Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh on Monday said that while the state is on the path to recovery, Pakistan sponsored terrorist organisations have been forcing the residents to not follow their daily chores.
As per a news report, Singh said that terrorist organisations such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hizbul Mujahideen have been coercing the people by forcing them to shut down shops and petrol pumps. “But pumps are open and we have ensured that shops are open wherever people want to open them,” he added.
Singh asserted that police have arrested several groups who were coercing the residents.
“They are doing so on behalf of Pakistan. They are being chased everywhere; we carried out two successful operations, one in Baramulla where one was killed and another terrorist was captured. A group working with Jaish-e-Mohammed was apprehended in Sopore yesterday. They were printing and pasting posters threatening people at various places. They are associates of terrorists, they were working on behalf of three local terrorists from Sopore,” he further added.
Informing about the capturing a notorious group from South Kashmir, Singh said it was a part of the infiltrating groups from across the border. He further said that their details will be released once the interrogation is over. Singh was speaking to the media in over a month after the abrogation of Article 370.
Singh blamed the Pakistani army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for their vicious attempt to infiltrate terrorists into India and said, “Pak agencies especially ISI and Pak Army have been very active, they’ve brought several terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) and have been making attempts to push them across.”
Frustrated by the Indian government’s unexpected move on Article 370, Pakistan army has resorted to ceasefire violations in an attempt to fuel unrest in the valley by pushing armed terrorists across the Indian side. “Our troops have been able to thwart many such attempts,” he added.
After Amnesty International India was served a show-cause notice by the Enforcement Directorate for receiving foreign funds violating FEMA norms, now it has come to light that the organisation is using that fund to prepare reports on Kashmir with pre-decided conclusion to spread propaganda globally. This has been revealed by documents accessed by Republic TV.
According to the report, Amnesty India is using funds received from foreign countries to prepare reports on Kashmir. They are doing this through a commercial entity, Amnesty International India Pvt Ltd. This company had started as a trust in 2010 with the name Amnesty International India Foundation Trust. But as they were denied approval under FCRA by the government in the same year, they had floated a company in the name of Amnesty International India Pvt Ltd (AIIPL) to receive foreign funds bypassing FCRA rules.
AIIPL is receiving funds from its parent organisation Amnesty International UK in the grab of exporting consultancy services. According to the ED, ₹51.72 crore has been received by Amnesty in India violating the FCRA rules, out of which ₹26 crore was paid to AIIPL towards consultancy services.
Now the documents accessed by Republic show that the services offered by AIIPL was to prepare reports on Kashmir, against which it received payments. But the most striking point is, in the agreements signed by Amnesty International with the Indian company for studies on Kashmir, the desired outcomes were pre-decided and mentioned.
The agreements have a deliverable section, which apart from mentioning what to deliver, also specifies what is to be mentioned in those reports. For example, for a report on ‘Kashmir access to justice’, costing 46,867 GBP, the deliverable section says that it has to research 10 individual cases of barriers to justice. Republic has accessed more than 50 pages of such documents containing multiple agreements to work on Kashmir.
The reports were supposed to be prepared after doing research and field work, but the conclusion of the reports, even their titles, were predetermined and mentioned in the agreements.
These documents show that Amnesty India has received around Rs 5,29,87,663 from Amnesty International (UK) over the last few years to only prepare reports on Kashmir. AIIPL has received the money in the name of “export of goods and services”, and has produced the Kashmir reports. The agreements show that almost 50% of the totally value of the works were paid in advance.
The ED has questioned these so-called exports of goods and services by AIIPL. The report quotes a top investigating officer saying “Amnesty India has so far not been able to furnish any documentary evidence of price negotiations with their only client Amensty International, UK. Also, no details in respect of breakup of costing whatsoever have been furnished by the company. In this case substantial export advance or exorbitantly high rates is questionable”. According to sources, although ₹51 crore was received towards export of services, no documentary proof of such export like invoices were furnished by the company.
ED had sent the show cause notice to Amnesty on 25 July, and today the company denied the charges. They acknowledged that they have received a notice from ED, but denied any wrongdoing. The organisation declined to reveal anything more before replying to the notice.
