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Srinagar, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Illegally detained All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman Masarat Alam Butt has said that the Indian government is playing with the lives of the Kashmiri political detainees and they are being tortured even in the holy month of Ramadan. Masarat Alam Butt in his message from the infamous Tihar Jail in New Delhi deplored that India was targeting the citizens and detainees of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir in various ways.

He said that a few months ago the Indian government had changed the security arrangements of the prisoners in Indian jails due to which the prisoners are living in an extremely dangerous environment. The situation has become very dangerous even on the occasion of visiting the courts, a prisoner can be targeted anywhere, he added. The APHC Chairman said in recent days, the known prisoner of Bandipora, Talib Lali, was distributing sehri when the local miscreants threw hot oil on him, which burned his body and face. There is a possibility of more such attacks, he lamented

Masarat Alam Butt said three of Talib Lali cases are pending in the local court of Bandipora district, but he is not presented there, adding similarly, other prisoners have not been shifted to the jails of Jammu and Kashmir and are not produced in courts. He said, in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar jail, Kashmiri detainees are kept with criminal prisoners and ordinary Delhi Police take them to court, where they are attacked by evil Hindus. He appealed to the international human rights organizations to take immediate notice of the plight of the Kashmiri political detainees languishing in different jails of India and the territory.

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Shamli, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): A soldier of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) was found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The BSF man, Dheeraj Kumar (40), was found dead at a farm at Hiranwada under Babri region of Shamli district of the state, said police on Friday.

A week ago, his wife had also died under mysterious circumstances. However, her family members said that Dheeraj and his relatives had forced her to commit suicide. An FIR was also lodged on April 01 against Dheeraj and his two relatives for compelling the woman to commit suicide and the investigation is underway. Dheeraj’s elder brother Amit Sharma said that his brother was posted in Gurgaon city of Haryana state and was on a month’s leave.

“Dheeraj went to the farm in the morning, and was later found unconscious. The family rushed him to a hospital, where the doctors declared him dead,” police said. The body has been sent for post-mortem and the matter was being investigated, said a police spokesman.

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Srinagar, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian policeman died by a fire from his service rifle in Kupwara district. The police man died when his service rifle went off accidentally in Awoora area of the district. The cop was posted at the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party president for district Kupwara, Abdul Rehman Lone, police officials said. He has been identified as Bikram Sharma, they added.

Meanwhile, an elderly man died while five other persons sustained injuries in a road accident in Khamri area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. On the other hand, the Jammu Kashmir Disaster Management Authority (DMA) issued an avalanche warning over higher reaches of Kupwara district in next 24 hours. The DMA said that a low danger level avalanche is likely to occur above 3000 metres above sea level in Kupwara district. People living in these areas have been advised to take precautions and avoid venturing in the avalanche prone areas till further orders.

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New Delhi, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Tushar Gandhi, Indian author and the great-grandson of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has said that he was not surprised at Sangh Parivar’s attempt at rewriting history prescribed for schools. Tushar Gandhi in an interview in New Delhi said deletions in NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) textbooks will give greater acceptance to the “campaign of misinformation of the Sangh Parivar”. The NCERT has removed passages in textbooks prescribed for Class 12 political science and history. The portions removed include passages on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, his assassin Nathuram Godse and the 1948 ban on RSS. The NCERT curriculum is followed by several state boards across India.

Maintaining that he was not surprised at the development, Tushar Gandhi said Sangh Parivar never made secret of their desire to rewrite and discredit the established history. Responding to the raging controversy of text book deletions, he said that Gandhi’s ‘real identity and legacy’ always ‘troubled’ the BJP-RSS. The Opposition parties questioned the textbook deletions accusing the RSS-backed BJP government of tying to ‘whitewash’ historical events that trouble the BJP.

Tushar Gandhi also said textbook deletions will make the misinformation campaign by the BJP-RSS easier on a future generation with little exposure to real education and information. ‘This is their version of brainwashing in the very beginning. Instead of trying to overpower thoughts which have already been implanted, they are trying to build on the lies by implanting them in formative minds,’ he said.

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Islamabad, April 07, 2023 (PPI-OT): Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman has said that Indus Water Treaty cannot be modified unilaterally by India. Responding to a Calling Attention Notice in the Senate, moved by Leader of Opposition Shahzad Waseem and others, she stressed that the treaty cannot be changed until both the parties, Pakistan and India, agree to it.

