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Thanks for posting this. Longer video Think need more context here - this was in 2002 (do not read below if just want to watch video) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1986054.stm Reporter 'well treated' in Pakistan jail http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1985000/images/_1988072_bassey300.jpg Amardeep Bassey says he is in good health A British reporter being held in a Pakistani jail amid allegations of spying has told his editor that he is being well treated. Amardeep Bassey, the investigations editor of the Birmingham-based Sunday Mercury, also used two notes sent by e-mail to tell colleagues he was in good health, it was revealed on Tuesday night. The messages were sent by a friend who had visited Mr Bassey in Landi Kotal prison near Peshawar in north-western Pakistan. Trinity Mirror group, which owns the Mercury, has rubbished the allegations against the reporter and pledged to do all it can to free the 29-year-old, who is from Wolverhampton. No exit stamp The Mercury's editor, David Brookes, said the messages represented the first direct contact with Bassey since he was arrested on Friday on suspicion of spying while crossing the border from Afghanistan. Bassey, who was named Regional Journalist of the Year in 2000, was held because his visa did not have an exit stamp. In the first note he said: "As you are probably aware I am in Landi Kotal jail. I am fine and being treated well. Do not worry, I am fine and sorry for this inconvenience." The second read: "Conditions are bearable because the people here in jail are good and looking after me. I am in good health. "Sorry about all this you must be getting sick of me (joking). I just dread being the centre of attention when I return. You know how I hate the press!" 'Ludicrous accusation' Mr Brookes added: "I'm appalled and shocked that Amardeep has been detained due to what appear to be minor passport discrepancies. "He is a professional journalist doing a job of work, and the accusations against him are quite simply ludicrous." A Trinity Mirror spokesman, who dismissed the spying allegations as nonsense, confirmed that Bassey had been travelling from Kabul to Pakistan when he was taken into custody. A Foreign Office spokesman said it had requested information about the reporter's detention from authorities in Peshawar and was providing assistance to his next-of-kin. 'Serious trouble' Mr Bassey's elder sister Rawinder Sekhon, 35, said: "When we first heard what had happened we couldn't quite believe it and, to be honest, didn't realise the seriousness of the matter. "But gradually, as more and more news came in, we started to realise that he may be in serious trouble." The National Union of Journalists called on the government to secure Mr Bassey's freedom, saying he could be in "serious danger". NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said: "Amardeep could be in serious danger. Other journalists have got into trouble and even been killed in that area."

This deserves its own thread . Wouldn't done this to a Muslim I'm sure. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/10/court-hears-london-imam-shouted-sister-fcker-child-of-a-pimp-as-he-ran-over-and-killed-prone-man/ Court Hears London Imam Shouted ‘Sister F*cker, Child of a Pimp’ as he Ran Over and Killed Man Lying in Road 24 Getty Images / Facebook / Collage OLIVER JJ LANE 10 Jan 2024112 2:08 Imam Qari Abassi claims he believed Harvinder Singh was a discarded briefcase or dustbin lying in the road when he ran over his head as he drove to mosque in London, a court has heard. A man was killed and two men who were trying to protect him believed they had to jump out of the road “to save their lives” as a speeding motorist tried to drive to a London mosque to early lead morning prayers on the 4th of May 2021. Court News reports the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, was shown dashcam footage of the moment Imam Qari Abassi ran over Harvinder Singh, who was lying unconscious in the middle of the street. Per the report, the court heard audio of Abassi shouting “Sister fucker, child of a pimp, your mother’s pussy of you sister fucker Gandoo, sister fucker” as the car drove over Singh. In Urdu, gandoo or gandu is a derogatory term for a man who receives anal sex. Two men had been trying to protect Singh directing traffic around him while they waited for the arrival of the emergency services. The Old Bailey heard allegations that Abassi, however, drove straight at them instead. He told the court he believed they were drunks or otherwise unfriendly. The men had told the court they had to jump aside “to save their lives” from the oncoming car. Singh was struck in the head and chest by the car as he lay in the road and died from his injuries. Abassi said his verbal outburst was at the two men who had jumped clear, not at the man lying in the road, who he believed was a “bin or briefcase or something”. He told the court through an Urdu interpreter that: “I was going on my way and these people are making gestures with their hands and I didn’t know. I was a bit angry about why they are doing this to me. I am just going on my way… When people ask you to stop and you don’t know those people, you don’t stop for that reason.” Per Court News, Abassi accepted he had been driving over the speed limit but did not ultimately accept that he had done anything wrong, and denies causing death by careless driving.

