Month: June 2020

China wants India to undo the abrogation of Article 370 for withdrawal from Ladakh

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By Syed Ali Mujtaba There is a Chinese proverb; the one who ties the knot can alone untie it. This proverb China wants to attribute to India to reduce the tensions going on along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China wants India to undo the abrogation of Article 370 that changed the status of Jammu and Kashmir. There are few plausible reasons making rounds for Chinese incursion into India. They are; India’s construction of Darbuk-Shyok-Daulet Beg Oldi (DSDBO) road from 2000. India along with the US and other powers…

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Chinese Inscribe huge symbol, Map onto disputed territory in Pangong

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The inscriptions, located between ‘Finger 4’ and ‘Finger 5’ measure approximately 81 meters in length and 25 meters in breadth and are large enough to be clearly spotted by passing imagery satellites.  In a claim to the disputed territory, Chinese forces in the contested Fingers region of Ladakh’s Pangong Lake have inscribed a massive Mandarin symbol and map of China onto the ground they occupy. The inscriptions, located between ‘Finger 4’ and ‘Finger 5’ measure approximately 81 metres in length and 25 metres in breadth and are large enough to…

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For raising voice against Domicile Law, Mubeen Shah booked on sedition charges

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Prominent Kashmir born businessman Mubeen Shah has reportedly been booked for sedition. Reliable sources told News Agency KNT that Mubeen Shah has been booked on charges of sedition after he asked people of Kashmir to put a collective fight against what he called settler-colonialism. After the abrogation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir, authorities started issuing domicile certificates to non-locals while an IAS officer from Bihar became the permanent resident of Jammu and Kashmir. Sources added that Mubeen Shah’s Facebook post against issuance of Domicile Certificates didn’t go down…

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Ailing Syed Ali Shah Geelani Quits Hurriyat Conference

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Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 90, has resigned from his faction of the Hurriyat Conference, 17 years after he was chosen as its lifetime head, citing the inability of the leaders of the grouping to raise their voice against the Centre’s move to divest Jammu & Kashmir of its special status in August last year as one reason. He also blamed internal bickering, financial irregularities within the grouping’s Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) chapter, and attempts by its leaders to seek positions of power. In an audio message released…

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Dr. Farooq back in limelight after 10 months; Says Domicile Policy is “Illegal and Unconstitutional”

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For the past two days, National Conference president and five-time former chief minister Farooq Abdullah is back in the open with Kashmir-centric political messaging as he called the domicile policy for J&K as “illegal and unconstitutional” which he seems to be using as a stepping stone for staging a comeback in the politically vacant space in Kashmir . Farooq Abdullah, 83, ventured out in public this weekend for the first time since release from more than seven-month long detention under PSA in March this year. He was detained on August…

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Alarm Bells ON as China sends India terrifying World War 3 warning on Twitter

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CHINA has sent a terrifying new warning to India on Twitter as tensions between the two countries escalate and intensify fears of World War 3 following a brutal battle in the Galwan Valley. By Paul Withers China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying wrote on Twitter that India’s front-line troops had “broke the consensus and cross the Line of Actual Control”. She accused those soldiers of “deliberately provoking and attacking Chinese officers and soldiers, thus triggering fierce physical conflicts and causing casualties”. Hua Chunying warned India not to “misjudge the current…

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Anxiety across Kashmir as admin orders stocking up of LPG for two months, seeks school buildings for security forces

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Two separate government orders on stocking up of LPG cylinders for two months in the Kashmir valley and on vacating of school buildings for the security forces in Ganderbal, adjoining Kargil, has triggered a fresh wave of anxiety among the locals, in the wake of India-China face-off. Described as a “most urgent matter”, an Adviser to Lt. Governor G.C. Murmu has passed directions in a meeting on June 23, “to ensure sufficient stocks of the LPG in the Valley as the supply gets affected due to closure of the National…

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NC, PDP reject Domicile Law, move aimed at changing J&K’s demography

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The National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday rejected the J&K Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020, and the J&K Grant of Domicile Certificate ( Procedure) Rules 2020, saying “it was aimed at changing the demography of the erstwhile State of J&K”. An NC spokesman said the amended domicile law was made in exercise of power under the J&K Reorganization Act 2019, “which stands challenged in the number of petitions before the Supreme Court”. “With the constitutional validity of the Act impugned and the petitions under the consideration of…

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Amid pandemic horrified drug abuse goes unabated in Srinagar, Anantnag

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A first of its kind study has found around 2 percent prevalence of substance abuse, majorly opioids, in two districts of Kashmir. The percentage translates into Rs 3.7 crore being spent every day on drugs of abuse by 17000 people in the two districts. Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (IMHANS) has carried out a pilot study to find the contours of substance abuse in Srinagar and Anantnag commissioned by World Vision India. The study is titled “Pattern and prevalence of substance use and dependence in Kashmir: Special focus on…

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Calls grow for the Organization of Islamic Conference to refashion its Kashmir Policy

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Besieged Kashmiris and regional experts want the Muslim bloc to take a proactive role in resolving one of the oldest disputes since World War II. The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), a 57-member bloc envisioned for the empowerment of majority-Muslim countries, has earned the reputation of being a “toothless tiger” or a “tiger unable to hunt.” Its statements are rejected by non-members without consequences, while its members have been slammed for undermining its foundations. It recently waded in on the Kashmir dispute, but it served to once again shine a spotlight on its…

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