The Kashmir Narrative is controlled by a set of US/UK- based ‘Kashmiris’ who make a living off Kashmir conflict. Since about 2015-16, the ‘family business’ is being passed to the next gen with the help of Pak establishment, & vested interests.
The story is divided into 5 parts: i) Next Gen ‘activists’; ii) the family business; iii) the US angle – mysterious tourists, CIA operatives & Politicians; iv) the fake narrative; and v) the Turkish angle. The recent changes start in 2016.
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3 developments take place by 2015/16:
Tightening of FCRA in India: foreign funding fell by INR 11,274 Cr.
Pak Senate Report: envisages lobbying to change Kashmir narrative against India;
NGOs with ‘White Experts’/‘activists’ pop up in US, critical of India’s ‘failings’. 3/n
The ‘experts/activist’ include CJ Werleman, Audrey Truschke, Haley, McIntyre; & orgs like Polis Project; Equality Labs, KKRF etc. In UK alone six new orgs. registered since 2016 by just one guy - Muzzammil Thakur (s/o Ayyub Thakur) the face of ‘new age’ Kashmiri activist! 4/n
Muzzamil born in Saudi & lived in London. His love for Kashmir rekindled by two events – his marriage to Shaista Safi (d/o Ghulam Safi APHC convener removed by Geelani for corruption); & a patronage of Pak House (run by ex ISI Chief). Shaista is a lobbyist at YFK.
All in 2016 5/n
Muzzammil starts getting space in global media since 2016. However, he has different narratives on Kashmir for different audience.
to Pak Media he talks about “Kashmir being part of Pak” Pak being the elder brother
to international media he talks about ‘Independent Kashmir’
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Muzzammil is not alone.
Many other ‘Kashmiri activists’ come of age: Hafsa Kanjwal, Sameera Fazili, Ather Zia & Sehla Ashai - all living in the US/UK.
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These ‘activists’ set up organizations – Stand with Kashmir, Justice for Kashmir, Friends of Kashmir, Free Kashmir, Americans for Kashmir and so on. They host webinars, carry out social media campaigns. They are then amplified by an organised syndicate.
An example: 8/n
Stand with Kashmir:
SWK comes to symbolize the face of Kashmiri resistance with Hafsa, Fazili, Huma Dar, etc (Experts) & Sehla Ashai (Treasurer). It was set-up in 2019 as a ‘fresh org.’ with new faces. However, as is shown, the front is connected with same ISI run nexus. 9/n
That SWK was merely a ‘facelift’ was also evident from the Facebook page, which was borrowed from Justice for Kashmir, whose first follower & promoter on twitter was Muzzammil Thakur – the new darling activist of Pak establishment. 10/n
Friends of Kashmir
Another activism shop set up by Ghazala H. Khan who is associated with Kashmir Khalistan Referendum Front (KKRF), alongside Gurpatwant Pannun, from Sikhs for Justice, a Pakistani product. FoK also has links wid IHF, run by Sajjad Burki, President PTI USA. 11/n
Americans for Kashmir & Free Kashmir:
Aejaz Dar s/o Md Akram Dar, registrant of SWK also founded Americans for Kashmir. Free Kashmir is a project of Justice for All, a Jamaat-e-Islami front, having linkages with terror groups & run by Abdul Malik Mujahid. 12/n
The next-gen 'activists' controlling the Kashmir narrative are progenies of yester-generation ‘activists’, groomed in best US institutes, but no worthwhile experience of Kashmir. Their parents had moved to developed world and set up shops facilitated by ISI agent Fai. 13/n
Both Hafsa & Sameera (Dy Dir, EC in Biden Admin) are respectively niece & daughter of Yousuf Fazili (Kashmiri American Council – a Fai front).
Their another uncle Rauf Fazili was with J&K Bank, a partner org of Hafsa's KashmirCorps since 2007.
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Likewise, Aejaz Dar’s father Akram Dar was Dir. KAC, a Fai Front. Muzzammil’s father a close friend of Fai, who helped him settle in Saudi & later in UK. Fai, Ayyub & SIMI founder Abdullah Siddiqi are key players to set up Kashmir centric/ anti-India orgs in US/UK in 90s. 15/n
Fai the Fulcrum
The parents of new-gen 'activists' were all associated with Fai’s Kashmiri American Council. Fai, an ISI Agent, was arrested by FBI in 2011 & released in 2013, but kept low till 2015/16, after which he was rehabilitated by Pak leaders – PM IK & FM Qureshi. 16/n
Mysterious US ‘activists’:
Starting 1989; & in succession, 3 American ‘tourists’ arrive in India – Edward Hasbrouck, Carin Fischer & Danielle Cyr. All 3 later turn into ‘activists’ - all critical of India.
