Monthly Kashmir Insight July 2014

INSIGHT
KASHMIR
Monthly
20th Year of Publication
July 2014
Indian democracy stands exposed
IOK people denied all basic rights
Abrogation of Article 370 a ploy against
the struggle in Jammu and Kashmir(Editorial)
02
JKLF launches Quit Kashmir movement 10
Indias designs to change
14 demography of IOK condemned
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INTERVIEW
APHC leader
Zafar Akbar Butt
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Pakistan wants peaceful resolution of Kashmir dispute. The dispute should be
resolved according to the UN resolutions and aspirations of the people of
Kashmir.
(President Mamnoon Hussain in his maiden address to the joint session of the two
Houses of the Parliament at the start of the second parliamentary year, June 2, 2014)
Pakistan wants Kashmir settlement!
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Kashmir Insight
JULY 2014
C O N T E N T S
Editorial
Abrogation of Article 370 a ploy against the
struggle in Jammu and Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02
Cover Story
IOK people denied all basic rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Interview
Zafar Akbar Butt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
Reports
Puppet regime foils Municipal Park march
Prevents ACC to celebrate golden jubilee. . . . . . . . . . . . . 09
JKLF launches Quit Kashmir movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Pak President for Kashmir settlement as per UN
resolutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Kashmiris protest killing of youth in Sopore . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Indian designs to change demography of
IOK condemned. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Pictorial
Images speak louder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Human rights situation
HR abuses in IOK during June 2014
Raies Ahmad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Reports
Human Rights abuses in IOK by India
highlighted in Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Over 16,000 booked under black law PSA
in IOK since 1988 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Kashmir settlement imperative for peace
in South Asia: Dr Fai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Article
Kashmir and Article 370
Fazal Hakeem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chronology
A chronological account of developments
on Kashmir (95) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Beauty thy name is
Kashmiri Handicrafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Literature
A stupid husband and his clever wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Feedback
Letters to Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
M Raza Malik
Sub Editor: Benazir Khan
Art Editor: M.Haroon
From The Editor's Desk
India has been using different tactics for the past over six decades
to defame at the international level the Kashmiris just struggle
for securing their inalienable right to self-determination. Some
times it tried to project it as a communal movement and at times
as cross-border terrorism supported by Pakistan. All these
nefarious designs were aimed at misleading the world
community about the ground situation of occupied Kashmir and
the Kashmir dispute.
When Kashmiris intensified their struggle against Indias illegal
occupation of their homeland in 1989, New Delhi carried out
mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley
putting the blame on the Kashmiri groups fighting for freedom
from the Indian subjugation. Hundreds of thousands of
Kashmiri Pandits fled their houses and migrated to Jammu and
some Indian states. It is a reality that the eviction of Pandits from
the Valley was planned and was aimed at painting the Kashmir
movement as a communal one. It is a historically-proved fact
now that the then Governor of occupied Kashmir, Jagmohan
Malhotra, had convened a meeting of some Pandit leaders and
informed them that he was going to launch a massive operation
for ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the territory. He advised the
Pandits to leave the Valley and provided them with
transportation and other logistics. So, the Pantits had left the
territory at their will after the operation started.
History shows that India has faced several incidents of
communal riots when members of minority communities
particularly Muslims, Christians and Buddhists were attacked
by Hindu extremists. Muslims pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 is the
worst example of such communal clashes, which occurred under
the nose of the incumbent Prime Minister of India, Narendra
Modi, as the Chief Minister of Gujarat. On the other hand,
Jammu and Kashmir had exhibited exemplary communal
harmony for centuries before the exodus of Pandits in 1990.
Of late, Modi-led Indian government has decided to establish
separate colonies to rehabilitate the Pnadits in the Kashmir
Valley on Israeli pattern. The move is fraught with dangerous
consequences as it would tantamount to creating a state within
the state. Hurriyet leaders including the APHC Chairman,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad Yasin
Malik and Shabbir Ahmed Shah are justified in their opposition
to the proposal and demanding the settlement of the Pandits in
the houses they used to live before migration. They are of the
opinion, and rightly so, that the plan is aimed at changing the
demographic complexion of the occupied territory by settling
non-Kashmiris in these colonies to outnumber the Muslim
majority community. The concern of the Hurriyet leadership
holds ground that these settlements would be used by Bharatiya
Janata Party and other communal organizations like Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu
Parishad as launching pads for their anti-Muslim activities in
the occupied territory.
Through this move Modi Government also wants to make the
UN resolutions ineffective. However, India must understand
that such nefarious tactics cannot affect the disputed status of
Jammu and Kashmir and Kashmiris would not allow to succeed
such designs.
Abrogation of Article 370 a ploy
against the struggle in Jammu and Kashmir
KASHMIR INSIGHT JULY 2014 02
The recent revelations of a minister of
Bharatiya Janata Party, Dr Jitendra
Singh, that the BJP was working to
repeal Article 370 and that the talks in
this regard were going on with the
stakeholders have sent shockwaves
among the Kashmiris.
Article 370, which was incorporated in
the Indian Constitution in 1950, is a
temporary provision, which grants
special autonomous status to Jammu and
Kashmir and all the provisions of the
Constitution which are applicable to
Indian states do not apply to Jammu and
Kashmir. Due to this Article, Jammu and
Kashmir is the only region, which
(despite being a part of Indian Union
under the so-called Instrument of
Accession) enjoys separate constitution,
flag and official language.
According to this Article, except for
defence, foreign affairs, finance and
communications, Indian Parliament
needs the concurrence of the so-called
government of Jammu and Kashmir.
Thus the residents of occupied Kashmir
live under a separate set of laws,
including those related to citizenship,
ownership of property, and fundamental
rights, as compared to Indian people. As
a result of this provision, Indian people
cannot purchase land or property in
Jammu and Kashmir.
Similarly, under Article 370, New Delhi
has no power without the consent of the
puppet government to declare
emergency in the territory except in case
of war or external aggression.
The assertion of Dr Jitendra Singh is
expression of BJPs intention to repeal
the Article it had promised in its
manifesto. Kashmiri people and
Hurriyet leaders have strongly reacted to
his statement vowing that they would
not allow any move to succeed that
could help India in perpetuating its
illegal hold on their homeland. They
maintained that such actions would be
resisted tooth and nail. Hurriyet leaders
including the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani,
Muhammad Yasin Malik and Shabbir
Ahmed Shah said that repeal of the
Article was aimed at complete merger of
the internationally recognized disputed
Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian
Union and changing its demography.
The leaders said that it was also
intended at diverting attention of the
Kashmiri people from the real issues and
the ongoing liberation movement as well
as changing discourse in Kashmir.
It is a reality that successive regimes at
New Delhi have eroded the Kashmirs
special status under the Article 370 from
1953 even as changing the nomenclature
of the Sadr-e-Riyasat to Governor and
the Prime Minister to Chief Minster in
1965. Although its importance has been
rendered symbolic but it still gives a
sense of feeling to the Kashmiris that
Jammu and Kashmir is not part of India
but a UN-mandated disputed territory.
The abrogation of the Article 370 is
loaded with dangerous consequences for
Jammu and Kashmir. If it happens
Jammu and Kashmir would become a
state of India like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Punjab etc. besides losing its constitution
and will directly be dealt under the
Constitution of India. Emergency
situation of any nature in the territory
will be announced by the Indian
government and no proposal or
acceptance on behalf of the puppet
administration will be needed. All laws
made by the Indian Parliament for the
country will equally be applicable to the
territory. The most important concern is
that it will trigger a situation, which will
be exploited to enable Indian citizens to
purchase land and property in Kashmir
that will affect the demography of the
territory.
By going ahead with this plan, the BJP
wants complete merger of Jammu and
Kashmir with the Indian Union,
undermine the sacrifices offered by the
Kashmiris for securing their inalienable
right to self-determination besides
changing the demographic complexion
of the territory. It also wants to render
the UN resolutions irrelevant so that
India could justify its claim that Jammu
and Kashmir is its integral part. The time
will tell that whether BJP succeeds in its
nefarious designs or not. However, its
moves are strengthening the Kashmiris
resolve to continue their struggle till it
reaches its logical conclusion.
prevent him from leading the
march. Besides, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, other Hurriyet leaders
including Syed Ali Gilani, Professor
Abdul Ghani Butt, Maulana Abbas
Ansari, Agha Syed Hassan Al-
Moosvi Al-Safvi, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan
were also confined to their
residences. They were not even
allowed to offer Juma prayers.
Indian police arrested APHC
leaders and activists including
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Zafar
Akbar Butt, Syed Bashir Andrabi,
Hakeem Abdul Rasheed and
Ghulam Nabi Zaki from various
places and lodged them in different
police stations of the territory.
Similarly, when the Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front tried to
conduct a march towards Lal
Chowk in Srinagar on June 23 to
start Quit Kashmir campaign and
seek attention of the international
community towards the Kashmir
dispute, the party leaders and
activists met the same fate. The
puppet authorities used different
repressive tactics and along with
the JKLF Chairman, Muhammad
Yasin Malik, arrested scores of his
associates in Srinagar. Those
detained by the police included
Bashir Ahmed Butt, Showkat
Ahmed Bakhshi, Noor Muhammad
Kalwal, Mushtaq Ajmal, Khalid
Mubarak, Muhammad Ishaq Ganai,
Bashir Kashmiri and Javed Ahmed
Butt.
The puppet authorities had
imposed restrictions on public
movement in different areas to foil
the Lal Chowk march. The police
had sealed all exit and entry points
of Srinagar. Heavy contingents of
Indian police and paramilitary
CRPF were deployed in the city to
stop people from converging at the
venue.
Besides Srinagar, JKLF supporters
march towards Lal Chowk was also
thwarted in Pulwama, Islamabad
and Baramulla.
Earlier a day before, hundreds of
JKLF leaders and activists were
arrested by the police and paramili-
tary personnel during their full-
fledged crackdown throughout the
Kashmir Valley.
One of the most blatant human
rights violations committed by
India and its cronies in occupied
Kashmir is the continued house
arrest of the veteran Hurriyet
leader, Syed Ali Gilani, since 2010.
Undue curbs have been imposed on
his religious, social and political
activities. Since 2010, his house has
been virtually converted into a jail.
He was released for a brief period,
but was again restricted to his
house without any justification.
Police is keeping a constant vigil at
his residence and preventing him
from social, political and religious
activities.
Another senior Hurriyet leader,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, is facing the
similar treatment. He is not being
allowed to conduct his peaceful
programmes. He is detained or put
under house arrest on almost every
Friday to stop him from reaching
out to the masses and present his
viewpoint.
Apart from placing Hurriyet
leaders under house arrest, the
Indian government does not allow
them to move freely not only within
the occupied territory, but also
impedes their travel to other
countries by denying them
passports. The restrictions on
movement of Hurriyet leadership
are evident from the fact that
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali
Gilani were unable to attend the
meeting of the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to
non-issuance of travel documents to
them by New Delhi. Hurriyet
leaders had been invited to the two-
day meeting of OIC Foreign
Ministers held in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, on June 18-19.
Although, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights guarantees an individual the
right to travel freely in any part of
the world, but India has violated
this international law on many
occasions and the recent example in
this regard was the non-issuance of
passports to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and Syed Ali Gilani.
There is no denying the fact that
governments all over the world
issue travel documents to people
with dissent, however, the puppet
regime in occupied Kashmir always
uses it as a tool to restrict the
movement of its opponents. Such
restrictions have seriously affected
the people belonging to all spheres
of life including students, traders,
human rights defenders and
Cover Story
The people of occupied Kashmir
have been facing the worst kind of
Indian state terrorism in their just
struggle for securing their inalien-
able right to self-determination. In
order to continue its illegal
occupation of Jammu and Kashmir,
India has usurped the Kashmiris
all basic rights listed in the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights including the freedom of
free movement, the freedom of
expression and the freedom of
protest and assembly.
New Delhi has imposed curbs on
political and even on religious
activities of the people particularly
Hurriyet leaders in the territory.
The All Parties Hurriyet Conference
Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,
and many other resistance leaders
like Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad
Yasin Malik and Shabbir Ahmed
Shah are frequently placed under
house arrest or behind the bars.
They are prevented from offering
Juma prayers almost on every
Friday and disallowed from
participating in congregational
prayers on the auspicious occasions
of Eid.
The imposition of draconian laws
like Armed Forces Special Powers
Act and Public Safety Act has made
the life of people of occupied
Kashmir a living hell. They are
facing a systemic violation of their
civil, political, economic, social,
cultural and religious rights. The
offensive perpetrated by the puppet
regime in the occupied territory has
significantly curtailed the Kashmiri
peoples ability to assemble for
peaceful demonstrations. They are
not allowed to come out of their
homes and register their protest
peacefully and even perform their
religious obligations. Somehow, if
they manage to come out, they are
arrested or shot at - either killed or
injured.
Hurriyet leaders are the worst
affectees of usurpation of political
rights. The puppet authorities
cannot afford that they meet the
people therefore they always
impose restrictions on the move-
ment of the leaders.
On the other hand, everyday free
movement of people of Kashmir is
also curtailed as they have to
frequently cross army checkpoints
and face harassment at the hands of
around one million Indian troops
stationed in every nook and corner
of the occupied territory.
There are many examples to prove
this point and one of them is the
prevention of the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference leaders and
activists to march towards
Municipal Park in Srinagar on June
20 to mark the golden jubilee
celebrations of Jammu and Kashmir
Awami Action Committee, a party
led by the APHC Chairman,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The Mirwaiz was placed under
house arrest at his residence in
Srinagar as part of Indian design to
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prevent him from leading the
march. Besides, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, other Hurriyet leaders
including Syed Ali Gilani, Professor
Abdul Ghani Butt, Maulana Abbas
Ansari, Agha Syed Hassan Al-
Moosvi Al-Safvi, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan
were also confined to their
residences. They were not even
Indian police arrested APHC
Ghulam Nabi Zaki from various
places and lodged them in different
Similarly, when the Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front tried to
conduct a march towards Lal
Chowk in Srinagar on June 23 to
start Quit Kashmir campaign and
seek attention of the international
community towards the Kashmir
dispute, the party leaders and
activists met the same fate. The
puppet authorities used different
repressive tactics and along with
Yasin Malik, arrested scores of his
associates in Srinagar. Those
detained by the police included
Bashir Ahmed Butt, Showkat
Ahmed Bakhshi, Noor Muhammad
Kalwal, Mushtaq Ajmal, Khalid
Mubarak, Muhammad Ishaq Ganai,
Bashir Kashmiri and Javed Ahmed
Butt.
movement in different areas to foil
the Lal Chowk march. The police
had sealed all exit and entry points
of Srinagar. Heavy contingents of
Indian police and paramilitary
CRPF were deployed in the city to
stop people from converging at the
venue.
