Evening NEWS DIGEST
11 Oct,Sat. 2014
Negative perception of Muslims a
cause of concern: Official Kundu Committee
New Delhi: Lack of development and insufficient exposure to amenities,
the negative perception of minorities particularly Muslims building up over
recent past is an added worrisome trend, feels an official committee assigned
to evaluate the implementation of the recommendation of Justice Rajinder Sachar
Committee report and the PM's 15 point programme. Recognising that its minority
related programmes were going haywire, previous UPA govt at its fag
end had constituted an eight-member committee of eminent social scientists and
administrators under Prof. Amitabh Kundu to assess their impact and to
recommend corrective measures. The new govt under PM Narendra Modi continued
with the committee, whose recommendations will now form a corner stone of its
policies towards minorities. The committee members handed over their final
report to the minority affairs minister Najma Heptulla here on Thursday
evening. Prof Kundu, who refused to share contents of the report, however, told
DNA that unlike its previous avatars Sachar committee or Justice Ranganath
Mishra Commission, they have stayed away from recommending reservations system
a solution to raise the lot of Muslim community. "Reservations based on
caste and religion always takes a political turn and raises hackles. Therefore,
we have found a way to recommend reservations on the basis of similar
profession," he said.Explaining, he said wherever Dalits and Muslims share
occupation; say if they are both employed as sweepers or in similar lower
stratagem professions, both of them should enjoy reservations. This will entail
not more than 2-3% additions in the existing quota of reservations.Further the
committee has recommended a diversity based index intervention to build an
inclusive society. Not only the govt department and public sector
units(PSUs) be monitored and encouraged to give employments to religious
communities across the board, a system of incentives and disincentives could be
formed for the private sector as well."If a company employs persons of a
particular religion, caste and gender only. It should be given a lower
diversity index, which should be taken into account at the time of given any
govt contract or any other benefit to the company," Prof Kundu
told dna. The index, he said should also apply to housing societies, who in
sometime refuse to lend houses or flats to Muslims.Though, findings of the
report were not available, sources say, it has depicted a worrying picture of
Muslims in urban and non-metro cities, while expressing satisfaction on their condition
in rural areas. The committee while assessing conditions on the basis of
consumption pattern found Muslims a notch higher than SC/STs in rural areas,
but still 10% below national average. But in urban areas they were far below
than even SCs/STs.The report has found that despite much announcements of the
previous UPA govt, the poverty amongst Muslims continues to work out to be
twice the general poverty. Muslim OBCs have also reported higher poverty than
their Hindu peers, both in rural and urban areas. "percetage of poor among
the Muslim OBC is higher than the Hindu OBC by 50% in rural and 100% in urban
areas," the report said. The committee has also recommended an
anti-discriminatory law in line with the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities
Act) to end discrimination Muslims face in their lives. DNA India
Muslims as SC, health surveys on
religion and background basis: Kundu Committee
SC upholds HC order on interim
insurance relief to J&K flood victims
New Delhi: In a setback to insurance companies, the Supreme Court on
Friday upheld a J&K High Court order asking them to pay 95% of insured
amount for policies above R25 lakh and 50% for those below R25 lakh as interim
relief to the flood-affected shopkeepers, house and vehicle owners in the
state. The firms claimed that they will have to shell out R9,000 crore against
R5,000 crore sum insured. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu rejected the
appeals filed by four PSU firms – National Insurance Company, New India
Assurance Company, United India Insurance Company and Oriental Insurance
Company – and few private insurance companies, including the ICICI Lambard
General Insurance Company and Bajaj Allianz. “We are not going to interfere
(with the HC order), keeping in view the tragedy. They have suffered. Let
insurance companies pay... sometimes, we have to ignore rules and
regulations... in the interests of those people,” the CJI said.The firms told
the bench that the HC had failed to appreciate that, in many cases, they had
received preliminary survey reports wherein the loss had been assessed much
below the sum insured, thus paying them higher amounts would lead to“unjust
enrichment and making profit out of loss in large number of claims and the same
will result in defeating the basic principle of indemnity”. “...a contract of
insurance is a contract of indemnity and that the insurance company is liable
to indemnify the insured against the actual loss suffered subject to the extent
of liability as mentioned in the insurance policy,” the insurers stated.