Court Hears London Imam Shouted ‘Sister F*cker, Child of a Pimp’ as he Ran Over and Killed Man Lying in Road 24 Getty Images / Facebook / Collage OLIVER JJ LANE 10 Jan 2024112 2:08 Imam Qari Abassi claims he believed Harvinder Singh was a discarded briefcase or dustbin lying in the road when he ran over his head as he drove to mosque in London, a court has heard. A man was killed and two men who were trying to protect him believed they had to jump out of the road “to save their lives” as a speeding motorist tried to drive to a London mosque to early lead morning prayers on the 4th of May 2021. Court News reports the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, was shown dashcam footage of the moment Imam Qari Abassi ran over Harvinder Singh, who was lying unconscious in the middle of the street. Per the report, the court heard audio of Abassi shouting “Sister fucker, child of a pimp, your mother’s pussy of you sister fucker Gandoo, sister fucker” as the car drove over Singh. In Urdu, gandoo or gandu is a derogatory term for a man who receives anal sex. Two men had been trying to protect Singh and were directing traffic around him while they waited for the arrival of the emergency services. The Old Bailey heard allegations that Abassi, however, drove straight at them instead. He told the court he believed they were drunks or otherwise unfriendly. The men had told the court they had to jump aside “to save their lives” from the oncoming car. Singh was struck in the head and chest by the car as he lay in the road and died from his injuries. Abassi said his verbal outburst was at the two men who had jumped clear, not at the man lying in the road, who he believed was a “bin or briefcase or something”. He told the court through an Urdu interpreter that: “I was going on my way and these people are making gestures with their hands and I didn’t know. I was a bit angry about why they are doing this to me. I am just going on my way… When people ask you to stop and you don’t know those people, you don’t stop for that reason.” Per Court News, Abassi accepted he had been driving over the speed limit but did not ultimately accept that he had done anything wrong, and denies causing death by careless driving. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/01/10/court-hears-london-imam-shouted-sister-fcker-child-of-a-pimp-as-he-ran-over-and-killed-prone-man/

from same source IMMIGRATION JUDGE RASIB GHAFFAR ‘WAS PART OF A GANG WHO SWINDLED £2M IN LEGAL AID PAYMENTS’ 10JAN2024 A judge teamed up with a gang of crooked lawyers to fleece the taxpayer out of nearly £2m in false legal aid claims, a court heard. Rasib Ghaffar, 54, was part of a group of legal professionals who dishonestly claimed £1,856,584 in costs relating to a trial in 2011, it was said. He allegedly raked in more than £140,000 when he did not even act as an advocate in the case at Bournemouth Crown Court, which involved Indian restaurants employing…

Seven Post Office workers of South Asian heritage have told the BBC they believe racism affected the way people were treated in the Horizon scandal. One of the workers who spoke to BBC Newsnight said: "It felt like they thought that you were a foreigner and you'd robbed them." The Horizon scandal saw 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted from 1999 to 2015, with some going to prison. The Post Office says it aims to get to "the truth of what went wrong". A public inquiry began in February 2021, and will resume on Thursday after breaking for Christmas. While the scandal has been public knowledge for some time, an ITV drama - Mr Bates vs The Post Office - which aired last week, catapulted the issue back into the spotlight. The seven people spoken to by BBC Newsnight worked as sub-postmasters during the scandal and say they were accused of false accounting, theft, or fraud due to data from the faulty Horizon IT system. One man from an Indian background said a member of Post Office staff told him: "All the Indians are doing it. They have relatives so they take the money and send it to them abroad". Another person of South Asian descent said: "It was like we were dumb because English wasn't our first language, that we struggled to make sense of basic accounting". Another said of the Post Office staff he dealt with: "It felt like they thought that you were a foreigner and you'd robbed them". Balvinder Gill told Newsnight his life was destroyed after he was wrongly accused of stealing £108,000 from the Post Office in 2004. The 45-year-old had a mental breakdown afterwards and was sectioned three times. In a double blow for his family, in 2009, his mother Kashmir, now a postmistress, was found guilty of stealing £57,000 from the same Oxford branch. Her conviction was overturned by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) in 2021. Image caption, Balvinder Gill had a mental breakdown after being wrongly accused Mr Gill said: "My parents were spoken to as if they were idiots because they're not white. They were made to feel like they didn't understand the system and that they were stupid". He describes his parents' experience as "an indirect, oppressive kind of racism". He said the dynamic felt more skewed than in a standard relationship between an employer and employee. "It always felt more than that. I know from my parents' experience that whenever they try to explain something, because their English was broken, they were normally just shut down, and I'm certain that was because of their colour". Former sub-postmaster Vipin Patel, 72, was wrongly accused of fraud in 2011, and had his conviction quashed in 2020. He said he felt "spoken down to" by the Post Office helpline because of his race and accent. In response to these allegations, Post Office said: "We share fully the aims of the public inquiry to get to the truth of what went wrong in the past and establish accountability. "It's for the inquiry to reach its own independent conclusions after consideration of all the evidence on the issues that it is examining. "We are doing all we can to put right the wrongs of the past, including providing full and fair compensation for those affected, and offers of more than £138 million have been made to around 2,700 postmasters, the vast majority of which are agreed and paid." Warning: This story contains language which readers may find offensive. In 2022, the Post Office revealed that, of the postmasters it had records for who had been convicted, 316 had provided details on their ethnicity. At least 123 were of black, Asian and minority ethnic background. That's just under 39%. The exact number of postmasters from a minority background is not known. A recent survey by the Post Office suggested it was more than 43%, but this only drew from a small sample. One former Post Office employee told Newsnight that it was unfair to label his former employer as racist when many white people were falsely prosecuted too. Royal Mail data from 2012 shows there were 1,547 Indian sub-postmasters and agents in England and Wales, 401 were Pakistani, nine were Black African, and 3,220 were white British. Last year, the Post Office apologised after it was revealed it had used racist terms to describe wrongly investigated postmasters as part of the Horizon IT scandal. A document showed Post Office had used terms like "Chinese/Japanese types", "dark-skinned European types", and "Negroid types". The Post Office said the document was historic and that it "didn't tolerate any form of racism". It said: "The language and classifications used in the historical document is completely abhorrent and condemned by today's Post Office".

