Evening NEWS DIGEST
24 July 2016: 18 Shawal 37:Vol:7, No:121
After Gujarat, Dalit family
in Karnataka attacked by Bajrang Dal activists over beef
New Delhi: Members of a
Dalit family were allegedly attacked by Bajrang Dal activists in
Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka on July 17 following rumours that they had eaten
beef. According to a report in NDTV, Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum filed an
FIR which stated that around 40-50 people attacked the family, seriously
injuring three.A total of 7 people have been arrested by the police and they
have been charged under scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention
of Atrocities) Amendment Act. The incident has surfaced at a time when the Dalit
community has come out on streets and is protesting against the atrocities they
have to face. Protests were triggered after a video of four Dalit youth being
mercilessly beaten by ‘Gau Rakshaks’ in Gujarat’s Una went viral on the
Internet. On the other hand, members of the community in UP protested against
derogatory comment made by BJP leader against BSP supremo Mayawati. Parliament,
too, debated the atrocities against Dalits calling upon the govt to take strict action in such cases.Akhlaq of
Dadri, UP was also attacked last year over beef rumours and he lost his life in
the incident giving rise to the ‘intolerance debate’ in the country.indian
express
After Gujarat, Dalit family
in Karnataka attacked by Bajrang Dal members for beef
Cow vigilantes in
Chikmagalur: 7 from Bajrang Dal booked for attacking Dalits
Gujarat Dalit flogging: ‘If
we are treated this way for cleaning their filth, we won’t do it at all’
A couple of days after July
11, Dosubhai Sarvaiya, a 23-year-old Dalit from Mota Samadhiyala village of Una
taluka in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district, decided he wouldn’t do what he had
grown up doing, what his father did before him and what his grandfather did
before that: lifting dead cows that belonged to the upper castes. “If we are
treated this way for cleaning their filth, we won’t do it at all. Let them do
it themselves and then they will know our worth,” says Dosubhai, who lives with
his two younger brothers and their 60-year-old mother Amriben.That was a big
decision for Dosubhai, who earned Rs 300 for every cow he skinned. But on July
11, when his relative Balu Sarvaiya and six others were flogged by a group of
‘gaurakshaks’ for skinning a dead cow, Dosubhai says he decided he wouldn’t
take things lying down. News of the July 11 attack spread fast and soon, egged
on by videos that were shared on social media, Dalits across the state took to
the streets, with violence being reported from Rajkot city, Rajkot district,
Surendranagar, Amreli, Junagadh and Ahmedabad. Protesters dumped a truckload of
cow carcasses outside the collector’s office in Surendranagar district and
elsewhere, Dalits attempted to immolate themselves. For a community that has
rarely seen such consolidation, the protests brought out people in huge numbers
and a rattled administration scrambled to contain them. indianexpress
In Gujarat, 95 of 100
suspects in crimes against Dalits acquitted
As violent protests
continue in the PM’s home state of Gujarat over the flogging of Dalit youth by
upper-caste Hindu vigilantes, an IndiaSpend analysis reveals a conviction rate
6 times lower than the Indian average — over 10 years — for crimes against
scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs).In 2014 (latest available
data), 3.4 % of crimes against SCs in Gujarat ended in convictions, against a
national rate of 28.8% — one conviction for every eight across the country.
Against STs, that conviction rate was 1.8%, against the national average of
37.9% — one conviction for every 21 cases. Dalit unrest began on July 11, 2016,
when four Dalit youth were tied to a car and gau rakshaks, or cow protectors,
took turns to flog them as a crowd watched. The crime: Skinning a dead cow.
Later, the upper-caste vigilantes posted a video of the flogging on social
media as a warning of sorts to others — Dalits and Muslims. Video of another
attack in May has also now emerged.IANS
Gau Raksha, Manuvadi
Mindset: BJP’s Recipe for Electoral Disaster:Amulya Ganguli
Kiran Bedi moots cow
shelters close to garbage yards
VHP demands death penalty
for Akhlaq’s family nut new village head condemns attempts to communalize
Meerut: VHP has demanded
that the family of Akhlaq, who was lynched by a mob last year for allegedly
storing beef, be given the death penalty. Senior VHP leader Jugal Kishor, who
held a meeting on Monday in Bishahra, Akhlaq’s village, made the demand days
after the UP police registered an FIR against Akhlaq’s family under the UP
Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act. Residents of Bishahra stayed away from VHP
meeting, with the village head even condemning the “attempts to communally
polarise the village.” Kishor and other VHP functionaries held the meeting at
the temple where Vishal Rana, the son of local BJP leader Sanjay Rana and one
of the accused in lynching case, had gone and allegedly forced its priest to
announce that Akhlaq and his family had stored beef.But the new village head,
Kaushalya, condemned the attempts to communally vitiate the atmosphere in the
village. She said that no villager had invited the VHP leader. “No villager
went to the meeting, which was anyway not a village function. We strongly
condemn the attempt to disturb communal harmony,” she said. the hindu
Haryana school faces heat
for Eid celebration, Muslim teacher forced to quit
A school in Haryana has
been fined Rs 5 lakh by a panchayat for organising a special assembly marking
Eid, which led to protests and threats. The panchayat also ordered Green Dales
Public School to get rid of Muslim staff and students, make its girl students switch
to salwar kameez, and banned it from hiking fees for two years.Residents of
Hindu-majority Tauru town in Mewat district, near Gurgaon, accused the school
management of “propagating Islam” and forcing its students, mostly Hindus, to
follow Islamic rituals during the event on July 6. A mob armed with sticks and
bricks was at the school’s gates the day after the assembly.The panchayat order
has forced the lone Muslim teacher to quit her job and move to Delhi, said
school manager Hema Sharma.The police and the local MLA, however, said the
panchayat’s diktat held no meaning as Tauru is governed by a municipal
committee. “No panchayat is recognised by the govt . The local body does not
support any activity by the group,” said tehsildar Poonam Babbar. The police
said the area was peaceful.“The school is trying to convert our children… They
were made to offer namaz and recite verses from the Quran. How else can you
explain their intention?” said Tek Chand Saini, member of panchayat. “Parents
