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The President of Nigeria has said that Chibok girl, one of the girls who kidnapped by Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, has refused to free herself.

They say that the girl has chosen to stay with her husband instead of being free. This is one of the girls released from Captivity of Boko Haram on Saturday.

Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari's spokesman Garba Shehu told local TV channels that the girl said, "I am happy where I am. I've got a husband. "

Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls three years ago from Nigeria's northeast. Boko Haram had kidnapped many more during the uprising in this area.

The government had agreed that they would release some of the Boko Haram members in exchange for them. But there is no information about how many members are to be left.

It is believed that more than a hundred girls are still in captivity of extremists.

There are reports that girls who had been abducted, some of them married to Boko Haram fighters and now their children are also there.

Parents of Chibok girls are gradually being told about their daughters.

Government has posted the names of girls on Twitter, but social media access in Chibok is not to all people.

Garba Shehu says that girls are being identified so that they can be meet with their families at the earliest.

Ayesha Yasufu, convener of the Bringbackourgirls campaign, told the news agency AFP that she is engaged in joining these girls with their parents.

India has approached the International Court in the matter of hearing the execution of former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan.

According to the Indian News Agency PTI, the international court in The Hague has asked Pakistan to ensure that Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav is not hanged before considering all the options. However, it has not been ratified by the International Court.

In Pakistan's media, it is also being said that Indian media is misinterpreting the news of the hanging of Kulbhushan Jadhav.

There is no response from the government of Pakistan on this so far.

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tweeted that she has informed Kuldeep Jadhav's mother about the order of ICJ president.

Indian newspaper 'The Hindu' has written with the reference of Ron Abraham, President of International Court, that he has instructed Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to look into India's appeal and until the court does not hear the case and passed the order by that time, the hanging of Kulbhushan Jadhav will be stopped.

Pakistan's military court has sentenced Jadhav to death in the case of involvement in espionage and subversive activities.

Kulbhushan Jadhav is still locked in a Pakistani jail.

According to the press release issued by the International Court of Justice, India has said in international court that there is very little time to appeal against hanging and there is no time to consider all the options in Pakistan.

India has sought consular access for more than 15 times to provide legal aid to Kulbhushan Jadhav, but Pakistan has not yet cleared it.

Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother has also appealed to reconsider the punishment of Kulbhushan from Pakistan.

Jadhav's mother urged the Pakistani government to intervene in this matter. At the same time, she expressed his desire to meet his son.

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has tweeted that she has informed the mother of Kulbhushan Jadhav about the Indian appeal in the international court and the order of ICJ president.

She also said that Senior Advocate Harish Salve is representing India in the court.

India had said in its appeal in the International Court that Kulbhushan Jadhav was abducted in Iran where he was doing business after retiring from the Indian Navy.

India has said in this appeal that information about the execution of Kulbhushan was received from the press release.

At the same time, Pakistan has seen his arrest from Balochistan on March 3 last year, and official information about this was given to India on March 25, 2016.

India had sought consular access at that time, but Pakistan had refused.

At the same time, India has told the court that on January 23, 2017, Pakistan had sought help from Kulbhushan Jadhav for allegedly investigating the involvement of espionage and extremist activities in Pakistan and had said that considering the demand of consular access, India's response will be kept in mind.

India claims that linking the demand for consular access to inquiries is against the Vienna Convention.

In an international court, India has appealed that Pakistan should not implement the sentence awarded to the military court and take action according to Pakistan's law to abolish the military court's decision.

The centrist Emmanuel Macron will be the new President of France. In the presidential election held in France on Sunday (May 7), Emmanuel Macron defeats the right-wing Marine Le Pen.

The newly elected president, 39-year-old former investment banker Emmanuel Macron, has never been in an elected post till date. By winning this election, in the history of France, at the youngest, the president has won the election.

After winning the Presidential election, Emmanuel Macron said that he would fight the war against the 'internal partition of the country'.

Emmanuel Macron said, "I have heard people's anger, tension and suspicions."

From his party headquarters in Paris, Emmanuel Macron said that he would 're-link the link with Europe and its citizens'.

Macron said that France will be in the next line in the fight against terrorism.

After winning the election, Emmanuel Macron said at another rally that he will do all this in the next five years, so that people do not have to vote for extremists.

Macron also indicated that he would start efforts to get a majority in France for the lower house of France in June.

