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‘For us, Hindutva is paramount, and we won’t compromise on it’: Eknath Shinde reportedly proposes to return to Shiv Sena if it allies with the BJP

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‘For us, Hindutva is paramount, and we won’t compromise on it’: Eknath Shinde reportedly proposes to return to Shiv Sena if it allies with the BJP

Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Maharashtra, Maharashtra CM’s representatives—Milind Narvekar and Ravindra Phatak—met rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and other MLAs camping in Surat to defuse the situation. According to the reports, Shinde proposed to Narvekar that he would return to the party if Shiv Sena formed a government with the BJP.

Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray earlier today dispatched two of his trusted aides—Milind Narvekar and Ravindra Phatak—to Surat to have a detailed discussion with Eknath Shinde and other MLAs to solve the internecine conflict that stem the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the neighbouring state.

In his meeting with Narvekar and Phatak, Shinde and other MLAs reportedly insisted that Hindutva was paramount to them and that they would not compromise on it. As per reports, Narvekar also facilitated a call between Eknath Shinde and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, which went on for 15 minutes and during which the latter assured the rebel Shiv Sena leader that his issues would be resolved.

Meanwhile, Narvekar and Phatak left for Mumbai after meeting with Eknath Shinde and other rebel MLAs. After reaching Mumbai, he will directly go to the Varsha Bungalow to meet the CM.

According to Republic TV, the meeting between Maharashtra CM’s envoys and rebel MLAs went on for over 1.5 hours, during which Eknath Shinde talked to Uddhav Thackeray over the phone and expressed his displeasure at slogans being raised against him and his posters torn down during the protests held back in Maharashtra.

The report said Shinde asked for more time from CM Uddhav Thackeray to decide the future course of action. CM Uddhav reportedly agreed and assured him that his issues would be addressed.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra found itself on precarious terrain after Shinde and his loyalist MLAs went “missing”. It was later found that they had reached a hotel in Surat late Monday night, hours after the results of the MLC polls in Maharashtra were declared. As per the latest information, 30 Shiv Sena MLAs and 2 independent MLAs are camping at Le Meridian Hotel in Gujarat’s Surat. They are said to be in constant touch with the BJP and also plan to meet Devendra Fadnavis, who is scheduled to leave Delhi in a while, sources said.

Ladki hoon lad sakti hoon: Women Congress leaders spit, assault police personnel, and throw tantrums while participating in multiple protests

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Ladki hoon lad sakti hoon: Women Congress leaders spit, assault police personnel, and throw tantrums while participating in multiple protests

Female Congress leaders have been assaulting police personnel without any fear of the law. Under the garb of peaceful protests, they have manhandled officers on duty and even thrown tantrums.

In the latest development, Netta D’Souza was seen spitting at police officials during a protest against the newly launched Agnipath scheme. D’Souza is the Acting President of the All India Mahila Congress.

While the Congress leader had been claiming to fight for the rights of ‘men in uniform’, she was seen treating police personnel with utmost disrespect.

Alka Lamba pushes cop, then cries foul

Netta D’Souza is not the only Congress leader who has misbehaved with the cops. On Tuesday (June 21), Congress leader Alka Lamba manhandled a police officer but later accused the same officer of trying to break her neck.

She held a protest at Jantar Mantar against the Agnipath scheme and the recent interrogation of Congress scion Rahul Gandhi in connection to the National Herald Case.

After being asked to vacate the place, Alka Lamba lay on the ground and chanted, “Bharat Mata ki Jai, Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan.” When a female police officer tried to lift her off the ground, she shoved the cop and hit her on her leg.

Then she accused the police officer of trying to break her neck.“Why are you holding my neck? Tell them to leave me alone. What do I have on me? Do I have an AK-47? Do I have a bomb? I am weaponless,” she was heard as saying.

Using the minor scuffle as an opportunity to make a larger political point, the Congress leader claimed that Agniveers would break necks of defenceless people in a similar fashion after being trained for 4 years.

