Comments - Dissecting Western Narrative: "India Rising Pakistan Collapsing" - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network 2024-03-29T12:52:55Zhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=1119293%3ABlogPost%3A101099&xn_auth=noWatch: 'Pakistan Is My Second…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2023-08-30:1119293:Comment:4266132023-08-30T14:45:13.815ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Watch: 'Pakistan Is My Second Favourite Country,' Says Mani Shankar Aiyar</span><br></br><span>Aiyar presents a picture of Pakistan that is not just different to, but almost the polar opposite of, everything Indians have been told about and led to believe of Pakistan.</span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="https://thewire.in/south-asia/mani-shankar-aiyar-karan-thapar-pakistan" target="_blank">https://thewire.in/south-asia/mani-shankar-aiyar-karan-thapar-pakistan</a></span><br></br><br></br><br></br><span>In…</span></p>
<p><span>Watch: 'Pakistan Is My Second Favourite Country,' Says Mani Shankar Aiyar</span><br/><span>Aiyar presents a picture of Pakistan that is not just different to, but almost the polar opposite of, everything Indians have been told about and led to believe of Pakistan.</span><br/><br/><span><a href="https://thewire.in/south-asia/mani-shankar-aiyar-karan-thapar-pakistan" target="_blank">https://thewire.in/south-asia/mani-shankar-aiyar-karan-thapar-pakistan</a></span><br/><br/><br/><span>In an interview to discuss his four years as India’s Consul-General in Karachi, a key part of his recently published autobiography Memoirs of a Maverick, as well as his overall view of Pakistan – a country he has visited 40 times in the last 40 years – Mani Shankar Aiyar says Pakistan is his second favourite country.</span><br/><br/><span>In an extensive interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Aiyar presents a picture of Pakistan that is not just different to, but almost the polar opposite of, everything Indians have been told about and led to believe of Pakistan. He shatters the false misconceptions and outright lies that colour the traditional Indian perception of our western neighbour.</span><br/><br/><span>This interview is full of the most delightful stories and anecdotes, told with Aiyar‘s riveting sense of drama and laced with his irresistible humour.</span><br/><br/><span>Many of his stories will astound Indian viewers because they speak of a Pakistan we know nothing about. They portray a country that far from being narrow and fundamentalist is fun-loving, welcoming of Indians and Hindus and where Islamisation has not impinged on the right of people to drink alcohol in their homes. And, boy, do they!</span></p> Adani’s business empire may o…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2023-04-07:1119293:Comment:4226212023-04-07T21:24:22.518ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span class="im">Adani’s business empire may or may not turn out to be the largest con in corporate history. But far greater dangers to civic morality, let alone democracy and global peace, are posed by those peddling the gigantic hoax of Modi’s India. Pankaj Mishra<br></br><br></br><br></br></span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con…</a></p>
<p><span class="im">Adani’s business empire may or may not turn out to be the largest con in corporate history. But far greater dangers to civic morality, let alone democracy and global peace, are posed by those peddling the gigantic hoax of Modi’s India. Pankaj Mishra<br/><br/><br/></span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n08/pankaj-mishra/the-big-con</a><span class="im"><br/><br/><br/>Modi has counted on sympathetic journalists and financial speculators in the West to cast a seductive veil over his version of political economy, environmental activism and history. ‘I’d bet on Modi to transform India, all of it, including the newly integrated Kashmir region,’ Roger Cohen of the New York Times wrote in 2019 after Modi annulled the special constitutional status of India’s only Muslim-majority state and imposed a months-long curfew. The CEO of McKinsey recently said that we may be living in ‘India’s century’. Praising Modi for ‘implementing policies that have modernised India and supported its growth’, the economist and investor Nouriel Roubini described the country as a ‘vibrant democracy’. But it is becoming harder to evade the bleak reality that, despoiled by a venal, inept and tyrannical regime, ‘India is broken’ – the title of a disturbing new book by the economic historian Ashoka Mody.