The man character of this story influence the media-narrative in India, controlled by US & Jamaat elements.
At the centre of it – Congress spox Pawan Khera'a wife Neelima Kota.
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Did you know that Congress national spokesperson Pawan Khera's wife Kota Neelima is part of a company that decides which Indian journalists receive US funding?
The answer is going to reveal Congress's entire foreign-funded propaganda machinery.
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Kota Neelima sits on Congress Working Committee, ex VP of Telangana Congress, simultaneously being a part of PROTO, a Delhi based company that controls selection of Indian journalists to receive foreign funding.
Conflict of interest, is nothing in front of what's coming..
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PROTO was founded in 2018 by fellows of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), a US (deep state) based org. that channelises foreign money to journalists worldwide.
Within months, PROTO became ICFJ's lead partner for all of South Asia.
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The numbers expose the operation. ICFJ reported $11mn revenue against $17.2mn expenses in 2023, a staggering $6.2mn deficit. This organization survives purely on continuous external funding to channel money to operatives in target countries. 5/
And who funds ICFJ?
Everything will make sense soon!
Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, WSJ, Politico, most importantly – USAID and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations to work with OCCRP.
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ICFJ works with the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), a Brussels-based coordination hub that brings together 200 journalism organizations across 70 countries. GFMD ensures all these efforts advance unified objectives against governments resisting Western control.
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GFMD receives funding from the same sources: Knight Foundation, Luminate, and NED, the US govt entity that Russia, China and multiple countries expelled for supporting regime change operations and color revolutions.
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Now understand the Congress connection - Kota Neelima, married to national spokesperson of Congress Pawan Khera, built an entire media ecosystem since 2017: Institute of Perception Studies, Rate The Debate, Hakku Initiative, and StudioAdda. 9/
These platforms hosted 25-30 anti-BJP journalists between 2020-2025. e.g. Ashutosh (ex-AAP), Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (who wrote foreign-funded reports targeting Adani). They are likely to influence pre-screening of journalists for foreign funding. 10/
Now comes the more problematic part- PROTO founder Nasr ul Hadi controls his journalist selection for South Asia while his brother Saif ul Hadi works with Jamaat-e-Islami Hind on their Vision 2040 initiative and also participated in violent CAA protests.
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Saif ul Hadi teaches at Indian Institute of Islamic Studies, affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami. He conceptualized and runs the Innovation Lab at Vision 2040.
And this connects foreign-funded media operations directly to Islamist political organizing in India.
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Division of task is deliberate-
Nasr channels foreign money to handpicked journalists.
Saif organizes Islamist activism on the ground.
Kota Neelima provides the Congress party infrastructure to prescreen and cultivate these journalists.
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Between July 2020 and December 2024, ICFJ commissioned specific stories in India. Every single one focused on minority persecution, hate speech, bulldozer justice, CAA discrimination, removal of Muslim religious places under Modi government.
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The editorial agenda- not so surprisingly- not one ICFJ-funded story examined Islamist violence against Hindus, forced conversions in Christian zones, demographic changes in Muslim majority areas, foreign funding of separatist movements, or opposition party communalism.
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PROTO's network includes three BBC journalists (UK govt funded), journalists from The Wire, and representatives from Common Cause, an organization that lost its FCRA license for foreign funding violations recently.
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This explains Congress’s foreign policy stance. Rahul Gandhi meets the same elements at his foreign trips.
Connects:
US funding >> ICFJ & GFMD >> PROTO >> Neelima Kota >> influencing journalist >> Anti-government stories >> Congress amplifies >> Rahul quotes overseas.
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When Congress opposes FCRA regulations, they protect this conduit. When they defend foreign-funded NGOs, they defend their own ecosystem. When they align with journalists producing uniform anti-India coverage, they protect their own agenda.
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Documents prove USAID and OSF directly funded both ICFJ and GFMD for programs targeting countries resisting Western influence. The same playbook used for regime change globally now operates in India through this journalism network.
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Arguments exist, but a fact overrides deniability: the wife of Congress' national spokesperson is involved in PROTO, influencing which Indian journalists get foreign funding to produce stories for Congress and American interests.
Check out the missions that Matthew VanDyke has undertaken:
- Libyan Civil War
- Syrian Civil War
- Iraq (against ISIS)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Venezuela against Nicolás Maduro
There is a pattern. And this is very problematic!
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His NGO Sons of Liberty International, trains forces fighting local regimes or terrorist groups ans provides funding too. Interestingly, his actions are pretty much aligned with USA’s global hegemony missions.
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e.g. he trained Kurd-militants in Iraq/Syria where USA pledged their support to Kurdish forces against ISIS and considered them key ground allies.
He was supporting rebels in Venezuela fighting against Nicolás Maduro.
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- Gaurav Gogoi and nationality concern
- Elizabeth Colburn's links with Pakistani NGO
- Salary, Travel, Work
- Pakistani handle Ali Tauqeer Sheikh visits
Confidential documents based on which Assam SIT has investigated this entire nexus!
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Context : Assam Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi is married to British citizen Elizabeth Colburn, who was employed by a Pakistani NGO "Lead Pakistan". Later, she joined the Indian chapter of same "Lead India", but continued to report + funded by Pakistani boss Ali Tauqeer Sheikh.
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Start with; the Gogoi couple has two children. Shockingly, both are NOT Indian citizen. In fact, Gogoi surrendered Indian passport of his son, citing "acquistion of another country passport".
ASSAM SIT PROBE:
Foreign Links. Undisclosed Travel. Financial Trails. Gaurav Gogoi & his wife Elizabeth Colburn's connection across the border raises serious national security concerns.
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The SIT report submitted to the Assam Govt points to interactions between Elizabeth Colburn Gogoi and Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh (ATS).
ATS is ex chief executive of LEAD Pakistan, linked with policy and strategic influence networks operating out of Pakistan.
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ATS is an influential man. All these ppl who worked under the cover of climate, weather, human rights etc NGO are far deeper than appears. That's typical Soros ecosystem SOP.
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The US COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM is a self-proclaimed 'freedom of religion' watchdog.
According to USCIRF, Bangladesh is not even "CPC (Country of Particular Concern)".
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USCIRF labels India as a CPC and often selects specific cases to build a particular narrative.
Check these headlines.
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In their 2025 Annual Report, they indeed mentioned that Hindus are being targeted in Bangladesh more for their political affiliation than their religion.
Instead of threatening legal action, why not explain, Madam @KotaNeelima, why PROTO founder Nasr ul Hadi featured your profile on PROTO’s homepage for years, prominently displayed alongside his own profile?
#RebuttalThread ++
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You have been featured on the front page next to the founder since (at least) Jun 2020 to date. Also listed as a speaker at one of PROTO's events, supported by ICFJ, on the subject of media narrative.
Snapshot from PROTO's event at FB -
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PROTO, ICFJ, OCCRP funding and partnering. All this information is available on the open internet.
Shocking details! He brought a Soros-backed Pakistani-linked finance executive to the sensitive China border at Pangong Tso during his August 2023 visit.
Who is this fellow & why meeting at the border?
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Rahul Gandhi's companion's (whom we're going to talk about) previous firm tried selling Pakistani power to Beijing for $1.77bn.
Like, why Rahul Gandhi, Pakistan and China have to come in the same sentence?
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Meet Shakir Mohamed Nurali Merali. Managing Partner for Africa at investment firm Lightrock, which leverages infrastructure created and funded by Soros Economic Development Fund. Lightrock still co-invests with SEDF in India today.