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September 3, 2015
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National Army (INA), today
expressed full support and
solidarity from the families of all
ex-servicemen in the country
from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
in support of their mission,
‘One Rank One Pension’.
He was addressing the exservicemen strong protest at
Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. The
ex-servicemen last week turned
away Congress Vice President,
Rahul Gandhi when he came to
meet them at Jantar Mantar.
Prof.Bhim Singh said that exservicemen united entire
country from east to the west
and north to the south and
brought entire civil society to a
common platform in New Delhi
to ensure that Mahabharata of
21st century shall be fought in
the Hastinapur (Delhi). He said,
NPP Supremo Prof. Bhim Singh congratulates ex-servicemen for strengthening National “I have not come here as a
Integration and moral of the soldiers fighting at the borders in defense of the nation
Panthers Party representative
Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Party who is also son of an ex- fought in the Second World or as a lawyer but as a son of
Patron of National Panthers serviceman, Thakur Birbal who War and served in Indian an ex-serviceman and a
‘OROP’ gets massive support
from Kashmir to Kanyakumari
descendent of General Zorawar
Singh who wrote the history of
India’s integration by his blood
extending India’s boundary to
Lahasa (China) and Central
East Asia (Afghanistan) in the
middle of 19th century. I have
come here to express my
support to the ex-servicemen in
whatever way they need
through pen or sword.”
Col. Raj Thakur, Chairman, Exservicemen Council in NPP,
Ms. Sudesh Dogra, d/o Late
Sub. Krishan Singh and Delhi
Pradesh Panthers Party
President, Rajiv Jolly Khosla
accompanied Prof.Bhim Singh.
Thousands of letters of support,
SMS, whatsapp messages
assuring support to ‘One Rank
One Pension’ movement
launched by the ex-servicemen
with massive participation of
ex-servicemen including several
Generals has assured the
success of the movement.
Sushma Swaraj leaves
opposition bleeding after
her blasting speech
Why India is afraid
to take up J&K in
UN or with Pakistan
Our Correspondent
There have been remained defensive.
more than thousand violation NPP in a letter addressed to
of ceasefire on international Prime Minister of India, Shri
border by Pakistan in Narendra Modi has questioned
violation of UN Resolutions why India has been feeling shy
threatening peace in the to discuss the issues relating to
Indian sub-continent. J&K when Pakistan invokes
Pakistan signed agreement in J&K before United Nations or
Shimla in 1972 assuring that anywhere else or in bilateral
Pakistan’s Head shall frequently talks? He felt surprise about
meet the Indian Head of the India’s defensive role
Sttae to seek final settlement of whenever ‘Kashmir’ is focus
the situation in J&K. Pakistan by Pakistan in any international
has been dictated by ISI for six fora.
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decades and India has
Mrs. Sushma Swaraj,
Foreign Minister of India in
her blasting reply to the
opposition relating to Pak
violation of ceasefire along
LoC in J&K left no doubt
among the agitated people of
the country, particularly the
youth that India means
business and India wanted
peace with Pakistan and all
neighbourers. In her powerful
Hindi eloquence she minced no
word that India wants peace
with Pakistan but it shall not
allow India’s borders and Line
of Control to be ruptured every
day. The strong critics of the
government were silenced by
the speech of the Foreign
Minister.
Nasreen Hamid
Panthers Party is the only
secular, democratic and
nationalist alternative in J&K
--Bhim Singh
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
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Health Ministry runs with a
New alternative emerging! difference, Nadda handles carefully
No where in any democracy the leadership has
Nasreen Hamid
lost its credibility so fast as it happened in India after
the Parliament elections in May, 2014. Modi’s sudden
rise and fast decline in his popularity should not be
any surprise to the students of history and political
science. The people of India were disgusted with the
leadership of the Congress Party for several reasons,
mostly for its failure to check corruption and deliver
justice at the grassroots. The Congress put in all its
efforts to its government to discourage anti-corruption
movement led by several social activists including Anna
Hazarey. It temporary relief which Congress government
managed to get by using rather misusing its authority
and the agencies. The elections to the Lok Sabha was
fought without a fresh agenda or a programme or a
new mission which the new generation wanted or
desired. The regional parties had the same problem.
The regional leadership in different states failed to act
to the satisfaction of the people. The religion was used
as a new platform to create a direct division.
Communalism was fanned. The election of 2014 to the
Parliament was not a political battle but a communal
war to win votes. The electorates were given one slogan
called ‘Hindutva’ under the leadership of an average
leader from Gujarat known as Narendra Damodardas
Modi.
It was not the Bhartiya Janata Party which was
projected by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee when he took
over as the Prime Minister of the country with new
scientific approach. He was appealing. He understood
the pulse of the nation. Secularism or in other words
pluralstic culture of India he understood better than
most of his colleagues. Shri L.K. Advani, Dr. Murali
Manohar Joshi, Shri Jaswant Singh became the first
casualty of Modi’s rise. The public platforms of BJP’s
election campaign were decorated with Modi’s
hoardings, banners etc. whereas the BJP leaders even
the sitting President of the BJP were eclipsed from the
stage. It was all Modi and none else. Nor even BJP. The
message given was dangerous for the unity and
integrity of the largest democracy of the world.
It happened that the ruling Congress could not
retain its place as a recognised opposition party in Lok
Sabha. The ruling party had made several promises,
even, promising moon to the people living in the
Himalayas. Corruption has been almost legalized now,
foreign policy has touched the lowest ebb in the history
of independent India. The youth stand completely
ignored. All the old favourites of Prime Minister Modi.
India’s great and cardial relations with the Arab world
stand collapsed. The Prime Minister has taken India’s
foreign policy for a ride. He is a globetrotting Prime
Minister with no commitment to India’s unique
relationship with the Afro-Asian world. Latin America
does not figure anywhere in the political map of Prime
Minister Modi.
Prime Minister Modi’s experiment in J&K has
proved fatal as BJP’s surrender in J&K has caused a
great disappointment to its own cadre and the RSS
headquarters in Nagpur. The bureaucrats who had no
RSS connections are being fired like domestics and
ministers have to wait for appointment with the Prime
Minister for months.
