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Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-08-30): Bijbehara, Aug 30: Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today visited the ancient Thajiwara Temple here to extend her warm wishes to the Kashmiri Pandit community on the occasion of their annual Hawan during Raksha Bandhan, a press release said. [...] It said that despite being a Muslim-majority state, Kashmir has long been celebrated for its tradition of coexistence and shared heritage. The temple visit by Mehbooba Mufti underlined this spirit of inclusivity, as she expressed her admiration for the Kashmiri Pandit community’s rituals and customs. This move comes at a crucial time when divisive narratives threaten to fracture unity across the nation, the press release said. "Mehbooba Mufti’s efforts to bridge the gap between different communities are not new. Following in the footsteps of her late father, she has consistently advocated for unity and understanding between Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits, especially in the aftermath of the mass migration of Kashmiri Pandits during the 1990s. Her presence at the Thajiwara Temple is yet another testimony to her commitment to mending the bonds of trust and friendship that were strained during those tumultuous times," the press release said.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-03-16): In today's DNA, Zee News' Rohit Ranjan analysed the reasons behind PDP Chief Mehbooba Mufti's visit to a Shiva temple in Poonch. People's Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday visited the Navagraha temple in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. Mufti also offered prayers and offered water (jal) to lord Shiva. A video of the former chief minister offering water to Shivling inside Navgraha temple has gone viral, drawing criticism from some quarters. Many fundamentalits criticised her actions and questioned how she offered prayers to lord Shiva while practising Islam. Mehbooba was also accused of insulting Islam and many even demanded the issuance of a fatwa against her. [...] Mehbooba Mufti made it clear that she had no intention of offering water to lord shiva and it was just an accidental incident, because she did not want to hurt anyone's feelings.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-02-20): जम्मू-कश्मीर (Jammu-Kashmir) की पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री महबूबा मुफ्ती (Mehbooba Mufti) की फोटो वाली एक न्यूजपेपर की कटिंग सोशल मीडिया पर हाल की बताकर वायरल है. जिसमें महबूबा मुफ्ती मंदिर में भगवान को दूध चढ़ाती दिख रही हैं. कुछ दावों में पीएम मोदी की प्रशंसा करते हुए लिखा गया है कि धारा 370 हटने के बाद महबूबा मुफ्ती मंदिर गई हैं.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-02-21): A newspaper clip of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple is being shared on social media with the claim that says, "the world of these people has changed after article 370 got scrapped.’ Let’s fact-check this claim through this article. [...] In the cutline of the photo of the news clipping, it is mentioned that Mehbooba Mufti offered her prayers at the Kheer Bhavani Mandir along with Kashmiri Pandits. Based on this, we searched the internet to learn more details about the photo. This search led us to various new articles (here and here) from 2016, in which Mehbooba Mufti was seen in the same attire and offering milk in a temple. [...] To sum up, an old photo of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk to goddess Ragnya Devi is shared as recent.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-02-20): A newspaper clipping showing former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti offering milk to a deity at a temple is being shared on social media as a recent incident. Some of the claims, which hail the prime minister, state that she visited a temple after the abrogation of Article 370. [...] We also found the picture on PTI's website, which was shared on 12 June 2016. The caption stated that Mufti had offered prayers at the Kheer Bhawani Temple during its annual fair, when she was chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir. Conclusion: An old photo dating back to June 2016, showing former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti offering prayers at a temple is being shared to claim that she did so after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-05-28): Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti visited the famous Ragnya Devi temple in the Ganderbal district and celebrated the annual Kheer Bhawani mela with devotees including Kashmiri Pandits on Sunday. Mufti, who paid obeisance at the temple, said that she prayed for the dignified return of the Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. [...] As the devotees jostled with each other to move closer to the main temple complex, the chants of hymns echoed through the temple compound and paid obeisance to the deity while offering milk and kheer (rice pudding) at the sacred spring within the complex.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-03-18): Another tweet shared on the same day was about PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti offering milk to a shivling in a Shiv temple in Jammu and Kashmir. The @epanchjanya captioned this: "Mehbooba in the shelter of Mahadev", hinting that the Kashmiri leader had to seek refuge in a Hindu deity to prosper in politics. Later, the handle further elaborated this tweet by adding a comment of an obscure Muslim cleric denouncing Mehbooba’s act being against the spirit of Islam. This tweet was retweeted 812 times.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