financialexpress
SC directs Insurance firms to pay
claims of flood hit people of J&K
Civil society group demands probe in
cause of flood in J&K
New Delhi:With J&K still trying to emerge from the worst flood in
decades, a civil society group Friday demanded a probe in the causes of the
deluge. A fact finding report “Natural Calamity, Man Made Disaster”, by The
Centre for Policy Analysis, also demanded a probe in the rescue operations by
the army. The team, which comprised Tushar Gandhi, Anand Sahay and Seema
Mustafa, visited Srinagar that was worst affected in the Kashmir Valley along
with south Kashmir districts.“A judicial probe should be held based on
well-grounded technical assessments into the causes of the flood waters
entering Srinagar. Its terms of reference should include the status of the
state govt ’s preparedness to cope with such a situation, and its actual
performance once tragedy struck since in the perception of most people the
state govt became ‘invisible’,” the report said.It also demanded a
probe by “appropriate authority into the rescue operations conducted by the
military”.“Many in Srinagar attest to their effectiveness, but also complain
about their prioritisation. The general belief is that the focus of rescue by
the armed forces was not ordinary Kashmiris but tourists, select members of the
Kashmiri elite, and migrant labourers who have been living in the valley over
the years,” the report said. The report also said the framework of the probe
into the conduct of the armed forces should include the work of their public
relation department “which seemed to have gone into overdrive, resulting in
very skewed tv coverage that has only succeeded in tilting the perception
against the Army and the country”.“The electronic media played a very
disruptive and vitiating role and gave reason to the Kashmiris to be hurt and
angry,” it added. IANS
Bhagwat says Hinduism not ‘ancestral
property’ of Indians
New Delhi: Vice-President Hamid Ansari, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, HRD
Minister Smriti Irani, Muslim clerics and a Bollywood actor — they all came
under one roof on Friday to launch the international edition of Encyclopedia of
Hinduism. The key message from the function was Hinduism is a global legacy,
with Bhagwat saying that it is not an “ancestral property” of Indians, but it
is for everyone.“Religion always unites and what divides people is not
religion,” he said. Interpreting the word “dharm”, the RSS chief said it has a
wider meaning than “religion”.According to Bhagwat, Encyclopedia on Hinduism, a
project of India Heritage Research Foundation, would help Hindus as well as
Indians answer the questions asked about the religion to the next generation
and the outside world. Swami Chidanand Saraswati, the founder chairman of the
IHRF and spiritual head of the Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh, stressed that no
one can stake claim on Hindu religion. Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, president All
India Imams Organisation, and Dewan Syed Zainul Abedin Ali Khan, Ajmer Darga
Sharif, said Hinduism is an “assimilative” religion.Vice-President Ansari, the
chief guest at the function, spoke on the history of encyclopaedias. Indian
express
Muzaffarnagar riots: SIT gives clean
chit to 5 rape-accused for 2nd time
Muzzafarnagar: SIT probing the Muzaffarnagar riots has given a clean
chit for the second time to five persons accused of gangraping a woman due to
lack of evidence, police said on Saturday. 5 persons Sushil, Ramesh, Ram Kumar,
Devender and Jogender are accused of allegedly gangraping a 30-year-old woman
on Sept.8 in Phugana village during communal riots in Muzaffaranagar and its
adjoining districts last year.SIT had filed a final report in this case earlier
and given a clean chit to the accused as the victim had turned hostile.The case
was, however, reopened on the directive of the Supreme Court, which had ordered
that statement of the victim should be recorded again before a woman
magistrate. The woman had then admitted of being gangraped by 5 men before the
woman magistrate and said she gave her earlier statement under pressure. SIT
had once again given a clean chit to the accused yesterday citing lack of
evidence. However, the victim's family has said they will challenge the SIT's
