Day: January 17, 2023

Srinagar, January 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, eviction of Kashmiris from their lands with an aim to settle outsiders there in order to effect the demographic configuration of the territory triggered anti-India protests across Jammu region and in parts of the Kashmir valley. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) held a protest demonstration against the eviction in the name of anti-encroachment drive outside the party office in Jammu. The PDP in its statement voiced deep concern over the Modi regime’s move of divesting the people of the land registered under various titles in revenue records across the occupied territory.

The PDP said the regime is totally blind towards the destruction of the livelihood of the rural poor. “Is this beginning of the process of “Acchay din”, the administration is conducting false propaganda that the land is being acquired for development purposes but the facts are contrary to its claims,” it added. The party deplored that the regime has mobilized all its machinery to dislodge the poor from their land on different pretexts. The people who are living off this land have found themselves in a bind after the regime’s recent order, it added

The Democratic Azad Party leaders and workers also organised a protest against the land eviction order. Raising slogans ‘Land Order Wapis Karo’ ‘Administration Hosh Mei Aao’ against the order, the protesters marched to the Divisional Commssioner office in Jammu and submitted a memorandum. The party General Secretary DAP R.S. Chib said that the party organised a peaceful protest against the land eviction order of the Modi government. He said the time has come to stand and fight for rights of the Kashmiri people.

A large number of Congress activists led by Shahnawaz Choudhary and Jatinder Chib also staged a strong protest outside Press Club, Jammu. Carrying placards in their hands, the protesters raised slogans against the land order issued by the Indian government. “We demand roll back of this unjust land notification. It seems that BJP controlled administration is planning escape route for big sharks involved in land mafia business by uprooting poor and landless people,” Shahnawaz said while addressing media after protest.

Aam Aadmi Party activists also come out of their houses in Chenani area of Jammu city against the eviction of poor and marginalized farmers and bulldozing of their houses. Spearheaded by Harsh Dev Singh, the protesters raised slogans and blamed the Modi regime for harassing the downtrodden on the pretext of encroachments. Addressing on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh said the indigent farmers and the poor in IIOJK are being evicted from their marginal land holdings in the name of anti-encroachment drive while the corrupt leaders and bureaucrats continue to treat government and forest lands as their father’s fiefdom.

In Rajouri, people from Gurdhan Bala village near Rajouri also held a protest demonstration against the new land order of the Modi government demanding its immediate rollback. Villagers assembled in the area and held a meeting followed by a press conference in which they said that new land order is high-handed approach and is aimed to target people from below the poverty line. The villagers including Mohammad Aslam, Shafi Mohammad and others said that poor families and small scale farmers are in a state of distress due to this order.

Meanwhile, scores of mutton dealers protested against the closing of their shops. The mutton dealers gathered at Pratap Park, Press Enclave in Srinagar under the banner of the Unity of Mutton Traders Association and shouted slogans in support of their demand. In Udhampur, Team Beopar Mandal took to the streets against PDD for unscheduled curtailment and blocked the road for two hours outside PDD office in the town. President Jitendar Vermani said that due to unscheduled curtailment of electricity is creating problems for the business community as most of the business is dependent on electricity.

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Mumbai, January 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):It’s official. The Indian government’s two top watchdogs have admitted to ‘multiple side-effects’ of Covid-19 vaccines that were jabbed in over a billion Indians in the past more than two years. The startling revelations are made by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in an RTI reply to Pune businessman Prafful Sarda. India has permitted AstraZenaca and Serum Institute of India, Pune’s ‘Covishield’ and SII’s own ‘Covovax’; vaccines of three Hyderabad-based companies – the government-run Bharat Biotech Ltd.’s ‘Covaxin’, Dr. Reddy’s Lab imported ‘Sputnik V’, Biological E. Ltd.’s ‘CorBEvax’, and later, Cadila Healthcare Ltd., Ahmedabad’s ‘ZyCov-D’ only for teenagers (12-17 age).

In a specific query by Sarda on the side-effects of all these jabs, the ICMR’S PIO Dr. Leyanna Susan George and CDSCO’s PIO Sushanta Sarkar, have cited a plethora of ramifications arising out of all these vaccines comprising their FAQs. Covishield takes the lion’s share of its after-effects on the jabbed janta – injection site tenderness or pain, multiple red spots or bruises beyond the injected site, persistent vomiting without reasons, severe or persistent abdominal pains or headaches with or without vomiting, shortness of breath, chest pains, pain in limbs or swelling on pressing of calf/arms, weakness/paralysis of limbs of any particular side or parts of the body, including cranial nerves, unprecedented seizures, pain in eyes, blurred vision or diplopia, change in mental status, encephalopathy or depressed level of consciousness.

Covovax side-effects are injection site pain/tenderness/induration, fatigue, malaise, headaches, fever, soreness of muscles, joint pains, nausea of vomiting, chills, body-ache or extreme pain in limbs, Asthenia (weakness or lack of energy), Injection site pruritus (itching, rash, red skin, hives), enlarged lymph nodes, back pains, and rarely dizziness or drowsiness. Covaxin displays mild symptoms AEFIs like injection site pain/swelling, headaches, fatigue, fever, bodyache, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, giddiness, tremors, sweating, cold and cough.

Sputnik V manifests with chills, fever, arthralgia, myalgia, asthenia, headaches, general discomfort, injection site pain/swelling/hyperaemia, or nausea, dyspepsia, loss of appetite, or occasional enlarged regional lymph nodes. CorBEvax shows effects like fever/pyrexia, headaches, fatigue, body pains, myalgia, nausea, or arthralgia, urticaria, chills, and lethargy, besides injection site pain/erythema, swelling, rash, pruritis or irritation.