The BJP has been hijacked by the PMO and its
coalition partners who talk of coalition dharma whcih
was held in high spirit by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
stands diluted. That was one of the reasons that BJP
met its waterloo in Delhi’s Assembly elections. The
political graph of popularity of Prime Minister Modi has
declined. India has seen a similar trend when Rajiv
Gandhi lost power because of the internal bickering
in the Congress party. The political pundits are guessing
a similar revolution within BJP soon in less than one
year. Alas, there is no alternative emerging till day. A
new leadership with commitment to secularism,
democracy and corruption free society at home and
non-aligned abroad shall have to be the principle stand
of the new alternative.
Sd/-Bhim Singh
It
was a rare
experience at the residence
of Union Health Minister,
Shri J.P. Nadda when I
approached his residence
with a letter from a
depressed patient who
needed Health Minister’s
intervention for his
treatment
in
PGI,
Chandigarh. Though, I had
several occasions to meet the
Union Health Minister, Shri J.P.
Nadda, Rajya Sabha, Lok
Sabha from Himachal Pradesh.
Patient Mr. Nasim Akhtar from
Saharanpur (72 years old
retired person) has been asked
by PGI, Chandigarh to arrange
Rs.1.5 lacs for his treatment and
operation. The retired man
could not afford it. I went to
Minister’s house with his
application and papers and
met Shri Sunil Kumar, PA to the
Minister. It was strange that the
concerned PA t ook my
application and talked to
doctor at Chandigarh (PGI)
immediately. He informed me
the documents which were
required like BPL or Lower
Income Group Certificate. It
was strange incident that I was
offered tea/coffee and water
and politely told to take my
seat. I was satisfied on the
attitude of the staff of the
Minister and the security men
at the gate. It usually does not
happen that way whenever you
visit a minister’s house in Delhi.
I quickly wrote a few lines for
the press that it was first
experience for me that I was
treated that way with respect
at the residence of the Health
Minister. May be it was effect
of the Minister’s personal
attitude or the reflection of the
behaviour of the ministers in
Modi’s government. Whatever
it is I felt that Health Minister’s
attitude and the way his staff
behaves and works was
wonderful.
The matter did not end here I
was told by the concerned PA,
Mr. Sunil Kumar that he shall
contact me in the afternoon. I
forgot to ring him as I had
assured so. It was at about 6.00
p.m. when I got a call from Mr.
Sunil Kumar. That was my
second surprise how a staff
member at the Minister’s house
works punctually and with a
care for the patients. I felt that
the Ministers are elected by the
people and after entering the
power house they forget the
people to attend their
grievances. It was an
experiment with a difference.
Bhim Singh presents his book,
‘Unbelievable-Delhi to Islamabad’ to Punjab CM
Prof.Bhim Singh,
Chief Patron of National
Panthers Party presented his
latest book, ‘UnbelievableDelhi to Islamabad’ to S.
Prakash Singh Badal, Chief
Minister of Punjab during his
meeting with the Chief
Minister in New Delhi.
Prof.Bhim Singh also
congratulated Shri Badal for his
efforts to eradicate drug culture
VOM Correspondent
in Punjab and mobilize the
youth against militancy, violence
by involving t he new
generations in developmental
works.
Shri Badal appreciated
Prof.Bhim Singh initiative to
provide free legal aid to the
youth in difficult days and
expressed hope that his
services shall be useful to
strengt hen and promote
emotional integration between
the people of J&K and rest of
the country. Prof.Bhim Singh
expressed hope that t he
initiative taken by Punjab with
a new coalition to run Punjab
government may prove to be
more useful and fruitful for the
development of Punjab. He
said that coalition experiment
between PDP led by Mufti
Mohd. Sayeed in J&K and
BJP has proved a disaster for
both the regions, Kashmir and
Jammu for several reasons. He
said the J&K coalition was for
power and money with no
mission for the good of the
people and that’s why it failed.
He also felt that Punjab
experiment cannot be
compared
with
the
experiment in J&K for two
parties in J&K have been
working in different
directions and political
interests poles apart from
each other.
In Punjab the coalition
experiment
has
strengthened National
Integration whereas in J&K
it has worked for the
promotion of disintegration
thus weakening the bonds of
secularism and nationalism.
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
NPP holds massive protest on ‘One
Rank One Pension’ for Ex-servicemen
VOM Correspondent
Expressing shock on the delay
and
deny
over
t he
implementation of “One Rank
One Pension”(OROP) for the
Ex-servicemen by the Union
government, scores of Panthers
Party activists spearheaded by
Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman
JKNPP and Mr. Yashpal Kundal
State president Young Panthers
staged a massive one day protest
demonstration outside the Press
Club on Friday against the BJP
led NDA for its insouciant and
nonchalant attitude towards the
retired Armed Forces Personnel
who had sacrificed their entire
life in the service of the
Motherland. The indignant
protestors raised the slogans of
‘One
Rank
One
P en si on …Laagu
Karo,Laagu Karo’, ‘Retired
Sainikon ke Saath…Nyaye
Karo,Nyaye Karo’, ‘War
widows Ko Unka …Haq Do,
Haq
Do’and
‘BJP
Sarkaar..Hai,Hai’ .
While addressing to the media
on the 50th anniversary of 1965
Indo-Pak war, Mr. Harsh Dev
Singh recalled that in 2011 the
Koshyari
Commit tee
conceptualized OROP as the
uniform pension to be paid to the
Armed Forces Personnel
retiring in the same rank with the
same length of service
irrespective of their date of
retirement and any future
enhancement in the pension rate
to be automatically passed on to
the past pensioners so as to
remove the pension anomaly
between the current pensioners
and the past pensioners. He
pointed out that during the
General Elections in 2014
,OROP was an integral part of
the BJP’s manifesto and Mr.