clean chit in the SC. PTI
Muzaffarnagar mahapanchayat confirms
religious polarization
Muzaffarnagar: Even as the Muzaffarnagar police made a breakthrough in
the triple murder case by arresting 4 suspects on Friday, a mahapanchayat
organized in a Muzaffarnagar village to discuss the case, confirmed the extreme
religious polarization in the region that was rocked by communal violence last
year. Bahadurpur village and the villages in its vicinity in Muzaffarnagar
turned tense last week after three of its residents were murdered when they
were returning from work. In an explicit religious tone, Virender Singh, the
convenor of the mahapanchayat said, “Muslims who killed the three labourers be
brought to book and the administration should not try to save any of
them.”“These 3 victims were killed in retaliation of the last year’s communal
riots. The manner in which the three victims were killed, can be done only be a
particular group. A Hindu cannot kill anybody like this.” The mahapanchayat
failed to attract a decent turnout apparently because the 3 murdered men belong
to the Jatav, Valmiki (both Dalit) and Kashyap communities. The allegations
made by the participants of the mahapanchayat are contrary to the version of
the local police. Moreover, the tense situation might further deteriorate as
all the four arrested by the police, are Muslim residents of the neighbouring
Bilaspur village.thehindu
Shakhas have grown by 13% across the
country: RSS
A 13% increase in numbers of Shakhas or daily conventions of Hindu
nationalist organisation, RSS, is registered across the country between July
2012 and July 2014. During the period 4,635 Shakhas were started, the
deputy-chief of the national publicity wing, J Nandakumar told the journalists
in Kolkata on Friday. However, the growth in West Bengal is three times of the
national average. The office bearers of the RSS in Bengal had earlier told The
Hindu that the number of Shakhas have gone up by nearly 38% in the State in the
corresponding period.In 2012, RSS had 34,761 active Shakhas in the country. In
next one year it went up to 37,125 and now (last July) it stands at 39396, said
Mr Nandakumar. ““Two years ago, on an average, one thousand persons were
joining the RSS each month. Now it has gone up to 7000,” Mr Nandkumar told The
Hindu. He further added that the organisation has set up an elaborate network
to reach out to the people who are willing to join the RSS. “Once they send us
their coordinates, they are contacted by the local office bearers and requested
to participate in our initial interaction programmes,”Nandakumar said. thehindu
Jan Sangh founder had warned RSS of
losing shine: Book
New Delhi: Nanaji Deshmukh, who was among the founders of Bhartiya Jan
Sangh (BJS) and quit politics after emergency, had warned leaders of RSS that
BJS, an earlier version of BJP, was transforming and losing its shine as a
party with difference. He had said BJS, a “party of workers”, had become “party
of leaders”. Several such facts are contained in the compilation of Nanaji’s
works titled Viraat Purush Nanaji, accessed by The Indian Express. The 6-volume
set will be released by PM Narendra Modi at the Vigyan Bhawan Saturday. The
compilation is edited by Atul Jain and published by Prabhat Prakashan. In a
reference to the situation in UP in 1967, when late Chaudhary Charan Singh left
the Congress to join others to form govt, Nanaji writes, “Everybody put
responsibility on me to bring Chaudhary Charan Singh out of the Congress and to
make him the CM. I committed that mistake and the consequences were just as I
had predicted. Our party lost the image of a party with difference…Our people
rose as important leaders but we were neither able to retain our image, nor was
our organisation able to remain the same. Party of workers was converted into a
party of leaders.”Some of Nanaji’s letters reflect that on many occasions his
views were ignored by the BJS as well as the RSS. indianexpress
Refused chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’;
Subedar Ishrat Ali’s family forced to evacuate military quarter
New Delhi (SNB): Despite a petition pending in High Court the Military
Police today ejected forcefully the family of Subedar Maulvi Ishrat Ali of
Rajputana Rifle in his absence from their quarter in Delhi cantonment. Subedar
