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CRamS wrote:Guys, I am headed to Houston, TX. Looking forward to the event. I am tad worried about any curve ball Trump bahadur might throw on Kashmir. Also, these protests. Don't know how big they will be despite TSP doing its level best along with its many Indian sepoys.

srin wrote:I say, bring them on. Hopefully they may even wave ISIS flags and wear letterbox and bash Trump. Then the whole world will know the true colours of the crapper next to us.

IndraD wrote:any input on why is Trump joining Modi's rally, whats in it for Trump? Being a businessman he won;t attend for free. Recently Kamla Harris also tried to get cosy to Indians by addressing them as 'South Asian' .

Mass protest being organised for #HowdyModi event.

SUPRISE SUPRISE the bus pick-ups for those protesting against Modi & Trump are the mosques of #Houston

See how this works yet? Mosques are not simple places of worship. They are places of co-ordination & control #STOPTHEBUS

srin wrote:With Trump in attendance, anything remotely hostile is going to first get spun politically to their disadvantage and secondly will get them on all sorts of FBI and secret service radar, which will subject them to years of cavity searches and deportation if they even let out a f@rt.
No sane non-WASP is going to do it. But we're talking about Bakis, so you never know.
I say, bring them on. Hopefully, they may even wave ISIS flags and wear letterbox and bash Trump. Then the whole world will know the true colors of the crapper next to us.

CRamS wrote:So bottom line, Pakis, Khalistanis and other assorted ModiJi Hindu haters will make some noise but that is it. CNN/NYT/WP etc might do some equal equal and drown out the importance of India and ModiJi's address, but who knows, if Trump bahadur announces something big beyond photo ops, like say reversing his decision to withdraw preferential trade status to India, that may make headlines. But otherwise I expect scant or at best equal equal routine coverage in US media.

darshan wrote:I can't tell by googling whether buses would be arranged to help bring attendees to the venue due to flooding. Islamics buses have taken over Google results. I wonder if it's too late for them to arrange for school buses.

Has anyone heard if they are arranging buses to take it to NRG for attendees? Many streets and areas would not be drivable for smaller vehicles.

darshan wrote:Hopefully streets clear up and many planning to arrive by cars will be there.

Not sure if it was picked up here before, in the NRG park complex a smaller event of gun show will also be happening. Lot of Trump supporters should be there if he does show up.

mappunni wrote:Yes, I too am traveling from Dallas but I am driving myself, planning on driving tomorrow afternoon. IANT is the organization thru whom I got my pass. Most of the buses are starting from locations familiar to the community.

Reached out to my cousin in Houston, the rains have stopped. The schools are closed today due to the stagnant water. But should clear up by Sunday morning.

India Prime Minister Modi faces Houston federal lawsuit for alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir

Gabrielle Banks Sep. 19, 2019 Updated: Sep. 20, 2019 11:45 a.m.

source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 453957.php

A pair of Kashmiri citizens sued the prime minister of India in federal court Thursday ahead of his much-anticipated arrival in Houston, alleging that his unilateral annexation Aug. 5 of their homeland caused the detention, disappearance and deaths of their loved ones amid ongoing repression.

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The civil complaint accuses the Indian head of state of human rights violations under the The Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, a federal statute that allows civil suits on U.S. soil against foreign officials suspected of committing torture or extrajudicial killing.

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The two unnamed litigants in the Modi lawsuit are U.S. based Kashmiris. Their New York attorney, from an organization called the Kashmir Khalistan Referendum Front, plans to submit the case as a class action.

“We want to hold a human rights violator like Modi accountable,” said Gurpatwant Singh Pannu, whose group is focused on a right to self determination campaign for the state of Punjab. Since the annexation this summer the campaign has been advocating on behalf of the people of Kashmir.

“He can only escape if he has been granted immunity by the U.S. Department of State,” Pannu said. “Otherwise, the facts and the law are on the side of the victim.”

Pannu said Modi and the two other officials do not enjoy an automatic immunity. The U.S. State Department typically intervenes in such cases to ask the judge to grant officials immunity from civil lawsuits.

Pannu said he is working with process servers to deliver Modi the court summons before he leaves the “Howdy Modi” event at NRG Stadium on Sunday. If that doesn’t work Pannu’s team will try again in New York when Modi visits an awards ceremony at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or during his scheduled visit to see statutes of Mahatma Gandhi.

Gabrielle Banks covers federal court for the Houston Chronicle. Follow her on Twitter and send her tips at gabrielle.banks@chron.com.

gabrielle.banks@chron.com

Meet the man trying to take Narendra Modi to US court
By Devjyot GhoshalSeptember 26, 2014

source: https://qz.com/271834/the-man-trying-to ... -us-court/



Before India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, touches down in New York City today for the United Nations General Assembly, a New York lawyer has sued him in US court. The lawsuit (PDF) filed yesterday holds Modi and the Indian government “responsible for the deaths of thousands of people” in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the Gujarat riots of 2002.

Modi has 21 days to respond to a summons from the Federal Court of the Southern District of New York, Reuters reports. The lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages from Modi for crimes against humanity and extrajudicial killings under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victim Protection Act.

The lawyer who filed the suit, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has a long history of trying to take Indian political leaders to court in the US. He has also sued Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, and the opposition Congress Party’s president, Sonia Gandhi.

In the case against Modi, Pannun is representing the American Justice Center, a new organization described in Indian press reports as a human rights nonprofit. He said he is only involved as the attorney, and isn’t a part of the organization, which he said was established “very recently” with the intention of filing this case, and subsequently taking up lawsuits on behalf of other religious minorities in India. Quartz has not been able to reach the organization at press time.

