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New Delhi, February 08, 2023 (PPI-OT):Indian government has said that over 900 members of Indian Army-backed Village Defence Guards (VDGs) were imparted training in Rajouri district of Jammu region, last month. This was stated by the Indian Minister of State for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai, while responding to a written query in Lok Sahba, the lower house of the Parliament. He said the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has imparted training to 948 Village Defence Guard members in collaboration with District Police Rajouri from 6th January to 25th January, this year.

Pertinently, over 5,000 members of the VDGs, majority of them Hindus, have been given rifles and more are being provided with arms in Rajouri district in the last few weeks. There are around 28,000 VDGs in the Jammu region. As the weapons have been issued to the VDG members without any regulations and control mechanism, mishandling and misuse of guns remain a matter of serious concern. There are more than 200 FIRs related to the cases of murder, rape, rioting and drugs registered against the VDG members in various districts.

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New Delhi, February 08, 2023 (PPI-OT):People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Mehbooba Mufti was today detained by Indian police during a protest in Delhi against the ongoing eviction drive launched by the authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Mehbooba Mufti accompanied by scores of party workers planned to march from Railway Bhawan to the Indian Parliament, where she wanted to inform opposition parties about the J and K admin’s bulldozer policy. However, police detained her along with the party workers at Vijay Chowk.

Mufti and the party workers were seen holding placards reading ‘Stop Bullying. Stop Bulldozing ‘and were heard raising slogans like: “Jis Kashmir Ko khoon se seencha, woh Kashmir humara hai; hooliganism will not work; stop vandalising…!” Mehbooba Mufti addressing a press conference in the Indian capital said the BJP is using its brute majority to weaponized everything and bulldoze the Constitution. “Palestine is still better. At least people talk. Kashmir is becoming worse than Afghanistan, the way bulldozers are being used to demolish the homes of people. What is the purpose of demolishing small houses of people,” she said.

Mehbooba Mufti appealed to Indian opposition leaders not to be a mute spectator to the atrocities being committed by the BJP. “Parties including the Congress, Left, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party and others should raise their voices and not remain silent to the atrocities being committed on common people in Jammu and Kashmir,” she said.

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Srinagar, February 08, 2023 (PPI-OT):A protest demonstration was held in Srinagar on Wednesday against the demolition of public properties in the name of encroachment campaign launched by Modi regime in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The protest was organized by representatives of various segments of life in the name of Jammu and Kashmir All Alliance at Pratap Park on Residency Road in Srinagar.

The protesters raised slogans against the local dispensation of the Delhi-run BJP regime. Terming the eviction drive “anti-people” and “anti-poor”, the protesters demanded that it be stopped immediately. They tried to march towards the Lal Chowk but were stopped by police.

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Bahawalpur, February 05, 2023 (PPI-OT):Raziyah Sultana, daughter of Hurriyat Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik, has expressed her strong resentment over the persecution of children in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir at the hands of Indian forces. Raziyah Sultana in an exclusive radio podcast, she regretted that the Kashmiri children are not being allowed to get education while pellet guns are also being used against them and their parents. Raziyah Sultana said it is the mission of her life to protect the Kashmiri children and send them to schools. For this, she sought the support of Pakistani children.

Putting up a brave face, Raziyah Sultana emphatically stated that she is not scared of Modi. Rather, she said that Modi and India are scared of her father Yasin Malik and that is why he has been incarcerated. Raziyah Sultana said those languishing in jails in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir have committed no crime, but their struggle for the right to self-determination is peaceful. She said the killing of innocent Muslims is a crime and this must come to an end. She also urged the world community, including the United Nations, to save the Kashmiri people from the cruel clutches of Modi, who wants to turn Kashmir into mini-India. She said the Kashmiris should be given the right to self-determination.

She was confident that the Kashmiri people will get independence very soon. The daughter of the Hurriyat leader was appreciative of the support extended by Pakistan to the oppressed Kashmiri people saying that Pakistan has always stood by the innocent people, and Kashmir will become part of Pakistan. The ten years old Raziyah Sultana also recalled childhood memories and the time she spent with her father saying that she misses her father Yasin Malik, very much, expressing confidence that he will return soon.

She said four years have passed since she last talked to her father on the telephone. Raziyah Sultana also paid glowing tributes to the founding father Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah saying that he is a role model for us who spent the whole of his life for the sake of Pakistan.

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Islamabad, February 05, 2023 (PPI-OT):Federal Minister for Interior Rana Sanaullah Khan has reiterated full support of Pakistan to Kashmiri people in their freedom struggle against Indian repression. Rana Sanaullah in his message on Kashmir Solidarity Day, strongly condemned Indian forces’ unabated atrocities in IIOJK and assured full support to the Kashmiri people from Pakistan. India would never succeed to suppress the indigenous freedom movement of Kashmir people, he added.

He said that Pakistan would continue to stand with Kashmiris in their struggle for right to self-determination. He said that India should stop atrocities in IIOJK as Pakistan’s ultimate objective is a peaceful resolution of the lingering Kashmir dispute as per UN relevant resolutions.

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Peshawar, February 05, 2023 (PPI-OT):Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Azam Khan has reiterated to extend moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in their struggle for right to self-determination. According to Kashmir Media Service, Muhammad Azan Khan in a statement issued in Peshawar in connection with Kashmir Solidarity Day, said that the right to self-determination was the basic right of the people of Kashmir, and their struggle for the same could not be suppressed through oppression by the Indian government.

He further added that the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa stand side by side with their Kashmiri brothers in their struggle, and will continue to do so until they get their rights. He urged the international community and human rights organizations to take notice of the Indian brutalities in occupied Kashmir, and play their due role to give Kashmiri people their due right by implementing the resolutions of the United Nations in letter and spirit.

The caretaker chief minister maintained that the decade’s long struggle of Kashmir people for their freedom is unprecedented all over the world, and hoped that people of Kashmir would soon be able to get their rights. He also denounced the unilateral decision of the Indian government to end the special status of occupied Kashmir provided in the Indian Constitution followed by the lock downs imposed by the Indian army in occupied Kashmir aiming to suppress the struggle of Kashmiris.

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