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India-Pakistan

Khalistani Separatist Pannun Issues Threats Ahead Of Bhubaneswar DGP/IGP Meet, PM Modi’s Visit

2024-12-03

November 28, 2024
[OneIndia] Amid threat from Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun,
…Canadian-American lawyer and frontman for the US-based Sikh independence group Sikhs for Justice, India declared him a terrorist a few years ago and would dearly love if he were to mysteriously turn up dead one day. In the meantime he blusters on about the romantic idea that the Indian Sikhs should have an independent Khalistani homeland in the Indian Punjab — but not the Pakistani one, because that would upset his ISI paymasters dreadfully …
the top brass of India's police force will convene for the annual conference of directors general and inspectors general on Friday.

It's an important occasion where pressing issues such as internal security, the situation in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, and the threat posed by pro-Khalistan elements are on the agenda. This year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval are among the key figures expected to participate in the discussions, which will also cover the challenges of cybercrime, AI tools, and drone threats.

Ahead of the event, Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has released a video message, issuing a threat to disrupt the event

"DGP terror conference where, under the influence of ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful Hindutva ideology, they plan and orchestrate killings of pro-Khalistan Sikhs, Kashmiri fighters, Naxals, and Maoists. Axis of evil Modi-Shah-Doval are bringing the biggest security threat to Bhubaneswar," The Times of India quoted him as saying in the video.

"Come in disguise and take cover in temples, hotels in Bhubaneswar to disrupt the DGP conference," he added.

Over 450 high-ranking officers will engage in the conference, with 250 attending in person and more than 200 joining virtually. They will delve into a range of critical topics through presentations and discussions. These include counter-terrorism efforts, combating online fraud, tackling narcotics smuggling, addressing cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, neutralizing activities of pro-Khalistani groups, and countering left wing extremism. The aim is to outline strategies to meet the evolving challenges in internal security.

Since 2014, the conference has expanded its scope to not only focus on national security but also improve core policing practices aimed at crime prevention and detection, community policing, law and order, and enhancing the police force's public image. The shift from a Delhi-centric approach has fostered unity among officers and organizations, allowing for a more cohesive strategy in tackling the country’s pressing issues. The gathering in Bhubaneswar continues this tradition, providing a platform for sharing best practices among states and Union territories, fostering a collaborative environment for learning and improvement.

The interactions at the conference, including informal discussions over meals, offer senior police officials a unique opportunity to share their insights and suggestions directly with Prime Minister Modi on pivotal policing and internal security matters. This direct line of communication has been instrumental in aligning the police force's objectives with national priorities, leading to actionable recommendations.

The decision to move the venue outside New Delhi each year has marked a significant shift in the approach to these conferences. Since the Modi government's inception, the location has rotated among various cities across India, including Guwahati, Dhordo in the Rann of Kutch, Hyderabad, Tekanpur, Kevadiya, Pune, Lucknow, and Delhi, with plans for Jaipur in 2024. This move has not only decentralized the conference but also highlighted the importance of diverse perspectives in shaping policing strategies.

The conference has seen an increase in the number of business sessions and topics, reflecting a deeper focus on policing in the service of the people. The engagement doesn't end with the conference; follow-up on the recommendations is rigorous, with a dedicated secretariat tracking progress. This systematic approach has led to significant policy changes and improvements in policing standards, incorporating modern, smart policing methods suitable for both rural and urban settings.

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India-Pakistan

US presses India for updates over 'murder for hire' plot: deputy secretary

2024-06-27

[GEO.TV] The United States is seeking accountability from India after thwarting an Indian conspiracy to assassinate pro-Khalistan leader of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil last year.

US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said that he had raised the issue directly at the most senior levels of the Indian government.

The case in question involves Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national arrested in the Czech Republic in June last year for allegedly planning the murder of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a US citizen and a Sikh leader. Pannun leads Sikhs for Justice, a group outlawed in India. Gupta was extradited to the US earlier on June 14 and pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
in a Manhattan court on 17 June.

Kurt Campbell highlighted that an American citizen was targeted in the alleged plot.

"We have had constructive dialogue with India on this topic and I would say that they have been responsive to our concerns," he said in a virtual interaction with Indian journalists from Washington.

"We've made clear that we seek accountability from the Government of India and we have consistently asked for updates on the Indian committee of inquiry's investigations."

"And I would just simply say that we raised this issue directly with the Indian government...at the most senior levels between our two sides," the senior US official said.

