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2023-06-16 India-Pakistan
NIA Court rejects Waheed Para's plea to travel abroad for Yale Fellowship 2023
[GreaterKashmir] A special court designated under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act, Srinagar has dismissed an application filed by People Democratic Party (PDP)
...despite the name, a Moslem rather than Communist endeavour, but that’s because its full name is Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Until the national government cut the Gordian knot and shut down Kashmir’s local government, the party was led by Naeem Akhtar. Perhaps it very quietly still is...
youth leader, Waheed Ur Rehman Para
...known more efficiently as Waheed Para, but neither name turns up in the Rantburg archives...
seeking permission to travel to United States of America (USA) to pursue a 3-month Peace Fellowship Programme at YALE University, Barandbench reported.

The Court noted that Para has been accused of having close links with foreign and local terrorists, as well as of funding, aiding, and supporting terrorist activities and organizations, it said. For these alleged offences, Para has been charged with various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which are punishable with death and imprisonment for life, it was observed.
But they were all mostly peaceful foreign and local terrorists
Hence, special judge, Sandeep Gandotra held that there are genuine apprehensions that Para may flee India and disrupt the collection of evidence against him.

"Not only the trial of the case will get hampered which is at evidence stage but there are genuine apprehensions of the applicant fleeing from the country and him trying to disrupt the collection of evidence in the USA for which MLAT request has been sent through government of India," the order said.

On May 25, 2022, Para was granted bail by the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and Ladakh subject to various conditions. These conditions included that he cannot leave Jammu and Kashmir without the prior permission of the trial court. Further, he was also ordered to surrender his passport before the investigating officer.

In light of these conditions, Para moved the NIA court for permission to travel abroad and the release of his passport citing his selection as Inaugural Peace Fellow of the YALE Peace Fellowship, 2023, which is slated to start in September and end in November this year.

The Public Prosecutor (PP) objected to the application, contending that the Fellowship was a means to impede the ongoing investigation and trial against Para.

The PP also asserted that there was a statutory bar under Section 51 of the UAPA on granting Para permission to travel since his passport is deemed to have been impounded.

The special court rejected the PP's contention with respect to Section 51, UAPA opining that, as per this provision, the trial court has the discretion to decide how long a passport ought to be impounded for and even to release it, depending on the particular facts and circumstances of the case.However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the Court proceeded to reject Para's application in light of concerns that the investigation and trial, which is at the evidence stage, against him would get hampered if he were allowed to travel abroad.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies 

#1 "Waheed Ur Rehman Para has been named the inaugural Yale Peace Fellow at Yale’s International Leadership Center. The Peace Fellowship brings emerging leaders on peace to Yale for an intensive period of research, mentoring and training; and to participate in high-level strategy events on peace and conflict resolution.
Para, a native of India, is a political leader who has dedicated his life to the cause of strengthening democracy and peace in Kashmir.
“We are committed to fostering excellence in peace leadership at a moment when traditional institutions and mechanisms are seriously challenged,” said Emma Sky, director of the International Leadership Center at Yale. “The Peace Fellowship aims to build up the capacity of a rising generation of peacemakers and mediators; to distill lessons in peace building; and to forge international partnerships.” Located within the Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale’s International Leadership Center houses the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, the Petraeus-Recanati-Kaplan (PRK) Fellowship, and Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship in addition to the Peace Fellowship. The Peace Fellowship will be managed in collaboration with Inter Mediate, a leading peacemaking organization dedicated to ending armed conflict, and its CEO Jonathan Powell who was the lead British negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement."
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-06-16 08:05||   2023-06-16 08:05|| Front Page Top

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