The United States and Canadian governments are alleging that Indian government agents plotted assassinations of Sikh dissidents on their soils. Their investigations paint a shocking picture of how recklessly Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government operates.
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| Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Home Minister Amit Shah |
The criminal charges announced by Washington and Ottawa are backed by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the remaining three countries that make up the 5-nation intelligence sharing alliance known as the Five Eyes. Revelations made by the US Justice Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) indicate that the authorization for Sikh assassinations came directly from the top Indian government officials, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-hand man Amit Shah. International criminal gang leader Lawrence Bishnoi is listed among the people tasked with carrying out the murders. These allegations are based on intelligence gathered from multiple communication intercepts among Indian government officials in New Delhi and Indian diplomats posted in Canada.
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| Sikh Leaders Targeted in Assassinations Campaign by Modi Government |
RCMP Commissioner Michael Duheme has warned of widespread violence, homicides and a public security threat linked to agents of the Indian government. Duheme said the RCMP has charged “a significant number” of people with direct involvement in homicides, extortions and other criminal acts of violence over the past few years and is aware of more than a dozen threats to members of the south Asian community and the pro-Khalistan movement, according to the Canadian news media.
Meanwhile, the United States Justice Department (US DOJ) has charged a former Indian intelligence agent Vikash Yadav for allegedly orchestrating a foiled plot to assassinate Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American citizen living in New York City. Last year, the DOJ first announced charges in the case, indicting an Indian national and alleged drug and weapons trafficker, Nikhil Gupta. That indictment also referred to an unnamed Indian government official whom prosecutors said directed the scheme.
New Delhi is responding very differently to almost identical allegations made by the US and Canadian governments. While the Canadians are treated with total disdain, the Americans are being taken very seriously. The behavior of the Modi officials toward Canada is just as hostile as it has been toward Pakistan which has also documented a campaign of assassinations of Sikhs and Kashmiris orchestrated by Indian agents on its soil.
Reacting to the report of Canadian allegations against the Indian government, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Syrus Qazi said: “We are aware of the nature of our eastern neighbor, we know what they are capable of … so it is not a surprise for us. “We caught [one of their] serving naval intelligence officers on our soil. He (Kulbhushan Jadhav) is in our custody and admitted that he came here to create instability and spread evil,” he added.
Last year, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said her country remained a “target of a series of targeted killings and espionage by (Indian Intelligence Agency) RAW". “In December last year, Pakistan released a comprehensive dossier providing concrete and irrefutable evidence of India’s involvement in the Lahore attack of June 2021. The attack was planned and executed by Indian intelligence,” she said, adding that in 2016, a high-ranking Indian military officer Kulbhushan Jadhav confessed to his involvement in directing, financing and executing terror and sabotage in Pakistan.
The US government has openly bracketed Mr. Modi with several murderous dictators. Speaking about the US decision to grant immunity to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman in 2022, State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said that it was “not the first time” that the US government has designated immunity to foreign leaders and listed four cases. “Some examples: President Aristide in Haiti in 1993; President Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2001; Prime Minister Modi in India in 2014; and President Kabila in the DRC in 2018. This is a consistent practice that we have afforded to heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers,” he said.
Modi has a long history of murdering minorities in his country. After the Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom of 2002, Narendra Modi made the cover of India Today magazine with the caption "Hero of Hatred". Modi was denied a visa to visit the United States. The US visa ban on Modi was lifted in 2014 after he became prime minister. Since then, Narendra Modi's image has been rehabilitated by the West as the US and Western Europe seek allies in Asia to counter the rise of China. However, Modi's actions on the ground in India confirm that he remains "Hero of Hatred" and "Divider In Chief" at his core. A two-part BBC documentary explains this reality in significant detail. The first part focuses on the 2002 events in Gujarat when Modi as the state chief minister ordered the police to not stop the Hindu mobs murdering Muslims and burning their homes and businesses. The second part looks at Modi government's anti-Muslim policies, including the revocation of Kashmir's autonomy (article 370) and a new citizenship law (CAA 2019) that discriminates against Muslims. It shows the violent response by security forces to peaceful protests against the new laws, and interviews the family members of people who were killed in the 2020 Delhi riots orchestrated by Modi's allies.
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Its amusing to see how this issue is continuing to blow up on Modi government's face. On hindsight, it was a very foolish thing to attempt such brazen assassinations of individuals (and that too of those holding US and Canadian citizenships), knowing well the intelligence capabilities of Western states and the repercussions if India's role in the assassinations were to come to light. When even Mossad would think twice about attempting such assassinations in the West, what was the Modi government and its NSA even thinking? Hubris went into their head dislodging reason and caution, I guess.
Mind you, I am not speaking against the assassinations of separatists or terrorist leaders on foreign soil, per se. Many nations do such "rogue" acts to eliminate threats to their national security. US has done all that and more with scant regard for sovereignty of other nations, an outstanding example being the unprovoked invasion of Iraq on a manufactured story of non-existent WMDs. And India may have had success in recent times in taking out such Khalistanis and anti-India jihadi leaders on Pakistani soil as well. But whoever thought up this plan should have known better. US and Canada isn't Pakistan.
It may well be that facing setbacks in Kashmir during the last decade, Pakistan has been attempting to reopen a second front against India in Punjab by resuscitating the moribund Khalistani movement. But Indian Punjab isn't Kashmir and Khalistan is pretty much dead issue here. Sikhs are very well integrated not just in the Indian society, but among all levels of its military. (The current chief of the Indian Air Force is a Sikh, for example.) So why did they take this risk? It has been long known here that Justin Trudeau and his Liberal govt have been turning a deaf ear to India's repeated concerns about the criminal activities that Khalistani separatists have been directing from their refuge in Canadian soil, and both Nijjar and Pannun has long been wanted by India for cases of murders and terrorism in Indian Punjab. And this was a concern that cuts across party lines. In fact, when Trudeau visited India a few years ago, even the then Congress Chief Minister of Indian Punjab, Capt Amarinder Singh (himself a Sikh and a former Indian Army officer) asked Trudeau to action against Canadian Khalistanis who pose a threat to India's national security, but to no avail.
That said, its equally amusing to see the contrast between Modi government's response to Nijjar and Pannun cases. Ties with US is vital to India's strategic interests, and Modi knows better than to offend the Americans. And Americans evidently doesn't want to punish India either. So, Modi govt seem to be coming up with this story of Vikash Yadav being a rogue Indian agent who was acting on behalf of the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi, and the Americans are playing along to give a face saver for the Indian establishment and bury the issue for good. Moreover, in contrast to the Nijjar case, the murder plot of Pannun was foiled before it could progress, and the Indian side would have assured their American counterparts that there would no repeat of it ever again.
By contrast, beyond it being a favourite destination of Indian students, medical professionals and IT workers, Canada is seen as largely inconsequential to Indian interests, and Modi & Co may feel they can afford to stand their ground. Besides, Modi may be betting on Trudeau being voted out in the next elections (and the Conservatives taking a more conciliatory stand on the issue) as well as a possible return of Trump to the White House. It will be interesting to see how the game plays out in the coming months and who would blink first. The key factor would be how far US govt would push India towards cooperation on behalf of Canada.
There is nothing immoral about such operations unless you seriously believe CIA MI5 DGSE and other agencies don’t regularly bump off people every year.
The problem most Indians have is the cartoonish incompetence of this operation..I mean using conventional mobile phones and even Zoom calls..ROFL
This is also indicative of this being a relatively low level rogue operation not something that had the buy in at the top or cabinet level.
Even the 5 eyes response is..this is too blatant for us to ignore..we don’t want to sanction you..find a few scapegoats and close this..which is what will happen..
Seriously so much training from KGB and Mossad and this is the result!
Even though this level of incompetence means hot headed junior officer but how is such an officer allowed to do this with no senior oversight in the USA of all countries!?
RAW needs restructuring..
The US, Canada, and UK are creating this big brouhaha to put political pressure on India. Nothing else. It is to keep India from two-timing the West and Russia.
These western countries and others have been killing individuals on foreign soil for hundreds of years.