Ishrat Ali had been issued a notice for disobedient for refusing to
chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Jai Mata di’ instead of ‘Jai Hind’ and had filed a
petition in the High Court against the orders to evacuate immediately his
quarter.Military Police did not allow the police to enter the house that had
been called by dialling 100. Maulvi Subedar Ishrat Ali’s wife Shehnaz Bano told
Rashtriya Sahara, ‘Today in the afternoon at about 12.30 some 35-40 personnel
of military police, including women police officers, entered the house. They
pushed and forced me and my daughters out. Then they started throwing out the
household possessions much of which has been damaged.’According to Shahnaz Bano
when she called the police by dialling 100, military police did not let the
Delhi police in. ‘After this military police called a tempo and loaded our
possessions on it saying, “Go wherever you want to go.” ‘My husband is in
Bikaner and son is not home. Where will I go with my possessions? Give me at
least one week but they did not budge and got us ejected from the centre.’ I
said. ‘No one in the 3 Raj Rif Centre helped us. Hungry and thirsty for hours
we stood there but no one even offered us a glass of water.’She added, ‘With no
option available to us, after a long wait we came to Sagar Pur where a friend
of my son lives. My possessions are still on the tempo and son has gone in
search of a house to rent.’Shahnaz Bano further said, ‘We are being treated
like this because my husband refused to obey his officers and chant ‘Jai Mata
di’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’ instead of ‘Jai Hind’.Rashtriya Sahara/MM
Report on ‘1984 Sikh Genocide’ to be
submitted to UN Secretary General
Jalandhar: On the 30th anniversary of Sikh massacre in November 1984 in
Delhi and other parts of the country US based human rights group "Sikhs
For Justice" has announced to submit a report to Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary
General, United Nations on the 1984 genocidal violence against the Sikh
community after the assassination of PM Indira Gandhi. "The
report titled '1984 Sikh Genocide' will carry details of the preplanned and
deliberate killings of the Sikh community in 19 states of India, eyewash
investigations by the successive govt s, zero convictions and the failure of
the Supreme Court to take cognizance of thousands of deaths during the first
week of November 1984," announced SFJ. timesofindia
Supreme Courts raps Modi govt, calls
Centre 'Kumbhakarna'
Supreme Court said Modi govt behaved like 'Kumbhakarna', the
mythological character who loved sleeping for long periods, and 19th century
story character 'Rip Van Winkle', who shirked hard work for failing to submit a
report despite grant of two months time on the biodiversity impact of 24
hydro-electric projects on Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins in
Uttarakhand. Ticking off the Environment ministry for sleeping like
'Kumbhakarna', the Supreme Court made it clear that it is not going to lift the
stay for setting up of new hydroelectric power projects on Alaknanda and
Bhagirath river basins in Uttarakhand unless the Centre comes out with a
detailed environment and ecological impact report of each of the 24
ventures.The court wanted to know why the ministry was not acting on its orders
requiring placement before it of the report of the 13-member expert committee,
which was asked to study environmental degradation caused by such projects.Saharasamay
Bombay high court grants bail to
Aggarwal in Sohrabuddin case
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Friday granted bail to Dr Vipul
Aggarwal, a Gujarat cadre IPS officer accused in the Sohrabudding Sheikh fake
encounter case. The court directed his release on a bail amount of Rs 50,000. Aggarwal
had sought bail on the grounds that he was not even 'remotely connected' with
the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Aggarwal, arrested in
connection with Tulsiram Parajapati's case, claimed he was abroad for two
months on a United Nations training mission and had resumed work less than a
week before the alleged encounter. CBI in its chargesheet on Sept.4, 2012 had
said Aggarwal's role was that he tried to shield the actual perpetrators of the
crime, of which several area already out on bail he said.