came to us and we, the elders, confronted the school authorities.”A parent who
didn’t want to be named said, “My son studies there. My husband and his friends
rushed to the school. We come from a small town and religion is an important
aspect of our lives.”School denied the allegations. “Children sang, performed
plays and prayed. We just wanted them to know and respect each other’s
religions. It is absurd to give the issue a communal colour,” said Sharma.A
student of Class 4 said “we sang a famous song from a Bollywood movie and the
prayer was in Hindi”, while a Class 8 student said the protesters were about to
attack the school but were stopped by some parents.Chaudhary Zakir Hussain,
INLD MLA from Nuh, said “no namaz was offered and it was just a celebration to
mark the day”. He rejected the panchayat’s demands, saying Tauru was under the
municipal body. HT
BIZARRE! Haryana school
asked to remove all Muslim staff, students - Know the reason
Muslims at bottom of higher
education ladder, alongside backward tribes
Despite almost trebling in
the decade ending 2010 — from 5.2% to 13.8 % —rate of Muslim enrolment in
higher education trailed the national figure of 23.6%, other backward classes
(22.1%) and scheduled castes (18.5%). Scheduled tribes lagged Muslims by
0.5%.In proportion to their population, Muslims were worse-off than SCs and
STs. Muslims comprise 14% of IndiaÂ’s population but account for 4.4 % of students enrolled in higher education,
according to the 2014-15 All India Survey on Higher Education.In the decade
since then, the gross enrolment rate of Muslims doubled from 6.84 % to 13.8%. Despite this, they trail the
national average.HT
Muslims at bottom of
higher-education ladder, alongside backward tribes
Phagwara communal clash:
Dalits also joined Muslims along with Sikhs, to fight Hindutva activists
Phagwara: Tension in
Phagwara, simmering since Wednesday after local Shiv Sena activists targeted
some shops of Kashmiris, led to a clash on Friday between Sena activists on one
side and Muslims, Sikhs, and Dalits on the other. Police have registered a case
against 8 Shiv Sena leaders and 40-50 unidentified persons. Clash took place
after Sena leaders pelted stones on a mosque, abused Muslims, and attacked
their shops. It is learnt that the situation turned from bad to worse, even as
there were intelligence inputs apprehending a clash. Cops had managed to avert
a clash once, but Sena activists again came near the mosque, challenging
Muslims and pelting stones, after which the latter retaliated. Muslims had
earlier announced that they would take a procession to the SDM’s office on
Friday to submit a memorandum. However, Phagwara SP Ajinder Singh urged them
not to take out any procession. In the meantime, Sena activists came near the
mosque and burnt a Pakistani flag. After this, weekly prayers were held inside
the mosque, and Sena activists took out a procession in the town. After this
march, they again came near the mosque, despite police officials pleading with
them not to proceed to the mosque.In the meantime, local Sikh and Dalit activists
came out to support Muslims, and chased away Sena activists who entered a
temple and a neighbouring building, from where they started pelting brickbats
from rooftops, which also hit the cops. Muslim, Sikh, and Dalit activists also
retaliated with brickbats, during which the glass shield of an idol on the
temple gate was damaged. Police had a tough time controlling the situa tion,
and resorted to canecharge to control the situation.On the complaint of a
mosque imam, police booked Shiv Sena leaders Inderjit Karwal, Kuldeep Dani, and
Jimmy Karwal, besides Hindu Suraksha Samiti president Deepak Bhardwaj, among
eight identified per sons under sections of IPC and the Arms Act. Muslim Mirror
Sikhs, Muslims and Dalits
chasing Shiv Sainiks after Muslims were attacked in Phagwara
Clash in Phagwara: Muslims,
Sikhs join hand to fight Shiv Sena activists
Phagwara DSP suspended, SP transferred for
negligence
ZAKIR NAIK
VILIFICATION CAMPAIGN IS FOR ANTI-CONVERSION LAW?
‘Arrested Mumbai youth
linked to Zakir Naik's IRF converted 800 to Islam'
Mumbai: Rizwan Khan, who was
arrested from Kalyan on Saturday, and Arshid Qureshi, held from Navi Mumbai
earlier in the week, had reportedly facilitated the conversion of around 800
people across the country, including many in Mumbai, ATS officials said. Both
are connected to Zakir Naik's IRF, officials said. Several documents and
marriage certificates had been seized from Khan, which indicate that he and
Qureshi had converted over 800 Christians and Hindus to Islam, officials
said.Sources told TOI that during interrogation, Rizwan said he ran a marriage
bureau and was not involved in any forced conversion. Officials in the security
establishment stated that the arrested accused, along with two other
organizations apart from the IRF, were working to carry out conversions on a
very large scale. They said IRF was an umbrella organization."It's a very
critical issue and needs to be addressed on a priority basis," said an
officer monitoring the situation. They stated that the organizations involved
in conversion mainly target college students and jail inmates after providing
them legal and financial help.One of these organizations rubbished the
conversion allegations, an official said. Its representative admitted that Khan
used to visit their office, but was not associated with their organization in
any official capacity.TOI
Zakir Naik's IRF denies
link with ISIS
Islamic Research Foundation
has denied having any links with the Islamic State, two days after one of its
employees were arrested by Maharashtra ATS for reportedly recruiting youths for
the terror group."We at IRF never indulge in forceful conversations or
make any attempts to brainwash anyone. We do organise workshops related to
Islam which are open to all," Mansoor Shaikh, Senior official of IRF,
said.Dismissing reports of promoting Love Jihad, IRF said, "What is Love
Jihad and Hate Jihad? There is no such thing in Islam. Who coined this
term?" Mansoor Shaikh said.Meanwhile, another person, Rizwan Khan (43) was
picked up from his residence at Kalyan in Thane district yesterday night and
produced in a local court today, which sent him to transit remand till July 25. indiatoday
After Zakir Naik’s IRF,
another NGO under scanner for forced conversion
According to the reports,
Rizwan Khan was arrested by a joint operation team of ATS.Khan, who is a social
worker in AL-Birr Foundation, an NGO based in Mazgaon area of Mumbai, has come
under scrutiny on allegations of conversions.According to ATS, Khan has
converted more than 800 youths to Islam.The investigation by the agency is
currently going to check if the conversions were forceful.An official from
Maharashtra ATS said, “All the people who have been converted has visited IRF.