Allegations suggest India is now part of the assassination club | India | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/20/allegations-suggest-india-is-now-part-of-the-assassination-club
In both Canada and the US, the allegations have yet to be proved in a court of law, and Canada has yet to press charges against any Indian government officials, simply naming them as “persons of interest” in the case.
But any authentication of the allegation would confirm there has been a radical reimagining of the role of Indian foreign intelligence agencies under the Modi government. It indicates that Modi’s longstanding domestic suppression of dissent – targeting everyone from opposition politicians to activists and even NGOs – has now transcended international borders, particularly to target Sikhs associated with the separatist Khalistan movement, which is far more prevalent among the diaspora.
There has been a markedly sharp contrast in how India has responded to both cases, which observers say is symptomatic of differing geopolitical agendas. In the case of Canada, where India has bullishly maintained there is no evidence, analysts say relations have sunk so low that India has little to lose by refusing to co-operate with the investigation.
However, India can ill-afford to make a similar enemy of Washington. In the wake of the Pannun indictment, they set up a high level inquiry in to the US allegations, which travelled to Washington this week. India’s foreign ministry also confirmed that Yadav is no longer a government employee.
So far, the White House has sought to tread a similarly careful diplomatic line, in an apparent bid not to alienate India who is an important strategic and economic ally. But in its indictment, the justice department made it clear that it would not let geopolitics interfere in the pursuit of the case.
“To the governments around the world who may be considering such criminal activity and to the communities they would target,” said attorney general Matthew G. Olsen, “let there be no doubt that the Department of Justice is committed to disrupting and exposing these plots.”
At least, that's what the US and India seems to have "agreed" to do behind the scenes to bury the Pannun case. They have made this Vikash Yadav the fall guy. Now a story is being made up that he is guilty of murder and extortion in India so that he can be safely put away behind bars here (to avoid an extradition to US perhaps). The funny thing of course, is why they deputed an officer from Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) - a paramilitary - rather than a seasoned RAW agent for such an operation. It would seem somebody higher up had this idea that this assassination would be a piece of cake that even an amateur can do.
"It indicates that Modi’s longstanding domestic suppression of dissent – targeting everyone from opposition politicians to activists and even NGOs – has now transcended international borders, particularly to target Sikhs associated with the separatist Khalistan movement.."
In all fairness, the targeting of Khalistani movement cannot be bracketed with Modi's suppression of domestic dissent, as the former is not Modi's personal political objective. It is something that has cross-party support as a matter of national security, which is why you don't hear the Indian opposition targeting the PM over this faux pas. After all, Congress party lost one of its Prime Ministers to due to this movement. And I don't think Nijjar and Pannun are some peaceful dissidents either. If they were some random Canadian Sikhs drumming up support for Khalistan in Canada, Indian government wouldn't have bothered. These two individuals (and other Canadian Khalistani leaders) have long been wanted by India for cases of murder and terrorism in Indian Punjab, and those demands predate Modi.
Well the training ensures we can kill enemies in Pakistan at will..40+ hits so far without getting caught.. Big improvement from the days of Kulbushan Yadav type operations
But yeah there seems to be some major F up in the North American theatre..not to worry everyone makes mistakes and learns from them..Even mighty Mossad didn’t see Oct 7 coming ..
Everyone has ambitions...as global south rises, we are witnessing some of them doing what used to be a western privilege. How many such assassinations Israel does in a given year? This is not whataboutism because when exception becomes the norm, then rule becomes the exception.
Young Indians have been making a ‘do or die’ journey to live the American dream
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/india/young-indians-chase-american-dream-intl-hnk-dst/index.html?cid=ios_app
In just four years, the number of Indian citizens illegally entering the US has surged dramatically — from 8,027 in the 2018 to 2019 fiscal year to 96,917 during 2022 to 2023 period, government data showed.
In India's case, the drivers for emigration (both legal and illegal) are quite obvious. Though the country has relatively stable and growing economy compared to its neighbours, the 5-7 percent economic growth is still insufficient to generate sufficient well-paying jobs to its huge working-age population. And unless India were to experience an unlikely China-like double-digit growth miracle driven by industries, this phenomenon is likely to continue. (I am not someone who buys Modi's bombastic propaganda of 'Viksit Bharat'. I am aware the ground reality here is quite the opposite.)
That said, does the story of masses of Pakistani illegal migrants enduring beatings and torture by Iranian authorities and risking their lives on dangerous boat rides in hopes of a better future in Europe sound any better?
PERILOUS PASSAGES OUT OF PAKISTAN - Sep 1, 2024
https://www.dawn.com/news/1856155
'If I die, I die': Pakistan's death-trap route to Europe - Dec 9, 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/12/9/if-i-die-i-die-the-allure-of-pakistans-death-trap-route-to-europe
'Hopelessness': Why Pakistanis are leaving, losing lives at sea - June 21, 2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/21/hopelessness-why-pakistanis-are-leaving-losing-lives-at-sea
Unveiling the Hidden Realities: The Controversial Influx of Pakistani Illegal Immigration to Europe - Jul 24, 2023
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/07/24/unveiling-the-hidden-realities-the-controversial-influx-of-pakistani-illegal-immigration-to-europe/
Why are so many Pakistanis trying to reach the EU illegally? - Feb 28, 2023
https://www.dw.com/en/why-are-so-many-pakistanis-trying-to-reach-europe-illegally/a-64844898
Greece boat tragedy exposes Pakistan's migration problem - June 26, 2023
https://www.dw.com/en/greece-boat-tragedy-exposes-pakistans-migration-problem/a-66034935
Pakistani migrants play deadly 'game' chasing future abroad
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230307-pakistani-migrants-play-deadly-game-chasing-future-abroad
Shrinking middle class hitting FMCG firms
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/industry-shrinking-middle-class-hitting-fmcg-firms-nestle-india-3646982/
The FMCG sector is facing sluggish demand as it is becoming polarised with the middle class shrinking but simultaneously there being high demand for premium products, Nestle India chairman and managing director Suresh Narayanan said on Tuesday. He added that in bigger cities, a channel shift is also being noticed with people preferring e-commerce and quick commerce.
Speaking to a select group of reporters at the company’s Samalkha facility, Narayanan said, “there used to be a middle segment which used to be the segment most of us FMCG companies used to operate in, which is the middle class of the country. That seems to be shrinking. And there is a completely, purely price-quality-be-damned-led segment, which also seems to be doing reasonably well”. As a result, companies offering fair to reasonable value in the middle segment are finding their fortunes temporarily shrinking, he added.
Nestle’s demand pattern also reflects this. Narayanan said that the company’s chocolate business was among the worst hit due to the slowdown. Yet, its premium chocolates were among the best performers in terms of growth.
He said that earlier this situation used to last for a quarter and then bounce back, but now it has lasted for two-three quarters.
Last week, Nestle India, reported its slowest quarterly growth in eight years. The company said it was primarily due to weak demand and high raw material costs.
“The pressure points are coming from mega cities and metros,” Narayanan said. “It is almost like we operating in two Indias,” he added.
The categories that have taken the biggest hit are milks & nutrition, and chocolate and confectionery. However, its core products like Maggi, KitKat and Milkmaid continue to grow at double digits.
‘Not sure how GDP numbers coming’: Asian Paints CEO points to disconnect with sectoral performance
https://theprint.in/economy/not-sure-how-gdp-numbers-coming-asian-paints-ceo-points-to-disconnect-with-sectoral-performance/2086445/
He went on to question whether the GDP data correlated with the “actual GDP” being produced by the underlying sectors of the economy.
“So, even if you look at the core sectors, whether it is steel, cement, so on and so forth, no where it is correlating with the kind of possibly overall GDP growth in terms of what we are kind of talking of,” he said.
“So, we are also looking at ways and means in terms of finding out what is the real GDP,” Syngle added.
His comments come at a time when India’s FMCG sector spent the financial year 2023-24 struggling to increase sales. Asian Paints saw its revenue grow 2.6 percent in the financial year 2023-24, significantly slower than the 19.4 percent revenue growth it saw in the previous financial year.
Hindustan Unilever, India’s largest FMCG company by market capitalisation, reported an anaemic 2 percent growth in revenue in 2023-24. This is down from a 15.5 percent revenue growth in 2021-22.