Besides Srinagar, JKLF supporters
march towards Lal Chowk was also
thwarted in Pulwama, Islamabad
and Baramulla.
Earlier a day before, hundreds of
JKLF leaders and activists were
arrested by the police and paramili-
tary personnel during their full-
fledged crackdown throughout the
Kashmir Valley.
One of the most blatant human
India and its cronies in occupied
Kashmir is the continued house
arrest of the veteran Hurriyet
leader, Syed Ali Gilani, since 2010.
Undue curbs have been imposed on
his religious, social and political
activities. Since 2010, his house has
been virtually converted into a jail.
He was released for a brief period,
but was again restricted to his
house without any justification.
Police is keeping a constant vigil at
his residence and preventing him
from social, political and religious
activities.
Another senior Hurriyet leader,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, is facing the
similar treatment. He is not being
allowed to conduct his peaceful
programmes. He is detained or put
under house arrest on almost every
Friday to stop him from reaching
out to the masses and present his
viewpoint.
Apart from placing Hurriyet
leaders under house arrest, the
Indian government does not allow
them to move freely not only within
the occupied territory, but also
impedes their travel to other
countries by denying them
passports. The restrictions on
movement of Hurriyet leadership
are evident from the fact that
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali
Gilani were unable to attend the
meeting of the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to
non-issuance of travel documents to
them by New Delhi. Hurriyet
leaders had been invited to the two-
day meeting of OIC Foreign
Ministers held in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, on June 18-19.
Although, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights guarantees an individual the
right to travel freely in any part of
the world, but India has violated
this international law on many
occasions and the recent example in
this regard was the non-issuance of
passports to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and Syed Ali Gilani.
There is no denying the fact that
governments all over the world
issue travel documents to people
with dissent, however, the puppet
regime in occupied Kashmir always
uses it as a tool to restrict the
movement of its opponents. Such
restrictions have seriously affected
the people belonging to all spheres
of life including students, traders,
human rights defenders and
Cover Story
have been facing the worst kind of
Indian state terrorism in their just
struggle for securing their inalien-
able right to self-determination. In
order to continue its illegal
occupation of Jammu and Kashmir,
India has usurped the Kashmiris
all basic rights listed in the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights including the freedom of
free movement, the freedom of
expression and the freedom of
protest and assembly.
New Delhi has imposed curbs on
political and even on religious
activities of the people particularly
Hurriyet leaders in the territory.
and many other resistance leaders
like Syed Ali Gilani, Muhammad
Yasin Malik and Shabbir Ahmed
Shah are frequently placed under
house arrest or behind the bars.
They are prevented from offering
Juma prayers almost on every
Friday and disallowed from
participating in congregational
prayers on the auspicious occasions
of Eid.
The imposition of draconian laws
like Armed Forces Special Powers
Act and Public Safety Act has made
the life of people of occupied
Kashmir a living hell. They are
facing a systemic violation of their
civil, political, economic, social,
cultural and religious rights. The
offensive perpetrated by the puppet
regime in the occupied territory has
significantly curtailed the Kashmiri
peoples ability to assemble for
peaceful demonstrations. They are
not allowed to come out of their
homes and register their protest
peacefully and even perform their
religious obligations. Somehow, if
they manage to come out, they are
arrested or shot at - either killed or
injured.
Hurriyet leaders are the worst
affectees of usurpation of political
rights. The puppet authorities
cannot afford that they meet the
people therefore they always
impose restrictions on the move-
ment of the leaders.
On the other hand, everyday free
movement of people of Kashmir is
also curtailed as they have to
frequently cross army checkpoints
and face harassment at the hands of
around one million Indian troops
stationed in every nook and corner
of the occupied territory.
There are many examples to prove
this point and one of them is the
prevention of the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference leaders and
activists to march towards
Municipal Park in Srinagar on June
20 to mark the golden jubilee
celebrations of Jammu and Kashmir
Awami Action Committee, a party
led by the APHC Chairman,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
The Mirwaiz was placed under
house arrest at his residence in
Srinagar as part of Indian design to
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religious and political leaders.
Another example of blatant human
rights abuses is slapping of Public
Safety Act (PSA) on Hurriyet
leader, Masarrat Aalam Butt, by the
puppet administration on June 18
for the sixth consecutive time since
2010. He was released on court
orders on June 14 but was rear-
rested by Indian police after he
reached his home. The authorities
while slapping PSA on him said in
the order of detention that the
action has been taken to prevent the
recurrence of the circumstances of
2008, 2009 and 2010. The occupied
territory had witnessed mass
uprising during these years and
Masarrat Aalam Butt played a
crucial role in channelising the anti-
India demonstrations. So Masarrat
Aalam Butt has been under
detention for past four years for
projecting his political ideology and
asking people to protest against
Indias illegal occupation of their
homeland. Whenever a court orders
his release, he is booked under
another PSA on the similar
grounds.
Illegally detained senior Hurriyet
leader, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, has spent
more than thirteen years in
different jails. He has also been
booked under draconian PSA
several times during his detention.
Another tactic being used by New
Delhi to break the Kashmiris
resolve towards the ongoing
liberation movement is sentencing
of innocent people including
Hurriyet leaders and activists to life
imprisonment. Many innocent
Kashmiris have been decaying in
different jails of India and the
occupied territory for the past
several decades without trial. Of
late, dozens of youth have been
sentenced to life imprisonment
even after they spent a life term
without trial in prisons. The
continued illegal detention of
Hurriyet leader, Dr Muhammad
Qasim Fakhtoo, is a glaring
example of political victimisation of
the Kashmiris. Dr Fakhtoo has
recently completed more than 22
years in prison. He was jailed under
black law, TADA in 1993, a year
after he married to Dukhtaran-e-
Millat Chairperson, Aasiya
Andrabi. He was charged for his
involvement in the murder of noted
Kashmiri human rights activist,
Hriday Nath Wanchoo, in 1992. A
Delhi court quashed his detention
in 2002, but the Crime Branch of
Kashmir police challenged the
decision in the Indian Supreme
Court. The year-long trial
concluded in 2003 with the apex
court awarding life imprisonment.
Dr Fakhtoo denied the charge and
said that he was persecuted for his
political views. In a media inter-
view in Central Jail, Srinagar, in
2012, Dr Fakhtoo had said that
when H N Wanchoo was killed on
December 5, 1992, he was outside
the territory and returned on
December 8 and condemned his
killing. He said that he had never
imagined that he would ever be
charged for his killing. He said that
two months after Wanchoos
killing, he was arrested and lodged
in Srinagars infamous Papa-2
Interrogation Centre. He further
maintained that Indian Central
Bureau of Investigation implicated
him in Wanchoos killing and
produced a challan against him in
the TADA court. He said that he
was severely tortured and forced to
sign some papers, which were later
presented as his confessional
statements before the TADA court.
Ironically, the occupation authori-
ties have not released him on court
orders and recommendations of an
official panel constituted by the
puppet administration to review his
detention. Instead the High Court
of occupied Kashmir has stated that
he would be kept in jail till he was
alive.
All these tactics demonstrate that
those at the helm of affairs have
accepted their political defeat as
they cannot fight the resistance
leaders politically. They also show
that India has miserable failed to
subdue the resolve of Kashmiri
people and they are determined to
carry on their struggle to get rid of
Indian subjugation.
The Indian state's widespread use
of repressive measures to silence
and criminalize political dissent is
not a new thing. The history of
Kashmir is full of such incidents
when New Delhi used oppressive
tactics to muzzle the voice of pro-
freedom people, political parties
and civil rights groups. Prem Nath
Bazaz, a prominent intellectual and
writer, in his book The History of
Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir
Published in 1954 wrote, From
October 1947, about ten thousand
people of various political organisa-
tions have been put behind the
bars. Political workers of opposition
parties were deprived of their
individual freedom.
had been facing restrictions on their
political rights since occupation of
their motherland by India,
however, after 1990, when they
intensified their liberation struggle,
they are suffering from a systemic
abuse of all their basic rights.
India claims to be the largest
democracy of the world but its
democratic credentials stand fully
exposed when it comes to occupied
Kashmir. New Delhi needs to
understand that its repressive
measures have failed to suppress
the Kashmiris liberation sentiment
in the past and would meet the
same fate in the future as well. It
must acknowledge the ground
realities and give the Kashmiri
people their basic rights including
the right to self-determination. The
world community should also take
cognisance of Indias actions in
occupied Kashmir and play its role
in resolving the Kashmir dispute to
mitigate the sufferings of the
Kashmiris and for ensuring
permanent peace in South Asia.
(Humayun Aziz Sandeela)
several other methods for
suppressing the freedom struggle.
For example just in order to weaken
the anti-India agitation, Indian
secret agencies spent huge money
and planted their informers. These
informers helped the police in
identifying the youth who were
taking part in the demonstrations
actively. Draconian law, Public
Safety Act (PSA), was slapped on
these youth and now they are
languishing in different jails.
Besides, pepper guns and pellet
guns are also being used on
peaceful protesters to weaken the
movement.
KI: Since last two decades the
people of Kashmir are actively
struggling for their right to self-
determination. Do you see any
change in the attitude of Indian
government and Indian civil
society towards the Kashmiris'
demand?
Zafar Butt: If you are talking about
political change in Indian
government and among Indian civil
society, I must say no, because
India is still carrying on its rigid
policy on Kashmir. Politically, there
is no change in the attitude of
Indian government. However, I
must acknowledge that on
humanitarian grounds Indian civil
society is going through a change
and it has started revisiting its
approach towards the Kashmiris'
demand particularly they are
worried about the grave human
Indian armed forces in the Kashmir
Valley that is clearly a good change
and is in the interests of the
Kashmir freedom struggle.
KI: Do you think the people in the
territory, particularly the youth are
as committed to the freedom
struggle today as they were on the
first day and are not tired of long
struggle and repressive measures
being used by India to crush the
movement?
Zafar Butt: I am personally satisfied
with the fact that young generation
is committed to the freedom
struggle. Be it participation in 2008
anti-India peaceful protest
demonstrations or braving the
bullets of Indian armed forces in
2010 or fighting the forces through
different means and cornering
Indian troops at encounter sites
clearly depict that our young
generation is committed to the
freedom struggle and I hope that
the youth will carry forward the
mission of Kashmiri martyrs.
KI: There is a notion that Kashmiri
leadership could not suitably
explain the nature of the Kashmir
dispute to the Indian public. Do
you agree with it and what
measures you would suggest to
reach out to the Indian people to
convince them that the settlement
of the dispute is not only in the
interest of the people of Kashmir
but in the interest of the people of
entire South Asian region?
Zafar Butt: To some extent I must
accept that there are loopholes,
which are needed to be rectified.
The Hurriyet leadership in Kashmir
is main target of India and of its
secret agencies. The resistance
leaders are kept in police custody or
under house detention most of the
time. Through this tactic India has
succeeded to keep the Kashmiri
pro-freedom leadership away from
its people and by this method they
are also trying to create a gap
between the leadership and
common Kashmiri people.
I would like to suggest that the
APHC must constitute several
committees and invite freedom-
loving intellectuals and
professionals dealing with different
subjects like human rights,
environment, history and politics to
work diplomatically like
ambassadors. Besides, the APHC
must open its offices in major cities
of India. Publishing journals and
papers on Kashmir issue and
distributing them on tourist places
among the Indian visitors can also
help in reaching out to Indian
people.
KI: What do you see the
implications of the Kashmir
dispute if the international
community continues to ignore it?
Zafar Butt: Kashmir is a nuclear
flashpoint in South Asian region as
the countries involved in the
conflict are nuclear powers. Hence
the implications of the Kashmir
dispute if continued to be ignored
by the international community
will be dangerous and disastrous.
The geopolitical implications of the
dispute are horrifying.
Although Kashmir is often
considered a dispute between India
and Pakistan, however, China also
has its claim over the Kashmir
region indirectly affecting overall
peace and security. A settlement of
the disputed boundaries of Kashmir
will ensure peace and security in
South Asia. The Line of Control has
divided Kashmir between Pakistan
Interview
Interview
KI: How do you analyse the
present phase of freedom struggle
in occupied Kashmir?
Zafar Butt: First of all, I would like
to thank you for giving me a chance
to present my point of view. As far
as the Kashmir freedom struggle is
concerned, it has entered into a
crucial phase because of the rapid
changes that have taken place at the
world's political scenario. From the
past several years now, the world is
busy in safeguarding its economic
interests so are India and Pakistan -
the principal parties involved in the
Kashmir conflict. However, due to
the Kashmir dispute no security to
their economic prosperity can be
guaranteed. On the other hand,
China and America have also got
involved in the Kashmir conflict
directly or indirectly and have
become the parties to the dispute
because of their own interests. So,
when the parties involved in the
Kashmir conflict have realised the
dangerous implications of the
Kashmir dispute, they have started
reaching at a conclusion. We, the
oppressed people of Jammu and
Kashmir, have been demanding a
peaceful resolution of the Kashmir
conflict and through our struggle
we have been informing the world
community about its repercussions
if it was not resolved according to
our wishes and aspirations.
KI: Will you please explain what
types of tactics India is using now
to suppress the freedom
movement?
Zafar Butt: You must have
observed that during the last over
two decades, Indian military
experimented every brutality
ranging from killing to rape in
Kashmir just to suppress the
ongoing freedom movement.
Indian troops and police have
subjected the people to custodial
disappearance, torture, extrajudicial
executions and imprisonment and
carried out incidents like
Kunanposhpora where more than
35 women were raped. Mass
destruction, civilian killings in fake
encounters and firing on peaceful
protesters are the decades-old
brutal tactics being used by India in
Kashmir. However, after anti-India
protests in 2008, New Delhi used
The best way to settle the Kashmir dispute is
to grant the Kashmiris their right to self-
determination, which was guaranteed to
them by the United Nations through its
resolutions. Kashmiri people have rendered
matchless and innumerable sacrifices for
securing this right and will not accept any
solution against their aspirations.
The All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader, Zafar Akbar Butt,
responds in writing to a questionnaire from Kashmir Insight
several other methods for
suppressing the freedom struggle.
For example just in order to weaken
the anti-India agitation, Indian
secret agencies spent huge money
and planted their informers. These
informers helped the police in
identifying the youth who were
taking part in the demonstrations
actively. Draconian law, Public
Safety Act (PSA), was slapped on
these youth and now they are
languishing in different jails.