Qureshi provided them Islamic literature from IRF and after conversion they
were introduced to Khan who is suspected to have radicalised them.”According to
the agency, a large part of his income was raised from social work he did with
Al Birr Foundation. indiatvnews
Mumbai Police say most
speeches of Zakir ‘pro-terror’
Mumbai: Mumbai Police,
looking into the speeches of Dr. Zakir Naik,
has said that they have found most of them to be “pro-terror”. They have,
however, said that they would let the state Law and Judiciary department take
the final call and decide what legal action, if any, should be taken against
the controversial preacher. Senior officials in the Maharashtra police have said
that the special branch of the Mumbai Police probing Dr. Naik’s speeches have
found most of them capable of “influencing” impressionable minds and being
‘pro-terror’. The team is, however, yet to arrive at a conclusion on whether
that proof was enough to prosecute him.The officials said that the police would
limit themselves to sharing their findings with the State and let Law and
Judiciary Department decide whether or not any action can be taken against Dr
Naik.“Over a dozen videos of Dr. Naik have been studied by the team and most of
them are found to be objectionable in nature and capable of influencing
vulnerable minds. However, to stand scrutiny of courts, we have to give proof
beyond reasonable doubt that his speeches provoked recruits to join an outfit
or carry out an attack. So far, we have found that his speeches were one of the
many materials available on the internet which are shown or shared with terror
recruits across various banned outfits,” the official said.He added that the
UAPA had provisions under which Naik could be booked. However, officers were
not sure whether that could be enough to secure a conviction. Indianexpress
Another ISIS suspect
arrested in Maharashtra
Parbhani: Maharashtra ATS
on Sunday arrested 24-year-old Shahid Khan from Parbhani district on charges of
allegedly having links with the ISIS.ATS team, however, refused to divulge
further details, saying information on the same will be provided once the
accused is produced before the court.Earlier on July 14, Naser bin Yafai Chaus,
a suspected ISIS operative, was arrested by ATS. He has been sent to police
custody till July 20 by an Aurangabad court.ANI
Men with suspected ISIS
links brought to Kochi for probe
Kochi: 2 men, arrested from
Mumbai for allegedly recruiting youths to ISIS, were brought to Kochi on Sunday
as part of Kerala Police’s probe into a complaint that the duo radicalised
youths from the state and forced them to join the terror outfit abroad. Arshi
Qureshi and Rizwan Khan, arrested by Kerala Police in assistance with
Maharashtra Police in two separate operations last week, were brought to Kochi
by air and later taken to a destination under tight security for questioning,
police said.While Qureshi, allegedly associated with controversial preacher
Zakir Naik’s IRF, was arrested on July 21, Khan was picked up from his
residence at Kalyan in Thane district on Friday night.Both were produced in a
local court, which sent them to transit remand till July 25.Kerala Police had
traced Qureshi to Mumbai following a complaint lodged in Kochi by the brother
of a young woman, who is suspected to have joined ISIS along with her husband.PTI
Once known as the village
of good fortune, Kerala’s Padanna is battling its IS taint: scroll.in
The village of Padanna, in
Kerala’s Kasargod district, is famous for being the home of successful
businessmen who travelled to Mangalore, Mumbai, Rangoon, Kuala Lumpur and the
Gulf countries to earn their fortunes.Today, the village is battling fame of a
different, unwelcome, kind. Of the 21 missing people from Kerala, who are
believed to have left the country to join the Islamic State, 11 are from
Padanna.News of their disappearance emerged early this month after relatives
lodged missing person complaints at the Chandera police station in Kasargod
district, around 500 km north of the state capital.The missing 11 include
doctors, engineers and management professionals, a few of whom had turned down
well-paying jobs in Gulf countries. Though media reports suggest that they have
already joined terror organisation, the Islamic State, central or state
investigative agencies haven’t confirmed these claims.Muslims are the majority
community in Padanna but they are, in turn, divided into followers of different
Muslim movements, which are largely hostile to each other. Prominent among
these are the EK Sunni, AP Sunni, Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen, the
Tabligh-e-Jama’at and the Jama’at-e-Islami.All outfits have their own mosques,
madrassas and even libraries. According to rough estimates, the village has 35
mosques of different sizes just along a four-kilometre stretch.Foreign
remittances, mainly from Gulf countries, have enabled the people of Padanna to
build palatial houses that dot either side of the village’s narrow, metalled
roads, and buy high-end cars and the latest electronic gadgets. Scroll.in
Trial or portrayal: Will
media hoopla divert Zakir Naik's case from the real issue?Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi
Under scanner for
'inspiring terrorists', Zakir Naik applauds PM Modi's foreign policy
Narendra Modi only Indian
PM to visit so many Muslim countries in two years: Zakir Naik
KASHMIR
ISSUE
Court pulls up govt for
pellet guns, curfew in Kashmir
Srinagar : The J&K High Court on Saturday pulled up the state
govt for the use of pellet guns on
protesters and asked it to relax, at least from “some peaceful areas”, the over
fortnight-long curfew in the restive valley.The court direction comes a day
after Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament in Delhi that the govt was planning to set up a panel to look for an
alternative to the pellet guns that have been used in a new surge of violence
in Kashmir.“Home Minister has said in the Lok Sabha that an expert committee
will be framed to find substitutes to pellet guns. This statement should be
sufficient for the (state) govt to
discontinue the use of pellet guns,” the high court said here while hearing a
PIL.More than 350 people in Kashmir have suffered pellet injuries and many of
them have been wounded in their eyes amid fears that they may be partially or
completely blinded for their life.IANS
Avoid using pellet guns,
Rajnath tells security forces
Kashmir: Mobile services
ban hits migrant labourers, security forces hard
Srinagar: A three-storeyed
building in the heart of Srinagar’s old city has for years hosted migrant
labourers, mostly from UP and Bihar.In
the past few days, however, the 40-room inn has gone almost empty, as the
labourers have moved out until the conditions improve. But it was not the
curfew or the violence that drove them out, but the communication breakdown. Labourers
say families watching cable TV back home are worried. “Labourers have no work
as the city is curfew bound, most people are leaving as they cannot even
contact their families back home,” Parvesh Kumar, a painter from Bihar,
said.“For days, our families had no idea where we are and how we are, it was
only after the person in whose house we are working made a call from his BSNL
phone did we speak to our families,” Kumar added.Ahmad Alam, from Baroli
Parkhand in Bihar, said his wife was trying to reach him as his 2-year-old son
was ill. “She must have called 10 times but could not get through,” he said.
