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Gilani: Illegal detentions cannot deter Kashmiris ​

Written by KMS
Monday, 30 August 2010 23:03

Srinagar, August 30, 2010: The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, has said that illegal detention of pro-freedom leaders and activists by the authorities cannot break Kashmiris’ resolve to get freedom from India.

Syed Ali Gilani, in a media interview in Srinagar, said that the puppet administration was resorting to autocratic tactics to crush the ongoing movement. “It was high time for India to accept the ground realities. The people of Kashmir are struggling for their inalienable right to self-determination,” he added.


He that the struggle of Kashmiri people had entered into a decisive phase. He said that the ongoing movement would continue till India accepted Kashmir as a dispute, withdrew its troopers from the occupied territory and released all the illegally detained Hurriyet leaders and activists.

Syed Ali Gilani said that the mass participation of people in "Quit Kashmir Movement" had frustrated the occupation authorities. “Indian troopers and police have been given unbridled powers to kill and harass the unarmed Kashmiris,” he maintained.

Emphasising that the sacrifices rendered by over one-lakh martyrs should serve as a glaring example of Kashmiris’ resolve, he said India could not muzzle the just voice of Kashmiri people through use of brute force.

He further said that India was delaying the resolution of Kashmir dispute by projecting it as an economic issue just to hoodwink the international community.

On the other hand, the Jammu and Kashmir Tehreek-e-Hurriyet, headed by Syed Ali Gilani, has hailed China for disallowing the Chief of India’s Northern military command based in the territory to enter the country. A spokesman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet, in a statement issued in Srinagar, appealed the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to adopt the same policy and make India realize that its occupation of Kashmir was illegal.

Hurriyet leader and the Vice Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Muslim League, Masarrat Alam Butt, has reiterated to continue the freedom struggle till its logical conclusion, despite all odds.

Masarrat Alam Butt in a media interview condemned the imposition of curfew and restrictions by the occupation authorities in the territory.

"Indian troops have unleashed a reign of terror in the occupied territory. They open fire straight at unarmed and innocent Kashmiris,” he added.

He said that New Delhi wanted to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force. “India can not deter Kashmiris’ resolve to get freedom from its illegal occupation through use of brute force,” he maintained.


He said that as many as sixty-four innocent Kashmiri youth, most of them students and children, had been martyred by the occupation forces so far during the current agitation. he maintained that the Sikh community was fully safe in the occupied Valley.

Dukhtaran-e-Millat Jammu and Kashmir has denounced the illegal detention of its Chairperson, Aasiya Andrabi and her close associate by the authorities.

The Acting Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Riffat Fatima, in a statement issued in Srinagar, termed the illegal detention of Aasiya as the frustration of the puppet administration. “The authorities are trying to suppress the ongoing freedom movement through use of brute force,” she added.

She said that the administration was subjecting Aasiya Andrabi to political vendetta and had been detaining her husband for the last seventeen years. Riffat condemned the illegal detention of DeM Chairperson during Ramadan in past three years.

The spokesman of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir, in a statement issued in Srinagar, condemned the unlawful arrest of Aasiya. He urged India to settle the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiri people by implementing the relevant United Nations resolutions.

On the other hand, the spokesman of Press Guild of Kashmir in a statement flayed Indian police for torturing a scribe, working with a local daily. He warned of worst consequences if the police did not stop subjecting the reporters and photojournalists to torture.

Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred six innocent Kashmiri youth in Baramulla district. The troops martyred the youth in Uri area of the district during a military operation.

A trooper of Indian Border Security Force (BSF), Lokesh Kheti, committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle while on duty at Khayara Post in Samba district. This raised the number of such deaths amongst Indian troops and police personnel in the occupied territory to 191 since January 2007.

Indian police have arrested eleven people including Hurriyet leader and the Acting President of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Political Movement, advocate Muhammad Shafi Reshi, from different places. The police arrested Muhammad Shafi Reshi along with four other people from Baba Demb area of Srinagar. Reshi is a member of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association.


The police arrested two students for raising anti-India and pro-liberation slogans at the gate of Jammu University. A police team conducted raid at Khatianka Talab area of Jammu city and arrested the students identified as Qamran and Shafiq. The police also arrested five persons in Handwara for participating in anti-India demonstrations.