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Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-05-29): Nestled in the shade of mammoth Chinar trees in the central Kashmir district, the temple witnessed massive crowds of devotees, most of them Kashmiri Pandits, who made the journey from across the country. [...] As the devotees jostled with each other to move closer to the main temple complex, the chants of hymns echoed through the temple compound and paid obeisance to the deity while offering milk and kheer (rice pudding) at the sacred spring within the complex. [...] PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti, who also paid obeisance at the temple, said she prayed for the dignified return of the Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. "We are here to pray for the dignified return of these people to their homes so that once again Hindu-Muslim-Kashmiri Pandits live together in Kashmir with brotherhood," she said.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-01-18): On 23rd January, the then Jammu and Kashmir chief minister, Mehbooba Mufti, initiated an investigation into the case, led by the crime branch unit of the state police. According to the investigation, it was revealed that the little Asifa had been confined in a local temple for all the days when she was missing and forcibly given sedatives that kept her in a state of unconsciousness. The investigation further revealed that Asifa was "raped for days, tortured and then finally murdered". She was strangled to death and then her head was hit multiple times with a stone. The investigation also led to the disclosure that Hindu extremist Sanji Ram, a 60-year-old retired government officer, orchestrated the crime with the assistance of police officers Surender Verma, Anand Dutta, Tilak Raj and Deepak Khajuria. Sanji Ram’s son, Vishal, his nephew, and his friend, Parvesh Kumar, also participated in the rape and murder[13].
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2016-06-13): When a teary-eyed Mehbooba Mufti offered milk to Goddess Ragnya Devi at Kheer Bhawani, 27 kilometres from here on Sunday, she became first head of Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir in a long time to perform puja at Tulmul’s famous Hindu temple. The chief minister, later, raised her hands in prayer for peace and prosperity in the state, a gesture that touched the hearts of thousands of Kashmiri Pandits gathered for the ceremony, who seek separate colonies to be able to return to the militancy-affected homeland. "She is head of the state; and our religious texts say that if a king or queen offers puja, it’s good omen," said Sanjay Tickoo of Kashmiri Sangarsh Samiti, an association of Pandits who stayed back in the valley. The CM’s visit did evoke protest, as pilgrims complained about the lack of facilities at the shrine. "What is she doing? We have never seen so much ill management. There are no mobile toilets and no electricity in the ones we have. We were not even given blankets," said Maharaj Krishan, a Pandit from Jammu.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-02-21): A Twitter user shared the newspaper clipping of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk to a deity with the caption,"Hey, God.!!! Modi ji, now tears come from my eyes seeing such pictures...What did you do with this.?? As soon as Article 370 was abolished, their world changed. Om Namah Shivay." A newspaper clipping of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk to a deity is doing rounds on social media. The title of the report reads, "Mehbooba offered prayer in the temple." While sharing this image, people on social media claimed she offered prayer in the temple recently following the repeal of Article 370 from the former state of Jammu and Kashmir. [...] During the initial investigation, we observed the image carefully and found that the caption of the viral graphic stated that the photo was taken in Srinagar at the Kheer Bhawani Temple, Ganderbal, Kashmir. Taking a cue from this, we conducted an open keyword search and discovered an article by "Hindustan Times" published on June 13, 2016 that included the same image as in the viral image. The caption states that Mehbooba Mufti offered milk to Goddess Ragnya Devi at the Kheer Bhavani Temple. According to the report, locals protested her visit, citing a lack of public restrooms at the shrine.
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2016-06-13): Despite their ‘forced’ exodus from Kashmir Valley in the beginning of 1990s due to separatist Islamic violence, members of the Pandit community have not given up their traditional practice of visiting the temple. [...] Some liberal Muslims also offered milk to the devotees which was received with love and reverence by members of the Pandit community. Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also visited the holy shrine in the morning. CM Mufti was accompanied by professor Amitabh Mattoo, advisor to the chief minister with a cabinet minister’s status and most interestingly Mufti and Mattoo both offered milk to Mata Kheer Bhawani with full of devotion!