Renuka Chowdhury grabs the collar of a police officer on duty

On June 16 this year, the Congress’ Chalo Raj Bhavan rally in Hyderabad turned violent, after party workers torched a scooter and shattered the glass panes of a Telangana State Road Transport Corporation bus.

During the protests, members of Congress clashed with police officers who were trying to control the law and order situation. When the officers were trying to take Renuka Chowdhury into custody, she and the cops got into a dispute. Renuka Chowdhury lost her calm and grabbed the collar of a police Sub-Inspector.

The police officer was seen maintaining restraint and not taking any coercive action against the Congress leader. Other party workers were seen trying to calm Chowdhury down and move her hand away from the policeman’s collar.

Despite the insolent behaviour of the three female Congress leaders with the law enforcement authorities, they have neither been reprimanded nor condemned in public by the Congress high command.

Islamic terrorists linked with the dreaded terrorist group Al-Qaeda kill 132 civilians over the weekend in Mali

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Islamic terrorists linked with the dreaded terrorist group Al-Qaeda kill 132 civilians over the weekend in Mali

The government of the Republic of Mali in West Africa confirmed on Monday that as many as 132 civilians have been killed in recent attacks by Islamic terrorists in the country.

According to authorities, the killings occurred when numerous villages in the Bankass area in Mali’s central Mopti region were attacked on Saturday and Sunday. The attacks were carried out by Islamic terrorists belonging to the Katiba Macina armed group affiliated with the dreaded terrorist group Al-Qaeda.

Colonel Assimi Goita, the chairman of the ruling junta, has declared three days of national mourning, beginning on Tuesday, June 21.

Meanwhile, Moulaye Guindo, the mayor of Bankass told The Associated Press news agency, “Investigators are on the spot today to find out exactly what happened.”

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) took to Twitter today to share a press release wherein it strongly condemned the attack on civilian populations in the Center of Mali.

Yesterday too, it had issued a statement on Twitter saying it is concerned by “attacks against civilians in the Bandiagara region (the area of central Mali) perpetrated by extremist groups. These attacks have reportedly caused casualties and displacement of populations,” the Tweet read, adding that “MINUSMA immediately contacted the civilian and military authorities and plans to send a support mission to protect civilians and stabilize the area.”

The attack which occurred over the weekend indicates how rapidly Islamic extremist violence is expanding from Mali’s north to the country’s core regions, such as Bankass. In fact, several hundred civilians have been killed in attacks by Islamic terrorists in central and northern Mali since the beginning of 2022.

Islamic insurgency in Mali, Africa

Mali, a landlocked country in West Africa, has been struggling to contain the Islamic terrorism which first emerged in the north of the country in 2012, overtaking a rebellion by mostly ethnic Tuareg separatists. Attacks have since spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and are threatening other neighbouring countries as well. The entire region remains unstable.

France, which had earlier ruled these regions, had launched a military operation to drive back the Islamists in 2013. Over the years, fighting and civil unrest have engulfed the country and spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger leaving thousands dead in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of people remain internally displaced, many seeking ways to flee to other countries for survival.

The United Nations has some 13,000 troops deployed in Mali as part of its peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSMA, while France has 5,100 personnel deployed in the Sahel region.

Dear Priyanka Chaturvedi, you asked for one instance when Alt News’ Md Zubair peddled fake news. Here are 20 such incidents for you

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Dear Priyanka Chaturvedi, you asked for one instance when Alt News’ Md Zubair peddled fake news. Here are 20 such incidents for you

On June 21, Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi got into an argument with a netizen after he called Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair a fake-news peddler. Chaturvedi had replied to a News18 post where the media house had announced that one of their anchors, Shreya Dhounadial left the channel. Chaturvedi wished her the best for the future and said she was one of the sane voices on the channel.