The most interesting thing in the elections of France is that Presidential candidates of the two largest parties of the country had already left the race. The popularity of Marine Le Pen has risen rapidly in the last few years, and there was a possibility that many other countries, like the other, could be in power in France even with the right-wing party.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, so far 65.30 percent of the voting has been done, which is 6 percent less than the presidential election of 2012, and four percent less than the first phase elections on April 23. In this election, there was a fight between the European pro and business support Emmanuel Macron and the anti-immigration and anti-European Marine Le Pen.

Both are completely different, and underlines the split between the Western democratic countries. Macron was on top of the first round of the election on 23 April. Marin Le Pen described the election as a fight between 'globalization supporters' for free trade, immigration and shared sovereignty and nationalists who advocated the strong borders and national identity.

Both candidates reached Paris to see the results. The process of voting started at 66,546 polling stations in the morning hours at 11:30 AM. Most of these polling stations were closed at 10:30 p.m., whereas the centers of big cities were open for one hour more.

It is worth mentioning that in the first round of elections on 23 April, Emmanuel Macron got 24.01 percent of the votes, while Marine Le Pen got 21. 30 percent of the votes.

In the approval of the United Nations 30-year-old tribunal treaty, India still stands behind 161 countries including Pakistan. Despite signing the treaty under the treaty in 1997, India has not yet been able to make the law in this context.

India is among the select nine countries of the world who have not yet approved this important treaty which is necessary for the signatory country for the purpose of approval of the International Human Rights Treaty.

The Supreme Court took a firm stand on this fact and asked the cenrtal government to explain why the Government has not shown its commitment to at least good intention with the intention of making a law in the matter.

The bench chaired by Chief Justice Justice JS Khehar said, "We understand that legal process may take time, but you (the Center) tell us that you have so far committed our sincere commitment to making the law Why not? "

A bench of Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SK Kaul, headed by justice Kher, said, "There is no dispute between this and the national interest and beyond this issue is very important."

The bench made this comment when the Congress leader and former law minister Ashwani Kumar pointed out that India is among the select nine countries of the world who have not yet approved it despite signing the treaty.

Famous 'torture and other cruelty, inhuman or degrading treatment or anti-punishment treaty', known as the United Nations Anti-Torture Convention, is an international human rights treaty aimed at preventing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment across the world.

Solicitor General Ranjeet Kumar, who was present on behalf of the centre, sought a brief period from the court on its basis in matter that in the context of making the law, some states have yet to be consulted before the new campaign was launched.

The top court said, "It is good to say that we are committed to the treaty but in this context, there must be a law."

However, the Solicitor General highlighted the fact that in the year 2010, the UPA-2 government had introduced the bill on torture in the Lok Sabha. Former Law Minister and senior lawyer Ashwani Kumar was part of this process, but the law could not be established.

On this, the bench had said, "It should not be biased. This is an important point.''

Pakistani police have reportedly lodged a report against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the matter of instigating people against the army and spreading hatred. On Wednesday, an advocate named Ishtiaq Ahmed Mirza filed a case against Nawaz Sharif in Civil Lines Police Station, Rawalpindi. Mirza claims to be the head of 'I am Pakistan Party'.

According to the newspaper 'The Dawn', this report recorded by the police is not an FIR and it is known as 'Rojanamacha' in the local language. Mirza claimed that he had got a video clip on his whats up, in which a man was able to deliver a speech.

He said that the person giving the speech was himself Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who was allegedly provoking people and spreading hatred against the armed forces. The complainant demanded a case against Nawaz Sharif, who is also the head of PMLN party.

According to the report, Ishtiaq Ahmed Mirza claimed that his 'I am Pakistan' political party was registered in the Pakistani Election Commission.

On the other hand, the news is that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif can meet in the month of June in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana. This is said in a media report.

The Pakistani newspaper 'Express Tribune' has conveyed to diplomatic sources that effective countries of SCO are pushing for re-interaction with Pakistan and India in the process of dialogue so that the next summit can be in favorable environment.

According to the media report, both countries have been included in the SCO on the condition that they will work to promote the interest of the organization with improvement in bilateral relations. This was one of the main reasons why Modi and Sharif met in the Ufa city of Russia, other than the 2015 SCO Summit.

In a meeting of United Nations Human Rights Organization in Geneva, many countries have advised India to stop violence against Dalits, women, religious minorities.

The UN has started a tradition called Universal Periodic Review since 2008, under which every four years the member countries ask for answers from each other on human rights issues.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on behalf of India answered questions from many countries.

He said that the freedom of expression is in the core of India's democracy.

