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Resurrected Pakistani Taliban surfaces, issues threat to women and children

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Resurrected Pakistani Taliban surfaces, issues threat to women and children

While Pakistan continues to hail the success of its operation Zarb-e-Azb in weeding out Pakistani Taliban from its tribal region, according to a report by Kunwar Khuldune Shahid in The Diplomat, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is all set to rear its head back again. The dreaded TTP group, which had been behind the dastardly massacre of children in Peshawar in 2014 is ready to spread its ominous claws once again.

In the wake of Operation Zarb-e-Azb carried out by Pakistani Army in 2014, the TTP had largely faded from the Pakistani landscape until recently when it appears that it has found its feet again as it issued a written threat to locals in Miranshah demanding a ban on music, women going out without a male accomplice, and polio vaccinations.

Shahid claims renewed activity of the terror group citing various examples of TTP terrorists nabbed from different cities of Pakistan recently. The re-emergence of the terror group, known for brutal imposition of medieval practices, especially with regards to women and children has already made its presence known by targeting checkpoints with IED blasts.

Also Read: Pakistan cozying up to Taliban in an effort to revive peace talks with the United States

An ominous message sent by Pakistani Taliban as quoted by Shahid says, “We want to remind you that our diktats have been disregarded by residents in the past, but this time we are going to take to task those who violate the Taliban order.”

The Talibani decree also proscribed the use of DJs inside or outside houses and threatened the residents with dire consequences if they are found violating the edicts put forth by the TTP.

Even the health workers administering polio drops to children are not spared by the TTP. The TTP warned the health workers not to administer polio drops to children in the region. This doesn’t bode well for Pakistan which has witnessed a recrudesce of the poliovirus, with at least 72 people being diagnosed with the infectious disease this year.

Also Read: Pakistan using Taliban as ‘hedge’ against India, says US commander

Despite the Pakistani military’s highly acclaimed action against TTP, far from being defunct, the TTP appears to have gained strength from its convalescing period and prepared to take on their nemesis. Shahid claims that the TTP’s revival can be credited to the regional resentment against the military that has been personified by the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement(PTM) which has brought to fore military excesses such as forced disappearance, human rights violations etc.

The PTM has been channelising the resentment against the Pakistani government, highlighting the incongruencies and questioning the government’s objectives in their fight against terrorism. While Imran Khan claimed that the permanent solution to Afghan-Taliban problem is fencing of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, PTM questioned the government’s intention behind the claim as recently Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was seen warming up to Afghan Talibani while exchanging hugs and gifts with each other.

Congress meets anti-India, antisemite Jeremy Corbyn who supports terror groups and Islamists: All you need to know about him

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Congress meets anti-India, antisemite Jeremy Corbyn who supports terror groups and Islamists: All you need to know about him

The United Kingdom representatives of the Indian National Congress party (INC) met with Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour party, and “discussed the human rights situation in Kashmir.” True to its heritage as a political entity that was established by the British to entrench their power in India, the Congress party appears to be undermining Indian national interests abroad.


From the manner in which the tweet was worded by Corbyn and the conduct of other politicians of the Labour party, it appears quite obvious that the Labour politician hinted at his pro-Kashmiri separatist stance, which boils down to support for Islamic Jihad. That Congress party decided to associate itself with Corbyn, a politician with an extremely problematic history only proves that the fools march where angels fear to tread.

The UK branch of the Congress party has now come out and said that the meeting was held “to condemn the Kashmir resolution passed by his Party & to reiterate that J&K is an internal matter & outside intervention will not be accepted.” However, that’s not the impression one gets from reading Corbyn’s tweet.


Read: Pakistan bets on Arundhati Roy, Mamata Banerjee, Congress and Communist parties to drive their agenda over Kashmir

As a politician, Corbyn has an extremely chequered past. During the course of his life, Corbyn has backed the Irish Republican Army (IRA) which committed a series of acts of terrorism in its pursuit of freeing Ireland from Britain. Corbyn was the general secretary of the editorial board of the far-left journal Labour Briefing that supported IRA violence and explicitly backed the Brighton Hotel Bombing, which killed 5 people and maimed 31 others.

In 2015, on BBC Radio Ulster, Corbyn refused five times to specifically condemn IRA violence and terrorism. He hung up rather than answer the question. According to Leo McKinstry, a British historian and a journalist, writing for The Telegraph, Corbyn “is the man who sympathised with violent Irish Republicanism in the 1980s, invited IRA representatives to the Commons a fortnight after the Brighton bombing in 1984 and, at a Troops Out meeting in 1987, stood for a minute’s silence to “honour” eight IRA terrorists killed in an SAS ambush.”

Corbyn also has a reputation of being an antisemite. Corbyn once described a book as “brilliant” and “very controversial” that spoke of European finance was controlled by “men of a single and peculiar race”, that is, the Jews. The book, Imperialism: A Study, written by John Atkinson Hobson in 1902, describes the financial system as controlled by people “united by the strongest bonds of organisation, always in closest and quickest touch with one another, situated in the very heart of the business capital of every state, controlled, so far as Europe is concerned, by men of a single and peculiar race, who have behind them many centuries of financial experience, they are in a unique position to control the policy of nations”.