Besides, pepper guns and pellet
guns are also being used on
peaceful protesters to weaken the
movement.
KI: Since last two decades the
people of Kashmir are actively
struggling for their right to self-
determination. Do you see any
change in the attitude of Indian
government and Indian civil
society towards the Kashmiris'
demand?
Zafar Butt: If you are talking about
political change in Indian
government and among Indian civil
society, I must say no, because
India is still carrying on its rigid
policy on Kashmir. Politically, there
is no change in the attitude of
Indian government. However, I
must acknowledge that on
humanitarian grounds Indian civil
society is going through a change
and it has started revisiting its
approach towards the Kashmiris'
demand particularly they are
worried about the grave human
Indian armed forces in the Kashmir
Valley that is clearly a good change
and is in the interests of the
Kashmir freedom struggle.
KI: Do you think the people in the
territory, particularly the youth are
as committed to the freedom
struggle today as they were on the
first day and are not tired of long
struggle and repressive measures
being used by India to crush the
movement?
Zafar Butt: I am personally satisfied
with the fact that young generation
is committed to the freedom
struggle. Be it participation in 2008
anti-India peaceful protest
demonstrations or braving the
bullets of Indian armed forces in
2010 or fighting the forces through
different means and cornering
Indian troops at encounter sites
clearly depict that our young
generation is committed to the
freedom struggle and I hope that
the youth will carry forward the
mission of Kashmiri martyrs.
KI: There is a notion that Kashmiri
leadership could not suitably
explain the nature of the Kashmir
dispute to the Indian public. Do
you agree with it and what
measures you would suggest to
reach out to the Indian people to
convince them that the settlement
of the dispute is not only in the
interest of the people of Kashmir
but in the interest of the people of
entire South Asian region?
Zafar Butt: To some extent I must
accept that there are loopholes,
which are needed to be rectified.
The Hurriyet leadership in Kashmir
is main target of India and of its
secret agencies. The resistance
leaders are kept in police custody or
under house detention most of the
time. Through this tactic India has
succeeded to keep the Kashmiri
pro-freedom leadership away from
its people and by this method they
are also trying to create a gap
between the leadership and
common Kashmiri people.
I would like to suggest that the
APHC must constitute several
committees and invite freedom-
loving intellectuals and
professionals dealing with different
subjects like human rights,
environment, history and politics to
work diplomatically like
ambassadors. Besides, the APHC
must open its offices in major cities
of India. Publishing journals and
papers on Kashmir issue and
distributing them on tourist places
among the Indian visitors can also
help in reaching out to Indian
people.
KI: What do you see the
implications of the Kashmir
dispute if the international
community continues to ignore it?
Zafar Butt: Kashmir is a nuclear
flashpoint in South Asian region as
the countries involved in the
conflict are nuclear powers. Hence
the implications of the Kashmir
dispute if continued to be ignored
by the international community
will be dangerous and disastrous.
The geopolitical implications of the
dispute are horrifying.
Although Kashmir is often
considered a dispute between India
and Pakistan, however, China also
has its claim over the Kashmir
region indirectly affecting overall
peace and security. A settlement of
the disputed boundaries of Kashmir
will ensure peace and security in
South Asia. The Line of Control has
divided Kashmir between Pakistan
Interview
Interview
KI: How do you analyse the
present phase of freedom struggle
in occupied Kashmir?
Zafar Butt: First of all, I would like
to thank you for giving me a chance
to present my point of view. As far
as the Kashmir freedom struggle is
concerned, it has entered into a
crucial phase because of the rapid
changes that have taken place at the
world's political scenario. From the
past several years now, the world is
busy in safeguarding its economic
interests so are India and Pakistan -
the principal parties involved in the
Kashmir conflict. However, due to
the Kashmir dispute no security to
their economic prosperity can be
guaranteed. On the other hand,
China and America have also got
involved in the Kashmir conflict
directly or indirectly and have
become the parties to the dispute
because of their own interests. So,
when the parties involved in the
Kashmir conflict have realised the
dangerous implications of the
Kashmir dispute, they have started
reaching at a conclusion. We, the
oppressed people of Jammu and
Kashmir, have been demanding a
conflict and through our struggle
we have been informing the world
community about its repercussions
if it was not resolved according to
our wishes and aspirations.
KI: Will you please explain what
types of tactics India is using now
to suppress the freedom
movement?
Zafar Butt: You must have
observed that during the last over
two decades, Indian military
experimented every brutality
ranging from killing to rape in
Kashmir just to suppress the
ongoing freedom movement.
Indian troops and police have
subjected the people to custodial
disappearance, torture, extrajudicial
executions and imprisonment and
carried out incidents like
Kunanposhpora where more than
35 women were raped. Mass
destruction, civilian killings in fake
encounters and firing on peaceful
protesters are the decades-old
brutal tactics being used by India in
Kashmir. However, after anti-India
protests in 2008, New Delhi used
The best way to settle the Kashmir dispute is
to grant the Kashmiris their right to self-
determination, which was guaranteed to
them by the United Nations through its
resolutions. Kashmiri people have rendered
matchless and innumerable sacrifices for
securing this right and will not accept any
solution against their aspirations.
The All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader, Zafar Akbar Butt,
responds in writing to a questionnaire from Kashmir Insight
Interview
and India, and the Line of Actual
Control separates Kashmir from
China. These de facto borders have
often been the subject of border
incursions and skirmishes between
the troops of Pakistan and India or
China and India.
For more than six decades, the
people of Kashmir have been
waiting for conduct of the plebiscite
promised to them. Their hopes have
been continuously dashed and the
desperate Kashmiri youth are
growing increasingly angry.
Equally important, three nuclear
giants claim Kashmir. The Kashmir
dispute can no longer be considered
a bilateral dispute between India
and Pakistan only, but one with real
geopolitical implications, having
long term effects on regional peace
and security.
KI: Other international conflicts
like the issues of East Timor and
Southern Sudan were resolved
without delay, but Kashmir being
the oldest one is still awaiting
solution, why?
Zafar Butt: If human rights,
equality and democracy genuinely
matter to the West, it is high time to
address the issue of Kashmir. The
only way to move towards a
resolution of the Kashmir dispute is
to address the root cause of the
conflict and to prioritise above all
the overall grim living conditions of
the Kashmiri people who have been
deprived of their right to self-
determination. When the
Indonesian armed forces were
condemned for human rights
violations in East Timor, European
leaders, human rights activists and
the international media repeatedly
rang alarm bells and demanded a
move towards resolution of the
conflict.
During those turbulent years, the
entire Europe stood united to
defend the rights of the East
Timorese, but not a single country
turned its eyes to the human rights
abuses, oppression and sufferings
of the people of Kashmir. The case
of East Timor never posed a serious
threat to regional peace and
security. Kashmir, on the other
hand, has and will remain a threat
with geopolitical implications for
the South Asian region. Europe
must stand up for the rights of the
Kashmiris which will ultimately
deliver effective results not only for
regional peace and security but also
for the entire world. But
unfortunately, they have
maintained a criminal silence over
the Kashmir dispute.
KI: To you, what is the best viable
solution to the Kashmir dispute?
Zafar Butt: The best way to settle
the Kashmir dispute is to grant the
Kashmiris their right to self-
determination, which was
guaranteed to them by the United
Nations through its resolutions.
Kashmiri people have rendered
matchless and innumerable
sacrifices for securing this right and
they will not accept any solution
against their aspirations.
KI: How do you explain the world
scenario, particularly the post-US
troops' withdrawal from
Afghanistan? Do you think
evacuation from Afghanistan will
somehow affect the situation in
Kashmir?
Zafar Butt: Durable peace in
Afghanistan can never be achieved
without resolution of the Kashmir
dispute. World powers and the
United Nations will have to seek an
amicable settlement of the Kashmir
conflict through legal and moral
mechanisms instead of political
rhetoric and commercial interests.
Solution to several problems facing
Afghanistan pass through the
Valley of Kashmir where the Indian
armed forces are committing
serious human rights violations. In
other words, the repercussions of
the withdrawal of the foreign
troops in 2014 are yet to be seen on
the Afghan society. However, the
human rights abuses against
innocent Kashmiris have been left
unnoticed. Presently, 700,000
Indian troops are keeping a
population of 7 million Muslims in
the Kashmir Valley under tight
control with the help of draconian
laws like Armed Forces Special
Powers Act, Public Safety Act and
Disturbed Areas Act. An estimated
50,000 - 80,000 people have been
killed in Kashmir over the past two
decades while around 6,000 to 8,000
innocent civilians have been
subjected to custodial
disappearances. So the ongoing
human rights abuses in Kashmir
will continue to radicalise the angry
youth, and will undoubtedly stir
militancy in the wider region and
will affect regional peace and
security.
KI: What is Tosa Maidan issue?
Why there is particular stress on
signing no agreement for
extension of the land to the Indian
Army, particularly when India is
occupying the entire territory
militarily and a genuine freedom
movement is going on in Kashmir?
Zafar Butt: All we know is that
Indian Army occupied Jammu and
Kashmir illegally in 1947 but why
we raised our voice over Tosa
Maidan was aimed at educating the
people especially the young
generation so that they could take
the lead and initiate the demand for
demilitarization from Tosa Maidan.
Secondly, places like Tosa Maidan
are being used for artillery drills
and hence prove detrimental for the
civil population living around such
areas.
KI: Do you have any expectations
from Pakistan at this juncture of
history when Islamabad itself is
facing a great deal of internal and
external problems?
Zafar Butt: We thank Pakistan for
helping the Kashmiris morally,
politically and diplomatically and
expect that in future Pakistan and
its people will continue this support
to the Kashmir cause. As far as the
internal and external threats to
Pakistan are concerned, let me
assure you that Pakistani Army is
capable of controlling them within
days and it will happen with the
grace of Allah. However, at this
juncture Pakistan must prioritise
dealing with its internal and
external problems as a strong
Pakistan is in the interests of
dispute.
In occupied Kashmir, the puppet
authorities resorted to restrictions,
detentions and house arrests and
other arm-twisting tactics to thwart
a march towards Municipal Park in
Srinagar on June 20, 2014.
Call for the march had been given
by the All Parties Hurriyet
Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, to mark the golden
jubilee celebrations of his party,
Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action
Committee. The Mirwaiz was
placed under house arrest at his
Nagin residence in Srinagar to
prevent him from leading a big
rally after Friday prayers from
Jamia Masjid to the Municipal Park
where a big gathering was to be
held.
Besides Mirwaiz, other Hurriyet
leaders including Syed Ali Gilani,
Professor Abdul Ghani Butt,
Maulana Abbas Ansari, Agha Syed
Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, Shabbir
Ahmed Shah and Nayeem Ahmed
Khan were also put under house
detention. They were not even
The Indian police arrested APHC
Ghulam Nabi Zaki from different
places and lodged them in various
The APHCs media advisor,
Shahid-ul-Islam, told mediamen
that Indian police informed
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq that he was
under house arrest and could not
come out.
The authorities also imposed
restrictions in different areas of
Srinagar to thwart the march. The
restrictions had been put in place in
areas falling under police stations
of Khanyar, Nowhatta, Mehraj
Gunj, Safa Kadal and Rainawari.
The APHC Chairman in an
interview castigated the puppet
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, for
directing the police and
administration to scuttle the Awami
Action Committees march. He said
that pro-India
National
Conference and
its leaders were
afraid of
Hurriyet
leadership. He
said that it was
very unfortunate
that the entire
state machinery
was used to
make the
political rallies of
pro-India leaders
successful.
However, when it comes to
Hurriyet leadership, the same
machinery changes colour on the
directions of Chief Minister to
scuttle their programmes, he
deplored.
The Mirwaiz maintained that
imposing curbs on the political
rallies of pro-freedom leaders
would have serious implications.
What can the administration
expect from general public and
youth when it chokes the space for
peaceful rallies? he asked. I
believe the highhandedness and the
vindictive approach of the
authorities would result in the mass
public anger. The administration
has been following only one policy
that of crushing the genuine
sentiment through police and other
forces, he stated.
The APHC Chairman pointed out
that it was not for the first time that
the puppet regime had foiled the
programmes of AAC and Hurriyet
Conference but the process was on
right from 1947. NC is the party
that has ruled Jammu and Kashmir
for most of the time since the
Partition. It has always brought
miseries to the people, he said.
The Mirwaiz said that Hurriyet
leaders deserved political space.
We held a series of rallies ahead of
our June 20 programme and all
were very peaceful. Why we were
not allowed to commemorate 50
years of AAC is strange and only
Chief Minister can explain this? he
said, adding that not a single
incident of violence was reported
during the rehearsal of AACs June
20 programme, in the previous
week. He also condemned the
authorities for not allowing Friday
congregational prayers at the
historic Jamia Masjid.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for
Jammu and Kashmir Anjuman-e-
Sharie Shian in a statement strongly
condemned the imposition of curbs
in Srinagar and detention of APHC
leaders by the authorities to thwart
the march towards the Municipal
Park.
The Jammu and Kashmir Peoples
Movement also denounced in
strong terms the house arrest of the
APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, detention of several other
leaders and imposition of
undeclared curfew and restrictions
in Srinagar to foil the march.
The JKPM senior Vice Chairman,
Mir Shahid Saleem, in a statement
issued in Jammu said that the
authorities action was totally
undemocratic and against the
freedom of expression. He said that
imposition of restrictions on the
activities and movement of the
APHC leaders time and again
showed how much India was
scared of the popularity of the
resistance leadership in the
territory. He maintained that such
oppressive tactics could not prevent
the Kashmiris from continuing their
struggle to achieve their birthright,
the right to self-determination.
Puppet regime foils Municipal Park march
Prevents ACC to celebrate golden jubilee
Report
The rally, led by JKLF supreme
leader, Amanullah Khan, was
attended by a large number of party
leaders and activists.
A memorandum to the UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was
handed over to the officials of UN
Observers Office in Islamabad, on
the occasion, said a JKLF
spokesman in a statement issued in
Srinagar.
The memorandum drew attention
of Ban Ki-moon towards the
worsening human rights situation,
arrest and harassment of pro-
freedom leaders and activists and
settlement of non-Kashmiris in the
occupied territory.
Amanullah Khan, while paying
tributes to Muhammad Yasin
Maliks courage and passion said,
The jails and incarcerations could
not break our will and our
liberation struggle will continue till
the achievement of desired goal.
Meanwhile, a meeting of members
of JKLF Supreme Council and zonal
and district bodies was held under
the chairmanship of partys Vice
Chairman, Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, in Srinagar. The
meeting strongly condemned the
continued detention of Muhammad
Yasin Malik and other JKLF leaders.