“We had taken a contract nearby, so stayed back.”Of the 400 residents of
building, only about 50 remain.HT
Communications blackout in
Kashmir undermines human rights: Amnesty
http://muslimmirror.com/eng/amnesty-says-communications-blackout-in-kashmir-undermines-human-rights/
New Delhi: International
right body has come down hard on the authorities in J&K for suspending
communications in the Valley as it has been witnessing widespread protests following
the killing of the Hizbul Mujahideen commander. Amnesty International on Friday
said that the suspension of phone and internet services in the Kashmir valley
is enabling a range of human rights violations. muslimmirror
India has been dishonest
with people of J&K: Omar
Ex-J&K CM Omar Abdullah on Saturday said any initiative
that PM Narendra Modi may take to
resolve the current crisis in the Valley could calm tempers but if it is not
followed up then it becomes difficult to sort out. He agreed with former Union
Home Minister P Chidambaram's views that the Centre had broken promises on
issues that formed the state's accession to India, saying they have been
"dishonest with the people of J&K "."It will help. It will
definitely calm tempers but there will be far more suspicion today than a few
years ago. Because if it is not followed through, every time a problem like
this arises, then it becomes more difficult to bring an end to it," he
told on a TV channel interview on Saturday. He was replying to a question whether
a grand initiative by the PM could
normalise the situation in the Valley. Asked about the statement of Chidambaram
who had said that New Delhi had ignored the grand bargain under which Kashmir
acceded to India, Omar said, "absolutely. For want of better set of words,
India has actually been dishonest with the people of J&K because you struck a deal. You struck a
bargain. J&K acceded to India on the
basis of certain conditions which is that the Union of India will be
responsible for currency, communication, defence and foreign affairs everything
else will be the domain of the state. On the basis of those conditions
J&K would remain a part of India.
J&K to this date remains a part of
India, how much of those conditions have you actually fulfilled. You have
gradually whittled that away to the point that autonomy is a a fig leaf to what
it was in 1947. So he is not wrong," Omar said. However, he regretted that
immediately after Chidambaram remarks, Congress came out with a statement that
it were the personal views of former Home Minister. "Here is a person who
is talking out of box and is ready to take the first knock and we pull him
down," he said.PTI
Kashmir needs political
solution, Omar tells Rajnath
National Conference seeks
sustained dialogue with Pakistan, separatists on Kashmir
Process to revoke AFSPA
must start on experimental basis: Mehbooba Mufti
New Delhi;J&K CM
Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said that process to revoke AFSPA must start on
experimental basis. “We are not saying that AFSPA must be revoked immediately
and in entirety, but the process can be started on experimental basis,” said
Mufti.She said that only after revoking AFSPA in few areas, situation can be
assessed. “After revoking AFSPA in few areas, we can assess situation there. If
successful we can revoke it in entirety,” said Mufti. indian express
GOI doesn't want any
forcible bond with JK: Rajnath
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh has said the Indian govt doesn’t want any “forcible” bond with J&K
but a relationship based on emotions.“We are not for a forcible tie-up with
Kashmir but want to build emotional ties,” Rajnath Singh told reporters here,
winding up 2-day visit to valley. greaterkashmir
BJP wants Kashmir without
Kashmiris: Digvijaya
Panaji: Accusing the BJP of
mismanaging the volatile situation in J&K , Congress General Secretary
Digvijaya Singh on Saturday said that it wanted Kashmir without the Kashmiris,
while his party wanted to win over the people too along with the state."As
far as the Congress party is concerned, we believe that peace has to be
restored. The difference between the stand of the BJP and Congress, is that
while Congress wants Kashmir along with the Kashmiri people, the BJP wants
Kashmir without Kashmiri people. How can you have Kashmir without Kashmiri
people?" he said at a press conference at the Congress' state headquarters
here.Singh said that the camaraderie between PM
Narendra Modi and Pakistan PM
Nawaz Sharif had failed and said that Pakistan was showing its true
colours with the recent spate of violence in Kashmir.IANS
India has massacre on its
hands:Journalist BasharatPeer
Mumbai: Journalist and
political commentator Basharat Peer on how "Kashmir can free us all",
and why the status quo is worse than the state turning into a "jihadi
hotspot".His 2010 memoir Curfewed Night: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love
and War in Kashmir won the Crossword Prize for nonfiction and was listed among
the "Books of the Year" by The Economist and The New Yorker. As
Kashmir faces its worst violence in years after the death of a young,
"social-mediasavvy" separatist named Burhan Wani, with the toll
reaching 47 and scores wounded and blinded by pellets, Peer talks to Mumbai
Mirror about the hopes and impediments of the "Kashmir issue".
