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Fact-check: Is this masked goon seen attacking JNU an ABVP activist as alleged

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Fact-check: Is this masked goon seen attacking JNU an ABVP activist as alleged

On Sunday, masked goons carrying sticks and rods had indulged in violence inside the JNU campus. The narrative, within minutes of the ruckus inside the JNU campus, was that of lies, deception and misinformation. While the Congress link to the violence inside the campus soon emerged and the attack seemed coordinated by the Left, a sinister narrative blaming everything from Hindutva politics, to the PM and HM started being peddled.

One of the narratives that were dangerously peddled was after one of the first videos of the attack emerged.


In the video, one can see absolute pandamonium with slogans like ‘ABVP go back’ being chanted.

Once the video surfaced, sinister propaganda took root. A Twitter user alleged that one of the masked goons in the video, a girl, was an ABVP functionary.


This assertion was based on the clothes the two were wearing. The ABVP functionary who was alleged to be in the video is one Shambhavi who was herself attacked and was at AIIMS trauma centre on Sunday.

To ascertain whether the two – the masked goon and Shambhavi – are the same people, we must examine the two pictures closely.

At the very onset, the built of the two women in the picture looks completely different. When one looks at the two images side by side, it is evident that the masked goon is physically heavier than the one on the right, who is Shambhavi, the ABVP activist.

Left – Masked Goon
Right – ABVP activist Shambhavi

Next, the most obvious thing that stands out is the difference in the check-patterns of their shirts.

Left: Shirt of the masked goon
Right: Shirt of the ABVP activist

As can be very evidently noticed, the checks on the shirt of the masked goon are much smaller compared to the checks in Shambhavi’s shirt. Also, the pattern appears completely different.

Now there are some other stark differences which hardly make sense.

Other differences

Firstly, the shoes of both individuals are different. Now, it should be mentioned that the allegations are that these two images are from more or less the same period of time. If the allegations are to be considered true, Shambhavi first attacked with her face covered and then headed to the hospital.

If that be the case, from the photos above, it stands to reason the Shambhavi did the following:

1. She changed her shoes after she attacked everyone and before heading over to the hospital since the masked goon seems to be wearing sneakers and Shambhavi in the hospital is wearing chappals.

2. Mysteriously, Shambhavi, after masking herself and unleashing and attack JNU apparently wore a Kalawa before she headed to the hospital, injured.

Both these scenarios seem to make little to no sense.

Essentially, it is impossible for the two girls in those pictures to be the same person. The allegation that the masked goon is the ABVP activist Shambhavi seems motivated and outlandish.

It is pertinent to note here that JNU has now issued a statement that miscreants attacked those students who were trying to register for the next semester and wanted to study. Just a day ago, masked goons, allegedly the Left students, had entered the information centre and disrupted the registration process. They had also switched the server off and created a ruckus.

Violent miscreants attacked students who supported registration process and wanted to study: Read the full statement issued by JNU

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Violent miscreants attacked students who supported registration process and wanted to study: Read the full statement issued by JNU

After large-scale violence erupted in the JNU campus last night where hundreds of masked men entered the campus, attacked students and faculty members with sticks and rods, the university administration has finally released a statement over the incident that has grabbed headlines since last night.

Image via Shiv Aroor on Twitter
Image via Shiv Aroor on Twitter

In the statement, the university has said that the registration process has been going smoothly since 1 January. It added that on 3rd January, a group of students had entered Communication and Information Services (CIS) with their faces covered and had damaged the servers after evicting the technical staff present there.

As per the statement, after the servers were made functional, thousands of students had started registering for the new semester by paying the revised hostel fees.

However, on 4th January, violent students had again entered the CIS premises and had made the servers dysfunctional by damaging the power supplies. The university states that the groups of students opposing the fee hike want to stop students from registering with revised fees.

The protesting students have also closed some schools and have stopped the students and teachers from entering. On 5th January, when non-agitating students had tried to enter their respective school buildings, they were physically stopped by the protestors.

