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“My Vote is not Against Azadi,But for my Everyday Issues,” Voters Queue up in Large Numbers in North Kashmir

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April 11 Sajad Hameed After a high voltage campaign, polling begins for the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2019 in ninety-one constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories amidst a strict security cover. In Jammu Kashmir, Baramulla and Jammu will go to polls in this initial phase, as Valley is expecting two power-houses, National Conference (NC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to lock horns, while representatives of the national parties, Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will also have a say in Jammu, Engineer Rasheed and Sajjad Lone's People's Conference may also surprise the two main regional parties. The voting began by early morning on Thursday at 1,749 polling stations at 1,387 locations in Baramulla constituency for 13,12,148 registered v...

BJPs Admission of ‘Parties Keeping Pro Militancy Stance to Gain Votes’ Admission of India’s Defeat in Kashmir

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April 01 Advocate Mujeeb u Rehman Cheap political furor to witness playing more than soft separatists after all seek answer from the players in the field as what do they mean? Democracy though speak for a mature pro people enlightenment both in policy and action but in practical here in Kashmir it reads a different meaning, yes, just to grab votes be by any means. The requisite standards from the responsible political parties who lend faith in the Constitution of India as well as of the state of Jammu Kashmir vis a vis the approach to electoral politics is completely dehydrated. The political players of the day herein in Kashmir do play a brazen untrue. Some speak that their win is to speak for Rai Shumari to determine final political fate of Kashmir as to be with India, to be separ...
The Day Qazi Nisar Defied Jagmohan’s Beef Ban Diktat in Kashmir

The Day Qazi Nisar Defied Jagmohan’s Beef Ban Diktat in Kashmir

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Dar Abdul Aziz Before I slip into telling you about the historic day, when the legendary Qazi Nisar defied the beef ban in 1986, let me introduce myself as someone who has had the honour of great personalities addressing the funeral of my late father, Ghulam Mohammed Dar. Qazi Ghulam Mohammed, Peer Abdul Gani and Mohammed Yusuf Shah had travelled on the same horse cart to attend the funeral of my father who passed away in 1981. Cow slaughter in this Himalayan region of Jammu Kashmir was banned during the Maharaja’s time in 1932 according to a ruling documented under Section 298-A and 298-B of the Ranbir Penal Code. The memories of this oppressive Dogra rule in Kashmir revived in 1986, when Governor Jagmohan imposed a ban on the consumption of meat on the demand of some Hindu extre...

Harassed Constantly by Forces- Aaqib had Joined Militancy in October 2017

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March  28 Skinder Gull In the ongoing heightened Anti Militancy operations, the Forces jointly laid a ambush around the Yawran forest area in Keller area of South Kashmir's Shopian killing three Militants, who were later identified as Locals. The Slain Militants identified as Aaqib Ahmad from Bhatnoora from Lassipora Pulwama, Basharat Ahmad from Wasoora Pulwama and Sajad Ahmed Khanday from Bamnoo in Shopian’s Keller were all associates of Hizb ul Mujahideen. Thousands of people gathered at the funeral of the slain Militants amid high pitch pro independence and Anti India sloganeering. People in droves of dozens and hundreds singing songs of freedom and dirges of bravery marched towards the house of Aaqib Ahmad from Bhatnoora from Lassipora Pulwama. Aaqib Ahmed, a resident of...

‘We Were Locked Inside, Rizwan was Dragged out’- Family Vows to fight for Justice

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Since their partition in 1947, both India and Pakistan have claimed their stake over Jammu Kashmir. The state comprises Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions, and has since remained the epicentre of innumerable political hiccups, with India and Pakistan having fought three wars over it. The region has a huge geopolitical significance. Pertaining to the geo strategic and the military significance of the entire region, threaded with the huge water resources it holds back in its glaciers, this Himalayan region is likely to be the flash point of a vigorous conflict in coming years. Kashmir, located in the feet of Himalayas, is the only Muslim majority state in India. On Tuesday morning, Thousands attend funeral of a 29 year old, Rizwan Ahmed, an Awantipora resident, who was allegedly killed ...

