Kashmir Media Service Latest and Breaking News from Kashmir and India

August, 2022

• 19 August

  Pakistan categorically rejects India’s machinations of pre-poll rigging, manipulation in IIOJK

  

  #Colonization_Of_IIOJK Islamabad, August 19 (KMS): Pakistan Friday categorically rejected the deliberate Indian attempts of pre-poll rigging and overt manipulation in the Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said the latest announcement of permitting even temporary residents in the …

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• 19 August

  Article: Thank you, Modiji, we now know what is the biggest danger to our democracy

  

  (The Wire) Gujarat's elections are due in months and nothing is more important to the BJP than winning them; thus appeasement of the majority has been an imperative they could not have resisted.

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• 19 August

  Article: Release of Bilkis Bano Case convicts: Conflicting remission policies raise difficult questions

  

  (The Wire) While the Gujarat government says the convicts were released as per its 1992 policy, experts say many other factors should have convinced the authorities to reject the applications.

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• 19 August

  Article: Where rapists, murderers dare to tread

  

  Quamar Ashraf Rights activists, commentators, opposition parties all are dismayed over the release of all the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape and murder case. The culprits, who were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang-raping Bano and murdering seven members of her family during the heat of 2002 …

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• 19 August

  Bilkis Bano case: An open letter to the US Secretary of State on travesty of justice in India

  

  Washington D.C., Aug 19 (KMS): International Society for Peace and Justice(ISPJ), a rights body in United States of America has written an open letter to Antony J. Blinken, the Secretary of State on the early release of 11 men convicted of gang rape of a Muslim woman and killing of …

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• 19 August

  “Withdraw case against Bajrang Dal members”: Father of lynched Karnataka Muslim man faces death threats

  

  Bengaluru, Aug 19 (KMS): Months after the brutal lynching of Karnataka Muslim man, Sameer Shahpur, by members of Hindutva outfit Bajrang Dal, the father of slain Muslim said he has been receiving death threats from men associated with the same outfit. 19-year old Sameer Shahpur and 22-year old Shamsheer Khan …

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• 19 August

  6,000 citizens come together to condemn grave injustice to Bilkis Bano

  

  New Delhi, Aug 19 (KMS): Coming together to express their shock and horror at the pre-mature release of 11 Hindutva men convicted of gang-rape and mass murder, about 6000 ordinary citizens, grassroots workers, women’s, human rights, peace, secularism, anti-caste, disability, queer rights and other peoples’ movements, groups and activists, eminent …

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• 19 August

  Bilkis Bano Case: Gujarat remission panel was loaded with two BJP MLAs, claims Chidambaram

  

  New Delhi, Aug 19 (KMS):  Senior Congress leader and former Indian Minister P. Chidambaram, who has questioned the remission of sentence in the Bilkis Bano case, claimed that the remission panel contained two MLAs from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).   There is an interesting side story to the …

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• 19 August

  BJP MLA draws ire for eulogizing Bilkis case convicts as ‘Brahmins of good Sansakar’

  

  New Delhi, Aug 19 (KMS): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA of Godhra, who was a member of the committee that recommended the release of rape and murder convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, was condemned after he justified the remission by calling them “Brahmins and men of good sansakar”. Talking …

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• 18 August

  People in Jammu take to streets against franchise to Indian citizens in IIOJK

  

  Jammu, August 18 (KMS): People in Jammu staged protest demonstrations against the announcement by the Modi regime to include Indian citizens in voter lists of occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The residents on Thursday took to the streets in Janipur in Jammu and burnt the copies of the latest order of …

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• 18 August

  At UN, Pakistan slams India’s attempts to portray Kashmiris’ self-determination fight as terrorism

  

  United Nations, August 18 (KMS): Pakistan has told the United Nations Security Council that India was suppressing the Kashmiris’ struggle for freedom, as no effort has been made to distinguish terrorism from the pursuit of peoples’ legitimate right for self-determination and national liberation. According to Kashmir Media Service, Ambassador Munir …

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• 18 August

  Hunger strike in Kotbhalwal jail on killing of inmate by police in fake encounter

  

  Jammu, Aug 18 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir; Indian police martyred a political prisoner in a fake encounter in Jammu district, resorting his fellow inmates at Kotbhalwal jail to hunger strike against his extrajudicial killing. The police took the prisoner identified as Mohammad Ali Hussain out of …

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• 18 August

  Kot Bhalwal jail a new death trap for Kashmiri, Pakistani prisoners: Wani

  

  Islamabad, August 18 (KMS): All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Jammu and Kashmir (APHC-AJK) chapter leader Altaf Hussain Wani has said that Kot Bhalwal jail, Jammu, has become a new death trap for hapless Kashmiri and Pakistani prisoners. Altaf Hussain Wani in a statement issued in Islamabad, taking a strong exception …

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• 18 August

  India’s dreaded NIA launches house raids in IIOJK

  Jammu, August 18 (KMS): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the India’s dreaded National Investigation Agency (NIA) launched house raids in several places in the territory. The NIA along with Indian paramilitary and police personnel barged into the offices and houses in Srinagar, Kathua, Samba, Jammu and Doda districts …

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• 18 August

  Time to get rid of Indian slavery, Masarrat tells pro-India parties in IIOJK

  

  Srinagar, August 18 (KMS): The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Masarrat Aalam Butt has called upon the United Nations and the world major powers to prevent India from converting occupied Jammu and Kashmir into a settler colony as Israel is doing in occupied Palestine. Masarrat Aalam Butt in a …

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