In October last year, the ED had conducted searches at its Bengaluru office in connection with its probe in the alleged violation of FDI guidelines and remittances it had received from the parent body. Its director Akar Patel’s residences were among premises searched by the agency then.
The agency was probing if the Amnesty adopted the FDI route to evade the foreign contribution regulation act as the government had tightened laws under FCRA and had cancelled registrations of hundreds of NGOs for their “anti-India” activities.
A village in Begusarai, Uttar Pradesh is on tenterhooks as the news of a Dalit girl being allegedly sexually assaulted by a young man from Muslim community has come to the fore, raising communal tempers in the region, says a report published on Swarajya by journalist Swati Goel Sharma.
The concerned man in question is a private tutor who lived two houses away from the victim’s house in Begasarai’s Khodabandpur block. The mother of the victim had no inkling of the excesses meted out on her daughter until the girl showed great reluctance in visiting the tutor’s house for her tuitions. It was then that the child described in excruciating detail about her tutor’s misdeeds.
The minor child who is yet to turn seven lives in Begusarai’s Khodabandpur block with her mother and 3 other siblings. Her father is living in Varanasi alone, where he runs a food cart for a living while his family continues to stay in Begusarai.
Around two weeks back, the minor girl refused to go to her tutor’s house for her tuitions. The tutor, alleged culprit, Mohammad Murtaza alias Dilkhush, lives just a couple of hundred metres away from the victim’s house. The family states that Murtaza is 22 years old but some reports suggest he is just 19.
The girl had been evading her tuition classes for some time now. She was also down with fever. After avoiding tuitions for many days giving vague reasons for not going to the tuitions, the child’s mother asked her if she was hiding something from the family. The girl said as quoted by her uncle, “Wo Ganda kaam karta hai.” The child’s mother found bite marks in her private parts.
According to the child’s uncle, Murtaza would take the girl behind the curtains, remove her clothes and sexually assault her. The livid mother gathered women from the colony and approached one Akhtar who is an IAS officer and had links with accused Murtaza’s uncle.
According to the reports, this is not the first time that Murtaza has molested girls. He has been a repeat offender and has sexually molested at least 3 girls before- One Paswan and 2 Thakurs. The child’s uncle asserted that the previous cases of molestation, which happened with older girls were hushed up by the families of the victims, fearing social stigma. He claimed that they never thought Murtaza would indulge in molesting a minor girl.
Murtaza, on the other hand, continued to deny the charges levelled against him. In a local panchayat where Murtaza admitted to his crime, he later claimed that he was pressurised by Akthar to testify for a crime which he had not committed. Murtaza further claimed that he was being framed in the case by the Dalit family for extortion. The victim’s uncle stated that the Muslims in the village weren’t keen on punishing the accused and the situation had devolved close to a Hindu-Muslim riot.
The family finally approached the police and filed a complaint mentioning molestation of their girl child at the hands of accused Murtaza. However, they are yet to receive an FIR in the case till now. According to some reports, the culprit has already fled the village with his relatives even as the police were trying to arrest him.
Scholar Hindol Sengupta created quite the storm on Twitter when he shared a work of art that he claimed was the ‘coolest version’ of Lord Ganesha. The work of Digital Art by Firhat Solhan showed a Being with two tusks with a crown of gold embedded with precious gems. It’s called ‘Meditation’ and there appears to be little to suggest that it’s actually Lord Ganesha.
By far the coolest version of Lord Ganesha I have seen. By the artist Firhat Solhan. pic.twitter.com/S6tWP1AwNL
Despite the artist not claiming that the Art portrayed Lord Ganesha (it was tagged elephant god by the artist on Deviant Art), Hindol Sengupta interpreted it as such. The instinctive reaction from Hindus to his caption was one of revulsion. People mostly pointed at the Islamic imagery in the work of art as the reason behind their disapproval. However, even instinctively, there appears to be something inherent about it that doesn’t ‘feel’ like it is about Ganesha.
The reasons could be debated but it could be said with a relative amount of certainty that the work of art wasn’t inspired by feelings of utmost piety. Religious works of art tend to have that effect unless they are driven by piety, the novel ideas do not manifest themselves in the manner the artists perhaps would have wanted to.
Consequently, Hindol Sengupta was mocked by people and his tweet even became a meme template.
