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Was ‘sullideals’ app where pictures of Muslim women were misused created by ‘Javed’? Here’s what we know so far

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Was ‘sullideals’ app where pictures of Muslim women were misused created by ‘Javed’? Here’s what we know so far

Shalabh Mani Tripathi, adviser to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, has taken cognizance of a recent development in the infamous ‘sullideals’ controversy. There are allegations circulating that the aap, which offered Muslim women as a ‘deal’ for people on social media, was created by a Muslim man, contrary to the narrative that the mainstream media has been trying to peddle.

An account with the username ‘sullidealsXpose’ has alleged that the person behind the app is one man named Javed. The account claims that Javed had two accounts, one with the username @AnonMark3 and another with @AnonHindu4.

With the former account, it is alleged that he used to post derogatory content about Hindu women and with the other, about Muslim women. The accounts were loaded with objectionable sexual content, it is alleged.

The expose account claims to have received the information from a Muslim woman. A screen recording of the conversation allegedly between the Muslim woman and Javed has been shared where the latter makes some rather creepy comments.

In the texts, the man can be seen asking the Muslim woman about her interfaith love, with presumably a Hindu man. He asks her how they ended up in a relationship to which she replied that he had proposed her.

Javed, who is allegedly the man behind the account asking the questions, made some remarks which could only ever be considered creepy. As per the screen recording, he said that he believes Hindus and Muslims should have more interfaith relationships because it is “beautiful”.

Posing as a Hindu, the man reveals that he had a Muslim girlfriend during his time at college. “I have this account to make people understand this (interfaith love is beautiful) through interfaith erotica,” he says.

Then, screenshots are shared of what appears to be a Telegram conversation. While the conversation does not mention ‘sullideals’ specifically, the conversation suggests that the man, allegedly Javed, had built an app where pictures of Muslim women would be misused.

When asked what about the Muslim women whose pictures were misused, he said that he has “no regrets” because all the women are “wh*res”.

The screen recording of the recording has also been shared where he appears to confess that he created the app and pinned the blame on Hindus.

The ‘expose’ account claims to have found the person making the claims, which they claim is one Javed Alam from GLA University in Mathura. The ‘expose’ account also claims to have found three of his phone numbers.

On July 24th, 2021, online portal DOPolitics reported that they had contacted Javed over the matter. According to the report, while Javed accepted that he had a normal conversation regarding interfaith relationships, he denied ever having a conversation regarding ‘sullideals’ with the woman.

He also denied making comments against any religion or making comments that could religious sentiments. He claimed that he said things to impress the woman and there was no conspiracy behind the same.

The report also says that Javed claimed he was a student and he has no intention of getting involved in the matter. And if his actions hurt anyone, then he seeks forgiveness from the public.

When we contact Javed over the matter, he initially did not respond to our call. When we tried to contact him again, he cut out call without receiving it. Thus, we will update our report accordingly if and when he does decide to respond.

64 crore vaccine doses: How western media outlets had fuelled doubts and suspicions over India’s vaccination campaign

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64 crore vaccine doses: How western media outlets had fuelled doubts and suspicions over India’s vaccination campaign

India’s COVID-19 vaccination programme has been continuing at a breakneck pace. It has so far completed the inoculation of a staggering 64 crore people, including more than 14 crore people who have received both their doses of vaccines. Last week, India administered a record one crore vaccine doses, the highest single-day tally achieved since the rollout of the COVID-19 immunisation drive on January 16.

According to the CoWIN dashboard, India on Friday, i.e August 27, jabbed as many as 1,08,99,699 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Two days before the record single-day vaccination, India had crossed an important milestone of vaccinating over 60 crore people. Significantly, the last 10 crore of vaccine doses—from 50 crores to 60 crores—were achieved in just 19 days, the lowest number of days since the start of the pandemic to surpass the 10-crore vaccine doses milestone.