ITC, too, saw only a 2 percent growth in its revenues in the third quarter of FY24, the latest period for which it has declared results.
Simultaneously, the government is estimating that India’s GDP would have grown 8 percent over the course of 2023-24.
This number doesn’t really represent the growth in India when looking at particular regions or sectors of the country, according to Syngle.
“The correct GDP in terms of what would really be applied to a certain sector is something which I think we need to work and find out,” he said. “Because the GDP is also varying from region to region. If you look at possibly certain regions in the country, some regions are growing faster, some regions are growing slower, but when you get the GDP number overall, that’s a conglomeration of a full number.”
Indians are welcomed and needed by many countries, it seems (despite the actions of the Indian govt.)
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-promises-india-more-visas-for-skilled-workers/a-70601884
Not sure how GDP numbers coming’: Asian Paints CEO points to disconnect with sectoral performance
https://theprint.in/economy/not-sure-how-gdp-numbers-coming-asian-paints-ceo-points-to-disconnect-with-sectoral-performance/2086445/
He went on to question whether the GDP data correlated with the “actual GDP” being produced by the underlying sectors of the economy.
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Do you know how economists account for unorganized labor in countries which still has high share of it? Services with no bills, no taxes paid etc. may be having an unmeasured impact as well?
Germany, India look to boost ties on defence, green energy
https://www.reuters.com/world/india-eu-free-trade-deal-cannot-include-dairy-sector-trade-minister-says-2024-10-25/
"Scholz, accompanied by most of his cabinet, is leading a high-level delegation to New Delhi, betting that greater access to the vast Indian market can reduce Germany's reliance on China."
The Chancellor of Germany visiting India "accompanied by most of his cabinet" for trade talks does seem a big deal, though I'm not sure to what extent the Indian industry is prepared to make gains out of a Free Trade agreement with Germany or the EU. (There are separate ongoing talks for an FTA between India and the UK.) There are already a lot of German investments and industrial collaborations between German and Indian firms happening these days like the 1200 Siemens freight electric locomotives being manufactured for Indian Railways, and Volkswagen and India's Mahindra sharing EV platforms and manufacturing plants etc. On the flip side, India's agricultural and dairy sector is under-developed and vital to livelihood of people in its rural villages, so the demand from the Indian side to keep the agricultural sector out of the FTA's scope is understandable.
In parallel, there is finally news coming out about the agreement to pull back Indian and Chinese troops from the remaining contentious areas at the Himalayan frontier, which may signal a return to the pre-2020 status-quo-ante (a key demand of the Indian side) and the start of a long overdue normalization of trade ties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/india-china-start-pulling-back-troops-border-face-off-points-source-says-2024-10-25/
India makes it clear it's not interested in a Western alliance
As the dispute over assassination plots lingers, the Modi government rebuffs U.S. attempts to woo India
Evan Dyer · CBC News · Posted: Oct 25, 2024 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: October 25
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/india-china-canada-u-s-nijjar-pannun-1.7362222
A meeting Wednesday between India's Narendra Modi and China's Xi Jinping in Kazan, Russia, was the first in five years, and will likely be viewed with dismay in Washington, Ottawa and other Western capitals.
While it probably doesn't mark the beginning of a new Beijing-New Delhi axis, it does seem to signal that India is not about to sign on to an anti-Beijing Western alliance either, despite the best efforts of the U.S. and some other countries to persuade it to do so.
"Would the U.S. be disappointed? I imagine," said Sanjay Ruparelia, a close observer of the Modi government who teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University. "I don't think publicly they would express it, but privately."
Ruparelia said U.S. relations with India have always been complicated, and that complexity has always required the U.S. to split the relationship into silos.
"On the one hand, ties have grown despite many disagreements, and quite serious ones. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, most importantly," he said.
"But you know, we've seen in the last year a new agreement on critical emerging technologies. You've seen growing defence and security partnerships. [U.S.] President Biden was reportedly the third leader in history to have his Indian counterpart at his own private residence. And that was this year — after the FBI foiled the plot to allegedly kill Mr. (Gurpatwant Singh) Pannun."
Most recently, the U.S. signed a deal to sell India Predator drones, the primary weapons used by the U.S. in its own campaigns of extraterritorial killing targeting such groups as al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
"And I'm not surprised by that," said Ruparelia. "I mean, the U.S. is the great power and they practice realpolitik more than any other power in the world."
Ruparelia said that while he takes the RCMP's statement that they have evidence linking agents of the Indian government to homicides and other acts of violence in Canada "seriously," the U.S. government clearly has "compartmentalized the issue" in order to continue working with India.
Murder claims may take a back seat to larger issues
There are multiple factors at work in Modi's decision to seek rapprochement with China. But the tensions with the West over India's alleged program of assassinating dissidents in Canada and the U.S. could not have helped to sell him on the idea of ditching India's traditional non-alignment and jumping into an alliance with the countries that have accused him.
At the same time, the geopolitical stakes between nations as large and powerful as the U.S., India, China and Russia all but ensure that the assassination allegations will end up taking a back seat to other, bigger considerations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, host of this year's BRICS summit, will be delighted with the meeting between Xi and Modi in Russia and may seek to take some of the credit.
Putin was careful to seat himself between the Indian and Chinese leaders, offering a visual symbol of his role as facilitator of their coming-together, said Prof. Ho-fung Hung of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
"This kind of photo-op meeting, in which Putin is showing up side by side with all these world leaders, is a win for Putin because it's a kind of defiance of the U.S. attempt to isolate Russia," he said. "Putin can show to people back home that actually [he has] friends, and Russia has friends, despite all these U.S. efforts. So the U.S. is failing in isolating Russia."
Germany's skilled worker visa is not India-specific
Germany is Launching Opportunity Card for Foreigners Looking for Jobs
https://propakistani.pk/2024/04/22/germany-is-launching-opportunity-card-for-foreigners-looking-for-jobs/
Germany is set to introduce the Opportunity Card in June 2024, a new program aimed at facilitating employment for qualified non-EU citizens in the country. This initiative is designed to streamline the process for skilled job seekers, enhancing their ability to explore job opportunities and engage in flexible work arrangements.
The Opportunity Card represents a significant shift in Germany’s approach to immigration for skilled workers. It simplifies the existing qualification requirements, allowing individuals to enter the job market more efficiently. The card enables holders to look for jobs, participate in work trials, and if necessary, extend their stay in Germany.
The new system reduces the complexities often encountered in the bureaucratic process. Here are the key aspects of the qualification process for the Opportunity Card:
Qualification Recognition:
The card is accessible to individuals whose skills and qualifications are recognized in Germany, eliminating the need for additional special requirements.
Educational Criteria:
Eligible applicants include those with a foreign university degree, a vocational qualification of at least two years recognized by their home country, or a vocational qualification issued by a German Chamber of Commerce Abroad.
Language Proficiency:
Applicants must demonstrate language proficiency, requiring at least an A1 CEFR level in German or a B2 CEFR level in English.
Point-Based Evaluation System
The Opportunity Card uses a point-based system to assess eligibility. Points are allocated based on various factors such as the recognition of qualifications, language skills, professional experience, age, connections to Germany, and the potential involvement of partners or spouses. Applicants need to achieve a minimum of six points to be eligible.
Advantages of Holding the Opportunity Card
The Opportunity Card offers numerous benefits that facilitate a smoother transition into the German job market:
Ease of Job Search: The card allows holders to bypass lengthy recognition processes, enabling them to immediately start looking for employment.
Flexible Work Arrangements: Holders are permitted to undertake work trials and can engage in secondary employment for up to 20 hours per week.
Extension Possibility: In cases where holders are offered eligible employment but cannot secure another resident title, the card can be extended for up to an additional two years.
Germany’s Intentions
The Opportunity Card is a strategic initiative by the German government to attract skilled workers and simplify their entry into one of Europe’s leading economies. It provides a streamlined pathway for engaging with the job market without the necessity of a pre-arranged job contract, thereby offering job seekers valuable time to find suitable employment.
1) Ruparelia said U.S. relations with India have always been complicated, and that complexity has always required the U.S. to split the relationship into silos.