6 Dalits raped in Bihar, Ranbir Sena
man held
Sikarhatta (bihar): 6 Dalit women, including two minor girls, were
allegedly raped by a former gunman of a disbanded private army and two others
in Bihar’s Bhojpur district on Wednesday night. The three men are now in police
custody. The victims belong to the mushahar caste, who are at the bottom of the
economically deprived Mahadalit communities in Bihar. The main accused,
disbanded Ranbir Sena’s Neelnidhi Singh, is already facing 18 criminal cases
and was on bail, said district police chief Rajesh Kumar. He said the police
had yet to confirm the exact age of the victims, though based on primary
inquiry, they are probably between ages 12 and 30. The medical test reports
have confirmed rape. The incident took place in Kurmuri village under
Sikarhatta police station of the district when nine rag-pickers from nearby
Dumaria village reached a scrapyard called at Maa Saraswatiji Enterprises to
sell the scrap they had collected. Scrapyard owner Neelnidhi Singh, his brother
Jayprakash Singh and their associate Guddu Pandit allegedly kept the payment on
hold on the excuse that it would take time to arrange the change. The total
value of scrap sold by the nine was Rs 1000. Indian express
Forward Press, Dalit magazine claims
police confiscating copies
New Delhi: FORWARD Press, a magazine devoted to dalit issues, has
alleged that the Delhi police went on rampage and vandalism at its Nehru Place
office on October 9 and allegedly detained four staff members. “After
vandalising our office and detaining our staff, now Delhi police is
confiscating copies of our magazine from stalls across the city without any
orders of any court or any competent authority,” Pramod Ranjan, consulting
editor of FORWARD Press, said in a release here on Friday. He alleged that this
action was “being taken at the instance of fundamentalist forces,” which is not
only a blatant violation of Freedom of Expression granted by the Constitution
but also an attempt to stifle any logical-intellectual disclosure.
23 Hindus return to Pakistan from
Jodhpur
Jodhpur: After a group of 40 immigrants from Sangad district in Pakistan
returned to the neighbouring country on June 27, another batch of 23 people
from Umarkot on the other side of the border boarded the Thar Express here
today as they went back to their homes. Like all those Hindus coming from
Pakistan to India in anticipation of getting a shelter, they also had landed
here in July this year and were determined to settle but they chose to go back
today. One of the members of this group, Kheto Singh said that it took them a
year to get the visa clearance for India and paid Rs 1,500 per member instead
of Rs 350, but from the moment, we landed here, we were just treated as
outsiders and were made to believe at every step that we are not acceptable
here. PTI
Shazia Ilmi praises Modi, turns up at
Delhi BJP event
New Delhi: Shazia Ilmi, an AAP founder member who quit the party five
months ago, on Thursday made a surprise appearance at an event organized by
Delhi BJP to launch PM Narendra Modi's 'Clean India' campaign. Ilmi,
who is among nine personalities roped in by Delhi BJP for the campaign, praised
the Modi govt for the initiative calling it a "great
mission" and said she was happy to be part of it. PTI
Minorities have realised Modi is
working for all sections: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Mumbai: BJP on Friday said that the minorities in the country have
realised that PM Modi is not working for any particular community, but for all
sections of society.“Our so-called secular political parties created a lot of
confusion among minorities about the BJP and Modi. However,minorities have
realised that Modi is not working for any particular community, but for all
sections of society,” BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said. PTI
BJP has not forgotten Ram Temple: Uma
Bharati
Aurangabad: BJP has not "forgotten" the issue, but has
welcomed the decision of the high court, party leader Uma Bharati here on
Friday said. Replying to a question on the Ram temple at Ayodhya, Bharti said
BJP had not "forgotten" the issue, but had welcomed the decision of
the high court. PTI
Raj Thackeray vows to end cow slaughter: Indian
express
Pune: Speaking at the BJP bastion of Kasba Peth constituency in Pune,
MNS chief Raj Thackeray promised to introduce an Act against cow slaughter if
voted to power. He was campaigning in Pune for 18 MNS candidates. Thackeray
spoke at length about how cows are brutally slaughtered for leather in the
state. He said that he is an animal lover and has many pet dogs.“I promise that
if MNS comes to power with full majority,I will bring anti-cow slaughter Act in
Maharashtra,” he said.
