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Fearing India’s retaliation, Pakistan cancels leaves of its troops, uses flares to light up night sky to see movement of Indian troops

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Fearing India’s retaliation, Pakistan cancels leaves of its troops, uses flares to light up night sky to see movement of Indian troops

Amid mounting international pressure and fearful of retaliatory action from India against them after the terrorist attack in Pulwama, the Pakistani administration has asked the people living near the Line of Control to vacate their houses.

According to reports, the Pakistani administration has asked people to stay in underground bunkers, which could protect them from shelling or any form of attacks which could come from the other side of the border.

The Pakistani government had also issued an official advisory asking all those residing around the Line of Control (LoC) to take precautions like using safe routes while commuting. Reportedly, the residents along the LoC have been also asked to avoid being in groups at a particular place and to build bunkers.

The advisory issued by the PoK officials further dictates the residents to avoid using unnecessary lights during night time and refrain from unnecessary travel near the LoC routes. The villagers have also been asked not to take animals for grazing near the LoC.

Meanwhile, insecure Pakistani troops are using flares to light up the night sky, while resorting to firing indiscriminately towards the LoC randomly throughout the night to ensure that Indian troops aren’t involved in any suspicious activity.

A senior official in the security establishment said that radio chatter between Pakistani positions indicates that Pakistan has canceled leaves of its officers and troops. The intercepts also suggest that Pakistani officers have been threatened with terrible consequences by their superior officers if they fail to detect incoming Indian troops.

In the wake of the recent Pulwama attack, India has successfully managed to put pressure on Pakistan to relinquish its assistance to terrorists. The Indian government has decided to isolate Pakistan diplomatically and also decided to stop the flow of waters of three rivers assigned to it as per the Indus Water Treaty into Pakistan.

Earlier, the Indian government had withdrawn the Most Favoured Nation status given to Pakistan and had imposed customs duty of 200% on all imports from Pakistan.

The fear has gripped the Pakistani administration as the people of Pakistan has displayed paranoia after they failed to recognise their own Air Force fighter jets and went into a state of panic assuming that Indian Air-Force had launched air-strike over Sialkot in Pakistan.

Pro-Congress Facebook page shares fake image of Modi, runs ads in Pakistan and Bangladesh

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Pro-Congress Facebook page shares fake image of Modi, runs ads in Pakistan and Bangladesh

A pro-Congress Facebook page named ‘Bhashan Ya Rashan’ was caught spreading a fake image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, running as a sponsored post on Facebook.


The said ad, which contained a Photoshopped image of PM Modi from the flagging off of a passenger train in Assam from December last year, was also run in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Ad with Photoshopped image of Modi was run in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well.

The caption reads, “aa gaye na apni asliyat pe, bhakto, mar jao ab kahin jaake (finally you show your true colours, Bhakts, go die somewhere)”. It shows PM Modi waving a flag which resembles Pakistan’s flag. As can be seen above, the ad was run in Bangladesh as well, as audience breakdown shows that people from Dhaka division and other parts of Bangladesh also viewed it.

The image was actually of Prime Minister Modi flagging off a passneger train in Assam.


That’s not all, the pro-Congress Facebook page is currently also running anti-Modi ads in Pakistan and Bangladesh along with India.

Congress supporting page runs anti-Modi ad in Bangladesh
Congress supporting page runs anti-Modi ad in Pakistan

The page regularly posts pro-Congress and anti-Modi posts.

Youth Congress post shared by the Facebook page.
Pro-Congress post on the page.

Earlier, Congress’ official Facebook account was also caught running a ‘Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao‘ Facebook campaign in Pakistan. Prior to that, too, Congress has indulged in undermining Indian elected Prime Minister in Pakistan for its own petty political gains. Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar had also gone to Pakistan and asserted exactly the same thing that the Facebook ad said. Aiyar had asserted in Pakistan that Pakistan should help Congress party dislodge PM Modi and install Congress back in the seat of power.