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relationships are likely to be transactional..Trump is saying that even relationship with Germany will be transactional, on NATO, tariffs etc. But in order to enter such a relationship, you need to have something worthy to offer in return. India has obviously, but not sure about some neighbours
2) Opportunity card...yes..Germany is signing also bilateral agreements with different countries on labor import..including with central asian countries for blue collar workers, even though ISIS has a strong hold in those areas. However, here also a country should have something to offer in return.
With India, Germany is going one step further, with a recent report urges to focus on India to balance China and build partnership in almost all areas from business to culture. This was also the announcement last week when Chencellor visited India.
US Sends Back Illegal Indian Immigrants On Chartered Flight Ahead Of PollsThe charter flight was sent to India on October 22, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-sends-back-illegal-indian-immigrants-on-chartered-flight-ahead-of-polls-6877764
Washington:
The US hired a chartered flight to deport Indian nationals who were staying in the country illegally, the Department of Homeland Security has said, noting that this has been done in cooperation with the Indian government.
The charter flight was sent to India on October 22, the department said on Friday. "Indian nationals without a legal basis to remain in the United States are subject to swift removal, and intending migrants should not fall for the lies of smugglers who proclaim otherwise," said Kristie A. Canegallo, a senior official performing the duties of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security.
The statement said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to enforce US immigration laws and deliver tough consequences for those who enter unlawfully and encourages the use of lawful pathways.
Since June 2024, when the Securing the Border Presidential Proclamation and accompanying Interim Final Rule went into effect, encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border of the US have decreased by 55 per cent.
In fiscal year 2024, the DHS removed or returned over 160,000 individuals and operated more than 495 international repatriation flights to more than 145 countries, including India, the statement said.
It said the department regularly engaged with foreign governments throughout the hemisphere and around the world to accept repatriations of their nationals without a legal basis to remain in the US.
This was one tool among many that the US used to reduce irregular migration, promote the use of safe, lawful and orderly pathways, and hold transnational criminal networks accountable for smuggling and exploitation of vulnerable people, it said.
Over the last year, DHS has removed individuals from a range of countries worldwide, including Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Egypt, Mauritania, Senegal, Uzbekistan, China, and India.
I would pick German investment as more desirable than their student or worker visas any day. The latter only serves to highlight the reality that countries like India and Pakistan has failed abysmally in guaranteeing modern educational facilities and job opportunities for their own masses. There is little to flaunt in having to send one's people overseas for higher education and jobs. On the other hand, German universities setting up campuses in India or Pakistan, or German companies starting factories here and collaborating with local firms (like the Volkswagen-Mahindra or BMW-TVS partnerships in India's automotive sector) would be more hype-worthy development.
Dear Sir
Salam
I hope you are doing well, Sir recently I have seen news on Pakistani news channels and on Indian news channels where they discuss and talk about the economic condition of Pakistan and how Pakistan is heavenly dependent on foreign aid specially on the loans given by IMF and World Bank.
Offcourse this is somethig which is really disappointing to know for Pakistani but the question is how much does the common people of Pakistan even cares about the economic or financial condition of the country?the hosts sitting in the Indian media are unsurprisingly criticising and insulting Pakistan by saying that Pakistan can't survive without bail from IMF and cant survive without the loans given by IMF. In a way Indian media is trying to portray an image that IMF is the lifeline of Pakistan.
Sir don't you think that it is the corrupt and incompetent politicians of Pakistan who have tried their best to keep Pakistan dependent on IMF and foreign countries?
Also Sir you might be knowing that one of the Chief of IMF is an Indian.
Do you think this Indian chief of IMF will be good and nice enough to let Pakistan escape from the grip of IMF?
Dont you think this Indian Chief of IMF must be trying hard to make sure that Pakistan remains within the grip and fold of IMF?
Sir kindly let the Pakistani Americans know about this and I would appreciate if you could make a blog about this Indian Chief of IMF after assessing amd scrutinizing all his activities about what role he might and definitely have played in trying to keep Pakistan within the grip and trap of IMF ( International Monitoring Funds)?
Thanks
Sir Riaz
Salam the question arises that how are Indians able to take such top and important positions in giant amd top companies, organizations, international financial institutions like IMF and world Bank?
Is it true that they are given more preference over Pakistanis because of their proficiency in English and because of their academic qualification which gives them upper edge over Pakistanis? I know mashallah their are many great, influential and highly educated Pakistanis in Canada, America, UK and Australia who are contributing their in their respective fields and they are respected and appreciated in these countries for their skills, talent and educational achievements and mashallah indirectly they are improving the image of Pakistan in these countries by contributing in their respective fields.
But Sir the question arises that why their is a scarcity of Pakistanis in the media's of Western countries, financial institutions like IMF and World Bank and in the political setup of America, UK and Canada?
As far as I know their are more Indians in the media of West and in international media than Pakistanis. Their are more Indians in the government sector of America, UK and Canada than Pakistanis.
Sir don't you think Pakistanis are acting as dumb terminals by ignoring the fact that how Indians are penetrating in the media of West and in these international financial institutions like IMF and World Bank and by taking positions in the government services of these countries and how they are increasing their influence their and using their influence and power to underestimate Pakistan and using media and political setup of west to create confusions and misunderstanding about Pakistan?
Dear Sir
As far as I know and feel their must be a political motives behind Americans giving preferences to Indians at such top positions but this might be done by the American government to give more hype and power to Indians so that they could counter the influence of China but Sir mashallah as far as I can see the scenario is changing now. Relations between America and China have improved recently and both countries have participated in the contest or competition of AI( Artificial Intelligence).
The question is that did government of Pakistan ever took advantage of this great opportunity and tried to convince the American government that how much it can benefit from Pakistani students of university who are enrolled in degree programs of computer science and IT who are mashallah talented and skilled enough to work for America?
The problem I see with sending Indian students and workers to countries like Germany and Canada is the growing instances of their misbehaviour in those countries, and the bad reputation that India and Indians suffers in general as a result. Granted, India may be the textbook example of chaos in every sense of the term, and Indians are known to be a noisy lot with little civic sense who cares little for others' rights and privacy in their home country, but when one goes abroad one must be mindful about the host nation's ways and culture. The other day I happened to watch a video of a bunch of Indian youngsters (probably students) making a ruckus inside a public bus in Germany singing and shouting. The other (German) passengers in the bus were noticeably uncomfortable with all this. It was truly cringe-worthy. What kind of behaviour and manners is this? Don't these bunch of hooligans know that when they go to a foreign nation they need to respect and abide by the host nation's rules, laws, culture and customs? Don't they know their antics will bring a bad name to their home country? Or has the hubris, arrogance and self-righteousness that has become the hallmark of "Modi-fied" India gone into their head? And its not just the case of Germany, I have seen similar complaints made about Indian students and workers from Canada as well.
(Not sure if this is a problem with Indians alone, or whether it is a common cultural and behavioural fault that is shared by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis as well, since we are all cut from the same cloth.)
The Curious Case of a Temple Sweet: How Food Increasingly Divides India - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/world/asia/india-temple-laddu.html
It was a sensational charge in a country where food is yet another marker of political, religious and caste divides.
But the politicization of food has become more pervasive with the rise of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Vegetarianism and cow protection are now a staple of the political discourse. Mere accusations of eating or transporting beef — mostly against Muslims — can result in lynchings by cow-protection vigilantes and right-wing organizations.
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It was a sensational charge in a country where food is yet another marker of political, religious and caste divides.
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For centuries, the Tirupati temple in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given laddu, a ball-shaped sweet, to devotees. The temple is the richest Hindu holy site in the world, with revenues each year of hundreds of millions of dollars, and it is spending about a million dollars a month just on ghee to fry the laddu in, according to M.K. Jagadish, an official at a state-owned dairy.
Last month, the state’s newly elected chief minister, a Hindu named N. Chandrababu Naidu, accused his Christian predecessor of allowing the temple’s laddu to be made in ghee, a clarified butter, that was adulterated with other animal fats. A majority of the temple’s devotees are vegetarian; Mr. Naidu’s allegation called into question the sanctity of the temple itself.