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Indian court has granted bail to opposition leader Rahul Gandhi

2024-06-08

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

An Indian court has granted bail to opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in the latest of several defamation cases brought against him for accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi or his party of corruption.#India https://t.co/16rW6uLAW3
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 7, 2024

Point man of a fading vector, poor man, Rahul Gandhi is the grandson of Indira Gandhi, and son of murdered Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian-born widow Sonia. In his youth he was a shy lad who favoured cricket over politics, but after his great-grandfather, grandmother, and father served as India’s prime ministers in turn, his widowed mother took over as head of the Congress Party…then Rahul was the one who lost all to Mohdi and ended up a mere MP for the family constituency. Perhaps his more politically savvy sister made way for him because she preferred not to preside over the catastrophe…

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Rahul Hobnobbing With People Funded By George Soros: Smriti Irani

2023-06-29

[OneIndia] Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his alleged links with George Soros

...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
, Hungarian-born American financier, and activist whose success as an investor made him one of the wealthiest men in the world.

She has also accused Gandhi of meeting people who are funded by Soros. "...The question that has been left unanswered by the Congress party is - Is it true that Rahul Gandhi met Sunita Vishwanath during his trip to the US?...When it is clear to every Indian what George Soros intends to do, why is Rahul Gandhi hobnobbing with those who are funded by Soros?" she questioned.

Indian-American activist Sunita Viswanath has worked in women's and human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
organizations and is the co-founder of the human rights organizations Women for Afghan Women, Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, and Hindus for Human Rights.

The BJP minister said it is also evident that this is not the only Soros connection. Even in 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' in Karnataka, the Global Vice President of the Open Society Foundation funded by George Soros was found accompanying Rahul Gandhi.

"What is extremely distressing is the link with the Islamic Circle of North America.

...one of the Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the U.S. and Canada...

Those in the public domain who will research how the registration process for NRI interaction with Rahul Gandhi in New York ensued will find contact of Tazeem Ansari - he has an organizational link with Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
," Irani, who had defeated Rahul in Amethi Lok Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft....
seat, said.

WHO IS GEORGE SOROS?
With a net worth of USD 8.5 billion, Soros is the founder of Open Society Foundations, which gives grants to groups and individuals that promote democracy, transparency and freedom of speech.

According to his website, "he has given away more than USD 32 billion of his personal fortune" to fund the Open Society Foundations' work around the world. He has been accused of using his wealth and influence to shape politics and funding regime change. In 2020, he pledged USD 1 billion to fund a new university network to tackle the spread of nationalism.

Earlier this year, he hit the headlines after attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Adani issue. Soros in his speech at the Munich Security Conference said the turmoil at Adani may open the door to a democratic revival in the country.

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India-Pakistan

Congress says party's official account blocked by Twitter

2021-08-13

[GREATERKASHMIR] The Congress Party on Thursday alleged that the party's official Twitter account as well as that of a large number of its leaders and workers have been blocked by the microblogging site.

This comes close on the heels of the blocking of party leader Rahul Gandhi's Twitter account after he shared pictures of the family of the nine-year-old alleged rape and murder victim last week in violation of the law.

Congress social media department head Rohan Gupta said the party's official Twitter account and around 5,000 accounts of its top leaders and workers have been blocked by Twitter.

He alleged that Twitter is acting against Congress leaders under pressure from the government.

"Twitter is clearly acting under government's pressure, as it did not remove the same pictures shared by the Twitter accounts of National Commission for Scheduled Castes for a few days," Gupta said.

The Twitter accounts of AICC general secretaries Randeep Surjewala, K C Venugopal, Ajay Maken, party's whip in Lok Sabha Manickam Tagore, Assam in-charge and former Union minister Jitendra Singh and Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev have also been locked, the party said.

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India-Pakistan

'If this is how India behaves with its own, what expectation can Pakistan have?' asks FM Qureshi

2019-08-25

[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi

...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
on Saturday drew attention to the increasingly apparent divisions within India after an 11-member contingent of its opposition parties was prevented from visiting Srinagar, questioning what can realistically be expected in terms of a dialogue over the disputed territory of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
"This is the true face of the Indian government which the world is witnessing today," said the foreign minister as he addressed a presser in Islamabad.

"Today the fascist
fascist

...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
attitude of the Modi administration was demonstrated at the Srinagar airport," he said, referring to the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders being barred from entering Srinagar shortly after they landed.

"I call upon democratic nations of the world to view that footage [of the airport]. When they treat their own this way, what expectation can we [Pakistain] have from holding a dialogue with them?" said Qureshi.