On the other hand, people took to streets in Habba Kadal, Chota Bazar, Shaheed Gunj, Karfali Mohalla, Kani Kadal, Islamabad, Bijbehara, Sangam, Qaimoh, Kulgam, Pulwama, Kakapora, Pampore, Awantipora, Tral, Kupwara, Handwara and Baramulla areas and staged pro-freedom demonstrations. Indian troops and police personnel resorted to heavy baton charge and excessive teargas shelling to disperse the protestors at many places, injuring several people.

Locals said that the troops and policemen broke windowpanes of many houses and damaged the vehicles passing through the areas. Residents of Islamabad said that the troops smashed windowpanes of several houses and a Mosque at Ghaziabad. In Tahab area of Pulwama, a hawaldar of 8th battalion Armed Police was beaten to pulp by CRPF troopers after he rejected their chasing away an eight-y

Gilani: Illegal detentions cannot deter Kashmiris

 

[Dr sim]

heart warming....hope peace comes to this heaven on earth

 

[RamGorur]

^^ Not really, their are so many different replies to my query and non is answering the question!
How can her son perform his fundamental religious obligations if he is not allowed passport.

In a secular country law, can't be bended for religious purpose. If performance of his 'fundamental religious obligations' was so much of a concern to his mother (and not you), she should have stayed away from anti-state activities.

As long the criminal record against his mother is concerned all sound fake.
She has a history of suffering by the hands of Indian army and has been courageous enough to raise her voice.

If you are saying then it must be true.

It is violation of basic and women rights by state on the basis of religion.
world should take notice of this stately hypocrisy.

No right is absolute and all rights come with obligations.

 

[somebozo]

Facebook, YouTube used as weapons in Kashmir fight
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN | AP

Published: Aug 27, 2010 18:01 Updated: Aug 27, 2010 18:01

SRINAGAR, India: Before hitting the streets, Ahmed reaches for his two essential protest tools: a scarf to mask his face and a cell phone camera to show the world what is happening.

The 23-year-old, who posts videos to YouTube under names such as "oppressedkashimir1," is part of a wave of Web-savvy protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir who have begun using social networking to publicize their fight and keep fellow demonstrators energized and focused.

"(I am) an anonymous soldier of Kashmir's resistance movement, using Facebook and YouTube to fight India," Ahmed said, showing off his most recent work, a montage of protest videos and photos set to London-based Sami Yousuf's popular song, "Try Not to Cry Little One." Like other protesters, he declined to give his full name for fear of arrest.

The last three months have seen an upsurge in violent protests against Indian rule in Kashmir, a region divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both.

The protesters, mostly youths wearing jeans and hooded shirts, call themselves "sangbazan," or the stone pelters. They have covered Srinagar and other major Kashmiri towns with pro-independence graffiti and mounted fierce stone barrages against security forces, sometimes surrounding armored vehicles and throwing stones inside through the firing slats.

At least 64 people, mostly teenage boys and young men in their 20s, have been killed. Prabhakar Tripathi, a spokesman for the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, said it's difficult to respond to such attacks. "We use bullets in self-defense as a last resort," he said.

With student discussion groups banned and thousands of security operatives believed to be snooping on protesters, the youth of Kashmir are using the Internet as a virtual meeting place.

Social networking sites, though presumably under Indian surveillance, have proven to be more effective than any previous form of political communication in Kashmir, said Shuddabrata Sengupta, a New Delhi-based writer who follows new media issues in India.

"The struggle on the streets and in the corners of cyberspace have a mutually complementary nature," he said.

The stone pelters use Facebook to debate the weekly calendar of protests, discuss ways to hold Kashmiri leaders accountable and trade daily news updates, some of questionable reliability.

One user sparked a debate about the role of Kashmiri intellectuals in the fight by posting a picture of the Palestinian-American literary theorist Edward Said symbolically throwing a stone near the Israel-Lebanon border. In Kashmir, many intellectuals do not openly identify with the struggle, though privately they may embrace it.

Another user, whose Facebook name is "Kale Kharab," a Kashmiri term for a hothead, recently posted methods to counter the effects of tear gas and administer first aid to a shooting victim.

"They're shaping the political discourse and raising the bar for pro-independence political groups in Kashmir and authorities in New Delhi," said Sheikh Showkat Hussain, a law professor at the University of Kashmir.

Marketing and information technology experts estimate at least 40,000 Kashmir residents are on Facebook. The page for "Bekaar Jamaath," or the Idle Group, amassed about 12,000 members in four months before being hacked, removed and re-established recently.

