Day: January 1, 2022

Beijing, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): China has defended the renaming of 15 more places in Arunachal Pradesh by its Ministry of Civil Affairs, claiming that the state is actually southern Tibet, an “inherent part” of the Chinese territory. China’s reaction came after India had rejected the renaming 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian at a media briefing in Beijing said that, “for standardised management of the area, the competent authorities in China in accordance with relevant regulations have published the names for the relevant area. These are matters that are within China’s sovereignty”.

Zhao said, “Zangnan (the southern part of China’s Tibet) is located in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It has been China’s territory since the ancient times.” China refers Arunachal Pradesh as Zangnan. Zhao said, “The southern part of Tibet belongs to the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China and it has been China’s inherent territories.”

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Islamabad, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): Delimitation of electoral constituencies is part of a series of measures started by Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government since 5 August 2019 to disempower the Kashmiris. An analysis by Kashmir Media Service citing political experts says that the delimitation commission’s proposal is another move to disempower Kashmiris. It says, India has snatched every right of the Kashmiri Muslims and Modi is using electoral redistricting to make the IIOJK’s Muslim majority ineffective.

“Delimitation exercise is meant to add more Hindu-dominated constituencies in IIOJK. Creation of 6 new seats in Jammu region and only 1 in the Kashmir Valley is BJP’s ploy to win future polls. Delimitation draft is aimed at curtailing the role of Muslim majority politics in Kashmir,” it maintains. The analysis says that the actual game plan of delimitation is to install a Hindu chief minister in Muslim-majority IIOJK. It says that the RSS-backed BJP government is violating all democratic norms to achieve this objective.

“Colonization of IIOJK has been a longstanding dream of RSS and BJP. Redrawing of electoral boundaries is yet another step towards colonizing Kashmir. Modi is using Delimitation Commission to advance Hindutva agenda in IIOJK,” it says. The analysis says that Modi wants to revive Hindu civilization in the Muslims majority IIOJK but the Kashmiri people are determined to thwart his nefarious designs.

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Srinagar, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred one more Kashmiri youth in Kupwara district, today. The troops martyred the youth during a cordon and search operation in Jumagund area of the district. The operation continued till last reports came in. The fresh killing raised the number of the martyred youth to 10 since Wednesday night.

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Srinagar, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, scores of activists of the National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) took out separate protest marches in Srinagar on Saturday after authorities detained top leaders of the parties ahead of a proposed sit-in against the draft proposals of the Delimitation Commission.

The protest call was given by the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of various regional political parties in IIOJK including the NC, the PDP, CPI-M, Peoples Movement and Awami National Conference.

The NC activists, including party spokesperson Imran Nabi Dar and youth wing president Salman Sagar, took out a protest march from NC headquarters Nawa-iin Srinagar. The party activists tried to move towards Gupkar Road but were stopped by the police outside the party office.

“We wanted to take out a peaceful protest march against the Delimitation Commission’s draft proposals, but were stopped by the police. They did not even allow us to hold a sit-in,” Ghulam Nabi Dar said. He alleged that the police dragged the party activists back to the office.

PDP activists also took out a protest March demanding restoration of Articles 370 and 35-A which were revoked by the Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government on August 5, 2019. The PDP activists, who were stopped by the police near GPO, later they dispersed peacefully.

Meanwhile, NC vice president Omar Abdullah and PDP president Mehbooba Mufti praised their party colleagues for the protests. Well done to my NC colleagues for managing to come out and register our protest about all that is being done to disempower the people, Omar Abdullah wrote on Twitter.

“Despite the despotic administration’s attempts to foil our protests, PDP and NC workers managed to hit the streets in Srinagar today to raise their voice against the illegal revocation of Article 370. I salute their courage and resolve,” Mehbooba said in a tweet.

Earlier, the authorities foiled the proposed protest march of the PAGD in Srinagar against the draft proposals of the Delimitation Commission by detaining prominent leaders of the alliance including Farooq Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti and M Y Tarigami.

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Srinagar, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders, Farida Bahenji and Yasmeen Raja, have expressed serious concern over the surge in Indian state terrorism in the territory. Farida Bahenji and Yasmeen Raja in a joint statement issued in Srinagar described the prevailing situation in the occupied territory as extremely grim with regard to the protection of civilians.

They said that the Kashmiris were facing so-called cordon and search operations by Indian troops, raids by India’s notorious National Investigation Agency, and termination of government employees, arrest of students, businessmen, journalists, lawyers, intellectuals and political activists. The APHC leaders said that fascist Modi government was victimizing the people of IIOJK for demanding their right to self-determination and trying to communalize all institutions of the territory.

They said the extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, ill-treatment of women, ban on political activities and violation of all basic human rights by Indian troops had become a norm in the occupied territory. They urged the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to take immediate notice of the systematic genocide of the Kashmiris by the Indian forces in IIOJK and put pressure on India to give the Kashmiri people the right to decide their political future by themselves.

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Muzaffarabad, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter leader, Zahid Ashraf, paying tributes to martyrs of December 2021, has expressed serious concern over the continued Indian state terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Zahid Ashraf talking to media in Muzaffarabad said that fascist Modi-led Indian regime during the so-called cordon and search operations was targeting Kashmiri youth and arresting them on fake charges.

He said, the Indian government and its forces are victimizing the people of the territory for demanding their right to self-determination and urged the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take cognizance of the atrocities and genocide of the Kashmiris by the Indian forces in IIOJK.

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New Delhi, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): India saw a single-day rise of 22,775 new Covid cases while the number of active cases surpassed one lakh and omicron infection tally reached 1,431, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. India logged 161 fresh omicron infections, taking the total tally of such cases in the country to 1,431. Of the 1,431 patients infected with the omicron variant of the virus so far, 374 have either recuperated or migrated, according to the ministry’s data updated at 8 am.

The country also recorded 22,775 fresh Covid cases and 406 more fatalities due to the viral disease. Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 454 new cases followed by Delhi at 351, Kerala 118 and Gujarat 115. The fresh cases raised India’s tally of Covid cases to 3, 48,61,579, while the active cases increased to 1,04,781, according to the latest data. The death toll from the pandemic climbed to 4,81,080 with 406 new fatalities, the data stated.

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New Delhi, January 01, 2022 (PPI-OT): Five former chiefs of staff of the Indian armed forces and over a hundred other people, including bureaucrats, journalists and prominent citizens, have written to the President of India Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister, Narendra Modi seeking immediate action against Hindu right-wing members for inciting violence.

The recent calls were made in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar and Delhi, where the group gave open genocide calls against Muslim citizens of India. The letter also mentions targeting other minorities like Christians, Dalits, and Sikhs of the country.

Addressed to India’s President and Prime Minister, it said, “We, the undersigned, are writing to you about recent events in Haridwar, Delhi and elsewhere, openly calling for the genocide of Indian Muslims. In addition, other minorities – Christians, Dalits and Sikhs are also being targeted.”

The letter further reads, “India’s Armed Forces, the Army, Navy and Air Force, together with CAPFs and Police, are responsible for National Security – external and internal, respectively. All of the above have sworn to uphold India’s Constitution and our secular values.”

“We are seriously perturbed by the content of speeches made during a 3-day religious conclave called a Dharma Sansad, of Hindu Sadhus and other leaders, held at Haridwar between 17-19 December 2021. There were repeated calls for establishing a Hindu Rashtra and, if required, picking up weapons and killing of India’s Muslims in the name of protecting Hinduism”, it said.

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