India said in this meeting that India is a secular country. Apart from this, India has committed commitment to human rights.

Many countries have expressed their views in this meeting, which has raised issues of discrimination and violence against women, dalits and minorities in India mainly by many countries.

Many countries have appealed to curb religious violence, to end the execution of hanging and to restrain smuggling.

This is the first for Narendra Modi government and the third opportunity for India when the government is answering its track record on human rights issues.

Mexico appealed to India to give proper training to government employees who working with the victims of sexual abuse and ending of discrimination with Dalits and girls.

Lebanon asked India to giving guarantee to the defense of religious freedom, apart from this, Lebanon has also asked to restrain smuggling.

Lithuania has appealed to the protection of human rights activists, investigations of attacks on journalists and activists.

Latvia appealed to end violence against women, while Kenya has appealed to take action against violence and discrimination against minorities and women.

India has said that there are laws to prevent discrimination against Dalits.

Apart from ending the execution of the death penalty, Italy appealed to the victims of religious attacks to get justice.

In addition to promoting human rights from India, Iraq has appealed to increase budget in education sector.

Spain also appealed to rape in marriage in crime category, violence against women and honor killings or killing for honor and end to child wages.

Iceland has said that despite the laws of violence against women and girls there is no dearth of violence. Iceland has also appealed to withdraw Section 377, under section 377, homosexuality has been classified as a crime.

India has said that the Supreme Court will hear in this matter. At the same time, on the execution sentence, India says that only in the case of the Rarest of rare case is hanged.

Switzerland expressed concern over the civil society's restrictions, attack on the minorities. Also appealed to the review of AFSPA.

Pakistan appealed to stop the use of pellet guns in Kashmir of India.

America praised the Government of India for protecting democracy.

Nepal and Bangladesh also praised India's policies in human rights.

The United States praised the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in which the court had said that the army did not escape the military punishment under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which gave the privileges to the army.

The United States said that discrimination against Dalits and religious minorities still persists in India.

Austria expressed concern over non-governmental funding of foreign funds under FCRA in India and said that this would affect NGO activities.

In this meeting several countries have requested India to certify the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

On the attacks on Africans India acknowledged that this is a sad incident, but these attacks were not inspired by racism.

Many people in India and Pakistan media see evidence of the Pakistani media's strength against India.

At the same time, one of India's liberal channels, NDTV, dropped the interview of former Home Minister of India P Chidambaram, citing national security.

Radika Roy, co-founder and chairman of NDTV, said in a statement to the online publication 'The Wire', "Political splinter on the issue of surgical strikes, which was being used without evidence, was causing our national security to be damaged."

Pakistani journalists also feel that they are more brave and they can keep separate sides than their government's side compared to Indian journalists who support the government.

However, there can be no outcome of this debate. It proves that the freedom of the press is very bad in both countries.

Despite India being the world's largest democracy, despite its World Press Freedom Index published in 2017 by the 'Reporters Without Borders' Association, India is on the lower rungs on the scale of freedom of the press.

According to the World Press Freedom Index published in 2017, India's 136th position in the list of 180 countries shows that the freedom of the press in India is constantly worsing.

India is far behind countries like Zimbabwe and Myanmar.

Norway, Sweden and Finland are the world's leading journalists in bold journalism.

In this case, China is ranked 176th and Pakistan is ranked 139th.

'Reporters Without Borders' has said in its report, "The independence of the press in India is threatened by Modi's nationalism and the media is not printing news due to fear."

According to the report, "Self censorship is increasing in the Indian media and journalists are targets for the online campaign to defame the hardline nationalists. Journalists who are critical of the government are being prosecuted to stop them. "

In India, four journalists were killed in 2015 and at least one journalist has been attacked every month. In many cases, criminal cases have been registered against journalists. The result has been that journalists have put themselves on the censorship.

"The scope of these attacks is shocking. In the name of national security, the Internet and newspapers were banned in Kashmir. There have also been incidents of defamation of corporate fraud, murder of independent journalists after reporting on corruption of the local Mafia and Chhattisgarh's security forces tortured and sent to jail independent journalists," says Geeta SeShu of the media watchdog The Hoot Dot ORG.

Given the current tension in India's Kashmir, the government has imposed various types of curb on the freedom of the press. Journalists were not passed during the curfew, journalists were attacked, the dissemination of newspapers in the state was stopped, and the newspaper, Kashmir Reader, was completely banned.

If a newspaper was banned in any other part of the world, it would have been a ruckus, but the Indian media has largely ignored it.

Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai writes on this, "Today the World Press is the Independence Day. India is 136 and Pakistan is ranked 139th. A lot has been said. Greet those selected people who are still raising the voices."

In his next tweet, Rajdeep wrote, "The truth is that the press has a great tradition of freedom in India. This freedom has been misused due to business models and personal interests.''

At the same time, former Justice Markandey Katju wrote on Facebook, "World Press Independence Day is the world's biggest manipulation. Press freedom is a myth and a cruel joke with the public.

He wrote, "The world is in the hands of the corporate, whose sole purpose is to make maximum profit. Actually there is no press freedom."

Katju wrote, "Big journalists take a heavy salary and for this reason they have become accustomed to fancy lifestyles. They will not want to lose it and therefore only follow orders and lick the lamps."

The situation of democracy in Pakistan is also shaky, extensively in Pakistan, so it is not surprising that Pakistan is at 139th position in the World Press Freedom Index. These rankings do not match the claim of Pakistan's free media.

The Report of Reporters Without Borders of the 2016 said about Pakistan, "The targets that the journalists make are included in the extremist groups, Islamic organizations, intelligence agencies. They obstruct the freedom of the press. They all are fighting each other, but as always they are ready to hurt the media. In such cases, news organizations have adopted self-censorship."

Raza Rumi, a Pakistani journalist living in the United States in Pakistan attacked the assassination of the murderer in 2014, and says, "As far as Pakistan is concerned about national security, in some places in English newspapers to express different views But the opposition of the power establishment in TV news is quite dangerous. Institutions do not allow it."

Rumi used to host a TV show and had argued differences with Pakistan's foreign policy and raised the issue of rights of minorities.

During reporting on the issue of human rights in Balochistan, there was a fatal attack on the famous Anchor and journalist Hamid Mir in 2014. Then Mir's brother came to the TV channel and blamed the Pakistani army for the attack.

By the way physical assault and direct censorship - a small part of the problem is full, efforts to curb media in India and Pakistan are increasing.

In the telegraph newspaper Manini Chatterjee wrote, " Perhaps any one rarely know difference between censorship-self censorship, truth-propaganda and journalism-blind nationalism devotion."

Not only that, the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Narendra Modi in India has reduced the methods of reaching journalists till the news and has promoted PR so that news of media can be controlled in a better way.

There is more pressure from the army in Pakistan. Ayesha Siddika's articles which consistently write on Pakistan's security policies are rejectioned several times in Pakistan and they appear to be more in India.

Ayesha Siddika wrote in the Pakistani newspaper The News, "At present, the head of the Inter Service Public Relation is Lieutenant General, the PR Agency of the Army is running a large-scale radio channel today, there is a stake in many TV channels. Finance to the film and the theater. It is not just an institutional extension, but it is a matter of shaping the voice of the country (Pakistan) media."

Journalists in Pakistan are not allowed to go freely in Balochistan. In such a situation, which country's media is more free, there can be no outcome of this debate.

The freedom of the press in both India and Pakistan is going through a period of serious danger.

The World Press Independence Day is celebrated on May 3. On this occasion, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi also told the significance of the press freedom by tweeting.

PM Narendra Modi tweeted, "On World Press Freedom Day, we firmly support free and versatile journalism. It is very important for democracy. "

However, in the world of journalism, there are many problems in India. 'Reporters Without Borders' has released a list of 180 countries, in which according to Press freedom India's position is 136.

India is far behind countries like Zimbabwe and Myanmar.

Norway, Sweden and Finland are the world's leading journalists in bold journalism.

In this case, China is ranked 176th and Pakistan is number 139.

Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India in May 2014. Then India was on 140th number. In 2015, India came at number 136. In 2016, the number was 133 and came to number 136 in 2017.

In 2010, India was 122nd in this list and then the UPA Government was in power. After this India was on 140th till 2014.

'Reporters Without Borders' said in its report, "The freedom of the press in India is threatened by Modi's nationalism and the media is not printing news due to fear."

According to the report, "Self censorship is increasing in the Indian media and journalists are targets for the online campaign to defame the hardline nationalists. Journalists who are critical of the government are being prosecuted to stop them. "

While Modi has said in his tweet, "In today's era social media has emerged as an active medium to connect with the people and it has given greater powers to the independent press."

Senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai writes on this, "Today the World Press is the Independence Day. India is 136 and Pakistan is ranked 139th. A lot has been said. Greet those selected people who are still raising the voices."