On the occasion, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed that India took 85 days for administering the first 10 crore vaccines, 45 to touch the 20 crore mark, 29 days to reach 30 crores, 24 days to reach 40 crores and 20 days to touch the 50-crore mark. It took only 19 days to reach the 60 crore mark. The reducing number of days to achieve the 10-crore vaccine dose milestone demonstrates that India’s inoculation drive is on the right path to vaccinate its gargantuan population and suppress the subsequent waves of coronavirus outbreak.

The spectacular numbers of vaccinations completed in India belie the doomsday scenario painted by the western media outlets, who in their hubris and arrogance, had poured scorn over India’s inoculation drive and foreboded that the country would struggle and flounder in its endeavour to completely vaccinate its population against the menace of COVID-19.

In December 2020, when Central government led by PM Narendra Modi had announced that as many as 60 crore vaccine doses would be administered in next 7-8 months (till August 2021 since vaccination drive began in January 2021 for frontline workers), the western media was particularly quick to dismiss the ambitious plans.

Foreign media outlets stoke scepticism over India’s vaccination drive

As India launched its ambitious coronavirus vaccination campaign on January 16, 2021, western media outlets were replete with articles that were prejudiced against India and cast doubt over its ability to successfully accomplish the objective of vaccinating its population against COVID-19. India’s outsize population, availability of vaccines, their efficacy, and requisite infrastructure needed to ensure vaccine reaches remote and inaccessible locations in the country were some of the factors that the western media focused on to condescendingly declare that it will be an uphill task for India to continue its vaccination programme without hitting snags.

The New York Times, which has a knack for publishing patronising articles on India and is known for its anti-Hindu prejudice, published a bevvy of expressing scepticism over India’s COVID-19 vaccine drive. In fact, the articles on its websites routinely belittled India’s progress on the COVID front and sowed doubts over the authenticity of data trickling out of the country. India had extended the emergency use approval(EuA) to two vaccines—Covishield and Covaxin. But, western media outlets ran a sinister campaign to undermine India’s COVID-19 vaccination drive and raise questions over the efficacy of the two vaccines.

Source: New York Times

Here’s how another prominent western media outlet ‘The Washington Post’ indulged in smear campaign against India’s vaccination efforts:-

Source: The Washington Post

As India was pummelled by a devastating second wave of coronavirus outbreak, the western media outlets had a field time in not only exploiting the tragedy that befell the country but also in fuelling suspicions about the success of the nation’s vaccination programme. With the country firmly in the grips of the second wave, powered by the more transmissible Delta variant, the western media resorted to monetizing and promoting the human catastrophe caused due to the Wuhan Coronavirus infection. With an intention to draw more eyeballs and glamorise Covid deaths in the country, publications such as the Washington Post and Deutsche Welle (DW) News largely relied on traumatising pictures of corpses, and burning funeral pyres.

India emerged from the second wave fairly quickly and suppressed its ominous spread. In opposition to the predictions made by the western media outlets, the resurgent coronavirus outbreak did little to derail India’s vaccination programme. As evident from the numbers released by the Health Minister, the subsequent milestone of 10-crore vaccine doses took less time than the previous one, indicating that India’s vaccination drive was impervious to the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Myriad articles were published in various publications, declaring that India’s coronavirus vaccination drive is foundering just when the country was in the throes of a catastrophic bout of coronavirus outbreak. The second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak provided enough fodder for the western media outlets to use it to discredit and run down the country’s vaccination drive.

Source: The Washington Post

Back in 2020, when India announced that it planned to vaccinate 300 million or 30 crore people in the first phase of its vaccination drive, CNN could not hide its condescension for India’s ambitious inoculation campaign. It snootily remarked that vaccinating 300 million people against COVID-19 would be equivalent to almost the size of the US population. In less than 8 months since the start of India’s vaccination campaign, the country has already vaccinated more than 64 crore people, which is roughly close to twice the size of the US population.

