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  • Country run by dangerous people, 2024 is the ultimate probability to put off BJP: Satya Pal Malik

    Express News Service

    JAIPUR: Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Tuesday talked about that the nation is being run by “very dangerous people” and it is headed by a “very wrong kind of person.” 

    While addressing a farmer’s rally to mark the 88th anniversary of farmers’ killings in 1935 at Ajitpura in Sikar district of Rajasthan on Tuesday, Malik added that “if this group of people returns to power in 2024, it would be the end of the lives of farmers in the country.” 

    He reiterated his remarks on the Pulwama assault asserting that if airplane had been provided, the lives of CRPF personnel, who had been martyred, could have been saved.

    “If the Home Ministry had provided five airplanes, the lives of 40 soldiers could have been saved. The PM and Home Minister forbade me from uttering anything. On the same day, I understood the issue will be ly politicized for gains in elections. Now you can imagine what kind of dangerous people are running the country. They have no sympathy for their soldiers and country,” Malik claimed.
     
    Malik exhorted the farmers to face united and fight for his or her rights. The 2020-’21 farmers’ protests are over. But the requires are however to be met. The requires embrace the one concerning minimal assist value for the produce.

    He cautioned that the 2024 election is the ultimate probability sooner than the people to put off the BJP.

    Satyapal Malik moreover responded to Amit Shah’s query as to why he did not improve the Pulwama assault when he was the Governor by asserting that “it is wrong to say that I am raising questions when I am not in power.”

    Malik talked about this whereas talking to the media in Sikar and claimed that he had raised the issue and given statements to some media properties in regards to the lapses by security forces that led to the tragedy. He acknowledged that errors had been made inside the security preparations. The CRPF personnel had requested airplane from the Home Ministry which was not provided, and the letter demanding the aircrafts remained unanswered for 4 months. When the troopers weren’t given the airplane, they wanted to journey by avenue. The route was not sanitized, and the assault website was joined by hyperlink roads connecting ten areas in ten kilometers. There had been no security preparations wherever… 

    The former J&Ok Governor moreover reiterated that the PM, along with Union Home Minister and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, had requested him to stay quiet.

    In February 2019, 40 CRPF personnel had been killed in a terrorist assault in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Satya Pal Malik was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the time being. Describing the Pulwama assault as a failure of intelligence, Malik had simply currently alleged that the central authorities had refused to supply airplane to the jawans.

    In his media interaction, Malik moreover added that it is extreme time PM Modi broke his silence every on Pulwama and Adani factors. Interestingly on Rajasthan, Malik claimed that if Vasundhara Raje is made the CM face the BjP could have some probability of returning to vitality in some other case they’ve little or no hope.

    JAIPUR: Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik on Tuesday talked about that the nation is being run by “very dangerous people” and it is headed by a “very wrong kind of person.” 

    While addressing a farmer’s rally to mark the 88th anniversary of farmers’ killings in 1935 at Ajitpura in Sikar district of Rajasthan on Tuesday, Malik added that “if this group of people returns to power in 2024, it would be the end of the lives of farmers in the country.” 

    He reiterated his remarks on the Pulwama assault asserting that if airplane had been provided, the lives of CRPF personnel, who had been martyred, could have been saved.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

    “If the Home Ministry had provided five airplanes, the lives of 40 soldiers could have been saved. The PM and Home Minister forbade me from uttering anything. On the same day, I understood the issue will be ly politicized for gains in elections. Now you can imagine what kind of dangerous people are running the country. They have no sympathy for their soldiers and country,” Malik claimed.
     
    Malik exhorted the farmers to face united and fight for his or her rights. The 2020-’21 farmers’ protests are over. But the requires are however to be met. The requires embrace the one concerning minimal assist value for the produce.

    He cautioned that the 2024 election is the ultimate probability sooner than the people to put off the BJP.

    Satyapal Malik moreover responded to Amit Shah’s query as to why he did not improve the Pulwama assault when he was the Governor by asserting that “it is wrong to say that I am raising questions when I am not in power.”

    Malik talked about this whereas talking to the media in Sikar and claimed that he had raised the issue and given statements to some media properties in regards to the lapses by security forces that led to the tragedy. He acknowledged that errors had been made inside the security preparations. The CRPF personnel had requested airplane from the Home Ministry which was not provided, and the letter demanding the aircrafts remained unanswered for 4 months. When the troopers weren’t given the airplane, they wanted to journey by avenue. The route was not sanitized, and the assault website was joined by hyperlink roads connecting ten areas in ten kilometers. There had been no security preparations wherever… 

    The former J&Ok Governor moreover reiterated that the PM, along with Union Home Minister and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, had requested him to stay quiet.

