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On the eve of Bakr-Eid, chief of Ansar Gazawat-ul-Hind, al-Qaida's Kashmir cell, Zakir Musa issued a 10-minute audio message, threatening to "liberate" India from the rule of "cow-worshipping" PM Modi and Hindus. Musa, former Hizbul Mujahideen terroriost, also warned the government against deporting Rohingya Muslims in Jammu. Last week, the Centre had said that it intended to deport all the estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims living in India. Around 6,000 of them live in Jammu. Lashing out at Pakistan army and government for betraying Kashmir's jihadi movement by supporting the US in its war against "mujahideen", Musa said Islamabad "shut down training camps (for terrorists), martyred many Kashmir-centric mujahideen and put some behind bars". The message was released on YouTube channel Ansar Ghazwa and circulated by his followers on messaging platforms. Earlier, the outfit's media wi...

Myanmar security forces fired mortars and machine guns at terrified Rohingya villagers fleeing northern Rakhine State for Bangladesh on Saturday, according to an AFP reporter and a border official at the scene, as clashes which have killed scores continued for a second day. The fighting, concentrated around remote border villages, is between suspected Rohingya militants and Myanmar security forces, but is increasingly sweeping in civilians — from the Muslim minority as well as local Buddhists and Hindus. Rakhine State has become a crucible of religious hatred focused on the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, who are reviled and perceived as illegal immigrants in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. Violence has again flared throughout the region, leaving at least 92 dead since early Friday, according to an official toll, and forcing thousands of Rohingya to flee towards Bangladesh. But authorities there have refused to let most of them in, stranding thousands of people, ma...

  Slowly and steadily we are able to understand why Lt Colonel Purohit was jailed by the then UPA government that was led by Sonia Gandhi. Soon after he is released out of the jail, he has started revealing information that we never imagined in our wildest of the dreams. Yes, Lt Col Purohit has said that Dawood was in Mumbai in the year 2005. Now this raises question on the ruling government because how the most wanted criminal so easily sneak into our nation? The most wanted, Dawood Ibrahim was in Mumbai!!! Yes, Lt Colonel Purohit had all the details of Dawood Ibrahim’s visit to Mumbai. Officer had successfully gained access to even to the people with whom Dawood had links and movements in India. Perhaps this officer knew something more that could destroy a political party. Dawood’s visit had grabbed the attention of few newspapers and it was published in June 5 th or 6 th June, 2005 in certain newspapers. Dawood was acting like a pivot between ISI and the ...

Former Vice-President Hamid Ansari sparked a new controversy on his last day of office by taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In one of his interviews to the Rajya Sabha TV, Ansari said there is a feeling of unease and a sense of insecurity among Muslims in the country and got a sarcastic rebuttal from PM Modi in an epic farewell speech for former VP. But former RAW officer and author of a Stellar work on RAW “Mission R&WA” R K Yadav had more shocking revelations about former ambassador to Iran Hamid Ansari (1990). Mr. R K Yadav who is quite active on twitter in a series of tweets revealed a lot of details about Mr Ansari’s stay in Teheran as Ambassador to Iran in 1990. In his book Mission R&AW, he dedicated two pages to the “worst experience” that the RAW operatives posted in Tehran had to undergo during Ansari’s posting there. In the chapter “Bizarre R&AW Incidents”, he wrote about how the wives of the mission staff were furious with Ansari ...

The soldiers were found guilty by a Pakistani military tribunal in Haiti and will serve their terms back home. The attack in Gonaives in January was not the first time UN peacekeepers have been accused of assault. Last year, five Uruguayan soldiers were accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a UN base. In that case a video which purported to show the attack was posted on the internet, leading to protests in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and calls for the UN to leave the country. There have also been demands that UN soldiers should be stripped of their immunity and be tried by Haitian courts. Monday's ruling was the first time that UN personnel have been tried and sentenced while still in the country. Haitian Justice Minister Michel Brunache said the verdict was a small step in the right direction but that "we expected more from the UN and the Pakistani government". The UN peacekeeping mission has been deployed in Haiti since 2004. I...

A massive rally has been organised by the Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation in Jandali area of PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) to demand freedom from Pakistan.  Local leader Liyaqat Khan said, "Pakistan sends terrorists here to ruin this peaceful place". In a video shared by ANI, the protestors are seen raising pro-freedom slogans and raising banners to demand freedom from Pakistan. This is not the first time that demands of freedom from Pakistan have been raised from the troubled region. In the past as well, anti-Pakistan protests have taken place across Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Pakistani forces have been accused of committing human rights violations and inflicting atrocities on the people of PoK.  On April 24, 2017, hundreds of locals in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir's Kotli area took to the streets to protest against the forcible land-grabbing by Pakistan Army. The protesters raised anti-Pakistan army and anti-Pakistan government slogans. On Feb...

Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik whose passport was revoked earlier in July, has contested NIA's (National Investigation Agency) request to Interpol for a red-corner notice. Naik has alleged that the case against him is linked to "religious persecution of minorities in India". In his plea to Interpol, Naik has submitted that he had been delivering speeches on Islam for the past 25 years across several countries, where he was respected and welcomed. He has alleged that Indian agencies, by banning his NGO Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) and preventing him from delivering speeches on Islam, were violating his freedom of expression. Ads by ZINC Naik also cited the "poor condition of Indian prisons" and "human rights violations" there to back his plea. Naik's plea comes after the National Investigative Agency (NIA) wrote to Interpol and Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI) in May for issuing a...