The case of the temple sweet shows how India’s food cultures have become increasingly politicized. In a nation where cows are viewed as sacred by most Hindus, many states have banned the slaughter of cows and made the transportation of beef a punishable offense. In some, even the cooking of eggs has drawn official condemnation. Restaurants are closely monitored for any mixing of vegetarian and nonvegetarian food. Some states have ordered the owners of food stalls to display their names clearly so consumers are aware of their religious and caste identity.
Cultural sensitivities surrounding food are not new in India. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British was ignited by allegations that rifle cartridges, which had to be manually loaded by biting off the end, were greased in beef tallow and pig fat, antagonizing both Hindu and Muslim soldiers in the British Army.
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Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, which has traditionally drawn support from upper castes, has presented the notion of “pure vegetarianism” as a nationalist ideology since it took power in 2014. That push is intended to shape a monolithic Hindu identity that paints over caste divisions, analysts say.
Increasingly, those who do not conform to these ideas of food purity or who question them — including religious minorities like Muslims, lower-caste communities and political activists — have come under attack. Some are trolled and shamed online. Others have had their homes bulldozed or even been lynched.
Finally the rest of the world and specially the West is finding out what. the smaller countries of South Asia have known for 75+ years. A rogue imperialist country with delusions of grandeur creating, encouraging and supporting terrorism in the neighborhood.
As far as Pakistan is concerned, we should remember that "Laton kai bhoot baton sai nahi mante". If there is an iota of evidence that they have carried any such misadventures in Pakistan then we should retaliate with 7-8 bigger force. But again knowing Pakistan army they "will" retaliate and don't need any advice.
G. Ali
Most of these "food" related issues in India are state-specific. In my southern coastal state which has a considerable non-Hindu population, beef is available in plenty everywhere. In fact, restaurants and road-side eateries here cannot survive without serving beef and other meats as that is what most customers prefer, including many of the Hindus themselves. I must acknowledge though that I'm not quite sure if the "beef" that is available here is cattle meat or buffalo meat, or whether people who eat them can tell the difference, since I myself eat only fish and eggs among non-vegetarian food. I am pretty much an exception in this though, as most Hindus here will eat atleast poultry meat and nearly all of them will eat fish. Vegetarians are very rare here, except among some older folks and the small Brahmin community. Furthermore, I hear that in the eastern states like West Bengal, Odisha and Assam even the Brahmins would consume fish and chicken.
The funny thing in all this is that vegetarianism in India was not originally a "Hindu" thing at all. In Hindu scriptures it is common to see references to consumption of various types of meat, especially by the Kshatriya (warriors and rulers) caste. It was the Jains who where originally the strict vegetarians in India as non-violence is the foundation of the Jain religion. Many Brahmin communities apparently copied this custom from the Jains in the areas where Jainism wielded considerable influence, like the western states of Rajasthan and Gujarat. For this reason you will see that vegetarianism among Hindus and Sikhs is more prevelant in western states (like Rajasthan, Gujarat and Punjab), than in eastern or southern states where even the upper castes commonly consume meat. Therefore, rest assured that BJP's drive to spread vegetarianism is unlikely to succeed in most parts of the country. People don't like being told what they should and should not eat. Especially the youth.
As for the controversy about the Tirupati laddu, perhaps you can understand it better if you compare it to the upheaval and social unrest that would have errupted had a rumour spread that pork meat had been served at an iftar at a mosque. Though a small number of Hindu temples (especially belonging to Shakti or mother-goddess sect) still practice animal sacrifice and gives meat as "prasad", such acts are considered abhorrent in Vaishnavite temples like Tirupati which follow a strictly vegetarian discipline. So any rumour that the temple sweets had been adultered with animal fat (however unfounded those rumours may be) is bound to cause a big controversy. In this particular case though, I guess the rumours were either manufactured or blown out of proportion for purely political objectives.
"If there is an iota of evidence that they have carried any such misadventures in Pakistan then we should retaliate with 7-8 bigger force. But again knowing Pakistan army they will retaliate and don't need any advice."
@G. Ali, Pakistan has already accused India as being responsible for a recent spate of assassinations of Kashmiri and Khalistani separatists on its soil, and has produced dossiers after dossiers on it. As for "retaliation", there's nothing new. Hasn't a full-fledged proxy war been raging between India and Pakistan for the past several years? Hasn't Pakistan repeatedly accused India of funding and directing BLA and TTP attacks? Take the events from the past couple of weeks itself. First there was an attack on Chinese engineers in Karachi. As if in retaliation, a few days later there were militant attacks on migrant labourers in Kashmir valley. And in the last few days I am reading reports in DAWN of near-daily attacks on Pakistani security forces in KP and Balochistan.. Can an assassination of some random Kashmiri or Khalistani separatist on Pakistani soil be more serious escalation than these? Not really..
As for the charge against India of "creating, encouraging and supporting terrorism in the neighborhood", whom do you think was behind the creation of jihadi outfits like LeT, JeM, TRF etc, and whom do you think facilitated OBL's residence in Abottabad, and that of other Taliban leaders on Pakistani soil when US troops were hunting them? India would not have gone to the extent of funding and arming separatists and militants against Pakistan or of assassinating anti-India terrorists on Pakistani soil, had Pakistan not been doing the same things against India for the past several decades.
There is a way to end all this madness, but for that Pakistani "establishment" need to come to its senses and do a cost-benefit analysis of its ongoing Kashmir jihad and "death by a thousand cuts" projects against India, and do a introspection about which of the two countries this proxy war is ending up hurting the most.
Salam Sir Riaz and to all the members of this blog.
Sir Mr. Vineeth is right their are many secular Hindus in India and abroad who eat beef and they are non- veg.
Top India Minister Authorized Crimes in Canada, Official Alleges - Bloomberg
Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah authorized a wave of violence across Canada that included extortion and homicides, said a senior Canadian government official. David Morrison, Canada’s deputy foreign minister, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that he had confirmed the identity of Shah in a newspaper report earlier this month.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/top-modi-minister-authorized-crimes-in-canada-official-alleges
Arjun Sethi
@arjunsethi81
Confirmation from Canada today:
Amit Shah, Modi’s second in command, authorized the assassination program targeting Sikhs in North America.
India is a serial human rights abuser run by authoritarian strongmen who are exporting violence across the world.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-29/top-modi-minister-authorized-crimes-in-canada-official-alleges?sref=boLeWatK
https://x.com/arjunsethi81/status/1851554632583053816
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Bloomberg Economics
@economics
Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah authorized a wave of violence across Canada that included extortion and homicides, said a senior Canadian government official
https://x.com/arjunsethi81/status/1851554632583053816
Indian Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah authorized a wave of violence across Canada that included extortion and homicides, said a senior Canadian government official. David Morrison, Canada’s deputy foreign minister, told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that he had confirmed the identity of Shah in a newspaper report earlier this month.
Veneeth,
First of all no one has time, inclination or patience to read long essays. As they say if you can't explain it in a few words than you don't understand it.
I have been arguing with Indians for a while now and you all use the same playbook where intellectual honesty & self reflection is not common but double standard is.
You should ask yourself who introduced terrorism in South Asia? Who was behind Multi Bahini then Shanti bahini & LTTE etc. Even Nepali PM Oli was considered a terrorist my the then Govt of Nepal and yet he would openly meet Indian leaders in India.
I agree that this madness in both countries should stop because it mostly spills innocent blood. But you are naive to think that Pakistan is solely responsible. The problem is that yours is an artificial country. A Kashmiri pandit has nothing in common with a Kerala Christian nor does a Punjabi Sardar with a Naga. As Kerala writer Paul Zakaria once said "India becomes a nation when there is stupid cricket match against Pakistan". Artificial countries need extenal enemies for internal unity, that is why India hasn't resolved any border issues with except with BD, even that was agreed when Mujib was president but was ratified under Modi.
G. Ali
KJ
@Kabal_Jee
India is emerging as a cyber threat to Canada 🇨🇦.
