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Apprehending protracted unrest in Kashmir, the Centre has started preparation for providing winter logistics to central paramilitary forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Home Ministry has already approached the Army and supplying agencies to provide winter boots, socks, jackets, snow gloves and other warm clothing which would be required by around 70,000 paramilitary forces deployed in the state.

A top Home Ministry official is personally monitoring the procurement process and trying to ensure that all required items are delivered before the onset of the “harsh winter” ahead.
“We are really worried about the boys on the ground. We have to get all winter logistics well before the time as Kashmir is expected to have a harsh winter,” a senior official said.
Unrest in Kashmir continues ever since the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani on July 8 leading to huge deployment of paramilitary forces across Kashmir.

“We have to be prepared in case the turmoil continues for a longer period, especially during winter,” the official said.(PTI)

SRINAGAR: Reacting to the attacks on the Kashmiri students in Haryana and Rajasthan institutions following the current situation in Kashmir, Congress today condemned these attacks and expressed grave concern over the safety of students. Congress leader Salman Nizami said “Reports of such incidents pouring in almost on regular basis are shocking and the menace has now reached an alarming stage”. Nizami said that under a planned conspiracy Kashmiris were being beaten, those spreading hate against Kashmir’s go unnoticed and in fact are being often rewarded. But, our students are being harassed, tortured, humiliated and disgraced one way or the other only for being Kashmiris and are being treated as anti-nationals, “there is no logic to threaten Kashmiris in many parts of India only for the reason that the right wing Hindu organizations derive pleasure out of it. He said, “Whoever disagrees with BJP’s version of truth is called anti-national or terrorist, there are no of complaints of harassment and discrimination against Kashmiri students outside Jammu and Kashmir. One of the most common complaints is that they find it difficult to find a place to stay as many landlords refuse to rent their flat out to Kashmiris. The govt must ensure Kashmiri students aren’t thrashed in any part of the country. Let all those elements realize that they are adding fuel to the fire, and attacks on Kashmiris may polarize situation in Kashmir & will create more violence. Nizami said “It is the responsibility of govt to ensure that Kashmiri students, drivers and traders present in their respective states are not harassed. He further asked the govt to take all measure to ensure that the attackers get exemplary punishment under law so as to prove a deterrent for the others.

A Kashmiri student of a private college here was detained today for allegedly posting “anti-national” comments on social media site Facebook after the Uri terror attack, police said.
Mudasir Rashid, a Srinagar resident, has been suspended by his college, Techno India NJR Institute of Technology.

He has been detained for allegedly posting and sharing anti-national comments and material on Facebook, sub-inspector Hiran Magri police station Gordhan Ram said.
ABVP activists along with local students staged a protest at the college and demanded action against the accused.
They also damaged college property and hoisted the national flag atop a building, Ram added.

“Rashid has been suspended initially for seven days,” said college director RS Vyas.
“He (Mudasir Rashid) allegedly started posting and sharing anti-national comments after the Uri terror attacks. This came to light after some students approached the college administration with print-outs of his posts. He was handed over to police,” he said.
There are 15 Kashmiri students in the college and Rashid was one of them, Vyas added
In March, four Kashmiri students were arrested for allegedly cooking beef in their hostel rooms at a Chittorgarh based private university.
The university saw clashes between locals and Kashmiri students after India lost to West Indies in a T-20 match in April. (PTI)