The book also said that journalism and banking were dominated by Jews. The Board of Deputies of British Jews demanded a full explanation for Corbyn’s words and expressed “grave concerns” over what it called “pure and unequivocal racism and there can be no apology for it”.

Not merely that, Corbyn received payments upto £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV, a channel that participated in the filming of the tortured-forced confession of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari. He appeared on the channel five times between 2009-12.

Corbyn has also lent his support to Raed Salah, a rabid Islamist with a morbid hatred for Jews. Salah once spread the ‘Blood Libel’ against Jews, the antisemitic slur that Jews use the blood of gentile children to make their bread. Not merely that, he was charged with inciting racial hatred and violence and claimed that Jews were behind 9/11. Corbyn said of him: ‘Salah is a very honoured citizen’, ‘Salah’s is a voice that must be heard’, ‘Salah is far from a dangerous man’, and ‘I look forward to giving you tea on the terrace because you deserve it!’.

In the past, Corbyn has referred to Hamas, radical Islamic terrorists, as ‘friends’, a statement which he later said he regretted but vowed that he would not stop talking with them. In return, Corbyn received a ringing endorsement and a “salute” from Hamas. “We have received with great respect and appreciation the solidarity message sent by the British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to the participants in the mass rally,” Hamas said in a statement.

Under Corbyn’s leadership, the Labour party has been accused of a series of allegations of antisemitism, allegations it has struggled to refute. Corbyn’s personal conduct over the years has led people to consider that he has a soft spot for Radical Islam. This isn’t surprising considering the fact that there’s a global alliance between the Left and Radical Islam.

Read: The Global Ummah speaketh on Kashmir: US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, her sketchy past, and her Islamist views

The Labour party in its entirety has taken an anti-India stand on Kashmir. The party has recently passed a unanimous motion on Kashmir at their conference in Brighton on September 25. The motion stated that Kashmir should be given the right of self-determination as per UN resolutions and urges the Labour party to ‘stand with Kashmiris fighting against occupation’.

Not merely that, Labour MP Liam Byrne was at the forefront of a March led by Pakistani mobs that vandalized the Indian High Commission in London. Byrne had previously vigorously supported the Pakistani stand on Kashmir, owing to his largely Muslim constituency.

Thus, we have the UK representatives of the Congress party meeting with a politician with a history of antisemitism, supporting violent terrorists such as the IRA who has an obvious soft spot for Radical Islamic terrorists such as the Hamas who he once referred to as ‘friends’. Moreover, his party which is grappling with rampant antisemitism in its ranks has once again taken the side of Radical Islamic terrorists on Kashmir.

The UK branch of the Congress party might claim that the purpose of the meeting was to get the Corbyn to disassociate his party from the anti-India rhetoric on Kashmir but Corbyn’s tweet on the matter made it pretty clear in which way the winds are blowing. And it’s pertinent to mention here that not even Congress sympathizers are buying what UK Congress is selling.

Bihar: Stones pelted from mosque during Durga idol immersion in Jehanabad, 14 people injured

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Bihar: Stones pelted from mosque during Durga idol immersion in Jehanabad, 14 people injured

In yet another act of stone-pelting targeting Hindus, a Muslim mob attacked a Durga idol procession in Jehanabad district in Bihar on Thursday. The horrific attack on Hindus led to a curfew-like situation leading to the imposition of section 144 in the area.

According to the reports, around 6 am on Thursday, a group of Hindus carrying an idol of Goddess Durga for immersion were attacked by a mob, which pelted stones from terrace and rooftops of mosque with stones near Bihar Studio at Arval Modh. The sudden attack led to a stampede in which around a dozen people, including four policemen, were injured.

Read: Ready to dance on dead bodies of Hindus: How Raghav Bahl’s website whitewashed Islamist attack on Durga visarjan

The stone-pelting incident in Jehanabad is similar to the one that occurred in Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh recently in which members of the Muslim community had reportedly preplanned the stone-pelting and had stored the stones to target the Goddess Durga procession.

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Reportedly, the violence took place when some people allegedly pelted stones at a Durga idol immersion procession. In the meantime, hundreds of people angry over the incident gathered at different places, demanding strict action against the perpetrators of the attack. There were some reports suggesting that there have been few fire incidents in the area.

The incident has led to people suffering from serious injuries. More than 14 people, including 4 cops have got injured in the pelting incident, while eight of the injured have been admitted to the Sadar Hospital.

Read: Devotee who was a part of Durga Puja procession attacked in Balrampur alleges conspiracy and chants of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’

The police officials have urged people not to pay attention to rumours. The administration officials visited the spot to take stock of the situation. Anti-riot Rapid Action Force (RAF) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been deployed in the area. In a bid to maintain law and order situation, police personnel from the neighbouring areas have also been called in.

Jehanabad District Magistrate Navin Kumar while speaking to OpIndia confirmed that the situation is under control and prohibitory orders are in place to avoid any incident.