Narendra Modi, the then BJP
Prime Ministerial candidate
had
made
repeat ed
commitments to implement
OROP, if voted to power at
several political rallies including
the one at Rewari, Haryana
with former General V.K Singh
standing by his side in the
presence of thousands of ExServicemen. Later, after
becoming Prime Minister of
india Mr. Modi visited Siachin
Glacier on the eve of Diwali in
2014 and told the soldiers that
it was in his destiny that OROP
had been fulfilled which was
followed by his radio address
in May 2015 in which he asked
the Ex- Servicemen to remain
patient for an effective
implementation of OROP.
Strongly flaying in anguish the
bizarre manhandling of the
veterans on 14th August by the
police who have been sitting on
relay hunger strike for their
genuine demands at Jantar –
Mantar in New Delhi, Harsh
Dev termed the incident as the
most barbaric, undemocratic
and shameful event in the
history of Independent India.
He reminisced that Rajnath
Singh, Union Home Minister
authorized Delhi Police to evict
Ex-Servicemen, their families
and War widows from the
protesting site which without
any advance warning came
down heavily on t he
protestors. Moreover, several
veterans in their eighties were
pushed around, dragged,
humiliated and baton- charged
besides their tents and other
equipments were forcibly
removed. Harsh furt her
maintained that the despicable
act of oppression by the NDA
government to quell the
constitutional right of the
veterans t o protest has
prompted widespread dismay
,disappointment and outrage
among the Armed forces
pensioners besides all the sects
of the civil society. Moreover,
it has unveiled and exposed the
government’s intentions to
delay, dilute and deny OROP.
He said that the BJP’s pre-poll
announcement for its
implementation was nothing but
an election ploy based on
subterfuge to come into power
and the resultant delay and
deny over OROP is an insult to
the National pride and honour.
Expressing solidarity with the
Armed Forces pensioners
sitting on relay hunger strike for
the last 75 days in New Delhi
and the six brave Army
vet erans who have been
observing fast unto death of late,
Harsh Dev wished an early
recovery for Col. Pushpender
Singh of 6- Grenadiers and
Havaldar Ashok Kumar
Chauhan of Signals who were
evacuated to Army Research
and Referral Hospital due to
their deteriorating condition. He
said that the effective OROP
scheme which envisages a
uniform pension for the defense
personnel would benefit nearly
25 lakh Ex-Servicemen and
over 6 lakh war widows. The
former Education Minister
vociferously demanded its
immediate
effective
implementation without any
alteration in its contours which
broadly included 2013-14 as
the base year for calculating the
pension, 3% annual increase in
pension to mat ch t he
increments and its retrospective
implementation from the agreed
date of April 1, 2014.
Yashpal Kundal while hailing
the talks between t he
representat ives of ExServicemen and the Union
government cautioned the BJP
of the serious socio-political
ramifications if the scheme was
not implemented in letter and
spirit. He said that Panthers
Party shall continue to support
the cause of the defense
veterans unless OROP is
effectuated. He wondered if the
Union government could spare
whopping 1.25 lakh crores for
Bihar ahead of Assembly
elections then why the ExServicemen who are the
Nation’s most valuable assets
could be divested of the scheme
wit h an estimated viable
financial implications of mere
Rs. 12000 crores. Kundal said
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that the people have understood
the government’s agenda and
they could not be hoodwinked
again and again by the BJP’s
policy of deceit, duplicity and
betrayal. Others who spoke in
the occasion included Jagdev
Singh, Paramjit Singh Marshall,
Rajesh Padgotra, Manju Singh,
Renu Singh, Rita, Sub. Naresh
Singh Chib, Gagan Pratap
Singh, Shyam Gorkha ,Arun
Khajuria, Rajeshwar Singh,
Sarpanch Dhyan Singh,
Subhash Singh Charak,
Havaldar Parveen Singh
Choudhary,
Inderpal
Singh,Kailash Mohan, Pankaj
Sharma, Rajneesh Sharma,
Anshuman Sharma, Vinod
Gupta, Neeraj Gupta Nirmal
Kishore etc.
Indian Organisations welcome
Turkish President’s visit to India
We the Indian social,
Religious, Political organizations
and NGO’s whole heatedly
welcomes the proposed visit of
Turkish President, Mr. Recep
Tayyip Erdogan to India. They
feel that his visit to India will
further strengthen the exiting
Social, Cultural, Political,
economical and friendly relations
between Turkey and India and
will also strengthen the existing
people to people relations
between the two countries.
They expressed support to
Turkey against the anti-Islamic,
inhuman
and
terrorists
organizations like ISIS, PKK.
They condemned kidnapping of
Indians by ISIS in Iraq, which is
against the humanity, as no
religion teaches the killing of
innocent people.
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Welfare
Party of India, Jamiat AhleHadees,Muslim Political Council
of India, Jama Masjid United
Forum,Shahi Imam, Masjid
Fatehpuri Delhi, All India Muslim
Personal law Board, All India ShiaSunni Front, All India Islamic
Conference, Tanzeem Ulema-eHaq, All India Milli Council, All
India India Minorities Front, Inia
Arab Cultural Center, Association
for Asian Union, The Association
Chambers of Commerce and
Industry of India, All India Saifi
Association,
All
India
Organization of Imam of
Mosques, Chairman Delhi State
Haj Committee.
World Mass Communication,
Institute for Media and
Communication, NICE Society,
All India Traders Association,
Hind Congress Party, All India
women Rights Protection
Council, NASYM Non-Aligned
Youth Movement, Organization of
Indian People’s Solidarity with
Turkey, Real Cause NGO,
Students Action Committee and
others.
NPSU activists hold
protest demonstration
Student Reporter
National Panthers Student
Union (NPSU) activists held
protest demonstration against
the mess and mismanagement
in the Govt.Degree College
Akhnoor. Among others who
participated in the protest
included Rishi Badyal, Lovely
Singh, Shubam Jasrotia,
Vinod Kumar, Gagan,
Samar, Mohit Sharma,
Rhidam Sharma, Vipul
Sharma, Sumit Sangral,
Rohit.
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
Cuba & USA rebuild bridges of peace
Re-establish diplomatic relations
VOM Correspondent
The President of the Councils
of State and of Ministers of the
Republic of Cuba, Army
General Raúl Castro Ruz, and
the President of the United
States of America, Barack
Obama, exchanged letters
through which they confirmed
their decision to re-establish
diplomatic relations between
the two countries and open
permanent diplomatic missions
in the respective capitals as
from July 20, 2015.