There is no trace of these women prior to appearance in India!
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Carin and Danielle marry Indians, gaining eligibility to visit/stay in Kashmir, otherwise off limit for foreigners. Carin chooses to live near India – Pakistan border. Eventually Carin was hired By Pakistan for lobby where Danielle also joins her. 18/n
CIA operatives:
Lobbyists hired by Pak include former CIA Station Chief in Islamabad – Robert Grenier (2021 by Iftikhar Durrani, Spl Advisor to IK).
Earlier, ex-CIA operative Robin Raphel (posted in Pakistan in 1970s) grabs $1.5m contract for lobby firm Cassidy & Ass.
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US Politicians
Pak hires US lobbying firms with millions of $ to buy ‘concerns’ over Kashmir. Pramila Jayapal has expressed such concerns b/w June-Dec 2019, and introduced a resolution on Kashmir in Dec 2019.
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Same duration when lobbying firm Holland & Knight’s contract with Pakistan is running. H&K mentioned Jayapal as one of the politicians ‘approached’.
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US-based Pak agents – Ehtesham Ashai & Majid Butt have been running ‘cash for tweet’ scheme for US politicians – Ted Liu, Steve Watkins, Brad Sherman, Jim Costa. Cant be conformed but they seem to be charging $1000 per tweets.
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Europe
Two others named by FBI in the Fai’s ISI nexus were Nazeer Ahmad Shawl (UK) & Abdul Mazid Tramboo (Brussels), who along with another Pakistani agent Parwaj Iqbal Losar, engages freely with European politicians and extract ‘concerns’ on various issues for Euro10-25 k. 23/n
The UK:
The All Party Grp of UK, led by Debby Abraham tours Pakistan on a trip ‘fully-sponsored’ by Pak, where they get very concerned about Kashmir. The other concerned individuals could be identified by the demographic profile of their electorate.
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The Lord:
A key HR ‘advocate’ for Kashmir is former Lord Nazeer Ahmed: who is seen routinely with Fai and also a regular at Kashmir events glob
Ahmed is accused of sexually exploiting Kashmiri women, who sought help from him - asking them to ‘spend a night’ with him!
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Fake News
Despite elaborate info-war machinery Pak establishment still has to resort to fake news to push the agenda of ‘exploitation’, ‘army atrocity’ & ‘fascist India’.
Some habitual offenders include Shireen Mazari, Ali Zaidi, Abdul Basit, & Riffat Wani. 26/n
The Agenda:
keep using the words - ‘repression’ ‘atrocity’ and ‘fascism’ in context of India and Kashmir without any reason and rhyme – from felling of apple tree to any mock army drills.
Repeat.
Then write articles based on these ‘evidences’ in global media.
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Come 5th Aug and efforts to build narrative increases. e.g ‘army atrocity’:
Playbook is simple.
-Random handles start posting 'army harassments' w/o any evidence
-Old news gets recycled
-Influencers ‘express concerns’ over ‘deteriorating situation’.
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The War of Hashtags:
We did an analysis on 19 top hashtags on Kashmir from 2014 to 2021. Interestingly, the ‘concerns’ are expressed only for a day, bulk of which emanating not surprisingly from Pakistan.
(darker the color; more are no of handles from that region’. 29/n
Over last few years the center of gravity is shifting to Turkey from Saudi.
UNIW - Turkey’s umbrella organisation for Muslim NGOs is run by SADAT- security provider for President Erdoğan.
FAI is also council member in UNIW. 31/n
Other UNIW members - Shakoor, Al-Khidmat (Charity of Jamaat-e_islami); Islamic Sangh Nepal and T Arif Alvi, Human Welfare Turst in India.
Fai & Hafsa have started appearing in Turkish media events, and Muzzammil Thakur got one his debut events in Turkish media.
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Conclusion:
Kashmir conflict has become family business of The Fais, the Thakurs, The Kanjwals, the Ashais, the Fazilis & the Safis with the show being run by Pak establishment, with help from ‘concerned’ Whites.
Only the Kashmiris are missing from Kashmir narrative.