Congress’ soft approach towards Pakistan is not new. Recently, following the Pulwama terror attack which claimed lives of over 40 soldiers, echoing Pakistan’s words, Congress referred to the terrorist as ‘home-grown so-called terrorist’. This, when Jaish-e-Mohammad, a terror organisation nourishing and flourishing on Pakistan’s soil has claimed responsibility of the attack. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, too, gave a clean chit to Pakistan by saying that ‘terrorism has no country‘. In fact, Congress supporters are so keen to absolve Pakistan of the responsibility that they are even floating theories that Pulwama terror attack was an inside job carried out on behest of PM Modi (with help of Jaish-e-Mohammad, the very terror organisation which wants him dead).

Aligarh: Court rejects bail plea of AMU student Md Talib arrested for February 12 violence

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Aligarh: Court rejects bail plea of AMU student Md Talib arrested for February 12 violence

The bail plea of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student Mohammad Talib who was charged for vandalism and promoting enmity during the February 12 campus violence, has been rejected by the court.

The plea was heard was Additional Judicial Magistrate Kuldeep Singh. After the dismissal of the bail plea, a large number of students gathered at Bab-e-Syed gate and started protesting which continued for about three hours. Prosecution Officer Indrajeet Pal who was opposing the bail plea of Talib said, “I opposed his bail plea, as the crime was serious in nature”.

Talib, a student of B.A. second year, was arrested by the police on Sunday night. Members of Student Union had come out in protest after Talib’s arrest and had surrounded the police station. However, they had returned after they were shown evidence by the police in support of his arrest. Hamza Sufiyan, Vice Chairman of the Students’ Union said that they would meet district administration officials who had assured of Talib’s early release.

Some AMU students had allegedly harassed a Republic TV crew including a journalist named Nalini Sharma who was reporting live from the campus. The journalist had alleged that the AMU students took away their equipment as the police stationed outside the gates of the university stood there watching.

Agra hotel owners rise up against Kashmiris celebrating Pulwama attack, put up ‘No Kashmiri, please’ board

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Agra hotel owners rise up against Kashmiris celebrating Pulwama attack, put up ‘No Kashmiri, please’ board

Amidst the growing sentiments of strong retaliatory actions after the Pulwama terrorist attack, there have been many cases where common citizens have stood up to people who have echoed pro-Pakistan or anti-India sentiments.

Many people who had shared anti-India sentiments or expressed joy over the killing of India’s soldiers were brought to notice by vigilant citizens and social media users. However, as the secular-liberals in India often do, soon there was a media propaganda peddling a narrative that innocent Kashmiri students were being attacked by ‘Hindutva forces’.

The bluff was called out by law enforcement agencies and many alert social media users after it was proved that there has been no incident of targeted violence towards Kashmiri students and the action taken by a certain educational institution and business outlets were as a result of secessionist or anti-national sentiments displayed by the people concerned.

Amidst all this, as per a report by Times of India, some hotel owners in Agra have started an initiative of putting pamphlets that display that they are not going to allow Kashmiris for a stay in their respective establishments.

The report states that their initiative is in retaliation to Kashmiri locals being supportive of terrorists despite the brutal massacre of Indian soldiers.

Credit: Times of India

Among others, one Rajjab Ali, a hotel owner in Agra was also quoted by the report saying “Our 46 jawans and officers have been killed in various terrorist activities post-February 14 in Kashmir, but still the locals support terrorists instead of paying homage to the slain soldiers. It needs to stop or we will not allow them into our hotels.” He has also added that the ban will continue till justice is served.

Image courtesy: Times of India

The Agra Hotel owners’ association, however, has clarified that they do not support such protests against Kashmiri people and Kashmiris are free to travel and stay.