A Twitter user, karanjohar4, questioned her what if she joined Republic TV, to which Shreya said, “over my dead body, sir.” Another Twitter user, AravAmbastha, questioned, “What if she joins @zoo_bear to peddle fake news or @AlJazeera.” Arav’s reply did not get an answer from Shreya, but Chaturvedi seemed to have gotten irked by his tweet. She said, “Please help me find one fake news from @zoo_bear, if not, then request you to shut up and sit down.”

Priyanka Chaturvedi stood in support of Alt News’ Zubair. Source: Twitter

Her ‘challenge’ on a public platform opened Pandora’s box, and multiple Twitter users came up with posts and threats showing how Zubair had been allegedly caught lying to his tooth multiple times. Zubair, who is liberals’ favourite, often gets scolded by netizens for spreading misinformation and fake news in the name of fact-checks. Recently, Twitter user The Hawk Eye exposed how Mohammed Zubair, who dog whistled Islamists against Nupur Sharma over remarks on Prophet Muhammad, had himself made derogatory posts against Hindu Gods and Hinduism. Soon after he was exposed for his Hinduphobic posts, he deleted his Facebook page. Days later, Zubair also removed his disparaging tweets against Hindu Gods and Hinduism.

However, being the blue-eyed boy of the liberals, the Left intelligentsia continues to pull in his support, even if that entails whitewashing fake news and propaganda peddled by him. Chaturvedi, too, tried the same, but she might not have expected what would hit her next. We, at OpIndia, would like to point out 20 such cases where Zubair was caught spreading fake news. All these incidents are in public, but the liberals conveniently choose to gloss over them.

