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  • Four masked men vandalize a church in Punjab, set car on fire

    Express News Service

    CHANDIGARH: A group of four masked persons forcefully entered a church in a village in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab on Tuesday night and vandalized a Pieta statue. They set the car of the church on fire.

    Police sources said that a group of four masked people entered the three-storyed church in Thakarpur village of Patti assembly constituency of Tarn Taran district yesterday around 12.30 AM and forcefully held the security guard captive at gunpoint. Then they climbed to the top floor of the church and allegedly broke the statues of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ and took away their heads. They also set a car parked on the church premises on fire before they left.

    Father Thomas Poochalil, parish priest, Infant Jesus Catholic Church, Thakarpura village, associated with Jalandhar diocese said unidentified men after taking the security guards hostage at gun-point, vandalized the Pieta statue located in front of the church and set on fire a car parked there. The car belonged to a church administrator. They were raising the slogan “We are Khalistanis,’’ he said.

    The incident sparked tension in the area as members of the Christian community gathered at the church in large numbers and staged a dharna on the Khemkaran road demanding to arrest the miscreants.

    “Anti-social elements vandalized the statue of Jesus and set ablaze a car at a church. We are investigating the matter and have vital clues. The culprits will be arrested soon, there were four people. A case has been registered,’’ said RS Dhillon, Senior Superintendent of Police of Tarn Taran.

    This attack on the church is being seen as a repercussion of this statement made by the akal takht jathedar high priest Giani Harpreet Singh as in a statement on social media yesterday Singh said,“ So-called Christian missionaries have been forcibly converting Sikhs through fraudulent practices. Both sikhs and Hindus of Punjab are being misled and converted. All this is happening right under the government’s nose. Though there are provisions in the law to book for superstitious practices in the name of religion, no government is ready to act against them (missionaries) due to vote bank politics.’’

    Appealing to the central government to control these conversation immediately Singh said, “Punjab is a border state and we know that foreign funding is coming here to run these religious campaigns.’’

    Also, other Sikh leaders have been vocal against alleged conversion attempts by Christian missionaries in the state.

    Condemning vandalization at  the chruch, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has ordered an investigation and strict against the culprits. “No one will be allowed to break the brotherhood of Punjab..Tarn Taran incident is very unfortunate..Investigate it and strict action against the culprits,’’ he tweeted.

    While two days ago a group of Nihangs and their supporters disrupted an event organised by Christian missionaries at Daduana village in  Amritsar district. The Nihang have also protested against the issue recently.  Interestingly the Akal Takht, backing the Nihangs as Singh had announced support for Nihang leader Baba Major Singh and 150 of his supporters who were booked under Sections 295, 296, 427, 148 and 149 of IPC at Jandiala Guru police station on Monday on the complaint of Christian pastor Raja. They want that a case should be registered against these `fake pastors’ under the Black Magic Act.

    CHANDIGARH: A group of four masked persons forcefully entered a church in a village in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab on Tuesday night and vandalized a Pieta statue. They set the car of the church on fire.

    Police sources said that a group of four masked people entered the three-storyed church in Thakarpur village of Patti assembly constituency of Tarn Taran district yesterday around 12.30 AM and forcefully held the security guard captive at gunpoint. Then they climbed to the top floor of the church and allegedly broke the statues of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ and took away their heads. They also set a car parked on the church premises on fire before they left.

    Father Thomas Poochalil, parish priest, Infant Jesus Catholic Church, Thakarpura village, associated with Jalandhar diocese said unidentified men after taking the security guards hostage at gun-point, vandalized the Pieta statue located in front of the church and set on fire a car parked there. The car belonged to a church administrator. They were raising the slogan “We are Khalistanis,’’ he said.

    The incident sparked tension in the area as members of the Christian community gathered at the church in large numbers and staged a dharna on the Khemkaran road demanding to arrest the miscreants.

