Day: January 3, 2022

Srinagar, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Modi-led Indian occupation regime is indifferent to the increasing number of cancer patients in the territory.

 

IIOJK has been witnessing a surge in number of cancer patients with data showing that there are 26,366 patients affected by the disease. In Kashmir alone, according to a study titled `Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir: An Analysis of Hospital Data’ by doctors Mariya A Qureshi and others, stomach cancer cases were the most, followed by colorectal cancer (16.4%) and lung cancer (13.2%). Between 2010 and 2016, the number of cancer cases at Soura Medical Institute increased from 1,400 to 4,300.

 

Experts said that decades after the diagnosis and treatment of cancer was developed, Kashmir is still far away from treating the terminal disease in an effective way. And this is not because of lack of capable doctors, but because of lack of infrastructure, both in private and public sector hospitals, the reason being the Modi regime’s indifferent attitude to the health of the Kashmiri people.

 

About 21,000 patients have died due to cancer since 2018, with 6,800 patients in 2018, 700 in 2019, and nearly 7,200 in 2020, the study found. Why people are dying of cancers in Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Sameer Koul, an oncologist with over three decades of experience in treating cancer patients, said that the recovery rate is low in J and K because the diagnosis happens at a later stage of cancer, when the treatment remains mostly ineffective. He said that 80 percent of cancers are detected at late stages.

 

“If the diagnosis of cancer happens at the earlier stage, the recovery rate gets better. Here patients come when they are mostly at the third stage of the cancer. They should have been diagnosed earlier, which is possible only when there is preventive oncology. It is at this stage when the disease can be found and treated. But that does not happen in Kashmir,” he said.

 

Besides diagnosis, according to Dr Koul, the lack of facilities is another issue. “We have PET scans but they are not enough to meet the patient load. Soura hospital and Government Medical College are not able to keep up and people have to wait for treatment. This proves dangerous,” said the senior oncologist.

 

A growing number of cancer cases has been reported from three districts of north Kashmir: Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora. The three districts have recorded a total of 21 percent of cancer patients in Kashmir division, according to a population-based cancer registry available at Soura Medical Institute. But there is no facility for treating such patients at a dedicated oncology department at Government Medical College Baramulla.

 

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Islamabad, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): Perturbed by growing demand for Khalistan referendum and strong feedback by the Sikh community members in and outside India, the Indian establishment, using RAW and other tools, is working on a deliberate plan to repeat the episode of operation Blue Star, conducted by Indian Army in Amritsar in June 1984.

 

According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service, in such circumstances possibility of India using its army to oppress the Sikhs’ peaceful struggle cannot be ruled out. Reputational hurt to Modi due to protracted farmers’ movement is non-digestible, the report said, hence Modi is planning to take revenge using multi-pronged strategy to politically engineer elections, discredit Sikhs in information domain, use judicial lever for forging cases against prominent Sikhs and farmers’ movement leaders.

 

Indian political leadership has already built up case against ‘Sikh for Justice’ and other pro Khalistan set-ups abroad. “India is using its discredited media to establish link of Khalistan movement with Pakistan, the report said and added that Indian history is full of such false flag operations. On the pretext of Khalistan separatism, India might use security forces to break the will of those having dissenting views with New Delhi.

 

BJP is orchestrating law and order situation in Indian Punjab to delay state elections, it pointed out quoting experts. The fact is that peaceful farmers’ movement led by Sikhs has become a beacon of light for oppressed communities in India, the report said. In turn, the Modi-led BJP govt is conspiring against Sikhs, inland and abroad, to suppress Khalistan movement, it added.

 

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Srinagar, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian police arrested a person in Samba district. Police claimed that the man identified as Raman Singh in Indian army uniform was arrested in Telli Basti area of the district. Meanwhile, the Indian troops launched cordon and search operation in different areas of Shopian town.

 

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New Delhi, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has said that he ended up fighting Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he had gone to discuss the farmers’ issue recently, with him, he also said PM was “very arrogant”.