The Government of Cuba has
decided to re-est ablish
diplomatic relations with the
United States in the full exercise
of its sovereignty and with an
invariable commitment with its
ideals of independence and
social justice, and of solidarity
with the just causes of the world,
while reaffirming each and
every one of the principles for
which our people have shed
their blood and run every risk
under the leadership of the
historical Leader of t he
Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz.
The issues need
urgent attention
There could be no normal
relations between Cuba and the
United States as long as the
economic, commercial and
financial blockade continues to
be fully implemented, causing
damage and scarcities to the
Cuban people. The blockade is
the main obstacle to the
development of our economy;
it is a violation of International
Law and affects the interests of
all countries, including those of
the United States.
His Excellency President Omar
Hassan Al Bashir returned to
Khartoum from Johannesburg,
South Africa, after participating
in the 25th African Union (AU)
Summit with the other 54 heads
of stat e and government
members to AU. On t he
sidelines of the Summit he met
many dignitaries of friendly
states to discuss bilateral and
regional issues, including
women
empowerment,
sustainable development and
strengthening of regional and
continental relationships
between the peoples and
governments of the continent.
President Al Bashir in
continuation of furthering the
role of the Sudan as a pivot of
stability in the region of East
with the Government of the
United States and develop
civilized coexistence relations,
based on the respect for the
differences that exist between
both governments and
cooperation in areas of mutual
benefit. It assured to continue
to be involved in the process to
update its economic and social
model in order to build a
prosperous and sustainable
socialism, to move towards the
development of the country and
to consolidate the achievements
of the Revolution.
The international fraternity has
expressed a great hope that
Cuba and the USA shall open
all windows so that cool breeze
blows from both sides and half
a century tension comes to an
end.
In order to normalize relations,
it will also be indispensable for
the United States Government
to return to Cuba the territory
illegally occupied by the
Guantánamo Naval Base;
cease the radio and television President Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan
broadcasts, which violate
international regulations and are
harmful to our sovereignty; stop
the implementation of programs
aimed at promoting internal
subversion and destabilization
and compensate the Cuban
people for all the human and
economic damages caused by
the United States policies.
As the Cuban Government
recalls the issues that are still to
be resolved between our two
countries, it recognizes the
decisions adopted so far by
President Obama to remove
Cuba from the list of States assemblies, The National in various think tanks, in Sudan
Assembly and presidential and beyond, have accused such
candidates.
groups of following t he
In a region that is wading in paradigm of Creative
deep turmoil caused by Destruction to perpetuate the
terrorist movements and chaotic same chaos circulating in the
non-state actors, stretching above-mentioned conflictfrom Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, infested countries. Due to this
Somalia to Mali and elsewhere, paradigm, President Al Bashir
with the emergence of terrorist has been portrayed as an
ever second-term democratic and extremist groups all around alleged perpetrator of crimes of
election since 1956. Al Bashir its
peripherals,
such wars in Darfur. The paradigmwill go in history as the first achievements should be hailed followers rode the so-called
president to bring the country by each and every peace- ICC, which Sudan is no
to a second term that witnessed loving person.
member to, in order to show
16 presidential candidates to To further aggravate the their case as legally accessible
contest, with participation of situation in the region with the and humanly reasonable. Sudan
more than 70 political parties. end to create more chaos, has been referred to ICC by a
To that, we must also add the certain smear campaigns of political body where 60% of its
achievement made in the propaganda and defamation permanent members are no
western region of Darfur, which were highlighted from dubious members to; where some
has concluded a successful NGOs routinely work as fronts among them issued laws to
agreement in Doha in May on behalf of enemies of the invade the ICC if it ever
2008 due t o which an people of the Sudan, who have stretched its hand to arrest any
autonomous Darfur Authority been working during the last 50 of their nationals. This act is
has been established. Again, for years with the mission to called Double-Standard in the
the first time in more than 25 perpetrate conflict in Sudan jargon of international law.
years, in April 2015 all Darfur through sponsoring, financing The dubious NGOs have
5 federal states have and training rebellious and deliberately ignored the Report
participat ed in free and terrorist movements to adopted by the UN Secretary
transparent elections to choose disintegrat e the country.
...........Contd. at page 5
representatives for legislative Experts in conflict management
Khartoum’s historic welcome
to Sudan President Al Bashir
on his return from AU Summit
VOM Special, Khartoum
Africa, the Horn of Africa and
North Central African regions
where issues of conflict
resolution,
sustainable
development and good
governance have taken top
priority, has chosen to pay much
effort to sustain brotherly
relations with all. In 2005
Sudan has successfully
concluded an agreement with
the erstwhile rebels in its
Southern region, which
culminated in the referendum of
2011 that brought birth of the
new state of South Sudan,
ending a bloody conflict that
lasted for 50 years. This has
been possible only under the
able and visionary leadership of
President Al Bashir. Also, in
April the Sudan conducted its
sponsors of international
terrorism; to encourage the
Congress of his country to lift
the blockade and to begin
taking steps to modify the
implementation of aspects of
this policy by making use of his
executive powers.
Cuba feels that relations should
be based on the absolute
respect for our independence
and sovereignty; the inalienable
right of every State to chose its
political, economic, social and
cultural system, without any
form of interference; and
sovereign equality and
reciprocity, which are principles
of International Law that can
not be relinquished.
The Government of Cuba
affirmed its willingness to
maintain a respectful dialogue
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THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
Turkey hits back ISIS
It is ISIS versus all
VOM Special from Istanbul
The fight against terrorism in
Turkey and in the region has
entered a new era. Turkey is
fighting ISIS with increase
intensity. There have been
various turning points in this war
against ISIS. The ISIS attack
on Turkish security forces in the
city of Nigde last year in March,
2014 was one of the turning
points in this struggle.