Also read: Kashmiri student writes ‘This was not a terrorist attack, this is returns of what you did to Kashmiri people’, gets rusticated

The presence of Muslim hotel owners among those who have banned Kashmiris was noticed by many on social media. They pointed it out to highlight that the mainstream media propaganda of ‘Hindu nationalists’ targeting the Kashmiris is flawed as it was, in fact, patriotic Indians taking a stand against people who support terrorists and celebrate the killing of our soldiers.


Earlier, many self-proclaimed ‘activists’ and journalists have tried to share the propaganda that Kashmiri students were being targeted by people after the Pulwama attack. However, these claims were all found to be false as there was not a single incidence of targeted violence against Kashmiris. Rather, it was people who showed solidarity with Pakistan or terrorists and shared anti-India sentiments who were being called out by patriotic Indians, irrespective of regionality and religion.

UNSC issues a strong statement after Pakistan sponsored terrorist attack in Pulwama, names JeM

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UNSC issues a strong statement after Pakistan sponsored terrorist attack in Pulwama, names JeM

The Pakistan sponsored Pulwama terror attack in Kashmir, which led 40 soldiers dead, has evoked strong reactions from the world community. The one institution which was conspicuous in its silence so far was the United Nations Security Council. However, today the UNSC issued a strongly worded statement against the heinous act of terrorism against India.

Statement issued by UNSC

The UNSC in its statement condemned the terror attack that claimed the lives of 40 Indian soldiers and mentioned Jaish-e-Mohammad by name, for taking responsibility for the attack.

In the statement, UNSC reiterated that terrorism in all its forms is the greatest threat to international peace and that perpetrators, organisers and financiers of terrorism should be brought to justice.

The UNSC also ‘urged all states’ in accordance with their obligation under International Law and relevant security council resolutions to ‘cooperate actively with the Government of India and all other relevant authorities in this regard’.

India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin tweeted that this is a ‘statement with many firsts’ and hence, it took more time than expected. He tweeted that the UNSC statement was ‘better late than never’.


The UNSC has issued a strong statement and indirectly, seems to have pulled up Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism and China for protecting Mazhoor Azhar. However, what remains to be seen if any action is taken in this regard by the two neighbouring states of India.

After the Pulwama attack, Pakistan has been in panic mode expecting a military retaliation from India. Yesterday, several people from Pakistan got spooked after they heard a sonic boom from their own PAF jets in civilian areas of Sialkot. They took to Twitter to wonder if India had attacked Pakistan. India has been trying to alienate Pakistan diplomatically in the world community. After the Pulwama terror attack, India took a number of steps to ensure it hits Pakistan diplomatically and financially. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said yesterday that India would ensure that no water under Indus Water Treaty that is meant to be used by India would go to Pakistan.

Following the Pulwama attack, PM Modi chaired a CCS meet with top security officials and his cabinet. The meet concluded with offering the Armed forces a free rein to exact the revenge at a place and timing of their choice. It also agreed upon mounting an insurmountable diplomatic offence by speaking to representatives of 25 countries, the ambassadors of Arab nations and withdrawing the Most Preferred Nation (MFN) status from Pakistan.

West Bengal: Police sends notice to CBI Joint Director to present himself at Bhawanipur police station within a week

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West Bengal: Police sends notice to CBI Joint Director to present himself at Bhawanipur police station within a week

CBI Joint Director Pankat Srivastava has been asked to present himself at the Bhawanipur Police Station by the West Bengal Police in connection with an extortion case.


Srivastava has been asked to join the probe into a case registered under Sections 341 (wrongful restraint) and 342 (wrongful confinement) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC filed against CBI Sub-Inspector Sunil Meena and others at Bhawanipur Police Station on January 21.

One person named Vaibhav Khattar had alleged that the CBI had illegally detained and tortured him in a case which had nothing to do with him. Khattar is an employee of Central Roller Flour Mills Pvt Ltd which was raided by CBI in August, 2018. It was alleged that the raids were carried out due to infighting within CBI between then Director Alok Kumar Verma and then Special Director Rakesh Asthana. The mill’s owner Dipesh Chandak, who had turned approver in the Bihar fodder scam case, was picked up by CBI and he was allegedly coerced into framing Asthana. But he had escaped from custody, after which CBI had furiously picked up the company employees, including Khattar, and allegedly tortured them.