Replying to the question that after the recent protests and the govt's reaction
to it, is India losing the international battle diplomatically for Kashmir? Are
we now on the same level as Israel?, Peer said, "Diplomatic battles are
cynical by nature. Countries don't behave like human beings. Nation states have
interests; they don't have feelings of shame. So that doesn't matter. Every
time a soldier kills and blinds a young Kashmiri protester whose only weapon
might be a stone, India faces a moral defeat. India has a massacre on its
hands." Responding to another question that Is the national media's
coverage of the Kashmir issue reflective of the ground situation? Peer,
"There are a few honourable exceptions, but overall, the overwhelming
majority of the national media is a big sham.They are hiding from the people of
India what is being done in your name. It is rather shameful." He added,
"JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar famously said in a speech after his
release from prison, "Hum Ko Bharat Se Nahin, Bharat Main Azadi
Chahiye" ("We don't want freedom from India, but freedom in
India)." Because of Kashmir's long brutal history with India, Kashmiris
have no [more] hope of a just order within India and they are saying, "Hum
Ko Bharat Se Azadi Chahiye ." Mumbai Mirror
Kashmir unrest: One more
youth succumbs, death toll 49
Srinagar:The death toll in
the ongoing Kashmir unrest mounted to 49 on
Sunday with one more youth Sameer Ahmed of Khunmoh succumbing to his
injuries here. greaterkashmir
Kashmir: Curfew continues
in 5 districts
Of 317 with pellet injuries in action by CRPF,
over 50 % have been hit in eye: indianexpress
New Delhi:In the fortnight
since the killing of Burhan Wani, personnel of the CRPF have fired as many as
2,102 pellet cartridges in the Valley to disperse protesters.Sunday Express has
learnt that over 50 % of the 317 people,
who sustained pellet injuries, have been hit in the eye.The use of pellet guns
by CRPF is second only to tear smoke shells which have been fired over 4,500
times. CRPF has 10 mandated non-lethal weapons for use in different
situations.Other non-lethal weapons used by CRPF in the Valley include plastic
pellet guns, rubber bullets, stun grenades, multi-button shells, blank rounds,
pepper balls and capsicum grenades. All have been used in the recent protests. indianexpress
Iranian Sunni cleric seeks
support for Kashmiri Muslims
Tehran:Prominent Iranian
Sunni Clerif and a Sunni member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts has condemned the
recent killings in Kashmir and has said that Islamic nations have a duty to
support Muslims in the restive region.Speaking to the Tasnim News Molavi Ahmad
Salami pointed to the systematic killing of Muslims at the hands of forces in
Kashmir, saying it is an old issue that resembles the issue of
Palestine.“Muslims have a shared responsibility and duty regarding Kashmir and
other issues of the Muslim world,” he stated. greaterkashmir
OTHERS
Locals Allege BSF Men
Sexually Abused, Killed Muslim Woman In Tripura
Tripura: A 24-year-old
housewife from the minority Muslim community was allegedly shot dead by BSF
trooper in Sonamura's Bangladesh border of Tripura on Friday.The incident
occurred on Friday afternoon, around 60 km south of capital Agartala in
bordering Tarapukur area under Dhanpur border outpost (BOP) of Sepahijal
district which is guarded by 145 battalion of BSF.Locals alleged that a BSF trooper
tried to rape the victim identified as Maya Begum in absence of all male
members of the house while she was bathing, but when she resisted and tried to
raise an alarm, the trooper fired upon her and killed her on the spot.Tarak
Ali, a local resident said, "When she had come for bath, he (BSF trooper)
tried to pull her and bring to the temporary campsite, but as she resisted, the
trooper fired upon her. He wanted to rape her. The victim's name is Maya
Begum."Ali added that often the BSF in the name of search and other
activities, target innocents living on the borders and continue with their
atrocities on them.Ali said, "We are Indians and not Bangladeshis or
Pakistanis. Had it been a man, then we could have understood that maybe he is
terrorist, but it was a woman. He wanted to rape her. We are Muslims and so
face this atrocity, we demand the hanging of the BSF Company Commander as
punishment."Meantime another villager Runa Khatun alleged, "She was
bathing when the BSF tried to rape her but as she refused the BSF sprayed
bullet on her." huffingtonpost
BSF trooper shoots dead
young Muslim woman in Tripura after unsuccessful rape bid – zee news
RSS not a registered
organization,collects funds:Digvijaya
Panaji: Congress general
secretary Digvijaya Singh, who is in the state to attend the co-ordination
committee meeting, on Saturday made some strong statements against RSS and BJP.