<br/><br/>The number of Indians who sleep hungry rose from 190 million in 2018 to 350 million in 2022, and malnutrition and malnourishment killed nearly two-thirds of the children who died under the age of five last year. At the same time, Modi’s cronies have flourished. The Economist estimates that the share of billionaire wealth in India derived from cronyism has risen from 29 per cent to 43 per cent in six years. According to a recent Oxfam report, India’s richest 1 per cent owned more than 40.5 per cent of its total wealth in 2021 – a statistic that the notorious oligarchies of Russia and Latin America never came close to matching. The new Indian plutocracy owes its swift ascent to Modi, and he has audaciously clarified the quid pro quo. Under the ‘electoral bond’ scheme he introduced in 2017, any business or special interest group can give unlimited sums of money to his party while keeping the transaction hidden from public scrutiny.<br/><br/>Modi also ensures his hegemony by forging a public sphere in which sycophancy is rewarded and dissent harshly punished. Adani last year took over NDTV, a television news channel that had displayed a rare immunity to hate speech, fake news and conspiracy theories. Human Rights Watch has detailed a broad onslaught on democratic rights: ‘the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government used abusive and discriminatory policies to repress Muslims and other minorities’ and ‘arrested activists, journalists and other critics of the government on politically motivated criminal charges, including of terrorism’. Last month, as the BJP’s official spokesperson denounced the BBC as ‘the most corrupt organisation in the world’, tax officials launched a sixty-hour raid on the broadcaster’s Indian offices in apparent retaliation for a two-part documentary on Modi’s role in anti-Muslim violence.<br/><br/>Also last month, the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was expelled from parliament to put a stop to his persistent questions about Modi’s relationship with Adani. Such actions are at last provoking closer international scrutiny of what Modi calls the ‘mother of democracy’, though they haven’t come as a shock to those who have long known about Modi’s lifelong allegiance to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, an organisation that was explicitly inspired by European fascist movements and culpable in the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi in 1948.</span></p> Goldman Sachs analysts Kevin…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-12-09:1119293:Comment:4155722022-12-09T16:08:49.288ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Goldman Sachs analysts Kevin Daly and Tadas Gedminas project Pakistan's economy to grow to become the world's sixth largest by 2075. In a research paper titled "The Path to 2075", the authors forecast Pakistan's GDP to rise to $12.7 trillion with per capita income of $27,100. India’s GDP in 2075 is projected at $52.5 trillion and per capita GDP at $31,300. Bangladesh is projected to be a $6.3 trillion economy with per capita income of $31,000. By 2075, China will be the top global…</span></p>
<p><span>Goldman Sachs analysts Kevin Daly and Tadas Gedminas project Pakistan's economy to grow to become the world's sixth largest by 2075. In a research paper titled "The Path to 2075", the authors forecast Pakistan's GDP to rise to $12.7 trillion with per capita income of $27,100. India’s GDP in 2075 is projected at $52.5 trillion and per capita GDP at $31,300. Bangladesh is projected to be a $6.3 trillion economy with per capita income of $31,000. By 2075, China will be the top global economy, followed by India 2nd, US 3rd, Indonesia 4th, Nigeria 5th and Pakistan 6th.</span><br/><br/><a href="https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/12/goldman-sachs-projects-pakistan-economy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2022/12/goldman-sachs-projects-pakistan-economy.html</a><br/><br/><span>---------</span><br/><br/><span>The Path to 2075</span><br/><br/><a href="https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/gs-research/the-path-to-2075-slower-global-growth-but-convergence-remains-intact/report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/pages/gs-research/the-path-to-2075-slower-global-growth-but-convergence-remains-intact/report.pdf</a><br/><br/><span>Country GDP % Growth Rate by decades 2000-2009 to 2070-2079</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 4.7 4.0 5.0 6.0 5.9 5.3 4.7 4.0 3.4</span><br/><br/><span>China 10.3 7.7 4.2 4.0 2.5 1.6 1.1 0.9 0.5</span><br/><br/><span>India 6.9 6.9 5.0 5.8 4.6 3.7 3.1 2.5 2.1</span><br/><br/><span>Korea 4.9 3.3 2.0 1.9 1.4 0.8 