The participants said that these
undemocratic and oppressive
measures could not subdue the
resolve of Kashmiri people and
their march towards freedom
would continue till complete
success.
On June 27, the JKLF took out a
protest rally from Madina Chowk
to Budshah Chowk in Srinagar and
held a protest sit-in as part of its
ongoing Quit Kashmir campaign.
The rally was led by Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal. A large number
of party leaders and activists
besides people from all walks of life
participated in the rally and sit-in.
They raised high-pitched anti-India
and pro-freedom slogans.
Addressing the rally, the JKLF
leaders denounced the continued
detention of Muhammad Yasin
Malik and other party leaders and
activist
including
Bashir
Ahmed
Butt,
Showkat
Ahmed
Bakhshi and
Noor
Muhammad
Kalwal.
Earlier on
June 21, the
Washington
-based
Kashmiri
American Council (KAC) extended
its full support to the JKLF
programmes in connection with the
Quit Kashmir campaign.
The KAC in a statement strongly
denounced the move by RSS and
BJP to observe June 23 as a day of
integration of Jammu and Kashmir
with India. It has been noted that
since the current government came
to power they are planning to
execute their sinister design to
accommodate refugees as the state
subjects so that demographics can
be changed and Muslim majority
status be compromised. This is
flagrant violation of international
law and United Nations Security
Council resolutions that can have
serious repercussions in highly
unstable region of South Asia, it
added.
On the other hand, the High Court
Bar Association of occupied
Kashmir also announced to support
the JKLFs programmes. The HCBA
made the announcement at a
meeting of the memebers of its
Executive and Advisory
Committees held at Sadder Court
Complex in Srinagar where it
discussed various issues including
those relating to the new challenges
to the Kashmir liberation
movement.
The HCBA members also paid
glowing tributes to all the Kashmiri
martyrs who have laid down their
lives for the Kashmir cause and
pledged to keep playing an
effective role in the ongoing
liberation movement for taking it to
its logical conclusion.
Report
In occupied Kashmir, complete
shutdown was observed on June 23,
2014, to mark the commencement of
All shops, business establishments
and educational institutions
remained closed while attendance
in many government offices was
thin. Public transport was off the
road.
Call for the shutdown and a march
towards Srinagars Lal Chowk was
given by the Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, to start
the campaign and to seek attention
of the international community
towards the plight of the people of
occupied Kashmir. It was also
aimed at giving a befitting reply to
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which observed the day (the
death anniversary of RSS founder,
Shayma Prasad Mukherjee) as
complete integration of Jammu and
Kashmir with the Union of India.
Indian police arrested Muhammad
Yasin Malik and scores of his
associates when they tried to
conduct the march. The authorities
had imposed curfew and strict
restrictions in Srinagar by placing
concertina wires on all the entry
and exit points of the city to
prevent the JKLF leaders from
leading the march.
movement in Maisuma and
Kralkhud areas to foil the Lal
Chowk march. The police had
sealed all exit and entry points to
Maisuma, the native area of
Muhammad Yasin Malik. Heavy
contingents of police and
paramilitary troops were deployed
to thwart anti-India
demonstrations.
The JKLF Chairman, who had gone
into hiding two days before to
evade arrest, surfaced in Maisuma
along with dozens of his
supporters. They raised pro-
freedom slogans and started
marching towards the Lal Chowk.
However, contingents of police
intercepted Yasin Malik and his
supporters who gave stiff resistance
to the forces but were eventually
bundled in police vehicles and
lodged at Kothi Bagh Police Station.
Those detained by the police
included Bashir Ahmad Butt,
Showkat Ahmed Bakhshi, Noor
Muhammad Kalwal, Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, Mushtaq Ajmal,
Khalid Mubarak, Muhammad Ishaq
Ganai, Bashir Kashmiri and Javed
Ahmad Butt.
Before the start of the Quit Kashmir
campaign, the police and
paramilitary personnel had arrested
hundreds of JKLF leaders and
activists during their full-fledged
crackdown throughout the Valley.
The arrested leaders included
Engineer Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidhi,
Muhammad Yasin Butt and Sheikh
Abdul Rasheed.
On June 24, Indian police shifted
Muhammad Yasin Malik along
with several JKLF leaders from
Kothi Bagh Police Station to
Srinagar Central Jail.
The JKLF spokesman in a statement
denouncing the arrests said that
freedom movement could not be
suppressed through use of brute
force.
Earlier on June 14, Muhammad
Yasin Malik addressing JKLF
supporters at the partys
headquarters at Maisuma after
being re-elected as JKLF Chairman
for next three years, urged the
people to make the Quit Kashmir
campaign a success by massively
participating in its programmes. He
said that after the 1975 Indira-
Abdullah accord, which was an
attempt to bury the Kashmir
movement, liberation leader,
Muhammad Maqbool Butt, rose to
the occasion and resisted the move.
He said that Muhammad Maqbool
Butt infused fresh life into the
movement with his blood.
Yasin Malik said that the Kashmir
struggle was in a critical phase right
now. He said that there was
deliberate attempt to create
confusion among the people over
the Article 370, which gives special
status to Jammu and Kashmir.
On June 25, the JKLF organised a
protest rally in Islamabad, Pakistan,
in solidarity with the Quit Kashmir
campaign launched by the party
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, in occupied Kashmir.
JKLF launches Quit Kashmir movement
IOK authorities thwart Lal Chowk march
Report
Thousands of people subjected
to torture in IOK since 1989
In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops and police personnel have
subjected over one hundred thousand Kashmiris including men and
women to torture during the past 25 years.
This was revealed in a report released by the Research Section of
Kashmir Media Service, on June 26, 2014, on the occasion of the UN
International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The report
pointed out that the occupation forces used mental and physical
torture as a weapon to terrorise the people of Kashmir and intimidate
them into submission.
The report added that besides over one hundred and twenty six
thousand people who were arrested, thousands of other civilians
including aged men and women, students and children in the
occupied territory were subjected to severe physical torture by Indian
paramilitary and police personnel due to the impunity they enjoyed
under black laws.
The rally, led by JKLF supreme
leader, Amanullah Khan, was
attended by a large number of party
leaders and activists.
A memorandum to the UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was
handed over to the officials of UN
Observers Office in Islamabad, on
the occasion, said a JKLF
spokesman in a statement issued in
Srinagar.
The memorandum drew attention
of Ban Ki-moon towards the
worsening human rights situation,
arrest and harassment of pro-
freedom leaders and activists and
settlement of non-Kashmiris in the
occupied territory.
Amanullah Khan, while paying
tributes to Muhammad Yasin
Maliks courage and passion said,
The jails and incarcerations could
not break our will and our
liberation struggle will continue till
the achievement of desired goal.
Meanwhile, a meeting of members
of JKLF Supreme Council and zonal
and district bodies was held under
the chairmanship of partys Vice
Chairman, Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, in Srinagar. The
meeting strongly condemned the
continued detention of Muhammad
Yasin Malik and other JKLF leaders.
The participants said that these
undemocratic and oppressive
measures could not subdue the
resolve of Kashmiri people and
their march towards freedom
would continue till complete
success.
On June 27, the JKLF took out a
protest rally from Madina Chowk
to Budshah Chowk in Srinagar and
held a protest sit-in as part of its
ongoing Quit Kashmir campaign.
The rally was led by Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal. A large number
of party leaders and activists
besides people from all walks of life
participated in the rally and sit-in.
They raised high-pitched anti-India
and pro-freedom slogans.
Addressing the rally, the JKLF
leaders denounced the continued
detention of Muhammad Yasin
Malik and other party leaders and
activist
including
Bashir
Ahmed
Butt,
Showkat
Ahmed
Bakhshi and
Noor
Muhammad
Kalwal.
Earlier on
June 21, the
Washington
-based
Kashmiri
American Council (KAC) extended
its full support to the JKLF
programmes in connection with the
The KAC in a statement strongly
denounced the move by RSS and
BJP to observe June 23 as a day of
integration of Jammu and Kashmir
with India. It has been noted that
since the current government came
to power they are planning to
execute their sinister design to
accommodate refugees as the state
subjects so that demographics can
be changed and Muslim majority
status be compromised. This is
flagrant violation of international
law and United Nations Security
Council resolutions that can have
serious repercussions in highly
unstable region of South Asia, it
added.
On the other hand, the High Court
Bar Association of occupied
Kashmir also announced to support
the JKLFs programmes. The HCBA
made the announcement at a
meeting of the memebers of its
Executive and Advisory
Committees held at Sadder Court
Complex in Srinagar where it
discussed various issues including
those relating to the new challenges
to the Kashmir liberation
movement.
The HCBA members also paid
glowing tributes to all the Kashmiri
martyrs who have laid down their
lives for the Kashmir cause and
pledged to keep playing an
effective role in the ongoing
liberation movement for taking it to
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shutdown was observed on June 23,
2014, to mark the commencement of
All shops, business establishments
and educational institutions
remained closed while attendance
in many government offices was
thin. Public transport was off the
road.
Call for the shutdown and a march
towards Srinagars Lal Chowk was
given by the Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, to start
the campaign and to seek attention
of the international community
towards the plight of the people of
occupied Kashmir. It was also
aimed at giving a befitting reply to
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), which observed the day (the
death anniversary of RSS founder,
Shayma Prasad Mukherjee) as
complete integration of Jammu and
Kashmir with the Union of India.
Indian police arrested Muhammad
Yasin Malik and scores of his
associates when they tried to
conduct the march. The authorities
had imposed curfew and strict
restrictions in Srinagar by placing
concertina wires on all the entry
and exit points of the city to
prevent the JKLF leaders from
leading the march.
movement in Maisuma and
Kralkhud areas to foil the Lal
Chowk march. The police had
sealed all exit and entry points to
Maisuma, the native area of
Muhammad Yasin Malik. Heavy
contingents of police and
paramilitary troops were deployed
to thwart anti-India
demonstrations.
The JKLF Chairman, who had gone
into hiding two days before to
evade arrest, surfaced in Maisuma
along with dozens of his
supporters. They raised pro-
freedom slogans and started
marching towards the Lal Chowk.
However, contingents of police
intercepted Yasin Malik and his
supporters who gave stiff resistance
to the forces but were eventually
bundled in police vehicles and
lodged at Kothi Bagh Police Station.
Those detained by the police
included Bashir Ahmad Butt,
Showkat Ahmed Bakhshi, Noor
Muhammad Kalwal, Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, Mushtaq Ajmal,
Khalid Mubarak, Muhammad Ishaq
Ganai, Bashir Kashmiri and Javed
Ahmad Butt.
Before the start of the Quit Kashmir
campaign, the police and
paramilitary personnel had arrested
hundreds of JKLF leaders and
activists during their full-fledged
crackdown throughout the Valley.
The arrested leaders included
Engineer Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidhi,
Abdul Rasheed.
On June 24, Indian police shifted
Muhammad Yasin Malik along
with several JKLF leaders from
Kothi Bagh Police Station to
The JKLF spokesman in a statement
denouncing the arrests said that
freedom movement could not be
suppressed through use of brute
force.
Earlier on June 14, Muhammad
Yasin Malik addressing JKLF
supporters at the partys
headquarters at Maisuma after
being re-elected as JKLF Chairman
for next three years, urged the
people to make the Quit Kashmir
campaign a success by massively
participating in its programmes. He
said that after the 1975 Indira-
Abdullah accord, which was an
attempt to bury the Kashmir
movement, liberation leader,
Muhammad Maqbool Butt, rose to
the occasion and resisted the move.
He said that Muhammad Maqbool
Butt infused fresh life into the
movement with his blood.
Yasin Malik said that the Kashmir
struggle was in a critical phase right
now. He said that there was
deliberate attempt to create
confusion among the people over
the Article 370, which gives special
status to Jammu and Kashmir.
On June 25, the JKLF organised a
protest rally in Islamabad, Pakistan,
in solidarity with the Quit Kashmir
campaign launched by the party
Malik, in occupied Kashmir.
JKLF launches Quit Kashmir movement
IOK authorities thwart Lal Chowk march
Report
Thousands of people subjected
to torture in IOK since 1989
In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops and police personnel have
subjected over one hundred thousand Kashmiris including men and
women to torture during the past 25 years.
This was revealed in a report released by the Research Section of
Kashmir Media Service, on June 26, 2014, on the occasion of the UN
International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The report
pointed out that the occupation forces used mental and physical
torture as a weapon to terrorise the people of Kashmir and intimidate
them into submission.
The report added that besides over one hundred and twenty six
thousand people who were arrested, thousands of other civilians
including aged men and women, students and children in the
occupied territory were subjected to severe physical torture by Indian
paramilitary and police personnel due to the impunity they enjoyed
under black laws.
Pakistan President, Mamnoon
Hussain, on June 2, 2014, said that
his country wanted to resolve the
Kashmir dispute in accordance with
the aspirations of the people of
Jammu and Kashmir and the
relevant UN resolutions.
President Mamnoon Hussain in his
maiden address to the joint session
of the two Houses of the Parliament
at the start of the second parliamen-
tary year on June 2 said that the
Kashmir dispute should be
resolved according to the UN
resolutions and aspirations of the
Kashmiri people.
He also recalled Prime Minister,
Mohammad Nawaz Sharifs visit to
India to attend the swearing-in
ceremony of Narendra Modi as
Prime Minister saying that the visit
was indicative of a desire to build
peaceful relations with the neigh-
bouring country.
In occupied Kashmir, Hurriyet
leaders and organizations
welcomed President Mamnoon
Hussains statement on Kashmir
hoping that the government of
Pakistan will continue to support
the Kashmiris ongoing liberation
struggle.
Hurriyet leaders including Mukhtar
Ahmad Waza, Yasmeen Raja, Zafar
Akbar Butt, Javed Ahmad Mir,
Syed Bashir Andrabi, Zamruda
Habib, Farida Behanji, Fridous
Ahmad Shah and Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed in their statements issued
in Srinagar urged India to accept
the reality of the Kashmir dispute
and come forward to resolve it,
once and for all.
They thanked Pakistan for contin-
uing its moral, political and
diplomatic support to the Kashmir
cause.
The Jammu and Kashmir Muslim
League in a statement in Srinagar
said, Jammu and Kashmir Muslim
League believes that Kashmir is a
natural part of Pakistan and this
dream will certainly be translated
into reality. The government of
Pakistan should not demonstrate
any weakness at any level vis--vis
the Kashmir issue.