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/asia/2024/01/05/india-somalia-navy-liberian/ The INS Chennai, a guided missile destroyer and part of India's maritime force to protect shipping in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, was sent to the scene of the hijacking attempt, along with maritime patrol aircraft, the navy said on Friday. It said its aircraft had been monitoring the ship's movements while the INS Chennai sailed towards it. “The aircraft overflew the vessel on early morning of January 5, 2024, and established contact with the vessel, ascertaining the safety of the crew,” the navy said. The crew of the Liberia-flagged MV Lila Norfolk notified the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations of the attack on Thursday. The UKMTO said “five to six unauthorised armed persons have boarded a merchant vessel in the vicinity of Eyl”, a town on Somalia's coast. The vessel was destined for Khalifa bin Salman Port in Bahrain, according to British maritime security company Ambrey. This incident took place during an increase in pirate attacks and an alleged deal between extremist Al Shabab group and Somali pirates in which the militant group will provide protection in exchange for a share of the ransom for captured ships. The group has yet to officially confirm the agreement, but it has threatened an end to a lull in pirate attacks.

Looks like this member https://www.sikhawareness.com/profile/2591-pal-07 with a new account, decided to return and share wisdom with us (for 5 minutes). Well, good while he is/was here

I think critique of Vedas and Devte would be more as that was culturally relevant whereas Christianity was not really present at that time in Indian culture

Well, we at least got @PAL_07 (briefly) in return!

The sellers profit from supplying it repeatedly to same clients, so why are they making it a deadly product ?.

@PAL_07 - do you think the Feds got to him?

I highly advise anyone suffering with aches/pains in muscles and joints to try stretching regularly, I have been doing it semi-regularly for a few months. e.g. neck, thigh, and it has relieved some issues noticeably

Actually, he didn't . My point is that is an unusually high amount of change to give a stranger, most people would not give more than 1 or 2 bucks

These 'Sikhs' in the US are misrepresenting Sikhi, they are no good and possibly 'feds' as @PAL_07 would say. It definitely is NOT allowed. Our Gurus or Puratan Sikhs never directed us to mix our faith with others I believe images are allowed but not involving other faiths. You cannot straddle two boats to make your journey, there is no place in Sikhi for Christian or any other religion's imagery in our Gurdware. No place. If 'targeting' Hispanics they should do street parchaar and do it outside the Gurdwara. We are not supposed to be some hippy 'new age' faith.

Screen limiting thing will be difficult for me for next couple of weeks but definitely after that I will have a look at the screen time-limiting thing. Two hours on the phone is too much unless it includes listening Gurbani

That’s a shame if you start an interesting thread and then we cannot learn more

Neo Singh is @sarabatam

What is your theory on what happened to Bhai Avatar Singh Khanda - poisoned at a restaurant? I avoid eating out personally, even though I am vegetarian I have had disproportionately high number of food poisoning from the times I have eaten in restaurants Do you have any predictions for Sikh issues, geopolitics and domestic issues affecting UK, Europe, N America and Indian subcontinent for 2024? Thanks

You don't absolutely need gym for exercise, but I know its difficult for exercise in the cold outdoors in winter. Running is good and I am planning to start this again soon. Have you made a plan for these, how you will do each one? 'Control my diet' is very vague For me, it will be reducing my screen time outside of work. Anyone got any advice on how they have done that successfully?

What do you think about me and other members here, posting on this site? Obviously can be monitored by Intelligence but we are not doing anything too serious here Can a VPN connection not be tracked too?