VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"#0$"T utqBVQWBuxy( -/ @ "3%"A %"AA +,)-+.%/01& 8. )* 9*++% : 8!"6 " )"%*+, " #$ "%&'( 1< ,6>=11==1 = 6 . 16 6 1> /; ==7;6 =1 ,6 16=6 = 661.?, .. 2 1;< 2=46 !" (2 ' 32454567048: $ %'( $) rapes and violence for decades meet Pakistan’s Punjab and the Nankana incident Governor and Chief Minister,” shows how minorities there are he said. Longowal said the del- persecuted and why they need egation will comprise Rajinder R citizenship in India. Singh Mehta, Roop Singh, Lekhi also said that this Surjit Singh and Rajinder incident should open the eyes Singh. !"## of Congress leaders such as So- “We have spoken with the nia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Gurdwara Nankana Sahib Q 66./ no borders. Navjot Singh Sidhu, TMC sup- management committee...They Taking to Twitter, Rahul remo Mamata Banerjee, the told us the situation is normal ! he Shiromani Gurdwara termed Friday attack repre- leftists and the “Urban Naxals” now,” Longowal said. # $% TParbhandhak Committee hensible, and said the only who have been opposing the The SGPC chief said the &'() +M (SGPC), the apex body which known antidote to bigotry is amended Citizenship Act. sentiments of the Sikh com- .27 provincial authorities in the - manages Sikh shrines, will love, mutual respect and under- Meanwhile, strongly con- munity were hurt with the Punjab province have informed M send a four-member delegation standing. “The attack on demning the mob attack on the attack on Gurdwara Nankana akistan on Friday rejected that there was a scuffle in the ./$0 &'&' to Pakistan to take stock of the Nankana Sahib is reprehensible historic Sikh shrine, SGPC Sahib. Longowal said that the Pthe media reports that the city of Nankana Sahib on situation following an alleged & must be condemned chief Gobind Singh Longowal SGPC would also take up this historic Gurdwara Nanakana Friday between two Muslim $ mob attack on Gurdwara unequivocally. Bigotry is a dan- appealed to the Pakistan matter with the United Nations. Sahib in Lahore was desecrat- groups. 0 Nankana Sahib, the birthplace gerous, age old poison that Government to take strict Punjab’s former Chief ed in a mob attack, saying the The altercation happened of Guru Nanak Dev, which has knows no borders. Love + action against culprits. Minister Parkash Singh Badal birthplace of founder of on a minor incident at a tea- $2Q +Q been dragged into the ongoing Mutual Respect + Unders- “We will send a four-mem- too condemned the attack on Sikhism Guru Nanak remains stall and the district adminis- ! 3 4 controversy involving the con- tanding is its only known anti- ber delegation to Pakistan to Gurdwara Nankana Sahib. “untouched and undamaged” tration immediately intervened 5 troversial Citizenship dote,” he said in a tweet. take stock of the situation “We request the and the “claims of destruction” and arrested the accused, it +$6 (Amendment) Act or CAA. Engaging in the debate, there,” he said, adding that the Government of India to imme- of one of the holiest Sikh said. A day after the incident of Union Minister Hardeep Singh delegation would also meet diately take steps so that peace shrines are “false”. “Attempts to paint this inci- $0 mob attack on the Sikh shrine Puri sought to know whether Sikh families in Nankana Sahib. and harmony is restored,” said The Pakistan Foreign dent as a communal issue are 07 in Pakistan, Congress leader those protesting across the “The delegation will also Badal. Office in a statement said the patently motivated. Most 4 4 Rahul Gandhi condemned it, country against the CAA need- importantly, the gurdwara $0 while the BJP sought to justi- ed more evidence of oppression remains untouched and 07 fy the CAA saying the incident of minorities in the neigh- undamaged. All insinuations to $ was yet another evidence of bouring country. the contrary, particularly the % atrocities against the minorities He said the violent mob claims of acts of ‘desecration 8 in the neighbouring country. that besieged the Nankana and destruction’ and desecra- 9: ();' $0 Against the backdrop of Sahib Gurdwara had threat- tion of the holy place, are not 4 widespread protests against the ened to change the name of the only false but also mischie- CAA that allows Indian citi- holy place to “Ghulam-e- vous,” the Foreign Office said. $0 zenship to six persecuted reli- Mustafa”. The Foreign Office state- gious minorities, excluding “The violent mob that ment has come after some $ Muslims, from Pakistan, besieged Nankana Sahib reports in the Indian media / $ Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Gurdwara has threatened to said that a mob attack had / ();< the Nankana Sahib incident has change the name of our holy taken place at the shrine. $ further heated up the running place to Ghulam-e-Mustafa. The reports