One of the more illogical arguments promoted by secessionist elements on the margins of the country is that India is a fascist nation. This is the sort of thing that sounds suitably liberal in seminar rooms and doubtless envelops the audience in the warm glow of self-satisfaction. There: how brave of us! We have given [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 2, 2008
As long as India keeps dreaming the disintegration of Pakistan, it will survive as a viable state as the very negativity serves the purpose of knitting this crowd of 170 million people into a nation, whenever it is confronted by its arch rival. Editor of Indian Defence Review, Mr. Bharat Verma writes that ‘new Delhi [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
SRINAGAR: Millions of Kashmiris remained confined to their homes for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as police and paramilitary forces deployed in lanes and bylanes of Srinagar and other districts of occupied Kashmir valley enforced a strict curfew to prevent a pro-Azadi mass sit-in at historic Lal Chowk. Keeping People Away: CRPF personnel were deployed [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, September 27, 2008
SRINAGAR: All Parties Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has welcomed the initiative of New Delhi and Islamabad to allow LoC trade from October 21, describing it as first step towards economic freedom of Kashmir. However, Mirwaiz said trade with AJK had to be like any other province of the state of Jammu and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 25, 2008
NEW YORK: President Asif Ali Zardari and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have pledged to resolve all outstanding issues, including Kashmir issue, vowed to continue the peace process for bringing lasting peace to the region. The meeting held here on the sidelines of the 63rd UN General Assembly focussed on the peace process that [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 24, 2008
PULWAMA: Labeling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bajrang Dal (BD) and Rastriya Swamsevak Sangh (RSS) as terrorist organizations, India Minister for Chemicals, Fertilizers and Steel and Lok Janshakti party chief Ram Vilas Paswan has demanded imposition of blanket ban on the right wing Hindu organizations. He blamed the Hindu organizations for the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 22, 2008
SRINAGAR: Most Kashmiri leaders are drawing inspiration from the latest global developments including the daring bids of independence by South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Referring to the political upheaval in the Caucasian region, Hurriyat (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani termed the development as “coming into being of new nations despite subjugation and suppression”. “Independence of these [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 7, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sunday felicitated and extended best wishes to PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on his election as the President of Pakistan. “In this new historic period, the Chinese side would like to make joint efforts with the Pakistani side to promote our traditional friendship, build a glorious future together, bring the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of Kashmiris arrested since the armed uprising in the state of Jammu and Kashmir are detained for protracted period without trial by government agencies, disregarding the court orders quashing their detention under the infamous Public Safety Act. Advocate Mir Shafqat Hussain who is counselling on behalf of about 200 detainees languishing in different [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
SRINAGAR: The CRPF troopers beat up and wounded several women and more than 12 teenagers in the small hamlet of Qazigund in occupied Kashmir, during the strict curfew last week after the villagers refused to sing “Jai Mata Di (Long live Mata (Indian goddess)” “Vanday Mataram (I bow before thee o motherland),” and the Indian [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 5, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Seeking world body’s pro-active role in resolving the thorny issue of Kashmir amicably, the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference lodged a sit-in protest in front of the United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOGIP) office here. Holding banners and placards, the protesters chanted pro-freedom slogans demanding India quit Kashmir. Speaking on the occasion, Kashmiri [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
ISLAMABAD: All Parties Hurriyat Conference Azad Kashmir wing on Thursday staged sit-in in the front of UN office as a protest against economical blockade of Muslims in Kashmir Valley here. On this occasion Convener APHC Syed Yousuf Naseem submitted a memorandum in the name of Secretary General UN here. It was said that India always [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
SRINAGAR: The ongoing agitation and subsequent clamping of curfew in the Valley has given a big jolt to the State’s economy with experts estimating a loss of over Rs 6000 crore during the past 40-day turmoil. “Cumulatively, we have suffered an economic loss of Rs 150 crore every day in all the sectors including business [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 4, 2008
SRINAGAR: The chairman of the Hurriyat Conference (M), Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, today announced to uphold the march to Lal Chowk call and appealed for mass support to the programmes of the coordination committee. The Mirwaiz was to head a crucial meeting of his alliance at the Hurriyat headquarters in Rajbagh today, but was not allowed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
SIRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiri people gathered outside United Nations Military Observer in Srinagar to demand UN intervention in Jammu and Kashmir. The call of March towards UN mission was given on Monday by Hurriyat leaders including Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Shabbir Ahmed Shah. People from various areas of Jammu marched towards UN [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 17, 2008
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik termed the attempted march to Muzaffarabad by people as a “revolutionary step. “It was a people’s revolution. Kashmir is united to seek Azadi. The need of the hour is to carry this movement in the right direction to achieve our ultimate goal of freedom,” Malik [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has urged the international community particularly United Nations, OIC and human rights organizations to take notice of grave human rights violations in Occupied Kashmir. Responding to questions by newsmen at the weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Wednesday, Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said in the wake of brutal killing of Kashmiri leader [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
MANCHESTER: Tehreek-e-Kashmir-UK has demanded that Mushrraf’s unannounced compromise on Kashmir with India by retreating from UN resolutions on Kashmir should be made part of the charge sheet against him. “General Pervaiz Mushrraf’s stated willingness to set aside UN resolutions to solve Kashmir issue with India is amounting to retreat from world recognized legal position of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
SRINAGAR: The hospitals in occupied Kashmir valley, which received hundreds of people injured in police firing are facing acute crisis and almost all are running short of essential equipments, medicines and blood. At least four persons were killed and over 300 injured in police action on the processions which were heading to cross the Line [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 12, 2008
SRINAGAR: At least eight persons including senior Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz were killed as troopers opened indiscriminate fire at several places in the Valley to prevent massive processions from marching towards Muzaffarabad. A senior police officer was under attack in North Kashmir. His properties were attacked by strong mobs while several bunkers were demolished [...]
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