According to reports comming
from the region says, “The Anti-
Islamic, inhuman and terrorists
organization ISIS is killing,
kidnapping and torturing
innocent people in the name of
Islam, ISIS is killing and
kidnapping
Christians,
Muslims, including Shias and
Sunnis, Children, old people
and women, even they are
rapping innocent girls, even
ISIS kidnapped more then 40
Indians in Iraq, still they are
missing no body knows that the
ISIS killed them or still they are
alive, which all are against the
preaching of Islam, as the Islam
does not permit to kill innocent
human being and according to
Islam killing of one innocent
person is the killing of all human
being (Humanity). In fact ISIS
is defaming Islam and giving
bad name to Islam, “Islam is
a religion of peace,” not for
terrorism and killing of innocent
persons.
Turkey & Syria facing wrath of ISIS
Need rethinking in their bilateral relations
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The President of Turkey is
often informally referred to as
the Reis-i Cumhur, meaning
'President of the People'. The
current office-holder is the 12th
President, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan since August 28,
2014.
Turkey has got a new
government since 2014 and
certainly the situation before
2014 was different than the
security situation today.
Sudden emergence of a new
force ISIS claiming to be
champion of Islamic needs a
fresh look into the entire
scenario not only in the
Middle-East but in the entire
Afro-Asian continent.
This is high time that the
leadership of Turkey with its
maturity, wisdom and
farsightedness works out more
acceptable and reasonable
formula to improve Turkey’s
relation with Syria as both are
facing same situation from a
hidden face of ISIS.
Turkey takes strong measures
to wipe out ISIS in Syria, Iraq
and in the region, so that ISIS
can not kill innocent persons
any more and can not defame
the Islam.
ISIS targeted Turkish security
forces, which made the Turkish
security establishment realize
the need to take some significant
measures against the terrorist
organization ISIS. The first
country that faced the ISIS
threat was Turkey. ISIS
attacked the Turkish Consulate
in Mosul and took Turkish
citizens in the consulate building
as well as the consulate
employees, including the
consulate general of Turkey in
Mosul. The hostage crisis
continued for more than three
months and during this crisis
everybody in Turkey and world
understood the threat that ISIS
posed to the region and Turkey.
As a result of these attacks,
Turkey became the victim of
one of the first ISIS attacks
outside Iraq and Syria, and
with the Mosul attack, Turkey
became the first country whose
mission was attacked by ISIS.
The ISIS also slowly engaged
in actions that would strengthen
the regime of Syrian President
Bashar Assad. In most
circumstances ISIS preferred to
act against the opposition
instead of the Assad regime.
Following the hostage-taking
incident, t he Turkish
government found itself in a
5
debate on how to fight ISIS.
ISIS terrorists could also target
areas throughout Turkey,
including Ankara, Istanbul and
areas close to the Syrian border.
After Turkey’s anti-terrorism
and Turkish security forces
operation against ISIS and
other militant targets, Turkish
forces arrested 1,050
suspected members of Islamic
State, Kurdish militants and
ultra-leftists in recent days,
more than 5,000 officers helped
search 140 properties. The
Turkey forces also bombed
ISIS positions in northern Iraq
and Syria.
Turkey attach great importance
to cooperation with the U.S.
and believe that it will result in
an effective fight against the
ISIS threat.
“Turkey has a very strong army
and very strong security forces
so there has been no request for
any substantial NATO military
support to attack the ISIS
positions in Syria and Iraq.
Majority of Muslim Religious
leaders, Muslim Scholars,
Muslim leaders and Imams of
the world are opposed to the
Terrorists, inhuman and antiIslam organization ISIS for
killing and torturing the innocent
people in the name of Islam.
The world Muslim leadership
has great expectations that
Turkey shall succeed in wiping
out ISIS and other anti-Islamic
terrorist organisations.
****
...........Contd. from page 4
President Al Bashir on his return
Ahmet Davutoglu
Ahmet Davutoglu is a Turkish
academic, politician and former
diplomat who has been the
Prime Minister of Turkey since
28 August 2014 and as the
leader of the Justice and
Development Party since 27
August 2014.
Who is this ISIS? Who is their master behind?
Who is Army and financing them?
Why UN agencies are silent?
This is the time that Non-Aligned Movement
steps in to save peace & human dignity.
India has a great role to play.
General who appointed the
international law expert Mr.
Antonio Cassese, to head a
Commission to investigate
report s of violations of
international humanitarian law
and human rights law in Darfur.
The Commission submitted a
full report on its findings to the
Secretary General on 25
January
2005.
The
Commission’s final decision:
“no genocidal policy has been
pursued and implemented in
Darfur by the Government
authorities, directly or
through the militias under
their control...”
Sudan official position is that
ICC resolutions are not
applicable, complying with its
constitution, applicable laws
and the universally observed
tenets of state sovereignty,
political independence and
territorial integrity. The Charter
of UN asserts the sovereignty
of states who shall not be liable
to laws or regulations these
states are no members to.
The African Unity has
adopted a unanimous
decision requires that
members shall abide fully by
the laws, rules and
procedures agreed to by the
Assembly of the Heads of
State and Government who
are democratically elected
and not submit to nonelected bodies, including
NGOs who represent only
themselves and those who
finance their budgets.
Due to this understanding,
President Al Bashir was
heroically received y in
Khartoum by all the people of
the Sudan as an African
democratically elected leader
who enjoy enormous respect
and passion of the peace-loving
peoples of the Sudan and
Africa.
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
6
Wisdom lies in daring
J&K Lawyers shall elect Bar
Council for the first time in J&K
B.S. Billowria, Advocate
Division Bench of
Supreme Court of India
comprising JJ Mr. Justice T.S.
Thakur and Mr. Justice N.V.
Ramana granted for weeks to
Bar Council of India to examine
and submit the final report on
the rules for J&K Bar Council
which have been framed by the
full bench of J&K High Court
under the direction of Supreme
Court of India. The Supreme
Court directed the Bar Council
of India to file its affidavit with
approval note so that the rules
to hold election to the Bar
Council of J&K may be held for
the first t ime ever since
Advocates Act, 1961 was
framed by the Parliament of
India.