From the time when PM stood in the house of commons, there was mis/disinformation coming from ppl who works for India 🇮🇳
https://x.com/Kabal_Jee/status/1851856825257189831
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Canada-India tensions could escalate cyber threats, hinder immigration | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-india-tensions-could-escalate-cyber-threats-hinder-immigration-2024-10-30/
Canada accuses Indian Minister Amit Shah of masterminding violence against Sikhs
Cyber espionage by India against Canada likely to increase, says Canadian intelligence
Trade relations between Canada and India remain unaffected despite diplomatic tensions
The Canadian signals intelligence agency that monitors foreign-based cyber threats said New Delhi was most likely already conducting threatening cyber activity against Canadian networks for spying purposes.
"As Canada and India potentially may have some tensions, it is possible that we may see India want to flex those cyber threat actions against Canadians," Caroline Xavier, head of the agency, known as Communications Security Establishment Canada, told a Wednesday press conference. The agency has previously described India as an emerging threat.
Ashok Swain
@ashoswai
Canada deputy foreign minister confirms Modi’s henchman cum home minister Amit Shah has ordered the killing of Sikh activists in Canada. Shah does all the dirty jobs for Modi, so Modi is the prime culprit and both of them will be dragged to ICC soon.
https://x.com/ashoswai/status/1851705273175478595
Salam Sir Riaz
Another important information, according to some Pakistani programs and talk shows, their is a possibility that seperate states are being created for Christians in India specially for Christians who are living in majority in specific states.
Orissa is a state in India where Christians are in majority population and according to some news sources extremist Hindu groups from RSS and she v Sina parties of India have attacked and persecuted these Christians.
Many Christians migrated from India to America and to other western countries where they have achieved asylum.
Some of these Christians in America have formed their political parties in America where they raise their voice against injustice and cruelty which Christians face in India.
Can you pls make a blog about this?
Thanks
Dear Sir
Something important, as you know that Donald Trump has won the presidential elections and has become the 47th President of America. Sir my question is that do you think that this attitude and doubtful feeling of the American officials towards India and it's notorious activities because of which India has become defamed in the world would continue under Trump administration? Do you think that before Donald Trump takes over the seat of Presidency in America, he might have a secret or backdoor meeting with Joe Biden and his administration in which Joe Biden might have and must have clearly talked with him and his administration about how religious minorities specially Christians are suffering in India and how Indian top officials in BJP government of India like Amit Shah are being involved in such covert activities in Canada which led to the assasination of that Sikh activist and a Sikh leader of khalistan movement in Canada?
Sir let's suppose if soon after when Imran Khan is released from Jail hoelfully and their is a great optimism in the PTI party that he will get released as soon as Trump takes over the seat of Presidency in America .
Don't you think this time if let's suppose after being released from Jail he becomes PM or President of Pakistan. Don't you think this time Imran Khan as a PM or President of Pakistan must be serious about India wheb he talks with Trump administration and must talk about how India has been actively involved in creating problems for Pakistan through proxy war like training and funding TTP terrorist who attacked Karachi, FATA, Peshawar and some areas of Balochistan?
Sir recently some Chinese technicians and engineers were attacked in Pakistan and their is a great doubt that Indian agents of RAW might be behind this.
Also Sir Justin Treduea the PM of Canada and his officials actually informed the Washington Post about how Amit Shah the right hand of PM Modi was suspiciously behind the murder of that Sikh acivitist in Canada.
Don't you think that the Canadian PM must have secretly called Donald Trump and after congratulating him on becoming the President of America, Canadian PM and his officials must have talked about these notorious activities of Indians in Canada leading to the murder of this Sikh activist?
Sir what's your take on this?
Can you pls make a blog about it and throw some light on this development and issue?
Thanks
Dear Sir
Salam
The news channels in Pakistan are hopelessely discussing about how will the relations of Pakistan with America be effected if Trump becomes President of America but non of these hopeless journalists and news anchors on Talk shows and news channels of Pakistan are actually discussing about what kind of relations will America have with India under Trump administration .
Don't these Pakistani news anchor know that US relations with India also impact Pakistan?
Can you s throw some light on this also?
Thanks
Dear Sir
Pls check the latest news, champions Trophy of cricket will be held in Pakistan and mashallah several cricket teams from various countries are coming to play this trophy in Pakistan but Indian cricket Board ( BCCI) has refused to send indian cricket team into Pakistan to play this trophy. The BCCI( Indian cricket Board) said that they can't make any decision independently and since BCCI is under the control of BJP government so they didn't recieve any permission from Indian government to play this trophy which will be held in Pakistan?
Sir don't you think BCCI and Indian government are both on the same page and both are making bahana of not to send it's cricket team in Pakistan?
Sir Indians are political and business minded, they know if Indian cricket team plays this trophy in Pakistan and if their is India and Pakistan match, their will be huge audience in the stadium and Pakistan will earn a lot from this match of India and Pakistan and also the government of Pakistan will benefit economically from this match. So do you think Indian government will do anything that will benefit Pakistan economically?
They intentionally don't want this India and Pakistan match to take place in Pakistan because Pakistan will benefit from it economically.
Why doesn't the hopeless and pro Indian media and shameless and sold media of Pakistan understand this?
Pakistani media is crying they BCCI has refused to send Indian cricket team to play this trophy in Pakistan but don't they realise and analyse what could probably be the reason why Indian government and BCCI is refusing to send it's cricket team to Pakistan? Indian government and BCCI talked with PCB( Pakistan cricket Board) and when PCB asked them the reason for refusing to play in Pakistan, BCCI gave the excuse of security issue in Pakistan. If their ar security issues in Pakistan then how come other cricket teams ar coming to play this trophy in Pakistan?
Dear Sir
Since many years Pakistan is actually showing leniency and sharafat to Indian government and Indian media but they haven't shown any good guesture towards Pakistan. They continued to work against Pakistan and insulted Pakistan through different ways.
Indian lobbies are working in America and in other countries where they not just promote the national interest of India but also they work to create misunderstandings about Pakistan their so Pakistan becomes isolated from the rest of the world.
Sir the question is that where is the lobby of Pakistan in these countries?
If they are their then what exactly these Pakistani lobbies are doing in these countries?
Dear Sir
Sorry to send you so many messages, their is another news on Pakistani news source in which it says that Indian government refused to give visa to Pakistani air traffic controllers who had to attend an up coming meeting or conference of the air traffic controllers from various countries of Asia which is to be held in India as far as I know.
Sir now pls ask the Indian government that why did they refuse to give visas to Pakistani air traffic controller?
What kind of security issues are their in India because of which Indian authorities are not allowing the Pakistani air traffic controllers to attend this meeting or conference in India?
Salam Sir
Pls check the latest news Tulsi Gabbard who is an Indian will become the next director of American intelligence under Trump Presidency.
She is a Hindu nationalist and supports the Hindu ideology of BJP and hindutva.
She will be holding an important office and that office will be coordinating between CIA, FBI and other agencies in America.
Again what are Pakistani Americans doing?
What is the sold, bayghairat and hopeless media in Pakistan doing?
Is the government of Pakistan aware of these changes in US administration?
Salam Sir Riaz
Pls check the latest video of Tulsi Gabbard on YouTube.
In that video Tulsi Gabbard is blaming Pakistan Army for the atrocities that took place in East Pakistan before it became Bangladesh in 1971.
Sir the you tube video is from Mint and the video title is "when American Intel Chief Tulsi Gabbard slammed Pakistan Army for atrocities "
Dear Sir
Pls check the latest news Marco Rubio has been appointed as the new secretary of state in America, he is also pro Indian. He was the one who last time gave advice to Trump administration that India should be treated as a major ally of America just as Isreal and Japan are .
He is quiet close to President Trump.
Mushahid Hussain Sarah is coming on news channels of Pakista where he is trying to portray that in the future America and Pakistan will have good relations under Trump administration and if Imran Khan becomes President or PM of Pakistan?
Is this how America will have great and good relations with Pakistan by appointing pro Indian Americans at key and top positions in the government of America?
Of the more than 1.3 million Indian students studying abroad in 2024, Canada tops the position with 427,000 – which is 41 percent of total international students in Canada.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/11/15/india-canada-tensions-spill-onto-students-education-consultancies
The United States has 337,000 students, the United Kingdom has 185,000 students, and Germany hosts 42,997 Indian students, as per data from the Ministry of External Affairs.