 

According to Kashmir Media Service, Malik, while addressing a social function at Dadri in Haryana on Sunday, said, “He was very arrogant. When I told him that 500 of our own farmers had died, he asked, ‘Did they die for me?’”

 

“I told him yes, since you are the king. Anyway, I ended up having a fight with him. He told me to meet Amit Shah and so I did,” the Governor added. He said when a dog dies, the PM sends letters to offer condolences.

 

Malik has been taking swipes at the government and the BJP leadership, especially on the farmers’ issue, and has often reiterated that he is not scared of being asked to step down from his post. He was appointed governor – in Jammu and Kashmir and Goa, before being posted to Meghalaya.

 

His remarks come after the three controversial farm Acts were withdrawn by New Delhi in November 2021, days before one of the longest-standing protest by farmers on Delhi borders was to complete a year on 26 November. PM Modi had said a committee of state and central representatives, farmers, and experts would be set up to make the minimum support price mechanism more transparent and effective.

 

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Jammu, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a woman, who sustained burn injuries while trying to prevent her husband, fed up with police highhandedness, from self-immolation died in a hospital in Jammu.

 

According to Kashmir Media Service, Dilawar Singh Jamwal attempted to end his life by self-immolation after he was fed up with the harassment by police over a land dispute with an influential neighbour, and her wife Pornoo Devi tried to douse the fire but she also sustained burn injuries.

 

Locals told the media that police harassment forced the couple to take this extreme step in Sidhra area of Jammu district. “After the incident both were shifted to GMC and H Jammu for treatment”, said Amandeep Singh Boparai, a social activist, who was supporting the poor family since October last year.

 

“The woman died at the hospital, while her husband is battling for life,” he said, adding that biasness in police approach could be gauged from the fact that even after three days of the immolation incident, statement of the relatives of the victims was not recorded. Police were frequently visiting the victims’ house and were often summoned at police post almost on daily basis.

 

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Bangalore, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): Karnataka has banned hijab for Muslim students, the use of Urdu and Arabic languages and the Muslim greetings in the colleges of the south Indian sate. The Government College for Girls in Udupi has imposed such rules on Muslim students. The students stood outside classrooms in protest against the imposition of ban on hijab, speaking Urdu and Arabic languages and the Muslim greetings.

The Principal of the college, Rudhra Gauda refused to discuss the issue with the parents. Meanwhile, the students vowed to organise protest if the Muslim girls students were not allowed attending classes with their hijabs.

 

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Srinagar, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Masarrat Aalam Butt, has said that India has waged an undeclared war against the Kashmiri people.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the APHC spokesman quoting Masarrat Aalam Butt in a statement issued in Srinagar said that New Delhi was massacring the Kashmiri youth under a well-hatched conspiracy. He deplored that precious lives were being lost due to India’s intransigence and stubbornness on the Kashmir dispute.

Masarrat Aalam Butt reminded the United Nations of its 5th January 1949 resolution that acknowledges the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination and asked the World Body to take practical steps to resolve the Kashmir dispute as per the Kashmiris’ aspirations.

The APHC Chairman maintained that instead of acknowledging Jammu and Kashmir as a dispute, India is trying, in vain, to portray it as an internal and law and order issue. He said, Jammu and Kashmir is a political issue and advised India to take measures for settlement of the dispute politically.

Masarrat Aalam Butt is illegally detained along with several other APHC leaders including Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Aasiya Andrabi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Altaf Ahmad Shah, Ayaz Muhammad Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Raja Merajuddin Kalwal, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Farooq Ahmad Dar and prominent human rights defender, Khurrum Parvez in different separate cells of India’s infamous Tihar jail in New Delhi.

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Srinagar, January 03, 2022 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two more Kashmiri youth in Srinagar, today. The youth were martyred by the Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Harwan area of the city. The operation continued while the internet was suspended in the area. The troops sealed all exit and entry points and conducted house-to-house searches.

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