Mental Health Day: The community of Mental Health Professionals need to introspect and reconsider the prevailing dogmas

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Mental Health Day: The community of Mental Health Professionals need to introspect and reconsider the prevailing dogmas

The world celebrates Mental Health Day every year on the 10th of October. While mental health has been the focus of much attention in recent times, the time has come for us to address the elephant in the room: The Mental Health Professionals. While the overwhelming majority of people in the profession are well-meaning individuals who have the best interests of their patients at heart, something has gone terribly wrong with the profession. And it has been the case for some time now.

Recently, Charlie Evans, a person who was born female but identified as male for nearly 10 years before detransitioning, came out and said that there were ‘hundreds of transgenders’ who regretted undergoing the gender reassignment surgery. “I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,” she said. “They don’t know what their options are now.”

Speaking of a transgender woman who had approached her following one of her talks, Evans said, “She said she felt shunned by the LGBT community for being a traitor. So I felt I had to do something.” Evans has now decided to launch a charity called The Detransition Advocacy Network.

Another woman called Ruby, who decided to stop being transgender after eight years of taking cross-sex hormones, told Sky News, “I didn’t feel like there was any support out there, other than like a few friends online.” “For everyone who has gender dysphoria, whether they are trans or not, I want there to be more options for us because I think there is a system of saying, ‘Okay here’s your hormones, here’s your surgery, off you go’. I don’t think that’s helpful for anyone,” she said.

The problem has reached epidemic levels in the West. In the United Kingdom alone, there has been a 4500% increase in girls seeking gender reassignment surgeries. Brown University tried to repress a study by one of its professors which concluded that “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria” among teens and young adults may be a social contagion. Things have reached a point where concerned individuals have opened a website ‘sexchangeregret.com‘ which, as the name suggests, highlights the plight of people who underwent a sex change surgery but later came to regret their decision.

There has to be some form of accountability for the people who created this mess. Most importantly, the community of mental health professionals cannot be trusted to tackle the issue since they created it in the first place. Compare the intense and severe scrutiny that a new drug is subjected to and the callous attitude with which sex reassignment surgeries and transitioning were approved by the community of mental health professionals. It does tantamount to a crime against humanity.

Worse is the fact that the transgender lobby has gained immense power and the entirety of the corporate class supports the transgender agenda in order to increase their revenues. People’s mental health has become a tool at the hands of corporate interests to increase their profit margins. The only people who stand to gain from it is the pharmaceutical industry and the corporate class at large. It is perfectly conceivable that the surgeries might be good for a very specific set of individuals but for the people suffering from gender dysphoria at large, the entire culture that has developed around transgenderism is an utter catastrophe.

The commercialization of mental health to generate more profits is not limited to transgenderism alone and there can possibly be no better day to talk about this uncomfortable subject than Mental Health Day. Madeleine Kearns, reporting for The Spectator, elaborated on how very easy it was to be diagnosed with ADHD and get access to performance-enhancing drugs. She says in her report, “But the overdiagnosis and overmedication of ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — is no joke. Rather, it is a ‘national disaster of dangerous proportions’. Those are the words of eminent American psychologist Dr Keith Conners, who speaks to us from the grave.”

Kearns continues, “…But in the 1990s, the combined effect of loosening the diagnostic criteria (so that exuberance, eccentricity and the ordinary struggles of day-to-day life were all potentially pathological) and allowing American drug companies to have another go at marketing amphetamines (which had been curtailed by regulation in the 1970s) created a perfect storm of supply and demand.”

She adds, “At the last count, there were approximately six million under-18s diagnosed with ADHD and 16 million ADHD prescriptions for adults under 40 in the US. And the student population has become a full-blown (albeit secondary) market for these drugs.”

In Norway, there is a massive scandal that’s going unreported and it is important to talk about this on Mental Health Day. The Norwegian Child Protection Agency, Barnevernet, is indulging in what can only be called state-sanctioned kidnapping of children. They are robbing parents of their children with the help of psychologists and psychiatrists on the flimsiest of reasons. Numerous psychologists and psychiatrists have spoken out against the Barnevernet but it remains a fact that mental health professions are enforcing this policy.
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Read: ‘Virtuous Paedophiles’: Another sickening step towards the normalisation of paedophilia by ‘enlightened progressives’

One case of a Czech family led to a massive diplomatic row between the two countries which ended up in the Czech administration accusing the Norwegian regime of behaving like Nazis. The “lack of parenting skills” and not substance abuse is the most common reason given to shift a child away from its parents into emergency care. In one particular instance, the Barnevernet claimed that lack of eye contact, and other signs, from a four-month-old baby, revealed that she was suffering from severe psychological harm and ought to be taken away from her parents.

We are constantly lectured by the community of mental health professionals that a lack of awareness is the primary reason behind the worsening mental health situation across societies. While that is true, it is also a fact that the current crop of mental health professionals isn’t a solution to the mess. From the events that are unfolding in the West, we can safely argue that in many instances, the professionals are adding to the problem, not solving them.

There is an urgent need for the community of mental health professionals to reform itself. Although the situation in India is nowhere near as bad as in the West, it is a fact that the Indians tend to buy into the prevailing dogmas of their Western counterparts without giving any of it any significant thought. On Mental Health Day, the greatest service that the community of Mental Health Professionals can provide to people suffering from mental health issues is honest introspection about the conduct of people from their own community and reevaluating the dominant dogmas of the fraternity.

