da actual phase of journey started when a large contingent of college boys boarded da train
Dey were all samples wearing 35 rupees goggles ..a boy had one mobile too..he flaunted it wid more dan one can think for he was using headphones intead of ear phones and head phone was of size of da headfone we hear wid our taperecorder..I asked him ..if he studies in college.. he answered wid an air dat he is talking to an illiterate...lolz

And da legend began
I heard a boy shout
"Mera ghar aa gaya.."
It was a village.. and nearly 10 kms away from nearest station ..
i thot
"oh god dis train will stop in next station too :( "

Gosh!!!
Train stopped dere only..
the boy pulled da chain and went home.. walking out...and I was surprised..after 15 mins...train started..I appreciated da courage of the boy and was smiling on the incident..
LMFAO
I found out... every boy in dat train ..gonna go home like dat only... :D
And da train was stopping at every village border ..
And it stopped nearly 50 times between Mirzapur and Allahabad

And da train reached allahabad and da time it was scheduled to cross Kanpur...and it reached kanpur nearly 5 hours late and i was on this legend train for train for 11 hours

And
Den I understood da trains name
Yeah it was really Garibnawaj Express( bless for the poors)

So all hail to Indian railways..wen our railway miniter is giving speeches in MIT and we are travelling on such living legends and spending 5 hours more to admire our journey and Indian Railways.
luv Sourish

Dido - White Flag

Somedays back ..when i heard dis song after being mentioned in one of my frnds blog...I neva guessed da reason why she meantioned da song so touching..untill now..so m posting da song on my blog and left u all to wonder y we posted it on our respective blogs
:)
it goes like..........

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

Return to innocence.......

Exactly one year passed today.... of my high speed virtual life..

where I lived da moments so wonderfully dat no 1 can imagine... I still remember my beginning days... :D
I was logged in yahoo messenger with available status...wid all alerts on..wenever anybody logs in and here I m notified...and i buzzed him..yeah dis is exactly da day where i learnt to buzz

ctrl G ..

one of my senior told me about da buzz... yeah pretty part was dat it was den him no her..lolz i was such a looser dere..even dose hims were so buzy..and with 4 or 5 lines..day say..

"gotta go..
C ya laterz..
tc"

I loved da part gotta go..it was so hollywood style...but wasnt able to apprehend wat da hell dis tc means..

I knew one TC ..dat it's transfer certificate..of my Kendriya Vidyalaya..and i was quite accustomed to it ..thanks to my Dad's transferable job..i had neva one frnd dat i can say my childhood buddy..except one..but she is like my kid...and studying medical nowadays..and i m seldom in touch and dats another stowie...

let me get to write wat I was writing... So I searched da "tc" in Google search..dere in da top it came.. take care..OH god! dis guy in real hated me so muz and in internet he is saying me tc! and dere i was exposed to da very unreal side of da virtual life dat we c bac every1 and say tc to all :D

Yeah den dere is such a long wait...and I was seating in da chair for sum1 to talk wid..and no1 was free... :( ..and soon no1 was dere logged in..den i came to know dere is a thing called invisible log in..lolz I learnt one more thing and wondered will I be ever able to use dis..:D...

Bingo!!!!!

dere comes dis cute gal in my life thanx to orkut...
Shaista

Ohk! I confess dat she agreed to be my frnd only wen i wrote committed in status..so it isnt really my achhievement dat i befriended a gal...but i confessed to her..dat m not committed Thank god ! she dint scared away..and i found dis lonely gal..who needed sum1 to console..and she was not over wid sum1 whoo jus left her..god and shaista knows wat reason..but i felt her crying and in deep pain for him..she was my lovelimost frnd...and we talked real lot..within 3 days i was addicted to her and she was addicted to (dats wat she said)...but in real she was replying so late..den also pretty fast...and she used to blame on da speed of her stupid net...yet she was dere all the time..den i came to know dat its dat she has few more frnds she was simultanously talking..and dere i learnt to lie...lie for letting sum1 feel good and special is aint a crime....and all i was sad and irritated of her new frnds...and soon my possesiveness was mistaken for love and dere she went away coz she had sum1 in her life..(even she was not his gf anymore)...poor me ....and so sad she dint got dat my possisiveness for her is aint lov but my loneliness and desperation dat i need sum1 to call her my exclusive..
Sadness.... and honestly i still miss her... :-)

