SRINAGAR, India - Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have sent at least 168 Rohingya refugees to a holding centre, police said Sunday, in a proces.
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Authorities in Indian-controlled Kashmir have sent at least 168 Rohingya refugees to a holding centre, police said Sunday, in a process that they say is for the deportation of thousands of the refugees living in the region.
The move began Saturday following a directive from the region’s home department to identify Rohingya living in the southern city of Jammu, said Inspector-General Mukesh Singh. He said around 5,000 Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge in Jammu in the past few years.
India s Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla, February 2021 (Embassy of India)
India’s Ambassador to Israel Sanjeev Singla took up his position in Tel Aviv in October 2019, not long before the coronavirus pandemic started sweeping the world. This is his second post in Israel – his first , as a counsellor at the embassy, was an eight-month stint ending July 2014, at which time he was called back to India to become private secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for five years.
Now, at the helm of the local embassy, he is steering efforts to build on the already close ties between the Asian giant and the so-called Startup Nation. But lockdowns and an inability to hold face-to-face meetings has hindered progress in negotiations for a preferential trade agreement between the countries, and he hasn’t seen his wife, Nandini Singla, a fellow diplomat who is currently India’s High Commissioner to Mauritius, since November because of the pandemic.
The CCP’s Agenda in Kashmir
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NEW DELHI Propelled by its geostrategic ambitions, China is silently expediting a policy of unrestricted warfare in Kashmir, a region that has witnessed decades of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan, according to an expert on Kashmir.
“I will say the Chinese have a much more sinister, deeper, and larger agenda in Kashmir, rooted in its larger regional and global geostrategic ambitions,” Abhinav Pandya, CEO of India-based think tank Usanas Foundation, told The Epoch Times on Feb. 8.
While India and China decided to end a 10-month-long military stand-off in the northern Indian region of Ladakh last week, Indian army chief Gen. Manoj Naravane said on Feb. 12 that China’s “rising footprint” in India’s neighborhood and its bid to “unilaterally alter the status quo” along India’s disputed borders have fostered an environment of “confrontation and mutual distrust.”