Day: January 25, 2022

Srinagar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, senior APHC leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has asked people of Jammu and Kashmir to register their strong protest against India’s policy of severe repression by observing its Republic Day as a Black Day in the territory, tomorrow.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq who is under house detention in a statement issued in Srinagar said that for the past 75 years people of Kashmir are demanding the right to self-determination that Indian leadership promised to them not only in the United Nations or the Indian Parliament, but at Lal Chowk in Srinagar by none other than Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawhar Lal Nehru, himself. However, till this day not only the commitment has not been fulfilled but those that remind India of its pledges are rewarded with bullets and pellets and detention, he added.

The senior APHC leader said a nation that prides itself on being a representative democracy chosen by the free will of its people is executing tyranny and suppression to forcibly exert its will over the people of Kashmir. Ten of thousands of Indian armed forces’ personnel are deployed to suppress the aspirations of people and draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and Public Safety Act (PSA) are invoked to ensure people’s sentiments do not get out of hand, he added.

Hundreds of people including the entire leadership have been lodged in jails or are under illegal and arbitrary house arrest, whose only crime is the demand for restoration of basic human and political rights right of the Kashmiri people. “Every voice raised for it is muzzled through military might. Our youth are targeted and killed. All means of protest are barred and curbed for us,” he said.

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Lahore, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):The main ceremony to commemorate the 101st anniversary of Saka Nankana in the memory of 260 followers of the Sikh religion will be held on February 21 at Guru’s birthplace, Nankana in Pakistan. Apart from Pakistani Sikh citizens, the event will be attended by Sikh pilgrims from India, UK, Canada, France, Malaysia, the US and other countries. More than 20,000 Sikh pilgrims from home and abroad are expected to attend the main event.

In view of the request of Parbandhak Committee Pakistan Chairman, Sardar Amir Singh, Additional Secretary Shrines Rana Shahid Saleem asked the Ministry of Religious Affairs to allow Indian Sikh pilgrims to participate in Kosaka Nankana celebrations with the prior permission of ETPB Chairman Dr Aamir Ahmed. It has been recommended to issue visas. Sikh pilgrims from India will reach Pakistan via Wagah Border on February 18.

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Amritsar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):A day after the arrest of a youth for allegedly attempting sacrilege at a gurdwara in Bhindi Aulakh village of Ajnala, the Akal Takht has demanded a thorough police probe into the incident. According to Kashmir Media Service, the accused identified as Gursahib Singh, earlier booked for theft, was now charged under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. He was currently on a daylong police remand and raids were being conducted to nab his accomplice, Ganna.

Akal Takht officiating Jathedar Giani Hapreet Singh and SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami said there had been no let-up in such unpardonable acts that testified the failure of the government machinery in detecting the notorious elements.

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Srinagar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in continuation of termination drive against local employees, the Indian authorities have sacked two more teachers from their services in the Kashmir valley, raising the tally to 28 in the past just two months.

The Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) in an order issued in Srinagar said that the teachers were removed from their services for being absent from duties. With the termination of two more teachers of the School Education Department, the authorities in the past over two months have sacked at least 28 teachers from their services.

On January 14, the authorities have terminated three teachers of School Education Department from the services. In the first week of December-2021, they sacked one teacher followed by six more in the last week of November 2021.

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Srinagar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the entire Kashmir valley and parts of Jammu region have been converted into a military garrison amid imposition of curfew-like restrictions in the name of security on the eve of India’s Republic Day.

People are forced to stop at check-posts, mushroomed in every nook and corner of the territory, and subjected to vigorous frisking and checking. Forces have been deployed in massive numbers around the venues of the January 26 functions across the Valley.

Indian forces have intensified aerial surveillance and random search operations. They have sealed all the routes leading to the Kashmir Cricket Stadium, Srinagar, the main venue of the Indian R-Day official celebrations. All major towns and districts of the Kashmir Valley have been put on high alert to prevent anti-India protests on India’s Republic Day celebrations, tomorrow. Roads leading to the Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu, where the Republic Day celebrations would be held in the region, have also been sealed.

The route leading towards the venue has been sealed, in an attempt, to maintain a strong security cover for VIPs and VVIPs. “This year too, we are alert with armed personnel maintaining a strict vigil in north, south and central Kashmir, Indian paramilitary CRPF spokesman Abhi Ram Pankaj told media men.

The official further added, during 26th January official celebrations, Indian forces have also been laying surprise door-to-door search operations in various parts of the city. Sniffer dogs, anti-sabotage checking, sharp-shooters on high rise buildings, surprise Nakas and CCTV surveillance are being used to maintain vigil in the Srinagar city. The city is also being monitored with drones and new bunkers and barricades have been placed at various parts of the city. Three-layered security arrangements have been put in place. Drones are also being used. The areas are being dominated and frisking and checking of vehicles is being done.

So-called heightened security has been also raised in Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara districts. In Baramulla and Sopore, Indian paramilitary and police forces are carrying out searches of all the passenger and private vehicles. Similar reports have also been received from south Kashmir.

Indian paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) has sounded a high alert on the Working boundary in Jammu. BSF in an official statement said that keeping in mind the present security scenario and intelligence inputs on the eve of Republic Day, BSF Jammu has been on high alert on Jammu border. A joint patrolling and exercise are also being conducted along with Indian Army, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police.

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Srinagar, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over will observe India’s Republic Day, the 26th January, as Black Day, tomorrow, to impress upon the world to take notice of India’s continued denial of right to self-determination to the Kashmiri people. Call for the observance of the Black Day has been given by the incarcerated Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Masarrat Aalam Butt and supported by all APHC leaders.

The day will be marked by a complete strike in occupied Kashmir and anti-India demonstrations and rallies in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and world capitals to give a strong message to the world that India being usurper of Kashmiris’ fundamental rights has no right to observe the day in the occupied territory.

People through posters, have been asked to boycott all Indian official celebrations and hoist black flags on the rooftops of their houses, shops and other buildings. The posters continue to surface since last one week in different places of the territory.

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New Delhi, January 25, 2022 (PPI-OT):A court in Indian capital New Delhi ordered the framing of sedition among other charges against JNU scholar and activist, Sharjeel Imam, in a 2019 case, in which he allegedly delivered an inflammatory speech inciting violence at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh and Jamia area in the national capital during the CAA-NRC protests in 2019.

Additional sessions judge Amitabh Rawat framed the charges under sections 124A (sedition), 153A (Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence), 153B (Imputations, assertions prejudicial to national integration), Section 13 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, and 505 of IPC, which deals with statements related to public order.

According to the police, Imam made the alleged inflammatory speeches in Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on December 13, 2019, and in Aligarh Muslim University, UP on January 16, 2020. He has been in judicial custody since January 28, 2020, and is presently lodged in Tihar Jail in Delhi. A detailed order copy is expected to be made available later in the day.

Earlier, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dinesh Kumar of Saket court had granted bail to him in a 2019 violence case registered at Jamia Nagar Police Station related to the violence in Jamia on December 13-14, 2019. Though he was granted bail in the particular case, he was in judicial custody in connection with cases under various IPC sections for offences of rioting and unlawful assembly among others.

He was denied bail multiple times. On October 22, while dismissing the plea, Saket Court Additional Sessions Judge Anuj Aggarwal had stated that the tone and tenor of incendiary speech tend to have a debilitating effect upon public tranquility, peace, and harmony.

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