Mohammed Arshad

#live #learn #serve #prosper

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

As the school year begins in #Belarus, my thoughts are with the Belarusian children forced into exile, those with parents in jail, and the Ukrainian children enduring the horrors of war. I wish them a childhood filled with love, support, and a future of freedom and peace.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

"Hindu supremacy is causing a widening tear in India’s secular fabric—hate crimes against religious minorities such as Christians & Muslims are increasingly commonplace & hate speech against them is even more rampant." That is harming India's global image. https://t.co/QLvoaf449f

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

The UN’s treatment of Taiwanese people is nakedly discriminatory and must change.

[Amnesty International South Asia, Regional Office @amnestysasia]

Bangladesh: Today, on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, we call upon the government of Bangladesh to urgently end and criminalise the practice of enforced disappearances and ensure truth, justice and reparations for the victims and their families.

Enforced disappearances violate numerous human rights, including the rights to life, freedom from torture, liberty, and a fair trial.

Bangladesh should ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and accept the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances' request to conduct an official visit to Bangladesh.

#EndEnforcedDisappearances #Stillnoanswers #EndImpunityNow

[Diaspora in Action for Human Rights and Democracy @FoundationDAHRD]

Several Members of the @Europarl_EN have written to the EU's @JosepBorrellF and @vonderleyen about the dire human rights and humanitarian situation in Jammu and Kashmir. They responded: "We share your concerns about the human rights situation in the territory"

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

This is typical of the intellectual vacuum at the heart of our foreign policy establishment. From @JamesCleverly Beijing forthcoming speech.

“No problem can be addressed without China”.

This is an empty truism masquerading as policy. Adds precisely nothing to the discussion.

Could just as easily say “no global problem is likely to be defeated *with* Xi Jinping in power”. Equally true. Equally vacuous.

It is deployed here to legitimise engagement. But nobody serious has a problem with engagement.

The issue is that what lurks underneath this apology for a policy is a desire to placate the ‘antis’ just enough to continue with the preferred diplomatic path - which is ‘stable relations’ (read: more business).

We must do better than this.

[Hannah Ellis-Petersen @HannahEP]

Based on a trove of new documents, we reveal details of the complex offshore network used by the Adani family to buy stock in their own company as it grew to be the most powerful in India. A collab with @OCCRP and @FinancialTimes
https://t.co/1bQiw7w6Di

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

No one should be imprisoned -- let alone given the death penalty -- for being who they are, but that is what the Ugandan government is now doing, with the first young man arrested on charges of same-sex conduct that could lead to his execution.

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

As New Delhi gears up for the 2023 G20 summit meeting, it is worth recalling PM Modi’s words at the November 2014 Brisbane G20 summit calling for global cooperation “to eliminate safe havens for economic offenders”, to “track down and unconditionally extradite money launderers” and to “break down the web of complex international regulations and excessive banking secrecy that hide the corrupt and their deeds.”

Today’s explosive revelations by The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, The Financial Times and The Guardian about the clearly brazen violations of Indian securities laws by the Adani Group and its close associates are a reminder of how hollow these words have proven.

They are a reminder of the lengths and depths to which the PM has gone to protect his corrupt friends and their misdeeds by rendering India’s regulatory and investigative agencies toothless, reducing them to political tools to intimidate the Opposition rather than to investigate wrongdoing.

The revelations also provide some answers to the more than 100 pointed questions the Congress party has asked the PM about his murky relationship with Adani as part of the Hum Adani Ke Hain Kaun (HAHK) series. The PM continues to be silent on these questions of national interest.

There is now fresh evidence linking Adani associates Nasser Ali Shaban Ahli and Chang Chung-Ling to an effort to bypass Indian securities laws relating to minimum public shareholding that were put in place to prevent share price manipulation. Shell companies controlled by Ahli and Chang—that have been revealed to be fronts for Gautam Adani’s elder brother Vinod—accumulated substantial stakes in four Adani Group companies covertly and illegally. The stench of corruption around the network of Adani-linked shell companies located in opaque tax havens is only getting stronger with the money trail being established now.

The actual ownership of two of the thirteen benami shell companies that SEBI has failed to identify, despite years of “investigation”, has been revealed. But questions remain about SEBI’s role. Did the obvious conflict of interest revealed by the association of past SEBI Chairpersons with the Adani Group play a role in SEBI’s inability to properly investigate these shell companies? Why did SEBI fail to disclose to the Supreme Court that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) had carried out investigations against the Adani Group in 2014, that were then closed by the Modi government in 2017?

Despite the Modi government’s best efforts, the truth will not stay suppressed forever. However, the full story about the flow of benami funds into the Adani Group, how foreign citizens came to play a role in critical national infrastructure and how PM Modi violated rules, regulations and norms to enrich his close friends can only be revealed by a JPC.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

"Biden claims that the 'defense of democracy' is the central tenet of his administration." But he "openly fawned over" India's PM Modi despite Modi having "systematically undermined India’s democracy." https://t.co/8x4h6rzfDs

[Anna Wójcik @annawojcik]

The rule of law is not a religion, but it should be a glue that binds Europe together. It’s a pity that some politicians, like Kaczyński in Poland, consider it as ‘culturally alien’ value. Nonetheless, we will celebrate RoL today at @reconstitutEU conference

[Hatice Cengiz خديجة @mercan_resifi]

Our fight doesn't represent only Jamal but everyone who faced injustice, brutality, and exile by authoritarians and their regimes; our voice will be heard despite how loud they shout and how hard they silenced the sound of truth. #JamalKhashoggi

[Bakhti Nishanov @b_nishanov]

Stunning: a Swiss court said the former Uzbek president's daughter Gulnara Karimova was not a government official and therefore her assets can't be confiscated. The fact is, she had powers beyond any government official. This is a massive failure by the Swiss justice system.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

[Persian Poetry in English @PersianPoetics]

In Persian, ‘companion’ is ‘ham-dam’ همدم meaning ‘one you breathe with.’

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

This is a moment to dream big, to rethink our priorities – what we value, what we want, what we seek – and re-plan our future, committing to act in our daily life on what we have dreamed of. The time to act, and to act together, is now! #COP26

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

If thisis not radicalisation, i do not know what is ?

[Mohammed Arshad @arshad360]

@TheTweetOfGod Thank God.

[Mohammed Arshad @arshad360]

@Abadaan2 @_anti_national @Ptriot2 @TheLordOfMovies @Shahbaz01939106 100% true. Glad you could now reflect over it. Likewise, just because my opinion on Kashmir is not yours doesn't mean I am from Pakistan.

Btw - I feel nothing bad about being Pakistani. I am just not.