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Geelani seeks ‘Insaniyat, Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriat’ to resolve Kashmir Issue

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Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has sought “insaniyat”, Kashmiriyat” and “Jamhooriat” to resolve the Kashmir dispute — ideas he derided when then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee propagated them in 2003. “We want India to exhibit insaniyat (humanity), Kashmiriyat (composite secular, eclectic Kashmiri culture) and jamhuriat (democracy). Nothing else,” the ailing octogenarian Hurriyat Chairman said, talking to his supporters in a videographed address from a hospital here. The nearly 2.30-minute video clip, recorded apparently on Sunday, comes amid the NIA swooping on Kashmiri separatist leaders, including Geelani’s two…

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Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat

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Zafar Choudhary On the early morning of November 16, Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will be in Goa presenting a ‘special address’ at an ‘India Ideas Conclave’ on the much talked about but little understood subject of ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat’. The conclave is host¬ed by India Foundation, a newly emerged powerful think tank run mainly by BJP members, including Ministers, and ideologues. Past its sell by date long ago, the ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhuriyat, Insaniat’ slogan was coined in bits and pieces between 2000 and 2002 by the BJP veteran Atal Behari…

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