0.3 -0.1 -0.2</span><br/><br/><span>Bangladesh 5.6 6.6 6.3 6.6 4.9 3.8 3.0 2.5 2.0</span><br/><br/><span>---------------------</span><br/><br/><span>Country GDP in Trillions of U$ from 2000 to 2075</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 1.6 3.3 6.1 9.9 12.3</span><br/><br/><span>China 1.8 7.4 15.5 24.5 34.1 41.9 48.6 54.8 57.0</span><br/><br/><span>India 0.7 2.1 2.8 6.6 13.2 22.2 33.2 45.8 52.5</span><br/><br/><span>Korea 0.9 1.4 1.7 2.0 2.6 3.1 3.3 3.4 3.4</span><br/><br/><span>Bangladesh 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.7 2.8 4.1 5.5 6.3</span><br/><br/><span>-------------------</span><br/><br/><span>Country Per Capita Income in thousands of US$ by Decade-ends 2000 to 2075</span><br/><br/><span>Pakistan 0.9 1.3 1.4 2.2 4.8 9.0 14.9 22.5 27.1</span><br/><br/><span>China 1.4 5.5 10.9 17.3 24.7 31.9 40.3 50.4 55.4</span><br/><br/><span>India 0.7 1.7 2.0 4.3 8.2 13.3 19.6 27.1 31.3</span><br/><br/><span>Korea 18.7 28.8 33.0 39.3 53.6 67.7 81.8 95.2 101.8</span><br/><br/><span>Bangladesh 0.7 1.1 2.3 4.4 8.4 13.5 19.7 26.9 31.0</span></p> Indian Diplomat Sharat Sabhar…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-09-01:1119293:Comment:4100792022-09-01T16:35:00.631ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Indian Diplomat Sharat Sabharwal on Pakistan's "Resilience", "Strategic" CPEC, China-Pakistan "Nexus"</span><br></br><br></br><span><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/indian-diplomat-sharat-sabrhawal-on.html" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/indian-diplomat-sharat-sabrhawal-on.html</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>Retired Indian diplomat Sharat Sabharwal in his recently published book "India's Pakistan Conundrum" disabuses his fellow Indians of the notion that Pakistan is about to…</span></p>
<p><span>Indian Diplomat Sharat Sabharwal on Pakistan's "Resilience", "Strategic" CPEC, China-Pakistan "Nexus"</span><br/><br/><span><a href="http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/indian-diplomat-sharat-sabrhawal-on.html" target="_blank">http://www.riazhaq.com/2022/08/indian-diplomat-sharat-sabrhawal-on.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>Retired Indian diplomat Sharat Sabharwal in his recently published book "India's Pakistan Conundrum" disabuses his fellow Indians of the notion that Pakistan is about to collapse. He faithfully parrots the familiar Indian tropes about Pakistani Army and accuses it of sponsoring "cross-border terrorism". He also writes that "Pakistan has shown remarkable resilience in the face of adversity". "Pakistan is neither a failed state nor one about to fail", he adds. He sees "limitations on India’s ability to inflict a decisive blow on Pakistan through military means". The best option for New Delhi, he argues, is to engage with Pakistan diplomatically. In an obvious message to India's hawkish Hindu Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he warns: "Absence of dialogue and diplomacy between the two countries carries the risk of an unintended flare-up". Ambassador Sabharwal served as Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2009 to 2013. Prior to that, he was Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad in the 1990s.</span></p> Mani Shankar Aiyar: What #Ind…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-09-01:1119293:Comment:4101152022-09-01T16:34:23.753ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Mani Shankar Aiyar: What #India's #Modi Has Not Recognised About #Pakistan: ITS RESILIENCE AND NATIONALISM <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700" target="_blank">http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700</a> … via @ndtv</span><br></br><br></br><span>Note: Mani Shankar spent some time in Pakistan posted as a diplomat, serving as India's first consul-general in Karachi from 1978 to 1982. He's a former…</span></p>
<p><span>Mani Shankar Aiyar: What #India's #Modi Has Not Recognised About #Pakistan: ITS RESILIENCE AND NATIONALISM <a href="http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700" target="_blank">http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700</a> … via @ndtv</span><br/><br/><span>Note: Mani Shankar spent some time in Pakistan posted as a diplomat, serving as India's first consul-general in Karachi from 1978 to 1982. He's a former federal cabinet minister and current member of Rajya Sabha</span><br/><br/><span>"unlike numerous other emerging nations, particularly in Africa, the Idea of Pakistan has repeatedly trumped fissiparous tendencies, especially since Pakistan assumed its present form in 1971. And its institutions have