By Afshain Afzal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ukraine was not a pleasant one. Indian Ministry of External Affairs issued a statement ahead of the departure of Prime Minister Modi's visit to Ukraine and Poland that it will widen and deepen India-Ukraine and India-Poland relations. Embarrassment after embarrassment, the Indian foreign policy has been exposed; first the Indian role in destabilizing Bangladesh and feeding wrong intelligence inputs and pulses that led to pro-Indian interim government in Bangladesh and now Indian military personnel caught redhanded campaigning inside Ukraine helping Russia in achieving military targets. Without condemning either Russian or Ukrainians, Prime Minister Modi concluded his visit by saying. “As a friend and partner, we hope for an early return of peace and stability in the region.” Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar also concluded the visit, "The two sides need to engage with each other to find an acceptable solution."

The fact cannot be denied that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky summoned Prime Minister Modi to answer a few simple questions including, “What the Indian nationals in Russian uniforms doing in Ukraine?” and “India must guarantee a complete end to any further recruitment of Indian nationals in the Russian Army”. Although, this was the first-ever visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Ukraine since diplomatic relations were established between the two countries in 1992 but we saw no smiles on the faces of the two leaders. India still buys more than 50% of its defence equipment from Russia but in recent days, Washington has discussed India’s prime role in Indo-Pacific Alliance that would allow Indian hegemony over the South Asian and Eastern nations. Washington has given assurance to New Delhi of its control of Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir to have a direct link with Afghanistan and Central Asian states on the guarantee that India will contribute bulk of her soldiers in restoring American and alliance influence over the areas of influence and dominance as well as Indian scientists for the experimentations.

Early this years there were reports that hundreds of Indians joining the Russian forces to fight against Muslim dominance in the coastal areas of Ukraine and that eight Indian nationals who joined Russian forces were killed in Ukraine. In March Indian Central Bureau of Investigation confirmed that two Russia-based agents involved in human-trafficking network that pushed Indians into the Ukraine war zone. However, this was taken as cover-up stories and later New Delhi officially admitted that many Indian nationals proceeded to Russia on “support jobs” in Russian military but Indian authorities had no idea that they would be sent to front line in war against Ukraine. Indian agencies also tried to link it with Islamic State in India but the on-ground evidence reflects non-Muslim Indian nationals induction in the Russian Army and serving Indian Armed Forces personnel in advisory roles. If we recall, in March eight Indian nationals were killed in Ukraine, two months back three more Indians were killed fighting in Ukraine. In July one more soldier was killed while now an Indian military advisor is reported in custody being interrogated.

India is facing an embracing situation when several Indian nationals were caught spying for Russia in the past but it was brushed aside. This time, with the killing of Indian national Sandeep Chandran son of Kankil Chandran, resident of Nayarangadi in Thrissur district in an attack on a Russian military group in Ukraine has not only created mistrust between Ukraine and India but also Washington and New Delhi as India is playing her own game despite a strong member of the Western alliance. The report that an Indian military advisor is reported in custody is being interrogated but the same could not be confirmed by independent sources. One wonders that when there is a great need of peace and harmony around the world India’s double game in many fronts around the world is a matter of concern. Where the peace-loving Indian civilians and a majority of politicians are unaware of what Indian military and intelligence services are doing, India is trapped in a dangerous game where not only India as a nation is dragged into an awkward situation but the security and safety of the who regions has been threatened.

By Afshain Afzal

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has committed an unpardonable crime due to his vested personal interest and venom against the Bangla nation, he cheated and destroyed the pride of Bangladesh 'Grameen Bank', created illegally numerous business companies from this Government-owned non-profit entity and sold to the foreigners. He was involved in money laundering and still continuing it without any fear or regret. If we recall, Norway blamed Muhammad Yunus as Government appointed head of the Grameen Bank, in breach of the agreement he transferred nearly $100m of Norwegian aid from Grameen Bank to other parts of Grameen including Grameen Kalyan in 1998. Later, Muhammad Shahjahan, his Advisor, who was General Manager of Grameen Bank from August 2011 to October 2014 settled violation by claiming that they had transferred the fund to 'save tax', but not to 'evade tax'. Nobody at that time had any idea that Muhammad Yunus despite being a government employee illegally created part of his business empire of 30 companies as the Grameen group of companies.