India makes case for isolating Pakistan globally at UN

New Delhi: India today made a case for isolating Pakistan globally at the United Nations when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj questioned as to why some nations take no action against terrorists holding rallies in full public view on their soil and said “there is no place for such nations in the international community”.“These nations, in which UN-designated terrorists roam freely, lead processions and deliver their poisonous sermons of hate with impunity, are as culpable as the very terrorists they harbour,” she said.  “The world needs to isolate countries that do not want to act against terrorists,” she said.Her statement reflected a continuation of the grand strategy that the government has adopted after the Uri terror attack — to isolate Pakistan globally.In an address that was marked by restraint, the minister, however, made it a point to make a rebuttal on the charges brought against India by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who addressed the UN assembly a few days ago. She also stated very clearly that “Kashmir is and will remain an integral part of India and Pakistan needs to stop dreaming”. She rebutted Sharif’s charges of human rights violations in India by asking Pakistan to look into its own backyard and said, “Pakistan needs to introspect, including on the brutalities in Balochistan.” The Baloch card is another issue that India has now been consistently raising at various multilateral fora in an attempt to push Pakistan back when it raises the bogey of rights violations in India.The minister also rubbished Sharif’s allegation that India is the one that has set preconditions for a dialogue. Instead, she pointed out, India had offered friendship to Pakistan and in return India got “Pathankot, Bahadur Ali and Uri”. Making the point that terrorism today is not just an India-Pakistan problem, but a menace that has spread globally, she said, “The terror apparatus that was behind 26/11 was also behind Uri. They were behind several terror attacks the world over.” She also called terrorism as the “biggest violator of human rights since it targets the innocent”.Towards the end of her address, she appealed to the global community: “We should adopt the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism to develop norms to prosecute terrorists.”

SUMMARY: “Kashmir is an integral part of India and it will remain an integral part of India. No one can take it away by force.”

Targetting Pakistan squarely, India on Monday told the United Nations that Jammu and Kashmir is an inalienable part of the country and nobody can wrest it away by force.
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a retort to Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s speech last week where he harped on Kashmir, said in the UNGA: “Kashmir is an integral part of India and it will remain an integral part of India. No one can take it away by force.”

Speaking in Hindi at the United Nations General Assembly, she said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had extended the hand of friendship to Pakistan by inviting his counterpart Nawaz Sharif to his swearing-in ceremony in May 2014, and also visiting Lahore last December in a goodwill gesture.
“But what did we get in return? Pathankot, Uri, Bahadur Ali,” she said, referring to the January 2 attack on an air force base in Pathankot that left seven soldiers dead, and the Uri attack of September 18 in which 18 soldiers died, and the capture of Bahadur Ali. (IANS)

SRINAGAR: At a time when the authorities are desperately trying to monitor the social websites in Kashmir to manage the situation, it may have to worry for Jammu too. A sex racket has created a new sensation in Jammu because the people running it were using the social websites.

The racket exposed a month ahead of Durbar Move is being investigated by police in Jaipur. They have already arrested twenty persons and many more may go in, reports indicate.

So far, police have arrested seven girls and eight pimps. The Madams’ are in the age group of 26-40, police said.

The group was mostly operating on-line using the social websites like Whatsapp and Facebook.

The police acted against the gang on a formal complaint accusing at least six mobile owners of running the racket. They had put their cell phone numbers on social websites asking people to call them if they want “sex with excellent model girls offered from Jammu.” Reports said these men were actually running an “escort” service in the garb of which they were running a huge prostitution cartel.

Once people took the compliant seriously, it was a racket waiting for a long time to be taken care of. Within minutes after the case was taken up, police came to know about this major flesh trade chain. It raided various places and started making arrests of both, the cartel-owners and the comfort girls. Interestingly, these women peddlers had identified their “women” on the websites as well.

Senior Superintendent of Police Jammu told reporters that they have actually arrested 20 people and many more are round the corner. He indicated that the number of women detained for investigations might be more than what is publicly known. They have already registered a case FIR 93/2016 U/S 67-A, B IT Act 5/8 PIT Act.

Of the four initial arrears in the cartel, two were from Bishnah and one each from R S Pora and Jammu city. They actually led the cops to the “girls” and the pimps.

Interestingly, pimps from Mumbai were operating from Jammu city to manage their up-market clients back home. Interestingly, one of the detained is from Baramulla.

Dr Sunil Gupta, SSP Jammu, who is supervising the investigations has indiacted that the network of the racket may cross many districts across J&K and adjoining states also. The involvement of some high profile people in the racket has not been ruled out.