suggested that political debate with External Do those who are opposing the hundreds of angry residents at Affairs Ministry saying that the CAA need more evidence of Nankana Sahib pelted stones at members of the minority Sikh oppression of minorities in the Sikh pilgrims on Friday. community in Pakistan have Pakistan,” Puri said in a tweet Police in Pakistan said on $2 been subjected to acts of vio- in Hindi, along with a video Friday that a group of people, !" lence at the holy city of Nan- clip that showed a mob threat- led by the family of a Muslim kana Sahib. Pakistan has, how- ening to change the name of man who married a Sikh " #! $ ever, denied media reports on the gurdwara. teenager, held a day-long sit-in !! = desecration of Nankana Sahib. Another BJP leader and outside the gurdwara to protest 4 M Congress leader Rahul Lok Sabha member Meenakshi the arrest of their relatives #!" M while denouncing the mob Lekhi said minorities in who were held for alleged " % attack said bigotry is a danger- Pakistan have been subjected to ! " forced conversion of the girl. 3 ous, age old poison that knows threats for religious conversion, P $% & '! Turn to Page 4 ""! $0 #! !" ()( "! # $ $ % &' !!" ! '( 66./ years but they failed to qualify in 2008, 2013, 2016 and 2020. ! N ! O $ ! olitics over selection of the In all other years when 95 PRepublic Day tableaux is Maharashtra didn't qualify, the 7 / nothing new. What the UPA Centre and the State were ruled # 3 2 $ Government did earlier, the by the same party. In 2008 and 6 / wo mortar rounds hit the BJP-led NDA regime is repeat- 2013, the Congress-NCP alli- 66./ 3 + (< TIraqi capital’s Green Zone ing now. During the UPA ance was in power in Maha- (> 3 3 /- on Saturday and two rockets regime, Narendra Modi-ruled rashtra and the same parties total 171 hospitals have 40 /?5$ slammed into a base housing Gujarat never got tableaux shared power at the Centre. In Abeen de-empanelled and US troops, security sources selected for the R-day celebra- 2016, BJP-Shiv Sena alliance penalties to the tune of 4.5 3 $2 said, a day after a missile fired tion. Now that Modi is the shared power in the State and crore have been imposed on a US drone killed Iranian com- Prime Minister, tableaux from the same parties shared power hospitals for allegedly com- + 4 mander Qasem Soleimani. his home State has never been at the Centre. In 2020, Shiv- mitted fraud and indulging in / 3 ( %) ' In Baghdad, mortar rounds omitted during the last five ) * $ * +,-. Sena, NCP and Congress are malpractices under the - 3 $ hit the Green Zone, the high- years, while Opposition-ruled sharing the power in the State Ayushman Bharat health insur- . security enclave where the US States have been routinely left heritage and other unique 2019. West Bengal was adj- while BJP is in the power at the ance scheme, the apex body embassy is based, security out of the celebration. aspects of various States. udged best in 2014 when UPA Centre. Maharashtra was implementing has said. sources said. The Iraqi military The Opposition has alleged Under the UPA regime, II was in power at the Centre, adjudged the best tableau in FIRs have been lodged $09 said that one projectile hit that West Bengal, Maharashtra Gujarat failed to qualify for the and in 2016 the State was 2015 and 2018 when BJP-Shiv against six hospitals in 3 : inside the zone, while another and Kerala, which aggressive- five continuous years between adjudged the best during NDA Sena Government was in po- Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, ?( @ landed close to the enclave. ly protested against the 2009 and 2014. The State table- regime. wer in the State and the Modi the National Health Authority $3 Sirens rang out at the US Citizenship (Amendment) Act, aux, however, qualified in 2015, The Bihar Government's Government at the Centre. said. The NHA said the 33 % compound, sources there told have been omitted for obvious 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and theme of Jal-Jivan-Hariyali The State was on the third spot National Anti-Fraud Unit has 2 AFP. A pair of Katyusha rock- political reasons. 2020 during the NDA regime Mission was rejected as "it in 2017. detected suspect e-cards on the - ets then hit the Balad airbase The data of Ministry of led by Modi who came to does not fulfil the criteria for Kerala's tableau for the R- basis of algorithms developed $ north of Baghdad, where Defence shows that the Centre power in May 2014. that". Bihar was not included in Day parade was also rejected internally by it and shared M M American troops are based, always used Republic Day West Bengal failed to qual- the Republic Day parade in for the second consecutive year with states for due diligence security sources and the Iraqi tableaux as tools to target States ify for the R-Day Parade this 2019 as well.