The story revolves around Grameen America, the Grameen Foundation, and other businesses that support microcredit. Muhammad Yunus has been deputed to support refugees from India, Bihar, and neigbourhood including the displaced Rohingya population in Bangladesh and sideline the original inhabitants of Bangladesh “the Bengali majority” who still follow orthodox Islam. That is not all but he is also switching the fruits of Grameen from Bangladesh to India and other foreign entities. No one can deny the fact that Muhammad Yunus created ‘Yunus Social Business Global Initiatives’ (YSB) in 2011 without the Government of Bangladesh’s approval and made at least three partners and many others behind this business organization. YSB was co-founded by Muhammad Yunus, dual-nationality holder of US and Bangladesh, and German national holders; Saskia Bruysten and Sophie Eisenmann. YSB’s prime focus in on India instead of marginalized people of Bangladesh.

Muhammad Ibrahim, brother of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus writes in his book, “People and Science - An enthusiast’s memoir 1950 – 90” about partition and how his family in Niribili in Chittagong employed a special tutor to get acquainted with Bangla and Arabic and the family had extended relationship in India, Iran and Burma. Ibrahim narrates in his book that Muhammad Yunus was associated leftist student union of Chittagong USPP (United Students Progressive Party) considered as pseudo-communists bent on destroying the democracy, heritage and religion of Bangladeshis and that USPP was acting as an agent of India helping in realizing the latter’s political and cultural design on us. Being Secretary of USPP. Muhammad Yunus contested elections but his party USPP was defeated. Ibrahim is right that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will destroy democracy, heritage and religion of Bangladeshis and is acting as an agent of India and the US as will as where his extended family hails from.

The Indian direct intervention and blessing from the West was quite visible when on 6 August 2024, when Bangladeshi president Mohammed Shahabuddin nominated Muhammad Yunus to serve as the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, despite the fact he was facing corruption cases and he, along with his three colleagues were sentenced to six months in jail and was ordered to clear all taxes against his business companies. Although Sheikh Hasina Wajed is still the legitimate Prime Minister of Bangladesh as she never resigned nor requested the President to dissolve the parliament and constitution does not support reelections or appointment of Muhammad Yunus as head of the interim government of Bangladesh but why there was an Indian backed intervention in Bangladesh is quite evident? Muhammad Yunus is the same person who claimed to be the right hand of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the US during the war of independence and today he is the mastermind behind of insulting national hero and destruction of Bangabandhu belongings including his statues through students.

There are serious questions that must be answered including how Muhammad Yunus is the owner of Grameen Bank or its derivatives or the offshoots? We know that he was a lecturer of Economics at Government College and continued on his return to Bangladesh in 1972 and later he was employed in the Government-owned Grameen Bank dismissed by the Central Bank of Bangladesh in March 2011 for misuse of authority and violations. The Government-funded Grameen Bank project started in 1976 as an action research pilot project in "Jobra" village in Chattogram district of Bangladesh that through an ordinance of the Bangladesh government dated 2 October 1983, was converted into the Grameen Bank. Isn’t Muhammad Yunus illegally using the names of Grameen and derivative trademarks, which are protected by intellectual property rights? In May 2024, the World Bank and many other donors approved over US $ 1 billion for refugees and host the community. It is high time that all the aid coming to Bangladesh should be deposited directly in the Grameen Bank owned by the Government of Bangladesh and not the illegally created offshoots businesses having shares of foreign nations and companies.

L' Alpe d' Huez (France), 18 August 2024, (TON) - Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland won the Tour de France Femmes on Sunday, beating the defending champion, Demi Vollering, by just four seconds.

Tour de France is a race that was almost 950km long.

Niewiadoma, 29, was full of tears when she realized she had won by four seconds.

Final general classification

Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol/Canyon-SRAM) 24hrs 36mins 07secs

Demi Vollering (Ned/SD Worx-Protime) +04secs

Pauliena Rooijakkers (Ned/Fenix-Deceuninck) +10secs

Evita Muzic (Fra/FDJ–Suez) +1min 21secs

Gaia Realini (Ita/TFS) +2mins 19secs

Cedrine Kerbaol (Fra/Ceratizit-WNT) +2mins 51secs

Sarah Gigante (Aus/AG-Soudal) +7mins 09secs 

Lucinda Brand (Ned/Lidl–Trek) +8mins 06secs

Juliette Labous (Fra/Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) +8mins 07secs

Thalita de Jong (Ned/Lotto Dstny) +8mins 12secs

JERUSALEM, 16 August 2024, (TON) - The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement on Friday that it has detected the first confirmed case of polio in the Gaza strip in the city of Deir Al-Balah for a 10-month-old baby who had not received any polio vaccination dose. UNICEF said poliovirus was detected in environmental samples from Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah in July 2024.

