Day: January 28, 2022

Patna, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):The protesting students who have called for Bihar Bandh (shutdown), today, over irregularities in the results of railway recruitment exams burnt tyres and blocked roads in Patna and other parts of Bihar state. According to Kashmir Media Service, the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) as well as opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) allies Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) have supported the students’ call for Bihar Bandh.

In Patna, the bandh supporters burnt tyres on Ashok Rajpath, disrupting traffic movement on the busy street which leads to the state’s largest government hospital, its most esteemed schools and colleges and shops dealing in medicines, books and stationery. At Dak Bungalow crossing in the heart of the city, they staged a demonstration. The protesters clashed with police personnel upon being stopped from marching towards the Raj Bhavan (Governor House), which is a couple of kilometres away.

In the Samastipur district across the Ganga, a demonstration by AISA (All India Students Association) members stood out on account of participation by a noticeable number of young women. Legislators and cadres of opposition parties, most notably the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), led the protests in Buxar, Jehanabad, Bhagalpur, Katihar, Begusarai and Munger. Protesters blocked roads in Bihar’s Patna in support of the bandh called by students over alleged discrepancies in railway recruitment exams.

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Srinagar, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):Seven more persons died due to the COVID-19 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. 5138 new fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported in IIOJK, of which 3565 cases were reported from Kashmir Valley, 1394 from Jammu region and 179 from Ladakh region. The fresh COVID-19 virus also claimed seven lives, six from Kashmir Valley and one from Jammu region.

Giving the district wise detail of the infections, the officials said that Srinagar reported 841 cases, Baramulla 784, Budgam 440, Pulwama 135, Kupwara 529, Islamabad 299, Bandipora 130, Ganderbal 87, Kulgam 295, Shopian 25, Jammu 703, Udhampur 31, Rajouri 68, Doda 162, Kathua 23, Samba 110, Kishtwar 165, Poonch 25, Ramban 99, Reasi 8, Leh 131 and Kargil reported 48 cases. They said that there was no new confirmed case of mucormycosis (black fungus) reported. So far 51 black fungus cases have been confirmed in Kashmir valley and Jammu region, the officials said.

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Shakargarh, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi, High Court Judge of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, has thanked the Pakistan government for easing access to their holiest site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib by establishing the Kartarpur Corridor.

Harsimran Singh Sethi, during his visit to Kartarpur, said, “We got impressed by the way government and people of Pakistan showed us their love, We are convinced that the people there (across the border) are told a lie. Pakistan is not like that.”

“We are fed negative stories about Pakistan in India. But the way we were received has falsified all those notions, he said, adding, “We are also thankful to the people and the government of Pakistan for impressive arrangements and warm hospitality.”

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Islamabad, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):Religious minorities are facing state-sanctioned violence in BJP-ruled India as the Modi-led fascist Indian government has adopted laws and policies that systematically discriminate against Muslims and other minorities in the country.

Persecution of Muslims, Christians and other minorities has galloped and religious minorities are threatened, harassed and attacked with impunity since Modi came to power in India in 2014, a report released, today, by KMS said. It lamented that the unprovoked attacks on Muslims and other religious minorities had become a norm in India as Modi aims at marginalizing and disenfranchising Muslims and other religious minorities in the country.

The report said communal policies adopted by the BJP government have further emboldened Hindu extremists, adding Muslims are experiencing discrimination in all sectors across India and the BJP politicians have been publicly justifying attacks against the religious minorities.

It maintained that several international reports had documented violence and discriminations against religious minorities in India, which had become a fascist state under Modi. The report said that violence and discrimination against religious minorities have exposed the so-called Indian secularism as Modi’s fascist ideology is the biggest threat to peace and stability in South Asia.

It said, New Delhi-based Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) during a press conference said that India was witnessing severe rights abuses against minorities induced by systematic hatred in the country. The press conference was attended by religious leaders from Muslim, Christian and Buddhist communities and other social activists at Pink City School of Jaipur city in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

The APCR representatives during the press conference said, religious and other minority groups are suffering persecution, discrimination and systematic marginalisation in India. The report said that the world champions of human rights must speak for the rights of religious minorities in India and must bring New Delhi to book for violating international laws.

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Srinagar, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the High Court has granted two more weeks to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to respond to a plea by the father of Muhammad Amir Magray, seeking the return of the body of his son for burial.