Claim: A picture of Mehbooba Mufti offering milk at a temple (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-19)
Evidence (2023-05-29): As the devotees jostled with each other to move closer to the main temple complex, the chants of hymns echoed through the temple compound and paid obeisance to the deity while offering milk and ‘kheer’ (rice pudding) at the sacred spring within the complex. [...] Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti, who also paid obeisance at the temple, said that she prayed for the dignified return of the Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley. "I came here to welcome our Kashmiri Pandit brothers who have come from Jammu and other places. We are here to pray for the dignified return of these people to their homes so that once again Hindu-Muslim-Kashmiri Pandits live together in Kashmir with brotherhood," she told reporters.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2023-01-31): The name of the person in the viral video is ‘Tariq Masih Gill’. He is a Christian and a member of the Provincial Assembly (equivalent to an MLA in India) from Pakistan’s Punjab Province. During a National Minority Convention held at National Assembly Hall on 11 August 2022, he spoke about an incident of forced conversion of a young christian girl to Islam and the plight of minorities in Pakistan. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2021-01-12): Pakistan is overwhelmingly Muslim - the Hindu community makes up less than 2% of the population. Prejudice against Hindus is ingrained.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2021-10-15): Savarkar and Gandhi: Why Indians are debating a mercy plea from 1911 [...] He said among the "many falsehoods" about Savarkar was that "he filed multiple mercy petitions before the British government". Mr Singh, according to reports, insisted that Savarkar "did not file these petitions for his release", adding that Gandhi had asked him to file a plea for mercy.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-09-30): of Pakistan - Jai Parkash Ukrani – Member of National Assembly of Pakistan - Mangla Sharma – Member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh - Ram Singh Sodho – Former member of Sindh Provincial Assembly - Seth Sukhdev – Member of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan after Independence - Prem Hari Barma – Bengali Politician - Raj Kumar Chakraverty – Bengali Politician - Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya – Member of First National Assembly of Pakistan - Akshay Kumar Das – Bengali Hindu Politician - Basanta Kumar Das – Member of Second National Assembly of Pakistan - Jnanendra Chandra Majumdar – Representative in constituent Assembly of Pakistan - Birat Chandra Mandal – member of 1st National Assembly of Pakistan - Rasaraj Mandal – member of 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan - Bhabesh Chandra Nandi – Representative in constituent Assembly of Pakistan - Dhananjoy Roy – Member of 1st National Assembly of Pakistan - Sailendra Kumar Sen – Member of 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan - Harendra Kumar Sur – Member of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan [...] - ^ "Hindu Population (PK) – Pakistan Hindu Council". Pakistan Hindu Council. 13 January 2017. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2020-10-23): During a recent journey through Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, Radio Mashaal journalists Daud Khattak and Zaland Yousafzai documented the life and struggles of Pakistan’s Hindu minority. The region's more than 2 million Hindus live mostly peaceful lives among their Muslim neighbors, but in recent years reports of forced conversions and migration to India have highlighted the plight of Hindus, who comprise the largest religious minority in Pakistan.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2021-10-15): Savarkar and Gandhi: Why Indians are debating a mercy plea from 1911 - Published [...] He said among the "many falsehoods" about Savarkar was that "he filed multiple mercy petitions before the British government". Mr Singh, according to reports, external, insisted that Savarkar "did not file these petitions for his release", adding that Gandhi had asked him to file a plea for mercy.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2014-05-21): It is obvious that if the Hindu minorities in Pakistan wish to emigrate and go to their homelands of Hindustan they will be at liberty to do so and ‘vice versa’ and those Muslims who wish to emigrate from Hindustan can do so and go to Pakistan; and sooner or later an exchange of population will have to take place and Constituent Assemblies of Pakistan and Hindustan can take up the matter and subsequently the respective Governments in Pakistan and Hindustan can effectively carry out an exchange of population wherever it may be necessary and feasible.