    In February 2019, 40 CRPF personnel had been killed in a terrorist assault in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Satya Pal Malik was the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir for the time being. Describing the Pulwama assault as a failure of intelligence, Malik had simply currently alleged that the central authorities had refused to supply airplane to the jawans.

    In his media interaction, Malik moreover added that it is extreme time PM Modi broke his silence every on Pulwama and Adani factors. Interestingly on Rajasthan, Malik claimed that if Vasundhara Raje is made the CM face the BjP could have some probability of returning to vitality in some other case they’ve little or no hope.

  • Jaish decimated after ’19 Pulwama assault, say senior safety officers

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR:  On the fourth anniversary of Pulwama assault, prime safety officers on Tuesday mentioned safety companies are denying area to militants to hold out huge assaults in Kashmir and Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit, which was chargeable for February 14, 2019 Pulwama assault, has been decimated.

    “We are trying to deny the space to militants to execute any big attack in Kashmir,” IG CRPF Operations M S Bhatia informed reporters at Lethpora, Pulwama after paying floral tributes to 40 CRPF males killed in Pulwama assault on February 14, 2019. A wreath laying ceremony was held at Lethpora, Pulwama at the moment to recollect the slain CRPF males. Top safety officers supplied floral tributes to the slain safety males.

    A Jaish suicide bomber Aadil Dar rammed his explosive laden car with a CRPF convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama on February 14, 2019 killing 40 CRPF males. The IG CRPF mentioned intelligence companies are working around the clock and no matter new militant modules evolve, it’s being destroyed. “We bust the modules and bring them to justice before it can do any damage. This process has been going on with full synergy continuously. We make every effort to bust and neutralize each and every militant module”.

    “The OGW network is part of eco terrorism. The continuous action is taken to eliminate this terror eco system. A lot of encounters took place last year and many militant modules were busted,” he mentioned. “There is remarkable progress in the security situation and security forces are determined to wipe out the terrorism in the Valley,” the IG CRPF mentioned. Another CRPF official mentioned after the Pulwama assault, the SOPs have been modified and now no civilian car is allowed throughout the motion of safety convoys.

    He mentioned chance of Pulwama-type assault is close to unimaginable resulting from stringent safety measures put in place. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar mentioned 19 militants have been concerned within the Pulwama assault and NIA had filed chargesheet in opposition to them.

    Of the 19 militants, eight have been killed in encounters, seven arrested whereas 4 militants together with three Pakistanis Azhar Masood, Rouf Masood and Alvi and a neighborhood Ashiq Nengroo are hiding in Pakistan, he mentioned. The ADGP mentioned Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, which was concerned in planning and execution of Pulwama assault, has been decimated by safety forces within the final three years. “Now, Jaish has only 7-8 local militants and 5-6 Pakistani militants. We are after them and they will be eliminated soon,” he mentioned.

    SRINAGAR:  On the fourth anniversary of Pulwama assault, prime safety officers on Tuesday mentioned safety companies are denying area to militants to hold out huge assaults in Kashmir and Jaish-e-Mohammad militant outfit, which was chargeable for February 14, 2019 Pulwama assault, has been decimated.

    “We are trying to deny the space to militants to execute any big attack in Kashmir,” IG CRPF Operations M S Bhatia informed reporters at Lethpora, Pulwama after paying floral tributes to 40 CRPF males killed in Pulwama assault on February 14, 2019. A wreath laying ceremony was held at Lethpora, Pulwama at the moment to recollect the slain CRPF males. Top safety officers supplied floral tributes to the slain safety males.

    A Jaish suicide bomber Aadil Dar rammed his explosive laden car with a CRPF convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama on February 14, 2019 killing 40 CRPF males. The IG CRPF mentioned intelligence companies are working around the clock and no matter new militant modules evolve, it’s being destroyed. “We bust the modules and bring them to justice before it can do any damage. This process has been going on with full synergy continuously. We make every effort to bust and neutralize each and every militant module”.

