Month: August 2021

Kathmandu, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):One Nepali has disappeared after the Indian Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) personnel cut down the Tuin rope through which the person was crossing the Mahakali River in Far West Nepal. According to District Police Office, Darchula, Inspector, Narendra Chand, Jaisingh Dhami, 35, of Byas Gaonpalika-2 went missing after falling from Tuin while crossing the Mahakali River on Friday, reports Kantipur daily.

According to the locals, after three locals crossed the Mahakali River from Tuin in the morning, two SSB personnel started to cut down Tuin when ill-fated Dhami was crossing the River and when he was about to reach the endpoint of the Twin, the rope fell to the River along with Dhami.

Dhami was heading towards Kathmandu seeking foreign employment job. Villagers are compelled to go to the Indian village across the Mahakali River to travel to Kathmandu and other parts of the country. According to local Nabin Dhami, Dhami was the fourth person attempting to cross the Mahakali River after three persons already crossed the river.

The SSB started to untie the knot of the Tuin rope when Dhami had left just 3/4 mitres to cross. Locals in the Nepal side of the river had shouted and requested the Indian SSB for not untying the knot of the Tuin rope but the Indian security personnel didn’t respond to locals’ request.

The ruling Nepali Congress party has condemned the incident, saying it as a sorrowful, inhuman and objectionable act. In a statement issued by Bishwaprakash Sharma, NC’s spokesman has asked to make public the truth and to hold talks with the Indian side on the issue.

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New Delhi, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) not to give formal recognition to the upcoming Kashmir Premier League (KPL 2021) which is being organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in Azad Kashmir.

Relations between the two boards generally follow on from the political atmosphere between the two nations. The two sides have not played each other in a bilateral series since 2012-13 or a Test match since 2007-08, though they do face off regularly in ICC events.

South African player Herschelle Gibbs had recently tweeted that BCCI had tried to prevent him from playing in the Kashmir Premier League as he allegedly received communication from the Indian board that if he participates in the KPL, he won’t be allowed to do any cricket related work in India.

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Muzaffarabad, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):A meeting of political, religious and social parties was held in Muzaffarabad, today, against the oppressive measures taken by India on 5th August, 2019. It was decided in the meeting to hold a rally for the right to self-determination, freedom and justice from the United Nations. The meeting was hosted by Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir and International Forum for Justice and Human Rights.

Addressing the meeting, the speakers slammed the coercive measures and laws imposed by the Modi-led fascist Indian government in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. They condemned the division of the occupied territory by force, destruction of state identity, human rights violations and execution of domicile to Indian citizens.

The speakers said that on August 5, 2019, India disregarded the rules and principles of the United Nations and abolished the special status of Kashmir. They said, “The Indian rulers have broken the conditional agreements and promises made with the state of Kashmir and figurate as a brutal country.”

The speakers paid homage to the people fighting for freedom, right to self-determination and justice against Indian brutalities in Occupied Kashmir. “Despite all the atrocities of 900,000 Indian forces, the entire Kashmiri nation stood by courage and perseverance”, speakers added. They said that the political future of the state could be decided only through an impartial referendum. They added that protest should be observed on August 5, 2021 in the entire Kashmir. They maintained, “Black flags will be waved and people will protest against India by wearing black ribbons.”

It was also decided in the meeting that on August 5 at 10am, a rally would be held from Burhanwani Shaheed Chowk to the UN observer’s office and followed by a sit-in. The Chairman of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Uzair Ahmad Ghazali, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Kashmir leader Dr Lutf-ur-Rehman, Vice Chairman of International Forum for Justice and Human Rights, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Abdul Aziz Alvi, Khalid Mahmood Zaidi, Javed Ahmed Mughal, Usman Ali Hashim, Saira Chishti, Syed Hamza Shaheen, Dawood Siddique, Chaudhry Shah Wali, Nazir Ahmed, Syed Nabil Bukhari, Qari Atiq-ur-Rehman Danish, Hafiz Abdul Ghafoor Tahiri and others were also present on the occasion.

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Muzaffarabad, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):Welcoming the letter from the members of the European Parliament to the European Commission and the Foreign Minister of the European Union on the serious human rights situation in Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, AJK President, Sardar Masood Khan said that India can no longer hide its crimes from the international community.

Commenting on a joint letter written by sixteen Members of European Parliament (MEPs) and send out to the President of the Commission Ursula Von Der Leyen and the Vice President of the Commission Josep Borrell, President Masood thanked the MEPs for their latest move to raise voice against the violations of human rights in occupied Kashmir.

The State President also commended the Chairman Kashmir Council, EU, Ali Raza Syed, and the role of the Pakistani and Kashmiri community in Europe for their effective campaign to highlight the Kashmir issue in Europe and European Parliament through their elected representatives. He said that the MEPs very rightly convey to the EU officials their grave concerns at the abuses of human rights and the state of fundamental freedoms in the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

The President said that the fact is that the situation in IOJK is not just confined to human rights violations but systematic genocide is going on there as the 900,000 Indian troops are using their unbridled powers under black laws to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.

He said young people in the occupied territory are being branded as terrorists, killed in fake encounters, injured, and maimed in the cordon and search operations. After August 2019, thousands of young people were arrested and locked up in various jails in IOJK and India.

He went on to say that the brutal incidents against men, women, and even children and senior citizens including the entire leadership in occupied Kashmir had been arrested and put behind bars for their only sin that they were demanding the right to self-determination.

