Xref: utzoo soc.culture.indian:23720 news.groups:17673 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!smunews!ti-csl!m2!araja From: araja@m2.csc.ti.com (Ali Raja) Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Subject: soc.culture.pakistan Message-ID: <110294@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Date: 12 Feb 90 21:27:48 GMT References: <35260@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <36050248@hpindda.HP.COM> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Followup-To: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Lines: 29 Previous-Subject: Re: TIME MAGAZINE: The Undoing of Benazir Distribution: In article <36050248@hpindda.HP.COM> ananth@hpindda.HP.COM (AP Anantharaman) writes: >Coming to think of it, maybe we do not need soc.culture.indian or soc.culture. >pakistan, but rather as somebody suggested, soc.culture..news >and soc.culture..debate/tirade and whatever else which goes on >in this net. I for one, think that this might be a good idea. My original purpose in calling for the creation of soc.culture.pakistan was to provide a place where Pakistanis could not be told to stay our because the newsgroup name was soc.culture.INDIAN. I am willing to stand and flame with the best of them, assuming that there is at least SOME good humour in the flaming. But I have seen far too many anti-Pakistani tirades on soc.culture.indian in the past few days to want to stay within this newsgroup. That is why I officially called for the creation of soc.culture.pakistan. It may succeed, or quite likely, it might fail, but at least the Pakistanis in soc.culture.indian will have made a statement. On the other hand, if you, or anyone else, is willing to make an official call for discussion on the creation of soc.culture..news and soc.culture..debate/tirade, I will extend my wholehearted support to this proposal, and withdraw my current one. It is quite definitely a preferable option to a Partition of soc.culture.indian. Also - to anyone wanting to vote for soc.culture.pakistan - please don't send me your votes; the voting period has not started. Not only that, but please DO NOT post your votes.