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Sudden spike in news about ‘bad’ Indian medicine – from US, Gambia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka - and emergence of Indian origin American ‘hero’ #DineshThakur.
Story of biggest assault on #IndianPharma, aided and abetted by Indian media, particularly, The Wire.
A Thread:
In Dec 2023 Livemint claimed that the US recalled ‘bad’ Indian meds. It was a headline spin – Indian med was a fraction of US meds. But why the negative spin on Indian pharma? We were interested and did what we do. Dig.
What we found was beyond shocking!
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In July'22 news came that several children died in Gambia bcoz of India-made cough syrup. WHO issued warning & news media screamed– Indian med killed Gambian children. The news was first broken by #Retures & #AlJazeera, repeated by Indian media.
An #ISIS module was busted by the NIA, headed by Saquib Nachan. Many would not know that Saquib goes back to the 1990s with Human rights ‘activist’ Bhajan Bhinder.
A trans-national - trans-generational strategy of bleeding India by thousand cuts.
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The two ‘activists’ - #ISIS fame Saquib Nachan & #OFMI fame Bhajan started together in 1992, & have been working on a two-pronged Hybrid-Warfare against India – spanning three continents and four decades.
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On Dec 10, 2023, NIA busted an #ISIS terror module of Saqib Nachan, and while his involvement in the 2002-03 Mumbai terror blasts is well known, he was also instrumental in a foiled terror attack in July 1992, identical to the deadly 93’ blasts, a year earlier.
In a long English word salad, a quarter dozen WaPo journalists in a hit piece have tried painting us somewhere between RW & RAW (no pun intended).
To do this, they recycled 2-year-old Pakistani propaganda, making it ‘ANONYMOUS.’
We dissect the ‘exposé’.
A Thread:
First, the claim of our association with Govt agencies/ RAW. The report is essentially a recycle of previous reports published by Pakistani ISPR/ Info-war machinery. The report is periodically recycled, last by known fake news peddler CJ Werleman.
Lazy Journalism!
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The only ‘upgrade’ the WaPo did was to make this Pakistani allegation as ‘anonymous’. And whatever is in addition to that is again attributed to ‘anonymous’ sources. Hence, literally, every fact claimed is ‘anonymous’. The report has more than 10 anonymous sources.
In a barely disguised revenge piece, WaPo has accused us of targeting ‘activists’ & ‘philanthropists’.
We will reply to each line in the report shortly.
Here is a question: why do WaPo’s ‘activists’ fold their shops, edit their past & disappear AFTER we expose?
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First, philanthropist #Soros
We exposed him NOT because he called for regime change in India, but because many anti-India fronts/players popped up by the Muslim Brotherhood/ Islamist Jamaat were getting funding/patronage from Soros -from #EqualityLabs to #HfHR to #DoTo.
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Rather surprising. Why would Soros fund radical Islamists?!
But it would not be surprising if you knew that Soros/ #OSF has been funding multiple #MB fronts linked to #Hamas and other terror-accused fronts.
Today we woke up to a surprise showdown with WaPo! Turned out, that Goliath is attempting a hit-piece on DisInfolab. Goliath is WaPo. Hitman is Verma, Pranshu Verma!
Trigger: Lab has exposed both Verma and WaPo, twice.
A thread:
Verma did a shoddy fan piece on #RaqibNaik and #HindutvaWatch (HW) but made NO attempt to verify the facts that:
a. HW’s backend was being managed from Pakistan.
b. Its FB page was being run from Turkey (now hidden)
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Verma also claimed that Raqib Naik founded HW. However, in his own story, he claims that someone gave the domain of HW to Naik AFTER he shifted base to the US. Some ‘anonymous activists’ must be. Then Verma forgot to square the circle.
Financial Times (FT) quoting anonymous sources reported that US thwarted an attack by India on Khalistani loudmouth Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who as per Indian media’s anonymous sources is a US Asset
But there's more to mix of Pannun/ #Khalistan-Role of UK establishment & BBC.
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Incidentally, the FT story about ‘Saving Pannun Ryan’ comes AFTER Canadian claim regarding Nijjar but the incident happened BEFORE that, or so it claimed. The article didn’t clarify why the ‘sources’ leaked it NOW.
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One such savior was BBC: about two years ago BBC did a story on a report by a UK think tank - Centre for Information Resilience (CIR). The report claimed that large-scale fake Indian handles were targeting Sikhs and farmers!