Read: Hooliganism yet again: Masked JNU ‘students’ barge into information centre, switch servers off and forcibly evict technical staff

At 4.30 pm, the agitating students had reportedly moved from the admin block to hostel rooms attacking the students who had supported the registration process. Even though police were informed, by the time police reached, several students and security staff at the hostels were reportedly badly injured in the assault by the violent protestors.

The statement added that masked miscreants had entered the Periyar hostel and had attacked students and security staff with sticks and rods. Some groups of students had also vandalised the admin block and ransacked the VC’s office in the past few weeks. The university has filed police complaints after the incidents.

The administration has stated that it is unfortunate that some agitating students have been preventing thousands of non-agitating students from pursuing their academic activities.

Appealing all stakeholders to maintain peace in the campus, the university has stated that the violent agitators will not be spared and police complaints are being filed against the miscreants.

Since last night’s violence, the Delhi police had conducted a flag march in the JNU campus late last night.

Shekhar Gupta forced to apologize after The Print slandered a social worker as someone who ‘condemns Dalit upliftment’

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Shekhar Gupta forced to apologize after The Print slandered a social worker as someone who ‘condemns Dalit upliftment’

Shekhar Gupta was forced to offer an apology on Twitter after a report on The Print falsely accused a man they had profiled as someone who ‘condemns Dalit upliftment’. The man in question is Professor Vashi Mant Sharma who filed a complaint with the administration of IIT-Kanpur after Faiz’s Islamic Supremacist poem was sung during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests at the University.


The apology came after Vashi Mant Sharma released the audio clip of the conversation on social media platform. In a thread, he posted the entire conversation he had with the Uttar Pradesh correspondent of The Print. During the conversation, the professor can be heard clarifying his stand on the entire matter and elaborating on the reasons why he registered a complaint with the authorities on the matter.


Most significantly, Professor Sharma is also heard telling The Print correspondent that he is involved in activities to improve the social standing and welfare of the Dalit community in India. He tells the journalist that he is associated with a group that works for the welfare of Dalits. Despite that, The Print proceeded to malign his reputation and claim that he ‘condemns Dalit upliftment’.


It is quite difficult to imagine any other reason than sheer malice for The Print’s slander of the Professor. The Print appears to have misrepresented Vashi Mant Sharma and slandered him merely because he holds political opinions that they don’t agree with personally. Shekhar Gupta may have apologised for it and corrected their mistake but the ‘mistake’ did not occur in any vacuum. It reflects a level of incompetence that can be adequately explained only by sheer bigotry on the part of The Print journalist.

Read- Shekhar Gupta’s ThePrint eulogises a serial fake news peddler and habitual anti-India, anti-Hindu bigot

In the past, The Print has furthered the ‘righteous Jihad’ narrative. One of their editors, Shivam Vij, invented fake quotes to justify their narrative on Kashmir and attributed it to a Kashmiri Pandit in order to give his personal opinions an air of legitimacy. When his lies were called out, he brazened it out instead of offering an unconditional apology on the matter.

Delhi police conduct flag march in JNU campus after violent fight between two groups of students

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Delhi police conduct flag march in JNU campus after violent fight between two groups of students

After the JNU campus saw mayhem today as masked goons went on a rampage and attacked students, Delhi police entered the campus in the evening to contain the situation. Delhi Police conducted a flag march in the campus and said that the situation is under control now.

Police had entered the campus after the JNU administration had requested them to restore law and order in the campus.


Governor Anil Baijal had also instructed Delhi police to take all possible steps to control the situation in the JNU campus.


Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Devender Arya said that the situation inside the campus is normal now. He informed that extensive flag march conducted by police and all hostel areas have been secured, adding that police deployment has been done at strategic points inside the campus. Arya said that a fight had occurred between two groups in the campus and few students were injured and property was damaged.


Today a large group of masked mob had entered hostels in JNU campus attacked the students. Several students were injured in this attack, including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh. The violence took place after two days of conflict between left-wing groups and other students in the university. The left-wing groups are calling for a boycott of the classes, and they prevented students from registering for the winter semester, as they are protesting against fee hike by the university.

