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Islamabad, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):Pakistan is engaged in intense diplomatic outreach to highlight the plight of Afghan people and the humanitarian crisis they are faced with. This has been illustrated by Prime Minister Imran Khan’s contacts with the world leaders and Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s numerous bilateral interactions and visit to four neighbouring countries of Afghanistan including Iran, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan.

Now on the initiative of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan is also hosting an extraordinary session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers on Sunday to consider practical arrangements and steps to help address the humanitarian needs of the Afghan people.

The OIC conference will also help galvanize other international actors to come forward and extend a helping hand to the Afghan people. According to the Foreign Office, Pakistan hopes the OIC member states and rest of the international community present at the moot will consider making pledges of financial and in-kind support for the Afghan people.

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Jaipur, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said India is a country of Hindus and not Hindutvadis, who want to be in power in any condition. Elaborating the difference between the two, he said, “Two words cannot mean the same thing. Every word has a different meaning. In our country’s politics today, the meaning of Hindu and Hindutva are the same.

These are not the same thing, they are two different words and they mean completely different things. I am a Hindu but not a Hindutva Wadi. Mahatma Gandhi was a Hindu and Nathuram Godse was a Hindutva Wadi, he added.

He said if there is inflation in the country and there is suffering, then this has been done “This is a country of Hindus, not Hindutvadis. If there is inflation in the country and there is suffering, then this has been done by Hindutvadis. Hindutvadis want power in any condition,” Gandhi said addressing a rally against rising inflation in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

He targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his friends have “ruined” the country during the NDA dispensation. “Modi ji and his three-four industrialist friends ruined the country in seven years, “Gandhi alleged. “I am Hindu and not Hindutvadis,” he said.

“No matter whatever happens, Hindu seeks and spends his whole life in search of truth whereas Hindutva spends his whole life in search of power and getting empowered. He will kill anyone for the sake of power. The path of Hindu is ‘Satyagraha’ while the path of Hindutva is ‘Sattagraha.’

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Srinagar, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a special police officer along with his associate, deployed with a local BJP leader decamped with two weapons from his residence in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

During intervening night of December 12 and 13, Saqib Ahmad Tantry (SPO), deployed as SPO of BJP leader Abdul Rashid Zargar fled with two weapons in Sialkot area of the district. The SPO’s associate Arif Ahmad, is also missing while the efforts are underway to trace them, officials told media men in Srinagar.

A senior police officer said, “Saqib Ahmad Tantry had come to his house and left. His family told us that they are also searching him.” He said that the SPO was on guarding duty during night hours when he decamped with weapons along with associate. Asked about the missing weapons, the officer said that “PSOs of Rashid Zargar has not come and things will get clear soon.”

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Srinagar, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Muneera Banoo, mother of Aijaz Ahmed Naik, who was the sole bread-earner to his family and has been in jail since 2019 passed away in Shopian, ending her four-year-long wait for her incarcerated son.

Muneera’s husband Mohammed Abdullah Naik passed away in 2000 leaving behind two young children for her to take care of. “She did well in taking care of her children. She did everything she could to bring them up,” Tariq Ahmed Naik, a relative told the media.

On 06 May 2019, Aijaz Ahmed Naik who owns a mobile-recharge shop in the Zainapora market of Shopian was arrested in a fake case. He was initially lodged at Police Station, Zainapora, from where he was shifted to Pulwama Jail. “From Pulwama he was shifted to Srinagar. And from Srinagar, he was shifted to Kathua. Later, from Kathua he was shifted to Srinagar, where he is currently lodged,” Tariq said.

Throughout this time, Muneera Banoo struggled hard. She visited courts and met lawyers to see her son out of the Jail, Tariq said. “The family had it hard, economically, since Aijaz was the sole bread earner to the family,” he said.

Saqib Abdullah Naik is the younger brother of Aijaz, but is mentally unsound, Tariq said. Soon after Aijaz was arrested, it became tough for Muneera to see her jailed son, Aijaz, as strict curfew was imposed in the valley post the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019. “After abrogation, the authorities disallowed the prisoners from meeting anyone on the pretext of pandemic,” Tariq said.

Eventually, six months ago, Muneera met her son when he was brought to Zainapora after he was bailed by the court. She was expecting his release, however, Aijaz was booked in another case, Tariq said.

Muneera went to Srinagar on 27 November, 2021, but she was not allowed to meet her son. The manual in most of the jails allows one meeting of inmates fortnightly with their relatives. “She was told that someone had met Aijaz a few days ago,” Tariq said.

Muneera’s health deteriorated after that and she was consuming antidepressants. “All she spoke and thought of was her son, Aijaz. She often had tears in her eyes speaking of Aijaz. She would often tell everyone that she was disallowed to meet her son,” another relative of Aijaz said.

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Srinagar, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian Army Havaldar committed suicide by shooting himself in Kupwara district. The Havildar ranked non-commissioned officer committed suicide by shooting himself with his AK 47 rifle inside his camp at Drangyari Chowkibal area of the district, early morning, today.

An Indian official confirmed to media that 38-year-old NCO ended his life but added that it was not immediately known what led him to take the extreme step. It is worth mentioning here that an Indian Army Major, identified as Parvinder Singh, took his life with his service rifle at his official residence in Mahubal area of in Ramban district, yesterday. The incident raised the number of such deaths amongst Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 525 since January 2007.

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New Delhi, December 13, 2021 (PPI-OT):Jamaat-e-Islami India Vice President Prof. Salim Engineer has said that the farmers have not withdrawn their agitation but merely suspended it “as they do not have confidence and trust in the Modi government.

The JI India Vice President in a statement issued in New Delhi said, “This loss of confidence and trust is quite concerning and is a result of the past policies and experience with the government.” In a vibrant democracy, he added, the opinion of people must be valued and no decision by the government should be declared as irrevocable, which is in direct contrast to authoritarianism.

He pointed out that the government was compelled to value the opinion of people. “However, it is important to decipher if the decision by the government to roll back the unjust farm laws was due to electoral compulsions or guided by the democratic and constitutional spirit.”

He said the decision should have been taken much earlier by the government if it had valued the interests of the farmers at heart. “Such a belated decision to repeal farm laws appears to have been forced on the government as it saw possible defeat in forthcoming assembly elections. Hence, the decision of the government does not gain back the confidence of farmers.”

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