The Minister for Climate Change said Pakistan received a vague letter from India on 25th January this year for revision of the Indus Water Treaty. She said Pakistan had timely raised objections on the construction of controversial dams including Kishenganga, Ratle and Baglihar by India on the rivers meant for Pakistan.

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Srinagar, March 28, 2023 (PPI-OT): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, one person in a snow avalanche in south Kashmir’s Islamabad district, today. Officials told the media that a massive snow avalanche hit the Sinthan top area of the district resulting into the death of a JCB driver, while several injuries have been reported from the spot.

They said, the deceased driver was identified as Javed Ahmed Zagoo, a resident of Dessu in Larnoo area of the district. They added that a massive rescue operation is underway at the area.

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London, March 11, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Member of British Parliament, Lord Qurban Hussain, has raised his voice for the suffering women of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Taking part in a debate held in the UK Parliament in connection with the International Women’s Day, he said, “On International Women’s Day, while we are discussing very important issues such as steps taken to support the education of women and girls in the United Kingdom and worldwide, we must not forget those women in conflict zones facing physical torture, verbal abuse, harassment, rape and murder with complete impunity. One of those areas is Kashmir, where I was born.”

He said that after the repeal of special status of IIOJK by Narendra Modi-led fascist government on August 05, 2019, there are thousands of Kashmiri men and women held in different prisons in different parts of India, booked under draconian law Public Safety Act or sedition, provocation and anti-India activities laws. He cited Kashmiri women leaders, Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi and Naheeda Nasreen as examples of the women who have been held in New Delhi’s infamous Tihar Jail far away from their home in IIOJK for a long period.

Lord Qurban Hussain, who is Secretary of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kashmir, said Aasiya Andrabi, the founder and chairperson of one of south Asia’s biggest women’s organisations Dukhtaran-e-Millat, is one of the most prominent woman pro-freedom leaders of Kashmir, and is a science graduate in biochemistry, biotherapy, and bacteriology. Aasiya Andrabi is the first woman resistance leader from Kashmir, who has been booked under the Public Safety Act 20 times since 1993. He said, the charge against Aasiya Andrabi is simple; she fiercely advocates Kashmir’s liberation from the Indian yoke. In October 1990 Andrabi married Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, a resistance ideologist who happens to be Kashmir’s longest-serving political prisoner. The couple has spent only four years together in their 28-year marriage. The 58 year-old Aasiya Andrabi is suffering from various life-threatening diseases and is denied medical care in the jail, he said.

Lord Qurban Hussain said that Sofi Fehmeeda was arrested by India’s notorious National Investigation Agency on 20 April 2018 and charged with sedition. Since then, she has been imprisoned in Tihar, and her mother is still waiting for her release, he said. The British MP said, Naheeda Nasreen, is a graduate in theology and Islamic studies.

He said, there are thousands of men and women who are held in Indian prisons and their only real crime is to have taken part in the campaign for the right to self-determination, which was promised by India at the United Nations in 1948 and 1949. “I ask the Minister to say what the British Government can do to aid the release of prisoners, such as these three ladies, from Indian prisons. Furthermore, are the British Government prepared to link human rights to their free trade deal with India?” he asked. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir, Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan, and Jammu and Kashmir Self-Determination Movement International team have thanked Lord Qurban Hussain for raising his voice for plight of women of IIOJK.

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Lucknow, March 11, 2023 (PPI-OT):
A Muslim man was shot dead, a woman’s eyes gouged out and a 9-month-old baby slammed on the ground, all for stopping Hindutva goons from drinking alcohol in front of a shop. This heart-wrenching incident reportedly took place in Jaunpur city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

As per a video making rounds on social media, some men from the Thakur community came up to a puncture shop and sat on the bonnet of the car outside the shop. The owner of the shop, Kamal stopped them from doing so and moved the car and some argument and altercation followed but the situation was normalised. However, the reaction came later when 15-20 men from the Thakur community, went to the house of Kamal and fired at him, killing him on the spot. They also mercilessly beat up a woman with the butt of the gun where her eyes were gouged out, nose was broken. They also threw the 9-month baby on the floor, causing her ear to bleed. Three more persons from the family were also injured in this assault.

Muslims from the area held a sit-in protest demanding action against the culprits. They also demanded a government job for a family member and 1 crore compensation. A local news report from a channel called Azamgarh Express showed the woman replete with plasters on her face and the 9-month-old baby as well. As per the report, out of the four accused, two have been wanted criminals (Sujit and Sunny).

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