Even as left-wing groups keep JNU under forced lockdown over fee hike, masked men with sticks enter campus, indulge in violence

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Even as left-wing groups keep JNU under forced lockdown over fee hike, masked men with sticks enter campus, indulge in violence

A large group of masked goons entered the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University campus today and assaulted students, faculty and other staff members. JNU Student Union president Aishe Ghosh was also attacked and she was injured in the incident.


In a video shared on social media, Aishe Ghosh is seen saying that she was brutally beaten and she is bleeding. She said that she is not in a condition to talk.


Videos of the incident sent to us by sources inside the university show a large number of youths wearing masks entering student hostels, attacking students and vandalising the hostels.

In the above video from Sabarmati Hostel, the attackers are seen to be armed with sticks, rods and bats, and stones and bricks are seen lying on the floor, suggesting that those were thrown inside. Both boys and girls are seen to be part of the masked attackers. Girls in the hostel said that attackers entered the girls wing of the Sabarmati hostel armed with sticks and broken bottles and assaulted the girls. This forced the girls to lock themselves in their rooms.

Apart from Sabarmati hostel, Periyar hostel was also attacked, while several other hostels were surrounded by the mob.

Security guards posted in the university campus said that they were also attacked by the attackers. They said that the attackers are students, and they had kicked them and eaten them with sticks. They said they were beaten while trying to protect the students who were being attacked. One female guard added that she can identify a few of the attackers.


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Many people sharing photos and videos of the attack on social media are blaming ABVP for it. On the other hand, ABVP has accused that left-wing students had attacked the Periyar hostel. ABVP’s JNU president Durgesh said, “around four to five hundred members of the left-wing gathered around the Periyar hostel, vandalised the hostel and forcibly entered the hostel to thrash the ABVP activists inside.” He said that ABVP’s presidential candidate Manish Jangid was badly injured. ABVP’s Vijay said that during the day left-wing students had attacked its members, and one injured student has been admitted at AIIMS. He alleged that 300-400 masked youths from left-wing had attacked the Periyar hostel. On the attack on Aishe Ghosh, Vijay said that it is a conspiracy of left to defame ABVP.

ABVP leaders in JNU said today a large group of students had gathered for winter semester registration, as today was the last date for same. But a group of left-wing students, who want to get the classes to remain cancelled as they are protesting against fee hikes, arrived and prevented the students from registering. The left-wing students also allegedly occupied the server room of the university and shut down the internet, preventing students from registering online.


Photos of ABVP members attacked by left-wing students were also shared on social media by ABVP’s national secretary Nidhi Tripathi.

According to the latest news, Delhi police entered the university campus to control the situation on the request of JNU administration.

The attack came even as a section of JNU students continue preventing classes from being held due to an ongoing strike. A group of students are protesting against the fee hikes proposed by the JNU administration, and not allowing normal functioning of the university to continue.

Yogi Adityanath meets people from the Muslim community to dispel doubts about the CAA

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Yogi Adityanath meets people from the Muslim community to dispel doubts about the CAA

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met members of the Muslim community in Gorakhpur to explain the Citizenship Amendment Act and dispel any doubts that the community may have about the law. Deputy CM Keshav Maurya embarked on a similar drive in Moradabad. Gorakhpur is the Mahant’s home turf and he visited the shop of one Haji Chaudhari Kaif-ul-Wara where he handed over a booklet to him.

“This is a booklet about CAA, read it and all doubts will be cleared. I thought of beginning the awareness campaign from here,” he told Kaif-ul-Wara. He explained that it was a law to give citizenship. “Those who did not have citizenship and are living in India, this law gives them citizenship,” he said.


“It is the tradition of India to give shelter to persecuted people and Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought CAA to give citizenship to such people,” Yogi said. “This people’s awareness programme is aimed at clearing confusion and doubts spread against CAA,” the chief minister said. He also met several other people from the Muslim community.

Kaifulwara promised to created awareness about the CAA among people and requested Yogi Adityanath to release the violent protesters who had no previous criminal record saying that children make mistakes. It remains to be seen whether Yogi Adityanath will accede to that request.

