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Four persons, including two women, died in separate road accidents in Jalandhar’s Goraya and Kapurthala district on Sunday night. The mangled remains of a car after the mishap on the Jalandhar-Ludhiana national highway near Goraya on Sunday night. Investigation officer Kulwinder Singh said Seema’s son Navjot Singh and the rickshaw driver Jatinder Singh sustained injuries. In a separate incident on …

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A disabled Punjabi youth was coerced to join the Russian army after being allegedly tricked by travel agents. Mandeep Kumar from Goraya, Jalandhar was promised by a travel agent to be sent to Italy but was tricked to Moscow, where he was forced to join the Russian army, Indian Express reported. “It was extremely distressing for the family when we …

Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, the Congress member of Parliament from Jalandhar, died after a cardiac arrest while taking part in party leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra between Phillaur and Goraya towns on a chilly Saturday morning. Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, the Congress member of Parliament from Jalandhar, died after a cardiac arrest while taking part in party leader Rahul …

A former East London businessman was sentenced to life in prison for plotting the murder of Pakistani activist and blogger, Ahmad Waqass Goraya, who is based in Rotterdam. They argued this was one possible motive for the murder plot targetting Goraya last June, for which Khan would have received 100 thousand pounds, equivalent to about 120 thousand euros. “The dedication …

A former London businessman named Muhammad Gohir Khan was found guilty of conspiracy to murder an activist living in Rotterdam. Khan’s plot to assassinate Rotterdam-based Pakistani dissident Ahmad Waqass Goraya last year, but was thwarted by Dutch authorities. The BBC reported Khan and the middle man Muzzamil at one point used fish metaphors to discuss the intended murder, referring to …

The Dutch government needs to be more vocal about attacks by foreign governments against dissidents on domestic grounds, Pakistani dissident Ahmad Waqass Goraya said to the NL Times. “You can move somewhere, you can protect someone, but the Dutch government needs to step up and say you cannot do this on our soil”, Goraya said. “In every Pakistani embassy are …

An assassination attempt on Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya was prevented by Dutch authorities this February in Rotterdam, NOS reported. Goraya is a human rights activist and a dissident from his home country. The human rights activist said he wants the Dutch government to speak out about the attack on his life. “They were both threatened seriously and they disappeared …

JJP District President Inderjit Singh Goraya Quits Party Over Farm Laws

Ruling JJP's Karnal district president Inderjit Singh Goraya on Tuesday quit the party in solidarity with farmers protesting against the Centre's agriculture laws. Goraya, a leader of BJP's coalition partner Jannayak Janta Party in Haryana, quit his party post along with the party, saying he had earlier asked Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala to exert pressure on the Centre to …