“The replies by ICMR-CDSCO are blatantly shocking. Though the government has declared that “vaccination is totally voluntary”, why was the compulsion created indirectly by barring people from travelling in buses, trains, flights, inter-state movements, going out to hotels, restaurants, multiplexes, malls, etc. This trapped more and more panicked people into getting themselves jabbed without knowing the after-effects,” said Sarda sharply.

He urged the government to release data on whether adequate publicity on all these possible side-effects was done through media, by hospitals, vaccination centres, and if the health ministry initiated any public safety campaigns for the gullible masses, now that vaccine-related deaths are being reported in India and worldwide.

Sarda cited how India had donated crores of free vaccines – leading to an uproar in 2021 – to many poor countries worldwide and questioned whether all the potential complications of the jabs were brought to the notice of the people in those nations. “All the global agencies have set the benchmark that only those vaccine candidates that show an efficacy of at least 50-60 per cent will be considered. Most of the vaccines have shown an efficacy of 70-90 per cent within the short period of two or three months of observation. More than 100 crore people have received at least a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine and the proportion of side effects is very low,” the government has assured.

After the initial mass-vaccinations, mostly free was completed, from August 2022, the government has permitted conditional market sales of Covishield and Covaxin but the others – Sputnik V and CorBEvax – remain specifically for “restricted emergency use”, as per the RTI.

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New Delhi, January 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):In what seen as traditional biasness, Indian Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by the father of a fake encounter victim, Amir Magrey, seeking the exhumation of his body nearly 14 months after his martyrdom in custody in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala in its order said, “This review petition has been filed against the judgment dated 12th September, 2022 whereby the Appeal was dismissed”.

“In our opinion, no case for review of Judgment dated 12th September, 2022 is made out. Consequently, the review petition is dismissed on merits,” the top Indian court said. On 12 September last year, the court had dismissed the appeal filed by Amir’s father, Mohammad Latif Magrey, against the judgement by a division bench of IIOJK High Court which had overturned its single bench order directing exhumation of the body from Wadder Payeen graveyard in Kupwara and its transportation to native village of Amir- Thatharka Seripora in Tehsil Gool area of Ramban district- with “promptitude and without wasting any further time.”

“It will be too much at this stage to disinter the body…The dead should not be disturbed and some sanctity should be attached to the grave,” the Division bench of Justices Surya Kant and J B Pardiwala had said in its ridiculous order on September 12 last year. Amir was among 4 persons martyred by Indian police in Hyderpora area of Srinagar on November 15, 2021. While the remains of two of them- Altaf Ahmad Butt and Dr. Mudasir Gul- were exhumed and handed over to their kin, the bodies of Magrey and the fourth person were buried in Kupwara district.

Amir’s family said he was a civilian and sought the return of his body. While refusing Magrey’s plea, the SC bench on September 12 had noted that “almost 9 months have passed post burial which is suggestive that the body may not be in a deliverable state”. The other bodies, it pointed out, had been exhumed in two days and would still have been in a deliverable state.

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Srinagar, January 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that the present dispensation in India led by Narendra Modi is snatching properties and lands of Muslims and Dalits particularly in Jammu region. APHC leaders Ghulam Muhammad Khan Sopori, Zamrooda Habib, Yasmeen Raja, Fahrida Behanji, Dr Musaib, Davinder Singh Behal and Maulana Sajid Nadvi in their statements in Srinagar and Jammu said, the Hindutva regime is conspiring to root out Muslims and Dalits from Jammu region.

The leadership said the hidden agenda of Hindutva organizations under the umbrella of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is to thrust Hindu fascism in the Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir. “As far as our geographical, cultural and religious affiliations are concerned, Kashmir in no way are a part of India, and people of Kashmir never accepted Indian illegal military occupation and their so-called instrument of accession,” the leaders said. They urged political parties, groups and individuals to desist from lending a hand to Hindutva politics to alter the Muslim majority character of Jammu and Kashmir, as Kashmiris are rendering unparalleled sacrifices for the sacred cause of right to self-determination.

The resistance leaders called the situation in occupied Kashmir as volatile and said apart from instilling fear of the Indian forces in people to dissuade them from their political struggle, all space for the resistance leadership has been chocked and leaders are being pressured to stop representing the sentiments of the Kashmiri people.

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Islamabad, January 17, 2023 (PPI-OT):APHC-AJK Convener Mehmood Ahmad Saghar has urged the Kashmiris and Pakistanis living in Saudi Arabia and other countries to use their resources to highlight the Kashmir dispute in the local and international media. Talking to a delegation of Jammu and Kashmir Community Overseas Saudi Arabia that called on him at the APHC-AJK office in Islamabad, today, Mehmood Ahmad Saghar informed the delegation about the eviction of Kashmiri Muslims from their land and properties in the name of encroachment campaign in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Saghar thanked the guests and expressed the resolve to fight together the Kashmir cause. The meeting was attended by APHC-AJK leaders Syed Yousuf Naseem, Imtiaz Wani, Sheikh Muhammad Yaqoob, Nisar Mirza, Javed Iqbal Butt, Mushtaq Ahmed Butt, Syed Mushtaq, Gulshan Ahmed, Nadeem Ahmed and APHC Coordinator of Jammu and Kashmir community Overseas Raja Parvez Ahmed, Vice Chairman Raja Muhammad Riaz, Sardar Kamran Azam, Raja Muhammad Zareen Khan and Khalid Gujjar. The APHC-AJK leadership welcomed the delegation and congratulated Abdul Latif Abbasi for forming the new body.

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