Source: CNN

CNN, while speaking about vaccination programme, where India had plans to fully vaccinate 30 crore people, the media outlet had cast doubts about India’s capabilities to administer a total of 60 crore (600 million) doses by August. As August 2021 comes to an end, India has not only inoculated at least 60 crore people with one dose, but over 14 crore people have been fully vaccinated.

Western media’s stoic silence over galloping coronavirus recrudscence in the US

While the western media outlets went into overdrive to write off India’s vaccination campaign and predict its failure, they have surprisingly remained muted to the devastation wreaked by the resurgent coronavirus outbreak in western countries such as the United States, the UK and Israel. The infection, which is powered by the new Delta variant has proven to be resilient against the vaccines and there have been numerous cases where fully vaccinated people have fallen ill to the coronavirus. But this has been highlighted enough in the western media as they have shifted their focus on the crisis unfolding in Afghanistan.

As coronavirus sweeps the United States, with more than 1.5 lakh cases being reported on a daily basis, the western media outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and others have busied themselves in defending Joe Biden’s disastrous decision of hasty pullout from Afghanistan. It has been reported that the hospitalisations across the United States have seen an unprecedented rise, but the western media outlets, which had a morbid fascination with displaying dead bodies and funeral pyres in India, have not been keen on reporting the hospital pictures or graveyard scenario in the United States.

Instead, the foreign press is involved in defending the untenable: justifying the Biden administration’s decision of drawdown from Afghanistan and rationalising the violence, uncertainty and humanitarian crisis that swept the country in the wake of an ill-conceived withdrawal.

‘Imported monster like Islam to our country’: When French school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded, here is what a Dutch leader said in parliament

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‘Imported monster like Islam to our country’: When French school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded, here is what a Dutch leader said in parliament

An old video of the leader of the Populist Party for Freedom (PVV) of the Netherlands, Geert Wilders is making the round on social media. 

Wilders, known for his unhinged opinions and speeches on the mass immigration policies of the Netherlands and vocal opposition to Islamists, had slammed the Dutch Prime Minister in 2020 saying, “You have imported a Monster called Islam into our Country.”

This was shortly after the beheading of French school teacher Samuel Paty for ‘blasphemy’. In his short speech in the Netherlands Parliament, Wilders had highlighted that their country now had a population of 7,00,000 Muslims, all of whom reject ‘free society.’ 

Calling the religion ‘dangerous’, Wilders had urged the government to recognize Islam as a ‘violent ideology, one that comes with hate and terror.’ He further advised the country to shut its borders for the Muslim refugees. 

Additionally, Wilders had also demanded the dismantling of all Islamic institutions including mosques and locking up not just those who pose a threat to the country but even the ones who sympathize with the ‘Jihadis.’ 

In his last demand, Wilders suggested that every media should publish a cartoon on Mohammad. Ending his speech, Wilders asked the Muslim population who do not believe in Dutch values of democracy and free society to rather find asylum in an Islamic country where they would get to live under Sharia law.

While this particular video is from November 2020, Wilders’ stance on Islam and Muslims continues to remain the same. 

“Sharia law is pure violence, oppression and lawlessness”

With the Taliban gaining control over Afghanistan and thousands of Afghanis fleeing the war-torn country, the political leader has been reiterating his take on the immigration policies. 

“Sharia law is pure violence, oppression and lawlessness. 100% barbarism,” Tweeted Wilders last week.

The Parliamentarian also shared a cartoon where a Dutch (hinting at the government plausibly) can be seen shielding a Muslim man from the rain while a poor Dutch gets drenched. 

In another Tweet, Wilders suggested that the country after mass immigration is choking. “It is full. Packed,” read his Tweet. 

Wilders has been criticized heavily for his speeches time and again but he continues to assert that Islamic ideology and its adherents cannot be assimilated in the Dutch society.

Tokyo Paralympics: Singhraj Adhana wins bronze in men’s 10m air pistol final

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Tokyo Paralympics: Singhraj Adhana wins bronze in men’s 10m air pistol final

Adding to the accolades, Indian para athlete Singhraj Adhana won a bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol final on Tuesday. 