    “The OGW network is part of eco terrorism. The continuous action is taken to eliminate this terror eco system. A lot of encounters took place last year and many militant modules were busted,” he mentioned. “There is remarkable progress in the security situation and security forces are determined to wipe out the terrorism in the Valley,” the IG CRPF mentioned. Another CRPF official mentioned after the Pulwama assault, the SOPs have been modified and now no civilian car is allowed throughout the motion of safety convoys.

    He mentioned chance of Pulwama-type assault is close to unimaginable resulting from stringent safety measures put in place. Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar mentioned 19 militants have been concerned within the Pulwama assault and NIA had filed chargesheet in opposition to them.

    Of the 19 militants, eight have been killed in encounters, seven arrested whereas 4 militants together with three Pakistanis Azhar Masood, Rouf Masood and Alvi and a neighborhood Ashiq Nengroo are hiding in Pakistan, he mentioned. The ADGP mentioned Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, which was concerned in planning and execution of Pulwama assault, has been decimated by safety forces within the final three years. “Now, Jaish has only 7-8 local militants and 5-6 Pakistani militants. We are after them and they will be eliminated soon,” he mentioned.

  • CRPF pays tribute to Pulwama martyrs on fourth anniversary 

    By PTI

    PULWAMA: The CRPF and different safety forces on Tuesday paid tributes to the 40 jawans, who misplaced their lives in a terror assault on their convoy right here in 2019.

    Led by Special Director General of the CRPF Daljit Singh Chaudhry, the officers of the power, the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Army laid floral wreaths on the memorial for the Pulwama martyrs right here.

    Talking to reporters, Chaudhry mentioned the sacrifice of the Pulwama martyrs encourage the power to work for a terror-free nation.

    “Our 40 bravehearts sacrificed their lives. We are proud of them. Their sacrifice inspires us to make the country terror free,” he mentioned.

    General Officer Commanding of Army’s 15 Corps Lt Gen A S Aujla, ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, IG CRPF (operations) M S Bhatia, DIG South Kashmir Range Rayees Bhat and deputy commissioner Pulwama have been among the many officers who laid wreaths on the memorial.

    Forty troopers had made the supreme sacrifice after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden automobile into the CRPF convoy.

    PULWAMA: The CRPF and different safety forces on Tuesday paid tributes to the 40 jawans, who misplaced their lives in a terror assault on their convoy right here in 2019.

    Led by Special Director General of the CRPF Daljit Singh Chaudhry, the officers of the power, the Jammu and Kashmir Police and Army laid floral wreaths on the memorial for the Pulwama martyrs right here.

    Talking to reporters, Chaudhry mentioned the sacrifice of the Pulwama martyrs encourage the power to work for a terror-free nation.

    “Our 40 bravehearts sacrificed their lives. We are proud of them. Their sacrifice inspires us to make the country terror free,” he mentioned.

    General Officer Commanding of Army’s 15 Corps Lt Gen A S Aujla, ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, IG CRPF (operations) M S Bhatia, DIG South Kashmir Range Rayees Bhat and deputy commissioner Pulwama have been among the many officers who laid wreaths on the memorial.

    Forty troopers had made the supreme sacrifice after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden automobile into the CRPF convoy.

  • Digvijaya remarks ridiculous: Rahul amid BJP roast

    By Express News Service

    SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI:  The Congress hasn’t preferred celebration chief Digvijaya Singh’s remarks questioning the 2016 surgical strike. The closing phrase has come from Rahul Gandhi who termed his remarks ridiculous. However, the BJP wouldn’t let it go, and has threatened to take the controversy to the folks.

    Rahul’s robust denunciation got here throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra’s halt in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. He mentioned the celebration trusts the Indian Army and that armed forces don’t want to provide any proof for his or her daredevilry. “I don’t agree with what Digvijaya has said. These were his personal views and not that of Congress,” Rahul mentioned. “We are crystal clear that armed forces don’t need to provide proof of anything,” Rahul mentioned. Digvijaya on Monday questioned the 2016 surgical strikes and mentioned there was no proof to show that such an motion befell in any respect.

    READ HERE | Congress distances from Digvijaya’s Pulwama jibe

    Asked why no motion was taken in opposition to Digvijaya, Rahul mentioned, “We are a democratic party and not a dictatorship. We don’t run our party on principles of coercion. We don’t appreciate Digvijaya’s personal views. The party’s views are above his views.” “The views of the party are generated from conversations within the party. In this case, I am sorry to have to say this about a senior leader, he said a ridiculous thing,” mentioned Rahul.