Soleimani’s killing an act of ‘international terrorism’, targeting cultural sites a war crime: Iran responds to Donald Trump

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Soleimani’s killing an act of ‘international terrorism’, targeting cultural sites a war crime: Iran responds to Donald Trump

Tensions in the Middle-East between the United States of America and Iran are escalating. Following the assassination of the Iranian General Soleimani by US forces in Iraq, a war between the two countries appears imminent. The Foreign Ministry of Iran has labelled the murder of their General an act of ‘international terrorism’.


Furthermore, Iran has also decided to finalize a further retreat from the Nuclear deal. The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that officials will meet late on Sunday to consider steps to reduce Iran’s commitments under the Nuclear Deal framework it signed in 2015.

Read- “If Iran attacks an American base, we will send some brand new beautiful equipment their way”: US President Donald Trump threatens after Iran calls for revenge

Earlier, US President Donald Trump had threatened Iran that the USA has identified 52 sites, including cultural sites, if Iran started getting ideas about retribution. Now, Iran has responded by saying that if the USA chooses to do so, it would constitute a war crime. Their Foreign Minister said, “Those masquerading as diplomats and those who shamelessly sat to identify Iranian cultural & civilian targets should not even bother to open a law dictionary.”


Also, Iran has unfurled a red flag on top of the iconic The Holy Dome of Jamkaran Mosque in Qom, which is an old Shi’ite tradition symbolising bloody revenge. Now, as per reports, a UK Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine will be “in position to strike Iran” if the current tensions between Tehran and Washington over the killing of an Iranian general result in a full-fledged armed conflict.

There was also a terror attack in Kenya at one of the US’ military bases by Al-Shabab, an Al Qaeda affiliate. “U.S. Africa Command acknowledges there was an attack at Manda Bay Airfield, Kenya and is monitoring the situation,” said U.S Army Maj. Gen. William Gayler in a statement. “Al-Shabab is a brutal terrorist organization,” said Gayler. “It is an Al-Qaeda affiliate seeking to establish a self-governed Islamic territory in East Africa, to remove Western influence and ideals from the region, and to further its jihadist agenda. U.S. presence in Africa is critically important to counter-terrorism efforts.”

Pakistani minister wants Elon Musk’s Tesla to forget Berlin and make cars in Islamabad, offers discounts

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Pakistani minister wants Elon Musk’s Tesla to forget Berlin and make cars in Islamabad, offers discounts

Pakistan’s ‘science and technology’ minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry is a man with a very active imagination. He is rather popular among Indian social media users as he keeps falling for silly pranks and provides regular laughter doses on Twitter. Whenever things start becoming a little dull, Ch Fawad Hussain comes up with a brainwave and brings a lot of fun to social media, especially for Indians.

Today, Ch Fawad Hussain, who is a visual testimony that under Imran Khan’s government, there is no shortage of food in Pakistan (for some people), irrespective of the price of naan and lack of ‘timatars’, took a very profound step towards technological advancement in Pakistan. No, he did not invent a ‘timatar’ producing machine, he invited Tesla founder Elon Musk to come and “Make In Pakistan”.

Fawad Chaudhry’s tweet

Reading a news report about Tesla’s plan to build half a million electric vehicles a year in its future factory in Berlin, Fawad, being a responsible minister of Pakistani science and its technology, tweeted immediately tagging Elon Musk that he should come and “Make In Pakistan” instead. Fawad also claimed that Pakistan is the world’s third-largest exporter of freelance software.

Not just that, Chaudhry, displaying excellent marketing skills like the ’employee of the year’ salesman in local malls, made Musk ‘special offers’ like ‘Ten years zero tax facility’ and custom free import for factory set-up. He also made Musk aware that 68% of the world population lives within a 3.5-hour flight radius of Islamabad like it was brand new information that South Asia has the world’s most highly populated countries.

Twitter users were mighty amused.


Since Fawad also claimed that Pakistan is the world’s third-largest exporter of freelance software, a Twitter user asked whether he means soft underwear.


Not long ago, Fawad had claimed that he will make internet available in India’s Jammu and Kashmir via a satellite.

