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India should highlight Pak atrocities in Gilgit-Baltistan: Ex-Foreign Secy Sibal

India should make all efforts to highlight the atrocities being committed by Pakistan in Gilgit-Baltistan and support the activists of the region, which is under illegal occupation of Islamabad, former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has said.

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New Delhi: India should make all efforts to highlight the atrocities being committed by Pakistan in Gilgit-Baltistan and support the activists of the region, which is under illegal occupation of Islamabad, former Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal has said.

Sibal, while participating in a special discussion on APN News channel, said the External Affairs Ministry had done the right thing by issuing a demarche to Pakistan for trying to bring about a material change in Gilgit-Baltistan by planning to hold elections there.

According to him, the MEA’s action was also a signal to Beijing, which is building the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that passes through Gilgit-Baltistan. This region is part of the Ladakh region and currently under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. India is asking Pakistan to vacate all such occupied parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

“They (MEA) did the right thing… Indirectly, we are questioning CPEC and what China is doing there (in Gilgit-Baltistan). … So it is a signal to China too… We should maintain this pressure on Pakistan,” said Sibal, who is Chairman of the Advisory Board of think tank Global Counter-Terrorism Council (GCTC).

The former top diplomat was asked why India has not been raising the issue of human rights violations being committed by Pakistan in Gilgit-Baltistan, especially when Pakistan keeps on making all kinds of allegations with regard to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

He said it was never made a part of the Composite Dialogue, which India and Pakistan carried out for years. “There is resistance (in Gilgit-Baltistan), there is anger there… We should make all efforts so that the international community does not turn away its attention from Gilgit-Baltistan. We should support spokespersons of Gilgit-Baltistan in (UN Human Rights Council in) Geneva and at other international forums and even in India,” Sibal said.

Describing Pakistan as “truly a rogue nation and a terrorist nation”, he said it is difficult for India or any other country to deal with it since it has a nuclear weapon. He went to compare it with North Korea.

He said the pressure of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) continues on Pakistan, although it got a reprieve of some months because of the corona crisis on fulfilling its obligations with regard to ending support to terrorism.

At the same time, the former Foreign Secretary said India should take strong action against what happened in Handwara district of Kashmir on May 2, when a Colonel and a Major were among 5 security personnel killed in a fierce encounter with terrorists.

He said China, being a permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC), keeps trying to help Pakistan and will continue to do so.

The US supports India on the issue of terrorism but it needs Pakistan because of Afghanistan, Sibal said.

“Big powers work according to their interests. They balance their approach,” he said.

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Dust storm, light rain expected in Delhi-NCR today, heatwave conditions to abate

IMD claimed in a tweet that Thunderstorm dust with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 km/hr would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of Delhi, North Delhi, North East Delhi, North west Delhi, West Delhi, Central Delhi, East delhi and NCR( Loni Dehat, Hindon AF station, Ghaziabad, Indrapuram, Chapraula) Sonipat, Rohtak, Kharkhoda (Haryana) Baraut, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor , Garhmukhteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur ,Gulaoti ,Siyana ,Sikandrabad , Bulandshahr ,  Jahangirabad (UP)

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On Wednesday, a dust storm with light to moderate rain is expected in numerous locations in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR). The India Meteorogical Department (IMD) stated the city’s maximum and minimum temperatures are predicted to be in the range of 40 and 25, respectively.

The IMD tweeted an advisory that thunderstorms, dust with light to moderate intensity rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 km/hr would occur over and adjoining areas of many places of Delhi, North Delhi, North East Delhi, North West Delhi, West Delhi, Central Delhi, East Delhi and NCR (Loni Dehat, Hindon AF station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chapraula) Sonipat, Rohtak, Kharkhoda (Haryana), Baraut, Bagpat, Meerut, Khekra, Modinagar, Kithor, Garhmukhteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana, Sikandrabad, Bulandshahr, Jahangirabad (UP).

For the next two hours, light to moderate intermittent rain is expected over and near Adampur, Hissar, Hansi, and Meham (Haryana).

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On Thursday, May 18, light rain is predicted for in Delhi based on the seven-day prediction for the city. The sky will mainly be cloudy, with the potential of a light  rain or drizzle, according to the weather office.

The air quality will continue to be deteriorated in the city after strong winds with dust swept across the Delhi-NCR on Tuesday. Following this, visibility had reduced to 1000 metres. Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of regional forecasting centre, said the dry atmosphere is one of the reasons for the dust storms.

Following Tuesday’s severe winds and dust storm that blasted across the Delhi-NCR, the city’s air quality had taken an alarming dip.

The monsoons, which are awaited across India, are likely to make landfall in Kerala on June 4. Usually, the monsoon arrives on May 31 or June 1 but the delay will be made up as the phenomenon progresses on its south-west to north-east arc. With extreme temperatures right from a cold sytart to May to dust-laden winds in mid-May, the weather in the country is paying the price for accelerating climate change.

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Security lapse at Navjot Singh Sidhu’s Patiala home, says it will not deter him from raising his voice against Punjab

After his release from jail, he slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its law and order in the state.

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Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has filed a complaint with the Punjab Police after he spotted a suspicious person wrapped in a grey blanket on his terrace. He alleged a security lapse at his Patiala home. He couldn’t catch him as he fled after his servant raised an alarm.

Taking to Twitter, Sidhu said, Today on the terrace of his residence an unknown suspicious character wrapped in a grey blanket was noticed around 7:00 pm, the moment his servant went out raised the alarm, and called for help, he immediately ran and escaped.

The 59-year-old further said that he has spoken to DGP Punjab Police and has also informed SSP Patiala. He said the security lapse will not deter him from raising his voice for Punjab.

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Punjab Police registered a case in this matter. According to the reports, the Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police Varun Sharma visited his residence after the complaint and is currently investigating the matter. The CCTV footage of the area is also being scanned, reports state.

Cricketer-turned-politician came out of the Patiala Central Jail on April 1 after serving nearly 10 months in a 1988 road rage case. After his release from jail, he slammed the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its law and order in the state.

He said Democracy is in chains. Punjab is the shield of this country. When dictatorship came in this country, a revolution also came, led by Rahul Gandhi.

Sidhu also slammed the Mann government over the pruning of security of slain singer Sidhu Moosewala and also making it public.

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Air India Delhi-San Francisco flight suffers tech glitch before take-off, returns to stand

The airline has not given any official statement in this matter.

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Air India flight which was en route to San Francisco from Delhi on Monday had to be returned to the stand because of a technical glitch. The San Francisco-bound flight suffered a tech issue before take off.

According to the reports, the aircraft which was carrying over 200 passengers from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) had to be replaced with another aircraft. Later, the passengers were accommodated in another aircraft.

The airline has not given any official statement in this matter.

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Earlier today, another Air India incident occurred where a London-bound flight returned to Delhi’s IGI airport after a mid-air brawl between an unruly passenger and the flight’s cabin crew.

A brawl ensued between a passenger and the crew members shortly after it departed from the airport at around 6:35 am. The onboard ruckus forced the plane to turn around and return to Delhi again where the raucous passenger was deboarded and handed over to the police at the airport.

Air India apologized to the passengers on the affected Delhi-London flight for the delay and inconvenience caused to them due to the incident and assured them that efforts will be made to ensure such incidents do not occur in the future.

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