(Announcement) Travel Grants for Cultural and Artistic Exchanges in Africa

Art Moves Africa (AMA) is an international nonprofit organization working to “to facilitate cultural and artistic exchanges within the African continent. AMA offers travel funds to artists, arts professionals and cultural operators living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation.”

AMA offers travel grants to “artists, arts professionals and cultural operators living and working in Africa to travel within the continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation.”

Art Moves Africa supports the travel of artists and cultural professionals working in the following artistic fields:

Performing arts : theatre, dance, story telling…etc

Music

Visual arts

Cinema

Literature

Applications are accepted round the year and the next deadline to process the applications is 1 September 2010. For more information, visit this Website: www.artmovesafrica.org

ART MOVES AFRICA (AMA)

Khadija El Bennaoui, Coordinator

98, rue Antoine Dansaert. 1000 Brussels/Belgium

Tel.: +32476676149

Fax: +32 251 15 202

Website: www.artmovesafrica.org

Email: info@artmovesafrica.org

Indian Army restrict Kashmiris to houses: Mirwaiz Farooq

Srinagar, Jully 1 (Writer-South Asia): In disputed state of Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that, on one side, the Indian troops and police personnel are killing Kashmiris and, on the other, the people of Kashmir have been restricted to their houses through undeclared curfew.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar appealed Kashmiri people to continue their peaceful protest against Kashmiris’ massacre by troops. He said that if the occupation authorities prevented them from holding demos on roads, then they protest in mosques.

He said that the people of Kashmir have pledged to take the ongoing liberation struggle to its logical end despite the use of brute force by Indian troops. He said that no power of the world could stop them from their just struggle for right to self-determination.

The APHC Chairman appealed the world community to send teams to the occupied territory to review the situation and also urged it to put pressure on India to stop massive human rights violations in Kashmir and resolve the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiri’ aspirations.

Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India: NNW, report

Srinagar: Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the two Asian neighbours along with China are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent American atomic experts have claimed.


While Pakistan is estimated to possess 70-90 nuclear weapons, India is believed to have 60-80, claims Robert S Norris and Hans M Kristensen in their latest article 'Nuclear Notebook: Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2010'.

Estimated Globa l Nuclear Weapons Inventories , 2010
Russia 13,000*
United States 9,400**
France 300
China 240
Britain 180
Israel 80–100
Pakistan 70–90
India 60–80
North Korea ?
Iran ?
Tota l ~23,360

The article published in the latest issue of 'Bulletin of the Atomic Science' claimed that Beijing, Islamabad and New Delhi are quantitatively and qualitatively increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, yet the locations are difficult to pinpoint.

For example, no reliable public information exists on where Pakistan or India produces its nuclear weapons, it said.

"Whereas many of the Chinese bases are known, this is not the case in Pakistan and India, where we have found no credible information that identifies permanent nuclear weapons storage locations," they said.

"Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not believed to be fully operational under normal circumstances, India is thought to store its nuclear warheads and bombs in central storage locations rather than on bases with operational forces. But, since all three countries are expanding their arsenals, new bases and storage sites probably are under construction," the two nuclear experts said.

Writer-South Asia (Srinagar | New Delhi | Islamabad | Muzaffarabad: No power on earth could stop the Kashmir people from continuing their liberation struggle : Lashkar-e-Toyiba

Writer-South Asia (Srinagar New Delhi Islamabad Muzaffarabad: No power on earth could stop the Kashmir people from continuing their liberation struggle : Lashkar-e-Toyiba