withstood repeated buffeting that almost anywhere elsewhere would have resulted in the State crumbling. Despite numerous dire forecasts of imminently proving to be a "failed state", Pakistan has survived, bouncing back every now and then as a recognizable democracy with a popularly elected civilian government, the military in the wings but politics very much centre-stage, linguistic and regional groups pulling and pushing, sectarian factions murdering each other, but the Government of Pakistan remaining in charge, and the military stepping in to rescue the nation from chaos every time Pakistan appeared on the knife's edge. The disintegration of Pakistan has been predicted often enough, most passionately now that internally-generated terrorism and externally sponsored religious extremism are consistently taking on the state to the point that the army is so engaged in full-time and full-scale operations in the north-west of the country bordering Afghanistan that some 40,000 lives have been lost in the battle against fanaticism and insurgency.</span><br/><br/><span>"And yet," as was said on a more famous occasion, "it works!" Pakistan and her people keep coming back, resolutely defeating sustained political, armed and terrorist attempts to break down the country and undermine its ideological foundations. That is what Jaffrelot calls its "resilience". That resilience is not recognized in Modi's India. That is what leads the Rathores and the Parrikars to make statements that find a certain resonance in anti-Pakistan circles in India but dangerously leverage the impact on Pakistani public opinion of anti-India circles in Pakistan. The Parrikars and the Saeeds feed on each other. It is essential that both be overcome.</span><br/><br/><span>But even as there are saner voices in India than Rathore's, so also are there saner - much saner - voices in Pakistan than Hafiz Saeed's. Many Indians would prefer a Pakistan overflowing with Saeeds to keep their bile flowing. So would many Pakistanis prefer an India with the Rathores overflowing to keep the bile flowing. At eight times Pakistan's size, we can flex our muscles like the bully on the school play field. But Pakistan's resilience ensures that all that emerges from Parrikar and Rathore are empty words. India is no more able than Pakistan is to destroy the other country"</span><br/><br/><br/><span><a href="http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700" target="_blank">http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/pakistans-resilience-beats-modis-56-inch-chest-771700</a></span></p> Tony Ashai@tonyashaiI designe…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-07-30:1119293:Comment:4096582022-07-30T14:46:10.743ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>Tony Ashai<br/>@tonyashai<br/>I designed the concept for this Iconic project at the direction of then PM <br/>@ImranKhanPTI<br/> for #Damenekoh #Islamabad #Pakistan as a #Tourist destination in 2021. Am still hopeful one day it will get built.</p>
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<p>Tony Ashai<br/>@tonyashai<br/>I designed the concept for this Iconic project at the direction of then PM <br/>@ImranKhanPTI<br/> for #Damenekoh #Islamabad #Pakistan as a #Tourist destination in 2021. Am still hopeful one day it will get built.</p>
<p><br/><a href="https://twitter.com/tonyashai/status/1553375512344403968?s=20&t=zmz-a7KC9G8radzAxwRKrw" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tonyashai/status/1553375512344403968?s=20&t=zmz-a7KC9G8radzAxwRKrw</a></p> #India to face revived #Naxal…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2022-01-13:1119293:Comment:4058222022-01-13T04:42:25.417ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>#India to face revived #Naxal #Maoist #insurgency. #Chhattisgarh <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/seven-months-and-counting-the-longest-silger-stir-retains-its-verve-101640541821991.html" target="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/seven-months-and-counting-the-longest-silger-stir-retains-its-verve-101640541821991.html</a></span><br></br><br></br><span>On a usual day, Silger would have been pitch black, and eerily quiet. But voices suddenly pierce the night air.…</span></p>