The reason behind the repulsion of world towards Pakistan is its own paranoia

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The reason behind the repulsion of world towards Pakistan is its own paranoia

It’s been over two months since the deeply undemocratic and exclusionary Article 370 was abrogated from Kashmir by the Indian government on 6th of August. Pakistan has tried every brick and trick from the book of propaganda from ranting & raving, craving & begging to jabbing & fawning, to construct a case of Indian ‘brutality’ and ‘authoritarianism’ in Kashmir. But everything utterly failed in attracting or consolidating even the Islamic nations – who Pakistan boasts of as its fierce allies bound by religion – let alone the rest of the world. Despite Pakistan’s sweating extra-hour hard work, the international order refused to criticise India or its tectonic shift in the Kashmir. Pakistan lit up a subtle fire, fuelled by the kerosene drops of co-religionism and banal propagandas, and tried to cook dishes for its domestic politics as well as Kashmir policies. The fire, though, backfired burning both the dish and the cook. Instead of drawing global support, it bullwhipped its own position to weakness.

The laws of political-diplomatic forces work in complete contrast to the laws of magnetic forces as in politics similar interests attract each other while opposite interests repel. In the great game of diplomacy – where unwritten rules are more significant than those are written – for consolidation or attraction of global forces – similar interests must be present. Despite instilling and inducing powerful charges, Pakistan failed to attract the world order on the sole grounds of absence of interest. Contrary to attracting, Pakistan’s existing allied forces have started flowing away from it like the water of Indus. And without the presence of any mutual geopolitical or strategic interest stopping this erosion or repulsion would be like stopping the flow of Indus with a soup bowl. It has now reached a situation where, except for Turkey and China, no major global player is keen on stopping by Pakistan’s ideological gate.

What has thrown Pakistan into this deep well of troubles is its own paranoia. The condition of loss of interest in Pakistan for most of the nations of the world was aided and most of the time created by the attitude, character and ideals of none other than the Pakistan itself. No amount of manipulation, sugar coating or covering can change the fact that Pakistan has no one other to blame than itself for its free fall of significance.

The hypocrisy of the highest order deeply embedded in the fundamental structure has intensively affected the claims of Pakistan on the global stage. The entire process of Pakistan championing itself as the human rights saviour has been processed as nothing more than fallacy, ersatz and banality. And the world has reasons to process such. Prime reason being the Pakistani ignorance or deliberate veiling of series of human rights violations within its parameters. The Baloch persecution, Pashtun suppression and Gilgit-Baltistan marginalisation are the results of Pakistan’s inhuman conducts. There are horrific stories of how Pakistani establishment has destroyed lives of millions. A military with expertise in usage of tactics as extrajudicial killings, abduction, forced conversions, mass murders and rape and a nation – whose establishment is the culprit behind gross human rights abuses of its own people – staging itself as a human rights champion would only disclose the real hideous face behind its all fancy portrayal.

Also Read: India reclaiming Gilgit Baltistan can be the worst nightmare for Chinese ambitions and Pakistani dreams

The supposed fourth pillar of democracy: media has been reduced to a mere puppet of the establishment in Pakistan. From quantity to quality and from content to concept almost every part of media coverage is a product under state control in Pakistan. At a time when other countries compete for media freedom, Pakistan’s media has been crawling to get even to the basics of freedom. Their media has been under house arrest for years now subjecting to intense state scrutiny. Pakistani Pashtuns’ PTM – a political non-violent movement against Pashtun oppression – has been completely blacked out by the Pakistani media on orders of its military. Not only PTM but also everything related to Balochistan’s freedom struggle has also been censored – again at the orders of the military. At the helm of such strict restrictions and censorships, the government of Pakistan has the audacity to present itself as a media freedom haven. The possibility of the world accepting that presentation is, of course, of the lowest.

Fundamentalism and nationalism one more flawed arrow often shot at India by Pakistan is another reason, more indirectly and less directly, behind the fall of the credibility of Pakistani claims. When Pakistan’s prime minister shot a bunch of preposterous accusations, masqueraded as analysis of the situation, after the article 370 abrogation, the world took no time in showing him the mirror. His attempt at portraying India as an ornery state only ended up him getting reminded of his country’s unconditional addiction to desuetude and religious fundamentalism. There’s absolutely no room for a nation like Pakistan – who has, for its all life, been dependent on extremism – to preach India on nationalism and jingoism. Ignorant of his own country’s ideals and history, Imran Khan criticising India was an indicator of Pakistan’s schizophrenic attitude. And excepting the world to deal with a schizophrenic nation would be an extremely rich expectation.

The authoritarianism of the Pakistani military in almost every prospect of national life in Pakistan is the most probably one of the biggest factors degrading the importance and value of Pakistan at the international stage. Often, we have seen global leaders expressing their frustration and concern over the balance of power in Pakistan. Almost no country in the world, except for China, understands the real power centre of Pakistan that is the military. From deciding who the prime-time news anchor of a news channel should be to who the prime minister should be, the military is the ultimate decision-making body in Pakistan. A democracy of only label, Pakistan throughout history has always been an advanced military dictatorship with excellent art of indirect control.