    “Anti-social elements vandalized the statue of Jesus and set ablaze a car at a church. We are investigating the matter and have vital clues. The culprits will be arrested soon, there were four people. A case has been registered,’’ said RS Dhillon, Senior Superintendent of Police of Tarn Taran.

    This attack on the church is being seen as a repercussion of this statement made by the akal takht jathedar high priest Giani Harpreet Singh as in a statement on social media yesterday Singh said,“ So-called Christian missionaries have been forcibly converting Sikhs through fraudulent practices. Both sikhs and Hindus of Punjab are being misled and converted. All this is happening right under the government’s nose. Though there are provisions in the law to book for superstitious practices in the name of religion, no government is ready to act against them (missionaries) due to vote bank politics.’’

    Appealing to the central government to control these conversation immediately Singh said, “Punjab is a border state and we know that foreign funding is coming here to run these religious campaigns.’’

    Also, other Sikh leaders have been vocal against alleged conversion attempts by Christian missionaries in the state.

    Condemning vandalization at  the chruch, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has ordered an investigation and strict against the culprits. “No one will be allowed to break the brotherhood of Punjab..Tarn Taran incident is very unfortunate..Investigate it and strict action against the culprits,’’ he tweeted.

    While two days ago a group of Nihangs and their supporters disrupted an event organised by Christian missionaries at Daduana village in  Amritsar district. The Nihang have also protested against the issue recently.  Interestingly the Akal Takht, backing the Nihangs as Singh had announced support for Nihang leader Baba Major Singh and 150 of his supporters who were booked under Sections 295, 296, 427, 148 and 149 of IPC at Jandiala Guru police station on Monday on the complaint of Christian pastor Raja. They want that a case should be registered against these `fake pastors’ under the Black Magic Act.

  • 7 Khalistanis charged with narco terror

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a charge sheet against seven Khalistani operatives in connection with a narco-terror module involved in distributing heroin smuggled from Pakistan in order to channelise the proceeds of drugs to various terrorist entities.

    Jajbir Singh Samra, Varinder Singh Chahal, Kulbir Singh, Manjit Kaur, Taranbir Singh, Kulwinderjit Singh, a Babbar Khalsa International operative, and Harmeet Singh, Pakistan-based chief of the Khalistan Liberation Force, have been named in the charge sheet filed before a special NIA court in Mohali.

    They have been charged with sections of the Explosive Substances Act and the UA(P) Act.  The case pertains to the seizure of two hand grenades on June 2, 2019 and a mobile phone from a bag thrown by two bike-borne assailants at a bus stop in Amritsar and recovered by police.

  • Government linking farmers’ movement with terrorists, Khalistanis: Harsimrat Kaur Badal

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: The Akali Dal on Tuesday accused the government of committing atrocities on farmers agitating against the three agricultural laws at Delhi’s borders and criticised it for linking the peasants’ movement with terrorists and Khalistanis.

    Akali Dal member Harsimrat Kaur Badal said farmers are braving the cold and waiting at Delhi’s borders but the government’s “eyes and ears are shut”.

    “On Constitution Day (November 26), lathis and tear gas rained on unarmed farmers,” she alleged participating the debate on the motion to thank the President’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament at the start of the Budget session.

    The Akali Dal was part of the ruling NDA till it quit the alliance in September 2020 in protest against the three laws.

    Subsequently, Badal, who was a minister in the Narendra Modi government since 2014, resigned from her post.

    Waving posters and photos of farmers, who died during the agitation, she said no sympathetic word has come from the government for them.

    “I was in the government for six years but when it became inhuman, what is the point of staying in such a government. Even when these (agriculture) ordinances were brought in, I told the cabinet to consult more people. I was told that they will do that when the ordinances become law,” she said.

    “They gave us the laws and told us to take them to farmers. When we did that, we understood the apprehensions of the farmers. We gave a letter to the agriculture minister,” she said.

    Badal also quoted the report of the working committee on agriculture which was headed by Narendra Modi as Gujarat chief minister in 2011 and said how it pitched for the minimum support price as a guarantee.

