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# Blasts rock India
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/blasts-rock-india/
- Published: 2007-11-23T14:11:19.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:57:32.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:46

**Serial blasts in India**

In coordinated serial blasts, bombs ripped through court complexes in three cities in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Courts in [Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi](http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E359597B-2B72-478E-9411-BF0793A9DFEA.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) were struck, and at least thirteen people have been killed.

Indian officials have blamed the blasts on "[groups who are trying to spread terror in our country](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL42030.htm?&%5Flite%5F=1&ref=opendemocracy.net)".

Watch the news unfold in this video from the 24-hour news broadcaster IBN.

**The doomed conference?**

Though a widespread consensus of disillusionment precedes the impending Annapolis conference on the middle east crisis, Aluf Benn argues in *Haaretz* that Ehud Olmert - and Mahmoud Abbas - have [much to gain by attending](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/926803.html?ref=opendemocracy.net).

Walid Salem in Bitterlemons argues that "normalisation" will only come about through the encouragement of [bilateral initiatives at the civil society and sub-political level](http://www.bitterlemons-international.org/inside.php?id=828&ref=opendemocracy.net). Peace can be reached despite political leaders.

Arab ministers have urged the United States to include the issue of the disputed [Golan Heights](http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/23/rss.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net#22) in the agenda so that Syria can join next week's conference.

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An Iraqi national residing in Britain, who is also under a "control order" for alleged links to terrorist groups, has been [banned from pursuing the study of human biology](http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071121/full/450467a.html?ref=opendemocracy.net). He has taken his case to the high courts, prompting a serious legal and ethical debate on the threat of knowledge.

**Islamabad cries foul at Commonwealth omission**

Pakistan is protesting the decision of [the Commonwealth to suspend its membership](http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/49CE0E82-FB8B-496B-B7D1-4FD0904D66D2.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) because of the imposition of emergency rule. The suspension, which echoes a similar move in 1999 when Pervez Musharraf came to power, is thought to be largely symbolic.

**Baghdad pet market bombed**

A [pet market in Baghdad](http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E767A5C7-B4DA-4C95-BC98-3D9C5F158E77.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) was bombed, with thirteen people thought to have been killed and fifty injured. The bomb was hidden in a birdcage.

**Kurdish party to be banned?**

Turkish authorities are threatening to ban the [Democratic Society Party](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23715926.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) (DTP), a Kurdish political party which Ankara claims has maintained ties with separatists. DTP politicians have entered the parliament for the first time this year.

**On nuclear terrorism**

Michael A. Levi of the Council on the Foreign Relations speaks about the threat of [nuclear terrorism](http://feeds.cfr.org/~r/cfr%5Fmain/~3/188793107/on%5Fnuclear%5Fterrorism%5Faudio.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) to the United States.