Chandak was later arrested by Kolkata police and is in custody at present. These activities of CBI took place under the leadership of Joint Director Pankat Srivastava, and that’s why he has been named in the case.

This is the latest development in the fight that has broken out between the central investigative agency and the West Bengal government. Recently, the CBI had questioned Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam. TMC MP Kunal Ghosh was also summoned.

Earlier, the state was the scene of massive chaos after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had resorted to ‘dharna’ politics to allegedly save herself from Saradha chit fund scam investigation. Mamata Banerjee had sat on ‘Dharna’ after Kolkata Police had forcefully detained eight CBI officials who had gone to visit police commissioner Rajeev Kumar to obtain crucial information regarding the Saradha scam.

Rajeev Kumar’s role is under the CBI’s scanner for deliberately withholding some crucial and incriminating documents that the SIT had collected in the chit fund scams probe. The Central Bureau of Investigation had also expressed fear over the destruction of evidence after the Kolkata police had taken charge of all evidence and seized all documents. The BJP had alleged that these documents point fingers at various TMC leaders and people close to Mamata Banerjee.

Interim CBI Chief M Nageshwar Rao had said that a lot of evidence is being destroyed or being caused to disappear. Earlier too, the CBI had claimed that the West Bengal government was obstructing investigation in Saradha Chit Fund scam. It has alleged that the “hostile” government is delaying the filing of the final charge sheet.

Pakistanis get scared about attack by India after seeing their own Air Force fighter jets flying over civilian areas

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Pakistanis get scared about attack by India after seeing their own Air Force fighter jets flying over civilian areas

Amid the speculations of India taking some decisive action against Pakistan as a retaliation for the Pulwama attack, today many people started posting on social media sites that India has conducted air-strike over Sialkot in Pakistan.

There were reports that sounds of heavy blasts and jet engines of fighter planes were heard, and some even claimed that India had dropped two bombs in Silakot, and Pakistan Air Force jets were being scrambled in response.


Some users on social media even went on to claim that one Indian Air Force jet was shot down by Pakistan.

These unconfirmed reports were very big, as any airstrike inside Pakistan by India will signal the start of a full-blown war between the two countries with nuclear bombs.

But soon the facts emerged, which showed that nothing of that sorts had happened.
According to reports, jets of Pakistan Air Force had conducted drills over several places in Pakistan today, which included Sialkot.


Two jets of PAF flew near the international border at Sialkot, and some people mistook them to be jets of Indian air force. Due to the possibility that India may initiate military action against Pakistan, the security forces in the country are in a state of high alert, and the drill was part of that. It also has been reported that Pakistan is moving tanks towards the border. Other than Sialkot, Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 jets flew low over Lahore also, which was spotted by several social media users.


Coming to the sound of blasts, it is possible that the Pakistan Air Force fighter jets crossed the speed of sound while flying over civilian areas. When a fighter jet goes supersonic, it causes a sonic boom, which sounds like the sound of an explosion.

Former SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav lashes out at Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to forge alliance with BSP

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Former SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav lashes out at Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to forge alliance with BSP

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has lashed out at the alliance forged between SP and BSP, by his son and party chief Akhilesh Yadav.

On January 12, SP and BSP declared in a joint press conference addressed by BSP supremo Mayawati and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav that they will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections under an alliance. As per announcement, SP and BSP were to fight on 38 seats each. But, today it has been declared that BSP will fight on 38 seats and SP will fight on only 37 seats. 3 seats have been given to Rashtriya Lok Dal.

While addressing party workers at the SP headquarters in Lucknow, Mulayam Singh Yadav expressed his disenchantment with the alliance, and also lashed out at Akhilesh Yadav, for agreeing to give BSP nearly half of the seats. He claimed that SP has given up on elections, long before the polling.