20 instances when Alt News’ Mohammed Zubair peddled fake news

  1. There was an incident where Zubair shared an edited video alleging that an elder named Abdul Samad was forcibly asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram. The incident was from Loni, and the accused in the case were Arif, Adil and Mushahid. During the investigation, the police found that nothing as such had happened, and it was not a communal incident.
  2. In February 2021, he published a tweet claiming a Pujari collected 20 lakhs in the name of donations for Gau Sewa and ran away with the money. The image that he posted with the tweet was an old report. The idea behind posting that image was to mislead people by proving its association with the ongoing nationwide fundraiser campaign for the construction of Bhavya Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
  3. In November 2020, he shared a clip of the Lallantop website where a person was seen counting the flaws of the Modi government. The man had called himself a fan of PM Modi. However, upon investigating, it was found that the man was a candidate for the Communist Party of India.
  4. In October 2020, Zubair published a tweet suggesting that a group of people were planning to attack one of Tanishq’s showrooms while chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram. At that time, there was an ongoing controversy because of the Tanishq ad. Upon investigation, it was found that there were no threats of attacking the showroom, and the protest was peaceful.
  5. After the Hathras incident, a video of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi made it to social media, where they were travelling to Hathras and laughing while they were on their way. Zubair “fact-checked” it and used a photograph from the 2019 elections to declare that the brother-sister duo were not laughing.
  6. In February 2019, he shared a video of Vishwa Hindu Parishad from Gonda suggesting that anti-national slogans were raised at a protest rally against the Pulwama terror attack. Later, Gonda Police clarified that the VHP video was being used to mislead the public and added no such slogans were raised during the event.
  7. When Islamists pelted stones on the Police in Jamia library in February 2020, AltNews claimed the students did not have stones but wallets in their hands. Zubair carried it forward on social media, but when the reality was exposed, he stopped replying to people.
  8. During the lockdown, he shared a photograph of two Jain monks with people around them with folded hands. He tried to imply that they were violating the lockdown. However, in reality, the two monks were distributing food packets to people and feeding animals. Zubair cunningly hid another photograph from the event where food packets were clearly visible.
  9. In June 2020, AltNews and other media houses tried to project that a man was gunned down in Amroha while trying to enter a temple on account of his caste. However, later Amroha Police clarified that there was no reference to the caste of the youth in the matter. There was an ongoing enmity over money between the two groups that led to a clash and the unfortunate death of the youth.
  10. During the lockdown, he came in support of a Maulana named Raukab Noorani Okarvl, who had spread misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine. Zubair defended him and said the man was from Pakistan and not from India. He added, “By the way, I remembered that nano chip reports in currency notes after seeing this video.”
  11. In a Tweet, Zubair had claimed that while Mexico runs educational channels on Television, Doordarshan was busy telecasting PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat. Interestingly, it looked like Zubair never checked Doordarshan channels before posting the tweet. Several netizens pointed out there are over three dozen government channels in academia. He deleted the tweet after getting exposed. Doordarshan added many channels and programs during Covid to help students take classes during the lockdown.
  12. He once had shared a report from Solapur suggesting fire broke down in the city. He had shared the video in April, while in reality, the video was from February. The Tweet that he had retweeted was also two months old.
  13. He had once claimed that the comments on PM Modi’s Mann Ki Baat were switched off due to fear of protests by students. However, in reality, the comments on all the videos on PMO India’s channel had been off for years. The comments section was on videos on the YouTube channel of Narendra Modi and BJP that had the same video.
  14. During Covid, when reports of Mahant Gopaldas being Covid came out positive, he shared an edited photograph claiming RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat was sitting next to him. His claims were debunked.
  15. When Bhoomi Pujan for Bhavya Ram Mandir was scheduled in August, reports came out that a digital billboard in Times Square in the USA would play an ad for Ram Mandir. Zubair had claimed that the event was cancelled, but later the video was played in Times Square.
  16. On his troll page ‘Unofficial Subramanian Swamy’, he had claimed that BJP was stealing EVMs from strong rooms. FactHunt fact-checked the claims, after which he put the blame on one of the admins of the page.
  17. During farmers’ protests, he shared a photograph and claimed that the farmers were being treated like terrorists by the police. Later it was found that the photograph was from 2013 when UPA was in power at the centre. The photograph was first published by Kavita Krishnan.
  18. After an attack in Sri Lanka, a minister wrote a letter stating intelligence officers were already aware of the possible attack. When Twitter users and prominent personalities like Abhijit Majumdar and Anand Ranganathan shared the letter, Zubair called it fake in a bid to protect the terrorists. Interestingly, the letter was published by the minister himself on Twitter.
  19. OpIndia had published reports regarding the innocence of Vishal Jangotra in the Kathua case, which was criticized by Zubair. Later the court found that he was innocent.
  20. In January 2022, he mixed up districts with assembly constituencies to defend the Samajwadi Party, which had used old Islamic names of the constituencies in candidate lists. Mohammed Zubair posted two candidate lists published by SP and BJP for UP assembly elections and alleged that both parties used old names for districts renamed by the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt. However, in reality, he was “confused” between the constituency names and district names.

Netizens remind Priyanka Chaturvedi of instances when Zubair had spread misinformation and fake news

Netizens also came up with posts of their own showing Chaturvedi how Zubair had lied to his teeth in the past.

In 2020, Twitter user iAnkurSingh shared a thread of fake news peddled by Zubair and his organization. Ankur shared that threat in the comments under tweet by Chaturvedi.

Twitter user BefittingFacts shared a screenshot of a post by Zubair where he had admitted of publishing misleading posts.

Twitter user FabulousGuy shared seven screenshots in a collage where Zubair admitted to publishing false news.

This list of fake news peddled by Zubair is just the tip of the iceberg. There are countless instances where he misled his followers with fake news.

Britain comes to a standstill thanks to the biggest rail strike in over 30 years

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Britain comes to a standstill thanks to the biggest rail strike in over 30 years

Britain is facing its biggest rail strike in over 30 years as over 40,000 union workers walked out on Tuesday bringing England, Scotland and Wales to a screeching halt. The workers decided to stage a walkout for 3 days this week after talks between workers’ union and rail companies over increased pay broke down.