Rise of MIM troubles NCP, Congress
Malegoan: The breakup of BJP-Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP alliances ahead
of Assembly elections has thrown Maharashtra into a political chaos. The new
political scenario has left voters confused. Although Raj Thackeray’s MNS has
declined in stature since the Lok Sabha polls, the party is still a cause of
concern for BJP and especially Sena as it will end up eating into their
traditional vote banks. While BJP and Sena are wary of MNS at several seats, a
new entrant in Maharashtra politics has caused similar worries for NCP and
Congress.The popularity of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) — the
pro-Muslim party from Hyderabad led by Owaisi brothers — has increasingly grown
among the Muslim populace of Maharashtra and especially in the Marathwada
region which was a part of the erstwhile Hyderabad state till its integration
with India in 1948. The party is contesting its first Assembly poll in the
state and has fielded 24 candidates in Marathwada, Mumbai, Khandesh and western
Maharashtra. Many of them were earlier in Congress or NCP. indianexpress
Owaisi: ‘Could I have tweeted Indian
identity is Islam?
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/owaisi-could-i-have-tweeted-indian-identity-is-islam/
Mumbai: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) leader Akbaruddin
Owaisi attacked the RSS and Narendra Modi’s politics at Bhendi Bazar on
Wednesday. Calling Modi the “greatest actor ever” and slamming RSS leaders for
allegedly forcing their Hindutva ideologies on the nation through DD, Owaisi
said the country is turning a Hindu Rashtra and he wants to be the voice of
ignored Muslims in the state and protect their freedom. “Mohan Bhagwat says
identity of India is Hinduism. Modi tweets that Bhagwat was correct. If I had
tweeted Indian identity is Islam, what would have happened?” said Owaisi,
campaigning for Mumbadevi candidate Shahid Rafi, son singer late Mohd Rafi.
Indian Express
Indian govt plans for
first reverse SEZ in Iran
Mumbai:The first reverse SEZ (special economic zone) project, a concept
through which Indian chemical and petrochemical companies will be encouraged to
set up plants in other countries to manufacture basic raw materials, is likely
to come up in Iran. This was stated by Ananth Kumar, Union Minister for
Chemicals and Fertilisers, yesterday during the inauguration of India Chem
2014. Business Standard
Cylinder blast kills 5 in Jasola near
Jamia nagar
New Delhi: 5 persons — 3 women and 2 children — were killed in a
cylinder blast in Southeast Delhi’s Jasola area on Friday morning. The dead
were identified as Bhuri Khatoon (57), Munassira (40),Mohsina (30), Iram (4)
and Sara (3).indianexpress
Telangana announces Rs.5 lakh
ex-gratia for kin of boy allegedly burnt alive by army
Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced an ex-gratia of Rs.5
lakh for the family of a 11-year-old boy Mustafauddin allegedly burnt alive by
military men. CM said a comprehensive probe will be ordered into the incident.TCN
MEDIA ON TERROR
CASES
NIA takes over Burdwan blasts case,
registers fresh FIR
New Delhi: NIA on Friday began its probe into the Burdwan blasts after
registering an FIR in connection with the case in Delhi. Sources said the case
would be investigated by NIA's Kolkata branch. NIA FIR has invoked 5 sections
of UAPA apart from various sections of Arms Act and Indian Penal Code. West
Bengal Police had earlier not invoked UAPA in the case. However, after it came
to light that the blasts were connected to terror groups in Bangladesh, it
filed an application in court to invoke UAPA. The decision to file a fresh FIR
was taken after the Centre decided to entrust the investigation to NIA without
taking consent of the West Bengal govt by invoking a special provision in NIA
Act that arms the Centre with powers to initiate NIA probe into terror cases
anywhere in the country. Timesofindia
Burdwan blast: Governor welcomes NIA
probe, Mamata accuses Centre of meddling
Kolkata: On the day National Investigation Agency took over the Burdwan
blast probe by lodging an FIR under the UAPA, CM Mamata Banerjee took to the
social media to lash out at the Centre's "unnecessary interference"
into state matters.TOI
People are bringing up my SIMI connection
to malign my image: TMC leader Ahmed Hassan Imran
Kolkata: TMC MP Ahmed Hassan Imran has been in the eye of a storm for
his alleged links with Saradha chit fund company and hardline Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
The Rajya Sabha member speaks to Madhuparna Das about the controversy and his
links with SIMI of which he was a founder member. “I joined SIMI in 1977. SIMI
was founded that year to work for the Muslim community. SIMI was then exactly
like Ramakrishna Mission. It used to work like Ramakrishna Mission. We used to