Senior Shia cleric and general secretary of Majlis-E-Ulema-E-Hind, Maulana Kalbe Jawad on Friday said that only a mosque can be constructed on land earmarked for a mosque, while referring to the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute. He also said that those crying out loud about shifting of the Babri Masjid to another spot making way for the Ram Mandir to be built in place, should instead give up their personal property for the purpose. Lashing out strongly the Maulana said, "Those suggesting giving up of the Babri Masjid land for the temple have only the right to donate their own land and not stake claim on a land earmarked for a mosque. What is not your own, does not give you the right to make decisions for it. These people favouring the shift should instead give up their house and property for it." The cleric said he was speaking on behalf the national level body of clerics, Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind and of the Shia community, who will both honour and accept the decision o...

A Muslim youth, who sexually assaulted 40 Hindu women after fleecing them of money, was finally arrested by the Kerala Police  on Friday . 30-year-old Muhammad Shafi, a high school dropout, used to pose himself as an NRI medical practitioner by the name, Dr Satish Raghavan. He used match-making websites to target women. What shocked the investigators is his choice of victims. When asked why he chose only Hindu girls, he said he can’t ditch girls in his community. “A devout Muslim, he thinks it is a sin to molest a Muslim girl,” says an investigator. After striking rapport with his victims and their kin, he would invite them to a five-star hotel in Bengaluru, where he takes their nude photos and sexually assault them. After this, he would physically assault and burn them with cigarette butts. While assaulting the victim, he would shout at them saying, “you are no more a virgin. I have deflowered you.”   Investigators said he never felt any remorse, as the victims ...

Junior Interior Minister ‘Kiren Rijiju’ told the Parliament last week that they have directed state authorities to identify and deport Illegal Immigrants including Rohingayas. There are over 40,000 Rohingayas who are living Illegaly in India. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has issued identity cards to about 16,500 Rohingya in India that it says help them “prevent harbitrary arrests, detention and deportation”. But Kiren Rijiju said in an interview on the weekend that the UNHCR registration was irrelevant. “They are doing it, we can’t stop them from registering. But we are not signatory to the accord on refugees,” he said. “As far as we are concerned they are all illegal immigrants They have no basis to live here. Anybody who is illegal migrant will be deported.” On the other hand UNHCR India office said on Monday, that sending back Refugees to a place where they face danger was considered part of customary international law and binding on al...

Hyderabad has the second-largest concentration of Rohingyas after Jammu, where the number is estimated at 7,000. “We thank India for allowing us to stay. If the government wants to deport us, it can do it but it will be better if they kill us here instead of sending us back,” says Abdul Raheem, a refugee, in a voice choked with emotion. Anxiety is writ large on the faces of over 3,800 Rohingya Muslims living in Hyderabad amid reports that the Indian government is planning to deport them. They say they prefer to die here rather than return to Myanmar, where they face persecution. Having lived here for over five years now, the refugees say they would not like to return to their native country to be slaughtered. They have appealed to the Indian government to drop, on humanitarian grounds, the plans to deport them. Raheem, (32), who has been living in Hyderabad with his wife and three children since 2012, said they could think of returning to their country only after they were assu...

Nobel Peace Center which is: one of Norway's most visited museums with app 250 000 vistors per year presents the Nobel Peace Prize laureates and their work, in addition to telling the story of Alfred Nobel is an arena for debate and reflection around topics such as war, peace and conflict resolution is internationally recognized for its emphasis on documentary photography and interactive technology presents changing exhibitions, engaging digital solutions, films, seminars and events is an independent foundation, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee appointing the board Olav Njølstad is the leader of the board, Liv Tørres is the Executive Director is financed by a combination of public and private funds the main sponsors and collaborating partners are Hydro, Telenor Group and ABB Recently invited a Mass murderer of INDIANS & BALOCH to deliver a Speech at Nobel Peace center. On Thursday, August 17th, Pakistan’s former president, Pervez Musharraf gave a lecture at the Nobel Peace C...

 In a bid to check "irregularities in madrassas", the Uttar Pradesh government today launched a portal of UP Madrassa Board for online registration of all such Islamic institutions. "There were a number of complaints of irregularities in madrassas and it was decided to make the registration online so that details of all madrassas, their management, teachers, etc are available online," UP Waqf Minister Mohsin Raza told reporters here. This is a step towards digitisation which is on the priority of the Yogi Adityanath government, he said. The move will bring transparency as all the details of the madrassa will be available online, the minister said. "The madrassa education should also be modern like in other educational institutions. With modernisation, students of madrassas will be able to get technical education and they will get better job opportunities," Minority Welfare cabinet minister Lakshmi Narain Chowdhury said at the programme where the portal...

Defence360, few days back has posted about INDIA's sale of Brahmos to Vietnam in one of its post on its Facebook page. Amidst a tense military stand-off with Chinese troops at the Dolam tri-junction in Bhutan, reports today sprung up in Vietnam suggesting that India had begun supplying BrahMos missiles to the country following a long pending deal — a provocative proposition given the atmosphere, and a story that immediately exploded across media in both countries. What followed was hours on a diplomatic roller-coaster ending in a frantic wall of denial raising questions over where these reports emerged from and whether Vietnam is actually anywhere near acquiring the high-performance missile system from India. Vietnam, one of Beijing’s arch-adversaries in the region, at first didn’t confirm or deny the reports. Vietnamese media appeared to confirm the purchase, but later altered their headlines, apparently after the story exploded on Indian social media. The report li...