In his next tweet, Rajdeep wrote, "The truth is that the press has a great tradition of freedom in India. This freedom has been misused due to business models and personal interests.''

At the same time, former Justice Markandey Katju wrote on Facebook, "World Press Independence Day is the world's biggest manipulation. Press freedom is a myth and a cruel joke with the public.

He wrote, "The world is in the hands of the corporate, whose sole purpose is to make maximum profit. Actually there is no press freedom. "

Katju wrote, "Big journalists take a rough salary and for this reason they have become accustomed to fancy lifestyles. They will not want to lose it and therefore only follow orders and lick the lamps.''

Pakistan has once again violated the ceasefire on LoC on Wednesday morning. At 5.30 in the morning, Pakistani posts were fired on Indian posts in Mankot in Poonch district. The BSF is giving a shabby reply.

This is the second incident from Pakistan to break the ceasefire in 48 hours. According to the news agency ANI, the firing continues as of now. More information is awaiting this incident.

Monday, i.e., on May 1, in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, the ceasefire was violated across the border. Two Indian Army soldiers were martyred in this. Among the martyrs, one JOC and BSF head constable were involved.

On the attack, the Indian Army had alleged that Pakistan had also vandalized with Indian soldiers.

It was told that this work was done by Pakistan's border action team. Indian Army had said, "In the Krishna Valley sector, two forward posts were fired rocket and mortar from the Pakistani army on the Line of Control. BAT action was also done on the Patrol operating between two posts. The Pakistani army showed a deadly attitude and destroyed the dead bodies of our two soldiers. Such evil acts of the Pakistani army will be given a fair response soon. "

The body of Nayab Subedar Paramjit Singh, martyr in firing from Pakistan, was brought to Taran-Taran from helicopter, where his funeral was done in his village. In the meantime, no official or minister was present from the government. Earlier, his family had demanded to look into the body by stopping his dead body journey.

According to the ANI, their family members had said, whose carcass it is, it is behind the coffin. Why are not we being allowed to see the body? Later on, his family members agreed to the funeral.

On the other hand, the daughter of Shaheed Prem Sagar demanded instead of the father's martyrdom to 50 heads. His daughter Saroj had said, "No information was given about the death of father (Prem Sagar) on behalf of the administration. Instead of the sacrifice of the father, the heads of 50 Pakistani soldiers are needed.''

It is believed that the command of the Pakistani army chief, General Kamar Javed Bajwa, was given to the barbaric order to cross the Line of Control (LoC) and to corrupt his body after the killing of two Indian soldiers.

Kamar Javed Bajwa was on a tour of Pakistan's Haji Pir military post on April 30. Indian intelligence agencies and army sources told that Bajwa had ordered to show vandalism with Indian soldiers during this tour.

According to sources, local Pakistani commanders were ordered to retaliate for revenge of seven to 10 Pakistani soldiers killed in Indian firing on 17th April.

According to sources, Lt Gen Nadeem Raza, Commander of the Pakistani X Corps, had warned against the increase in tension on the LoC following this counter-reaction. Raza is the chief of the Pakistani army's Kashmir affairs. Maj Gen Azhar Abbas, chief of the Pakistani 12th Infantry Division of Murray, was also apprehensive about the retaliation. This division, located near the LoC, has had to be fired.

An Indian intelligence official said, "The situation on the border has not been completely peaceful since the aftermath of the Uri attack that has crossed the LoC. These skirmishes are making Pakistan heavier. We think Pak wants to show that they want to take the risk of increasing tension, while their position on LOC is weak. "

There are two lakhs to 2.25 lakhs of Indian soldiers deployed in LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. At the same time, one lakh to 1.25 lakh soldiers of the Pakistani army were deployed at the LoC. In this case India is strong enough from Pakistan.

General Kamar Javed Bajwa had visited Pakistani checkpoints near the border after cross border attack on the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Uri attack. Kashmir is much above the priority list of Kamar Javed Bajwa. In March, Kamar Javed Bajwa visited Pak Check post in the Kel Sector. At the same time in December and this year in February this year, he had visited the Pak check posts affected by the bombing in the Bhimbar sector.

The Haji Pir Check post which was visited by Javed Bajwa on April 30, is strategically important. India had won this area in the 1965 war, but later this post was returned to Pakistan by the swap of the areas which were won.

India's last military outpost in the Krishna Valley region, located in the mainland. Indian soldiers were killed on May 1 in the same area.

According to sources, the Allied Special Forces of Pakistan was watching the Indian patrol team.