    Asked concerning the celebration’s stand on Article 370 revocation, Rahul mentioned, “Our position is very clear. Our working committee resolution is there and you can read it”.  He, nevertheless, mentioned the celebration needs early restoration of statehood in J&Okay.

    On BJP’s cost that there’s a “Pakistan in Congress DNA,” he mentioned the Congress gave independence to India. It created all of the establishments and the nation was constructed on Congress’s philosophy. When we had been combating in opposition to the imperial British, the BJP and RSS had been standing with the imperialists. Their ideology and their leaders superior the two-nation concept. We didn’t give it”.

    In Delhi, the BJP was sulfurous, saying the Congress was “habituated to maligning the Army’s reputation. “The Congress must clear its stand on terrorism and national security. It goes without saying that Congress is habituated to casting doubts over the Army’s operations against the country’s enemy,” former Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned.

    SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI:  The Congress hasn’t preferred celebration chief Digvijaya Singh’s remarks questioning the 2016 surgical strike. The closing phrase has come from Rahul Gandhi who termed his remarks ridiculous. However, the BJP wouldn’t let it go, and has threatened to take the controversy to the folks.

    Rahul’s robust denunciation got here throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra’s halt in Jhajjar Kotli, Jammu. He mentioned the celebration trusts the Indian Army and that armed forces don’t want to provide any proof for his or her daredevilry. “I don’t agree with what Digvijaya has said. These were his personal views and not that of Congress,” Rahul mentioned. “We are crystal clear that armed forces don’t need to provide proof of anything,” Rahul mentioned. Digvijaya on Monday questioned the 2016 surgical strikes and mentioned there was no proof to show that such an motion befell in any respect.

    READ HERE | Congress distances from Digvijaya’s Pulwama jibe

    Asked why no motion was taken in opposition to Digvijaya, Rahul mentioned, “We are a democratic party and not a dictatorship. We don’t run our party on principles of coercion. We don’t appreciate Digvijaya’s personal views. The party’s views are above his views.” “The views of the party are generated from conversations within the party. In this case, I am sorry to have to say this about a senior leader, he said a ridiculous thing,” mentioned Rahul.

    Asked concerning the celebration’s stand on Article 370 revocation, Rahul mentioned, “Our position is very clear. Our working committee resolution is there and you can read it”.  He, nevertheless, mentioned the celebration needs early restoration of statehood in J&Okay.

    On BJP’s cost that there’s a “Pakistan in Congress DNA,” he mentioned the Congress gave independence to India. It created all of the establishments and the nation was constructed on Congress’s philosophy. When we had been combating in opposition to the imperial British, the BJP and RSS had been standing with the imperialists. Their ideology and their leaders superior the two-nation concept. We didn’t give it”.

    In Delhi, the BJP was sulfurous, saying the Congress was “habituated to maligning the Army’s reputation. “The Congress must clear its stand on terrorism and national security. It goes without saying that Congress is habituated to casting doubts over the Army’s operations against the country’s enemy,” former Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad mentioned.

  • Who is Rauf Azhar? All you might want to find out about Jaish terrorist whose footprints current in Kandahar hijacking to Pulwama assault

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Abdul Rauf Azhar, within the information after China blocked a proposal on the UN to blacklist him, is believed to be one of many most important conspirators of the IC-814 Kandahar hijacking of 1999 and likewise the Pulwama assault that killed 40 CRPF personnel in 2019.

    Since 1999, Rauf Azhar, brother of Jaish chief Masood Azhar, has emerged because the grasp of optics by way of orchestrating most audacious assaults on Indian institutions that grabbed eyeballs throughout the globe together with the 2001 assault on Parliament when a session was on, the 2005 assault on makeshift Ayodhya Ram temple, and the 2016 assault on ahead base of IAF in Pathankot amongst others.

    Designated as a ‘world terrorist’ by the US in 2010, Rauf Azhar sprung on the phobia map in 1999 when the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Tribhuvan International Airport of Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked and brought to Taliban-controlled Kandhar on December 24.

    As the hijacking saga got here to an finish on December 31, 1999, safety businesses recognized Rauf Azhar as one of many most important conspirators who had hatched the plot to safe the discharge of his brother Masood Azhar from Kot Balwal jail of Jammu, inflicting embarrassment to Indian authorities.

    The assaults deliberate by Rauf Azhar virtually introduced India and Pakistan on the point of a struggle on no less than on two events — the Parliament assault and suicide assault on the CRPF convoy.

