"We wish to express our deep anger and anguish over the events in Kathua and Unnao and the aftermath of these events; over the efforts of those administering the relevant states to protect the alleged perpetrators of these monstrous crimes; over the subsequent profoundly distasteful efforts of rationalization and the deflection and diversion that have been so much in evidence in the reactions of your partys spokespersons in the media,” the letter read." They further said the Unnao and Kathua cases are not isolated incidents, but part of a Custom Brushed stainless steel letter Signs Manufacturers sequence of "repeated targets".The letter by the academicians and scholars comes days after 49 retired civil servants, in a strong worded open letter, held Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for the "terrifying state of affairs” and asked him to reach out to the families of the Kathua and Unnao rape victims to "seek their forgiveness”.The academicians also raised concerns over the Prime Ministers "prolonged silence" on the issue and the "non-specific assurance of justice" for the victims of the two rape cases that have shocked the entire nation.The letter also came on the day the Union Cabinet approved an ordinance to provide stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of rape of girls below 12 years, amid a nationwide outrage over cases of sexual assault and murder of minors in Kathua and Surat and the rape of a girl in Unnao.Also Read: Heres what ex-bureaucrats say in an open letter to Narendra ModiThe signatories to the letter include academicians and scholars from universities across the globe including the New York University, the Brown University, the Harvard, the Columbia and prominent IITs, among others."We send you this letter because it is our duty to do so; so that we are not guilty of silence; and so that callousness and cowardice might finally draw the line at the broken body of a little girl and the rape of a young woman,” the letter concluded.New Delhi: Over 600 academicians and scholars from across the globe have written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing their anguish over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases and held his government responsible for the "terrible state of affairs”..The academicians also said the Prime Minister broke his "prolonged (and by now familiar) silence" with "wholly inadequate, platitudinous, and non-specific assurances of justice for the victims."We have observed that there has been a prolonged silence on your part over the ‘terrible state of affairs in the country and ‘an undeniable association of violence with the ruling dispensation,” it added

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After receiving the letter, the General Staff Branch of the Military Operations Directorate of General Headquarters, on the next day - December 20, 2007 - sent a letter to then interior secretary Syed Kamal Shah..The ISI had requested the interior ministry to make urgent security arrangements, the paper said, adding that this information was so important that the copies of this letter were also dispatched to the Military Intelligence Directorate, GS Branch and General Headquarters, Rawalpindi."He (Osama bin Laden) has planned to send his courier, who is a national of Pakistan and a resident of Multan, named Musa Tariq, through Waziristan with explosives to be used in executing the murder plots. On coming Sunday - which is December 22 - this person will be in the area of Dera Ismail Khan," the letter read.This information was provided to the Interior Ministry in December 2007 by the Army and the ISI in three reports and the letters obtained from bin Ladens residence. The revelation comes exactly on the 10th anniversary of Bhuttos assassination.Six days before Bhuttos assassination, another letter was issued with the signatures of then-chief of the general staff Lt-Gen Salahuddin Satti and Lt-Col Staff Khurram Shahzad, warning about the terror plot.In these secret intelligence reports, the ministry was warned that bin Laden had issued orders to kill then President Musharraf, Pakistan Peoples Partys chief Bhutto and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief Fazlur Rehman, the paper said.Karachi: Al-Qaedas slain chief Osama bin Laden had shifted to Afghanistan to supervise a plot to assassinate Pakistans former premier Benazir Bhutto and then military dictator Pervez Musharraf, a media report said on Wednesday."Osama bin Laden is personally supervising this entire plan and for this reason, he has shifted to Afghanistan," read the last three lines of the letter.The most important letter by the ISI to the Interior Ministry was written on December 19, 2007; the letter was directed to the Interior Ministrys then-director coordination of the Crisis Management Cell Colonel Muhammad Imran Yaqub, the paper said, citing the documents.Citing intelligence gathered by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the News reported that the explosives to execute this plot were provided by the courier of bin Laden.The letter, titled President Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto and Fazlur Rehmans murder plan, signed by Lt Col (retd) Zaigham Islam Butt for DG Intelligence said bin Laden has issued the order to kill Musharraf, Bhutto and Rehman."We have taken revenge for our brothers and sisters of Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid," read the letter which was recovered from bin Ladens home.Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack during an election campaign Custom Galvanized stainless steel letter Signs Manufacturers rally on December 27, 2007 outside the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.Following the assassination of Bhutto, a short letter was sent to bin Laden after two days.Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in a covert raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011

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Was it a selection blunder, failure to execute plans or lack of experience? The Indian men’s hockey team’s fourth-place finish at the Commonwealth Games has thrown up a lot of questions as the team returned empty-handed for the first time in eight years. 13 Pakistan — whom they beat seven times since April 2016 — pressed India hard and the young guns wilted under pressure for a 2-2 draw.Ranked world no.But then hockey is not played on paper and world rankings amount to nothing, as India found out the hard way within 10  Custom Back-lit crystal letter Signs Manufacturers  days where they lost to England and New Zealand and were stretched by world no. Even world no. 1 Australia. At Gold Coast, they were the second highest-ranked team behind world no.Chief coach Sjoerd Marijne says the poor show was a "result of individual level of the players not being good enough. 6, India had picked up silvers at Glasgow 2014 and Delhi 2010, and dished out consistent results in the last two years. Australia were the invincibles under Ric Charlesworth, while the famed Marcus Weise led Germany to a golden double at the Olympics before joining football. The real reasons are the ones that I discussed before and yes, we need to work on those."One, we created a lot of opportunities but the conversion was not good. Thirdly, there were too many soft goals and penalty corners against us. I don’t agree in this point because here we didn’t struggle.”"There are three things for me from this tournament,” said Marijne from Gold Coast when asked about what went wrong. The decision to leave out Sardar Singh in the midfield, defender Birendra Lakra and striker Ramandeep Singh showed what they missed out, as the team struggled throughout.”India travelled with a young team preferring speed and fitness over experience.Player-driven approach?Hockey and football are two sports where the role of a coach/manager assumes great importance."Injection, trap and drag and you have the defenders from the opponent.”Penalty-corner conversion was another area of concern, besides poor finishing.”. If the first three are not perfect and the last point is getting better from the opponents with running in, it gets difficult to score.India’s show was lackluster to say the least with the team playing to almost no plan or structure and appeared under intense pressure when opposition changed tactics.India’s fourth-place finish exposed their frailties and lack of planning, at a time when they have constantly talked about breaking into the top five — places held by Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Holland and Germany."This tournament did not go the way we wanted it, but it doesn’t mean everything was bad and we have to change everything.If one were to go purely by numbers and history, India were among the favourites at the Gold Coast Games.Said Marijne, "Penalty corner conversions are the not the same anymore.Asked if the approach needed a re-look, Marijne replied in the negative.Marijne has laid a lot of emphasis on his player-driven approach — players are expected to chart their ways in training sessions and even match situations — but if anything, India appeared clueless when in need of a Plan B.India recently hired the just-retired Chris Ciriello of Australia — a master drag-flicker of his times — but the move too seemed to have little effect on their performance. It is not that you just have a free shot from the top of the circle (and you score). 24 Wales, Pakistan and Malaysia."Secondly, the individual level of the players was not good enough and they struggled with themselves. India earned 39 penalty corners in all, of which 10 were converted

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