“I dot even know why the alliance has been forged,” Mulayam Singh said at the event. He said that he has been made the ‘Sanrakshak’ or Guardian of the party, without having any responsibility.

During the speech, he also acknowledged BJP’s stronghold over the state and said that election will only be between the alliance and the BJP, with Congress making no impact. Lending his support to party chief Akhilesh, Mulayam said that he is ready to help him with ticket distribution if Akhilesh needs. He said that SP has formed its own government in the state without any pre-poll alliance, so why does the party need it now. He pointed out that BSP currently has zero MPs in the state, so it does not deserve so many seats in the pre-poll alliance.

“They used to tell me I am finishing the party. Now, you tell who is finishing the party” Former SP chief said. He added that there was one time that in the state no one cared for BJP and Congress, but now the SP has been weakened to the extent that, other parties are performing better. He further claimed that Akhilesh Yadav has not even asked him from what seat he wants to contest Lok Sabha election. Mulayam Singh Yadav is currently MP from Azamgarh.

Mulayam Singh also talked about declining women representation in the party. He said that previously women had adequate representation in the party but now their participation has reduced.

Singh’s disproval of his son’s decision to forge an alliance had also come during 2017 UP assembly elections. That time too, Singh had criticised Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to fight elections along with Congress.

Mulayam Singh Yadav’s open criticism of party chief Akhilesh Yadav has come days after his praise for PM Modi and his leadership.

“I want to thank PM Modi for taking everyone into consensus. I wish that every member of the house and especially you (PM Modi) return to being Prime Minister again” Mulayam Singh had said at the last day of Lok Sabha session.

After expressing excitement over Parliament attack, Rajdeep Sardesai says ‘World Cup without Pakistan in England is unthinkable’ on the basis of ‘one terror attack’

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After expressing excitement over Parliament attack, Rajdeep Sardesai says ‘World Cup without Pakistan in England is unthinkable’ on the basis of ‘one terror attack’

Following the heinous Pulwama terror attack that took the lives of 44 Indian CRPF personnel, the Indian government has managed to isolate Pakistan globally after it launched a diplomatic offensive against the terrorist state of Pakistan. With emotions running high, demand to ban Pakistan from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 or at least calls to Indian cricket team to boycott its match against Pakistan has been growing increasingly.

Reacting to the issue of isolating Pakistan by banning them from participating in the ICC Cricket World Cup, Rajdeep Sardesai – the self-proclaimed cricket expert and the “journalist” who had expressed excitement over the terrorist attack on the Indian parliament, claimed that banning Pakistan from World Cup to be held in England is ‘unthinkable’ especially on the basis of ‘one terror attack’ on India.

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Speaking on the might of the BCCI, Rajdeep Sardesai said that any Cricket World Cup without India is unthinkable and similarly banning Pakistan in a World Cup is also unthinkable on a pretext of just ‘one terror attack’. He said India can only take the decision to boycott unilaterally and he did not expect of any such ban against Pakistan by the ICC.

Rajdeep went on to say that there was no precedence of boycotting any country from multi-nation cricket tournaments barring the suspension of South Africa during 1970s because of the then South African government’s policy of ‘apartheid’. Rajdeep also objected against the boycott of Pakistan saying that it was difficult to equate the policy of state-sponsored terror of Pakistan to ‘apartheid’. Instead, he suggested that the Indian team should forfeit the match against Pakistan, which will be held on June 16 at Old Trafford, Manchester.

In an interview with Former Indian cricket captain Sunil Gavaskar, Rajdeep carefully directed questions at him asking whether the decision to boycott Pakistan was just a knee-jerk reaction after the tragic Pulwama attacks. Rajdeep Sardesai throughout the show also contended that the decision to boycott has been some form of emotional outburst as contrary to a coherent policy to isolate Pakistan.