    ALSO READ | Row over UN proposal to blacklist Masood Azhar’s brother: War of phrases breaks out between US, China

    India had responded with largest navy mobilisation after 1971 known as Operation Parakram after the Parliament misadventure whereas after the CRPF convoy assault, Induia carried out a goal air strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan’s Balakot crippling the backbone of JeM.

    Number of Red Corner Notices from Interpol in reference to these assaults are pending towards 48-year-old Rauf Azhar who’s ensconced within the security of Pakistan institution.

    According to an Interpol discover, Rauf Azhar is needed for waging, or making an attempt to wage struggle, or abetting waging of struggle, towards authorities of India, assaulting the president, governor, and so on, with intent to compel or restrain the train of any lawful energy apart from being member of terrorist gang or organisation amongst different offences.

    A video of Rauf Azhar which was uploaded on an internet site in Pakistan, the place he could possibly be seen claiming accountability for the Pathankot assault and complimenting his boys for it, was despatched to Interpol.

    The video was later eliminated and the web site additionally vanished.

    Rauf Azhar, who was tagged by the US as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ in 2010, was the chief of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2007 when his elder brother Masood Azhar was stored at an undisclosed vacation spot by the ISI within the wake of worldwide strain.

    China has blocked a proposal by the US and India on the UN to blacklist Rauf Azhar, the second such transfer by Beijing in lower than two months.

    NEW DELHI: Jaish-e-Mohammed’s Abdul Rauf Azhar, within the information after China blocked a proposal on the UN to blacklist him, is believed to be one of many most important conspirators of the IC-814 Kandahar hijacking of 1999 and likewise the Pulwama assault that killed 40 CRPF personnel in 2019.

    Since 1999, Rauf Azhar, brother of Jaish chief Masood Azhar, has emerged because the grasp of optics by way of orchestrating most audacious assaults on Indian institutions that grabbed eyeballs throughout the globe together with the 2001 assault on Parliament when a session was on, the 2005 assault on makeshift Ayodhya Ram temple, and the 2016 assault on ahead base of IAF in Pathankot amongst others.

    Designated as a ‘world terrorist’ by the US in 2010, Rauf Azhar sprung on the phobia map in 1999 when the Indian Airlines flight IC-814 from Tribhuvan International Airport of Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked and brought to Taliban-controlled Kandhar on December 24.

    As the hijacking saga got here to an finish on December 31, 1999, safety businesses recognized Rauf Azhar as one of many most important conspirators who had hatched the plot to safe the discharge of his brother Masood Azhar from Kot Balwal jail of Jammu, inflicting embarrassment to Indian authorities.

    The assaults deliberate by Rauf Azhar virtually introduced India and Pakistan on the point of a struggle on no less than on two events — the Parliament assault and suicide assault on the CRPF convoy.

    ALSO READ | Row over UN proposal to blacklist Masood Azhar’s brother: War of phrases breaks out between US, China

    India had responded with largest navy mobilisation after 1971 known as Operation Parakram after the Parliament misadventure whereas after the CRPF convoy assault, Induia carried out a goal air strike on terrorist camps in Pakistan’s Balakot crippling the backbone of JeM.

    Number of Red Corner Notices from Interpol in reference to these assaults are pending towards 48-year-old Rauf Azhar who’s ensconced within the security of Pakistan institution.

    According to an Interpol discover, Rauf Azhar is needed for waging, or making an attempt to wage struggle, or abetting waging of struggle, towards authorities of India, assaulting the president, governor, and so on, with intent to compel or restrain the train of any lawful energy apart from being member of terrorist gang or organisation amongst different offences.

    A video of Rauf Azhar which was uploaded on an internet site in Pakistan, the place he could possibly be seen claiming accountability for the Pathankot assault and complimenting his boys for it, was despatched to Interpol.

    The video was later eliminated and the web site additionally vanished.

    Rauf Azhar, who was tagged by the US as ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ in 2010, was the chief of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2007 when his elder brother Masood Azhar was stored at an undisclosed vacation spot by the ISI within the wake of worldwide strain.

    China has blocked a proposal by the US and India on the UN to blacklist Rauf Azhar, the second such transfer by Beijing in lower than two months.