Pak President for Kashmir settlement as per UN resolutions
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Mirwaiz, Gilani denied passports
Prevented from attending OIC conference
The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali
Gilani, could not attend the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation due to non-issuance of travel
documents to them by the Indian authorities.
Hurriyet leaders had been invited by the OIC Secretary General, Iyad Ameen Madani, to the two days session of
OICs Council of Foreign Ministers which was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 18 and 19.
In the invitation to the Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders, the OIC General Secretary had described them as true represen-
tatives of the Kashmiri people.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was invited by the OIC to attend the meeting in Jeddah. However, the Indian government
did not issue passport and other travel documents to him for his journey to Saudi Arabia, Mirwaizs spokesman,
Shahid-ul-Islam, said in a media interview.
Syed Ali Gilanis spokesman, Ayaz Akbar, in a statement said, Syed Ali Gilani has not been issued passport and
other necessary travel documents by the authorities. He said that the authorities were afraid of the popularity and
the stand of the elderly leader and for this reason had been repeatedly denying passport and other travel docu-
ments to him.
Earlier on June 13, the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in an interview in Srinagar called upon the OIC to
play an effective role in resolving the Kashmir dispute.
He said that the concern shown by the OIC recently over the plight of the Kashmiris had generated a hope among
the people of the occupied territory. He maintained that the OIC had a role in the Kashmir resolution and that as an
institution it must use its good offices so that the long-pending dispute could be settled in accordance with the
Kashmiris aspirations.
It is to mention here that the Foreign Ministers of Muslim countries meet once a year and discuss the issues
confronting the Muslim world.
shutdown was observed on June
24, 2014, against the killing of a
youth by Indian troops in Sopore
town.
Call for the shutdown was given by
the All Parties Hurriyet Conference
the veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed
Ali Gilani and senior Hurriyet
leader, Shabbir Ahmed Shah.
Shops, businesses establishments,
educational institutions and private
offices remained closed while
public transport was off the road.
The authorities had deployed
hundreds of police and
paramilitary personnel in Srinagar
and other major towns of the
occupied territory and imposed
curfew in Sopore to prevent people
from holding demonstrations
against the killing.
Indian forces had blocked all exit
and entry points to the Sopore
town to stop movement of people
and traffic. They had also erected
barricades at Sopore Chowk,
Sangerhama, Chankhan, Batpora,
Degree College Road, Iqbal Market
and Sopore Bus Stand.
Despite heavy presence of the
troops and cops, people staged
forceful demonstrations in many
areas. Several protesters were
injured when Indian forces
personnel used brute force to break
up the demonstrations at many
places.
The youth, Arshad Ahmed Shah,
was killed while over a dozen
people were injured when Indian
troops resorted to indiscriminate
firing on peaceful demonstrations
in Krankshivan area of Sopore on
June 23.
Witnesses said that the troops had
opened fire without any
provocation. According to doctors
at sub-district hospital Sopore,
Arshad Ahmed had received a
bullet in his chest and was brought
dead to the hospital.
As the news of Arshads killing
spread, thousands of people took
to the streets and blocked main
roads in Sopore. They shouted pro-
freedom and anti-India slogans.
The occupation authorities
imposed curfew and sealed the
Sopore town by placing concertina
wires on all entry points. However,
people defying curfew and
restrictions took to the streets in the
town and held forceful anti-India
demonstrations.
The puppet authorities had placed
Hurriyet leaders including Mirwaiz
Maulana Abbas Ansari, Shabbir
Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Ashraf
Sehrai, Zafar Akbar Butt and
Nayeem Ahmed Khan under house
arrest. The JKLF Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, along
with several party leaders was
already under illegal detention.
The action was taken to stop the
leaders from visiting Sopore and
expressing solidarity with the
family of the martyred youth.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a
statement issued in Srinagar
strongly denounced the killing. He
said that every time an innocent
Kashmiri was martyred, probe was
ordered to hoodwink the people
and the troops and police
personnel involved in these killings
were never brought to justice.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement in
Srinagar termed the troops action
as the worst kind of state terrorism
and lawlessness. He condemned
the imposition of curfew after the
killing and said, It is the shameful
act on part of the puppet
administration that on one hand,
the troops and cops are killing
innocent people, while on the
other, we are not allowed to
express solidarity with their
families.
Senior Hurriyet leader, Shabbir
Ahmed Shah, while expressing
anguish on the firing incident said
that killing of youth in Kashmir
was unacceptable. He deplored
that showering of bullets on
peaceful protesters had been the
practice of Indian forces in the
territory.
The JKLF denouncing the killing
said that ongoing freedom
movement could not be suppressed
through use of brute force.
Hurriyet leaders including Aasiya
Andrabi, Zafar Akbar Butt,
Yasmeen Raja, Mukhtar Ahmed
Waza, Javed Ahmed Mir, Nayeem
Ahmed Khan, Syed Bashir
Andrabi, Hilal Ahmed War,
Muhammad Yousuf Naqash,
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani,
Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Zamruda
Habib, Farida Behanji, Firdous
Ahmed Shah, Abdul Ahad Parra,
Barrister Abdul Majeed Tramboo
and Jamaat-e-Islami of the
occupied territory in their
statements paid glowing tributes to
the martyred youth. They said that
India could not suppress the
Kashmiris liberation struggle
through its military might. They
demanded stern punishment to the
troops involved in the killing. They
urged the world human rights
organizations to take cognizance of
such incidents and use their good
offices to stop the human rights
abuses by Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir.
Human rights defenders,
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, Abdul
Qadeer Dar and Abdur Rauf Khan,
described the incident as gruesome
murder and the worst example of
state terrorism.
Kashmiris protest killing of youth in Sopore
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and dilute its special status by
revoking Article 370 were the
biggest challenges to the pro-
freedom leadership.
Addressing on the occasion,
President of the High Court Bar
Association, Advocate Mian Abdul
Qayoom, expressed concern over
settlement of Pandits in particular
areas in the Kashmir Valley. He
said that the Kashmiri people were
not against return of Pandits, but
they should put up where they
were previously residing alongside
their Muslim brethren. He said that
Article 370 might have been
hollowed out due to its gradual
erosion but still remained relevant
as it reminded the government and
people of India of their commit-
ment of giving the Kashmiris their
right to self-determination.
Advocate Nazir Ahmad Ronga said
that Kashmirs resources were
being destroyed apace and it would
prove an irreparable loss to the
Kashmiris.
The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-
Millat, Aasiya Andrabi, said that
the biggest challenge before the
pro-freedom leadership was to
counter the Indias designs to
change the demographic
complexion of the territory.
The Chairman of Jammu and
Kashmir National Front, Nayeem
Ahmad Khan, vowed that the
Kashmiris would sacrifice anything
and everything for the freedom
movement.
The seminar was addressed among
others by Advocate G N Shaheen,
Advocate N A Tabassum, Advocate
Muhammad Amin, Advocate Syed
Manzoor, Advocate Arshad
Andrabi, Meraj-ud-Din Kalwal,
Shakeel Qalander, Dr Nisar-ul-
Hassan and Abdul Samad.
Hurriyet leaders including Zafar
Akbar Butt, Yasmeen Raja, Mukhtar
Ahmed Waza, Javed Ahmed Mir,
Muhammad Azam Inqilabi,
Zamruda Habib, Farida Behenji,
Farooq Ahmed Dar and
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in
their statements said that India
wanted to polarise the Kashmiri
civil society on communal lines by
carving out the so-called separate
satellite towns for the Kashmiri
Pandits.
On the other hand, the traders of
occupied Kashmir during a
gathering in Srinagar said that they
would resist the setting up of
satellite cities for the Kashmiri
Pandits in the Valley and threat-
ened to launch a 2008-like agitation
in the territory if the authorities
went ahead with the move.
President of Kashmir Economic
Alliance, Muhammad Yaseen Khan,
addressing the gathering said, We
are not against return of the Pandits
to their homeland. We will
welcome them. They are as much
part of this land as we are. But we
wont allow satellite cities for them
in the Valley. We will resist it tooth
and nail.
The Kashmir Centre for Social and
Development Studies, a civil society
group, in a statement in Srinagar
expressed serious concern over
Indias designs to make three
settlements for Kashmiri Pandits in
the territory. It termed the decision
as an attempt to create a state
within the state. The KCSDS said
that the people of Kashmir were not
against the return of the Kashmiri
Pandits but settling them in
separate cities.
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leadership has castigated Indian
designs to change the demography
of the territory under the garb of
setting up separate settlements for
the Kashmiri Pandits in the
Kashmir Valley.
The Chairman of All Parties
Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, while addressing a
function in Srinagar on June 15 said
that Jammu and Kashmir had
always been a Muslim majority area
and any plan to change its demog-
raphy would be opposed tooth and
nail. He said that the people of
Kashmir were offering supreme
sacrifices for freedom from Indian
bondage and India was mistaken if
it thought that it could suppress the
liberation sentiment of Kashmiri
people by subjecting them to
different methods of oppression
and suppression. He reiterated the
Kashmiris resolve to continue the
ongoing liberation struggle till it
The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed
Ali Gilani, addressing a public
gathering at Hyderpora Chowk in
Srinagar on June 11 strongly
opposed the Indian plan to change
the demographic complexion of the
territory by pushing non-state
subjects into Jammu region and
issuing them Permanent Resident
Certificates. He said that communal
elements were trying to sabotage
the freedom movement by creating
divisions on ethnic and religious
lines.
Speakers at a seminar titled
Demands of Present Situation,
which was presided over by Syed
Ali Gilani at Hyderpora in Srinagar
on June 22, said that India under a
well thought out plan was trying to
settle non-Kashmiris in the Valley.
Syed Ali Gilani in his address said
that New Delhi was hatching a
conspiracy to change the demog-
raphy of Jammu and Kashmir by
setting up
three cities to
settle non-
locals in the
Valley. He said
that the move
was aimed at
weakening the
Kashmiris
ongoing
movement for
securing their
right to self-
determination.
We will
mobilise public opinion and build
consensus with pro-freedom parties
to foil Delhis plan, he maintained.
The veteran leader said that he had
credible information that the Indian
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,
and Home Minister, Rajnath Singh,
during their meeting with the
puppet Chief Minister of occupied
Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, sought
16,800 kanals of land at three places
in north, south and central Kashmir
to establish three cities to settle non-
locals on the pretext of rehabilita-
tion of Kashmiri Pandits. New
Delhi wants to settle even Hindu
extremists, RSS activists and armed
persons in these cities. This move is
aimed at changing the demography
of Kashmir, he added.
Elaborating, he said, the Bharitiaya
Janata Party-led government in
New Delhi wants to change Muslim
majority into a minority in Jammu
and Kashmir. The BJP, which
religiously pursues RSS ideology,
wants to suppress Kashmiri
Muslims to weaken our ongoing
movement for freedom, he stated.
I can say with authority that there
is not a single person in Kashmir
who is against return of Kashmiri
Pandits. However, they must be
settled in their own homes and not
in special zones as they are the
integral part of our culture, he
said.
Ahmad Shah, addressing the
participants on the occasion said,
New Delhi has been making
attempts to defame our just cause
for freedom. It is high time for
Kashmiris and pro-freedom camp
to forge greater unity among their
ranks to take the movement to its
logical conclusion. He said that the
Kashmiris were determined to
continue their struggle for right to
self-determination till complete
success.
Other speakers pointed out that
New Delhi was also working on a
plan to make Hindu settlements
under the garb of Amarnath Yatra
in occupied Kashmir. They warned
that a mass movement would be
launched if India continued with its
policy of damaging the Muslim
majority character of Jammu and
Kashmir. The speakers included
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mian
Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Majeed
Zargar, Dr Javed Iqbal, Shaikh
Showkat Hussain, Ghulam Nabi
Sumjhi and Ayaz Akbar.
The speakers at a seminar titled
New Challenges to Resistance
Movement, which was organised
by High Court Bar Association of
occupied Kashmir at Sadder Court
Complex in Srinagar on June 25
said that countering Indias designs
to change the demographic
character of Jammu and Kashmir
Indian designs to change
demography of IOK condemned
Hurriyet leaders to work with coordination
The Syed Ali Gilani-led
Hurriyat forum and the
Shabbir Ahmed Shah-led
Hurriyat Conference Jammu
and Kashmir announced on
June 11, 2014, to work jointly
on the issues facing the
Kashmir movement.
Led by Syed Ali Gilani, both
the Hurriyet factions partici-
pated in a sit-in protest at
Hyderpora after the police
foiled a seminar organized by Syed Ali Gilanis forum on the 2010 killings.
Syed Ali Gilani had extended invitations to Hurriyet leaders including
Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash
and others to participate in the seminar. However, as police foiled the event,
leaders and supporters of the two factions broke the police cordon and held
a sit-in protest on the Airport Road.
We have decided to work on common issues jointly, Syed Ali Gilani said
on the occasion.
Shabbir Ahmed Shah also said that the two factions would work jointly on
common issues. When asked if he was hinting at a future alliance, he said,
We have almost the same stand on the Kashmir issue and we have decided
to work jointly on certain issues and it may take any form in the future, as
the leaders of both the factions participated in the sit-in protest at
Hyderpora after the police foiled the seminar.
Syed Ali Gilani also threatened an agitation if the government of India
carved out separate zones for Kashmiri migrant Pandits in the Valley and
rehabilitated the refugees of 1947 in Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits
are part and parcel of Kashmiri society and are our brethren. We will
welcome their return to their homeland, he said.
Shabbir Shah said he held a similar stand on the issues.
and dilute its special status by
revoking Article 370 were the
biggest challenges to the pro-
freedom leadership.
Addressing on the occasion,
President of the High Court Bar
Association, Advocate Mian Abdul
Qayoom, expressed concern over
settlement of Pandits in particular
areas in the Kashmir Valley. He
said that the Kashmiri people were
not against return of Pandits, but
they should put up where they
were previously residing alongside
their Muslim brethren. He said that
Article 370 might have been
hollowed out due to its gradual
erosion but still remained relevant
as it reminded the government and
people of India of their commit-
ment of giving the Kashmiris their
right to self-determination.
Advocate Nazir Ahmad Ronga said
that Kashmirs resources were
being destroyed apace and it would
prove an irreparable loss to the
Kashmiris.
The Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-
Millat, Aasiya Andrabi, said that
the biggest challenge before the
pro-freedom leadership was to
counter the Indias designs to
change the demographic
complexion of the territory.
The Chairman of Jammu and
Kashmir National Front, Nayeem
Ahmad Khan, vowed that the
Kashmiris would sacrifice anything
and everything for the freedom
movement.
