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New Delhi, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): Pro-Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh appeared on a video message on Wednesday, appealing to Sikhs around the world to “unite for a larger cause”. In the purportedly recorded video message released on a YouTube channel, Amritpal Singh narrated the incidents that took place after the police crackdown on him began on March 18. The video was reportedly shot in Uttar Pradesh and was distributed by UK handles. Further in the video, Amritpal Singh appealed to Sikh organisations across the world to participate in a Sarbat Khalsa event on Baisakhi.

At the same time, he said that the Golden Temple Jathedar should take a stand in this matter and all the Jathedars and Taksals should also participate in Sarbat Khalsa. Sarbat Khalsa is a meeting which is attended by various Sikh organisations to discuss the issues related to the community. After the discussion, the jathedar of the Akal Takht directs the community to follow the solutions discussed in the meeting.

In the video, Amritpal said, “I appeal to all the Sikh people in the country and abroad to participate in the Sarbat Khalsa program to be held on Baisakhi. For a long time, our community is engrossed in putting up fronts on small issues. If we have to solve the issues of Punjab, then we have to be together. The way the government has cheated us, has to be kept in mind. Many comrades have been arrested and NSA has been imposed, many of my comrades have been sent to Assam. That’s why I appeal to all Sikhs to assemble on the occasion of Baisakhi.”

He also said, “If the intention of the government was to arrest me, then it would have arrested me. If the government had arrested us from home, we would have obliged. But the government tried to arrest me by encircling me with ‘lakhs of force’.” Amritpal Singh also affirmed that he was not arrested by the police. “My arrest is in the hands of the almighty. I am on top of the world. Nobody could do anything to me,” Amritpal said in the video.

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Islamabad, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter has urged the international community to take immediate cognizance of the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The APHC-AJK leaders, Sheikh Abdul Mateen, Sheikh Yaqub, Imtiaz Wani, Zahid Ashraf and Qazi Imran in their statements issued in Islamabad said that the people of IIOJK have been facing the worst Indian state terrorism for the last over seventy-four years. They said that India, which projects itself as the largest democracy of the world, has deprived the Kashmiris of their inalienable right to self-determination in clear disregard to the United Nations Charter.

The APHC-AJK leaders said that India’s continued refusal to give the Kashmiris their inalienable right has deprived them of the full benefits of a life of dignity and freedom. They said that instead of respecting the aspirations of the Kashmiri people, India is trying to suppress their legitimate freedom struggle through brutal military power. They deplored that more than one million Indian soldiers deployed in the occupied territory are killing, arresting, torturing and disappearing innocent people in custody and molesting the Kashmiri women to weaken the Kashmiris’ spirit for freedom.

The APHC-AJK leaders said since August 5, 2019, when Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government revoked the special status of IIOJK, the Kashmiri people have been forced to live in an environment of constant suffocation. They pointed out that Kashmir is the only place in the world where people have been deprived of all their basic rights. They urged the international community to take immediate cognizance of the Indian state terrorism in IIOJK and put pressure on India to resolve the Kashmir dispute as per the aspirations of the Kashmiris to ensure lasting peace in the region.

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Srinagar, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): India’s State Investigation Unit Wednesday presented a charge sheet against five Kashmiri youth before the Court of Special Judge, Kulgam. The charge sheet was presented in connection with a fake case FIR registered last year at police station Keller.

The youth identified as Aaqib Hussain Nanda, Gowhar Manzoor Butt, residents of Drabgam Pulwama, Aasif Lateef, resident of Babapora Zainapora, Afloq Yousuf Digoo and Umer Hussain Dar, residents of Naina Batpora, Pulwama, were presented before the court, designated under National Investigation Agency Act.

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Srinagar, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): Kashmiri journalist, Tawqeer Hussain, has been nominated as Secretary of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia is a platform of foreign correspondents and Indian journalists in Delhi. Tawqeer Hussain, a resident from Dooru, Islamabad district, has been on the radar of Indian intelligence agencies since August 2019.

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Chandigarh, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has asked Bhagwant Mann, chief minister of Indian Punjab, to apologise to the Sikh community for “insulting the highest temporal seat of Sikhism”, the Akal Takht. Bhagwant Mann, a day ago, had questioned the Akal Takht’s ultimatum for releasing youth picked up during crackdown against pro-Khalistan leader Amritpal Singh and his supporters. Addressing a Press conference, senior SAD leader Dr Daljit Singh Cheema also asked the CM to seek forgiveness from the supreme temporal seat for filing a complaint to remove a tweet of the the Akal Takht Jathedar from social media besides accusing the latter of inflaming passions.

“Everyone knows the opposite is true. Jathedar Sahib convened a meeting of intellectuals and political leaders to discuss the state crackdown against innocent Sikh youth. Respecting the sentiments of the ‘sangat [meeting]’ an ultimatum was given to release the innocent youth within 24 hours. Instead of respecting this religious directive, the CM chose to not only insult Jathedar Sahib but also previous Jathedars of Sri Akal Takht Sahib besides politicising a case which was essentially one of human rights abuses,” the SAD leader said. All this, he added, had hurt Sikh sentiments.

Dr Cheema said instead of realising his mistake, the CM was displaying arrogance. He said it was a fact that the state government was forced to release a large number of Sikh youth who had been arrested on trivial charges. He demanded that all pending cases against the youth who had secured bail following the recent crackdown should be withdrawn. He also demanded a stop to state repression against youth, intelligentsia, artists and media persons. Blaming the CM for defaming Punjabis in league with the Modi government, Dr Cheema said the current politics of polarisation was aimed at taking Punjab back to an era of darkness.

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Srinagar, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has said that the people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir continue to suffocate under unprecedented Indian repression as Narendra Modi-led fascist government is stifling political dissent through state terrorism in the territory. The APHC spokesman in a statement issued in Srinagar said the Modi regime is using every brutal tactic including killings, arbitrary detentions and torture to suppress the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle but will never succeed in its nefarious designs.

He said on one hand, the Modi government has given the Indian troops unbridled powers to perpetrate the worst human rights violations in IIOJK with impunity, while on the other, it is using the probe agencies to terrorize the Kashmiris. “Kashmiri people have been facing for over seven decades the Indian repression, which witnessed an unprecedented increase since the revocation of special status of IIOJK by the Modi regime in August 2019. Indian oppression has turned Jammu and Kashmir into a hell for its inhabitants where innocent people are being killed, tortured, maimed and illegally arrested on a daily basis,” he said.

The spokesman said Narendra Modi must remember that his brutalization cannot break the will of Kashmiris to carry on their ongoing struggle to secure their right to self-determination. He urged the international community to shun its silence over the Indian brutalities in IIOJK and play an effective role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris’ aspirations.

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Srinagar, March 29, 2023 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, people staged a protest demonstration, today, in Baramulla district against the anti-people policies of the authorities. According to Kashmir Media Service, the residents of Sangrama area of the district held a demonstration against the frequent power cuts. They blocked the Srinagar-Baramulla highway, thereby halting traffic movement on the road.

The protestors maintained that they witness power cuts during peak hours, causing inconvenience to them during the holy month of Ramadan. The protesters said they brought the issue to the concerned authorities’ notice several times, but to no avail, thereby forcing them to hit the roads.

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