  • Onir to helm sequence on Pulwama assault

    Filmmaker Onir is ready to direct a sequence on the 2019 Pulwama terror assault by which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel had been killed by a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist.
    Titled Pulwama Key No. 1026, the eight-episodic SonyLIV sequence relies on creator and journalist Rahul Pandita’s ebook The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur.
    The CRPF personnel had been killed when a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist rammed an explosives-laden car into their bus on February 14, 2019.
    “To pay homage to the bravehearts and the NIA team who painstakingly investigated the attack, SonyLIV brings the never-seen-before story with Pulwama Key No. 1026 helmed by National Award-winning director Onir. The series is a tribute to all those martyrs whose dreams were blown to smithereens the minute the suicide bomber’s car hit the bus,” a press release from the makers learn.
    Ashish Golwalkar, Head-Content, SonyLIV, Sony Entertainment Television, Sony Pictures Networks India, stated Pulwama Key No 1026 goals to chronicle an “authentic narrative” of the ugly assault.
    “Rahul Pandita’s book The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur is a noteworthy read and brings out the unknown facts about the incident and what ensued thereon. We are pleased to announce this project that’s backed by Onir, an amazing director,” Golwalkar stated.
    Onir, who’s on board because the director and showrunner of the sequence, stated the assault not simply claimed the lives of 40 CRPF jawans but additionally “broke India and its people.”
    “Forty is not just a number, but the living dreams of these brave men and their families blown apart. A riveting, emotional tale of an incident that left the entire nation devastated, Pulwama Key No. 1026 is the story about the men and women who worked tirelessly to find the truth. It’s a story every Indian should know, and I feel honored to helm this project along with writer Rahul Pandita,” the director stated.

    Rahul Pandita stated the sequence will give highlight to the lads who misplaced their lives and those that investigated the assaults.
    “As a journalist reporting from battle areas, my endeavor at all times has been to lend face to individuals who in any other case get buried in historical past as statistics. The troopers killed within the Pulwama assault had names, lives, desires, hopes of future.

    “So do those who investigated the case painstakingly, often putting themselves in danger. I am glad that with my friend Onir we will be able to tell these individual stories all weaved in one epic drama,” he added.

  • ‘Indebted for your sacrifice’: Akshay Kumar, Varun Dhawan, Rajkummar Rao pay homage to Pulwama martyrs

    Several Bollywood actors, together with Akshay Kumar, Varun Dhawan and Rajkummar Rao on Sunday paid tributes to the martyrs of the Pulwama terror assault and mentioned the nation will ceaselessly stay indebted to the bravehearts.
    Forty CRPF personnel had been killed within the terrorist assault carried out by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad in Pulwama on February 14, 2019.
    Kumar took to Twitter and shared an image of the martyrs.
    “Remembering our bravehearts of #PulwamaAttack, we will always remain indebted for your supreme sacrifice,” the 53-year-old actor tweeted.

    Remembering our bravehearts of #PulwamaAssault, we are going to at all times stay indebted on your supreme sacrifice 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/WLGQ1QJqIX
    — Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) February 14, 2021
    Dhawan shared the identical picture on Instagram and captioned “Jai Hind”.
    Actor Kartik Aaryan prayed for the households of those that had been killed within the terrorist assault.

    #PulwamaAssault के शहीदों को नमन🙏 On at the present time, 2 years again 40 troopers sacrificed their lives for our nation in Pulwama assault. Prayers for the courageous souls and their households. We’ll at all times be in debt of yours 🇮🇳🙏 pic.twitter.com/wU0NDDmkTN
    — Kartik Aaryan (@TheAaryanKartik) February 14, 2021
    “On this day, two years back, 40 soldiers sacrificed their lives for our nation in Pulwama attack. Prayers for the brave souls and their families. We’ll always be in debt of yours,” the actor tweeted.
    Rao took to the microblogging website and wrote, “My heartfelt tribute to all our martyred brothers”

    हमारे सभी शहीद भाइयों को भावपूर्ण श्रधांजलि।🙏🇮🇳#PulwamaAssault pic.twitter.com/lLILxaDFL5
    — Rajkummar Rao (@RajkummarRao) February 14, 2021

    “Rest In Power Bravehearts of Pulwama!” actor Suniel Shetty wrote.
    “India will Always Remember Your Sacrifice In #PulwamaAttack #JaiHind,” filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar tweeted.

