Year: 2016

Protests turn peaceful as resistance leadership reaches out to people

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Sumji leads anti-India rally in Dupathyar, Bijbehara The violent incidents and injuries was at the lowest in south Kashmir region on Sunday as protesters avoided forces installations during their peaceful rallies and protests after local Hurriyat leaders reached out to the people. In four districts of south Kashmir today, a number of massive peaceful rallies were taken highlighting sectarian unity and resolve of people to “fight it out till the end”. Barring a protest in Imam Sahib, Shopian where three people including a woman where injured after policemen fired pellets…

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Open Letter to the People of India from Bleeding Kashmir

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Dear People of India Greetings! I am sure that your collective conscience is yet to be satisfied. I am not Syria. I am not Palestine. I am not Gaza either. God has made me “Paradise on Earth”. But now I am as good as living hell. I am an untold story. I am bleeding land being brutally and illegally occupied by your nation which uses its military power to suppress the voice of freedom of my people. They have already killed tens of thousands of my innocent sons. The cheapest…

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Exhibit unity, brotherhood at these trying times: Hurriyat (M)

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Hurriyat (M) on Sunday condemned what it called the “brutal tactics”, continuous curfew and severe restrictions imposed throughout Kashmir to stop the people from taking out protest marches and carrying forward their struggle for right to self-determination. In a statement the spokesman said, “For the past 23 days, the oppressive and suppressive tactics of the government were continuing while forces are present at every square were indulging in barbaric activities by openly displaying their dictatorial and Nazi mindset.” Expressing serious concern over the “barbarism of forces at Imam Sahab Shopian,…

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27 Youth admitted with nerve injuries

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Shameema Lohar (22) from south Kashmir lays motionless on a bed at the neurosurgery ward of Super Specialty Hospital here. Shameema from Arwani village of Bijbehara — the hometown of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti —received a bullet in her abdomen during protests on July 9, a day after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. Doctors at Super Specialty Hospital say that Shameema’s spinal cord has been damaged and she will remain paralysed for the rest of her life, if at all she survives. The bullet has entered through…

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Mehbooba Mufti faces protest during visit to exam centre

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Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had to beat a hasty retreat on Sunday from an examination centre at Women’s College here after angry parents protested against her visit. She went to Women’s College on Maulana Azad Road to check the arrangements for the pre-medical and pre-engineering test being conducted by the Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) in various centres. As soon as her cavalcade reached the examination centre, the people, mostly parents who accompanied their wards, protested against her visit. “This is an unnecessary visit. It will only disturb the…

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Posters supporting HM, LeT come up across Valley, urge people to continue agitation

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India’s security establishment, which has been surprised by the ease with which militants are drawing support in the Kashmir Valley, particularly in the most violence-hit areas of south Kashmir, might want to take a look at a series of posters put up by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), urging people to continue their agitation till the time freedom is achieved. The posters have been pasted outside houses and mosques in different parts of Kashmir, particularly in areas of South Kashmir like Pulwama and Anantang. Residents said they woke up on Saturday to see…

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Iftikhar Hussain Misger quits NC, pledges support to “Freedom Struggle”

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Senior National Conference (NC) leader from Anantnag, Iftikhar Hussain Misger, who recently unsuccessfully contested Assembly election from Anantnag constituency against Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, on Sunday quit his party and pledged support to ongoing “freedom struggle”. “I hereby pledge my support to the ongoing freedom struggle and announce my resignation from mainstream politics and the NC,” Misger said while addressing street protestors in Cheeni Chowk area of Anantnag, near his home, this evening. “I apologize to the people for being a part of the mainstream thus far,” he said. Amid…

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Valley continues to simmer for 23 Day, People resilient in south to keep protests going

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Locals donate food, money to help financially-weak families; youth keep vigil during night to avoid police raids Sopore youth succumbs, police say he had fallen from a tree Curfew, shutdown cripple life for 23rd day LeT chief appears in public rally in Pulwama Over a dozen hit by pellets in Shopian, Kupwara Kashmir continues to simmer with anger as over a dozen people sustained pellet injuries in police and CRPF firing in Shopian and Kupwara districts while curfew, restrictions and shutdown remained in force for the 23rd straight day on…

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Security forces would have taken precautions if they knew Burhan Wani was hiding there: Nirmal

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Reacting to the killing of Burhan Wani and the violence that ensued after that, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister said on Saturday that better precautionary measures could have been taken if the Hizbul terrorist’s encounter site was known in advance, . Singh said that the security forces had informed the government about the encounter but they had no information who the hiding terrorists were. “We were told by the security forces but they did not know who was there. Suppose they would have known it precautions would have been…

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Mehbooba’s dark hour: As Kashmir erupts, Mufti walking the tightrope with her hands tied as CM

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Once, she was the face of PDP’as ‘healing touch’, combining a politics of compassion with strident dissent of New Delhi. 50 people are dead and houses across Kashmir are mourning. Mehbooba would have wanted to be in the Opposition today. But she is the Chief Minister. 17 years after its inception, when the PDP is the largest party with 28 legislators and its “rooh-e-ravan (heart and soul)” Mehbooba is at the helm, her government is seen as the enemy of the people. The year was 2000. Public anger against the…

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