5 time Olympian and shooter Abhinav Bindra took to Twitter to congratulate Adhana. “Congratulations Singhraj Adhana on winning the Bronze medal in the men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 at the #Tokyo2020 Paralympics,” Tweeted Bindra. 

With this, India’s medal tally at Tokyo Paralympics 2020 has reached eight.

“My wife sold jewellery”

The shooter who suffers from a limb impairment did not let this fade his dreams. Adhana who comes from a financially unstable background had shared his struggles in an interview with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

“Shooting is an expensive sport, and it was not easy pursuing it. My wife sold her jewellery to support my shooting dream,” he revealed in his interaction with the Prime Minister. 

Pakistan: Islamist mob vandalises Hindu temple in Sindh province, destroys Krishna idol on Janmashtami

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Pakistan: Islamist mob vandalises Hindu temple in Sindh province, destroys Krishna idol on Janmashtami

While Hindus across the world celebrated Sri Krishna Janmashtami on Monday, August 30, radical Islamists in Pakistan have vandalised a Hindu temple and broken the idol of Lord Krishna at Khipro in the Sanghar district of Sindh province of Pakistan.

The incident happened when locals were celebrating Janmashtami rituals at the temple.

Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul took to Twitter to share the pictures of the vandalised Krishna Idol. In one picture, the idol can be seen lying desecrated on a piece of red and white cloth. The hands and one leg of the idol have been broken, as can be seen in the picture. In the other three pictures shared by Kaul, a section of Hindu devotees can be seen carrying and attempting to secure the broken pieces of the Krishna idol together.

He also shared a snippet where an elderly Hindu woman, who was an eyewitness to the crime, is heard categorically saying that some Islamists desecrated the Krishna idol.

In Pakistan, there has been an increase in attacks against religious minorities’ houses of worship in recent years. The international community has repeatedly chastised the country for failing to protect the interests of its minority. Despite this, the Imran Khan government has done little to address the situation.

Ganesh temple vandalised in Punjab province of Pakistan

Earlier in the month, a violent mob of Pakistani men had vandalized a Ganesh temple in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the temple were burnt down and idols were desecrated. The mob attacked the temple on August 4, at Bhong city of Rahim Yar Khan district. Taking cognizance of the matter, ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf parliamentarian Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani took to Twitter to post videos of the temple attack and urged the law enforcement agencies to stop the “burning and vandalizing” of the temple. 

7 Hindu temples vandalized and destroyed by Islamists since 2020

OpIndia had on August 5 also reported about 7 such Hindu temples which were vandalized and destroyed by Islamists since 2020 in Pakistan. As per an India Today report, out of 365 Hindu temples in Pakistan, only 13 are being managed by the Evacuee Trust Property Board board, leaving the responsibility of 65 to the persecuted and impoverished Hindu community, abandoning the rest to the land mafias.

CM Vs CM: Haryana CM ML Khattar hits back at Amarinder Singh, holds him responsible for farmer protests

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CM Vs CM: Haryana CM ML Khattar hits back at Amarinder Singh, holds him responsible for farmer protests

A lathi charge by Haryana police on alleged farmers protesting violently against the Farm Bills in Karnal has triggered a war of words between the Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and Haryana CM ML Khattar.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh reacting to the incident demanded the resignation of Haryana CM ML Khattar and also asked him to issue an apology to the protesting ‘farmers.’ Singh had described the police action as “brazen brutality”.

Calling it a ‘government-sponsored attack’, Singh asked Khattar to compensate the injured farmers. “This is no way to treat our annadaatas (farmers),” remarked the Punjab CM. 

“Who is he to demand my resignation?” 

Khattar while responding to a media query on Singh’s demand, remarked, “Who is he to demand my resignation? He should be the one to resign as he is responsible for the farmers’ agitation.”