The former he accused of being a unregistered organisation that collects huge
funds, which it does not account for, while the latter he accused of handling
the Kashmir issue with a view to having a Kashmir sans Kashmiris."Has the
money that comes into the RSS as guru dakshina ever been accounted for, because
the unregistered organisation does not come under any Act? RSS must let us know
what it does with all this money," Singh told reporters in Goa.He also hit
out at the BJP for the ongoing disturbance in the Kashmir valley. "What is
the different between the stand of the Congress and BJP? Congress wants Kashmir
along with Kashmiri people, but BJP wants Kashmir without Kashmiri people. How
can you have Kashmir without taking into confidence the people of
Kashmir," he said and added that Congress believes peace has to be
restored to the Valley.TOI
Attack on journalists at
Patiala House Court: Police file 3 chargesheets
New Delhi: Delhi Police
have filed 3 separate chargesheets in connection with the attack on journalists
and others at the Patiala House Courts complex by a group of lawyers in
February this year. The attack took place when JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar
was being produced in court in the sedition case filed against him. The first
chargesheet names advocates Vikram Chauhan, Yashpal Singh and Om Sharma as the
accused while the second has been filed against BJP MLA OP Sharma. The third
chargesheet is also against advocates Chauhan and Singh.3 lawyers have been
chargesheeted for alleged offences under sections 147, 149, 323 and 506 of the
IPC. BJP MLA has been chargesheeted for alleged offences under sections 323,
341 and 506 of the IPC.The court is likely to take cognizance of the
chargesheet on Sept.22.indian express indianexpress
Patiala court violence:
Delhi Police finally files charge-sheets against lawyers and BJP MLA OP Sharma
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan sent
to 1 day police custody
New Delhi: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, arrested after a
woman alleged that he tried to mow her down after she visited his residence to
raise the issue of power cuts, was today sent to one day's police custody by a
court here. Metropolitan Magistrate Ashok Kumar sent the Okhla MLA, who was
produced in court, on police remand after Delhi Police sought his custody for
investigation into the complaint.Several protesters were seen shouting slogans
outside the Saket court. Khan, also the chairman of the Delhi Waqf board, was
first detained for questioning and then arrested, a day after he alleged in a
press conference that the woman was "pressurised" by police into
giving a false statement against him.AAP had yesterday rubbished the allegation
levelled against the MLA, claiming Delhi Police had "pressurised" the
woman into giving a false statement against Khan.At a news conference, the
party played a video, in which the woman is purportedly seen telling someone
"that the SHO of the Jamia Nagar police station asked her to add rape and
murder charges in the FIR"."The woman is in touch with several BJP
leaders and she was also taken to the magistrate by a lawyer affiliated to the
party."Video also states that police asked her to file the
complaint," Khan had yesterday said.Khan had further said he has written a
complaint to DCP (South-east) of the Delhi Police to file an FIR against the
SHO and the woman for "framing" him.NDTV
Amanatullah should be
booked for 'hate speech' too: BJP
New Delhi:Attacking AAP
after its MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested, BJP today demanded that the Delhi
legislator be booked for allegedly spreading communal disharmony with his
"hate speech". Delhi BJP President Satish Upadhyay said one more face
has been added "to the notorious team of Arvind Kejriwal's women
bashers"."His (Amanatullah ) arrest has happened too late. Infact
Delhi Police should arrest him for spreading communal disharmony and for his
hate speech during a Urdu Academy function earlier this year," he said.PTI
AAP hits out at PM Modi
over arrest of MLA Amanutallah
Quran sacrilege: Sangrur
cops in Delhi to arrest AAP MLA Naresh Yadav
Patiala: A team of Sangrur
police has reached Dehli's Mehrauli to arrest AAP MLA Naresh Yadav in the
Malerkotla Quran sacrilege case of June 24.The police from Sangrur, a district
in Punjab state, approached a court in Sangrur to get an arrest warrant issued
against the MLA. The judge perused through the pages of the evidence placed
before him and allowed the police to arrest the MLA.On reaching Delhi, the
police found that Naresh was not present. The members of the family told the
police that he was out of station.An accused Vijay Kumar's statement given in
the police custody was made the basis of the arrest. Earlier, the police had
proposed to put Naresh Yadav through lie detector test to know whether he was
involved in the Quran desecration case. But this idea was not followed for
reasons best known to the Sangrur police.Manpreet Singh Randhawa, media
coordinator of the AAP, asked that when the MLA was reachable on the phone,
where was the need to get an arrest warrant issued and to send the team to
Delhi.He alleged that the Punjab police on directions of the govt wanted to humiliate the MLA and embarrass the
party as elections came near.RS Bajaj, senior advocate, Punjab and Haryana High
Court, disclosed that the arrest warrants were normally issued against the
absconders, but in this case, Naresh Yadav was cooperating with the
investigators and could be called on phone.TOI
India asks 3 Chinese journalists
to leave country by July31
New Delhi:India has asked 3
Chinese journalists working for official Xinhua News Agency to leave the
country this month, refusing to extend their visas. 3 journalists have been
ordered to leave the country by July 31. An Indian official on Sunday declined
to disclose reasons for refusal to renew the visas, but said Xinhua could send
their replacements. Official said they had received several visa extensions and
one of them has been in the country for the past 7 years. The official spoke on
condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to reporters. 3
journalists had travelled to Bangalore recently and met exiled Tibetan
activists, which became an issue with the govt. Though the Tibetan govt in exile is headquartered in the northern
town of Dharmsala, thousands of Tibetans live in Karnataka. Xinhua and China’s
Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on
Sunday.As reported by HT, Wu Qiang and Lu Tang are head of Xinhua’s bureau in
New Delhi and Mumbai respectively. The third journalist,She Yonggang, is
reporter based in Mumbai.AP
Indian calligrapher Muqtar
Ahmed wins top prize at Cairo International Festival
Hyderabad: Muqtar Ahmed, an
Indian Arabic calligrapher, has won one of the top prizes at the Cairo