The seminar was addressed among
others by Advocate G N Shaheen,
Advocate N A Tabassum, Advocate
Muhammad Amin, Advocate Syed
Manzoor, Advocate Arshad
Andrabi, Meraj-ud-Din Kalwal,
Shakeel Qalander, Dr Nisar-ul-
Hassan and Abdul Samad.
Hurriyet leaders including Zafar
Akbar Butt, Yasmeen Raja, Mukhtar
Ahmed Waza, Javed Ahmed Mir,
Muhammad Azam Inqilabi,
Zamruda Habib, Farida Behenji,
Farooq Ahmed Dar and
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani in
their statements said that India
wanted to polarise the Kashmiri
civil society on communal lines by
carving out the so-called separate
satellite towns for the Kashmiri
Pandits.
On the other hand, the traders of
occupied Kashmir during a
gathering in Srinagar said that they
would resist the setting up of
satellite cities for the Kashmiri
Pandits in the Valley and threat-
ened to launch a 2008-like agitation
in the territory if the authorities
went ahead with the move.
President of Kashmir Economic
Alliance, Muhammad Yaseen Khan,
addressing the gathering said, We
are not against return of the Pandits
to their homeland. We will
welcome them. They are as much
part of this land as we are. But we
wont allow satellite cities for them
in the Valley. We will resist it tooth
and nail.
The Kashmir Centre for Social and
Development Studies, a civil society
group, in a statement in Srinagar
expressed serious concern over
Indias designs to make three
settlements for Kashmiri Pandits in
the territory. It termed the decision
as an attempt to create a state
within the state. The KCSDS said
that the people of Kashmir were not
against the return of the Kashmiri
Pandits but settling them in
separate cities.
Report
Report
leadership has castigated Indian
designs to change the demography
of the territory under the garb of
setting up separate settlements for
the Kashmiri Pandits in the
Kashmir Valley.
The Chairman of All Parties
Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, while addressing a
function in Srinagar on June 15 said
that Jammu and Kashmir had
always been a Muslim majority area
and any plan to change its demog-
raphy would be opposed tooth and
nail. He said that the people of
Kashmir were offering supreme
sacrifices for freedom from Indian
bondage and India was mistaken if
it thought that it could suppress the
liberation sentiment of Kashmiri
people by subjecting them to
different methods of oppression
and suppression. He reiterated the
Kashmiris resolve to continue the
ongoing liberation struggle till it
The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed
Ali Gilani, addressing a public
gathering at Hyderpora Chowk in
Srinagar on June 11 strongly
opposed the Indian plan to change
the demographic complexion of the
territory by pushing non-state
subjects into Jammu region and
issuing them Permanent Resident
Certificates. He said that communal
elements were trying to sabotage
the freedom movement by creating
divisions on ethnic and religious
lines.
Speakers at a seminar titled
Demands of Present Situation,
which was presided over by Syed
Ali Gilani at Hyderpora in Srinagar
on June 22, said that India under a
well thought out plan was trying to
settle non-Kashmiris in the Valley.
Syed Ali Gilani in his address said
that New Delhi was hatching a
conspiracy to change the demog-
raphy of Jammu and Kashmir by
setting up
three cities to
settle non-
locals in the
Valley. He said
that the move
was aimed at
weakening the
Kashmiris
ongoing
movement for
securing their
right to self-
determination.
We will
mobilise public opinion and build
consensus with pro-freedom parties
to foil Delhis plan, he maintained.
The veteran leader said that he had
credible information that the Indian
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,
and Home Minister, Rajnath Singh,
during their meeting with the
puppet Chief Minister of occupied
Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, sought
16,800 kanals of land at three places
in north, south and central Kashmir
to establish three cities to settle non-
locals on the pretext of rehabilita-
tion of Kashmiri Pandits. New
Delhi wants to settle even Hindu
extremists, RSS activists and armed
persons in these cities. This move is
aimed at changing the demography
of Kashmir, he added.
Elaborating, he said, the Bharitiaya
Janata Party-led government in
New Delhi wants to change Muslim
majority into a minority in Jammu
and Kashmir. The BJP, which
religiously pursues RSS ideology,
wants to suppress Kashmiri
Muslims to weaken our ongoing
movement for freedom, he stated.
I can say with authority that there
is not a single person in Kashmir
who is against return of Kashmiri
Pandits. However, they must be
settled in their own homes and not
in special zones as they are the
integral part of our culture, he
said.
Ahmad Shah, addressing the
participants on the occasion said,
New Delhi has been making
attempts to defame our just cause
for freedom. It is high time for
Kashmiris and pro-freedom camp
to forge greater unity among their
ranks to take the movement to its
logical conclusion. He said that the
Kashmiris were determined to
continue their struggle for right to
self-determination till complete
success.
Other speakers pointed out that
New Delhi was also working on a
plan to make Hindu settlements
under the garb of Amarnath Yatra
in occupied Kashmir. They warned
that a mass movement would be
launched if India continued with its
policy of damaging the Muslim
majority character of Jammu and
Kashmir. The speakers included
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Mian
Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Majeed
Zargar, Dr Javed Iqbal, Shaikh
Showkat Hussain, Ghulam Nabi
Sumjhi and Ayaz Akbar.
The speakers at a seminar titled
New Challenges to Resistance
Movement, which was organised
by High Court Bar Association of
occupied Kashmir at Sadder Court
Complex in Srinagar on June 25
said that countering Indias designs
to change the demographic
character of Jammu and Kashmir
Indian designs to change
demography of IOK condemned
Hurriyet leaders to work with coordination
The Syed Ali Gilani-led
Hurriyat forum and the
Shabbir Ahmed Shah-led
Hurriyat Conference Jammu
and Kashmir announced on
June 11, 2014, to work jointly
on the issues facing the
Kashmir movement.
Led by Syed Ali Gilani, both
the Hurriyet factions partici-
pated in a sit-in protest at
Hyderpora after the police
foiled a seminar organized by Syed Ali Gilanis forum on the 2010 killings.
Syed Ali Gilani had extended invitations to Hurriyet leaders including
Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Yousuf Naqash
and others to participate in the seminar. However, as police foiled the event,
leaders and supporters of the two factions broke the police cordon and held
a sit-in protest on the Airport Road.
We have decided to work on common issues jointly, Syed Ali Gilani said
on the occasion.
Shabbir Ahmed Shah also said that the two factions would work jointly on
common issues. When asked if he was hinting at a future alliance, he said,
We have almost the same stand on the Kashmir issue and we have decided
to work jointly on certain issues and it may take any form in the future, as
the leaders of both the factions participated in the sit-in protest at
Hyderpora after the police foiled the seminar.
Syed Ali Gilani also threatened an agitation if the government of India
carved out separate zones for Kashmiri migrant Pandits in the Valley and
rehabilitated the refugees of 1947 in Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits
are part and parcel of Kashmiri society and are our brethren. We will
welcome their return to their homeland, he said.
Shabbir Shah said he held a similar stand on the issues.
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following his release on court
orders in Srinagar.
June 17: Indian armed agents killed
a 30-year-old civilian, Munawar
Zaman Malik, at Arwani Chowk in
Bijbehara.
June 18: The puppet authorities
booked illegally detained Hurriyet
leader, Masarrat Aalam Butt, under
black law, Public Safety Act.
June 19: Indian troops killed three
youth, Adil Ahmed Shah, Adil
Ahmed Mir and Tariq Ahmed
Parray, during a siege and search
operation at Buchoo in Tral.
The puppet authorities placed
Hurriyet leaders, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan,
under house arrest in Srinagar to
prevent them from visiting
Islamabad town to pay tributes to
noted Kashmiri scholar, Dr Qazi
Nisar Ahmed, on his martyrdom
anniversary.
June 20: The occupation authorities
imposed severe restrictions in
Srinagar and other areas to prevent
Srinagar. Call for the march was
given by the All Parties Hurriyet
Umar Farooq, to commemorate the
golden jubilee of his party, Jammu
and Kashmir Awami Action
Committee. The authorities placed
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other
Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali
Gilani, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt,
Khan under house arrest and did
not allow them to offer Juma
prayers.
Indian police arrested Mukhtar
Ahmed Waza, Zafar Akbar Butt,
Syed Bashir Andrabi, Hakeem
Abdul Rasheed, Muhammad
Yousuf Naqash, Ghulam Nabi Zaki
and several other APHC leaders
and activists from various places
and lodged them in different police
stations.
June 21: Indian police arrested
Shah and Muhammad Yasin Attai,
at Pantha Chhoke in Srinagar while
they were on their way to Tral to
express solidarity with the families
of three youth, who were recently
martyred by Indian troops.
The police arrested a civilian,
Muhammad Nasrullah Mir, from
Batamaloo in Srinagar.
The police raided the residences of
JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, and several party leaders
and activists in Srinagar to prevent
JKLF from launching 'Quit Kashmir'
movement on June 23.
several JKLF leaders and activists
including Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, Engineer
Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidhi,
Abdul Rasheed to thwart the 'Quit
Kashmir' movement.
June 23: Indian troops killed a
youth during a siege and search
operation at Krankshivan in Sopore.
A student, Arshad Ahmed Shah,
was killed and several others were
injured when the troops opened
indiscriminate fire in the same area
on peaceful demonstrators, who
were protesting against the killing
of the youth.
Indian police and troops arrested
Yasin Malik, along with several
party activists at Maisuma in
Srinagar when they tried to conduct
a march towards Lal Chowk to
launch the 'Quit Kashmir'
movement.
The arrested JKLF leaders and
activists included Bashir Ahmed
Butt, Showkat Ahmed Bakhshi and
Noor Muhammad Kalwal.
The police arrested APHC leader,
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, when he
along with his supporters tried to
hold a protest demonstration in
Islamabad town.
June 24: The authorities put
Sehrai, Zafar Akbar Butt, Ayaz
Akbar, Peer Saifullah and Altaf
Ahmed Shah under house arrest.
Illegally detained JKLF Chairman,
with party leaders was shifted to
The actions were taken to prevent
the leaders from expressing
solidarity with the families of
youth, who were recently killed by
Indian troops in Sopore and Tral
areas.
June 25: A speedy Indian Army
truck deliberately hit and injured a
civilian at Hyderpora in Srinagar.
APHC leader, Ghulam Nabi Zaki,
was assaulted by Indian police
while he was on his way to Naseem
Bagh area of Sopore to express
solidarity with the family of a
youth, who was recently killed by
Indian troops.
The police arrested four members of
Shopian Majlis-e-Mushawrat
including its President, Abdul
Rasheed Dalal. The Majlis-e-
Mushawrat was constituted to seek
justice for the family of two
Kashmiri women, Aasiya and
Neelofar, who were abducted,
raped and subsequently murdered
by Indian men in uniform in
Shopian in 2009.
The authorities continued to place
Ahmed Shah under house arrest on
the second consecutive day.
June 26: Indian troops arrested
three youth, Irfan Malik, Parvaiz
Mir and Imtiyaz Mir, from Sopore.
Indian police resorted to teargas
shelling and baton-charge at
Sonawar in Srinagar to disperse the
demonstrators, who were
protesting against the killing of a
Kashmiri youth at Indore in Indian
state of Madhya Pradesh.
June 27: At least six people were
injured when Indian troops and
police personnel used brute force
on peaceful protesters in Sopore
town.
Shakeel Ahmed Ganai, a resident of
Kakapora area of Pulwama,
attempted to commit suicide after
continued harassment by Indian
Army and agencies.
The authorities barred Hurriyet
leaders, Syed Ali Gilani,
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Ayaz
Akbar and Altaf Ahmed Shah, from
offering Friday prayers by placing
them under house arrest.
June 29: Indian police detained
APHC leader, Mukhtar Ahmed
Waza, in Islamabad to prevent him
from visiting the families of the
martyrs in the town.
Human Rights Situation
June 1: Indian troops killed a youth
during a siege and search operation
at Sudal Magam in Handwara.
Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and
Kashmirs Tehsil President, Sabzar
Ahmed Dar, from Bijbehara.
June 3: The police arrested twenty
civilians including Aashiq Qadeer
Lone, Zubair Ahmed Butt, Abdul
Rasheed Mir, Javed Ahmed,
Muhammad Yousuf Reshi, Tariq
Ahmed Reshi, Wasim Ahmed
Reshi, Rayees Ahmed Reshi, Bilal
Ahmed Reshi and Irfan Manzoor
from Hardashiva in Sopore while
Irfan Ahmed Nagoo and Sajjad
Ahmed Butt from Keran in
Kupwara. The police also arrested
ten other youth from Pazalpora
Sopore and subjected them to
torture at Bomai Police Station.
An Indian Army Major at Haidar
Beig in Pattan subjected the youth
of Anderhama, Woosun and
Palhalan areas to mental and
physical torture after calling them
to an army camp.
June 4: The police arrested a
civilian, Imtiyaz Ahmed Lone,
along with his son, Irfan Ahmed
Lone, from Logripora in Sopore and
a dozen youth including a student,
Nayeem Ahmed Mir, from Janwara
area of Sopore. The police also took
an activist of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet
Jammu and Kashmir, Abdul
Rasheed Rather, into custody from
Sheeri area of Baramulla.
June 7: Two civilians, Muhammad
Amin Zargar and Bashir Ahmed
Hajam, besides four policemen
identified as Vikas Kumar, Meraj-u-
din, Shabbir Ahmed and Zahoor
Ahmed were injured in the cross-
firing between unknown attackers
and Indian police at Bonigam in
Shopian.
Indian police detained seven
persons in Badgam.
June 8: Indian troops killed two
youth, Bilal Ahmed Butt and
Mudasir Ahmed Sheikh, during a
violent siege and search operation in
Kakapora area of Pulwama.
The puppet authorities imposed
curfew in Pulwama town to prevent
people from holding
demonstrations against the killings.
June 9: The authorities continued to
impose curfew in Pulwama town on
the second consecutive day to
thwart demonstrations against
killing of the youth.
continued to enforce curfew in
Pulwama town on the third
successive day to stop people from
staging demonstrations against the
recent killing of two youth.
Indian police thrashed and beat up
two youth when they were on their
way to a bank.
A woman was critically injured after
an Indian Army vehicle deliberately
hit her in Kupwara district.
A 5th class girl student was
abducted and molested by members
of the Indian Army-backed so-called
Village Defence Committee in
Kishtwar.
June 11: Indian police resorted to
brute force and injured dozens of
people including APHC leaders,
Zafar Akbar Butt and Javed Ahmed
Mir, during a pro-freedom
demonstration in Srinagar. The
police took Yasmeen Raja and Syed
Bashir Andrabi along with several
Hurriyet leaders and activists into
custody on the occasion.