  • Pulwama anniversary: Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah pay tribute to CRPF jawans

    On the second anniversary of the Pulwama terror assault, Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday paid homage to the CRPF personnel who had been killed within the incident.
    “I pay homage to those brave @crpfindia personnel who sacrificed their lives in 2019 Pulwama terror attack. India will never forget their service to the nation and their supreme sacrifice. We continue to stand with their families, who had to suffer due to this attack,” he tweeted.
    Union Home Minister Amit Shah additionally paid tributes. “I bow down to the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the gruesome Pulwama attack on this day in 2019. India will never forget their exceptional courage and supreme sacrifice,” he tweeted.

    I bow right down to the courageous martyrs who misplaced their lives within the grotesque Pulwama assault on today in 2019.
    India will always remember their distinctive braveness and supreme sacrifice.
    — Amit Shah (@AmitShah) February 14, 2021
    Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally paid tribute to the troopers killed within the assault.

    पुलवामा हमले में शहीद हुए वीर सैनिकों को नमन। देश हमेशा आपका और आपके परिवारों का ऋणी रहेगा।
    जय हिन्द, जय भारत
    — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) February 14, 2021
    At least 40 CRPF jawans had been killed in a terror assault on February 14, 2019 at Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. The CRPF males had been travelling in a bus, a part of a convoy of over a thousand safety personnel, when an explosive-laden SUV rammed into the bus and exploded.

  • 2 years of Pulwama assault: A glance again at India’s ‘Black Day’ when 40 troopers had been martyred

    Image Source : PTI Pulwama terror assault had led to the martyrdom of 40 Indian troopers
    A ‘black day’ within the historical past of India – February 14, 2021 marks two years of the Pulwama terror assault, when 40 Indian troopers had been martyred in one of many worst terror assaults in Jammu and Kashmir. It occurred after a suicide bomber rammed an IED-laden car into the safety convoy. The convoy had 78 buses through which round 2,500 personnel had been travelling from Jammu to Srinagar. The assault, which was reported close to Awantipora at practically 3:15 pm resulted within the loss of life of 40 CRPF jawans, whereas many others had been left injured.
    Days later, the assault was claimed by Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). A 22-year-old suicide bomber Adil Ahmad Dar had rammed the explosive-laden car into the bus. JeM had additionally launched a video of the assailant Adil from Kakapora, who had joined the group a 12 months earlier. 
    Pulwama Attack: What Investigations Revealed
    A 12-member group, which was dispatched by the National Investigation Agency, to probe the Pulwama terror assault labored with the Jammu and Kashmir police. Initial investigations advised the automotive was carrying greater than 300 kilograms (660 lb) of explosives, together with 80 kilograms (180 lb) of RDX, a excessive explosive and ammonium nitrate. 
    Lt Gen Hooda mentioned that the explosives might need been stolen from a development website. He initially mentioned that it was not attainable that they had been smuggled from throughout the border, however later mentioned that he couldn’t rule it out.
    Later, the National Investigation Agency was in a position to set up and make sure the id of the suicide bombers as DNA samples from “meagre fragments of the car” utilized in suicide assaults matched with Adil Ahmad Dar’s father. However, even after a 12 months of investigation, NIA was unable to hint the supply of explosives.
    Image Source : PTI40 troopers had been martyred within the Pulwama terror assault in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019

    Pulwama Attack: Balakot Airstrike, India-Pakistan Standoff
    After the Pulwama terror assault, the federal government of India urged the Financial Action Task Force Laundering (FATF) to place Pakistan on the blacklist. The FATF determined to maintain it on the ‘gray checklist’ and gave Pakistan time until October 2019 to adjust to the 27 circumstances it had laid down in June 2018, when it was placed on the ‘gray checklist’, with an attending caveat. If Pakistan didn’t comply, it will be added to the blacklist. On 17 February, the state administration revoked safety provisions for separatist leaders.
    On February 26, twelve Mirage 2000 jets of the Indian Air Force crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and dropped bombs into Balakot, Pakistan. India claimed that it attacked a Jaish-e-Mohammed coaching camp and killed a lot of terrorists, reported to be between 300 and 350. Meanwhile, Pakistan claimed that they shortly scrambled jets to intercept the IAF jets, who dropped their payloads to shortly return over the Line of Control.
    On February 27, the Pakistan Air Force carried out an airstrike into Jammu and Kashmir in retaliation for the Indian airstrike the day earlier than. Both Pakistan and India agreed that no injury was attributable to Pakistan’s airstrike. However, in an ensuing dogfight between Indian and Pakistani jets, an Indian MiG-21 was shot down over Pakistan and its pilot – Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was captured. Pakistan later launched Varthaman on March 1.
    Image Source : PTIJammu: Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel pay tribute to the martyrs, on the eve of the second anniversary of Pulwama assault, in Jammu, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021.
    History Of Deadly Terror Attacks In J&Okay
    Since 2015, Pakistan-based terrorists in Kashmir have more and more taken to high-profile suicide assaults in opposition to the Indian safety forces. In July 2015, three gunmen had attacked a bus and police station in Gurdaspur. Early in 2016, 4 to 6 gunmen had attacked the Pathankot Air Force Station. In February and June 2016, terrorists had killed 9 and eight safety personnel respectively in Pampore.
    In September 2016, 4 assailants had attacked an Indian Army brigade headquarters in Uri killing 19 troopers. On 31 December 2017, the Commando Training Centre at Lethpora was additionally attacked by militants killing 5 safety personnel. These assaults came about within the neighborhood of the Jammu Srinagar National Highway.