Muhammad Amir Magray was martyred along with three other persons by Indian troops in a fake encounter in the Hyderpora area of Srinagar on November 15 last year. A bench of Justice D S Thakur granted the time to the Indian MHA after Assistant Solicitor General of India (ASGI) Tahir Shamsi on behalf of the MHA solicited more time for the response.

The court had on January 12 issued notice to the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs and IIOJK authorities through Principal Secretary Home, Director General of Police (DGP), and Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir seeking their response within 10 days to the plea. Amir’s father Muhammad Latief Magrey has filed the petition through his lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat and is seeking the intervention of the court for handing over the body of martyred Aamir. The petitioner seeks directives for handing over his son’s body to the family.

Meanwhile, the Indian police have said that the return of the body of Amir Magray will send a wrong message in society and will lead to far greater consequences of law and order. The police informed this to the High Court in Srinagar as an objection against the writ petition filed by the youth’s family seeking his body for the proper last rites.

In response to the petition signed by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, the police has said that the petitioner has not approached the court with “clean hands” and has “suppressed material facts” from the court that vitiates the averments made by the respondents. The police argued that during the burial, many people with vested interests including ‘militants’ manage to join the funeral processions and thereby provoking people to join ‘militant’ ranks.

“The court will appreciate the fact that the objective behind the burial of the dead outside jurisdiction was the need of hour and meant only for protecting the larger interest of the sovereignty of India,” the police have said in the objection.

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Srinagar, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, incarcerated All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Masarrat Aalam Butt, has said that Kashmir dispute is an unfinished agenda of the partition of Indian sub-continent in 1947.

Masarrat Aalam Butt in a message from New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail said unless and until the Kashmir dispute is not resolved in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions, peace and the prosperity cannot be achieved in South Asia and the whole world.

The APHC Chairman reiterated the Kashmiris’ pledge to take the ongoing resistance movement to its logical conclusion. He maintained that a people’s movement based on the historical facts, universal legitimacy and moral and political support of the international community is bound to succeed despite the oppressive and suppressive measures adopted by the Indian occupational forces.

Masarrat Aalam Butt also expressed grave concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in IIOJK and stressed on the early settlement of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the United Nations resolutions.

He urged the UN to take serious cognizance of the use of brute military force by India against the people of IIOJK to suppress their legitimate demand for right to self-determination and put pressure on New Delhi to stop genocide, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial killings and gross violations of human rights in the occupied territory.

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Muzaffarabad, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):A protest rally was organized in Muzaffarabad, today, against the massacres carried out by Indian troops in Sopore, Gaw Kadal, Handwara and Kupwara areas of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

According to Kashmir Media Service, the massacres had taken place in the month of January in 1990s in which hundreds of innocent Kashmiris were martyred and many were injured by Indian troops.

The participants of the rally organized by International Forum for Justice Human Rights Jammu and Kashmir also staged a sit-in protest at Burhan Wani Chowk in Muzaffarabad and chanted high-pitched slogans against Indian brutalities in IIOJK.

Vice Chairman of International Forum for Justice Human Rights Jammu and Kashmir Mushtaq-ul-Islam, PPP leaders Shaukat Javed Mir and Muhammad Younis Mir, former President of Central Bar, Javed Mughal and other political and social personalities participated in the protest march.

Addressing the protesters, Mushtaq-ul-Islam said that in the 1990s, India’s brutal forces set the worst example of atrocities in the occupied territory. He said the Indian forces killed innocent Kashmiris and burnt their property but the victims could not get justice from the so-called Indian judiciary.

He demanded of the International Court of Justice, the UN Security Council, the European Union and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to play role in bringing the perpetrators of these massacres to book.

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Giridih, January 28, 2022 (PPI-OT):A portion of railway tracks was damaged in a blast in the Indian state of Jharkhand. A rail track between Chichaki and Chaudharybandh stations was damaged in the blast in Giridih district of the state.

Train services on the Howrah-New Delhi route were disrupted for around six hours after the explosion, senior commandant of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Dhanbad, Hemant Kumar, said. “A rail track between Chichaki and Chaudharybandh stations was damaged in the blast that was triggered by the Maoists,” he added. “The panel clip of the rail track was damaged. Several trains on the route were diverted,” the official said.

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