Day: March 4, 2019

Last week was ‘Humiliating episode for India ’: New York Times

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The last week   Modi , Modi bhakts and Godi media  spent  making tall claims  about the Indian attacks on PoK and boasting about  ‘Indian victory’ over Pakistan but in reality its was a ‘humiliating episode  for India’  says  leading American  newspaper New York Times  First the pilot, Wing Cmdr. Abhinandan Varthaman, was soaring through the sky in a MiG-21 on Wednesday. Then he was shot down by Pakistani forces. After parachuting into enemy territory and being surrounded by a mob, he tried to eat some of the documents he was carrying, according to Indian news…

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Kashmir bandh tomorrow against assault on Article 35A, Jama’at ban: Trade bodies

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Trade bodies have called for Kashmir bandh tomorrow against the ban on Jama’at-e-Islami and the legal challenge to Article 35A.The call for the strike was issued by various trade bodies of the Valley on Monday. Trade bodies have called for Kashmir bandh tomorrow against the ban on Jama’at-e-Islami and the legal challenge to Article 35A.The call for the strike was issued by various trade bodies of the Valley.The government of India Thursday banned Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir for five years, alleging that it was “in close touch with militant outfits”…

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India put in ‘Shameful’ list of 38 Countries for Reprisals on Rights Activists by UN

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The annual report from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres included allegations of ill-treatment, surveillance, criminalisation and public stigmatisation campaigns targeting victims and human rights defenders in the countries. The UN listed 38 “shameful” countries including China and Russia on Wednesday which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against people cooperating with it on human rights, through killings, torture and arbitrary arrests. The annual report from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also included allegations of ill-treatment, surveillance, criminalisation and public stigmatisation campaigns targeting victims and human rights defenders. “The world owes…

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Health team disallowed to visit ‘Starving’ families stuck in Handwara gunfight

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Government forces on Sunday allegedly disallowed a health team carrying first aid kit besides essentials including baby food and biscuits to visit five families, who according to the locals are stuck inside their houses at Babagund Handwara in this north Kashmir district, where a fierce gunfight between government forces and militants ended earlier this morning after nearly three days of siege. The incident has called into question adherence of SOP by government forces which mandates evacuation of civilian population before gunfight. A team of officials of health department, carrying first…

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Questions arise about ‘Vintage Military’ after India loses Dogfight to Pakistan

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It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check. An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in a dogfight last week with a warplane from the Pakistani Air Force, and ended up a prisoner behind enemy lines for a brief time. The pilot made it home in one piece, however bruised and shaken, but the plane, an aging Soviet-era MiG-21, was less lucky. The aerial clash, the first by the South Asian rivals in nearly five decades,…

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Armed Resistance in Kashmir is ‘Not Terrorism’ and Kashmiris have Legal Right to Resist: UN

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Pakistani / Kashmiri leaders and media must tell world that “armed struggle and resistance against illegal Indian military occupation and repression in (Indian occupied Kashmir) are not terrorism. In 1982, the UN “reaffirmed the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial or foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, including armed struggle”. The shooting down of two Indian jets by the Pakistanis and continuous violations of ceasefire at the control Line in Indian held Kashmir is just not linked…

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Indo-Pak tensions reach cyberspace, several websites hit

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Hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 Indian government websites and critical systems within hours of the Pulwama suicide strike by a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist in which 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed, senior officials in the security establishment said on condition of anonymity. “There was an unusual surge of activity, attempts to breach systems,” one of these officials added. So ferocious was the attack that India had to resort to “offensive measures” in the cyber domain to counter them, a second official said. The officials added…

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Schools, Mosques, Orphanages kept outside the scope of seizure, sealing: Govt

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The governor’s administration Sunday said that schools, mosques and orphanages have been kept outside the scope of seizures and sealing in the wake of the ban imposed by the government of India on the socio-religious organisation Jamaat-e-Islami. “Action is being taken against offices, assets, properties and other equipment of the banned organisation,” Rohit Kansal, the official spokesman of J&K government, said in a statement, adding that the ban is for five years and subsequent orders to do so (seizure/sealing) have been issued by the state government and the deputy commissioners.

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Fuel crisis continues across Kashmir Valley

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In Kashmir where survival is the priority, from past few days a new concern has emerged among the panicked population: petrol, which has gone rare despite official claims that stocks have been replenished. Two days back, divisional commissioner Kashmir, Baseer Ahmad Khan had announced end of petrol shortage with arrival of 67 petrol loaded tankers in valley. However, on ground situation seems otherwise. From north to south and east to west in Srinagar and other districts, Kashmir Post found many petrol pumps running dry, with either supplies being sold out…

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‘Huge Embarrassment’: Congress slams govt over OIC resolution on Kashmir

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A meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) passed two strongly worded resolutions on Kashmir a day after it was addressed by India’s foreign minister, including a reference to “Indian terrorism”, prompting the Congress on Sunday to attack the government over its participation in the Abu Dhabi meet. The two resolutions, one on the Kashmir issue and another on the India-Pakistan “peace process”, were part of the overall political resolution passed at the end of the meeting of OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers on Saturday. The first described Kashmir…

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