<p><span>#India to face revived #Naxal #Maoist #insurgency. #Chhattisgarh <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/seven-months-and-counting-the-longest-silger-stir-retains-its-verve-101640541821991.html" target="_blank">https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/seven-months-and-counting-the-longest-silger-stir-retains-its-verve-101640541821991.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>On a usual day, Silger would have been pitch black, and eerily quiet. But voices suddenly pierce the night air. The teenagers have started singing. The song is new, and has no name. But the chorus has the words “O adivasi re...jaago re”(Awake, O Adivasi). They start singing the verse, “tere saamne tere bhai ko goli maara re...tere saamne tere ghar dwaar cheen liya re (they shot your brother in front of you, they stole your home in front of you).”</span><br/><br/><br/><span>On May 12, residents of Silger began protests against a new camp of the Central Reserve Police Force. For four days, the number of protesters swelled. The villagers argued there was no permission for the camp, and that it would only bring more harassment to residents. The security agencies argued that it was the villagers who had asked for the camp, that it was key to driving away Maoists and bringing any form of development, and that the protests were being pushed by Maoist cadre.</span><br/><br/><span>Five days later, as the number of protesters kept rising and more villages joined in, there was sudden gunfire. Chhattisgarh Police said it was an exchange of fire with Maoists in the crowd, but villagers claimed the security forces unilaterally opened fire. Three people were brought dead to the hospital. A few days later, a fourth woman succumbed to her injuries as well.</span></p> Female workers at H&M sup…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-03-09:1119293:Comment:3996562021-03-09T15:02:38.429ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Female workers at H&M supplier in #India allege widespread sexual violence. Multiple #women at Natchi Apparels have reported abuse weeks after 21-year-old worker was allegedly killed by her supervisor. #misogyny #violence #rape #Hindutva #Modi…</span></p>
<p><span>Female workers at H&M supplier in #India allege widespread sexual violence. Multiple #women at Natchi Apparels have reported abuse weeks after 21-year-old worker was allegedly killed by her supervisor. #misogyny #violence #rape #Hindutva #Modi <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/09/female-workers-at-hm-supplier-in-india-allege-widespread-sexual-violence" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/09/female-workers-at-hm-supplier-in-india-allege-widespread-sexual-violence</a></span><br/><br/><span>Women in India making children’s clothes for H&M have spoken out about widespread sexual violence they claim to have faced at one of the company’s suppliers in India.</span><br/><br/><span>The allegations come just weeks after the body of Jeyasre Kathiravel, a 21-year-old Dalit garment worker, was found in a field close to her family home after she failed to return from her shift at the Natchi Apparels factory in Tamil Nadu.</span><br/><br/><span>Kathiravel’s supervisor has been charged with her murder. Her family and colleagues at the factory claim she was too afraid to report harassment they say she faced from her supervisor in the weeks before she died.</span><br/><br/><span>Since the killing, 25 women have made allegations to the Tamil Nadu Textile and Common Labour Union (TTCU) of sexual assault, harassment and verbal abuse by male supervisors and managers at Natchi Apparels, owned by one of India’s largest garment manufacturers, Eastman Exports.</span><br/><br/><span>Workers at Natchi Apparels making clothes for H&M and other brands, who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, claimed that female workers faced persistent sexual violence and verbal abuse in the workplace.</span><br/><br/><span>They described a working environment in which male supervisors wielded “total power” over the women beneath them. One said that “even married women are not safe. It is just that [abuse] and production targets. We are nothing more to the factory.”</span><br/><br/><span>Another said sexual violence had been going on for years. “It happens a lot on the night shift.”</span></p> Father arrested in #India for…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-03-05:1119293:Comment:3996482021-03-05T18:29:21.051ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p><span>Father arrested in #India for beheading his 17-year-old daughter. Sarvesh Kumar, a #Hindu, was arrested as he was walking toward a police station in Hardoi district In #UP on Wednesday night, carrying the severed head of his daughter. #honorkilling - CNN…</span><br></br><br></br></p>
