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The news on sat TV is that the encounter seems to have ended and 3 terrorists have been sent on the budget airline-"Bullet Airlines" (cheapest way to fly). They are all on board now to fulfill their date with 72 virgins.
Farewell!!
 
NEW DELHI: A group of Kashmiri Hindu activists Thursday heckled and tried to prevent hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani and author-activist Arundhati Roy from speaking at a seminar in the capital, prompting police to arrest a dozen of the slogan-shouting protesters.

The activists, mainly from a Hindu group that is demanding separate land for migrant Kashmiri Pandits, shouted slogans like "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram", leading to a ruckus at the seminar, 'Azaadi -- The Only Way', organized and attended by sympathisers of Kashmiri separatists.

Some Kashmiri students in Delhi countered by shouting slogans in Geelani's favour and for 'azadi' - or Jammu and Kashmir's independence from India.

Anticipating trouble at the pro-freedom seminar, organised by the Campaign for Relief of Political Prisoners, authorities had deployed a large number of police persons at the LTG Auditorium venue in the heart of the capital.

As the bedlam continued and the two groups almost got into fist fights, police whisked away the activists of Panun Kashmir and detained at least 40 of them. They were later released.

The trouble started when the speakers advocated freedom of Jammu and Kashmir from India, condemning the alleged human rights violations by the army and security forces in the state.

The Kashmiri Hindu protesters waved the national flag at the speakers and tried to disrupt the seminar, strongly objecting to their "anti-national" views.

Geelani's supporters countered with slogans like "We want freedom", "Go India Go" and "Kaun karega tarjumani, Syed Ali Shah Geelani".

As Roy was giving her speech in the jam-packed auditorium, asking the government not to hold Kashmir against the will of its people, the Hindu activists threw notebooks and paper missiles at her, demanding to know if the speakers had ever raised the plight of Kashmiri Pandits when they were forced to flee their homes in the Kashmir Valley after the uprising broke out in 1989.

Roy tried to pacify them saying whatever happened to Kashmiri Pandits was "criminal".

"But we also should not forget that Kashmiris cannot inhale or exhale without the breath going through the barrel of guns," she said, referring to the "heavy" presence of security forces in the Kashmir Valley.

"India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs from India,"
she said, attracting noisy protests that died down when the Booker-winning author said she was speaking for "the idea of justice system that connects us all".

When Geelani rose to speak, the noisy protesters repeated the ruckus and objected to his speech in which he spoke of "Kashmir's complete independence from India".

He pacified his supporters, saying their relations with the people of India were based on humanity and they should respect each other's sentiments even if they differed on ideology.

"Our war is with the establishment not with the people of India," he said, adding the people of India should "understand that gross human rights violations were being committed in the state in their name".


Kashmiri Hindu activists create ruckus at Syed Ali Geelani seminar - The Times of India
 
Suddenly another face of Kashmir being made visible..

Just one quick question. All the big talk of Kashmiri brotherhood.. Is that only reserved for Kashmiri Muslims or does it apply to Kashmiri Pandits too?

If it does, what does this episode show you?
 
@foxbat... there was a thread a couple of days back where a (supposedly) kashmiri pandit asked about what plans does Pakistan have for the non-muslims who will come along with JnK (if at all it happens in my lifetime)... There were no strong answers. I am sure if you ask a similar question on this you may not get a suitable answer.

No one thinks about the brotherhood when it comes to non-muslims in Kashmir.
 
Also good that 26th Oct in Jammu will be celebrated for accession with India. People should know especially those who gives blind statement that all Kashmiri want's to seperate from India. The fact is that it is a divided verdict and not a clear verdict.
 


ISLAMABAD – Indian forces have completely denied Kashmiri public and international watchdogs access to the United Nations office for the registration of their complaints against India’s highhandedness after round-the-clock curfew was imposed last week causing food shortage in parts of the valley.

General public and the representatives of international human rights watchdogs are not allowed to visit the office of United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) located in Sanwaar, Srinagar, for the submission of memorandums, resolutions, complaints and letters against Indian sponsored bloodshed in Indian Held Kashmir.

TheNation on October 8, 2010 had first broken the story that India was planning to disrupt ration supplies by imposing round-the-clock curfew across the occupied Kashmir valley. The Indian army imposed twenty-four hour curfew on Tuesday, October 12 to stop food supplies to the valley and create food shortage.

During a cellular conversation with this scribe from Srinagar on Wednesday, senior Hurriyat activist and former Mujahid (freedom fighter) Nizam Shahid said that paucity of edible items was rapidly engulfing Baramula and Kupwara. He said that Baramula had witnessed unprecedented violence over the last few days and dozens of freedom activists had been recklessly martyred by the Indian forces. “You can’t imagine how things are like in Baramula, the food and ration supplies are disrupted, all you can see is blood and bullets everywhere,” he said. The veteran former commander categorically criticised Pakistani media for not highlighting the Kashmir issue and said that Pakistani media, with exception to Nawa-i-Waqt Group, had adopted a “criminal silence” to human rights violations in IHK.


In addition, hundreds of Kashmiri youth, who marched towards UNMOGIP office last Monday in the form of a rally, were severely tortured by the personnel of Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Dozens of protestors sustained injuries in the incident that had taken place near Sanwaar.

Ironically, the UN has yet to take a stock of the grave human rights situation in IHK. Sources in UNMOGIP, Islamabad, said that despite growing Indian highhandedness, the UNMOGIP Srinagar has not formally communicated to the UN Headquarters in New York regarding denial of access to UN office by Indian army. Instead of taking the matter on emergency basis, it is learnt that the UNMOGIP in Srinagar would inform the Headquarters about the latest development through a routine monthly report that is submitted by the end of every month. “I’m not in knowledge of any extraordinary arrangements being made to report to New York, to this effect,” a UNMOGIP official said.
 
Living proof that India has not yet evolved from hindu muslim divide which is at least a millinieum old. Grand salute to Jinnah for his forward vision!

You are reading it upside down, fact is that Kashmiri Muslim could not tolerate a diverse view of minority Hindus and therefore they were thrown out. The fact is that it is Muslims in Kashmir who have thrown out Pandits from valley and Muslims in India elsewhere are living happily. Don't quote stupid instances to support your claim, in their common life they have no problem.
 


“You can’t imagine how things are like in Baramula, the food and ration supplies are disrupted, all you can see is blood and bullets everywhere,” he said. The veteran former commander categorically criticised Pakistani media for not highlighting the Kashmir issue and said that Pakistani media, with exception to Nawa-i-Waqt Group, had adopted a “criminal silence” to human rights violations in IHK.

Thanks for posting this information, be kind enough to support your claim by proof, please list how many people have been killed or injured in that place to term it the way this person is describing it.

The fact is people always use exhagaratted statements like thousands of girls and womens are raped in Kashmir, fact is count is Zero between 2009 and 2010.

Fact and statement do not match.
 
Thanks for posting this information, be kind enough to support your claim by proof, please list how many people have been killed or injured in that place to term it the way this person is describing it.

The fact is people always use exhagaratted statements like thousands of girls and womens are raped in Kashmir, fact is count is Zero between 2009 and 2010.

Fact and statement do not match.


Its a statement from a person living in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

You are living in the United States, what would you know thats happening in IOK.
 
Living proof that India has not yet evolved from hindu muslim divide which is at least a millinieum old. Grand salute to Jinnah for his forward vision!

No it is a living proof that Kashmir belongs to all Indians ... not just muslims in Kashmir.
 

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