International aid bodies call for a pause in the conflict for make way for a vaccination drive. The Palestinian Health Ministry is being persuaded by UNICEF to work with UNICEF to vaccinate all children under 10 years old in Gaza, approximately more than 640,000 children.

The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called the proposal “a must,” noting the “ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” In an emergency meeting of WHO and UNICEF called for a humanitarian pause in Gaza for 7 days to allow two rounds of polio vaccination to take place, following the recent detection of virus in environmental samples and the identification of three suspected cases of acute flaccid paralysis in children.

By Afshain Afzal

The world has decided to contribute the Polio-drops vaccines to compensate Israeli genocide of orthodox Palestinians in Gaza; some 40,000 Palestinians martyred in Gaza alone in less than 10 months according to unconfirmed sources based on media credible reports. Gaza has been polio-free for decades but how and why this happened is only known to the world powers that are supporting, funding, arming and defending Palestinian genocide. This is the typical strategy when Western and allies attack Muslim nations. Ironically, companies from countries supporting Israeli genocide in Gaza will be in the forefront sending supplies of the polio-drop vaccines and their trained workers.

Without wasting a day, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called the proposal “a must,” noting the “ultimate vaccine for polio is peace and an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.” In an emergency meeting of the World Health Organization and UNICEF called for a humanitarian pause in Gaza for 7 days to allow two rounds of polio vaccination to take place, following the recent detection of virus in environmental samples and the identification of three suspected cases of acute flaccid paralysis in children.

These authorities have made such an innocent appeal to the Israeli authorities to pause genocide for seven days to complete two rounds of polio vaccination so that the Palestinian children, who die as the result of Israeli and allies’ bombings, die polio-free. Thank you! UNO, WHO, UNICEF and hundreds of International INGOs for such a generous acts but please remember Almighty Allah (God) is watching us. One wonders had the same proposal put forward for execution for the children of Israelis, Americans, Briton etc and those working in UNO, WHO, UNICEF and hundreds of International INGOs in case facing a similar situation in Gaza.

DHAKA, 15 August 2024, (TON) - A team of United Nations experts will visit Bangladesh next week to investigate the killings of the protesters ahead of and in the aftermath of Sheikh Hasina's alleged resignation as the prime minister last week. The UN fact-finding team will probe atrocities committed during the Student Revolution in July and early this month. There are fears from some circles that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will not be provided with justice but the competence of inquiry cannot be challenged.

Earlier, UN human rights chief Volker Turk spoke to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus late Wednesday on the phone. Volker Turk in a post late on Wednesday night said, "Promising phone call with @ChiefAdviserGoB Muhammad Yunus. I assured him of @UNHumanRights Office's solidarity with the people of #Bangladesh & our support to the interim govt at this pivotal time. An inclusive, human rights-centred approach will ensure this transition succeeds." In response, Muhammad Yunus said in a connecting post on X: The UN rights chief said a UN-led investigation will be launched very soon to probe the killing of the protesters during the Student Revolution. If we recall, the protesting mob badly destroyed the judicial system of Bangladesh by forcing judges to resign on a gunpoint. Now the Courts’ decisions are likely to be biased.

Meanwhile, a complaint was filed on Wednesday with the investigation agency of Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal against Sheikh Hasina and eight others, accusing them of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the mass movement of the students against her government on grounds, “on July 19, students were conducting a nonviolent demonstration when police opened fire”. Police in Dhaka said they have been forced and ordered to lodge FIR several weeks after the incident accept “a murder case against Sheikh Hasina and eight others”.

If we recall, two years back on 14 August 2022, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet visited Bangladesh upon the invitation of the Government. travel to Cox’s Bazar where she will be able to visit camps housing Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and meet with refugees, officials and non-governmental organisations. We should not forget that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina exposed a conspiracy on 23 May 2024, exposed the conspiracy that aimed to carve out a Christian state like East Timor, comprising of parts from Bangladesh and Myanmar with base in the Bay of Bengal she was in real trouble.

By Afshain Afzal

Observing 15^th of August each year as “Day of Mourning” by Bangladesh on the same day India celebrates her “Independence Day” is quite embarrassing. On the day entire family of the founder of Bangladesh was brutally killed as Indian-backed conspiracy. If we recall, on 21 August 2004 Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the terrorist attack suffering splinter injuries when 24 members of her party were killed and 500 others injured. There are plans to eliminate each and every member of Mujib-ur-Rehman from the face of the earth as till the time they are alive there are no chances of secularism or merger with India.