Read: Pakistan’s science minister wants ‘SPARCO’ to give internet to Kashmiris via satellite, Twitter blasts him with jokes

The science and technology minister has a very colourful personality and his old dance videos and rather ‘vivid’ tweets keep doing rounds on the internet. However, he has been extremely popular in India after he started falling for twitter pranks in the hopes of getting information on RAW, and Indian Army.

It is, however, notable here that Fawad Chaudhry’s obsession with Elon Musk is not new. In July last year, he had made big announcements that Pakistan will organise a global event on technology and innovation called ‘Think Future’. Fawad Chaudhry had declared that the massive event will be attended by bigwigs like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg and, for some unfathomable connection to science and innovation, Malala Yusafzai.

Chaudhry’s announcement, like Kejriwal’s promises here, was covered by almost all news outlets in Pakistan, with big headlines and big images of the billionaires mentioned, heralding the idea of Imran’s Naya Pakistan. However, soon after the July announcement, India abrogated the article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and Fawad got so busy with tweeting threats to PM Modi and Indian Army that he must have forgotten about Elon Musk and Bill Gates.

The said event was announced on October 17, on the birth anniversary of Dr Syed Ahmed Khan, but sadly, no global event happened, there was no sign of Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates or even Malala either. Instead, the Pakistan ministry of science and tech’s official handle is full of Fawad Chaudhry meeting the people of his constituency, an Australian diplomat, and the Danish ambassador on that day and the days next. Perhaps Elon Musk had other plans.

Diary of a Delhi Liberal: Of new year, dying infants and Modi getting his friend Trump to bomb an Irani general in Iraq

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Diary of a Delhi Liberal: Of new year, dying infants and Modi getting his friend Trump to bomb an Irani general in Iraq

Dear Diary,

A very Happy new year to you. We are finally in the year 2020 and the nightmare of 2019 is behind us. Surely 2020 can only get better from here? We won’t mind erasing 2019 from our memory completely once we dethrone Modi and remove all evidence of 2019 ever taking place.

2020 does promise a refreshing change and we are very optimistic about this year. It got off to a very strong start with the fireworks in New York City. Loved the absolutely superb show of fireworks, the light, the colorful sparkles, the lovely sound that informed us about the arrival of the New Year. Even the smoke in the air formed lovely shapes after the explosion and we had a fun time guessing which animal which smoke cloud resembles.

Alas, the party had to end and we had to focus our energies on the burning issue of our times, the fascism in India. Modi and Shah have been trying their best to divert people’s attention from the draconian CAA which gives citizenship to persecuted minorities but we can’t let him get away with it, diary.

Within this week, they tried several ways to divert people’s attention diary. You won’t believe how far they have gone. BJP Bhakts are getting younger and younger diary, so many infants are dying in Rajasthan’s hospitals to divert public attention but we didn’t let that happen diary. We simply ignored all those deaths and our liberal followers have been following that same rule.

However, Modi-Shah didn’t give up that easily, they orchestrated an attack on Nankana Sahib in Pakistan, diary, to show how minorities get oppressed in Pakistan. They even involved Pakistan Govt in this plan, that is why the Pakistan Government refused to act for hours as the mob laid siege to the holy shrine.

This wasn’t even their worst attempt diary, wait till you hear their next plan. Modi asked his friend Donald Trump to bomb an Irani General in Iraq! That has diverted not just India, but entire world’s attention and we are still struggling to figure out how to get it back. But just imagine, diary, these 2 fascist rulers of India are starting the 3rd World War just because they are scared of our Shaheen Bagh protest. Unimaginable fascism in these two people, we just can not believe it.

Just when we were about to convince UN forces to invade India, this impending World War has upstaged our plans. However, we will not rest, diary, we will keep trying our best. Though truth be told diary, the best liberals on offer these days are not that good. This week they got caught spreading fake news of rape by UP Policemen. Amateurs, they should have known that rectal bleeding can be checked by medical tests, why make up a lie that can be easily busted? This is not 2002 when we could invent 3 days between 28th February and 1st of March, this is the social media era. Sigh, maybe we will hold a training session for these budding liberals soon.

Anyway, diary, we are leaving New York tonight. Will be going to Athens for a week, where we will come up with a new strategy to fight the fascism in India. Till then, ciao!