International Festival for Arabic Calligraphy. Bengaluru-based calligrapher’s
work was selected for second prize from among 700 works by 115 participating
artists from 15 Arab and other countries.The works that reflected the beauty of
Arabic calligraphy were displayed at the Art Gallery of the Cairo Opera House,
the venue of the eight-day festival which concluded on Sunday.IANS
Jamaathul Ulama Council
opposes installation of Kalam statue at burial site
The Ramanathapuram District
Jamaathul Ulama Council has opposed the installation of the statue of the
former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at his burial site at Pei Karumbu near
Rameswaram, stating that it was against the Muslim personal law
(shariat).Talking to reporters after discussing the issue at the council’s high
level committee meeting here on Saturday, A. Valiyulla Noori, president of the
council, said they were against installing the statue, as Islam was against
‘idol’ worship and individual eulogy.The best way of honouring Kalam would be
to follow his ideals and realise his vision for a stronger and developed India,
he said. Kalam wanted the youth to dream to achieve high. Fulfilling his wishes
would be the best way of honouring him, he said. thehindu
Muslim Religious Body
Opposes Statue For APJ Abdul Kalam, Says It's Un-Islamic
In Gujarat, First They Came
for Muslims, then Patidars, Now Dalits: Pravin Mishra, Ass.Professor, MICA
Across the aisle: Defend
the land, win over the people: P
Chidambaram on Kashmir
WORLD
Saudis visit Israel, meet
govt official
The head of a rare Saudi
delegation to Israel and the occupied West Bank met a senior Israeli govt
official during his trip, Israel's foreign ministry said on Sunday. Foreign
Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the meeting between retired Saudi general
Anwar Eshki and ministry Director General Dore Gold took place at the
prestigious King David hotel in west Jerusalem but did not give further
details.It said that he met Major General Yoav Mordechai, head of the military
body that coordinates Israeli activities in the West Bank and Gaza, and talked
Friday in the West Bank to a group of Israeli opposition MPs.Israel and Saudi
Arabia have never had diplomatic relations but there have been media reports of
intelligence-sharing in the face of shared concerns about Iran and the ISIL
group.Eshki and Gold shared a platform in June last year at the Washington
headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations and "met to discuss
opportunities and challenges in the Middle East," the council said on its
website at the time."Their speeches focused on the danger Iran posed to
their countries, and they revealed that they had been in secret discussions for
a year, and had now decided to go public about their talks," it
added.Israeli army radio on Sunday aired an Arabic telephone interview with
Eshki, chairman of the Jeddah-based Middle East Centre for Strategic and Legal
Studies, in which he denied that his country had security links with the Jewish
state."To my knowledge there is no cooperation in the struggle against extremism,"
he said.He said that Israel would only be able to make peace with the Arab
world when it had resolved the conflict with the Palestinians, in accordance
with the 2002 Arab proposal.It calls for Israel to withdraw from the occupied
territories and resolve the issue of refugees with the Palestinians, leading to
the creation of a Palestinian state, in exchange for normalised relations with
Arab countries."Peace will not come from Arab countries, but the
Palestinians and the implementation of the Arab peace plan," Eshki said.
World Bulletin
Turkey aftermath: Govt
detains nephew of cleric Gulen, blamed for coup
Istanbul:Turkish
authorities detained a nephew of Fethullah Gulen, US-based Muslim cleric
accused by Ankara of orchestrating last weekend’s failed military coup, the
state news agency Anadolu reported on Saturday.Gulen, who has lived in
self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999 but has an extensive network
of schools, charities and followers in Turkey and elsewhere, denies any
involvement in the July 15 coup attempt, in which at least 246 people were
killed.His nephew, Muhammed Sait Gulen, was detained in the northeastern
Turkish city of Erzurum and will be brought to the capital Ankara for
questioning, Anadolu reported. Among possible charges that could be brought
against him is membership of a terrorist organisation, the agency said.It is
the first time a relative of Gulen has been detained reportedly, since the failed coup. indianexpress
Turkey to shut down all
Gulen-linked companies
Turkey will probe and shut
down all companies linked to the FETO, Customs and Trade Minister Bulent
Tufenkci said Sunday.Speaking to reporters in Malatya province after visiting
the regional governor’s office, Tukenkci said FETO was behind the attempt “to
overthrow the democratically-elected govt and the constitutional order in the
country.“Companies which sponsor Fetullah Terrorist Organisation and provide
financial resources to them will be identified individually. Investigation will
be opened about them, They will be closed or necessary procedures will be
applied on them.” middleeastmonitor
Turks in UK slam BBC’s
failed coup coverage
Turks living in the UK have
slammed the BBC for its “inaccurate” coverage following the July 15 coup
attempt in Turkey.Business owner Mustafa Demir, 43, said he and his family were
devastated when they heard BBC’s coverage of the events unfolding in their
country Friday night.“When we realised that the attempted coup have failed and
news that was given by BBC, we were very frustrated and we as a family went to
the British BBC HQRS at the Regent Street. Among the protesters there were
about five, six hundred citizens, who all shared the same emotions as I did,”
Demir said. middleeastmonitor
US knows Gulen behind
failed coup: Turkish minister
US knows the July 15 coup
attempt in Turkey was made by Pennsylvania-based preacher Fetullah Gulen,
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday.In remarks made to a Turkish
television channel Kanal 7, Bozdag said: "I am sure US President [Barack]
Obama, the U.S. intelligence and secretary of state know this coup [attempt]
was made by Fetullah Gulen. I am very sure they don't have any hesitation about
this."The Turkish minister added there would be difficulties in relations
between the two countries if Gulen maintained his life in the U.S. after the
coup attempt. Anadolu agency
US could extradite Gülen
quickly:Turkish minister
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160723-us-could-extradite-gulen-quickly-claims-turkish-minister/
Turkey’s foreign minister
has said that the US could extradite the alleged mastermind of the failed coup
attempt, Fethullah Gülen, “very quickly,” Quds Press reported on Friday.Mevlut
Cavusoglu made his comments to TRT, the official Turkish TV channel. “If you