“We are taking care of our farmers in Haryana. No farmer from Haryana is sitting at the Tikri or Singhu border,” stated Khattar further.

Khattar also accused Singh of instigating protests. “In Punjab, he (Captain Amarinder Singh) is instigating farmers. In Haryana, (Bhupinder Singh) Hooda saheb and other Congress leaders are instigating them. You think we don’t know?”

While disapproving Karnal SDM Ayush Sinha’s alleged remarks that stirred controversy, Khattar asserted that strictness has to be maintained to ensure law and order. “I am getting calls from people that the farmers need to be dealt with sternly but we are exercising restraint as they are our people,” said Haryana’s Chief Minister. 

‘Who is anti-farmer’ questions Khattar, exposes Punjab govt

Continuing the tussle, ML Khattar shared a thread highlighting the work done by his government for the farmers of his state. 

Tagging the Punjab CM in his Tweets, Khattar informed that Haryana procures as many as 10 crops at MSP making use of Direct Benefit Transfer. He questioned Singh as to how many crops does the Congress-led Punjab government procures at MSP.

Khattar continued to inform that the Haryana government provides an incentive of Rs 7000/- per acre to every farmer who wants to move away from paddy cultivation and pays an incentive of Rs 5000 per acre to the farmer who adopts direct seeding of rice technology, asking what incentive Punjab provides to its farmers. 

ML Khattar’s Twitter thread.

“Haryana has been paying the highest MSP in the country for sugarcane to its farmers for the last 7 years,” said Khattar in a Tweet. The Haryana CM further listed the various initiatives undertaken to support horticulture and micro-irrigation schemes. He added that his government pays interest at the rate of 12% to the farmers if the payment is delayed beyond 72 hours from the approval of the I-form, asking if Punjab does the same.

Khattar added that Haryana supports farmers growing horticultural produce by instituting the Bhawantar Bharpayee Yojana to insulate them from price fluctuations below cost. He asked what does Captain Amarinder’s government does to incentivise horticultural farmers.

In a stern reply to Singh’s anti-farmer allegation on Khattar, the Haryana CM ended his thread by asking, “Who is anti-farmer, @capt_amarinder ji? Punjab or Haryana?”

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind bats for Talibani diktat, opposes co-education even for non-Muslims

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Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind bats for Talibani diktat, opposes co-education even for non-Muslims

Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind has asked for separate schools for boys and girls and asked non-Muslims to not send their daughters to co-education schools and colleges to ‘keep them away from immorality and misbehaviour’. Jamiat also asked wealthy and influential people to construct separate schools for boys and girls.

Maulana Arshad Madani claimed that no religion teaches immorality and obscenity and is condemned in every religion in the world. He said these things ‘spread misbehaviour’ in the society. Madani therefore urged non-Muslims to not send their children to co-education schools.

The Jamiat working committee met on Monday to discuss ‘ways to reform society’. The members discussed that separate schools for boys and girls are needed in a religious environment for girls. The committee also discussed ways to reform the society.

Referring to incidents of alleged mob violence, Madani claimed that they were all planned and aimed at uniting the majority against the minority by inciting religious extremism. He further claimed that in today’s situation, people need good madarsas and higher ‘secular’ educational institutions for children to provide equal opportunity for education. He also urged Muslims to ‘b’ their children with higher education at any cost.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind

Recently, Deoband based Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind had come to the rescue of alleged Al Qaeda terrorist in Uttar Pradesh and offered legal aid to him. “The process of using terrorism as a weapon to destroy the lives of Muslim youth continues. Our legal struggle will continue till the honorable release of innocent Muslims,” said Maulana Arshad Madani had said. Madani is also the chief of Darul Uloom Deoband. Taliban is believed to have drawn inspiration from the same Deobandi movement.

