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  "I would like to appeal to the government that if they want to get Kashmir separated from India, fulfill their aspiration. Why are you getting sons of others killed? You are sitting on the chairs (power) and have no concern about the life of others’ sons. Bother their life a bit. They are also sons of any mother. These sons are dying frequently, but you don’t care”.   These are the words uttered by the newly married grieving wife of Sikh soldier Gajjan Singh who was deployed by the Indian army in insurgency-hit Jammu and Kashmir and killed on October 11 in an encounter with militants in Poonch district. Harpreet Kaur added, “However, the governments does not listen to us. They only want chairs (power), nothing else”, The Sikh Narrative reported. “I am very proud of...

The home ministry has extended the area of 50 km-belt in West Bengal, Panjab and Assam, running along the country’s borders, from 15 km earlier, under jurisdiction of Border Security Force (BSF) where its officers have powers of arrest, search and seizure, on par with their counterparts in police. The border area under BSF in Gujarat has reduced to 50km which was earlier 80km, while the area in Rajasthan remains the same at 50km. Same was the case with the five northeastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur or the Union Territories of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh as no such limit had been prescribed earlier. Section 139 of the Border Security Force Act, 1968, empowers the Centre to notify the area and extent of the border force’s operational mandate, from time t...

  On Wednesday evening, Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (89) was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Reports suggest that Singh had complained of weakness following a fever. "The former PM had a fever on Monday and had recovered from it, but turned weak and is currently on fluids," Times of India quoted a source.

  On Wednesday, the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) released a statement, a copy of which lies with The Kashmiriyat, condemning the "lack of accountability against increasing systematic and targeted violence and mob attacks against Muslims in India." The Commission calling on the Indian government to protect its Muslim minority in line with its obligations under international human rights law, said that it was following with great concern the "increasing incidents of systematic violence, mob attacks, public lynching and dehumanizing political tirade against Muslims across different parts of India." Referring to the heart-wrenching video that came out of Assam, the last month, the commission said that "the ...

On Monday, a Muslim student Md Rehan (14), was brutally thrashed for wearing a skullcap while attending private tuition in Ilkal town of Bagalkot, Karnataka, Maktoob Media reported. Rehan's friends have alleged the ninth-grader was attacked outside a tuition centre by some Hindu boys after the tutor instigated them.buy cialis super force online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/cialis-super-force.html no prescription Further, it has come to the fore that when some Muslim youth came to talk about the matter, the Muslim students allege that they were beaten by more than 40-50 Sangh goons, after which 2 students received serious injuries. “Rehan had gone for tuition after offering Namaz,” Maktoob Media quotes a student activist, Salim Malik. “When he entered, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not a “dictator”, but the most democratic leader the country has ever seen, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday. Opposition leaders have created a wrong perception that Modi takes decisions unilaterally, without consulting anyone, with the aim to damage his image, Shah said. Shah’s remarks came during an interview with Sansad TV, on the occasion of Modi completing 20 years in public office on October 7. “Yes, he takes some risks and insists on discipline, but never imposes his will while taking important decisions related to governance and policy,” the minister said. “Modi believes, and he has said this multiple times, that we have not come to just run a government, but to build India.” Those who have worked with Modi, including his critics, ...

All India Congress Committee In-charge for Jammu  Kashmir and a Member of Parliament, Rajni Patil Saturday said that the ongoing situation in Kashmir has exposed the fake claims of normalcy often being made by the Government of India. Talking to reporters after visiting the residence of slain Muhammad Shafi Dar at Naidkhai, Bandipora, who was shot dead by unknown gunmen on last Tuesday, Patil said that coming here, she feels that the situation of 1990 is being repeated as innocent people are being shot here and the claims of normalcy that are being made by BJP government here are proving hollow. She also said that there should be a judicial inquiry into the civilian killings that have taken place here over the last several days. "Victims of family members also demanded that the kille...