The Supreme Court of India had
directed the High Court of J&K
to frame rules and consider to
elect J&K Bar Council. This
order was passed by t he
Supreme Court of India on a
writ petition filed by Prof.Bhim
Singh, Sr. Advocate and the
Founder of J&K National
Panthers Party. Prof.Bhim Singh
filed this writ petition in 2013
seeking intervention of the
Supreme Court to get elected
Bar Council in the state as the
present Bar Council is chaired
by the Chief Justice of J&K
High Court with the judges of
the High Court as its members
since 1986 when the Advocates
Act, 1961 was extended to the
State of J&K. Prof.Bhim Singh
has described t his as
undemocratic amounting to
massacre the democratic and
fundamental rights of the
lawyers’ fraternity. He said both
the Govt. of J&K and the High
Court were responsible for this
sad situation.
Mr. Justice Tirath Singh, the
senior most judge of t he
Supreme Court told Prof.Bhim
Singh that we should wait for
another four weeks when we
had waited for 30 years.
The Bar Council of India in its
affidavit had supported the PIL
(writ petition) of Prof.Bhim
Singh and filed an impressive
affidavit urging Supreme Court
of India to constitute J&K Bar
Council in accordance with the
spirit of law laid down in the
Advocates Act, 1961.
Prof.Bhim Singh expressed
satisfaction that one of the
causes he has been fighting for
stands accomplished when
lawyers’ fraternity in J&K
starts sharing the fruits of
Advocates Act for the first time
in the history.
Prof.Bhim Singh those assisted
by Mr. Satish Vig, Mr. B.S.
Billowria, Mr. Vijay Pratap
Singh, Mrs. Ritu Puri and
others.
Bhim Singh exposed J&K government & silent
judiciary vis-a-vis non-existent Bar Council in J&K
In his writ petition
Bhim Singh argued that the
Bar Council of J&K has not
been constituted in
accordance with the
Advocates Act, 1961, which
was extended to J&K in
1986, hence the present Bar
Council in J&K headed by
the Hon’ble Chief Justice of
J&K is illegal, improper,
unconstitutional as it is
constituted in violation of
fundamental rights of
Lawyers fraternity thus,
violating the provisions of
Articles 14, 19, 21 as well as
the provisions of the
Advocates Act, 1961.
His arguments included, “That
the lawyers fraternity has been
discriminated
by
t he
respondents as the lawyers have
been denied their right to elect
their own Bar Council as it has
been practiced in all other
States of India.
Writ petition stated, “Keeping
lawyers fraternity in J&K away
from sharing their democratic
SC directs UOI & J&K to file status
quo report on Pakistani prisoners
A Division Bench of
Supreme Court of India
comprising JJ Mr. Justice J.
Chelameswar and Mr. Justice
Abhay Manohar Sapre
accepted submission by
Prof.Bhim Singh, Sr. Advocate
on behalf of the detenus and
prisoners to file rejoinder within
four weeks on the counter file
by Union of India in connection
with detentions, t rials,
conviction and repatriation of
Pakistani, POK prisoners and
fishermen languishing in Indian
jails.
Prof.Bhim Singh was arguing
for JKNPP, State Legal Aid
Committee and others who had
challenged the continuous
detention, trials and conviction
of various courts in India and
asked for
immediate
repatriation of all the foreign
prisoners from Pakistan, POK,
Bangladesh and other foreign
countries who have been kept
under illegal detention under
PSA for years when PSA does
not allow any person to be
detained without trial beyond
two years.
He informed the court that
there are prisoners from
Pakistan and POK who have
been languishing in various jails
of India even when the
prisoners have exhausted
maximum sentence and some
of them have been in jails for
over 17/18 years. He quoted
one Mohd.Ashraf whose
sentence expired in 1997. He
is still in Amritsar for the past
18 years under the pretext that
Govt. of India could not identify
his nationality. He also submitted
that there are several hundred
Pak and POK prisoners who
have completed their sentences
yet have not been repatriated
under one pretext or the other.
He gave example of one Syed
Sajjad Ali Bukhari @Ali Bhai,
s/o Syed Shahpal Bukhari, r/o
Mandyari Sadian, Kotli,
Muzaffrabad, POK who was
set free three months back by
District Sessions Judge, Jammu.
He still in District Jail, Sangroor
(Punjab).
Appearing for the Union of
India, Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr.
Advocate & Solicitor General
of India who admitted that there
are 234 Pakistani prisoners in
Indian jails besides 27
fishermen. He also admitted
through a note submitted before
rights at par with the lawyers
community in all other States
amounts to discrimination with
the lawyers who have been
fighting for the cause of civil
liberties and democratic rights of
the citizens.
He charged that the State
government responsible for its
failure to frame Rules to hold
election of the Bar Council in
J&K under the Advocates Act,
1961 in 30 years, which leaves
not an iota of doubt that the
respondents have deliberately
chosen to deny democratic
rights to the lawyers’ fraternity
in J&K. The Bar Council of
India fully supported the
petition and its contention.
the Supreme Court that 16
Pakistanis were repatriated this
year before July and 9
fishermen. He also admitted
before court that 47 Pakistani
prisoners who have completed
their sentences but still are
detained in different jails. He
admitted that there are several
prisoners who have no cases
registered against them but they
could not be released because
their nationality according to the
Solicitor General has not been
confirmed in years together.
Most of them he said were
detained in Central Jail, Amritsar
and Bhuj. The Union of India
also furnished a list of 73
Pakistani fishermen released by
the Govt. who were repatriated
to Pakistan by Govt. of India in
2014.
He strongly protested that
several prisoners lodged in
different jails outside J&K are
not produced before the trial
courts in J&K for no reason.
He said that one Mohd.
Abdullah lodged in Sangroor
Jail, Punjab is an under-trial
before Addl.Sessions Judge,
Jammu & Sessions Judge,
Samba. His case is pending for
several years but he is not
produced deliberately by the
police in spite of the direction
of the Supreme Court of India
in 2007 that trials of all
prisoners from Pakistan should
be concluded within one year.
The court directed the Solicitor
General to file status report.
He also requested the court to
direct the Union of India to
repatriate all the prisoners who
have completed their sentences
or who have no cases pending
against them or whose trials
have not been completed as per
direction of the Supreme Court
back to Pak or POK as this is
command of Article 21 of
Constitution of India.