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  • Among R-Day awardees: CRPF man who tried to cease Pulwama bomber; Hathras probe officer

    The ITBP IG negotiating with Chinese PLA in Ladakh, a CRPF ASI who chased and fired on the bomb-laden automobile that killed 40 safety personnel within the 2019 Pulwama assault, and two CBI officers who supervised probes into the Hathras gangrape-and-murder and the Jammu and Kashmir Roshni Act circumstances are amongst greater than 900 awardees of gallantry and repair medal awards this Republic Day.
    The J&Ok Police amongst state police forces and the CRPF amongst central armed police forces (CAPFs) have as soon as once more cornered the lion’s share of gallantry medals. Of the 205 Police Medals for Gallantry (PMG) this 12 months, J&Ok has bagged 52, whereas CRPF has been conferred 68. BSF has bagged 20 such medals.
    While Delhi ranks second within the record of states with 17 medals, Maharashtra is a detailed third with 13.
    ITBP IG Deepam Seth, who heads the power’s North West Frontier, is among the many 89 recipients of the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. An IPS officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, Seth has been a part of all Corps Commander degree conferences held between Indian and Chinese forces since June final 12 months in Ladakh as a consultant of the Ministry of Home Affairs — the final Corps Commander degree talks to ease the state of affairs in Eastern Ladakh have been held on Sunday. He additionally led the power within the rescue of Army troopers through the Galwan conflict in June final 12 months, and was additionally a part of operations when Indian forces made a pre-emptive transfer on the South Bank of Pangong Tso in August-September, 2020 and took sure advantageous positions at Rezang La.
    Only two President’s Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) have been conferred this 12 months, with one awarded to Jharkhand Police ASI Banua Oraon for an anti-Maoist operation in 2018 and the opposite to CRPF’s ASI Mohan Lal for his try to forestall the 2019 Pulwama assault. Both died whereas performing their duties.
    According to CRPF, On February 14, 2019, when the assault passed off, ASI Mohan Lal of the 110 bttn was the picket commander of the highway opening celebration at Lethpora in Pulwama on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway. At about 3.10 pm, Lal observed a automobile operating alongside the CRPF convoy passing by means of the world and making an attempt to enter between the convoy autos.
    “Lal sensed something suspicious and rushed to stop the suspicious vehicle. Lal signalled and chased the car to stop, but could not match the car’s speed. Ultimately, finding no other option, he fired towards the suspicious car to stop, but the car rammed into a nearby running CRPF bus, and a huge blast took place,” Lal’s quotation learn.
    The blast killed 40 CRPF personnel, together with Lal.
    CBI Joint Directors Sampat Meena and Vineet Vinayak are amongst six officers from the company who’ve been awarded Distinguished Service medals.

    Heading the Lucknow department of the CBI, Meena supervised investigations into the Hathras case the place a Dalit lady was allegedly gangraped and murdered by higher caste males final 12 months. Meena’s workforce lately filed a chargesheet towards the accused. She can be mentioned to have supervised investigations into the rape case towards former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar for a while.
    Vineet Vinayak, who’s at the moment heading the Chandigarh unit of the CBI, has supervised investigations into the alleged Roshni land rip-off in Jammu and Kashmir. The J&Ok administration has alleged that high influential political households in Kashmir, together with that of Farooq Abdullah and several other high PDP leaders, have encroached on authorities land.
    As many as 24 different officers of the company have been conferred meritorious service medals.
    Apart from this, 73 personnel from hearth providers have been awarded Fire Service Medals.