organise “Quran path.” I was there in Aligarh when the organisation was
founded. SIMI used to organise blood donation camps, set up libraries and
collect funds for the education of poor students. It used to work in five to
six districts of Bengal. It was a legal organisation then. I was never a member
of the banned organisation,” said Imran. “I never had any connection with
Jamaat-e-Islami. The student organisation of Jamaat is Student’s Islamic
Organisation (SIO) and not SIMI. Moreover, why should I try to topple
Hasina-led govt in Bangladesh and why Mamata Banerjee would want that? What
interest she has in it? She shares a cordial relationship with the incumbent
govt in Bangladesh. I have spoken to Intelligence Bureau officials and they
assured me that there has been no such report against me,” he
added.indianexpress
ISIS flags seen in Srinagar after
Friday prayers: TOI report
Srinagar: A group of men unfurled ISIS flags amid pro-freedom and
anti-India sloganeering outside the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta in downtown
Srinagar after Friday prayers, according to eyewitnesses. "The protesters
were holding Islamic State flags and one of them waved it after climbing the
mosque's gate," an eyewitness said. This comes just a day after
General-officer-Commanding (GoC) 15 Corps, Lt General Subrata Saha called the
presence of ISIS flags a matter of deep concern. "...This is something
which merits the highest concern of all security agencies and let me tell you
that it is getting the attention of all the security agencies," he had
said.
6 youths held in Assam in Burdwan
blast case:IANS report
Guwahati: Special Branch of Assam police has arrested 6 youths from
Barpeta district in connection with the Oct.2 blast at Burdwan. West Bengal
Police later arrested two women - Amina Bibi and Rajira Bibi - and claimed to
have found enough evidence to prove their links with terror outfits. 2 women
divulged names of 6 youths arrested Friday, said sources.
SYRIA-IRAQ CRISIS
Justice needed in Syria and Iraq:
Turkish president
Trabzon: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a "fair
and just solution for Syria and Iraq," on Friday. Erdogan pointed out that
the ongoing and extremely bloody conflict in the two neighbouring countries has
created a "highly sensitive" situation in both Turkey and the region
as a whole."Turkey has not taken sides in the conflicts surrounding the
country and is neither against any sect or ethnicity, nor with them. Our side
is always that of peace and dialogue," Erdogan said, at a conference held
at Turkey’s Black Sea coast province of Trabzon. In the context of the highly
sensitive situation, Turkey takes every precaution against the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party and other terrorist organizations, as they are a
threat to the state, Erdogan said. Anadolu Agency
Turkey to support train-equip Syrian
opposition: US
Washington: Turkey has agreed to support a train and equip program for
moderate Syrian fighters as part of its commitment to the US-led coalition
against ISIL, according to the US."We are looking for a Department of
Defense planning team traveling to Ankara next week to continue planning
through military channels," said Marie Harf, a State Department
spokeswoman. Gen. John Allen, the U.S. special envoy to the coalition, and his
deputy, Ambassador Brett McGurk, are in Ankara to meet with Turkish Deputy
Chief of Defense General Yasar Guler and NATO Secretary-General Jens
Stoltenberg.AA
61 ISIL militants killed in Iraq
Al-Anbar, Iraq:US-led coalition airstrikes and Iraqi army troops killed
at least 61 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants Friday, Iraqi
security forces reported. At least 30 ISIL militants were killed in Iraq’s
western Anbar province after the army’s airstrikes, Shia-led Al-Jazeera and
Al-Badia Operations Commander Brigadier General Zia Kazim told The Anadolu
Agency. The commander also confirmed that more than 20 vehicles, two tanks and
two oil tankers were destroyed by the army during the same attack. Another 20
ISIL militants also were killed in ground operations led by Iraqi forces and
local militias, Lieutenant General Rashid Felih, responsible for operations in
al-Anbar, announced. US-led coalition, meanwhile, pounded Friday ISIL positions
in Zumar town, northwest of Mosul in some of the most intensive strikes in the
conflict. More than 11 ISIL militants were killed, Shirzad Zahul, a lieutenant
with the Kurdish peshmerga fighters, said. The US-led coalition also has
launched another airstrike on ISIL bases located about 55 kilometers southwest
of Mosul.AA
Iraq army pressured by ISIL in west:
official
Iraqi army is under serious pressure in the west of the country,
officials said, with the world's attention fixed instead on the Syrian town of
Kobane as it battles a similar Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant offensive.