Rajdeep Sardesai has also expressed his disappointment over the removal of Imran Khan’s portrait from the Cricket Club of India, Mumbai. Rajdeep Sardesai like other peaceniks still pretends that socio-cultural interaction with the terrorist state of Pakistan is a necessity despite Pakistan using terror as an apparatus to target India.

Rajdeep Sardesai further trivialises the idea of boycotting Pakistan to an ‘event’ by depicting it as an intrusion of politics into sports. In their attempt to casualise the terror policy of Pakistan, Rajdeep and the other ‘peaceniks’ forget the fact that foremost responsibility of any national sports teams is not only representing their country but also to respect the sentiments and wishes of the country.

The peaceniks like Rajdeep also deliberately ignore the fact that it is not the just the responsibility of the political class to stand up against the menace of terrorism but also the commitment of every citizen to support the choice that a political system chooses to execute. So, cultural issues such as sports tournaments, movement of artists, people-to-people interaction are indeed political and should follow the general sentiment that persists in the country at a given point of time.

We are a nation who often indulges in conceding laughable analogies of religious symbolism to a sport like Cricket and has often even equated some of its icons to the ‘God’, which has now resulted in the petty issue of a Cricket World Cup taking preference over country’s national interests. Cricket is a mere sport, while tournaments come and go, what matters the most is the resolve of the Indian political establishment which has decided to teach the terrorist state of Pakistan a lesson.

Intel inputs warn Jaish-e-Mohammad planning to execute another Pulwama like strike, security forces on high alert

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Intel inputs warn Jaish-e-Mohammad planning to execute another Pulwama like strike, security forces on high alert

According to fresh intercepts gathered by the Intelligence agencies, Pakistan backed terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad, who carried out the dastardly Pulwama attack, is preparing to strike again. The inputs received from the conversations on February 16 and 17 between JeM leadership in Pakistan and its terrorists in Kashmir have revealed that another fidayeen attack of a much bigger magnitude is being planned by them.

According to sources, an IED attack is being planned in the Chawkibal and Tangdhar route of Simpwarni district of Kashmir in coming two days by the JeM.

One green coloured Scorpio vehicle has been readied by the terrorist organisation to carry out a fidayeen attack, sources told Zee Media.

Moreover, the intelligence agency has also decoded a message on JeM’s social media which talks about a ‘Khelona’ of some kilograms. This message has been interpreted as an explosive (khelona) which weighs 500 kilograms and shall be used for the attack.

According to sources, the message states that there will be more attacks if the security forces did not stop targeting the Kashmiris.

On Wednesday, a top intelligence official revealed that there were various inputs from different quarters confirming that there could be a major attack, either in Jammu or outside Jammu and Kashmir.

As per intel sources, the Times of India had earlier reported that a 21-member JeM squad, including three suicide bombers, had infiltrated into Kashmir in December last year to launch three attacks, which included two outside the valley. JeM chief Masood Azhar’s nephew Mohammad Umair led the squad along with Kamran, the mastermind behind the Pulwama attack, who was neutralised on February 18th by security forces in an encounter in Pulwama.

The intercepts picked up by the agencies also revealed that the JeM are planning to release a video showing the preparations of the Pulwama suicide bombing with the purpose to glorify the 20-year-old suicide bomber, Adil Ahmad, who had rammed the explosive-laden car into the CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14. This, according to an analyst, would help Jaish to radicalise vulnerable Kashmiri youths into suicide bombing missions.

Though the police officials believe that the entire conversation between the JeM terrorists which has been intercepted by our agencies is more of a ‘psychological operation’ and has been conducted with an aim to terrorise India, but since it has been intercepted it cannot be ignored, said a senior police officer. “We are on high alert and trying to corroborate the threats through other means too,” he furthered.

Pakistan backed Jaish-e-Mohammad, which had been dormant in the valley for quite some time was instrumental in executing the horrific Pulwama attack which consumed the lives of 44 CRPF soldiers leaving several critically injured. India has been making several attempts ever since to avenge the dastardly attack.

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