Two days after Nankana Sahib attack, Pak PM Imran Khan blames Modi and RSS for ‘attacks’ on minorities in India

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Two days after Nankana Sahib attack, Pak PM Imran Khan blames Modi and RSS for ‘attacks’ on minorities in India

Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of the terrorist state of Pakistan, on Sunday finally condemned the barbaric attacks on minority Sikhs and vandalism at the Nankana Sahib two days after the incident. Taking to Twitter, Imran Khan claimed that the attacks on Sikhs go against his “vision” and the government will show “zero tolerance” against those involved in it. But along witht that, he also blamed MP Modi and RSS for attacks on Muslims and other minorities in India.

Drawing contrast between the terrorist state of Pakistan and India, Khan said that there is a “major difference between the condemnable Nankana incident and the ongoing attacks across India on Muslims and other minorities”.


“The former is against my vision & will find zero tolerance & protection from the govt incl police & judiciary,” he tweeted, referring to the Nankana Sahib incident.

Further, Imran Khan claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS vision “supports minorities oppression and the targeted attacks against Muslims.”


He also said that RSS goons were conducting public lynchings of Muslims and it is being supported not only by Modi Government but also the Indian police, who according to Khan are leading attacks on Muslims.

Shockingly, the anti-India statements made by Pakistan PM Imran Khan resonated in India too as Islamists in India supported Imran Khan’s false propaganda by claiming that anybody who criticizes Khan’s statements will be considered a Nazi.


Another user questioned PM Modi for not speaking on the Nanakana Sahib attacks and went on to claim that Pakistan PM has Zero tolerance for people who are attacking the minorities.


Imran Khan’s desperate attack against India comes at a time when the Islamists in Pakistan have continued their attacks on minorities living in Pakistan.

On Friday, in yet another incident reaffirming the persecution of minorities in Pakistan, the angry mob of Muslims had gathered around the Sikh shrine of Gurudwara Nanakana Sahib and started pelting stones at it. The mob was being led by the family of Mohammad Hassan, the boy who allegedly abducted and converted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur, who is the daughter of the gurdwara’s granthi.

Read- From referring to PM Modi as ‘President’ to asking world leaders to ‘Google’ RSS, Imran Khan’s UNGA maiden speech was a recipe for disaster

The mob of angry Muslims gheraoed the holy shrine on Friday afternoon, leaving many devotees stranded inside. The protesters threatened to destroy the gurdwara and build a mosque in its place.

Hundreds of Muslims protestors swarmed the Gurudwara Nankana Sahib and raised inflammatory slogans against the Sikhs. “We will not let any Sikh live in Nankana Sahib and will its name to Ghulam-e-Mustafa,” one of the irate Muslim protestors exclaimed.

The police along with the Pakistani Rangers and Army had rushed to the spot to quell the protest but so far they had failed in dispersing the violent mob away from the Gurudwara. The situation was brought under control after the local police and Pak Rangers arrested the protesters.

However, the mobs dispersed only after police released Hassan, the man who had abducted Sikh girl Jagjit Kaur, daughter of the Gurdwara’s panthi.

Following the attack on Sikhs by the Muslim mob at revered Nankana Sahib Gurdwara in Pakistan, the Indian government on Friday expressed its concern and called upon the neighbouring country to take immediate steps to ensure the safety and security of the Sikh community living in Pakistan.

In a statement, the Indian foreign ministry said New Delhi called on the government of Pakistan to ensure the safety and security of pilgrims who regularly visit the shrine that marks the birthplace of the founder of Sikhism. It also demanded strong action against the perpetrators of violence and vandalism.

However, the terror state of Pakistan has rejected reports of Gurdwara Nanakana Sahib being was attacked and desecrated by the Muslim mob. In a statement, the Foreign Office said that the provincial authorities in the Punjab province have informed them that it was a scuffle between two Muslim groups and not an attack on Sikhs.

The Pakistan government had claimed that the altercation happened on a minor incident at a tea-stall. It claimed that the District Administration immediately intervened and arrested the accused.

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