Both terrorists and ‘selected’ prime ministers are under military’s control and authority. An apt cartoon depicting balance of power in Pakistan by cartoonist Manjul

The military is also the Chief Terrorising Force of the country. Getting the crown of the most frightening institution in a country clogged to its mouth with terrorist organisations is a serious deal. And Pakistan’s armed forces have, unremittingly, been at its best in furthering its agenda of violence and destruction. Specialised in terrorising its own people, the Pakistan military has a history of mass human rights violations and genocides. Pakistan’s military is the mind flayer behind every terrorist outfit and its each terror Demogorgon. But surprisingly the ‘upside-down realm’ of this mind flayer is not beneath the earth but right up on the surface of the same country it belongs to.

Pakistan, in its all senses, had accused India of majoritarianism on repeated occasions. Being true to its founding father’s fear-mongering populistic doctrine, Pakistan has repeatedly shot its attempt at brushing India as a majoritarian state. When in reality, India has repeatedly proven itself, over the centuries, to be the most tolerant nation and India’s majority has proven itself as the most cosmopolitan one. Being in the realm of realism and true to history, it is the state of Pakistan which has always been majoritarian. The ethnic Punjabi majoritarianism over Pashtuns, Balochs and Sindhis; the sectarian Sunni majoritarianism over minority Shia and Ahmadiyas; ultimate the religious Islamic majoritarianism over extreme minority Hindu, Sikh and Christian religions; are a testimony to the fact. Whenever Pakistan accuses India of majoritarianism or discrimination against minorities, it defies the moral and ethical laws of the world order.

Also Read: All that Pakistan is left with is a war of misinformation: Here are the myths and propaganda about Kashmir

Despite so many, by default, defects in the system of Pakistan, undoubtedly the biggest one is terrorism. Home to dozens of terrorist organisations and hundreds of UN-designated terrorists, a safe haven to all kinds – sectarian, religious and ethnic – of extremism, Pakistan is a serious threat to the world peace and integrity. Always stuck in the dream of invading India, Pakistan has for years relied on waging a proxy war against India through its most reliable force – terrorists. Terrorists are state fostered aggressive force created, trained and provided with all essentials in Pakistan for waging an asymmetrical religious war against India. There is hardly any nation in the world which does not concur with the fact that Pakistan is a terror state. Creating trouble in Kashmir through its force of terrorists and shedding crocodile tears at India’s counter aggression is an unsurprisingly common sight that we have seen multiple times over the years. Expecting the world to respect Pakistan, when it has consistently fostered terrorism at every possible place it could, is like expecting the water to burn for you.

The force behind free fall of Pakistani significance and value at the international stage are the embedded hypocrisy; deliberately induced human rights violations; its addiction to fundamentalism and religious, sectarian and ethnic majoritarianism; freedom suppression, censorship and authoritarianism; military dictatorship and reliance on and usage of cross border terrorism. The fact that Pakistan and its PM accuses India of all these shows its schizophrenic behaviour and attitude, with which no one would love to deal with. The reason behind this repulsion of world towards Pakistan is – unambiguously – the paranoia of Pakistan.

Tainted ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt has ‘scant regard for the truth’, observes HC as it rejects his sentence suspension plea. Read full order

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Tainted ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt has ‘scant regard for the truth’, observes HC as it rejects his sentence suspension plea. Read full order

The Gujarat High Court while rejecting tainted ex-cop Sanjiv Bhatt’s suspension of sentence plea observed that he has ‘made a deliberate attempt to mislead the court and he was guilty of suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (suppression of truth and suggestion of falsehood).’ The court also observed that Bhatt had ‘scant regard for the truth’. The order [pdf], which was passed on 25th September by Justice Bela Trivedi, was made public on Monday, October 7.

“At this juncture, the Court, after having considered the evidence on record as well as the findings recorded by the Sessions Court, is prima facie satisfied about the conviction of the applicant under Section 302 of IPC, and in absence of any exceptional case made out by the applicant, the present application does not deserve any further consideration. The application for suspension of sentence, therefore, is dismissed.” the order read.

1989 custodial death case

The case stems from the custodial death of one Prabhudas Vaishnani in Gujarat’s Jamnagar in 1989 when Bhatt was serving in the district as additional superintendent of police. According to the prosecution, Bhatt had detained more than a hundred persons during a communal riot in Jamnagar, Gujarat and one of the detainees, Prabhudas Vaishnani had died in hospital after he was released.

Read: BBC’s whitewashing: Paints Sanjiv Bhatt as a ‘whistleblower’ victim while lying about 59 Karsevaks burnt alive by Muslim mob

Sanjiv Bhatt is currently lodged in the Palanpur district jail and has been awarded life imprisonment sentence by the court in a custodial death case.

Other cases

Last year in September, the sacked ex-IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt was taken into custody by the Gujarat CID over a 1998 case of planting drugs. Despite repeated attempts by the tainted officer’s lawyers and family, Bhatt was denied bail after the Palampur court took cognisance of his criminal past, behaviour and false statements. Afterwards, he had reportedly approached the high court for the same. The Gujarat government had then vehemently opposed Bhatt’s bail application.