Pratibha Jain, the founder of Eduabroad, a consultancy which for the past three decades has helped students get admission into some of the top universities across the globe, told Al Jazeera that there has been about a 10 percent decline in queries for Canada and the trend has been shifting to other countries instead including the UK, Australia, Dubai and in Europe.
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Canada Govt ends fast-track student visas for India, 13 other countries | Education News - The Indian Express
https://indianexpress.com/article/education/canada-govt-ends-fast-track-student-visas-for-india-13-other-countries-9662032/
In a decision that will impact applicants from India — and at a time when diplomatic ties between the two countries are strained — Canada ended its popular, fast-track student visa programme with effect from Friday.
The Student Direct Stream (SDS) programme was launched in 2018 to provide faster processing for eligible post-secondary students from 14 countries, including India. Besides a shorter processing time, the approval rates were also higher under the programme.
According to official estimates, 60 per cent of the 4 lakh Indian students who sought to study in Canada in 2023 applied under the SDS programme. Under SDS, the approval rate for Indian students was consistently higher, breaching 70 per cent in 2023. In contrast, those applying through the regular route had approval rates as low as 10 per cent.
Announcing the end of the programme on Friday, the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) said: “Canada’s goal is to strengthen programme integrity, address student vulnerability, and give all students equal and fair access to the application process, as well as a positive academic experience. To meet this commitment, the Student Direct Stream (SDS)… ended as of 2 pm today… Canada is committed to giving all international students equal and fair access to the application process for study permits.”
The IRCC said prospective students can still apply through the regular study permit route, for which guaranteed investment certificates are accepted as proof of financial support.
Under the SDS programme, students could secure study permits in just 20 working days, even as processing times under the standard route often extend to around eight weeks for Indian applicants.
India is Canada’s largest source country of foreign students with an estimated 4.27 lakh Indian students studying there in 2023.
The SDS programme was available to residents of Antigua and Barbuda, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vietnam.
Calling it a big blow to students aspiring to study in Canada, Gurpreet Singh, who has been running a visa consultancy in Kapurthala for the last 10 years, said all the students from his area had been taking the SDS route ever since it was introduced. “That’s the case with most of the students from the rest of Punjab as well,” he said.
In India, one of the world’s most polyglot countries, the government wants more than a billion people to embrace Hindi. One scholar thinks that would be a loss.
By Samanth Subramanian
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/should-a-country-speak-a-single-language
Since 2014, when the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) came to power, it has made the future of Indian languages even more uncertain. In addition to its well-known Hindu fanaticism, the B.J.P. wishes to foist Hindi on the nation, a synthetic marriage that would clothe India in a monolingual monoculture. Across northern and central India, roughly three hundred million people speak, as their first language, the standardized Hindi that the B.J.P. holds dear—but, this being India, that leaves more than a billion who don’t. Even so, the government tried to make Hindi a mandatory language in schools until fierce opposition forced a rollback. The country’s Department of Official Language, which promotes the use of Hindi, has had its budget nearly tripled in the past decade, to about fifteen million dollars. A parliamentary committee recently urged that Hindi be a prerequisite for government employment, raising the possibility that such jobs might become the preserve of people from the B.J.P.’s Hindi-speaking heartland. Three years ago, India’s Home Minister called Hindi the “foundation of our cultural consciousness and national unity”—a message that he put out in a tweet written only in Hindi.
In India, where language scaffolds culture and identity, this pressure affects daily life. On social media, people routinely bristle at encountering Hindi in their non-Hindi-speaking states—on bank documents, income-tax forms, railway signboards, cooking-gas cylinders, or the milestones on national highways. Two years ago, a man set himself on fire in Tamil Nadu to protest the imposition of Hindi. In Karnataka, the state where he lives, Devy sees a simmering resentment of Hindi-speaking arrivals from the north.
The B.J.P. believes that India can cohere only if its identity is fashioned around a single language. For Devy, India’s identity is, in fact, its polyglot nature. In ancient and medieval sources, he finds earnest embraces of this abundance: the Mahabharata as a treasury of tales from many languages; the Buddhist king Ashoka’s edicts etched in stone across the land in four scripts; the lingua francas of the Deccan sultanates. The coexistence of languages, he thinks, has long allowed Indians to “accept many gods, many worlds”—an indispensable trait for a country so sprawling and kaleidoscopic. Preserving languages, protecting them from being bullied out of existence, is thus a matter of national importance, Devy said. He designed the P.L.S.I. to insure “that the languages that were off the record are now on the record.”
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By the time (literary scholar Ganesh) Devy was born, Indian leaders had begun to regard language as an existential dilemma. This was a fresh, unstable country, already rent by strife between Hindus and Muslims; to mismanage the linguistic question would be to risk splintering India altogether. Mahatma Gandhi, fearing India wouldn’t hold without a national language, proposed that it be Hindustani, which encompasses both Hindi and the very similar Urdu of many Indian Muslims. (In the history of new nations, Gandhi’s concern is not an uncommon one.
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During his time in Vadodara, Devy had seen, up close, the rise of an ugly, intolerant Hindu fundamentalism. On the street one night, he encountered a Hindu mob hunting for Muslims to harm; he sent them in the wrong direction.
Dear Sir
Asalam Aalaikum
I was just watching a podcast of Indian YouTuber and in that podcast an a person was being interviewed and after this incident of killing of the sikh separatist in Canada for which Indian authorities of BJP where held responsible by the government of Canada , this person who was being interviewed in the podcast said that after this incident, now Indians who are living in Canada are not feeling safe and they have a feeling that they are insecure in Canada.
Sir can you pls kindly let us know what exactly is happening with Indians in Canada?
How true is this person who is being interviewed in this podcaste?
I would appreciate if you could throw some light on this
Thanks
Dear Sir
Asalam Aalikum
I have some serious and recent information that I want to share here and sir can you pls make a blog about it after conducting a sort of research on these facts that I am sharing here?
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In London Guardian news, Alis Peterson has written detailed story about how Indian government ordered judicial killing in Pakistan. According to this author the evidences which were given or submitted by ISI(Intelligence Agency of Pakistan) to the news agency of UK was cross checked and carefully examined by the British news agency and their representatives also confirmed from a Ex-agent of Raw. After all these examination and investigation, the Guardian News came to the conclusion that Indian government did order the killing in Pakistan.
The authenticity of these evidences which point to the involvement of Indian government in the killings inside Pakistan is of high quality.
These Indian intelligence of Raw is operating not from India but from Dubai, Nepal and Mauritius and etc. They actually recruit Afghanis and local people of Pakistan specially those who are poor and are suffering from financial problems by trapping them in their wings and promising of providing them money and support to their families.
Walter who is a political scientist at Kings College in London has also said that all this that is happening eg terror attacks and judicial killing in Pakistan is a part of foreign policy of PM Modi and BJP.
Daniel Mark who is a senior advisor in the US Institute of peace in Washington DC has also said that their is a policy of PM Modi and his BJP government and they have told the Raw agents to carry out such killings in Pakistan.
Even Mr. Ajey Saani who is a executive director of the Institute of conflict management in New Dehli has confirmed after examining these reports that 20 judicial killings that happened in Pakistan was carried out by Indian authorities and government
Salam Sir
These information that I just posted in the comment field of this blog were actually taken from various sources and even Mr. Najam Sethi was recently interviewed on I think SAAMA TV channel in Pakistan and when the host of that news asked her about the killing of 20 persons in Pakistan recently, so in reply Mr. Najam Sethi gave these references that I just posted in the last comment about how Indian government has been involved in such notorious activities inside Pakistan .
Dear Sir Gia. Ali
Very nice and eleborate reply from you.
Indians actually themselves have trouble defining their own identity as a nation. Actually Indians never existed as a nation. If Indians were a nation then they must have had a national language which th y don't.
Hindi which is commonly spoken in many cities and states of India before English is not even a national language of the country as far as I know. It is just an official language in India.
Salam Sir G. Ali
I was watching a video on YouTube some years ago in which an Indian girl who is actually an activist in India has said that " WHAT EXACTLY IS THE DEFINITION OF AN INDIAN "?
She further said that " CAN INDIANS ACTUALLY DEFINE OR DESCRIBE THEIR IDENTITY AS AN INDIAN WITHOUT HAVING HATRED OR BIASES TOWARDS PAKISTAN"?