This year New Delhi planned something different by cursing the Prime Minister of Bangladesh as an Indian agent who fled the country to take refuge in India to save her life. There are reports, which have been authenticated by the witnesses present on the spot that despite pressure from Bangladesh Army, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina refused to proceed to India. Later, the story narrated in Bangladesh that she was moved to India in Bangladeshi Airforce aircraft and received at New Delhi by Indian authorities also proved false.

Despite imposing of ban on observing “Mourning Day” on 15 August by the Bangladeshi Army and newly illegitimate Indian-backed, Bangla nationals throughout the width and the breath of the country observed the day not only in Bangladesh and around the world. However, this time due to fear of being killed and burnt alive many are confined to their homes with no official ceremonies. On the day Bangladesh's national flag used to fly at half-mast, black flags raised, and various ceremonies were held to honour the memory of Bangabandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman but not any more.

On 15 August 1975, Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rahman along with his family was brutally killed by a group of Army personnel and communists. The 18 members of Bangabandhu's family and his close ones who were brutally killed included his wife Bangamata Fazilat-un-Nissa, Mujib-ur-Rehman’s brother Sheikh Naser, brother-in-law Abdur Rab Serniabat, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, nephew Sheikh Fazl-ul-Haq Moni and his pregnant wife Arzoo Moni. In addition Mujib-ur-Rehman’s Military Secretary Colonel Jamil. Fortunately, Mujib-ur-Rehman’s two daughters, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana were in Germany at that time so they remained unharmed.

In 1996 killers of the late Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman were tried in the Court and sentenced to death. They were finally executed on 27 January 2010, which closed the chapter but Indian agencies stressed on bringing to justice those of his killers who had fled abroad. It was the Indian Intelligence, which collaborated with the Bangladeshi government and provided leads against Bangladesh National Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) as threats to Bangladesh and assisted in their killing and judicial conviction. It is high time that the elimination game must end and New Delhi allows Bangladesh to exist as a sovereign country, peacefully with integrity and pride.

NEW DELHI, 15 August 2024 (TON) - India is commemorating its 78th Independence Day today on 15 August. The nation achieved Independence from colonial rule on 15 August 1947, after a long-standing struggle spanning nearly two centuries of British rule. India is still a sub-continent of numerous nations struggling for independence.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh called a meeting with army and intelligence chiefs on Wednesday and planned military operations in Jammu and Kashmir as well as Ladakh. Thousands of additional troops and drones have been deployed in the Indian-held disputed mountainous region, where new army posts have been authorized.

In an operation carried out by a joint team of Army, Border Security Force (BSF) and police in Doda district seven civilian Kashmiris were martyred on night 14/15 August 2024. In another operation, Captain Deepak Singh of 48 Rashtriya Rifles was killed in an exchange of fire between the freedom fighters who were resisting Indian Independence Day celebrations on 15 August in Srinagar and other districts.

The Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will unfurl the Indian flag at Bakshi Stadium in Srinagar, which the Kashmiris have always resisted as a routine event every year. Indian authorities expand millions of rupees to organize this single event but Kashmiris are determined to exercise their right of self-determination to attain independence as guaranteed under the UNSC Resolutions.

AMSTERDAM,15 August 2024, (TON) - The 2024 WSF World Masters Squash Championships begin at the Fran Otten Stadion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Thursday 15 August as a record 1227 players prepare to compete for the world championship titles. The competition concludes on 22 August.

The concept of the Nations Cup is that all members of a national team can contribute to their nation’s success, with the Nations Cup awarded to the country whose players produce the best overall performance across age groups and both men’s and women’s competitions in the championships.

The competition is divided into two categories, with one competition for countries with 10 or more individual entries and a second for countries with 9 or fewer individual entries.

Points are awarded to each individual competitor according to their final position in the competition. A divisor system is then used to attribute points.

PARIS, 8 August (TON) - Arshad Nadeem won gold in the Olympic men's javelin on Thursday, beating defending champion Neeraj Chopra of India to clinch Pakistan's first Olympic medal in athletics. Before throwing the javelin he sought help from Almighty Allah by chanting “Ya Aliy Madad”. Ali is one of the names of Allah repeatedly being recited as in Ayat ul Qursee, “Wa Huwal Aliyyul Azeem”.

Arshad Nadeem threw his arms up in celebration after breaking the Olympic record on his second throw with a stunning 92.97 metres that put him sixth on the all-time list.

"When I threw the javelin, I got the feel of it leaving my hand, and sensed it could be an Olympic record, inshallah. As a strong believer of Allah, he knelt down and performed Sajdah before Allah.

Chopra from India throw 89.45, which won him the silver medal, and Grenada's Anderson Peters took bronze with 88.54.