The Palanpur Drug planting case pertains to an incident in 1998 when Sanjiv Bhatt was serving as the DCP of Banaskantha. He was then accused of trying framing a lawyer in a fake narcotics case.

The anti-Modi cop is also well known for his legal fight against the Gujarat government and especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi, who had served as the former chief minister of Gujarat, was accused by Bhatt of being complicit in the murder of Muslims during the 2002 Godhra case. However, the SIT set up by the apex court then had given Modi a clean chit.

Gurugram: Cow smugglers shoot and injure a Gau Rakshak, break police barricades and escape

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Gurugram: Cow smugglers shoot and injure a Gau Rakshak, break police barricades and escape

A shocking incident is being reported from Delhi NCR region where a Bajrang Dal member was shot at by cattle smugglers. In the wee hours of Thursday, an alert group of Gau Rakshaks reportedly gave a high-speed chase to 6 cow smugglers who were trying to escape along with smuggled bovines from Sector 10 of Gurugram towards Mewat.


A video of the incident showing cow smugglers desperately speeding away, breaking past multiple police barricades has emerged on social media. Reportedly, members of a Gau Rakshak group got a tip-off some smugglers in a Mahindra pickup van had come to Gurugram from Mewat on Wednesday afternoon and were planning to smuggle cows to Mewat later in the day. When the Gau Rakshaks discovered that cows were indeed being smuggled, they promptly informed the police and chased the smugglers in an attempt to nab them.

Read: Mewat: Hotbed of organised crime, cattle smuggling, illegal Rohingyas and mob violence against Police

However, realising that they are being chased, the smugglers first started throwing cows off the speeding vehicle but the Gau Rakshaks relentlessly continued chasing them. At last, the smugglers fired bullets at the Gaurakshaks, injuring one of them.


The injured Gau Rakshak, identified as Mohit (25), was immediately rushed off to Medanta hospital. According to DCP Gurugram Rajiv Deshwal, the police has identified 5 of the 6 smugglers and recovered the vehicle used by the smugglers. However, the smugglers are absconding and the police have launched a search operation for them.

Read: Rajasthan: Cow smugglers in Mewat region break past police barricade, escape after opening fire at police

The police have stated that they had informed Mewat police immediately and the pickup has been recovered by Nuh police earlier today.

It is notable here that the Mewat region in Haryana and Rajasthan has been constantly witnessing incidence of violence and even attacks at police personnel perpetrated by cattle smugglers. Just days ago, a group of cattle smugglers had fired at police in an attempt to escape the police barricade in Bharatpur.

Dear ‘Climate Activists’, I am 80 and you blame my generation, but do you know our work and the solutions we evolved?

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Dear ‘Climate Activists’, I am 80 and you blame my generation, but do you know our work and the solutions we evolved?

I hadn’t taken much notice of Greta Thunberg and her angry speech until a Twitter handle I respect and admire, slammed her:


Now, @aliceonaroll is no way ‘an elder’ who needs to be defending herself. She’s a young lady passionate about the environment, conservation and photography. She educates and inspires many to care for Nature and lifeforms.

But I, however, am a true elder, close to 80 now.

So, I went over to find out what the young girl had said that so upset my friend, who I know is not easily angered. I have just heard her and barely recovered from her cold snarl, such as what they say is seen only in those possessed.

Let me try and tell Greta Thunberg what elders -my contemporaries- did in our past and see if she is exorcised.

I assure everyone, this is not about me except in the next couple paras. I also promise a solution for Greta from an elder, 20 years older than me.

Whenever I get an opportunity I, as an Indian, apologise in public for the sin of my generation, in having been abettors -active ignorant or silent- of the cultural hijack by the Reds and Nehruvians.

I too am culpable.

But we in India are not guilty of environmental destruction, because India’s poverty helped in making the madness called the Green Revolution unaffordable, and so saved us somewhat. But when I was a young man, a true ogre stalked the world at large and shook young people: the Vietnam War.

In the 1970s, as the war raged, I was a sea-going, young man. I sailed the South China Sea for most of that period and I met with several young men in uniform, shaken, despairing and coming apart. There was no escaping conscription in the USA, Australia and NZ. Whoever could, escaped to gentler countries, including India.

Those that escaped chose a quieter life, which invariably was about caring for the earth. They sang of the Age of Aquarius, of love, hope and courage. Those young men of the 1970s’ Western World in the were Greta’s elders who too had lost their childhoods. They quietly went away and explored solutions for happy living.

And do you know what, they forced an end to Vietnam war and made waging wars difficult for Greta Thunberg and her future.

They saw hope in low footprint lives. Homesteading, self sufficiency, low cost living, music and books were their lives. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jack Kerouac, Baba Ram Das, Masanobu Fukuoka, Ivan Illich, Stewart Brand, Amory Lovins, Bill Mollison and James Lovelock ruled their hearts- and mine too, because I used to travel the world on slow ships with time to take in what went on everywhere.

Because of them, I have been for 40 years, planting trees, harvesting water and exploring energy options. Let my credentials end there. I personally know two deeply committed Europeans- one an Australian, now in Auroville, India and another an American, now in one of Canada’s Vancouver islands. Yet another American I know has made India his home to work on wildlife conservation

All are Vietnam deserters, who have dedicated 50 years to growing forests and inspiring others.