‘Why open bars and keep temples shut’: Anna Hazare offers support if people protest in Maharashtra

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‘Why open bars and keep temples shut’: Anna Hazare offers support if people protest in Maharashtra

Anna Hazare, the social activist, has raised questions over the Maharashtra government’s orders to open bars and pubs in the state while the temples are still closed. Hazare has offered his support if devotees hold protests to lift curbs on the temples in the state.

In his statement, Hazare added that the government seems fine with the big queues outside liquor shops in the state, but they are not okay with reopening the temples. Reportedly, he met a delegation of people demanding the reopening of the temples across the state.

He said, “Why the state government is not opening temples? What danger the state government sees in opening temples for people? If COVID-19 is the reason, then there are big queues outside liquor shops.” Hazare has assured support for the delegation and offered to be with them if they stage an agitation to reopen the temples.

BJP staged protests to reopen temples

On August 30, Chandrakant Patil, state chief BJP, held a ‘shankhnad andolan’ and sought the reopening of temples for the public. Protests were held by the party workers outside temples across the state in cities including Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Nagpur and Solapur. The party workers marched towards the temples blowing conch shells. Patil said, “The shankhanad is necessary to wake up the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, which is in deep slumber. Pleas demanding the reopening of temples have gone unheard for the past 15 months.”

While the state government has allowed several sectors to function in the state and have allowed fully vaccinated people to travel in local train, the Uddhav Thackeray-led government is still unwilling to open temples claiming it may lead to further spread of Covid-19 in the state.

Covid-19 in Maharashtra

On August 30, Maharashtra reported 3,741 new cases of Covid-19. There are 51,834 active cases in the state. So far, the state has reported 64,60,680 cases of Covid-19. 62,68,112 people have recovered from the disease. A total of 1,37,209 people have lost their lives due to complications associated with coronavirus infection. So far, the state has administered 5.7 crore doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

USA leaves behind 51 contract working dogs in Kabul, military veterans trying to raise funds for their evacuation

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USA leaves behind 51 contract working dogs in Kabul, military veterans trying to raise funds for their evacuation

On August 30, 2021, the last of the American troops left Kabul, ending the 20-years-long Afghanistan war leaving behind a devastated nation back in the hands of the radical Islamist group. Amid the stories of disappointments and bereavement, another sad picture emerged when it was reported that while leaving the country, US troops also left 51 contract working dogs behind.

Now NGOs and veterans are trying to rescue the dogs from Afghanistan.

An organization named Kabul Small Animal Rescue (KSAR) launched a last-minute rescue operation codenamed Operation Hercules to save the stranded dogs on Kabul that included the contract working dogs.

Tommy Amenta, veteran and author, issued a video statement on August 30 describing the situation. He said that the last few hours in the rescue operation were chaos, and he was not sure if the chartered plane they had arranged for the dogs would be able to land or not. He further added that Joshua T. Hosler, President of Veteran Sheepdogs of America, has offered to take the military dogs in the plane that was already on the ground.

Quoting his tweet, Joshua urged the top businessmen to provide funds for the rescue operations. He wrote, “WE NEED A MIRACLE! We need @elonmusk @BillGates @JeffBezos to pay for a plane for 51 military dogs left in Kabul. NOT taking seats from humans. This will also save Americans & interpreters lives! We are working on funding for after also. Please RETWEET & tag anyone who has the $.” Reportedly, such rescue operations are expensive.

In a tweet, Veteran Sheepdogs of America had mentioned that the rescue operation is costing them at least $1.67 million. It said, “It costs $1.67 million for a 737 plane out of Kabul. We are working with our contacts for donations. We have the majority of the funds to fly out at least 140 and 51 military working dogs! Anything will help! Dogs need to leave tonight.”

American Humane condemned the US government for leaving the dogs behind

American Humane, a 150-years old national humanitarian organization, has condemned the US government for leaving 51 contract working dogs behind in Afghanistan. In a statement, Dr Robin R. Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane, stated that he was devastated to learn that the American government left behind US military contract working dogs “to be tortured and killed at the hand of our enemies.”