Walking Through Kunan Poshpora, Pathribal and Rizwan- Justice Remains an Illusion in Kashmir

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March 26 Advocate Syed Mujeeb ur Rehman Death, extra judicial within or outside the death traps carries message of oppression and establish impunity of the oppressor in Kashmir, From Kunan Poshpora mass rapes to Pathribal fake encounter and Now the case of Rizwan, Kashmir has been searching justice. To react against such a phenomena is a but natural aspect of any a civilised society. A human feeling be it read so. The sympath factor is spontaneous to born within endangered species and it is likewise people of Kashmir do come out enmass to alarm, to remind the people throughout the globe about the gloomy upheavals, the live tragedies and about  what not, to remind them about their  unabating pain and agony. It be because of it political front like joint resistance leadership comes ofte...

“What was My Crime”- A Letter From a 12 Year old Boy Killed Killed During Hajin Encounter

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March 25 Tanveer Mir As Kashmir is witnessing violence on daily basis in the form of CASOs, nocturnal raids, detentions, search operations, As a Kashmir, it has become a part of our everyday existence in the conflict torn land Kashmir. As usual same thing happened few days ago in Bandipora's Hajin area too when the area was cordoned off following specific inputs about presence of Militants in there, Later on the siege was tightened which resulted into the encounter. As encounters are not new things to the Kashmir Valley, but one thing which differentiates it from other was that a boy and his uncle were trapped inside the house, At the end, the guns fell silent casting a shadow upon many lives leaving behind a trail of gutted houses and whizzing bullets. But, the irreparable ...
‘It was Blood and Bullets Everywhere’- Decades After Chittisinghpora Massacre Residents Fear Evenings

‘It was Blood and Bullets Everywhere’- Decades After Chittisinghpora Massacre Residents Fear Evenings

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Tawseef Nazir Sikhs from all over the valley gather in Chittisignhpora village of South Kashmir every year on this day to pay tributes to the Sikhs who were killed on March 20 in 2000. Other than free Langars and prayers, the Sikhs of Kashmir pay their tributes near the two walls of the village, which are almost crumbling. 37 Sikh men were lined up against these walls and bullets pumped into their bodies, only one survived. The army claimed that it was the handiwork of the Pakistan-backed Militant outfit Lashkar e Taiba, A report titled ‘Terrorists execute a first Sikh massacre in Kashmir Valley, signal fresh ethnic cleansing’ by  India Today, claimed that “the foreigner members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba who executed the massacre came dressed as Indian soldiers, complete with fake or ...

Kashmir Custodial Killing- “M.Sc Scholar, Principal Was Constantly Harassed by Forces”

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March 19 Skinder Gull It is another day of mourning in the Kashmir valley, this time the gloomy clouds rounded the Awantipora Locality of South Kashmir where thousands of women and men are waiting for the dead body of Rizwan Pandit, who was killed in the custody of NIA and Police. Accusing the Jammu Kashmir Police of highhandedness, the family of Rizwan Pandit son of Asadullah Pandit of Awantipora who was allegedly killed in custody has demanded probe into the incident. As per Sources, Rizwan Asad Pandit, a resident of Awantipora, who died in police custody came on the radar of security agencies following the Fidayeen attack on CRPF Training Centre in Lehthpora on 31 December 2017.buy silagra online https://nouvita.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/inc/new/silagra.html no ...

Secularism and Minorities- ‘On Target’ in India

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March 11 Advocate Syed Mujeeb To be Secular Or  Hindu Rashtra- Parameters are same or are to swing is the matrix in the Pandora box to fiddle with, with no malafides but to reach to understandings of this vital issue which has fractured the society with bruises and  scars  visible on its body. The Preamble of the Indian Constitution  clearly preserves the face and soul of the collective whole living here in the valuable expressions like Secular, Socialistic,  Democratic  etc etc. And the same in none of the interpretations can lend meaning otherwise than Secular or as the case be studied. While coming on "Nationalism "the political parties instead to come up concrete,  prudent and energetic  are found to be with altogether  different  tenor and tone and resultantly instead of horizo...