Enough of that.

Now it’s time to offer Greta Thunberg a solution for what she rightly said, is a problem that has been ‘staring at us for 30 years’

Remember my mention of James Lovelock? He just turned 100 and lives in Britain.

In the 1970s he proposed that the Earth be deemed a living organism with a mind of its own. This came to be known as the Gaia Hypothesis. He gave us hope that Gaia can survive man’s abuse because as a large living organism Gaia can heal herself.

My generation ate out of his hands.

And then this happened:

In 2006 James Lovelock wrote a book titled “The Revenge of Gaia”.

It shook and outraged his followers, because of what he proposed in it.

Let me summarise in my own words.

  1.  No doubt Gaia is self-healing, but now she has a terminal fever. She has lost her strength to heal herself. It is due to global warming. We cannot save her unless we first cool the fever.
  2. None of the alternate energy solutions -wind, solar or tidal- have matured or scaled enough to replace fossil fuels.
  3. Humans, however, cannot now be weaned away from lifestyles that are energy-intensive. They want comfort, luxury, entertainment and travel. (Sounds true, Greta?)
  4. So how do we cool the planet? We must adopt nuclear power for a period during which renewable energy can mature and take over.
  5. Nuclear power has one of the best safety records. Yes, there is the spent fuel problem but an engineered solution to overcome it is available. Nuclear waste is a far lesser evil than extinction.

All hell broke loose. His flock called him a traitor. I was saddened but have now recovered to see sense in his solution. I have lost many friends though. One can read about Lovelock here.

Lovelock and I are Greta’s elders who she accuses of having robbed her life and not having cared for her.

I ask Greta.

Lovelock has proposed a solution widely agreed as a sensible one.

A) Will you accept it? Will your captors?

B) Have you ever heard of him or his solution?

C) If you reject it, have you another solution that can avert our extinction?

Greta, first ask yourself if 3 above is true and then attempt C.

My guess is you will not undertake this exercise.

Because you are a victim of child abduction by a Post Communist Cabal which is intent on preventing you from discovering solutions. It is in its interest to keep the world shaken and agitated for it is in such times that it prospers.

I have watched their members for long.

When your abductors have gone to bed, stealthily read what I wrote about them in OpIndia two years ago:

Read: What is Cultural Marxism?

You will understand it is them who have fought induction of nuclear power, knowing well there is no solution now other than that. World leaders have had to cope with them at every step and turn.

It is your captors who’d be responsible if extinction comes about.

Deliver the same speech to them, Greta Thunberg, and demand they protest in the streets for nuclear power.

Leave bitching to your elders. You must focus on solutions for the planet.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi mocks Hindus for the Nimbu-Mirchi ritual in Nanded public meeting

OpIndia Staff
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AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi mocks Hindus for the Nimbu-Mirchi ritual in Nanded public meeting

In a public rally in Nanded, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi mocked the Hindu traditional ritual of using lemon and chilli for auspiciousness and warding off bad luck. Owaisi alluded that Hindus waste the lemons by crushing them whereas Muslims utilise them by offering lemon juice to others and using chillies in their meat dishes.


“If I buy a new car, or a new motorcycle, or open a welding shop, a puncture repair shop or a fruit lorry, I crush lime in a glass and offer lemon juice to others. You crush lemons, we drink lemon juice,” Owaisi said.

He continued saying that a BJP-Shiv Sena supporter called him up asserting that lemon and chillies have the ability to avert dangers and problems. Scoffing at this Hindu belief, Owaisi asked the BJP-Shiv Sena supporter to send a lorry of lemons and chillies at the border, claiming that nothing will happen there.

“You crush lemons, we offer lemon juice. You hang green chillies, we put them in minced meat. We do not waste anything. We eat everything,” Owaisi jeered.

Read: Muslims who voted for Modi are ‘Chhakkas’, if there were Muslims in power, we could have saved Yakub Memon: Asaduddin Owaisi in Nanded

Besides, AIMIM chief’s speech yesterday was replete with insinuations for Muslims to shun secularism and vote solely on the basis of religion. Owaisi further claimed that Muslims have been ignored and treated unjustly in the country. He even lamented the death sentence awarded to Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon. He claimed that Muslims were unable to save Yakub Memom from being hanged because they were not in power.

Asaduddin Owaisi’s brother Akbaruddin Owaisi had earlier threatened to kill the Hindus and balance the population ratio if police forces are removed for 15 minutes.

The NBA fiasco: The Chinese threat to the Liberal World Order and the opportunities it presents to India

K Bhattacharjee
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The NBA fiasco: The Chinese threat to the Liberal World Order and the opportunities it presents to India

Recently, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey triggered a chain of events in motion that could have massive repercussions. All he did was a tweet in support of the Hong Kong protesters. He posted an image that had the seven words, “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.” China does not take kindly to corporates meddling in its affairs. As a consequence, the NBA, which has made massive investments in the country over the years and generates huge revenue from it, swung into action and disassociated itself from Morey’s tweet. The reaction to the tweet in China was ‘harsh’, to put it mildly.