If we try to see the difference between Indians and Pakistanis. The main difference is that Pakistanis still exist as a nation even without having problems with India and Indians but Indians can't survive or exist without having problem with Pakistan and Pakistanis.
So the nationalism or patriotism of Indians towards their country actually depends on the intensity and level of hatred and differences they have with Pakistan.
Salam Sir G. Ali
After every 20 minutes a language changes in India. This is a very famous saying. Many languages are spoken in India and their is more diverse culture and traditions in India than in Pakistan.
Do you think that a country with so much difference in languages and in culture could be really considered as a nation or a country?
Ambedkar Row: Did ‘BJP’s predecessors’ burn Babasaheb’s effigy, as Jairam Ramesh said?
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politics/ambedkar-burn-effigy-amit-shah-9731980/
Shah had said in the Rajya Sabha a day ago, “It has become a fashion to say Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar, Ambedkar. If they had taken God’s name so many times, they would have got a place in heaven.” Shah also said that Ambedkar had resigned from Nehru’s Cabinet because he was “ignored” and “dissatisfied”.
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The RSS was bitterly opposed to the Hindu Code Bill, which aimed to reform matters related to aspects like marriage and succession, giving more rights to women.
Historian Ramachandra Guha in his book, India After Gandhi, writes: “On 11 December 1949, the RSS organised a public meeting at the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi, where speaker after speaker condemned the [Hindu Code] bill. One called it ‘an atom bomb on Hindu society’. Another likened it to the draconian Rowlatt Act introduced by the colonial state… he said, the struggle against this Bill would signal the downfall of Nehru’s government. The next day a group of RSS workers marched on the Assembly buildings, shouting ‘Down with Hindu code bill’ and ‘May Pandit Nehru perish’. The protesters burnt effigies of the prime minister and Dr Ambedkar, and then vandalised the car of Sheikh Abdullah.”
What RSS, Golwalkar, Savarkar said about Constitution
Among the reasons Ambedkar resigned as Law Minister was his frustration with Nehru on not getting the Hindu Code Bill passed soon enough, in the form Ambedkar wanted. Yet it was the right wing, including factions within the Congress, that had opposed the Bill tooth and nail.
Ambedkar had said about the Hindu Code Bill, “To leave inequality between class and class, between sex and sex which is the soul of Hindu society untouched and to go on passing legislation relating to economic problems is to make a farce of our Constitution and to build a palace on a dung heap.”
Guha wrote in an opinion piece for The Indian Express how the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser, opposed this Bill. “An article in the Organiser, dated November 2, 1949, characterised the Hindu Code Bill “as a direct invasion on the faith of the Hindus”, remarking that “its provisions empowering women to divorce is revolting to the Hindu ideology”. An editorial published a month later (“The Hindu Code Bill”, the Organiser, December 7, 1949) led with this paragraph: “We oppose the Hindu Code Bill. We oppose it because it is a derogatory measure based on alien and immoral principles…” It then went on to state that “Rishi Ambedkar and Maharishi Nehru… would atomise society and infect every family with scandal, suspicion and vice.”
The right, including former Sarsanghchalak MS Golwalkar, were not particularly enthused by the Constitution either. Golwaklar wrote in his Bunch of Thoughts, “Our Constitution too is just a cumbersome and heterogeneous piecing together of various articles from various Constitutions of Western countries. It has absolutely nothing, which can be called our own. Is there a single word of reference in its guiding principles as to what our national mission is and what our keynote in life is? No! Some lame principles from the United Nations Charter or from the Charter of the now defunct League of Nations and some features from the American and British Constitutions have been just brought together in a mere hotchpotch.”
Similar views were echoed by VD Savarkar. In Women in Manusmriti, he wrote: “The worst about the new constitution of Bharat is that there is nothing Bharatiya about it…Manusmriti is that scripture which is most worship-able after Vedas for our Hindu Nation and which from ancient times has become the basis of our culture-customs, thought and practice. This book for centuries has codified the spiritual and divine march of our nation. Even today the rules which are followed by crores of Hindus in their lives and practice are based on Manusmriti.”
Derek Grossman
👀 "The Washington Post examined six cases in Pakistan through interviews with Pakistani and Indian officials, the militants’ allies and family members, and a review of police documents and other evidence collected by Pakistani investigators. They reveal the contours of an ambitious Indian assassination program with marked similarities to the operations in North America."
https://x.com/derekjgrossman/status/1874017951868932380?s=61&t=mgTxrmITUbpo9NntN5677Q
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campaign of covert killings
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cast himself as more willing to take on India’s enemies beyond its borders than any other leader since independence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/12/31/india-pakistan-targeted-killings-assassinations/
The murder-for-hire operations India used to target dissidents in the West were tested and refined in Pakistan, a Washington Post investigation found. The Post is investigating a global surge in campaigns of cross-border repression. The US and other Western governments have struggled to stem this phenomenon. As a result, sanctuary for those fleeing persecution is shrinking on nearly every continent.
The Washington Post examined six cases in Pakistan through interviews with Pakistani and Indian officials, the militants’ allies and family members, and a review of police documents and other evidence collected by Pakistani investigators. They reveal the contours of an ambitious Indian assassination program with marked similarities to the operations in North America.
In Pakistan, the killings were carried out by Pakistani petty criminals or Afghan hired guns, never Indian nationals, officials said. To aid deniability, RAW officers employed businessmen in Dubai, a regional commercial hub, as intermediaries and deployed separate, siloed teams to surveil targets, execute killings and funnel payments from dozens of informal, unregulated banking networks known as hawalas set up in multiple continents, according to Pakistani investigators. But the RAW also at times used sloppy tradecraft and poorly trained contractors, mirroring what was observed by U.S. and Canadian law enforcement.
The killings in Pakistan typically targeted the alleged leaders of two United Nations-designated terrorist groups — Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad — which have been accused by India of attacking Indian troops or, years ago, Indian citizens. The Sikh separatists who were targeted in Canada and the United States, Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Gurpatwant Pannun, were also designated as terrorists by India, although Western officials and analysts have disputed the persuasiveness of the Indian evidence against them.
Many details of the Indian operations in Pakistan have not been previously reported. Pakistani and Indian officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence activities and ongoing investigations.
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In 2014, the current Indian national security adviser, Ajit Doval, said it was unrealistic to invade Pakistan but that India should use covert means to punish Pakistan for backing militant groups that attack Indian troops and civilians. “We can defend ourselves by going to the place from where the offense is coming,” Doval told a university audience. “Pakistan’s vulnerability is many, many times higher than India’s.”
India Edges Closer to Acknowledging Role in Plot to Kill American
Government inquiry calls for legal action against unnamed person involved in foiled conspiracy
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/india-edges-closer-to-acknowledging-role-in-plot-to-kill-american-101a642f?st=aQPqwL&reflink=article_email_share
India inched closer to acknowledging a role in a murder-for-hire plot aimed at an American citizen, with a government panel calling for legal action against a person involved in the matter.
Relations between Washington and New Delhi were strained when federal prosecutors revealed in November 2023 an audacious plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, an American lawyer who has advocated for carving out a Sikh homeland from India. Prosecutors last year brought murder-for-hire charges against Vikash Yadav, a former official with India’s overseas intelligence service. He remains at large in India.
India didn’t name the person who would face legal action in the statement issued Wednesday, though it noted the person had “earlier criminal links.” A government inquiry panel set up after the American charges were unveiled last year recommended “legal action must be completed expeditiously.”
Before Wednesday’s statement, Indian officials have consistently denied any link to violence directed against American and Canadian citizens. A violent movement to create a Sikh homeland called Khalistan from the Indian state of Punjab once raged in India in the 1980s and 1990s, but was eventually brutally suppressed by Indian police forces. Many Sikhs migrated from Punjab to the U.S. and Canada, where some continued to campaign for the idea of Sikh sovereignty, something the Indian government views as an existential threat.
“This is the closest New Delhi has come to acknowledging some degree of complicity in the alleged plot, even though it didn’t publicly disclose the nature of its findings about the individual in question,” said Michael Kugelman, the director of the Wilson Center’s South Asia Institute.
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