The posting of well-produced Kashmiri protest videos began more than two years ago with the expansion of Internet service in the remote Himalayan region and access to better cell phone technology.

One of the first videos combined images of women and children wailing at graveyards and the bodies of slain Kashmiris with a moving song written by Abdul Ahad Azad, an early 20th-century Kashmiri revolutionary poet. Two other videos were set to singer Chris de Burgh's "Revolution" and "Oh My Brave Hearts." Now young Kashmiris are uploading video shot furtively from windows showing government forces damaging vehicles and property during curfews, when there are no journalists around.

"Because of this video evidence that cannot be denied, some people outside Kashmir have started believing the horrors we have been living under," said Rayees, a young protester who uploaded a clip to Facebook showing paramilitary forces hurling stones and smashing the windows of homes in a Srinagar neighborhood.

"There are aberrations," said Tripathi, the paramilitary spokesman. "The commanders in their areas of responsibility have been directed to listen to the public grievances and see if people are facing any problems." Another video of intense stone throwing by protesters, set to the Everlast song "Stone in My Hand," has become a hit with the demonstrators and made its shadowy creator — known only as a computer engineer — a revered figure among them.

"He made it appear as if the song was composed for Kashmir," said Shabir, a college student and stone thrower. "He showed us how one can be more meaningful and imaginative and yet continue to be a stone pelter." _

 

[somebozo]

One question?? If india is all that democractic and fair then why are kashmiris struggling so violently?? All things blamed on pakistan is a formula not to last long..The hitler eventually had to come down with his blame it all on jews.

 

[k7x]

One question?? If india is all that democractic and fair then why are kashmiris struggling so violently?? All things blamed on pakistan is a formula not to last long..The hitler eventually had to come down with his blame it all on jews.

It is world known fact that Indian army was guarding the border alone prior to start of insurgency which is openly supported by Pak.

The only reason, the force moved to the valley from the border is to protect those innocent who are killed by those terrorist/freedom fighter.. .....(ones terrorist is anothers freedom fighter)

" ... this is the fact , if that is not the case why lakhs of Kashmir pundits have to leave the valley . they were selectively targeted and it is duty of our army to save all "

Now all that the kashmirs want is that force to quit the valley because they feel that they are oppressed .

see if the insurgancy has not started the amry would have stayed in the border itself .. and there would be more freedom to people.

 

[do_more]

wow camera phones in toiletless india...

 

[ps80]

Too many threads on Kashmir....you post one headline (pro-Indian or pro-Pakistani...regardless) and then unnecessary India-Pakistan bashing starts in full swing... ofcourse there is some good information there as well.

Can we have one thread/sticky for Kashmir related news? Good news or garbage (propaganda)...everything at one place.

Just a suggestion.

 

[booo]

for all those who advice violence and stone pelting during protests... things will never change.

Stone pelters... best of luck.

 

[Patrician]

Hell ya baby!

Now we're talking!

 

[storm seeker]

i see another FAKE encounter!!!!!!
and how many soldiers killed yesterday ???

 

[Patrician]

i see another FAKE encounter!!!!!!
and how many soldiers killed yesterday ???

One sees strange things in dreams. In what kind of a fake encounter do the aggressive party's soldiers die? Unless you are suggesting that IA first killed 'innocent civilians' and then killed its own soldiers. If that's what you are suggesting, save me the labour of a laughing facepalm!

 

[anathema]

30 hrs gunbattle ends in Kashmir's Uri district - India News - IBNLive

After more than 30 hours of fierce gunbattle, the Uri encounter ended. All nine infiltrators have been killed and the bodies have been handed over to the police. It is the biggest infiltration bid foiled this year.

Twelve AK rifles, five GPS units, two satellite phones, one mobile phone, eight radio sets, Rs 1 lakh and a computer hard disk were recovered from the infiltrators, sources said.

The major encounter started on Sunday evening. The army on Sunday foiled a major infiltration bid in the area late.

Thats some heavy gear !!! Wonder what the hard disk contains....

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

 

[anathema]

One sees strange things in dreams. In what kind of a fake encounter do the aggressive party's soldiers die? Unless you are suggesting that IA first killed 'innocent civilians' and then killed its own soldiers. If that's what you are suggesting, save me the labour of a laughing facepalm!

Pat -- ignore yaaar ...he's really not looking for an explanation -- doesnt matter what you say, he will stick to the fake encounter story.