June 12: The police arrested
Shah, Farooq Ahmed Dar and
Shabbir Ahmed Dar, at Pantha
Chhoke in Srinagar to prevent them
from visiting families of the youth,
who were recently martyred by
Indian troops at Kakapora in
Pulwama.
Waza, from Ashmaqam and
Nayeem Ahmed Khan from
Trehgam after they addressed
public gatherings.
The puppet authorities continued to
place the veteran Hurriyet leader,
Syed Ali Gilani, under house arrest
and did not even allow him to offer
Juma prayers.
June 14: Indian police re-arrested
Hurriyet leader, Masarrat Aalam
Butt, soon after he reached his home
India has been resorting to the worst
kind of state terrorism in occupied
Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris
just struggle for securing their right
to self-determination and to continue
its illegal hold on Jammu and
Kashmir for the past over six
decades. It has given its troops and
police personnel unbridled powers
under draconian laws to kill the
innocent Kashmiris with impunity. It
has also imposed restrictions on the
political, social and religious
activities of Hurriyet leaders to
prevent them from reaching out to
the people and propagate their
ideologies.
The resistance leaders are not only
placed under house arrest or behind
the bars but also denied travel
documents to stop them from visiting
foreign countries and highlighting
the Kashmir dispute and the
sufferings of the people of occupied
Kashmir. This was again observed
recently when the Indian authorities
did not issue passports to the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference
and the veteran Hurriyet leader,
Syed Ali Gilani, to go to Saudi Arabia
and attend a meeting of the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
The leaders were invited by the OIC
Secretary General, Iyad Ameen
Madani, to attend the session of
OICs Council of Foreign Ministers
held in Jeddah on June 18 and 19,
2014.
Such actions fully expose Indias
claims of being the largest democracy
of the world. New Delhi needs to
understand that repressive measures
could not suppress the Kashmiris
liberation sentiment. The world
community must take cognizance of
the curbs imposed by India on the
activities of pro-liberation leaders
and ensure that they are allowed to
present their point of view.
Following is an account of human
rights violations by the Indian armed
forces in the disputed territory
during June 2014.
HR abuses in IOK during May 2014
Compiled by Raies Ahmad
following his release on court
orders in Srinagar.
June 17: Indian armed agents killed
a 30-year-old civilian, Munawar
Zaman Malik, at Arwani Chowk in
Bijbehara.
June 18: The puppet authorities
booked illegally detained Hurriyet
leader, Masarrat Aalam Butt, under
black law, Public Safety Act.
June 19: Indian troops killed three
youth, Adil Ahmed Shah, Adil
Ahmed Mir and Tariq Ahmed
Parray, during a siege and search
operation at Buchoo in Tral.
The puppet authorities placed
Shah and Nayeem Ahmed Khan,
under house arrest in Srinagar to
prevent them from visiting
Islamabad town to pay tributes to
noted Kashmiri scholar, Dr Qazi
Nisar Ahmed, on his martyrdom
anniversary.
imposed severe restrictions in
Srinagar and other areas to prevent
Srinagar. Call for the march was
given by the All Parties Hurriyet
Umar Farooq, to commemorate the
golden jubilee of his party, Jammu
and Kashmir Awami Action
Committee. The authorities placed
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and other
Hurriyet leaders including Syed Ali
Gilani, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt,
Khan under house arrest and did
not allow them to offer Juma
prayers.
Indian police arrested Mukhtar
Ahmed Waza, Zafar Akbar Butt,
Syed Bashir Andrabi, Hakeem
Abdul Rasheed, Muhammad
Yousuf Naqash, Ghulam Nabi Zaki
and several other APHC leaders
and activists from various places
and lodged them in different police
stations.
Shah and Muhammad Yasin Attai,
at Pantha Chhoke in Srinagar while
they were on their way to Tral to
express solidarity with the families
of three youth, who were recently
martyred by Indian troops.
The police arrested a civilian,
Muhammad Nasrullah Mir, from
Batamaloo in Srinagar.
The police raided the residences of
JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, and several party leaders
and activists in Srinagar to prevent
JKLF from launching 'Quit Kashmir'
movement on June 23.
several JKLF leaders and activists
including Master Sheikh
Muhammad Afzal, Engineer
Ghulam Rasool Dar Eidhi,
Abdul Rasheed to thwart the 'Quit
Kashmir' movement.
June 23: Indian troops killed a
youth during a siege and search
operation at Krankshivan in Sopore.
A student, Arshad Ahmed Shah,
was killed and several others were
injured when the troops opened
indiscriminate fire in the same area
on peaceful demonstrators, who
were protesting against the killing
of the youth.
Indian police and troops arrested
Yasin Malik, along with several
party activists at Maisuma in
Srinagar when they tried to conduct
a march towards Lal Chowk to
launch the 'Quit Kashmir'
movement.
The arrested JKLF leaders and
activists included Bashir Ahmed
Butt, Showkat Ahmed Bakhshi and
Noor Muhammad Kalwal.
The police arrested APHC leader,
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, when he
along with his supporters tried to
hold a protest demonstration in
Islamabad town.
June 24: The authorities put
Ahmed Shah under house arrest.
Illegally detained JKLF Chairman,
with party leaders was shifted to
The actions were taken to prevent
the leaders from expressing
solidarity with the families of
youth, who were recently killed by
Indian troops in Sopore and Tral
areas.
June 25: A speedy Indian Army
truck deliberately hit and injured a
civilian at Hyderpora in Srinagar.
APHC leader, Ghulam Nabi Zaki,
was assaulted by Indian police
while he was on his way to Naseem
Bagh area of Sopore to express
solidarity with the family of a
youth, who was recently killed by
Indian troops.
The police arrested four members of
Shopian Majlis-e-Mushawrat
including its President, Abdul
Rasheed Dalal. The Majlis-e-
Mushawrat was constituted to seek
justice for the family of two
Kashmiri women, Aasiya and
Neelofar, who were abducted,
raped and subsequently murdered
by Indian men in uniform in
Shopian in 2009.
The authorities continued to place
Ahmed Shah under house arrest on
the second consecutive day.
June 26: Indian troops arrested
three youth, Irfan Malik, Parvaiz
Mir and Imtiyaz Mir, from Sopore.
Indian police resorted to teargas
shelling and baton-charge at
Sonawar in Srinagar to disperse the
demonstrators, who were
protesting against the killing of a
Kashmiri youth at Indore in Indian
state of Madhya Pradesh.
June 27: At least six people were
injured when Indian troops and
police personnel used brute force
on peaceful protesters in Sopore
town.
Shakeel Ahmed Ganai, a resident of
Kakapora area of Pulwama,
attempted to commit suicide after
continued harassment by Indian
Army and agencies.
The authorities barred Hurriyet
leaders, Syed Ali Gilani,
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Ayaz
Akbar and Altaf Ahmed Shah, from
offering Friday prayers by placing
them under house arrest.
June 29: Indian police detained
Waza, in Islamabad to prevent him
from visiting the families of the
martyrs in the town.
June 1: Indian troops killed a youth
during a siege and search operation
at Sudal Magam in Handwara.
Tehreek-e-Hurriyet Jammu and
Kashmirs Tehsil President, Sabzar
Ahmed Dar, from Bijbehara.
June 3: The police arrested twenty
civilians including Aashiq Qadeer
Lone, Zubair Ahmed Butt, Abdul
Rasheed Mir, Javed Ahmed,
Muhammad Yousuf Reshi, Tariq
Ahmed Reshi, Wasim Ahmed
Reshi, Rayees Ahmed Reshi, Bilal
Ahmed Reshi and Irfan Manzoor
from Hardashiva in Sopore while
Irfan Ahmed Nagoo and Sajjad
Ahmed Butt from Keran in
Kupwara. The police also arrested
ten other youth from Pazalpora
Sopore and subjected them to
torture at Bomai Police Station.
An Indian Army Major at Haidar
Beig in Pattan subjected the youth
of Anderhama, Woosun and
Palhalan areas to mental and
physical torture after calling them
to an army camp.
June 4: The police arrested a
civilian, Imtiyaz Ahmed Lone,
along with his son, Irfan Ahmed
Lone, from Logripora in Sopore and
a dozen youth including a student,
Nayeem Ahmed Mir, from Janwara
area of Sopore. The police also took
an activist of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet
Jammu and Kashmir, Abdul
Rasheed Rather, into custody from
Sheeri area of Baramulla.
June 7: Two civilians, Muhammad
Amin Zargar and Bashir Ahmed
Hajam, besides four policemen
identified as Vikas Kumar, Meraj-u-
din, Shabbir Ahmed and Zahoor
Ahmed were injured in the cross-
firing between unknown attackers
and Indian police at Bonigam in
Shopian.
Indian police detained seven
persons in Badgam.
June 8: Indian troops killed two
youth, Bilal Ahmed Butt and
Mudasir Ahmed Sheikh, during a
violent siege and search operation in
Kakapora area of Pulwama.
The puppet authorities imposed
curfew in Pulwama town to prevent
people from holding
demonstrations against the killings.
June 9: The authorities continued to
impose curfew in Pulwama town on
the second consecutive day to
thwart demonstrations against
killing of the youth.
continued to enforce curfew in
Pulwama town on the third
successive day to stop people from
staging demonstrations against the
recent killing of two youth.
Indian police thrashed and beat up
two youth when they were on their
way to a bank.
A woman was critically injured after
an Indian Army vehicle deliberately
hit her in Kupwara district.
A 5th class girl student was
abducted and molested by members
of the Indian Army-backed so-called
Village Defence Committee in
Kishtwar.
June 11: Indian police resorted to
brute force and injured dozens of
people including APHC leaders,
Zafar Akbar Butt and Javed Ahmed
Mir, during a pro-freedom
demonstration in Srinagar. The
police took Yasmeen Raja and Syed
Bashir Andrabi along with several
Hurriyet leaders and activists into
custody on the occasion.
June 12: The police arrested
Shah, Farooq Ahmed Dar and
Shabbir Ahmed Dar, at Pantha
Chhoke in Srinagar to prevent them
from visiting families of the youth,
who were recently martyred by
Indian troops at Kakapora in
Pulwama.
Waza, from Ashmaqam and
Nayeem Ahmed Khan from
Trehgam after they addressed
public gatherings.
The puppet authorities continued to
place the veteran Hurriyet leader,
Syed Ali Gilani, under house arrest
and did not even allow him to offer
Juma prayers.
June 14: Indian police re-arrested
Hurriyet leader, Masarrat Aalam
Butt, soon after he reached his home
India has been resorting to the worst
kind of state terrorism in occupied
Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris
just struggle for securing their right
to self-determination and to continue
its illegal hold on Jammu and
Kashmir for the past over six
decades. It has given its troops and
police personnel unbridled powers
under draconian laws to kill the
innocent Kashmiris with impunity. It
has also imposed restrictions on the
political, social and religious
activities of Hurriyet leaders to
prevent them from reaching out to
the people and propagate their
ideologies.
The resistance leaders are not only
placed under house arrest or behind
the bars but also denied travel
documents to stop them from visiting
foreign countries and highlighting
the Kashmir dispute and the
sufferings of the people of occupied
Kashmir. This was again observed
recently when the Indian authorities
did not issue passports to the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference
and the veteran Hurriyet leader,
Syed Ali Gilani, to go to Saudi Arabia
and attend a meeting of the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
The leaders were invited by the OIC
Secretary General, Iyad Ameen
Madani, to attend the session of
OICs Council of Foreign Ministers
held in Jeddah on June 18 and 19,
2014.
Such actions fully expose Indias
claims of being the largest democracy
of the world. New Delhi needs to
understand that repressive measures
could not suppress the Kashmiris
liberation sentiment. The world
community must take cognizance of
the curbs imposed by India on the
activities of pro-liberation leaders
and ensure that they are allowed to
present their point of view.
Following is an account of human
rights violations by the Indian armed
forces in the disputed territory
during June 2014.
HR abuses in IOK during May 2014
Compiled by Raies Ahmad
Hynes, and informed him about the
human rights abuses in occupied
Kashmir.
On July 13, Hurriyet leader and the
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir
National Front, Nayeem Ahmed
Khan, addressing via Skype a
seminar held on the sidelines of the
26th Session of the UN Human
Rights Council appealed to the
international community to compel
the Indian Government to change
its attitude towards Kashmir and
withdraw its army from occupied
Kashmir. He said that the
Kashmiris had been staging
peaceful protest since 2008 to
convey their demands, but New
Delhi was responding with
brutality.
Kashmiri intellectual and a retired
Professor of the Kashmir
University, Srinagar, Abdul Majeed
Zargar, also addressed the audience
from Srinagar via Skype.
The event was moderated by Syed
Faiz Naqshbandi and other
speakers included Daniela Donges,
representative of the Geneva
International Centre for Justice, and
Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan.
Daniela Donges gave an interesting
presentation, comparing Indian
occupation tactics in Kashmir to
Israeli occupation tactics in
Palestine.
Sardar Amjad Yousaf said that
India could not resist the tide of
history and the global march
towards more freedoms and New
Delhi would have to submit to the
demands of justice and fair-play,
respect its own international
obligations, and grant freedom to
the Kashmiris, who had been
demanding it for nearly seven
decades.
On June 15, Altaf Hussain Wani,
while taking part in a debate on the
report of Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women organized
by Forum Asia on the sidelines of
the UNHRC session, said that
Indias arrogant attitude was the
reason for violence and sexual
assaults against women in occupied
Kashmir and north-eastern Indian
states. He deplored that New Delhi
had failed to respond to interna-
tional calls for repealing draconian
law, Armed Forces Special Powers
Act. He pointed out that three
Special Rapporteurs of the United
Nations - on Extrajudicial Killings,
on Human Rights Defenders, and
on Violence Against Women - had
demanded repeal of the AFSPA, but
India had not responded yet.
On June 16, Mrs Shamima Shawl
and Ms Shagufta Ashraf addressing
a womens conference organised by
Ariel Foundation International,
Ariana Leilani Childrens
Foundation and International
Muslim Womens Union high-
lighted the gross human rights
violations perpetrated by Indian
troops in occupied Kashmir. They
said that India was using rape as a
weapon of war to suppress the
Kashmiris ongoing liberation
movement. They urged the
international community including
the UN and women rights organisa-
tions to come forward and rescue
the constantly suffering Kashmiri
women and hold accountable all
the troops involved in the crimes
against humanity in the occupied
territory.