Digital works of art of Gods and Goddesses can be beautiful and enchanting. The most obvious instance of it was the ‘Rudra Hanuman’ portrait by Karan Acharya that was a smashing hit by any measure. Despite the fact that it employed modern techniques, the aesthetics were still, quite clearly, Hindu.
Unfortunately, there appears to be a trend of portraying Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Digital Art that could only ever be described as ‘weird’, for the lack of a better word. In DeviantArt, one of the most popular websites where people share their work, such renditions abound.
An art depicting Indra by Molee on DeviantArt is a perfect example of this trend. While the art viewed in isolation is great, however, there appears to be very little about Indra to it. The God depicted in the rendition comes across as some Caucasian God, maybe Thor, but hardly Indra.
Artist: Molee/DeviantArt
Molee’s Digital Art depicting Rama, too, suffers from the same flaw. There’s nothing offensive or vulgar about it but it just ‘feels wrong’, so to speak. Here, too, Rama seems to be some Caucasian man rather than Indian.
There are depictions of other Gods and Goddesses as well that appear to lack the ‘Divine’ essence of the Beings they claim to portray. Kali by Derek Langille suffers from the same flaw.
Kali by Derek Langille
There’s this one particular art depicting Lord Shiva which has become quite popular with time in certain circles. The artist Ramawat depicts Shiva smoking cannabis in the mountains.
Artist: Ramawat
While there are numerous other works of Digital Art that fail to capture the essence of what they seek to portray, there is indeed true genius to be found in the genre. One of the most fascinating sub-genres is something that can be roughly called ‘Hindu Futurism’.
Concept Designer and Architect, Siddhartha Valluri, in his piece ‘Prayer‘ imagines the Ghats of Varanasi in the 22nd Century. He says, “At the Ghats of Varanasi, a complex and vast world paces ahead around the pristine architecture of our ancestors which is slowly crumbling away as the evening prayers continue as they always have for over a thousand years keeping the spirit of these temples alive.” He adds, “Through this concept, my main goal was to showcase the “Soul of India” in a very unique manner, not yet explored. I wanted to showcase the Indian Temple Architecture, the oldest unique style of architecture that evolved in India from the lens of a futuristic scenario set in the 2100s.”
Prayer by Siddhartha Valluri
In another work, ‘Ritual‘, Valluri depicts a Hindu Temple surrounded by spaceships and neon symbols. In his words, “Centuries, after these monuments were first constructed the glory of these monolithic temples, remains untouched. Yet, something is very different. Instead of priests walking the temple grounds we witness hoards of spaceships circling the temples and neon symbols decorating the temple walls creating an experience that perhaps not even the gods could have foreseen.”
Ritual by Siddhartha Valluri
In yet another work of art, ‘Sanctum‘, Valluri explores ” the inner chambers of an ancient temple lit by holographic images and symbols representing an amalgamation of how modes of worship may evolve.” He adds, “Even though parts of the temple have broken and chipped away after centuries of use, the essence of the temple remains untouched as a Holographic interpretation of Lord Ganesha sits proud at the centre of the temple Sanctum.”
Sanctum by Siddhartha Valluri
Quite clearly, there’s something inherent about Karan Acharya and Siddhartha Valluri’s works of art that the works by other artists mentioned above lack. While it is difficult to point out precisely what that characteristic is but it can roughly be called ‘Hindu Aesthetics’. In the works of art by Firhat Solan and Molee and others, there appears to be very little ‘Hinduness’ about the works which is extremely unlike the works by Karan Acharya and Siddhartha Valluri.
People’s aversion towards the ‘coolest version’ of Ganesha by Solhan perhaps stems from that very fact. Hindus found it revolting for the same reason that worshippers of the Norse Gods would have found the depiction of Thor and Odin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe revolting. Although the characters in the movies are based on the Norse Gods, Their essence is completely lacking in them.
While Digital Art is certainly ‘cool’ to look at, most, however, miss their mark wildly. While the artists are extremely talented, their works of art often fail to capture the essence of the Gods they aim to portray. Very few of them could effectively capture the Divinity enshrined with the Gods. There are certainly hidden gems in there, however, gems which are indeed worthy of great applause.
In a shocking incident, a 21-year-old son mercilessly killed his father for disallowing him to play PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds) in Karnataka.
