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Pakistani minorities launch massive protests in New York ahead of Imran Khan’s UNGA speech

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Pakistani minorities launch massive protests in New York ahead of Imran Khan’s UNGA speech

Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan is scheduled to address the UNGA later today. Ahead of his speech, the persecuted minorities in Pakistan have launched a massive and widespread protest across New York City.

As per reports, hundreds of taxis and trucks have appeared on the streets of the city displaying slogans and images of atrocities carried out by Pakistan on its own citizens. The campaign has been launched by an US-based advocacy group, Voice of Karachi.


Karachi’s former mayor Wasay Jalil has been quoted by ANI as saying, “Since Pakistan does not allow Mohajirs to hold even a peaceful protest against such injustices, we have no other option but to approach the United Nations and other international bodies to seek their intervention. It is our moral, human, and democratic right.”

Jalil had added, “Atrocities are being committed against Mohajirs, it has been going on for decades, we have lost more than 25,000 lives and there have been thousands of forced disappearances. We want to apprise the world of our situation caused by Pakistan.”

Mohajirs are the Muslim immigrants belonging to multiple ethnic groups who had migrated to Pakistan from various parts of India during the partition.

Nadeem Nusrat Khan, the chairman of Voice of Karachi group, stated to ANI, “It is ironic on part of Pakistan and Prime Minister Imran Khan to peddle a false narrative on Kashmir issue at the UN in New York when the country’s own minorities are facing the worst human rights situation.

Khan added further, “It is really shameful that Pakistan says India is against Muslims. Pakistan has literally curbed and created a hell for the religious minorities. We want Pakistan to treat all its ethnic and religious minorities with the dignity that they deserve. I think it would be better for the Pakistan Prime Minister to fix his own home first before talking about other issues.”

The protest taxis and trucks are displaying images of the atrocities and infographics about the plight of minorities in Pakistan. Some of the slogans read, “Pakistan: A country in denial of UN charter on Human rights” and “Mohajirs demand the UN intervention in Pakistan.”

There are also posters and digital billboards highlighting the Pakistani atrocities at Balochistan, demanding freedom for the region that was illegally occupied by Pakistan in 1948.

Kaushambi rape case: Third accused Mohammad Akib arrested in the minor Dalit girl rape case

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Kaushambi rape case: Third accused Mohammad Akib arrested in the minor Dalit girl rape case

The third accused in the horrific Kaushambi rape case Mohammad Akib aka ‘Badka’ has been finally arrested after almost a week of being on the run. The Police caught him on Thursday and a chargesheet has been filed against all three.

It is believed that the hearing will be made fast-track under the POCSO Act.

On Tuesday, September 24, the main accused, Adil, in the rape case was arrested after he was shot at in a police encounter when he tried to escape from a mazaar where he was hiding. Acting on a tip-off, the police reached Rawatpur but Adil then tried to escape while climbing the walls. When the police followed him, he started firing at them. The police also indulged in retaliatory firing where Adil was shot in his legs. A country-made pistol and motorcycle was also recovered from him.

In a deplorable incident, on 21st September, a 15-year-old minor Dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped and filmed by three men in Ghosia village of Kaushambi district that falls under Saray Akil police station, near Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. In a video of the gang-rape that has gone viral, the girl can reportedly be heard saying, “Allah ki kasam, mere saath mat karo (for Allah’s sake, don’t do this with me).” Amidst screams and desperate cries, the helpless girl kept begging for mercy. However, the brutes refused to spare her. As per reports, the villagers nearby rush to the spot after hearing the victim wailing and screaming.

One accused Nazik was caught by the villagers and beaten up by the angered crowd while Adil and a third unknown culprit, who is now identified as Mohammad Akib, managed to flee.

According to media reports, when the father of the girl went to the police station to report the rape in Kaushambi, the police thrashed him instead. The girl can be seen saying how she was pushed into the field and raped brutally. “Muslim,” she says when asked who were the perpetrators. In the video, the father of the girl says, “Three men raped my daughter, hence I went to the police station to file a report. There I was beaten up,” the father said. Angered over police apathy, the villagers reached the police station to stage a protest. Eventually, the police registered a case against all three accused.

Madhya Pradesh sex racket: After politicians and bureaucrats, high-profile journalists’ names emerge as ‘brokers and negotiators’

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Madhya Pradesh sex racket: After politicians and bureaucrats, high-profile journalists’ names emerge as ‘brokers and negotiators’

After the police arrested the women involved and unearthed the Madhya Pradesh honey trap racket, there are new skeletons tumbling out of the closet every day. It was earlier reported that among the names of high profile and powerful persons ‘trapped’ by the women, there are several names of ministers and IAS officers in the state.