The President of Azad Kashmir said that the people of occupied Kashmir have been under military siege for the last two years and their basic and civil rights have been taken away and now the situation is that India has illegally deported more than four million Hindus in the last year and India has launched a nefarious project to turn the majority of Muslims into a minority by settling non-Kashmiri Hindus in the occupied state.

President Masood appealed to the head of Kashmir Council EU, Syed Ali Raza, and the Kashmiri and Pakistani community to hold meetings, processions, and seminars on August 5, on completion of two years of the Indian government’s illegal actions in IOJK and condemn Indian actions and draw the attention of the international community towards the human rights situation in Occupied Kashmir.

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Islamabad, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):Fascist Narendra Modi has made India an unsafe place for Muslims and other minorities despite the fact that the country is home to some two hundred million Muslims, one of the world’s largest Muslim populations but a minority in the predominately Hindu country.

A report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, said, since India’s independence, Muslims have faced systematic discrimination, prejudice, and violence, despite constitutional protections. It deplored that Modi is shaping India’s policy according to Hindutva dictates and Muslims and other minorities are living in a perpetual state of fear in India. The RSS-backed Indian regime is on a mission to purge India of its minorities as ultimate dream of Modi is to make India a Hindu nation, it added.

The report said, Indian Muslims are being killed and tortured on the pretext of eating beef or transporting cattle. Citing experts, the report said that anti-Muslim sentiments have heightened under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has pursued a Hindu nationalist agenda since elected to power in 2014. Since Modi’s re-election in 2019, the government has pushed controversial policies that critics say explicitly ignore Muslims’ rights and are effectively intended to disenfranchise millions of Muslims. The moves have sparked protests in India and drawn international condemnation. It said, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report has found that religious freedom in India continued its negative trajectory in 2021

The report said, the global experts on genocidal violence have warned that India is preparing for genocide of Muslims in India and IIOJK. Genocide Watch, a global organisation dedicated to the prevention of genocide, has also issued an alert for occupied Kashmir. A ‘Genocide Watch’ warning is declared by the NGO when there are signs of the early stages of genocide in progress.

The report said, Indian forces are employing rape, torture, degrading treatment of Kashmiri women as instruments of state terrorism. The report said, anti-Kashmir moves and new citizenship law are glaring examples of BJP’s anti-Muslim acts, adding hate crimes against Muslims and other minorities have alarmingly increased in Modi’s India.

It said religious freedom in India has also taken drastic turn downward in Modi’s India as the BJP-led Indian regime is relentlessly implementing RSS ideology against minorities in India. The report urged the world rights bodies to come forward and save religious minorities in India. The global community must also take notice of Hindu fascism in India. It maintained.

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Srinagar, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference leader, Agha Ruhullah Mehdi has raised serious questions over the lifting of ban on annual Muharram processions after a gap of thirty years. Agha Ruhullah Mehdi, taking to Twitter, said that the isolated decision, which comes at a time when all religious gatherings across the Kashmir valley had been barred, raises more questions than it answers.

In a thread on his Twitter handle, Ruhullah Mehdi wrote, ”There is list of decisions-taken in circulation, in which, if my reading of this order is correct, the administration has decided to allow the 10th Muharram procession from Abiguzar to Lal Chowk after a gap of 30 years.”

Raising serious doubts over the intentions of the order, he further wrote, “This decision has come at the time when the administration has called off Amarnath yatra. Eid prayers this year were not allowed at Jama Masjid and other important places imposing the Disaster Management Act. Only a few days ago the IGP of Kashmir told people to celebrate Eid “at their homes” invoking Covid protocols. The Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid have not been allowed for the last more than 100 Fridays and continue to be banned, again invoking Covid protocols. The list goes on.”

Asking the administration to lift the curbs on religious gatherings across the Kashmir valley, he said, “To answer those questions and to make it clear that there are no nefarious designs behind this decision, this 10th Muharram procession should be preceded by Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid before this 10th Muharram. Friday prayers before this year’s 10th Muharram should precede. If the Friday prayers and other major religious functions (across all religions) continue to be banned and this particular procession is suddenly encouraged in isolation. In that case, I see nefarious designs behind it.”

Once again asking the people to stay cautious, he appealed, “The people should not fall for this bait and into this trap.” “Therefore the responsibility lies with the administration to come clean. Now that the time for Eid prayer this year has passed. Lift the ban on Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid too, like you suddenly took this decision and prove that there are no nefarious designs,” Ruhulla Mehdi tweeted.

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Srinagar, August 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred thirty seven (37) Kashmiris including two women during the month of July 2021. According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, of those eight were killed by the troops in fake encounters or in custody. The killing rendered two women widowed and seven (7) children orphaned in July.

During the month, twenty eight (28) people including media men were critically injured after Indian troops and police personnel used brute force on peaceful protesters in the territory. The report maintained that at least fifty seven (57) civilians, mostly youth, political activists, a religious scholar and a woman, were arrested; several of them were booked under black law Public Safety Act (PSA) and Unlawful Activities (Preventive) Act (UAPA).

The troops also damaged ten (10) houses during at least 219 cordon and search operations in the month, the report added. The report pointed out that Indian troops martyred 105 Kashmiris including top APHC leader, Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai during the first seven months of this year in the territory.

The report maintained that the killing by the troops during the period rendered six (6) women widowed and eighteen (18) children orphaned. The troops damaged over thirty nine (39) houses and structures and molested or disgraced twelve (12) women and arrested 574 persons including students and youth during cordon and search operations across the occupied territory.

During the period, 361 people were critically injured due to the use of brute force, bullets and pellets on peaceful demonstrators by Indian military, paramilitary and police personnel in the territory, the report said.

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