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
September 3, 2015
7
.......Contd. from page 1
Why India is afraid? Communal disclosure of
2011 census intriguing
Migration ignored
VOM Correspondent
Mr. Krishna Menon addressing UN Assembly in 1957 on
J&K. Last Indian representative to blast Pakistan on J&K
Prof.Bhim Singh, Supremo of
National Panthers Party in a
letter addressed to Prime
Minister of India, Shri Narendra
Modi has questioned why India
has been feeling shy to discuss
the issues relating to J&K when
Pakistan invokes J&K before
United Nations or anywhere
else or in bilateral talks? He felt
surprise about India’s defensive
role whenever ‘Kashmir’ is
focus by Pakistan in any
international fora.
NPP Supremo said that the
leadership of India led by the
Prime Minister should study the
UN Resolution carefully and its
violation by Pakistan right since
1948 when this Resolution was
passed by UNCIP on 13 th
August, 1948. He told the
Prime Minister to make it
compulsory for all his ministers
and diplomats to sit in a class
understand the minute of UN
Resolution vis-à-vis Jammu and
Kashmir.
* Firstly, UNCIP in its
Resolution has direct ed
Pakistan to vacate all occupied
territories of J&K including
Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral, entire
POK (which Pakistan calls
‘Azad Kashmir’).
* Secondly, Pakistan shall
withdraw all civilian settlers of
Pakistan from occupied areas
forthwith. (Pakistan had settled
lacks of Punjabi population in
the occupied areas by 1948).
* The Indian Army shall look
after law and order in the entire
state of J&K including these
vacated areas till next step.
* Mostly the arbitrator for
holding plebiscite shall be
appointed by the Monarch
(Maharaja Hari Singh).
* Pakistan refused point blank
to implement UN Resolution.
Instead sought AngloAmerican support to appoint
Dixon to find out of box
solution. Dixon suggested
division of Jammu Pradesh to
create an Islamic State of
Kashmir.
Pakist an
inst ead
of
implementing UN Resolution to
withdraw its Army from all
occupied areas violated UN
Resolutions by;
i) Leased out nearly 5000 sq.
miles of our territory to China
in 1963 in Karakoram region
of J&K.
ii) Pakist an inst ead of
withdrawing its Army from
Gilgit-Baltistan declared entire
Gilgit-Baltistan comprising
about 28,000 sq. miles of our
territory as 6th province of
Pakistan in 2009.
iii) Pakistan committed more
than 1000 violations of ceasefire
lines causing tremendous loss to
life and property of both sides.
iv) Pakistan is continuing to
send trained Army commandos
into J&K to sabotage peace in
the sub-continent with an
intention destabilise India at the
behest of Anglo-American
Bloc.
Prof.Bhim Singh asked the
Prime Minister why India
should not expose Pakistan and
its military rulers of all these
facts whenever Pakistan rise to
raise or raises J&K issue. He
asked Prime Minister that why
India is afraid to answer on facts
and grounds whenever Pakistan
shall try to invoke J&K, may it
be UFA, New Delhi,
Islamabad, United Nations or
anywhere else.
Prof.Bhim Singh said that India
should stop taking defensive
posture and argue like a lawyer
on facts, law and reality so that
the international community
also understands the truth. This
was done for the first and last
time by Mrs. Krishna Menon
in 1957 and 1962 before the
United Nations.
“Census
report
relating to 2011 census
officially released after four
years carrying communal
divide of Hindus and
Muslims is not only
intriguing but malicious and
mala fide to invoke the
communal agenda of Prime
Minister, Shri Narendra
Modi. Prime Minister Modi
has invoked Hindutva
agenda after BJP failed to
make an impact in the name
of Ram Mandir. Shri Modi’s
downfall and decline in his
popularity in a shortest
period after his rise has
worried Shri Modi about his
future and future of his party.
That was one of the reasons
that a fresh scare-mongering
campaign has been ignited in
the largest religion in the
country who is peaceful, nonviolent, God fearing and
above all and nationalist to
the core.”
This statement was issued by
Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron
of J&K National Panthers Party
who is also Member of National
Integration Council today from
New Delhi, Jammu and
Srinagar. The NPP Supremo
reacting on the untimely
disclosure of census report on
communal basis described it as
undesirable and unthoughtful as
it has been done with mala fide
intention least realizing that the
Govt. has spent billions of
rupees for propagating family
planning. It has not been
analyzed thoroughly that nearly
2,19,09,875 Indians, mostly
Hindus, have been residing
outside India or has migrated
to the foreign countries
according to the latest report.
Nearly 1.64% Hindu
population has migrated to
foreign countries whereas
decline in total Hindu
population has been stated to
be 0.7%. The census report
has not taken into account the
proportion of Hindus in the
permanently.
Prof.Bhim Singh said that the
whole purpose of this disclosure
is done with a political interest
and clear intention to create a
divide between the Hindus and
Muslims which Prime Minister
Modi considers beneficiary to
promote his lost agenda. This
is a futile attempt to regain
support of one community.
Prof.Bhim Singh has given a call
to all universities and intellectual
groups of people to study this
total population. It has also
ignored the 1.64% Hindus
who have migrated or settled
outside India temporary or
report carefully keeping in view
the national interest supreme
and above electoral gains for
power.
Bhim Singh’s books recommended
in Colleges & Universities
*
*
*
*
*
*
Flames in Kashmir (English)
Sulgata Kashmir (Hindi)
Sada-e-Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu)
Kashmir, A Mirage (English)
Murder of Democracy’ in J&K (English)
NATO Aggression Against Yugoslavia,
‘The Judgment’ (English)
* Autonomy or Secession in Kashmir (English)
* Iraq--A Heroic Resistance (English)
* Chetna Yatra, Kargil Se Kanyakumari (Hindi)
* Around the World on Motorcycle
on Peace Mission (Hindi, English & Urdu)
* J&K : The Blunders & Way Out (English)
* Unbelievable--Delhi to Islamabad (English)
THE VOICE OF MILLIONS
RNI No. 28551/75
September 3, 2015
Glorious tributes to Yasir Arafat
on his 86th Birth Anniversary
Nasreen Hamid
8
Prof. Amitabh Mattoo
is one of India's leading
thinkers and writers on
international relations. His
appointment as Advisor to
the Chief Minister of J&K,
with the status of a Cabinet
Minister has been hailed by
his friends and critics both.