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) will stage the walkout on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday this week, while a separate London underground strike is also taking place on Tuesday. With the inflation hitting double digits in the UK thanks to high food and fuel prices, the workers are demanding a 7% hike in their pay, while the rail companies are offering them a 2% increase.

The last time such a massive strike was seen, was back in 1989 when the workers got an 8.8% increase following their strike. RMT is also concerned about the loss of jobs following the Network Rail modernization program.

The strike has thrown normal life in Britain into disarray as only 4,500 out of the usual 20,000 daily services are running thanks to the strike. With the London underground also shut, commuters were chaotically looking for other forms of transport, resulting in a heavy rush in buses, and on the road.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the Britain rail strike will severely impact businesses that are recovering from Covid restrictions, and this strike will only hurt the people the unions claim to be helping. Johnson said, “By going ahead with these rail strikes, they are driving away commuters who ultimately support the jobs of rail workers, whilst also impacting businesses and communities across the country.”

However, RMT dismissed Johnson’s remarks and said that their demands are totally justified during the current cost of living crisis.

TMC VP Yashwant Sinha deletes old abusive tweet after being declared Presidential candidate of ‘United Opposition’

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TMC VP Yashwant Sinha deletes old abusive tweet after being declared Presidential candidate of ‘United Opposition’

Soon after being declared as the official Presidential Candidate of ‘United Opposition’, Trinamool Congress leader Yashwant Sinha deleted an erstwhile abusive tweet. Sinha had made the tweet in response to a comment by a Twitter user in April 2022.

Screengrab of the Tweet by TMC leader Yashwant Sinha

On Tuesday, TMC Vice President Yashwant Sinha was declared the candidate for the upcoming Presidential Elections which are due on July 18. Sinha was backed by Mamata Banerjee, NCP Supremo Sharad Pawar, the Congress and other parties who unanimously backed him as their choice for the President.

Soon after Sinha was declared as the Opposition’s candidate for the Presidential elections, an old tweet of his caught the attention of Twitter users in which he was seen retorting back to a user with a Hindi slang ‘Ch*tiya’. In April this year, Sinha made an incoherent tweet where he talked about the ‘rising’ fuel prices and compared it with the mood of the nation.

Screengrab of the Tweet by TMC leader Yashwant Sinha

To that, one Twitter user asked him what is he trying to say, while referring to the MP as ‘ch*tiya’. To which, the TMC leader appeared to have lost his cool and answered back that he wanted to say by his incoherent message that the Twitter user who could not decipher his cryptic tweet was a ch*tiya. Ch*tiya is a sexually derogatory term which is often used as an insult.

Sinha’s abusive tweet caught the attention of netizens who wondered how would this justify as the behaviour of a probable head of the state.

After getting caught in the ire, Yashwant Sinha tactically stepped back and deleted the tweet silently. Sinha’s abusive tweet was not available on Twitter since this afternoon. However, This is not the first time he has been abusive. Back in 2014, he had said that any ch*tiya can become the chief minister of Jharkhand.

CBI arrests Joint Drugs Controller for accepting Rs 4 lakh bribe to clear Biocon Biologic’s diabetes drug, company denies allegations

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CBI arrests Joint Drugs Controller for accepting Rs 4 lakh bribe to clear Biocon Biologic’s diabetes drug, company denies allegations

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday arrested Joint Drugs Controller S Eswara Reddy for accepting a bribe of Rs Rs 4 lakh to clear phase three trial of ‘Insulin Aspart’, an underdevelopment diabetes drug. The Insulin Aspart is a product of Biocon Biologics under development to manage Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

According to the reports, the bribe money was paid by Dinesh Dua, Director of Synergy Network India Pvt Ltd on behalf of Biocon Biologics, a company founded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw. Joint Drug Controller posted at the CDSCO headquarters in New Delhi, Dr Eswara Reddy was bribed to get regulatory clearance for an insulin injection manufactured by Biocon Biologics Ltd. The Police also arrested Director Dinesh Dua in the case.

