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Month: September 2020

Muslim Driver Lynched In Uttar Pradesh For Not Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Slogan

Muslim Driver Lynched In Uttar Pradesh For Not Chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ Slogan

INDIA
45-year cab driver, Aftab Alam, a resident of Trilokpuri, Noida, who had gone to drop one of his old clients at Bulandshahr, was brutally killed on Sunday midnight for not chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’. According to Aftab Alam’s 20-year-old son, Mohammad Sabir, he received an unusual call from his father, who didn’t utter a word after he picked up the phone. Sabir felt that something was wrong and he began to record the call. On the other end of the phone, he heard the attackers asked his name. They also repeatedly asked his father to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. And they all seemed to be drunk, also they asked if he would like to drink and in reply, Alam said ‘no’, Sabir heard. In the audio file of the call available at 8:39 minutes, one of the men can be heard saying “Jai Shri Ram bol, bol J...
Pakistan Lawmaker Warns of ‘Nuclear War’ Over Kashmir

Pakistan Lawmaker Warns of ‘Nuclear War’ Over Kashmir

INTERNATIONAL
A Pakistani lawmaker urged the international community, including the UN, to swiftly act to stop the atrocities of Kashmiris by Indian Government forces. Addressing a seminar in the capital Islamabad, Shehryar Khan Afridi, chairman of parliament’s Kashmir committee, claimed New Delhi was using backdoor channels to resume talks to Pakistan, however Pakistan would not talk to India unless Kashmir issue was on the agenda, he said. Kashmir became a key issue in the global digital space and that Pakistan would not allow India to mislead the world on the ongoing “genocide” in Kashmir. “We are reaching out to all the global platforms to raise Kashmir issue. Sardar Masood Khan, president of Pakistani-administered Kashmir charged that extrajudicial killings have become a norm in Jammu K...
Brazil Court Ruling Ignites Fears About Indigenous Land Rights

Brazil Court Ruling Ignites Fears About Indigenous Land Rights

INTERNATIONAL
A Brazilian Supreme Court ruling could permit the municipality that oversees the reservation to legalize the residence of farmers already infiltrating on the indigenous land.   Parakana people, who have for over three decades been fighting to protect their land in the Apyterewa reservation, in the northern state of Pará, fear there will be more deforestations, environmental degradation and injustice, as well as a loss of their culture, livelihood, and rights over their land due to the court ruling.  The Parakana people have been protesting and fighting legally to protect their land from illegal miners, loggers, and farmers who clear large swathes of trees. Land rights activists state the court ruling which would make indigenous protected territories accessible for development, is 'unc...
Army Vehicle Turns Turtle in Ganderbal

Army Vehicle Turns Turtle in Ganderbal

REGIONAL
Rayees Shah/ Shah Basit A Soldier of Indian Army was injured in a road accident on Tuesday when a vehicle he was travelling in met an accident in Ganderbal district of Central Kashmir. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that a soldier a vehicle of Indian Army met turned turtle in Gadribal area of Gund in Budgam district causing injuries to one solider. The injured soldier, P Bodalay was shifted to the nearby hospital for treatment
Saudi Arabia Jails Eight People over Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder

Saudi Arabia Jails Eight People over Journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder

INTERNATIONAL
After two years of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the court declared jail for the convicts between a period of seven to twenty years. Four months ago Jamal’s family had forgiven the killers and enabled death sentences to be set aside. Reports say that five people were handed 20 years of prison sentences, one person was sentenced 10-year imprisonment, and two were given seven-year sentences for the killing. U.N officials and Human Rights campaigners condemned and denounced the trial by stating that his killers are still free. Jamal was last seen with a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, where he had to get some impending documents for his wedding. According to the reports his body was butchered and dis...
Eastern Ladakh: PLA Troops Try to Close-in Forward Positions, Fire Few Rounds in Air, Says Army

Eastern Ladakh: PLA Troops Try to Close-in Forward Positions, Fire Few Rounds in Air, Says Army

INDIA
The army today said that situation once turned volatile in Eastern Ladakh when PLA troops tried to close-in forward positions on the Line of Actual Control and fired a few rounds to intimidate Indian soldiers. The army said that despite the grave provocation, the troops exercised a great restraint and behaved in a mature and responsible manner. In a statement issued by the press information bureau, the army said that India is committed to disengagement and de-escalating the situation on the LAC, China continues to undertake provocative activities to escalate. “At no stage has the Indian Army transgressed across the LAC or resorted to use of any aggressive means, including firing,” the statement issued to news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) said. The statement said that it ...
India Fired  Shots Towards Chinese Side, Claims China

India Fired Shots Towards Chinese Side, Claims China

INTERNATIONAL
Amid the ongoing tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Chinese side has claimed that the Indian Army has trespassed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. China in a statement alleged that the Indian soldiers crossed the de-facto border in Shenpao Mountain and "firing warning shots". The Indian army again illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control in Shenpao mountain near the south bank of Pangong Tso Lake on Monday," PLA Western Theater Command spokesperson was reported as saying by the state-run Global Times. "The chinese border defense troops were forced to take countermeasures to stabilize the situation after the Indian troops outrageously fired warning shots to PLA border patrol soldiers who were about to negotiate," the spo...
14.29 Lakh Domicile Certificates have been Issued, 360 Issued in a Day by Tehsildar of Anantnag

14.29 Lakh Domicile Certificates have been Issued, 360 Issued in a Day by Tehsildar of Anantnag

REGIONAL, THE KASHMIRIYAT
Salman Shah Tehsildar of Anantnag district, Wasi Deva issued 360 Domicile Certificates on the spot to all applicants who applied for offline Domicile Certificates on Monday in the process of giving citizenship to the migrants and refugees in Jammu Kashmir. The Jammu Kashmir administration on 1st of September had released a statement in a press conference that took place in Srinagar that, 12.5 lakh domicile certificates were issued, with over 99 percent being erstwhile to PRC holders. Since then, 14.29 lakh Domicile Certificates have been issued against 18.buy diflucan online https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/inc/new/diflucan.html no prescription 91 lakh applicants in Jammu Kashmir so far. Permanent Residents of the state have received their Permanent Re...
Known Drug Peddler Arrested by Police in Kulgam

Known Drug Peddler Arrested by Police in Kulgam

KULGAM, REGIONAL, SOUTH KASHMIR
Danishwar Hameed A notorious drug peddler was arrested today in South Kashmir’s Kulgam District with a substantial amount of cash and marijuana. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that a drug peddler, identified as Mubarak Ahmad Wani, S/O Ghulam Hassan Wani and resident of Rangrezpora in Kulgam was arrested today.buy fluoxetine online buy fluoxetine no prescription 1.3 Kgs of Cannabis powder along with INR 2,99,200 in cash has been recovered from his possession. An FIR, No. 166/2020 u/s 8/20 has been registered in the police station of Kulgam.
Encounter Rages in Kawoosa Area of Narbal in Budgam

Encounter Rages in Kawoosa Area of Narbal in Budgam

REGIONAL
Sajad Hameed An encounter has started between militants and fovernment forces in Kawoosa area of Narbal in Budgam. A police official told The Kashmiriyat that 2 RR of the Indian Army, Jammu Kashmir police and CRPF are all on duty on the encounter site. Heavy gunshots are being heard in the area, as per locals. More details rushing in.