The incident took place in Siddheshwar Nagar under Kakati police station, Belgaum, Karnataka at 5 am this morning, one Raghuveer Kumbar (21), a diploma course dropout who was addicted to PUBG, chopped off the head and the left leg of his father, Shekarappa Revappa Kumbar (61).
“Raghuveer Kumbar killed his father Shankar for cutting the internet connection. He was beaten badly before death for taking his phone and not allowing him to play PUBG game”, Belgaum police said.
Shekarappa, who retired as a carpenter from the district armed reserve police four months ago, had advised his son against mobile game addiction several times.
On September 8 (Sunday), Shekarappa reportedly scolded the youth after he found him engrossed in the mobile game for hours. This irritated Raghuveer who went out and started throwing stones at his neighbour’s glass windows to vent out his frustration. The neighbours, in turn, called the police who summoned Raghuveer and his father to the Kakati police station.
Raghuveer’s father told the police that his son was addicted to games such as PUBG and Final Combat. The police officer let them go after counselling the youth for nearly an hour.
Immediately after reaching home, the youth went back to playing games on his phone and continued till midnight. Shekarappa shouted at his son and asked him to go to sleep. He snatched his mobile phone and refused to return it to Raghuveer.
Raghuveer woke up at 5 am and attacked his father in his sleep with a vegetable knife, after locking his mother’s room from outside.
The mother who got up after she heard her husband’s cries, raised an alarm. A neighbour woke up and called the police. By the time the police arrived, the accused had already beheaded and cut off the victim’s leg. Raghuveer, who had escaped from the house, was nabbed by the police after a search.
Raghuveer confessed to the crime and said that his father’s objection to his playing on the mobile had angered him.
Police Commissioner B S Lokesh Kumar and other senior officials reached the spot and a case has been registered in Kakati police station.
This is, however, not the first incidence where the addiction to PUBG has turned fatal. In June we had reported how one 15-year-old minor boy from Bhiwandi in Thane district of Maharashtra allegedly killed his elder brother, Mohammad Shaik (19), for scolding him over playing the PUBG game on his mobile phone.
PUBG is an online multiplayer battle game developed by a South Korean Firm. Several concerns have been raised across the world regarding the addictive nature of the game, which also has a tendency to push children towards violent behaviour. Parents and educators say the game incites violence and distracts students from their studies.
In the month of May, a 16-year-old boy from Telangana had committed suicide after he was scolded by his parents for spending too much time being engrossed in the mobile game.
Recently, news surfaced that Mirror Now anchor Faye D Souza had quit Mirror Now and Vinay Tewari was poised to take over as the new Managing Editor of Mirror Now. While there was no clarity on why Faye had ‘quit’ her job, the ‘liberal’ ecosystem had already started fear-mongering and alleging that she had to ‘quit her job’ because she was a ‘fearless voice’ that ‘stood against’ PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.
Lawyer Karuna Nundy termed Faye D Souza as a ‘slayer of fascist ideas’ and ‘a voice of poor’ and said she has been ‘silenced as a prime time anchor’.
Fantastic @fayedsouza, slayer of fascist ideas and a voice for poor, marginalised Indians has been silenced as a prime time anchor. She’ll be great in her new @romedy Oprah style role, but
the blow to integrity and truth in prime time TV news is massive. https://t.co/Mv5RCIZOT7
Prashant Bhushan said that fearless Faye was ‘made to’ resign.
One of our finest TV journalists @fayedsouza has resigned (made to) from MirrorNow. She raised the biggest issues & spoke truth to power. Obviously it annoyed the establishment who then put pressure on the Times management to replace her. Very Unfortunate https://t.co/TNGRY1Vir6
Journalist Sakshi said that Faye resigned because she refused to ‘not be’ the voice of the poor.
U never spread hatred, u never shouted to put ur point across, u just followed the basic ethics of journalism @fayedsouza and women like us always look upto u. U have resigned from a job it just means u refused to not be people’s voice. More power to u ❤️ #FayeDsouzahttps://t.co/HG38jOrw2E
Congress too jumped in the mix. Shashi Tharoor and Sanjay Nirupam peddled the same agenda insinuating that it was because of the Modi government that Faye D Souza quit.