As per latest reports, the investigating team has found that the racket also included names of several Bhopal-based media persons. As per an IANS report, the names include a resident editor of a Hindi newspaper, a cameraman of a news channel and the owner of the regional satellite channel.

The media persons, as per the report, were not the victims of the honey trap racket but rather the ‘conduits’. The media persons allegedly helped broker deals between the bureaucrat victims and Shweta Jain, the kingpin of the racket.

The allegation of journalists and key media persons being involved in the racket was first made by BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya recently. Speaking to media, Vijayvargiya had stated that he has specific information about 3 or 4 journalists being involved in the racket.

IANS has quoted Hemant Sharma, the editor-in-chief of a Hindi daily saying that there is a certain group of journalists who move in the power corridors only with the sole purpose of blackmailing and extorting money from the senior government officials and politicians who they know are involved in corruption. Sharma has also stated that Shweta and Arti Dayal did have some journalists in their racket who they used for negotiating deals with their victims.

In another development, the father of Monika Yadav, the 18-year-old girl who was arrested among other women, was detained by the Indore police for interrogation. Reports stated that Monika had revealed that some material evidence is hidden in her house and the police team had gone to the Sawansi village in Rajgarh district along with Monika.

Monika, reportedly a talented girl from a poor family, was trapped by Arti Dayal with the promise of financial help for a journalism course. Monika and Arti were arrested along with their driver Omprakash on September 18 from a hotel in Indore, where they had gone to collect Rs 50 lakh from a government official whom they were blackmailing.

Arti Dayal, Shweta Swapnil Jain, Barkha Soni, Shweta Vijay Jain, Monika Yadav and a driver named Omprakash Kori were the first persons to be arrested in the high profile honey trapping racket. Barkha is the wife of a former Congress IT cell vice president and a former Mahila Congress member. Shweta had even tried to get an election ticket from Sagar but could not do it after her MMS went viral.

As many as 13 IAS officers, a former governor and a former chief minister are reportedly among the people used by the racket to extort money and favourable deals for their NGOs. The police are now examining thousands of digital files, filled with lurid sex chats, videos and images that were recovered from the arrested persons.

NASA unable to locate Vikram Lander at targeted landing site, releases images captured by its lunar orbiter

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NASA unable to locate Vikram Lander at targeted landing site, releases images captured by its lunar orbiter

The American space agency, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has released images captured by its lunar orbiter of the targeted landing site of Chandrayaan-2’s lander, Vikram.


The images were taken at dusk and the NASA team was unable to locate the lander which crash landed earlier this month. According to NASA, the images are captured by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Quickmap and was not able to locate the lander. “The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) passed over the landing site on Sept. 17 and acquired a set of high resolution images of the area; so far the LROC team has not been able to locate or image the lander. It was dusk when the landing area was imaged and thus large shadows covered much of the terrain; it is possible that the Vikram lander is hiding in a shadow. The lighting will be favorable when LRO passes over the site in October and once again attempts to locate and image the lander,” NASA said in a statement.

On 7th September, Chandrayaan-2’s landing module had gone silent after Vikram Lander lost connection when it was merely 2 KMs from the landing surface of the moon. While ISRO was able to locate the lunar module in one piece, it had tiled a little because of the hard landing. All efforts to resume the communication has so far been unsuccessful.

Pakistan invites permanent members of the UNSC to inspect terror camps to prove India’s claims are ‘baseless’

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Pakistan invites permanent members of the UNSC to inspect terror camps to prove India’s claims are ‘baseless’

Pakistan has invited the diplomats of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P-5) to visit the terror camps to prove that India’s claims are ‘baseless’. On Thursday, ahead of the UNGA session in New York, Pakistan offered the diplomats of P-5 countries to visit the sites where India has claimed that terror camps have been ‘reactivated’ by Islamabad. Prime Minister Modi and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan are scheduled to address the UNGA later today in New York.

This invitation comes a day after Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat said that Pakistan has reactivated the Balakot terror camp which was destroyed in 26th February air strikes Indian Air Force carried out following the ghastly Pulwama terror attack. He also said that at least 500 terrorists are waiting to infiltrate in India from across the border.

Pakistan has called it India’s ‘propaganda’ against it. While briefing the ambassadors of P-5 countries, Pakistan’s Acting Foreign Secretary Moazzam Ahmad Khan called it an ‘anti-Pakistan propaganda’. He even asked the ambassadors to ask New Delhi to provide proofs of these terror camps.