Key organiser of ‘Referendum 2020’ London event was a petty criminal in India till 1992
Aug 08, 2018 09:15 IST
Ravinder Vasudeva
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh

source: https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/k ... 3VTlN.html


Paramjit Singh Pamma, who is under the watch of Indian agencies for organising pro-Khalistan event ‘Referendum 2020’ at Trafalgar Square in London on August 12, was a petty criminal in India till 1992.

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As per a dossier sent by the Indian authorities to the UK government to extradite Pamma, he visited Pakistan on numerous occasions and became the main fundraiser of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).

Initially, Pamma was close to Pakistan-based Wadhawa Singh – Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist but later he joined hands with Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Jagtar Singh Tara, one of the assassins of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh.

In 2000, Pamma was arrested for an alleged terrorist activity by the UK police while he was returning from Pakistan after receiving terror training and was entering England via Germany. He was sent to 30 months in jail as he was active member of BKI which was declared a “proscribed” organisation.

“But he tendered apology and was released after 13 months. He got settled in Birmingham and drives a van,” reveals the dossier.

Why India wants him?

Pamma is wanted in India as the main conspirator of killing Rashtriya Sikh Sangat’s (an RSS offshoot) Punjab chief Rulda Singh in July 2009. For this, Pamma had handpicked UK-based Gursharan Singh and Piara Singh to carry out the shooting. The UK police though arrested Pamma in this case in 2010 and their special team visited Patiala to find Pamma’s role in the case but he was released.

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Portugal connection with Pannu

As India has issued a red corner notice against Pamma, the Portugal police nabbed him from a hotel where he was staying with his family. It was here where he came in contact with the mastermind of Referendum 2020 and self-styled human rights advocacy group ‘Sikhs for Justice’ (SFJ) head Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.

“Pannu collected funds for Pamma’s release from pro-Khalistani people in the UK and countries and managed a battery of lawyers to ensure Pamma is not extradited to India. Here, they became close associates and they have collected money to run the pro-Khalistan movement,” a senior police official said.

The Punjab Police officials claimed that Pamma is blatantly engaged in anti-India activities in the UK, which are in clear violation of the guidelines for asylum seekers in that country.

Rudradev wrote:My biggest concern is that Trump (being a tone-deaf moron focused entirely on aggrandizing self-promotion) will come to the event stage and blurt out some sentence with the words "Cash-mere... Paggy-Stan...Mediation".

Rudradev wrote: ...
Let us hope Trump, for once, confines himself to saying the right things.

nachiket wrote:

Rudradev wrote:My biggest concern is that Trump (being a tone-deaf moron focused entirely on aggrandizing self-promotion) will come to the event stage and blurt out some sentence with the words "Cash-mere... Paggy-Stan...Mediation".

This is exactly what I told a friend of mine who will be attending the event. Trump can't help himself. He is just that clueless about international diplomacy and completely focused on self-aggrandizement as you said. That is why I was happier before Trump announced that he will be a part of it. Whenever Trump is a part of anything, he just HAS to be the entire story. He will not accept anything less. His mentality was perfectly captured on video when he pushed aside the PM of Montenegro to get in front of the pack during the NATO summit.

Mort Walker wrote:Here we go. This is what Howdy Modi is about. Tellurium is one of 3 sponsors of the event.

Report: Tellurian to sign $2.5 billion deal with India's Petronet LNG

pankajs wrote:The key is that the format was a "presser". Howdy Modi is NOT a press meet. He might do/say things after the event but that anyways is beyond India's control.

Lets not mix formats.

Mort Walker wrote:Here we go. This is what Howdy Modi is about. Tellurium is one of 3 sponsors of the event.

Report: Tellurian to sign $2.5 billion deal with India's Petronet LNG

As part of of its environmental goals, India is building new LNG import terminals and expanding the number of natural gas pipelines to encourage the use of cleaner fuel, Reuters reported.

CRamS wrote:Anmol, whatever spin we might want to give, the hyphen between India and TSP in US eyes is alive and kicking. Just read that transcript. The question was about his meeting with Indian PM. And Trump brings in TSP. And no words about India US relations which is what the Indian side is focused. No doubt its US interests from PoV, India TSP equal equal, and thats why he had to bring in TSP.

Rudradev wrote:My biggest concern is that Trump (being a tone-deaf moron focused entirely on aggrandizing self-promotion) will come to the event stage and blurt out some sentence with the words "Cash-mere... Paggy-Stan...Mediation".

The moment this happens, it will become the ENTIRE story.

Imran will jump on it to save his neck from the lamp-post, claiming that HE personally was able to influence Trump and pour cold water on Modi's triumphal reception.

KJo wrote:

CRamS wrote:Anmol, whatever spin we might want to give, the hyphen between India and TSP in US eyes is alive and kicking. Just read that transcript. The question was about his meeting with Indian PM. And Trump brings in TSP. And no words about India US relations which is what the Indian side is focused. No doubt its US interests from PoV, India TSP equal equal, and thats why he had to bring in TSP.

Saar, why do you worry about equal equal?
To say India = Pakistan looks more and more ludicrous as days go by and the future will make that even more apparent. There may be US officials who try to use that to blackmail Modi but he is too clever to fall for these tricks.
At the end, what US does alone matters. Judge them by their actions, not by words. From what I can tell, US relationship with India is getting better and with Pak it is getting worse.