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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.

China has banned the name of dozens of Islamist names such as Saddam and Jihad for children in the troubled Muslim-dominated Shinxiang province, about which a prominent human rights group says that this move will deprive the children of this community from the benefits of education and government schemes. .

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), officials of Shinxiang have recently banned dozens names of religious symbols which are common among Muslim communities around the world. The reason behind imposing restrictions is that religious emotions can be accelerated by these names.

Radio Free Asia quoted an official as saying that under the rules of the names of ethnic minorities of the ruling Chinese Communist Party was banned many names like Islam, Quran, Makka, Jihad, Imam, Sadam, Haj and Madina.

According to the organization, children with restricted names will not be able to register the house of Hukou, which is essential for availing government schools and other social services.

The new verdict is part of China's war against terrorism in this troubled region. There are ten million Muslim Uyghar ethnic minority population in this area.

HRW said that this is a fresh decision in the string of rules to curb religious freedom in the name of preventing religious conspiracy.

Incidents of conflict between the Uyghar community and the majority of Han in Shinxiang are common. The Han community also has control over the government.

HRW said that the complete list of names has not yet been published.

Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI has kept hideouts of the dreaded terrorist organization Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Karachi. He had a drone attack on the Afghan border last year, but he was successful in escaping that attack. Since then Zawahiri has got refuge in Karachi.

Newsweek has quoted official sources that ISI is protecting the Egyptian-born Zawahiri in 2001 after American forces expelled Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan.

According to the source, it is most likely to be hidden in Karachi. Bruce Ridel of the CIA said that as far as his location is concerned, we are not completely convinced that at what time he is hiding at this place. Ridel has worked with the US President's top advisers in South Asia and Central Asia.

Ridel said that we have got a very good signal, which has got some material in Abatabad. Osama bin Laden was found in Abatabad, which was killed by the US Army in 2011. Our goal is in the same direction.

He said that it is the right place where we think Al-Zawahiri can be hidden. It will be easy here and he must be thinking that the US Army can not come here and will not be able to catch it.

Several sources told Newsweek that in the first week of January 2016, Barack Obama's administration targeted Zawahiri and attacked with a drone in the remote Shawal valley. This valley is located in the Federal administered tribal area of Pakistan.

A militant in this area told that Al-Zawahiri has survived in this attack, but five security guards have been killed. He said that Zawahiri was in the room. The room next to him was attacked. He said that the walls of both the rooms were completely collapsed and the debris had fallen on him due to the blast. In it, his glasses were broken. However, he survived luck.

The terrorist said that Al-Zawahiri had just left the room before ten minutes for going to sleep before attack on the room.

The terrorist further said that Zawahiri has vowed that he will never come to the hands of the American army alive.

More than 140 soldiers have died in a Taliban attack in northern Afghanistan.

Fighters targeted a mosque and a dining area at an Afghan army base in the city of Mazar-e Shharif in Balkh province on Friday.

President Ashraf Ghani was expected to visit the base later on Saturday.

Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Kabul.

More than 140 Afghan soldiers have been killed in the Taliban attack on a military base in Mazar-e-Sharif, the city of Balkh province. The Defense Ministry said that most of our soldiers were studying Friday prayers during the attack. More than 140 soldiers of Afghan army have been killed.

Earlier, US military spokesman Colonel John Thomas had told that the attack lasted for several hours and stopped in the evening. Nearly 50 Afghani soldiers were killed in this attack. He said that it can not be clearly stated now how far the US-led coalition army was in place of the attack.

On the other hand, Afghan Army spokesman Ahmed Javid Saleem believes that 20 soldiers have died and 31 are injured. At the same time, according to the New York Times, the number of deaths has reached 66, while 74 soldiers are injured.

Afghan Army spokesman Nasartullah Jamshedi said that the attack was near the mosque located in the military base. The soldiers were praying on Friday.

He told that six Taliban attackers came under Afghan soldier uniforms in two military vehicles. These assailants told the guards on the gate that the injured soldiers are in the vehicles and they must be delivered immediately, so they immediately open the gate. Jamshedi said that after this Taliban attackers attacked the Afghan soldiers with kerosene propelled grenades and guns. An attacker was killed in the counter action while five others were arrested.

India's PM Narendra Modi has condemned the attack in stern words. He tweeted that he condemned the masked terrorist attack in Mazar-e-Sharif. In this attack, there are total sentiments of those families who have lost their loved ones.

Pakistan is going to make new moves about former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was allegedly hanged for alleged involvement in espionage in Pakistan. Pakistan is preparing a new dossier in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, which he will present before the United Nations (UN) as proof.

According to the ANI, the new dossier being prepared by Pakistan is based on the initial statement of Kulbhushan Jadhav and the statements made by him in front of the court.

According to the Pakistani media, in the statement given by Kulbhushan Jadhav before the court, he has accepted the alleged involvement in espionage and other activities in Karachi and Blochistan.

At the same time, the dossier will also include the court martial general's certified report. Dossier will also include alleged terrorist activities of Kulbhushan Jadhav and timetable of court proceedings.

India had sought a copy of the charge sheet from Pakistan on Friday for rejecting the death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was convicted for alleged espionage and for getting justice.

Earlier, on Friday, Pakistan rejected India's 14th request for contacting Kulbhushan Jadhav with the Indian Embassy and said that the death penalty was given according to the laws of the country.

Pakistan also said that in January, it had sought 'specific information' related to Jadhav, which was rejected by New Delhi.

In Pakistan, Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambalee met Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Tahmina Janjua in Islamabad and asked for a copy of Jadhav's approval to contact the Indian Embassy and the charge sheet against him.

Family members of Pakistan's retired Colonel Mohammad Habib, who has disappeared from Nepal, have said that he has been kidnapped and it is in the hands of the enemy country's espionage agencies.

In Pakistan, India's espionage agencies are often called the detective agencies of the enemy country.

Colonel Mohammad Habib, a former Pakistan Army officer, allegedly came to Nepal to give a job interview, but retired Colonel Mohammad has disappeared after reaching Lumbini town of Nepal.

Mohammed Habib's family members have filed an FIR in Rawalpindi's Rawat police station. Saad Habib, son of Mohammad Habib, said, "I doubt my abba (father) has been abducted and for this the enemy's detective agencies can be responsible."

According to the news agency PTI, Saad told that his father found a man named Javed Ansari in Nepal who went to Lumbini with him. Lumbini is a city of Nepal located near the Indo-Nepal border.

According to reports, Habib had retired from the Pakistani army in October 2014 and used to work in the cannon department of the Pakistan Army. After retiring from the army, Mohammad Habib was working in a private firm.

Habib had applied online for jobs in Nepal. After this, a man named Mark Thompson had contacted Habib via telephone and email and provided an air ticket for interviewing him.

Habib had told his family in his last message, he has reached his whereabouts.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Nafis Zakari asked Nepali officials to investigate the disappearance of Habib.

Initial investigation revealed that a UK number was generated from the computer, whereas the e-mail and the message sent to him from the website was registered in India.

Pakistani security agencies have doubted that an enemy country agency created this trap to Mohammed Habib.