The CBI was informed about the bribe case through a complaint that sought legal action against the meddled approval of the drug clinical trial. The CBI officials then launched a trap operation to catch middleman Dua who was giving bribes on behalf of Biocon Biologicals and Dr S Eswara Reddy red-handed. However, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and her company Biocon Biologics have denied the charges.

Biocon Biologics denies allegations of graft

“We deny the bribery allegations made in certain media stories. All our product approvals are legitimate and backed by science and clinical data. We follow the due regulatory process for all our product approvals by DCGI. We are co-operating with the investigation agency”, the company spokesperson tweeted.

Along with Reddy and Dua, the CBI officials also have charged Associate Vice President and Head-National Regulatory Affairs (NRA), Biocon Biologics Limited, Bangalore, L Praveen Kumar, as well as Director, Bioinnovat Research Services Private Limited, Delhi, Guljit Sethi in the case under the relevant sections of IPC.

BJP likely to send its 106 Maharashtra MLAs to Ahmedabad, Devendra Fadnavis along with top party brass likely to meet rebel Eknath Shinde, group

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BJP likely to send its 106 Maharashtra MLAs to Ahmedabad, Devendra Fadnavis along with top party brass likely to meet rebel Eknath Shinde, group

Amidst the political turmoil in Maharashtra, reports of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) moving all its 106 MLAs to Ahmedabad have emerged. Reportedly, Maharashtra BJP leaders are likely to meet Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and the other Shiv Sena MLAs who have camped in Surat since last night.

After Shivsena bigwig Eknath Shinde’s rebellion against the party and the MVA alliance caused a huge churn in Maharashtra politics, reports of the BJP entering the scene have finally come to the fore. As many as 35 MLAs are rumoured to be with Shinde who has camped at Le Meridian hotel in Surat, reported ABP Majha.

Maharashtra Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who is in Delhi after scrpting a successful victory in Rajyasabha and Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, will now be reaching Ahmedabad to meet the rebel Shiv Sena faction led by Shinde. According to Republic, the BJP is likely to send all its 106 MLAs from the Maharashtra Assembly to Ahmedabad as well.

Eknath Shinde has reportedly refused to meet Milind Narvekar, Uddhsv Thackeray’s aide sent to Surat to hold consultations with the rebels. Reportedly, Shiv Sena leaders from the Shinde camp could be airlifted from Surat to Ahmedabad to meet Devendra Fadnavis. According to earlier reports by ABP Majha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda could also land in Ahmedabad to hold talks with the Shinde faction alongside Fadnavis.

As reported by Republic, Gujarat state BJP leaders are in contact with Eknath Shinde and rapid developments are taking place in Surat.

This is a developing story, more updates will be published further.

Pakistan horror: Newborn baby beheaded, head left inside Hindu woman’s womb by govt hospital staff in Sindh province

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Pakistan horror: Newborn baby beheaded, head left inside Hindu woman’s womb by govt hospital staff in Sindh province

On Sunday, June 19, the staff of the government-run Rural health centre (RHC) in the Sindh province in Pakistan reportedly cut off a newborn baby’s head and left the severed head in the mother’s womb, putting the woman’s life in jeopardy.

The woman was identified as 32-year-old Hindu woman from Bheel community. She was rushed to a neighbouring hospital in Mithi, but there were no medical facilities available to treat her. Her family eventually took her to Jamshoro’s Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), where the newborn’s severed head was removed from the mother’s womb, saving her life.

Professor Raheel Sikander, who heads the gynaecology unit of LUMHS told the media, “The Bheel Hindu woman, who belongs to a far-flung village in Tharparkar district, had first gone to a Rural Health Centre (RHC) in her area but with no female gynaecologist available, the inexperienced staff caused her immense trauma.”

In a botched procedure on Sunday, a RHC staff cut off the unborn baby’s head and left it in the mother’s womb, he added.