Dere comes Amber...

yeah I loved her really very much..even against her all odds..I loved her almost like a loved my life and my family...and we got along very well..and by dis time..Sourish Karmakar..was well established name in orkut communities.... And dere i found th urge of talking to may more dan love to amber..dough i continued giving her exclusivity and she gave me mine...but soon I was surrounded by a hell lot of new pictures..yeah DP (display pictures) in orkut and my scrap count rised like 300-500 per day and dere came da differences between me and my love..she was all worried about my new playboy status..and i was addicted to dis status..but honestly I cared for all dose DPs in orkut..and was helping dem in dere emotional needs..so i was quitta popular too...

So Once again i moved to messenger..so as to avoid orkut and Amber's suspicions..and soon da list went on so long dat I had to sign in invisible

Yippieeeeeee!!

I signed invisible.... :D

and I was quite proud dat if i sign visible ..I m hell late to answer every1..so i started selecting gud frnds ..bes frnds... frnds..and dere I was hell bz..typing and my type speed increased a lot :D and sooner i lost amber due to lots of misunderstanding coupled wid her few lies..and I lost Nawaal too...

Yeah Nawaal my best frnd den...wid whom i used to talk whole day and she used to talk wid me whole day...xclusive real xclusive( we set one record of 9 am to 5 am) and i lost her coz she was real frnd of amber....and sumtime i feel so lonely widout her...coz i loved to be wid her coz she was angel in my life.she soothed my all pains and neva shouted on me...and she was so gud...but wat to do .... :-|
still my list was hell long...and i neva understood dat loosing her will be so much pain

Den dere was dis lovely girl...my son

she cheered me a lot..helped me to understand how lovely parenthood can be..and how sweet kids can be...our relation is still so strong..but she got to kno dat m sick..(in da sense of mentality) and she is one da verge of leaving me forever..may be already left me..coz she was online today..yet she dint talked to me..nor she left any message..she hates my all jokes wid which she once get cheered up..she gets irritated wid my presence and wid sense of guilt..and she is leaving or may be she left ..for her gud of hers and I m letting her..coz she gave anough joy to me enough to fill dis life's quota..and m letting her ( may be i lost da right to say m letting..coz i don think it affects her much...).. to live her own life happily... :)

Dere is dis gal who named her sarAAh..and she still holds her name..and very much in my life...dough discrepencies are dere and our differences are getting so stronger dat it will one day kill our relation (watever dat is left)..sarah became my sole confider..i used to confide everything to her..and soon things worsened up due to my confessions...coz she cant ever help herself to believe me..and nowadayswe keep ourslef bz holding on to shreds of our relations...

Slowly slowly..my invisibilty in messnegers made da proverb true "outta sight outta mind"

So soon all my frnds got tired to buzz me up and wen my last buddy sarah is leaving...I m all alone..back to available staus in messengers ...

lolz!! m kidding!!
I neva sign in nowadays..coz i don like da feeling of being alone..and m dead afraid to sign in visible..as m not still ready to accept dat no1 will talk to me..and I don blame den..I blame myself.... i selected frnds whom to talk and whom not to talk.. And here I am all alone..c jus 1 year passed and m all back to my innocence( the start of net life) wid dis song of enigma in my mind

"Return to innocence"

And soon I m afraid dat I will return back completely to my non internet life... believe me it will be real soon..but as if any1 carez ....

take care ( TC)
love
Sourish Karmakar