“Pakistan is ready to provide full cooperation to delegates from P5 countries or diplomats from any other country who wish to visit any of the alleged locations to see for themselves that such Indian allegations are totally baseless and a mere rhetoric, to mislead both the international community, as well as Indian domestic audience,” Pakistan’s foreign office reportedly said in a statement.

PM Modi to address UNGA session in New York today, to speak before Pakistan PM Imran Khan

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PM Modi to address UNGA session in New York today, to speak before Pakistan PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Modi, who will be speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session in New York today is likely to talk about Pakistan’s state-sponsored terrorism. The 74th session will begin at 9 AM New York time with an address from Mauritius President Paramasivum Pillay Vyapoory.

Prime Minister Modi’s speech, which is expected to start at 11:30 AM in New York (9 PM India time) will follow a general debate between Prime Minister of Lesotho and Indonesian Vice-President. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to speak after PM Modi’s speech.

It is believed that PM Modi might speak about the abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir and the current situation prevailing there along with plans for peace and development in the valley. PM Modi may also talk about the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in India at the UNGA.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to speak after PM Modi and is also expected to rake up the Kashmir issue, despite the fact that the international community has snubbed Pakistan time and again stating that the abrogation of Article 370 is an internal matter of India.

Yesterday, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi boycotted India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s opening statement at the SAARC Council of Foreign Ministers meeting saying that Pakistan will not ‘engage’ with India until and unless it ‘lifts the siege’ in Kashmir.

Mumbai: Section 144 imposed in the city ahead of Sharad Pawar’s visit to ED office in money laundering case

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Mumbai: Section 144 imposed in the city ahead of Sharad Pawar’s visit to ED office in money laundering case

Ahead of Sharad Pawar’s visit to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in connection with the money laundering case, prohibitory orders are put in force in South Mumbai. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief is to visit the ED office today in Mumbai’s Ballard Estate area.


Mumbai Police, in a tweet last night, said that section 144 of the IPC has been imposed in Colaba, Cuffe Parade, Marine Drive, Azad Maidan, Dongri, JJ Marg and MRA Marg. The prohibitory orders were placed in view of security situation in South Mumbai where the ED office is situated. Pawar is visiting the ED office even though he is not summoned yet. Earlier this week, he had expressed his ‘desire’ to experience how it feels being jailed. In a sarcastic comment, he had said that he “wants to go to jail as he has ‘never had this experience before’.”

The former Maharashtra Chief Minister and his nephew, former Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, were named in the Rs 25,000 crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) scam. A case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been registered against the accused.

In August, the Mumbai Police had filed a case against Ajit Pawar and 70 others in the bank scam.  Scrutiny carried out by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), and a charge sheet filed by a quasi-judicial enquiry commission under the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies (MCS) Act held Pawar and other accused, including several directors of the bank responsible for the loss. It stated that because of their decisions, actions and inactions, massive losses were incurred to the bank.

An audit report by NABARD revealed flagrant violations of several banking laws and RBI norms by the accused in the allotment of loans to sugar factories and spinning mills and the ensuing default on repayment and recovery of such loans. During that time, Ajit Pawar was the director of the bank.

Rajasthan Mahila Congress Secretary Reena Mimrot shares obscene images of Trump lookalike groping woman to malign US President

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Rajasthan Mahila Congress Secretary Reena Mimrot shares obscene images of Trump lookalike groping woman to malign US President

Rajasthan Mahila Congress Secretary Reena Mimrot was caught spreading fake news to malign US President Donald Trump. She took to Twitter to share an obscene image of Donald Trump’s lookalike groping a woman claiming that he is the US President.

Reena Mimrot shared a snippet from an old video dated October 26, 2016, wherein Donald Trump’s impersonator appeared outside New York’s Trump Tower accompanied by two bikini-clad models.


“Nagpuriya sanghiyon ki shakkha se gyan prapt karke, aapne sanskaro ko sarvajanik karte andhbhakto ke jyeshth pitaji jinke prachar prasar ke inke papa lage hain”, said Reena Mimrot in her Tweet.

Displaying her cheap mindset, the Congress loyalist took a dig at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which is headquartered in Nagpur, by saying that the person in the images ‘flaunting his culture’ is the ‘father’ of the blind ‘bhakts’.


The old video from which the Congress leader shared the snippets can be watched below:

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This is not the first time the Congress leader has exhibited her shallow mentality. In line with her party tradition, Reena Mimrot had earlier too taken to Twitter to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sharing playful pictures with his “special friend” who visited him in his office on July 24, 2019.

