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[Areesh]

Truly impressive. I can just salute to these guys. Very brave indeed.

 

[ARCHON]

Kashmir youths chucking careers to pelt stones

They will have a bright future skipping career and pelting stones...
Hope one day pelting stones become a competition in Olympics and a kashmiri from India will win gold.

 

[MZUBAIR]

Shame on Inidan troops

 

[Areesh]

They will have a bright future skipping career and pelting stones...
Hope one day pelting stones become a competition in Olympics and a kashmiri from India will win gold.

And you will win the gold medal of the best clown for your sarcastic post.

 

[gubbi]

Spoilt Kashmir

The lead editorial in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece Organiser makes for an interesting read. Discussing the crisis in the Valley, it says Kashmiris on the Indian side are a “pampered lot,” only too happy that they can afford to shut down the state for days at a stretch, and let their children roam on the streets instead of going to school.

It claims that Kashmiris are asking for more despite having better roads, electricity, education, railways, huge Central subsidy and the highest per capita income in the country (it does not). J&K, it says, gets the highest Central aid, which deprives poor states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

“So what is the problem with these gentlemen? The problem is not that of Kashmir, but it is one for India to consider and confront. Should secular India facilitate the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state with the tax payers’ money and indulgence? The country has to consider the price it is paying gratifying a recalcitrant, fanatic lot out to destroy India,” it says.

The people of Jammu and Ladakh are happy. Even in the Valley, only four districts — Srinagar, Sopore, Baramullah and Anantnag — join the protest. “These are mostly Sunni Muslims fed on Wahabi fanaticism alien to Kashmiriat. Among the Muslims in J&K, the Shias are also not part of the protest. It is only a small segment of determined, indoctrinated Islamists who are intolerant of everything modern and Indian who create the trouble,” it says.

The Islamisation of Kashmir is a dangerous game, it says and points out that “India” has to resolve with finality that nobody will be allowed to play with the integrity of the country. “The writ of Delhi has to run in every part of the country. It has to be enforced whatever the price we have to pay. Only that clear message will douse the so-called fire in Kashmir,” it concludes.

For once I agree with the RSS viewpoint. (Before anyone jumps the gun to label the organization with any terms, be informed that it is NOT banned by any authority worldwide). Kashmiris are indeed a spoilt bunch and GoI needs to do everything in its power to ensure that its writ runs in every corner of India, Kashmir included, at any price.

Lol as for AM's comment about "shame/sharam". There is absolutely no shame, whatsoever, in a govt exercising its writ over territories it claims sovereignty over.

Shame is when a govt cannot do the above and shame is when an armed force cannot even enter the territories the govt claims and has to resort to pandering to terrorists a.k.a. peace treaty according to some, to ensure a facade of peace.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

India asked to stop using UN helmets in IHK​

SRINAGAR: The UN has asked Indian forces cracking down on protests in violence-plagued Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) to stop wearing the distinctive powder-blue helmets of the UN peacekeeping force, a UN official said on Wednesday.

About 300 members of the paramilitary Rapid Action Force have been deployed in IHK since last week to help quell nearly two months of civil unrest that has reportedly killed more than 50 protesters and bystanders. Dozens of members of the force, armed with automatic rifles and dressed in full riot gear, have used UN-marked blue helmets and shields as they faced off against the protesters in the streets of Srinagar, the region’s main city. While the bulk of their duties consists of marching down streets in a show of strength, they have also taken part in baton charges and fired tear gas into the crowds.

Their use of UN equipment has perplexed many Kashmiris, who wondered why UN troops had taken a side in the conflict and were assisting Indian forces. “We’ve already informed the authorities about this problem,” said an officer at the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media. “The authorities have promised to solve this situation,” he said. ap

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

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How will this get pinned on the 'Pakistan origin' UN spokesperson Haq I wonder ...

 

[MZUBAIR]

Kashmiri college girls confront Indian police who charged at them with batons during a protest over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim women in Srinagar. Residents say the two women, aged 17 and 22, were abducted, raped and killed by security forces May 29 in Shopian town, south of Srinagar, after their bodies were found in a stream.

