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Kashmir: A problem awaiting solution

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Human-rights violations anywhere in the world get ample coverage in the local print and electronic media. However, the region that gets little or scant coverage despite serious human-rights violations is the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Some newspapers in the Philippines avoid covering events in Kashmir as a matter of policy, as they do not want to indulge in disputed issues. I respect their policy, however, I believe that such an attitude would rather encourage the perpetrators of such heinous crimes against humanity and would further exacerbate the situation in regions…

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Kashmir talks can begin once arrested Kashmiris freed: Geelani

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Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Tuesday said he told BJP leader Yashwant Sinha that the government should release all separatist leaders and others arrested during an ongoing unrest as a precursor to beginning negotiations on how to solve the Kashmir issue. Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday led a five-member team to Kashmir to meet separatists, including Geelani and Hurriyat chairperson Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. A statement issued by the Hurriyat faction led by Geelani said the “high level delegation” called on the octogenarian leader at his residence soon after Sinha…

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Yashwant Sinha’s met Geelani & Mirwaiz, Hurriyat (G) released Statement, Hurriyat (M) ready to break Jamia Masjid Siege

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All Parties Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Geelani issued a statement on Tuesday evening detailing the meeting of Yashwant Sinha led group with Geelani at his Hyderpora residence early this morning. The statement is being reproduced here verbatim for larger public interest All Parties Hurriyat Conference said that a high level delegation headed by former External Affairs Minister Mr Yashwant Sinha dropped at the residence-cum-office of its chairperson Syed Ali Geelani today at about 11:30 am. Delegation included Rtd Air Vice Marchal Mr Kapil Kak, Mr Wajahat Habibullah, Senior…

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As war looms over Valley, NC-PDP agree to not use protests for political gains

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A lot has changed in Kashmir over the last five weeks, and even more over the past week. Somebody in power — probably the National Security Advisor — seems to be finally trying to pull its act together. As our TV screens relentlessly show, it is too late to avoid a war-like situation, but at least several defensive moves are taking shape. Changes have occurred at various levels — most visibly in the deployment of armed forces in the Kashmir Valley. But there’s one more significant change taking place that…

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Geelani censures Omar: ‘NC bargained state’s interests for personal gains’

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‘If India is ready for a plebiscite, we’ll ask Pakistan to withdraw its forces from PaK’ Day after National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said the resolution of Kashmir is “possible within the ambit of the Indian Constitution”, the Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani slammed him on Sunday, saying his remarks were “far from historical realities” and that his NC “sold state’s interests for personal gains.” Speaking at conference ‘India and Pakistan: A Subcontinental Affair’ organized by students of New York University in US on Saturday, Omar had said…

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Mehbooba’s ‘Local Militants’ remark riles BJP leaders

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After launching a veiled attack on the PDP for trying to divide the Jammu region on “communal” lines, the BJP today opposed the suggestion of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to the police and the security forces to deal with “local militants” with compassion. “Drawing a line to differentiate a local militant and one from a foreign land does not matter as both are doing same activity and no country can accept it as a forgiving mistake. Taking up gun against the nation is something no country can accept and people…

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Farooq hits out at coalition for ‘Reign of Repression’ in Kashmir

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Assuage political aspirations of J&K people to address root cause of all problems: NC chief The National Conference today asked the PDP-BJP coalition to stop the alleged reign of “repression and coercion” unleashed against the entire population in the Valley, lest the situation takes such an ugly turn that it becomes beyond the control of the governments at Srinagar and in New Delhi to handle. “Enough is enough”, Farooq Abdullah, National Conference (NC) president and former Chief Minister of the state, said while referring to killings and large-scale arrests being…

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Mehbooba govt’s push for ‘Normalcy’ in Valley is unwise when none exists

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In Kashmir, normalcy has attained a distressing meaning. As the clock strikes five in the evening, people flock marketplaces in droves. The sight at the city centre Lal Chowk in Srinagar is remarkably confounding and soothing at the same time. Within minutes, the barren roads come alive with a mix of cheerful and anxiety-ridden faces. Traffic snarls are a common occurrence. And for a moment, it seems, all is well. As the sun sets and the darkness of night begins to take over, the abnormal normalcy returns. With shoppers long…

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Try to bring back Youths to Mainstream: Mehbooba to Police

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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Friday urged the police to try to bring back to mainstream the youth who have fled their homes to join militancy, instead of their being killed in encounters. In remarks which come in the wake of a prolonged unrest in the Valley triggered by gunning down of local Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani , she said, “Those who have taken up arms or those who have not but are missing from their homes and want to join militancy, they are local boys. “I…

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Police re-opens cases filed against youth during 2008, 2010 uprisings

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Several detained after being called to police stations; Top police officer claims they are being ‘called for questioning’ The FIRs registered in 2008 and 2010 mass uprisings against youth allegedly involved in stone-throwing and street protests that time have started to haunt the victims again as police is arresting them afresh, sources told Kashmir Post on Thursday. For the past three weeks, sources said, police is either raiding or calling the youth—against whom FIRs were registered in 2008 and 2010 public uprisings—to concerned police stations and detaining them there again.…

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