Its really sad to know that @fayedsouza is forced to resign.
Finally Mirror Now brand of real journalism is past. It will very soon follow its sibling Times Now type of fake journalism.
This is an absolute shame: https://t.co/DVFcG6MUYx
IF she was forced out by political pressure, she enters a Hall of Fame occupied by @bdutt, Karan Thapar, @ghoshworld &other illustrious names. But Indian media plunges further into darkness.
Hers was a voice of passionate sanity.
In fact, there was even a change.org petition that demanded that Faye D Souza be brought back to Mirror Now.
Now, however, Times Network has issued a statement clarifying that Faye will continue to be associated with Times Network and Mirror Now.
Statement by Times Network
The statement says that Faye D Souza played a pivotal role in establishing a strong position for Mirror Now, Faye is now moving away from managing daily operations of the brand and will now be responsible for creating and presenting flagship shows on Mirror Now in addition to steering new shows, IPs and ground events for the Network.
Faye D Souza too issued a statement after 2 days of speculation.
It is interesting, however, none of the individuals who tweeted blindly blaming the Modi government for Faye’s exit based on source-based rumours from an unreliable website has retracted their fear-mongering tweets that rue the state of press freedom.
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress leader and former minister DK Shivkumar’s daughter on Thursday in a money laundering case involving her father. She has been asked to be present before the ED on September 12. The ED is investigating her trips to Singapore with her father DK Shivakumar in 2017.
The Income Tax department had found certain cross-border transactions which DK Shivakumar and his daughter couldn’t provide a satisfactory explanation to. The Enforcement Directorate believes that these transactions could be hawala transactions and therefore they have summoned Shivakumar’s daughter for questioning.
The alleged money laundering by DK Shivakumar came to light after raids by the Income Tax officials on August 2, 2017, at four flats in New Delhi, which led to the seizure of unaccounted cash worth Rs.8.59 crore without evidence of its source of income. These flats were linked to Shivakumar and associates Sachin Narayan and Sunil Kumar Sharma.
Another two associates, Anjaneya Hanumanthaiah and N Rajendran, employees of Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, had allegedly stored the cash in the flats on behalf of the Congress leaders. They had said that they were handling the money of Shivakumar, but later they had retracted their statements.
The I-T Dept had also revealed that Shivakumar and his associates had used hawala channels to transport unaccounted money on a regular basis. “Accused number 1 (Shivakumar) has set up an extensive network of persons and premises across Delhi and Bangalore in order to transport and utilise unaccounted cash”, the department had said in its complaint submitted at the Special Court for Economic Offences in Delhi.
Acting on PM Modi’s call to reduce single-use plastic, large hotel chains like the Marriott and Taj have taken a conscious decision to bring down single-use plastic consumption for a sustainable environment-friendly tomorrow. They will at first eliminate PET bottles on their premises and then reduce the use of single-use plastic altogether. According to some estimates, they consume two million plastic bottles a year.
The JW Marriott hotel property at Delhi’s Aerocity on Monday eliminated the last of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, replacing these with QR-coded glass ones from it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based bottling unit.
This 500 room property which on an average consumes 5,479 bottles a day first wants to replicate this model in it’s few select properties and eventually do away with PET bottles at all its properties. Prior to this Indian Hotels Company (IHCL, the Taj group) also went ahead with the decision to eliminate plastic bottles. The latter recently set up bottling units at select hotels in Delhi, Bengaluru, Maldives and Colombo, seeking to replace plastic bottles with glass ones.
Prime Minister while addressing the citizens of the country on the 73rd Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort urged people to eliminate the use of single-use plastic. With an aim to prevent environmental degradation, Modi stressed that citizens must buy indigenous products and must strive to make the policy of “Make In India” a success.
“The time for implementing such an idea has come. Teams must be mobilised to work in this direction. A significant step must come out by October 2 (Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary,” he had said.
Moreover, in a bid to carry Modi’s initiative to junk single-use plastic ahead, the Railways have also planned to install 4000 plastic bottle crushing machines at stations. A passenger wanting to use them will have to key in his phone number into the machine and his phone will be recharged. Currently, 160 bottle-crushing machines are available at 128 stations.