    “Some ministers first called it as an agitation of middlemen, then Maoists, then terrorists and then Khalistanis,” she said.

    Participating in the debate, BJP member Nishikant Dubey challenged Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to prove his accusation that workers of the saffron party were behind the January 26 violence at the Red Fort in Delhi.

    “He (Chowdhury) said that BJP workers were involved in January 26 violence. If it is proven, I will resign as an MP. Congress has a history of distortion. He should apologise for distorting the facts,” he said.

    Meanwhile, YSR Congress Party MP Krishna Devarayalu Lavu lauded the efforts of the Jaganmohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh.

    Lavu alleged that the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) was playing divisive politics in the state.

    His remark invited sharp reactions from TDP MP Jayadeva Galla.

    In his speech, TDP leader Srinivas Keshineni praised the central government for the efficient management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    He, however, opposed the proposed disinvestment of Vishakapatnam steel plant and recalled the movement that was launched to set up the industry.

    Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Danish Ali raised the ongoing farmers’ agitation and described how the peasants were braving the cold and waiting to get their demands fulfilled.

    “Several international voices have come. Our party’s stand is clear that we don’t welcome international interference in our internal affairs. But who gave them this opportunity?” he said.

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    (2) BrahMos missile case: Canada’s ISI agent for 17 million job seekers
    Are they related? With the help of the ISI in Punjab, Khalistani terror is gathering again, does the Pakistan visit of Sidhu give some indication on Rahul Gandhi’s instructions after Mani Shankar Aiyar?
    Today’s news is that three Kashmiri students arrested in Punjab were terrorists on a 10-day police remand, big blasts on Diwali conspiracy.

    Today’s second news is the BrahMos missile case: In Canada, the ISI agent has made a target of 17 lakh jobs.

    This means that the ISI has now become the center of anti-India activities in the preservation of the government, which is now its base in Punjab where the Pakistan-backed Congress government is there and along with it is also the baton of the Khalistanis to Canada.

    On Modi’s anti-India activities anti-India, PM Narendra Modi told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quite yesterday, Modi said directly that those who support Khalistan will not be tolerated, India has given a list of Khalistani elements to Canada , Trudeau has assured that action will be taken.

    The Khalistan Rebel group is active in Canada and is sympathetic to those groups of Justin Trudo. In foreign media, it is being said that tensions have increased due to increased support towards independent Khalistan in North America in the Government of Canada and India in recent years.

    It is worth noting that Mani Shankar Aiyar has gone to Pakistan many times on Sonia Gandhi’s instructions and later on Rahul Gandhi’s instructions, and at that time the poison has been provoked against India’s government against India.

    At one point in time, in the interview to TV channel, he had said that he should seek Pakistan’s help, ie ISI, to remove the Modi government.

    During the election of the Gujarat Legislature, a conspiratorial banquet was held in the house of Aiyar at that night, Manmohan Singh and Hamid Ansari and others like this were seen in the former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Kasuri and Pak’s ambassador to India.

    Immediately after the same night, Mani Shankar Aiyar had called PM Modi lowly as soon as the day came out. After this, he was expelled from Congress by Rahul Gandhi for the show and later he came back again.

    After the directives of Rahul Gandhi, Punjab is where the Congress is ruled, and the Khalistani militants are reactivated, the Minister of Navjot Singh Navjot Singh Sidhu went to Pakistan on the invitation of Pakistan’s new-founder Prime Minister Emraan Khan. The time of his visit was the time of national mourning after the death of Atal ji throughout India.

    How did Siddhu go to the Army chief’s neck, and sitting next to the president of the POK has discussed this in detail in the media.

    It is evident from the fact that ISI is spreading its foot in Punjab and Canada on the initiative of the Congress and the current Prime Minister of Canada with the chairmanship of Rahul Gandhi.

    Both the people and the government of India need to be alert to this.