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Musharraf has missed chance to mend fences with India, says UK paper
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OCT 11: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has missed a chance Musharraf misses chance to mend fences with India, according to The Daily Telegraph.

The greatest natural disaster in Pakistan's history offered a rare chance to warm the slight thaw in relations with India.

By first prevaricating, then accepting only limited help from a neighbor with vast resources, General Musharraf has displayed a "depressing lack of imagination", said the paper in its editorial today.

According to the paper, the earthquake literally shook the foundations of the boundary between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

Describing Musharraf's reluctance to respond to India's offer of helicopters and relief material, The Daily Telegraph said that Musharraf had repeatedly said that there were not needed, which, "given the scale of the disaster, was manifest nonsense."

"Then it (Pakistan) came up up with the feeble excuse that there could be no question of joint rescue operations because there was no population on the Line of Control (LoC). Finally, it agreed yesterday to accept a 25 ton planeload of relief supplies," the paper said.

Natural disasters and shared grief have the power to break barriers of prejudice. That happened after the earthquake in northwest Turkey in 1999, when the Greeks sent rescue workers and ships and planes loaded with relief supplies, bridging the gap between neighbors who had been at odds for decades over the Aegean and Cyprus.

A few weeks later, the Turks were able to reciprocate when a smaller earthquake struck Athens. More recently, the Indian Ocean tsunami hastened a peace agreement between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh movement, thus ending a struggle that had lasted nearly 30 years and taken 15,000 lives. However, there was no breakthrough in Sri Lanka, another tsunami sufferer, which has long been racked by a vicious war between the government and the Tamil Tigers.

In failing to do so, Gen Musharraf has let down the earthquake victims and damaged the long-term interests of his country. (ANI)

Mumbai pub refuses entry to 'Nigerians'

MUMBAI, OCT 11Two South Africans, Mokhele Diutoileng, a steward with South African Airways and Vusi Zana, in-charge of sales with Levi Strauss, were denied entry to Hawaiian Shack, a pub in Bandra, because they were thought to be Nigerians.

The two men, who were black, were part of a group of eight, which included Canadians, an American, two Indians, and a white South African.

�It was embarrassing. They (the security guards) pointed to us and said that Nigerians would not be allowed in the pub. I have travelled all over the world and believed that racism would be a thing of the past. Such a reaction from a spiritual country like India was never expected,� said Diutoileng, one of the South Africans who was denied entry.

When Mid Day spoke to Sadhana Lalwani, the owner, she said, �The cops had told us that they would hold us responsible if they found Nigerians peddling drugs in pubs.

So we were just trying to take precautions.� She further added, �I am a single woman running the pub, so I don�t want to get into any problems with the cops.�

Added John Xavier, the manager at the pub, �The cops had specifically warned us about Nigerians. How could we take a risk?�

But the fact remains that the authorities did not bother to check the men�s passports. �Just because they are black, how did the pub owner assume they were Nigerians?� asked Alok Gupta, their Indian friend.

Pubs across the city have become extremely cautious after a number of Nigerians were arrested for drug peddling recently. The officials at Khar police station, however, denied giving any official instruction to the pubs for not allowing particular nationalities. (Mid-Day)