<p><span>Father arrested in #India for beheading his 17-year-old daughter. Sarvesh Kumar, a #Hindu, was arrested as he was walking toward a police station in Hardoi district In #UP on Wednesday night, carrying the severed head of his daughter. #honorkilling - CNN</span><br/><br/><span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/india/father-beheads-daughter-india-intl-scli/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/05/india/father-beheads-daughter-india-intl-scli/index.html</a></span><br/><br/><span>Police in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state have arrested a man who confessed to beheading his teenage daughter.</span><br/><br/><span>Sarvesh Kumar was arrested as he was walking toward a police station in Hardoi district on Wednesday night, carrying the severed head of his 17-year-old daughter.</span><br/><span>"He was making his way on foot to the police station to confess what he had done," a spokesperson for Hardoi Police told CNN on Friday.</span><br/><span>Indian court rules in favor of female journalist sued for defamation over sexual harassment allegations</span><br/><span>Indian court rules in favor of female journalist sued for defamation over sexual harassment allegations</span><br/><span>"He told police he had seen his daughter with a young man that he believes she was seeing, which made him angry as he was against it," the spokesperson added.</span><br/><span>As Kumar, a vegetable seller from Pandetara village, made the one-mile walk from his home to the police station, local passersby alerted the police, who stopped him and began to film him.</span><br/><span>During this time, according to the police spokesperson, Kumar told authorities about his daughter's relationship, saying he had found her alone at home, locked her in a room and severed her head using a knife.</span><br/><span>Indian priest and 'disciples' arrested for alleged gang rape and murder of woman</span><br/><span>Indian priest and 'disciples' arrested for alleged gang rape and murder of woman</span><br/><span>"Considering the situation, he was calm. He wasn't crying or hysterical. When the policemen were speaking to him, they asked him to place his daughter's head on the ground and to sit down, which he listened to without arguing back," the police spokesperson told CNN.</span><br/><span>Kumar is currently in custody where he continues to be questioned, the spokesperson added. A list of charges will be compiled once the investigation has been completed. He will have access to a public lawyer once he has been formally charged, and he will remain in custody until the trial, police said.</span></p> #India's Supreme Court Chief…tag:www.pakalumni.com,2021-03-05:1119293:Comment:3996472021-03-05T18:26:36.720ZRiaz Haqhttp://www.pakalumni.com/profile/riazul
<p>#India's Supreme Court Chief Justice tells accused #rapist to marry victim to avoid jail. Man is accused of stalking, tying up, gagging and repeatedly raping the girl and threatening to douse her in petrol, set her alight and have her brother killed.…</p>
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<p>#India's Supreme Court Chief Justice tells accused #rapist to marry victim to avoid jail. Man is accused of stalking, tying up, gagging and repeatedly raping the girl and threatening to douse her in petrol, set her alight and have her brother killed.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/indias-top-judge-tells-accused-rapist-to-marry-victim-to-avoid-jail" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/04/indias-top-judge-tells-accused-rapist-to-marry-victim-to-avoid-jail</a></p>
<p>India’s abysmal record on sexual violence has been a focus of international attention since the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus. Victims are regularly subjected to sexist treatment at the hands of police and courts, including being encouraged to marry their attackers in so-called compromise solutions.</p>
<p>The letter drew attention to another hearing on Monday during which Bobde reportedly questioned whether sex between a married couple could ever be considered rape. “The husband may be a brutal man, but can you call the act of sexual intercourse between a lawfully wedded man and wife as rape?” he said.</p>
<p>The letter by the rights campaigners said: “This comment not only legitimises any kind of sexual, physical and mental violence by the husband, but it normalises the torture that Indian women have been facing within marriages for years without any legal recourse.”</p>
<p>Marital rape is not a crime in India. Bobde has not responded to the criticism.</p>
<p>His predecessor Ranjan Gogoi was the highest-profile figure in India to face a #MeToo complaint after he was accused by a former staffer of sexual assault. He was cleared in 2019 after an in-house inquiry, prompting protests in the country.</p>