Prof.Bhim Singh, Supremo of
NPP has welcomed Prof.
Mattoo’s entry to power
house in J&K as Advisor to
the Chief Minister hoping
that his presence shall help
the Govt. of J&K to take
hard decisions with
magnanimity
and
farsightedness for the return
of peace in J&K, particularly
in the Valley.
Dr. Amitabh Mattoo with Vice
President of India, Mohd.
Hamid Ansari while releasing
Bhim
Singh’s
book,
‘Unbelievable-Delhi
to
Islamabad’ at Vice President’s
House, New Delhi
Dr. Amitabh
A special meeting of
the Panthers Party and IndoPalestine Friendship Society
was held in New Delhi on 86th
Birth Anniversary of world’s
super hero of war and peace,
Shri Yasir Arafat, the Hero
of Palestine Liberation
Movement. The meeting
was held under the
chairmanship of Prof.Bhim
Singh, a close associate of
Yasir Arafat for three
decades who joined Arafat in
Lebanon, Syria, Gholan
Heights, Tunis and Gaza
(Palestine) and finally in
Ram Allah in Palestine.
Prof.Bhim Singh described
Yasir Arafat is only
revolutionary world leader who
was acclaimed as a fighter as
well as a peace maker. He
fought all his life for liberation
of Palestine and establishment
of sovereign state in Palestine.
He was the only revolutionary
in the world who was
decorated with novel peace
prize also when he signed Oslo
Agreement. Prof.Bhim Singh
met Yasir Arafat a young
engineer in 1968 in a Red Cross
Office on the Eastern Bank of
Jordan River when Arafat was
looking after the refugee camps
after being thrown out from
Palestine. Israel had occupied
entire Palestine including Gaza
and West Bank in 1967 in a
bloody war. Arafat organised
Palestinian youth under the
banners of PLO to fight for
liberation from Zionist
occupation.
Prof.Bhim Singh met Arafat in
Syria in 1973 to join the PLO
Movement for the liberation of
Gholan Heights. The Syrian
forces joined by PLO vacated
half of the area from Israel and
Egyptian forces threw out
Israelis from Sinai in 1973.
Prof.Bhim Singh met Yasir
Arafat in Tunis when he was in
exile after being pushed out
from Lebanon. After the
establishment of Palestinian
authority Prof.Bhim Singh was
received by Palestine President,
Yasir Arafat at Gaza Airport.
Finally Prof.Bhim Singh visited
Yasir Arafat in Ram Allah where
he had established temporary
capital of Palestine.
Prof. Bhim Singh and activists
of the Panthers Party, IndoPalestine Friendship Society,
Indo-Arab Solidarity Council
pledged to support the cause
undertaken by Yasir Arafat for
the establishment of Palestine as
sovereign state.
Prominent among those who
participated included Mohd.
Younus Siddiqui, General
S e c r e t a r y- I n d o - A r a b
Solidarity Council, Ms.
Nasreen Hamid, General
Secretary, Indo-Palestine
Friendship Society, Rajiv
Khosla, President, DPNPP,
Uday Bhan Kaushik, Secretary,
Indo-Arab Solidarity Council &
Devinder Singh Parmar,
Secretary, Indo-Palestine
Friendship Society, Satish
Kumar, Iqrar Khan, Ashwani
Kumar Sinha, Santosh Kumar
Suman, Kulwant Kour, Bansi
Lal, Dildar Hussein Beg,
Prakash Chandra Gupta, A.J.
Rajan, Gian Singh Gian, B.K.
Khosla, Yogendra Singh
Ghambir, Krishna Kumar and
ot hers. Prof.Bhim Singh
declared that Arafat birth
anniversary shall be organized
next month in the Constitution
Club, New Delhi with full
display of the documentary
films made on his life and out of
his interviews by Prof.Bhim
Singh.
Mattoo’s new role
hailed in J&K
He hoped that he will be able
to help work out a scientific
and practical formula for the
return of Kashmiri Migrants
back to their motherland,
Kashmir which is essential to
strengthen identity of
Kashmir and return of peace.
He has been the Chief
Executive Officer &
inaugural Director of the
Australia India Institute and
Professor of International
Relations at the University
of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia. Amitabh Mattoo is
widely regarded as an
inspiring and innovative
builder of institutions and the
foremost Indian intellectual
seeking to build peace in the
South Asian region.
Mattoo has been a Member of
the Nat ional Knowledge
Commission, a high-level
advisory group constituted by
Dr. Manmohan Singh, the then
Prime Minister of India. His
tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Jammu is a
memorable event. He is the one
who pleaded for Zorawar Singh
Auditorium to give Jammu
University a Dogra identity
(Dogra banner has not been
fixed on the walls of General
Zorawar Singh after he left.
He was the youngest ever ViceChancellor of the University of
Jammu, and the second
youngest Vice Chancellor in the
history of modern India. Only
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
was a younger Vice Chancellor,
when he became VC of
Calcutta University in 1934 at
the age of 33.
Mattoo serves on t he
Governing Council of the
Indian Council for Social
Science Research (ICSSR),
the Executive Committee and
Governing Council of
Pugwash, the Nobel Prize–
winning NGO, and is a
member of the Lancet
Commission on Adolescent
Health and Well Being. Mattoo
is a member of the Academic
Council of Vishwabharti
University as well as the
Executive Council of the
Central University of
Karnataka. He was appointed
a member of India's National
Security Council's Advisory
Board by Prime Minister Atal
Bihari Vajpayee, he has been
a Director of the IndiaAfghanistan Foundat ion
(established by the Govts. of
India and Afghanistan) and was
a member of the task force
constituted by Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh on
Global
Strategic
Developments.
Prof. Mattoo has a great
challenge in J&K in
particular as all his friends
and critics shall be watching
him from all fronts.
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