Shame on Indian troops....

 

[Neither Right Nor Wrong]

Shame on Inidan troops

This pic rather portrays Indian troop's patience..he has gun and the other guy has a stone hence...

 

[Awesome]

They will have a future when they are able to live freely without the threat of guns from a foreign force.

 

[Areesh]

This pic rather portrays Indian troop's patience..he has gun and the other guy has a stone hence...

Yeah exactly. That guy should have fired those small tiny bullets towards those kids in response to such BIG stones.

You are a genius.

 

[Break the Silence]

Shame on Inidan troops

Well, body language tells the whole story, despite having Gun, he tries to avoid those mad guys..

 

[Awesome]

Spoilt Kashmir


For once I agree with the RSS viewpoint. (Before anyone jumps the gun to label the organization with any terms, be informed that it is NOT banned by any authority worldwide). Kashmiris are indeed a spoilt bunch and GoI needs to do everything in its power to ensure that its writ runs in every corner of India, Kashmir included, at any price.

Lol as for AM's comment about "shame/sharam". There is absolutely no shame, whatsoever, in a govt exercising its writ over territories it claims sovereignty over.

Shame is when a govt cannot do the above and shame is when an armed force cannot even enter the territories the govt claims and has to resort to pandering to terrorists a.k.a. peace treaty according to some, to ensure a facade of peace.

Oh right, they must be pampered when they object to them being killed for medals by the Indian security forces in fake encounters.

 

[Neither Right Nor Wrong]

Yeah exactly. That guy should have fired those small tiny bullets towards those kids in response to such BIG stones.

You are a genius.

And he is not..so what does that prove??

 

[ARCHON]

And you will win the gold medal of the best clown for your sarcastic post.

dont get personnal.. i already know you are one clown.

 

[gubbi]

First manage, then resolve

Which should come first, crisis management or conflict resolution when it comes to Kashmir? All Party Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq seems to think it is the latter and is not too happy with what he sees as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s emphasis on the former. But to quibble over this would be to miss the subtext of Mr Singh’s conciliatory speech and his appeal to young people to return to the classroom. Those who feel that the present round of unrest is Kashmir’s intifada are unnecessarily romanticising something that can only bring more pain and suffering to the people. In the cold hard light of day, the reality is orphaned children, bereaved mothers and wasted lives. The PM has offered a way out with his offer of dialogue and economic opportunities. It may have come too late and it may not be as much as many hoped for. But there can be no mega package or quick-fix solutions to a problem that has been festering for decades.

It is now fairly evident that Pakistan isn’t a viable option for even the so-called separatists in the Valley. The neighbouring country holds out no hope or prospects for young people eager to integrate into a globalising world via the Indian economic growth engine. So it’s counterproductive, not to mention shortsighted, for people like hardliner Syed Ali Geelani to accuse the prime minister of coming up with the same policy. He may have come up with a variant of earlier policies, but this time around he has also spelt out ways in which incremental steps can be taken to address the grievances of Kashmir’s people, especially the youth. Even more obstructionist than Mr Geelani’s statement is that from Asiya Andrabi, leader of the separatist Dukhtaran-e-Milat, when she accuses India of treating Kashmiris like beggars and asking to be set free to use their own resources.

It would be far more effective and serve the purpose of Kashmir if these perennial Cassandras could come up with their own solutions. At least then a debate could ensue. The PM has tacitly acknowledged the lapses in the government’s approach towards the problem. He has clearly offered to begin the process of setting things right. Anyone, and that includes the separatists, have to meet him halfway. Those like Ms Andrabi who claim to speak for the people of Kashmir owe it to the younger generation to give peace a chance. The prime minister’s speech will no doubt spur those inimical to peace to carry out more atrocities. But the government and its security forces must be mindful of this and exercise the maximum restraint. Once the process of crisis management begins, conflict resolution cannot be far away.

Look at the statements made by, what some call, "Kashmiri leaders" make.