Mimrot had tweeted, “Modji samay par ghar jaate to aaj doosare ke bachche nahin khilaane padate.” This roughly translates as “Had Modiji settled down on time in life, he would not have to play with other’s kids.”

PM Modi had set the internet on fire when he had posted a few pictures of him playing with a kid on his official Instagram handle. In no time, the pictures became a hot topic of discussion on social media arousing the curiosity of the netizens to learn about the identity of the baby.

Modi had captioned the pictures as “A very special friend came to meet me in Parliament today.” It was later revealed the little kid playing with the PM was the grandaughter of BJP MP Satyanarayan Jatiya.

However, by making such a personal attack on the Prime Minister of India, Reena had just given the Twitter users a sneak peek into her rotten brains.

Uttar Pradesh: Dalit woman at gunpoint in Rampur, filmed the same and uploaded on social media, accused Abdul arrested, Naved absconding

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Uttar Pradesh: Dalit woman at gunpoint in Rampur, filmed the same and uploaded on social media, accused Abdul arrested, Naved absconding

In another deplorable act of rape, a Dalit woman (20) was allegedly raped at the gunpoint and filmed by two men named Abdul and Naved, in the Kotwali area of Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh.

Police had arrested the main accused, Abdul, and sent him to the jail on Wednesday, while the other accused, Naved remains absconding. Rampur Superintendent of Police Ajay Pal Sharma told TOI, “The crime took place on September 12, but it was reported on Tuesday evening. Abdul was arrested from Topkhana Gate locality on Swar road within 12 hours of registering the FIR. Five police teams have been pressed into service to arrest the accused.”

In the incident which transpired on September 12, 2019, a Dalit girl had gone to a nearby field to get some fodder when two men namely Naved and Abdul nabbed her and forcefully took her to a deserted area where they raped her at the gunpoint by taking turns. When the victim protested the accused threatened to kill her. They also videographed the entire act which they later uploaded on social media.

Afraid of the threats the victim chose to hide what transpired with her from her family members. However, after the video filmed by the accused became viral on social media, the victim’s relatives came to know about the incident. Her family and relatives approached the Rampur police station on September 25 and lodged a complaint against the two accused. The police, in turn, registered a case against the accused under section 376-D (gangrape), 504 (criminal intimidation), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), relevant provisions of SC/ST Act and section 67 of the IT Act.


Meanwhile, SP Ajay Pal Sharma added, “During the preliminary investigation, it was found that the woman had an affair with Abdul, who also produced recordings of their conversations over the mobile phone. We also found a 25-second video of the crime uploaded on various social media sites by the accused.”

“The woman has been sent for a medical examination. Afterwards, the investigating officer will produce her before the magistrate to record her statement under section 164 of the CrPc,” the SP added.

A similar incident was reported on September 24 wherein a Dalit minor was allegedly gang-raped and filmed by three men in Ghosia village of Kaushambi district that falls under Saray Akil police station, near Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. In this case, too, one of the accused named Nazik was caught by the villagers and handed over to the police while the main accused named Adil who was found the next day, hiding in a Mazar. He was nabbed following an encounter with the police.

NSA Ajit Doval asks forces to expedite counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir while ensuring no collateral damage

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NSA Ajit Doval asks forces to expedite counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir while ensuring no collateral damage

In a high-level meeting chaired by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Srinagar with security officials and bureaucrats on Thursday, he asked the Security Forces to strengthen the anti-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir while asking them to ensure zero collateral damage. Doval was in Srinagar for the second time since the abrogation of Article 370, stripping Jammu and Kashmir of the separate status.

Officers from Army, Central Reserve Police Force, State Police and other agencies attended this high-level meeting held in Srinagar. Doval, who is back in the national capital after holding a series of meeting with security functionaries and office-bearers in Srinagar from Wednesday, had reportedly asked the officials to work towards creating such an atmosphere in the Kashmir Valley that the common man could follow his routine properly without being intimidated by terrorist groups.

According to the reports, the NSA took stock of the situation and directed the forces to expedite their counter-terrorism operations. However, Ajit Doval also cautioned the forces to protect the lives and property of the citizens in their campaign against terrorists. Besides, Doval also reviewed the developmental projects for people and urged officials for their expeditious implementation, which comprises giving best health care, the shipment of apple boxes out of the Kashmir Valley and other such things.

This was the second visit to the valley by the NSA after the central government revoked Article 370 on August 5 and bifurcated the state into two union territories, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Both Union Territories will come into existence on October 31 and the first Lieutenant Governor of both the regions will take oath on the same day. On his maiden visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, the NSA encamped here for 11 days to review the security situation and interact with the locals to understand the difficulties faced by them.

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