want to draw out the Gülen extradition issue it can take years,” he explained,
“but if you are decisive it can be completed in a short period.”He added that
the US had proposed to form a committee to examine Gülen’s case, reiterating
that his country is ready to take part in this. He pointed out that the US
prevents Gülen from travelling to a third country. middleeastmonitor
New Zealand: Muslim woman
told to remove hijab for job application
Melbourne:A 25-year-old
Muslim girl in New Zealand was left embarrassed after she applied for a job at
a jewellery shop and was told it was a “waste of time” unless she removed her
hijab.Mona Alfadli, who applied for a job as a sales assistant at Steward
Dawsons in Auckland, was told by a prospective manager ‘not to bother applying’
because of her headscarf.“I felt embarrassed as it took a lot of courage to
walk into the shop and speak to the manager regarding a job, especially since I
was afraid of the rejection,” Alfadli said.Alfadli, who lives in Avondale, has
been looking for a job after completing her diploma in applied computer system
engineering.She said her aspirations for her life in New Zealand was to find a
“safe” home for herself and her family, who settled in the country as refugees
from Kuwait in 2008.“I can do any job, I don’t mind, but I will keep my hijab,
I will keep my identity, and respect my culture and my religion,” Alfadli was
quoted as saying ‘The New Zealand Herald’. She said she was told it was a
“waste of time” if she would not remove her hijab.PTI
Facing certain defeat,
Nepal PM KP Oli to resign today
Kathmandu: As defeat stared
on his face, PM KP Oli has decided to
tender his resignation from the post without facing the vote on the
No-Confidence in the afternoon.According to an aide to the PM , Oli would
announce his resignation from the floor of the House, and submit it to
President Bidhya Devi Bhandari soon after Parliament session is adjourned
Sunday.He will also be recommending to the President that Article 305 meant for
removing any unforeseen hurdle in the implementation of the constitution be
invoked in order to dispel the prevailing confusion in the constitution in
electing a new PM once Oli is out.That
paves the way for election of Maoist Chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal who has been
backed by the Nepali Congress, to the post. indianexpress
Nepal PM appears set to
lose no-confidence vote as allies depart
Uyghur Muslims joining IS:
China's state media rubbishes US report
Beijing:The Chinese
official media has dismissed as "groundless" a US think tank report
that claimed China's policies in the northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region have driven local Muslims to join the IS. The Washington DC-based New
America Foundation on Wednesday released a report based on leaked registration
documents of ISIS fighters provided by a defector from the jihadist
organisation, which include 3,500 foreign recruits, among whom 114 came from
Muslim-majority Xinjiang province. PTI
Syria : Air strikes hit
Aleppo hospitals
Syrian govt air strikes have put 4 makeshift hospitals
and a local blood bank in Aleppo out of action in the past 24 hours, according
to local rescue workers and a monitor."5 medical facilities were hit
[overnight] and are out of service right now," Ammar Salmo, spokesman for
a volunteer rescue group known as the White Helmets told Al Jazeera.The
bombardment killed a 2-day-old baby in a children’s hospital in a besieged
eastern neighbourhood of Aleppo, said the Independent Doctors Association, a
group of Syrian doctors that supports clinics in the city.Al Jazeera's Bernard
Smith, reporting from Gazientep along the Turkey-Syria border, said that
several of the hospitals hit are still able to function. aljazeera
Russian, regime airstrikes
kill 19 civilians in Syria
At least 19 civilians were
killed and scores injured in airstrikes carried out by Syrian regime and
Russian warplanes in Syria’s northern Aleppo city on Saturday, according to a
local civil defense official. Ibrahim Abu Laith said that Syrian regime and
Russian aircraft had bombed several residential areas in Aleppo city.“Nineteen
civilians were killed and 55 others injured, including children and women,” he
said. Abu Laith said that civil defense teams were struggling to extract civilians
from under the rubble. World Bulletin
US fighter killed in
clashes with Daesh in Northern Syria
UNICEF slams killing of
children in Syria
Afghanistan mourns protest
blast victims
Afghanistan is observing a
national day of mourning after a twin suicide bombing at a protest march in the
capital killed 80 people and wounded 230.Funerals have begun in the west of the
city. Some are burying their dead in Kabul while others are been taken to their
home towns. Some families are still
searching for missing relatives in hospitals and morgues. Afghanistan's
Interior Ministry has issued a ban on public gatherings of all types for the
next 10 days.Thousands of members of the Hazara minority took to the streets of
Kabul on Saturday over a new power line, saying its route bypasses provinces
where many of them live. aljazeera
Munich attack: David
Sonboly 'planned attack for year'
The teenager behind
Friday's deadly shooting rampage at a Munich mall had planned his attack for a
year and chose his victims at random, investigators said.Bavarian investigator
Robert Heimberger said the shooter, 18-year-old David Sonboly, visited the site
of a previous school shooting in the German town of Winnenden and took
photographs last year, then set about planning the attack in which he killed
nine and wounded some three dozen others before taking his own life."He
had been planning this crime since last summer," Heimberger told
reporters. aljazeera
Egypt puts more pressure on
Gaza than is needed, says Israeli army officer
Egyptian authorities are
“closer to Israel than Hamas” and they “put more pressure” on the besieged Gaza
Strip “than is needed,” a senior Israeli army officer has said, Safa news
agency reported on Friday.The officer’s comments were first reported by The
Economist and the Israeli media. “Egypt’s hostility to Hamas has become greater
than its hostility to Israel,” he said. According to magazine, comments were
made during a meeting about the notable and improving relations between regime
of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Israel, with several Israeli officials attending
and hosted by Egypt. middleeastmonitor
Israel discusses relations
with president of Chad
A senior Israeli official
visited Chad earlier this month to meet President Idriss Déby for discussions
about restoring diplomatic relations, the Israeli foreign ministry revealed on
Friday. Links between the Zionist state and the Arabic-speaking African-Islamic
country were cut over 40 years ago.
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