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  • Gautam Gambhir claims death threats from Pakistani student, ISIS

    Gautam Gambhir claims death threats from Pakistani student, ISIS

    Former Indian cricketer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Gautam Gambhir has allegedly claimed that he has been receiving death threats via email. Security has been tightened outside the parliamentarian’s house after he filed a complaint. Gambhir alleged that he and his family had received threats from ISIS Kashmir.

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    As per an Indian media outlet News 18, Delhi police said that the emails were generated in Karachi, Pakistan. They were created by a young man named Shaheed Hamid, about 20-25 years of age. He is a student at Sindh University in Karachi.

    A second mail included an attachment of a video shot outside Gambhir’s family home. “We intended to kill you, but you survived yesterday. If you love the life of your family, stay away from politics and the Kashmir issue,” it said.

    Police sources said they haven’t found any major motive behind the threats.

    The video sent was from YouTube, possibly uploaded by a Gambhir supporter in November 2020, they revealed.

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    The investigation into the matter is ongoing and the findings will be shared with central intelligence teams for further follow-up.

    Gambhir had also approached the Delhi police two years ago, alleging death threats to him and his family from an international phone number.

  • Coronavirus: Sick Pakistani student from China shifted to isolation ward

    A Pakistani student, who was extracted from coronavirus-hit China as flights operations resumed between the two countries, has been quarantined since his return as he showed suspected symptoms of the novel epidemic, The Express Tribune has reported.

    According to reports, Shahzaib Rahujo studies petroleum at a Chinese university around 1,000 kilometres (km) away from Wuhan where the deadly coronavirus originated. He reached his village, Nangerji, late on Saturday night and was shifted to an isolation ward on Monday after he fell ill.

    “He was experiencing a headache, flu and cough when he reached Qatar. He took some medicine to relieve the symptoms and was able to reach the village safely,” Rahujo’s elder brother, Irshad Ali, told the media outlet. He added that his brother cleared medical screening at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, but once he reached his village, he started experiencing fever, flu, cough and fatigue.

    Kept in isolation, Rahujo is reportedly facing neglect at Civil Hospital in Khairpur where he is admitted, as medics there are not ready to perform tests on him. Ali posted a video over the internet showing how his brother Rahujo was being neglected in spite of his ill health and nose bleeding.

    “We were on our way to Karachi when they told us to come back to the civil hospital. There, they put him in a dengue ward. But there is no doctor and we are not being treated properly,” Ali said. 

    Several Pakistani citizens, a large number of which are students, are still reportedly stuck in China.