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India-Pakistan

India promises easing of restrictions, food for occupied Kashmir residents for Eidul Azha

2019-08-12

[DAWN] Authorities in Indian Kashmir
Kashmir

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Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition Congress party, said he had asked party bosses to find a successor

2019-07-04

[TWITTER]

Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s opposition Congress party, said he had asked party bosses to find a successor after he took responsibility for losing a general election that has left the party in crisis.https://t.co/BXnEB8zIK6
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 3, 2019

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Sonia Gandhi elected leader of Congress lawmakers in Lok Sabha

2019-06-02

At the rate they’re going, it’s like being leader of Israel’s Labour party or Britain’s Tories.

[DAWN] United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi was elected the leader of 52 Congress politicians in Lok Sabha, Hindustan Times reported on Saturday.

According to Hindustan Times, the decision was announced at a parliamentary party meeting of the Congress held a week after Rahul Gandhi announced his decision to quit the post following the debacle he faced in the general election that saw the Narendra Modi-led NDA coming to power with 352 of the 542 seats polled.

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Gandhi-Nehru brand tainted by new election humiliation

2019-05-25

[DAWN] A second straight landslide election defeat for opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi raised serious questions on Friday about his leadership and cast a damaging shadow over one of the world's most prominent political dynasties.

Gandhi, who even lost the family constituency seat to the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of arch-rival Narendra Modi, will have to face the music at a meeting of party leaders in coming days.

The election results made grim reading for Congress barons who have relied for generations on the talismanic Nehru-Gandhi name ‐ which rivals the Kennedy clan in the United States and the Bhuttos in Pakistain ‐ to provide electoral success.

The tarnished party was predicted to get about 50 seats, barely improving the historic low 44 it won in Modi's last landslide in 2014. Congress failed to get a single seat in 13 of the country's 29 states.

When asked about responsibility for the loss, Rahul Gandhi told a presser late Thursday: "This is between my party and me. Between me and the Congress Working Committee."

Party spokesmen have insisted the 48-year-old son, grandson and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers would not resign and that strategy was to blame for the defeat.

"We have to go back to the drawing board," Congress front man Salman Soz told AFP.

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Learn lessons from rout: Sonia

2014-05-25

[The Peninsula] Congress President Sonia Gandhi, re-elected chairperson of Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) yesterday, asked party leaders not to indulge in "public acrimony" over the party's worst Lok Sabha results for which appropriate lessons need to be learnt.

Addressing a meeting of CPP, she acknowledged "there was widespread anger against us which we failed to adequately gauge" and asked party MPs to be "vigilant watchdogs" in their role in the opposition.

Party leaders said Gandhi will soon decide the names of leaders of opposition in the two houses of parliament.

Gandhi's remarks about the need for the partymen to stop bickering through media comes against the backdrop of a blame game in the party over its worst electoral defeat -- with its tally reduced to only 44 seats while it did not win a single seat in some states - with some leaders taking potshots at "Team Rahul Gandhi".

Her son and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi led the Congress campaign in the election. In her speech, Sonia Gandhi said she was asked by the Congress Working Committee (CWC) to take all steps necessary to revamp the organization at all levels.

"Your inputs, your experience and your assessment of our strengths and weaknesses, rather than public acrimony, will be critical to the exercise," she said.

In an apparent message to party parliamentarians, including her own son who was also present at the meet, Sonia Gandhi said that being in the opposition means regular attendance, more hours inside the house and more study of subjects.

"It means asking more questions, raising more issues, initiating more debates, always being the vigilant watchdog and defending principles of the Congress."

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Rahul Gandhi compares BJP's Modi to Hitler

2014-03-12

[DAWN] Rahul Gandhi, the heir to the dynasty that leads India's ruling party, on Tuesday compared opposition leader Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
- his sharpest attack yet on a rival who is forecast to beat him in an upcoming general election.

Modi, the pro-business candidate for prime minister of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has topped several opinion polls as the most popular choice to head the next government.

He has electrified the campaign with promises of getting India out of its economic downturn and creating jobs for its burgeoning young population.

But Modi's rivals say the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat
...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime...
is an autocrat who failed to stop religious riots in his state in 2002, in which more than 1,000 people,mostly Mohammedans, were killed.

He has denied wrong doing and India's Supreme Court did not find enough evidence to prosecute him.

In a speech in Modi's home state, Gandhi criticised the Hindu nationalist's development record and contrasted him with the type of leader who had founded modern India.

"There is another type of leader," Gandhi said, after describing independence hero Mahatma Gandhi.

"The biggest example is Hitler. Hitler, who believed that there was no need to learn from the people and who thought whatever happened in Germany was done by Hitler and that the people had nothing to do with it."

India's ruling Congress party has lost popularity after a decade in power marred by corruption. In recent weeks a string of leaders have compared Modi's rise to the emergence of fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
in Europe.

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