The railways have also issued directions that from October 2 this year, single-use plastic will not be used on its premises. Railway Board Chairman V.K. Yadav has also asked railway staff to collect all the used plastic bottles at railway stations and send them for recycling.
Earlier, the ministry had issued instructions to all its vendors and staff across its network to use reusable bags to reduce plastic footprint.
While Pakistan always insists that Jammu and Kashmir is a disputed territory and refers to the area under Indian administration as India Occupied Kashmir, its foreign minister termed it as Indian state at an international forum.
#WATCH: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi mentions Kashmir as “Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir” in Geneva pic.twitter.com/kCc3VDzVuN
While talking to media in Geneva, Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, ‘if life has returned to normalcy, why India does not allow international media, international NGOs and civil society organisations to go into the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and see for themselves what the reality is. They’re lying through their teeth, and once the curfew is lifted, the reality comes out, the world will wake up to the catastrophe that is underway right now.’ It is very rare for Pakistani leaders to acknowledge that Jammu and Kashmir is a state of India, and the Pakistan foreign minister did so in front of international media while trying to internationalise India’s decision to abrogate 370.
Qureshi is in Geneva to attend a session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing the session, he alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir by India, and called for the formation of a joint investigation committee to study the situation in the state. “The basic rights of people of India-occupied Jammu and Kashmir are being trampled with impunity by India. The people of this occupied land are suffering systematic and serial violations of their fundamental rights”, he said.
A leaked document has emerged which is reportedly the 115-page dossier which will be submitted by Pakistan in UN Human Rights Session (UNHRC) today.
Pakistan in its alleged dossier has once again used Congress’ ex-president, Rahul Gandhi’s quote to further its anti-India narrative. The dossier quotes remarks made by Rahul Gandhi in the aftermath of India’s decision to abrogate Article 370 for Jammu and Kashmir.
A leaked document, reportedly the Pakistani dossier to be presented by them at United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today, circulating in Pak media circles. The opening page of the document shows quotes by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi & National Conference’s Omar Abdullah. pic.twitter.com/4JoFClPil6
In the aftermath of India’s decision to strip Article 370 and bifurcate the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two separate UTs, Congress supremo, Rahul Gandhi had taken to Twitter to castigate Jammu and Kashmir authorities and had cast doubts on the Indian government.
He had said that it had been 20 days since people of Jammu & Kashmir “had their freedom and civil liberties curtailed”. He could be heard speaking to the security forces that he would like to go to ‘any area which is peaceful’ and had concluded his video by saying that “it is very clear that things are not normal in Jammu & Kashmir.”
The former Congress President Rahul Gandhi had also ‘noted’ that “people dying” in Jammu & Kashmir, in light of events “going very wrong here”.
It’s been 20 days since the people of Jammu & Kashmir had their freedom & civil liberties curtailed. Leaders of the Opposition & the Press got a taste of the draconian administration & brute force unleashed on the people of J&K when we tried to visit Srinagar yesterday. pic.twitter.com/PLwakJM5W5
On 25th August, a day after Rahul Gandhi led a delegation of opposition leaders he had posted a video on Twitter where he is arguing with the security personnel at the Srinagar Airport for not being allowed as there are still certain restrictions in place to avoid any eventuality.
Pakistan had previously written to the UN accusing India of carrying out human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir and had used this statement by Rahul Gandhi and other leftist leaders to further its narrative. This time again, Pakistan used the same statement of the Congress leader to advocate a similar narrative against India.
Pakistan has also used the stand taken by Rahul Gandhi and his political cronies to further its agenda against India earlier too. Even during the Pulwama attacks and India’s retaliatory Balakot airstrikes after that, Pakistan has used Congress and other opposition leaders’ statements to peddle its nefarious agenda.
Pakistani analysts and strategists in their media debates had even named the Congress as a ‘sympathiser’ of Pakistan. Recently, Imran Khan had even copied Rahul Gandhi’s favourite lines against RSS and the BJP and had stated that the RSS and PM Modi are planning a Nazi-like imposition of Hindutva ideology in India.
Pakistan is expected to move a ‘resolution’ seeking support for Pakistan’s case on Kashmir in the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Session. This is the last chance Pakistan has to catch the world’s attention over Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan is trying to make the most of it by using Rahul Gandhi’s statements as their weapon.