The Liberal World Order is based on remarkable narcissism. It’s based on the fundamentally flawed assumption that as any country became more and more developed economically, it will expand to become more and more liberal as a society. Of course, it’s a religious belief with no basis in reality. And the greatest threat to it currently is mounted by the autocratic regime China.

The Chinese Basketball Association declared that it would suspend all cooperation with Houston Rockets. China’s consulate general in Houston urged the team to “clarify and immediately correct the mistakes.” CCTV 5, the sports channel of China’s top state broadcaster, announced that it would suspend airing the team’s events on television. And Tencent (TCEHY) Sports stated that it would suspend live streaming the games, and reporting news about the team.

The NBA, subsequently, made a statement that could only be described as a capitulation to the might of the Chinese. The NBA said that it realized that Morey’s opinions “have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable.” “While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them,” NBA said in a statement, adding: “We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.”

The response of NBA to the tantrum by China was criticized widely across the board by US politicians, both Democrats and Republicans. Following the outrage, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a statement of his own. “The NBA will not put itself in a position of regulating what players, employees and team owners say or will not say,” Silver said in the statement. “We simply could not operate that way.”

Daryl Morey, in the midst of all of this, issued a grovelling apology. For all the virtue-signalling globalist corporates indulge in, they regularly demonstrate that their allegiance is to money and money alone, as the NBA has now. Everything else is just a means towards increasing their revenues.


Americans are quite upset by the manner in which the NBA has capitulated to China. However, it is something that has been happening for quite some time now. The US Business class has been regularly massaging the egos of the Chinese regime to maintain its access to the country’s market. From Google to Apple to ESPN, every American company that has invested in China has knelt down before China and obediently fellated Xi Jinping.


When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, every liberal intellectual was orgasmic in their belief that China would espouse liberal values. It was, of course, consistent with their delusional belief, embodied by Francis Fukuyama, that liberalism would mark ‘the end of history’, that is, liberalism is the end-point of humanity’s sociocultural evolution.

China is the biggest refutation of it. It was the predominant belief among liberal intellectuals that the investments made by the American business class in China would also result in the flowering of liberal values in the country. That has not happened. Instead, China has exported, along with a million other things, the values of censorship to the United States.


Wisdom has dawned on the American political establishment of late and credit for it must go to US President Donald Trump. People in the United States are also realizing that the American Business class has sold out their own countrymen and national interests to China for a few more bucks. Thus, we see a radical shift in US policy against the Chinese regime.

US President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on China and visa restrictions in response to unfair trade practices of the communist regime and its human rights violations against its Muslim population. As a consequence, the Chinese economy is suffering and it’s anybody’s guess the extent to which it would suffer.

Despite our own rivalry with China, there are certain things we ought to be grateful to the Chinese for. With their obsession with upending the global world order based on Western dominance, they have provided India with an opportunity to pursue our own interests with renewed vigour. Chaos is a ladder, a wise man once remarked, and China has unleashed chaos on a global scale. The chaos that was necessary for China to achieve its own objective.

It is due to the chaos that China unleashed that India got the window of opportunity to abrogate Article 370. For over two months, Kashmir is on virtual lockdown. We can do so because of the US-China trade war. Much of the international community and the US of A has endorsed India’s actions in Kashmir. This was unthinkable even a decade ago. It’s due to China’s hegemonic ambitions that an opportunity was created for India to alter the equations of its relationship with Pakistan.

The USA knows that it cannot afford to antagonize India during its trade war with China. Even in the rest of the Western world, there’s growing apprehension about China’s global ambitions. Thus, India has much more leverage now on the international scene than it has ever had in the recent past. And the Modi Sarkar with its focus on foreign policy is trying to milk it to the fullest.

The definitive wins with regards to international diplomacy have not yet translated into specific economic benefits yet. But with the corporate tax cuts that were announced recently and with the promise of more reforms around the corner, India will hopefully soon begin to reap the economic benefits of the trade wars as well.

The recent capitulation by the NBA to China ought to be seen as another step in the death of the liberal world order. And we ought to remember that China may have initiated it but India stands to gain from its demise as well. All of this is quite evident from the words of MEA Jaishankar himself.

During a talk at an American Think Tank, Jaishankar remarked on the changing political landscape of India, “You have a new set of people there with different thoughts, with their own sense of roots, who relate to the world obviously different from the people who dominated the Indian political scene before them.”

He also stated quite bluntly that the West never wanted India to become weak but neither did it want India to become strong. He described it as the ‘Goldilocks era of the relationship’. He also emphasized the fact that “India would hedge enough to make sure that it always has a strong bargaining hand vis-à-vis the West”.

China with its reckless abandon has opened up this opportunity for India. Our country is the only one in the region which has any hope of standing up to China. We also happen to be the only country that could ever hope to match the strength of China’s market. Thus, as China bares its fangs more and more as it has against the NBA on this particular occasion, it will also risk strengthening India’s hands. Ironically enough, China cannot pursue its hegemonic ambitions against the West without strengthening its regional rival India.

MEA Jaishankar’s words made it abundantly clear that India would make a hard bargain and pursue its own national interests. Times have changed and so has India. And the West must realize it and must come to a new understanding with India. And amusingly enough, contrary to our civilizational character, India stands on the edge of history as the Joker in the pack.

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