Sikandar further informed the baby’s head was entrapped inside and the mother’s uterus had been ruptured and they had to open up her abdomen surgically and take out the head to save her life.

Pakistan government orders inquiry after reports goes viral

Only after the news of the horrifying incident went viral did the Pakistani government intervene and directed authorities to form a medical investigation board to investigate the tragedy and find the perpetrators.

According to reports, the Director-General of Sindh Health Services Dr Juman Bahoto has also ordered separate inquiries into the case.

He stated that the investigation committees will look into what happened, particularly the lack of a gynaecologist and female personnel at the RHC in Chachro.

Dr Juman Bahoto added that the inquiry panel will also examine reports that stated that some hospital staff took pictures and shot videos of the woman while she was lying on a stretcher fighting for her life. “Apparently, some members of the staff took her photos on a mobile phone in the gynaecology ward and shared those pictures with different WhatsApp groups,” Juman added. 

Pakistan-origin Australian woman murdered with an axe by her father-in-law in Sargodha while her father watched

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Pakistan-origin Australian woman murdered with an axe by her father-in-law in Sargodha while her father watched

A Pakistan-origin Australian woman named Sajida Tasneem was brutally hacked to death by her father-in-law, Mukhtar Ahmad in Karachi, Pakistan. Tasneem was allegedly gagged and then hit on the head with an axe, leading to her death. The incident reportedly occurred on June 11 at the home she shared with her in-laws near the city of Sargodha in Pakistan. Her father Sher Muhammad Khan was a witness to the brutal act.

Mukhtar Ahmed, according to reports, was enraged by the prospect of Sajida Tasneem, an engineer by profession, returning to Australia with her children. He is said to have killed her after the two got into an argument about the same.

Sher Muhammad Khan, Tasneem’s father, who was a witness to the incident, told The Guardian, that his daughter’s father-in-law Mukhtar Ahmad had taken away Tasneem’s passport after the latter got into an argument with him about her desire to relocate back to Australia to give her children a better education. Ahmed in a fit of rage first gagged her with a piece of cloth and then attacked her with an axe. Tasneem fell to the ground and died in front of her own father.

She Muhammad Khan told the police that Tasneem’s husband, Ayub Ahmed, forced her to travel to Pakistan with her three children from their home in Perth, Australia. After she reached Pakistan, Ayub Ahmed himself returned to Australia. Tasneem too expressed her desire to her father-in-law to return to Australia with her children.

Sher Muhammad Khan said that on the day of the incident when he arrived at his daughter’s house in Karachi’s Sargodha district at around 1.45 pm, he heard Ahmad abusing and shouting at Tasneem on the first floor. When he went upstairs, he found the duo in the bathroom. His daughter’s mouth was gagged and the father-in-law Mukhtar Ahmad was repeatedly attacking her. Ahmed also threatened to kill Khan if he tried to intervene. “I feared for our lives and did not move,” recalled Khan adding that Ahmad then hit Tasneem on the head with an axe, after which she died at the scene.

After Tasneem fell to the ground and died on spot, Ahmed quickly fled the crime scene. Sher Muhammad Khan immediately called the local Superior Town Police Station to report about the crime. Based on his complaint the police lodged an FIR and started investigating the case.

The Karachi police, meanwhile, have arrested Mukhtar Ahmed and also recovered the axe which he used to kill his daughter-in-law. Tasneem’s mother-in-law, Fatima Bibi, and two other relatives who are also suspects in the case remain at large.

Police deputy superintendent, Syed Saqlain Jaffer was quoted by The Guardian as saying, “the crime tool, the axe through which the murder was committed, has also been recovered. It shows the involvement of Ahmad. The investigation is ongoing. We are investigating the presence of other family members at the crime scene.”

Jaffer added that Tasneem’s three children were now with him and the Australian embassy had been contacted for further formalities.

A spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it had made contact with the family to offer its condolences.

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