Tweet thread in response to a misleading statement by Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues with multiple false claims about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
#Claim: Denial of political participation rights of Kashmiri Muslims and minorities, following the suspension of democratic rights and local elections…
#Fact: Kashmir division which has Muslim majority population have witnessed almost highest ever turnout in the Political… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#Claim: By holding a G20 meeting of the working group on tourism on 22-24 May, the Government of India is seeking to normalize what some have described as a military occupation by instrumentalising a G20 meeting and portray an international 'seal of approval" in Kashmir....… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
#Claim: The situation there has - if anything - become much worse since myself and fellow UN independent experts transmitted a communication to the Government of India in 2021…
#Claim: The Independent Expert noted that there have been reports of significant numbers of Hindus from outside the region moving into the region so that dramatic demographic changes are under way in J&K…
#Claim: The G20 is unwittingly providing a veneer of support to a facade of normalcy….
#Fact: Hundreds of regional, national and International media houses and Journalists are working in Kashmir freely, there is nothing like “media suppression” in Kashmir, no one was illegally… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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A hate propaganda campaign is being constantly run and orchestrated against the Govt. of India by Pakistan-based social media handles and with the false claim that “Kashmiri Journalists including Irfan Mehraj, Fahad Shah, Asif Sultan & Sajad Gul are facing illegal detentions” 1/6
Fact: None of these journalists were booked because they were journalists, only because they were involved in different unlawful and anti-national activities and are connected with registered FIRs based on their unlawful activities and work.
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Facts about Irfan Mehraj, who was arrested in an NGO TERROR FUNDING CASE by NIA:
A video is being circulated by some hatemongers with the false #claim that “Indian authorities have cut down hundreds of Apple trees in Anantnag J&K.”
#Fact: Unidentified persons chopped scores of Apple trees belonging to nine families in two different orchards in Kandipora
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area of Bijbehara, South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. The local inhabitants and the victims believe that this personal feud over a land dispute among families may be the cause of the incident.
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According to one victim, Iqbal Bhat, "Few persons of the village had already threatened us about chopping down trees, we have informed the local police about the suspected persons who are believed to be involved in this shocking incident."
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The history of J&K’s “Accession to India” is a classic case of this myth-making. A lot of haze surrounds the historic accession of the princely state that took place on Oct 26, 1947. That allows for leaders in J&K to repeat the myth
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of “conditional accession”.
INSTRUMENT OF ACCESSION
The final chapter in India’s Independence saga was the challenge of the accession of the 565 princely states into one of the two dominions by August 15, 1947. A single document called the “Instrument of Accession” was
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to be the basis for the accession. It was the same accession document that the Maharaja of J&K signed too.
26th OCT ACCESSION DAY
The day marks the anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh signing the ‘Instrument of Accession’ with the Government of India. The signing of this
Why was Kashmiri Photo Journalist Sanna Irshad Matto stopped from travelling to USA to collect her Pulitzer award?
Here are the facts: 👇
Sanna Irshad Mattoo is a photojournalist with Reuters who glorifies separatism in J&K through her stories and social media posts.
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Her stories mention and use word Kashmir with “Indian Administrated Kashmir” and Indian controlled Kashmir, thus furthering the narrative of Anti India forces.
Her stories and social media posts has been often being referred by Pakistan intelligence agency ISI sponsored
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organizations like “Stand With Kashmir” operating out of US, Turkey & UK to run Anti India campaigns and narratives.
Sana has been an ardent supporter of Pakistan backed separatists in Kashmir. She has eulogized people like SAS Geelani & Maqbool Bhat through her social media
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