The statement read, “These brave dogs do the same dangerous, life-saving work as our military working dogs, and deserved a far better fate than the one to which they have been condemned.” It further read that American Humane is ready to help transport the contract K9 soldiers back to the US and provide them lifetime medical care.

The organization has worked with the US military for over 100 years to rescue military animals. Ganzert said in the statement, “In fact, our famed rescue program began on the bloody battlefields of WWI Europe, at the request of the US Secretary of War. Since that time, American Humane served as a pioneer in the development of animal therapy for returning veterans, and today brings home retired military working dogs and pairs veterans with life-saving service dogs.”

The organization urged the government to classify contract working dogs on the same level as military serving dogs to avoid such incidents in the future.

What are Contract Working Dogs?

There are two types of dogs used by the military in the US. First are the Military Working Dogs or MWD that are owned by the US Military. These dogs are trained by military professionals for different jobs such as providing support in rescue missions and identifying explosives etc. Due to the increased demand for such dogs in the military, contractors started to provide privately owned trained dogs for military operations. These dogs are known as Contract Working Dogs or CWD.

According to a post by Military & LEO Working Dogs on Facebook, contractors that provide CWD are generally veterans who started to work as contractors after getting discharged from the military service.

India brings back 3 dogs of ITBP that worked to secure Kabul embassy

Earlier this month, when India evacuated its staff and security personnel from Kabul, 3 dogs from the ITBP that were deployed for the security of the Kabul embassy were brought back in the IAF C-17.

Ruby. Maya and Bobby, the three ITBP dogs were brought back along with the ITBP commandoes from Kabul on August 18.

Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi bats for Taliban, claims they have come with ‘positive mind’

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Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi bats for Taliban, claims they have come with ‘positive mind’

After harbouring and nurturing Taliban on its soil for years, Pakistanis now seem to have taken upon themselves to water down their barbarity as it seeks to establish a legitimate government in Afghanistan.

Latest to join the Taliban PR team seems to be Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi. In a video shared by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat, Afridi during a media interaction welcomed the Taliban rule in Afghanistan. 

“Taliban have come with a very positive mind. They’re allowing ladies to work,” said Afridi to the media. The former captain of the Pakistan national cricket team also asserted that the Taliban are fun cricket-loving chaps. “I believe Taliban like cricket a lot,” said Afridi. Taliban follows strict Islamic Sharia where any form of entertainment, including cricket is ‘haram’. In its early years, Taliban had banned cricket and football as they thought it keeps men away from prayer but as it turns out, of all sport, cricket is one sport the ‘new’ Taliban ‘enjoys’.

These statements by the Pakistani cricketer come at a time when Afghanistan is gripped by terror and killings. Earlier, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan had also said that Taliban are ‘normal civilians‘ who are just returning to their country. Pakistan has been long accused of helping the Taliban militarily, financially, and with intelligence inputs in their fight against the Afghan government, however, Imran Khan claimed that it was “extremely unfair” to make such accusations.

Bomb attack outside Kabul airport

As many as 103 people including 13 US service members were reported dead in a suicide bomb attack outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last week. 

Reportedly, the explosion was caused by ISIS suicide bombers who detonated an IED near the Abbey gate of the Kabul airport and near the Barron hotel. 

Local artists being executed

After banning music in the country, the Taliban dragged folk singer Fawad Andarabi in Kishnabad outside his home and killed him.

In the month of July, popular comedian Nazar Mohammad aka Khasha was kidnapped from his home by the Taliban. Hours later he was found hanging from a tree. 

Asks women to stay at home

Just a week after promising that they will respect the freedom of women in a press conference, the Taliban has admitted that the women are not safe from their soldiers. Now the group has asked the women in Afghanistan to stay at home, saying they need to train the Talibanis first on how to respect women.

The Jihadi organization also threatened journalist Shabnam Dawran and barred her from working. We reported earlier how a woman was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan for not wearing a burqa. 

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