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2022-11-20): A Twitter user shared the viral video with the caption, "In the Pakistani Parliament, a Hindu MP is pleading to save the daughters of his religion from rapists. Seculars of India must watch this video". The Logical Indian Fact-Check team verifies the claim. [...] A Twitter user shared this video and wrote, "See how Hindu MP is begging for mercy in Pakistan Parliament with folded hands...that mercy on us,spare our daughters. This video is dedicated to those secular people who give us knowledge on religion and brotherhood". [...] Hindu MP of Pakistan begged for protection of Hindu girls in the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-05-02): A Hindu lawmaker in Pakistan has voiced serious concern over the forced conversion of minority girls in the country, slamming the government for its inaction "against influential people" involved in grave human rights abuse. While speaking in the country’s parliament, Senator Danesh Kumar Palyani said the constitution of Pakistan does not allow forced religious conversion and neither does the Quran. "The daughters of Hindus are not a booty that someone should forcibly change their religion, Hindu girls are being forcibly converted to religion in Sindh. It has been two years since innocent Priya Kumari was abducted. The government does not take action against these influential people. …A few dirty eggs and robbers have defamed our beloved motherland Pakistan. The law/Constitution of Pakistan does not allow forced religious conversion and neither does the Holy Quran," Palyani said in a post on social media platform X.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2024-06-22): Next, he discussed at length the partition, saying many were dissatisfied with the details but a united India would never have worked. He urged forgiveness of bygone quarrels among Pakistanis, so all can be "[...] first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal rights [...]". Pointing out that England in past centuries had settled its fierce sectarian persecutions, he proposed that "in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State." [...] Context [edit]Quaid’s 11 August speech was not an ideological fence-jump but a tactical, one-off reconciliatory statement amid the bloodshed and massacre of migrating populations by Hindus and Muslims alike. Dilip Hiro says that "extracts of this speech were widely disseminated" in order to abort the communal violence in Punjab and the NWFP, where Muslims and Sikh-Hindus were butchering each other, which disturbed Jinnah on a personal level, but "the tactic had little, if any, impact on the horrendous barbarity that was being perpetrated on the plains of Punjab."[7] [...] L K Advani, an Indian politician, visited Pakistan in June 2005. He created a scandal in India, by referring to Jinnah as a great leader and described his speech to the Constituent Assembly as a truly secular charter, worthy of emulation. In Jinnah's Mausoleum, he wrote:
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2021-08-12): Pakistan’s authorities must protect the right to freedom of religion and belief for the country’s beleaguered Hindu community, including the construction of temples to exercise that right, Amnesty International said today. [...] "The respect for the right to freedom of religion was promised to Pakistan’s Hindus by the country’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Those who deny a long-marginalized community the right to practise their faith freely not only betray his legacy, but also violate the human rights of religious minorities protected under Pakistan’s constitution and its international human rights obligations," said Omar Waraich, Head of South Asia at Amnesty International. [...] Hindus constitute Pakistan’s largest non-Muslim minority, estimated at between two and four per cent of the population. They include members of parliament, a former chief justice, military officers, and prominent names in the arts.
Claim: Speech of a Hindu MP of Pakistan pleading for Mercy on Hindus (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-31)
Evidence (2020-07-08): Over 8 million Hindus live in the country, according to the Pakistan Hindu Council. To put things into perspective, Pakistan’s Hindu population is larger than the entire populations of half of the countries of the world – despite thousands of Hindus leaving the country, or being forcibly converted to Islam, annually. And yet, a demographic the size of Switzerland has failed to construct a place of worship for itself in 73 years. [...] Pakistan’s Hinduphobia is perpetuated by decades of school curricula teaching impressionable minds that "Hindus have tried all their means to harm Muslims… The foundation of [the] Hindu set up was based on injustice and cruelty… Hindus… used all means to weaken and harm Pakistan…" [...] Pakistan’s Hinduphobia is rooted in the paranoid Indian Muslim elite apprehensive about losing their political clout in the 1940s. It has been sustained by a similarly paranoid establishment xeroxing jihadists to create post-1971 strategic depth against India. The baton has now been passed on to a paranoid Imran Khan, willing to do whatever is necessary to cling on to power by the skin of his teeth.