"It's tenuous there. They are being resupplied and they're holding their
own, but it's tough and challenging," a senior US defense official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, told the AFP. Dozens of US-led air strikes in
recent weeks on the western Anbar province, including near the city of Ramadi,
have helped counter the group's fighters while the capital Baghdad remained
secure, the official added. aljazeera
WORLD
Pro-Morsi groups allege student
arrests, police deny
A human rights group has alleged the detention of 45 pro-democracy
students on the first day of Egypt's new academic year on Saturday, a claim
dismissed by the Interior Ministry. "Egyptian authorities have detained 45
students in several provinces early Saturday," Mohamed Abu Herira,
coordinator of the pro-Morsi "Freedom Seekers" human rights center,
told Anadolu Agency. He said that the students were detained in security swoops
in eight Egyptian provinces.Earlier, Ahmed Nasif, spokesman for "Students
Against Coup" group, alleged that security forces had detained 36 students
in 11 provinces ahead of the start of the academic year on Saturday.WorldBulletin
Myanmar Rohingya ‘tortured over
alleged terror ties'
Dozens of men from Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have
been arrested and tortured because of alleged ties to a militant organization,
according to a rights group. The Arakan Project, a Thailand-based group that
documents abuses against the Rohingya, says one man has been tortured to death
in Myanmar’s far north-west, near the border with Bangladesh. Authorities have
rounded up at least 58 men in the last two weeks from several villages in the
north of Rakhine state, according to figures compiled by the Arakan Project and
seen by the Anadolu Agency. World Bulletin
Pak religious parties protest against
Indian aggression: Pak paper, Daily Times report
Lahore:Religious parties on Friday protested against the Indian
aggression on the Working Boundary. Jamaat-e-Islami Pak chief
Sirajul Haq on Friday said India understood the “language of weapons” only. He
was addressing a large Friday congregation at Mansoora mosque and said that the
rulers in New Delhi had gone crazy and wanted to plunge the region into a war.
However, he said if India dared to thrust a war on Pakistan, the Pakistani
nation would stand united like a rock and every child would play the role of
Muhammad bin Qasim, Saladin and Mehmud Ghaznavi, and teach a memorable lesson
to the aggressor. “I will advise Indian PM Narendra Modi to stop amassing arms
and ammunition worth trillions, and instead divert this money for the uplift of
the millions in India who went without food and clothing and had to spend their
nights on footpath,” Sirajul Haq said. Separately, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami
and Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistan held a protest demonstration against
Indian aggression on Pakistani boundaries and on the Line of Control at Model
Town in which other right wing political cum religious parties like Jamiat
Ulema-e-Pakistan-Noorani and Markazi Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Pakistan (MJASP) also
participated and condemned it.
Hafiz Sayeed urges Pak govt to
declare jihad against India
Islamabad: A rally organised by the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) condemned the
firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and called upon the Pakistani govt to
declare a jihad against India, a media report said Saturday.A large number of
JuD workers Friday gathered at the Karachi Press Club to denounce what they
called Indian aggression that claimed lives of several innocent Pakistani
citizens, Dawn online reported. IANS
Media Dept. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
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