The Chairperson of Kashmir
Tehreek-e-Khawateen, Zamruda
Habib, addressed the function via
Skype from Srinagar. She said,
You cannot imagine the life of a
woman in the most militarised zone
of the world, where rules of normal
life have been totally disturbed for
decades together. Almost every
family tells the tragic tale of death,
enforced disappearances, physical
disability and psychological
disorders. The weight of these
terrible events is not crushing our
bodies but our psyche and soul.
Daniela, a Palestinian activist, in
her speech said that Kashmir and
Palestine needed attention and
were serious issues for everybody.
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi met the UN
High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Navi Pillay, and informed
her about the ongoing human
rights abuses by Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir.
On June 17, members of a United
Nations panel discussing role of
women in peace-building were
shocked when Altaf Hussain Wani
told them that India was using rape
as a tool of war in occupied
Kashmir and now the entire India
was suffering from a rape epidemic.
While addressing an event
Womens role in mediation and
conflict resolution sponsored by
several UN-accredited NGOs, he
said that history had shown that a
woman was the best binding force
for her family and society, and that
Report
Report
Kashmiri representatives addressed
different seminars and events
during the 26th session of the UN
Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
in Geneva held from June 10 to 27,
2014, highlighting the human rights
troops in occupied Kashmir and the
miserable plight of the people of the
territory.
The representatives including Altaf
Hussain Wani, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, Sardar Amjad Yousaf
Khan, Mrs Shamim Shawl, Ms
Shagufta Ashraf and Ahmed
Quraishi also met with different
dignitaries and apprised them
about the prevailing situation of the
occupied territory. They stated that
the ongoing mass movement in
occupied Kashmir is a strong
evidence that the Kashmiris do not
want to live with India.
On June 10, taking part in general
debate during the 26th session of
UNHRC, Mrs Shamim Shawl said
that Kashmiri women and children
were the worst victims of Indian
state terrorism. She said that over
9,000 women had been raped in the
occupied territory while dozens of
Kashmiri students were expelled
recently from Indian universities
simply because the Kashmiris
refused to endorse Indias claim on
Kashmir.
On June 11, Altaf Hussain Wani
addressing the UNHRC session
said that India was stooping a new
low in its treatment of Kashmiris.
After extrajudicial killings,
enforced disappearances and the
mass graves, New Delhi is now
harassing Kashmiri students
studying in colleges and universi-
ties in India. This unprecedented
cruel treatment has not been seen in
other conflict zones of the world,
he said.
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, in his
address told the delegates that
India had enacted a series of
draconian laws to facilitate human
rights violations in occupied
Kashmir. He stated that the Indian
Army and paramilitary personnel
enjoyed complete impunity against
the crimes they committed in the
occupied territory.
Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan and
Altaf Hussain Wani in an interview
with the Iranian national television
channel expressed concern over
arrests and killings of youth by
Indian troops and police in the
occupied territory.
A delegation comprising Mrs
Shamim Shawl, Sardar Amjad
Yousaf Khan, Shagufta Ashraf and
Ahmed Quraishi met with diplo-
mats from Finland, Luxembourg
and UK as well as the UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Assembly and briefed them about
the worsening human rights
situation in Kashmir.
A group of top Bahraini politicians
during a meeting with the Kashmiri
delegation pledged to raise the
Kashmir dispute inside the Bahraini
Parliament. The Bahraini team was
led by Abdullah bin Ali bin
Huwail, a member of Council of
Representatives, Deputy Speaker of
Asian Parliamentary Association
and Chairman of Human Rights
Committee in the Parliament of
Kingdom of Bahrain. They said that
the people in the Gulf States
supported the Kashmiris struggle
for the right to self-determination
and negotiations for settlement of
the Kashmir dispute for ensuring
durable peace in South Asia.
Besides Abdullah bin Ali bin
Huwail, the Bahraini group of
politicians included Ahmed
Almulla, member of Council of
Representatives in Bahrain and
member of the Committee on
Legislative and Legal Affairs,
Senator Ahmed Alsaati, Head of the
Human Rights Committee, Nawaf
Al Moawda, the Ombudsman of
Bahrain, Abdul Rahman Bumajid,
Foreign Affairs, Defense and
National Security, and Ghada
Habib, from the Ombudsmans
office.
The Kashmiri delegation also met
the UN Special Rapporteur on
Extrajudicial and Summary or
Arbitrary Executions, Christopher
Human Rights abuses in IOK by
India highlighted in Geneva
Hynes, and informed him about the
human rights abuses in occupied
Kashmir.
On July 13, Hurriyet leader and the
Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir
National Front, Nayeem Ahmed
Khan, addressing via Skype a
seminar held on the sidelines of the
26th Session of the UN Human
Rights Council appealed to the
international community to compel
the Indian Government to change
its attitude towards Kashmir and
withdraw its army from occupied
Kashmir. He said that the
Kashmiris had been staging
peaceful protest since 2008 to
convey their demands, but New
Delhi was responding with
brutality.
Kashmiri intellectual and a retired
Professor of the Kashmir
University, Srinagar, Abdul Majeed
Zargar, also addressed the audience
from Srinagar via Skype.
The event was moderated by Syed
Faiz Naqshbandi and other
speakers included Daniela Donges,
representative of the Geneva
International Centre for Justice, and
Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan.
Daniela Donges gave an interesting
presentation, comparing Indian
occupation tactics in Kashmir to
Israeli occupation tactics in
Palestine.
Sardar Amjad Yousaf said that
India could not resist the tide of
history and the global march
towards more freedoms and New
Delhi would have to submit to the
demands of justice and fair-play,
respect its own international
obligations, and grant freedom to
the Kashmiris, who had been
demanding it for nearly seven
decades.
On June 15, Altaf Hussain Wani,
while taking part in a debate on the
report of Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women organized
by Forum Asia on the sidelines of
the UNHRC session, said that
Indias arrogant attitude was the
reason for violence and sexual
assaults against women in occupied
Kashmir and north-eastern Indian
states. He deplored that New Delhi
had failed to respond to interna-
tional calls for repealing draconian
law, Armed Forces Special Powers
Act. He pointed out that three
Special Rapporteurs of the United
Nations - on Extrajudicial Killings,
on Human Rights Defenders, and
on Violence Against Women - had
demanded repeal of the AFSPA, but
India had not responded yet.
On June 16, Mrs Shamima Shawl
and Ms Shagufta Ashraf addressing
a womens conference organised by
Ariel Foundation International,
Ariana Leilani Childrens
Foundation and International
Muslim Womens Union high-
lighted the gross human rights
troops in occupied Kashmir. They
said that India was using rape as a
weapon of war to suppress the
Kashmiris ongoing liberation
movement. They urged the
international community including
the UN and women rights organisa-
tions to come forward and rescue
the constantly suffering Kashmiri
women and hold accountable all
the troops involved in the crimes
against humanity in the occupied
territory.
The Chairperson of Kashmir
Tehreek-e-Khawateen, Zamruda
Habib, addressed the function via
Skype from Srinagar. She said,
You cannot imagine the life of a
woman in the most militarised zone
of the world, where rules of normal
life have been totally disturbed for
decades together. Almost every
family tells the tragic tale of death,
enforced disappearances, physical
disability and psychological
disorders. The weight of these
terrible events is not crushing our
bodies but our psyche and soul.
Daniela, a Palestinian activist, in
her speech said that Kashmir and
Palestine needed attention and
were serious issues for everybody.
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi met the UN
High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Navi Pillay, and informed
her about the ongoing human
rights abuses by Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir.
On June 17, members of a United
Nations panel discussing role of
women in peace-building were
shocked when Altaf Hussain Wani
told them that India was using rape
as a tool of war in occupied
Kashmir and now the entire India
was suffering from a rape epidemic.
While addressing an event
Womens role in mediation and
conflict resolution sponsored by
several UN-accredited NGOs, he
said that history had shown that a
woman was the best binding force
for her family and society, and that
Report
Report
Kashmiri representatives addressed
different seminars and events
during the 26th session of the UN
Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
in Geneva held from June 10 to 27,
2014, highlighting the human rights
troops in occupied Kashmir and the
miserable plight of the people of the
territory.
The representatives including Altaf
Hussain Wani, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, Sardar Amjad Yousaf
Khan, Mrs Shamim Shawl, Ms
Shagufta Ashraf and Ahmed
Quraishi also met with different
dignitaries and apprised them
about the prevailing situation of the
occupied territory. They stated that
the ongoing mass movement in
occupied Kashmir is a strong
evidence that the Kashmiris do not
want to live with India.
On June 10, taking part in general
debate during the 26th session of
UNHRC, Mrs Shamim Shawl said
that Kashmiri women and children
were the worst victims of Indian
state terrorism. She said that over
9,000 women had been raped in the
occupied territory while dozens of
Kashmiri students were expelled
recently from Indian universities
simply because the Kashmiris
refused to endorse Indias claim on
Kashmir.
addressing the UNHRC session
said that India was stooping a new
low in its treatment of Kashmiris.
After extrajudicial killings,
enforced disappearances and the
mass graves, New Delhi is now
harassing Kashmiri students
studying in colleges and universi-
ties in India. This unprecedented
cruel treatment has not been seen in
other conflict zones of the world,
he said.
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, in his
address told the delegates that
India had enacted a series of
draconian laws to facilitate human
rights violations in occupied
Kashmir. He stated that the Indian
Army and paramilitary personnel
enjoyed complete impunity against
the crimes they committed in the
occupied territory.
Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan and
Altaf Hussain Wani in an interview
with the Iranian national television
channel expressed concern over
arrests and killings of youth by
Indian troops and police in the
occupied territory.
A delegation comprising Mrs
Shamim Shawl, Sardar Amjad
Yousaf Khan, Shagufta Ashraf and
Ahmed Quraishi met with diplo-
mats from Finland, Luxembourg
and UK as well as the UN Special
Rapporteur on Freedom of
Assembly and briefed them about
the worsening human rights
situation in Kashmir.
A group of top Bahraini politicians
during a meeting with the Kashmiri
delegation pledged to raise the
Kashmir dispute inside the Bahraini
Parliament. The Bahraini team was
led by Abdullah bin Ali bin
Huwail, a member of Council of
Representatives, Deputy Speaker of
Asian Parliamentary Association
and Chairman of Human Rights
Committee in the Parliament of
Kingdom of Bahrain. They said that
the people in the Gulf States
supported the Kashmiris struggle
for the right to self-determination
and negotiations for settlement of
the Kashmir dispute for ensuring
durable peace in South Asia.
Besides Abdullah bin Ali bin
Huwail, the Bahraini group of
politicians included Ahmed
Almulla, member of Council of
Representatives in Bahrain and
Legislative and Legal Affairs,
Senator Ahmed Alsaati, Head of the
Human Rights Committee, Nawaf
Al Moawda, the Ombudsman of
Bahrain, Abdul Rahman Bumajid,
Foreign Affairs, Defense and
National Security, and Ghada
Habib, from the Ombudsmans
office.
The Kashmiri delegation also met
the UN Special Rapporteur on
Extrajudicial and Summary or
Arbitrary Executions, Christopher
Human Rights abuses in IOK by
India highlighted in Geneva
Report
when women got a chance, they
often proved themselves to be
consummate peace-builders. But
the conflict to which I belong,
Kashmir, there is no space for
women to come out and practice
peace-building and conflict
resolution, he said. He maintained
that sexual abuse was an everyday
affair in Kashmir and now it had
expanded to India.
On June 18, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi,
Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan, Mrs
Shamim Shawl and Shagufta
Ashraf, addressing the 26th session
of the UN Human Rights Council,
drew attention of the Council
towards torture, harassment and
expulsion of Kashmiri students
from Indian universities. They said
that the Kashmiri students in India
faced racial discrimination as well
as religious profiling and sedition
for the only reason that the
Kashmiris refused to submit to the
forced occupation of their home-
land by India. They said that
according to a survey over 67
percent school and college build-
ings in occupied Kashmir were
occupied by Indian army and
paramilitary forces, 79 percent
educational institutions were 1-2
kilometers away from army camps
and bunkers while 20 percent
educational institutions shared
compounds with the army. They
pointed out that due to the presence
of military camps next to schools,
the school going children always
felt threatened and military
personnel did not allow the
students to play in the grounds
occupied by them. Men in uniform
always pass abusive comments or
make obscene gestures towards
girls students, they added.
On June 19, Ahmed Quraishi while
addressing an event Empowering
Women in Conflict Zones said that
women were the worst victims of
Indian brutalities in occupied
Kashmir. He said that Indias
occupation strategy in Kashmir
rested on harassing and abusing
women to stop their men from
joining the liberation movement.
Princess Machilin Makaou Djouma,
Chairperson of OCOPORCE
International, a UN accredited non-
governmental organisation, Ismael
Bari Bari, the Permanent
Representative of Somalia to the
UN Office in Geneva, and Professor
Alfred de Zayas, UN Independent
Expert on the Promotion of
Democratic and Equitable
International Order, condemned
Indias brutal military occupation of
Kashmir.
Alfred de Zayas maintained that
rights activists make full use of UN
mechanisms to document and
report rights abuses and force
occupation forces to cede space to
women in the occupied regions.
Ismael Bari Bari compared the
situation that Kashmiri women find
themselves in with what women in
conflict zones in Africa go through.
He read out a list of ideas to
improve the situation of women in
conflict zones.
Mrs Shamim Shawl in her address
said that the women of Kashmir
were fighting for their freedom, but
the Indian military targeted them in
different ways to rob them of the
right to act as agents of change in
their society.
Altaf Hussain Wani, who chaired
the event, said, It is the responsi-
bility of the UN, regional organisa-
tions and member states to
dismantle the barriers, create the
space and provide the seat at the
table for women. The Indian
state he added, is not giving any
space to women, instead they are
using rape as a weapon of war.
On June 20, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi
chaired an event on the topic
Impunity and human rights. Other
panellists were Dr Katherine Irene
Pettus, PhD in Political Theory
from Columbia University and
Advocacy Officer Human Rights
and Peace International Association
for Hospice and Palliative Care
from Hungary, Ms Daniela Donges,
Representative International Centre
for Justice Geneva, Ms Jose
Adriaansen-Smit, Director Geneva
Foundation of Japanese Honorary
Debts, and Altaf Hussain Wani.
Detailed discussion was held and
presentations were made on the
occasion on Indian systematic
human right violations in occupied
Kashmir. The panellists said that
more than 800,000 Indian troops
stationed in the occupied territory
were involved in heinous crimes
against humanity. They added that
India had enacted a series of black
laws, which facilitated human
rights violations and granted
impunity to Indian armed forces,
resulting in increased human rights
violations in the territory.
and Sardar Amjad Yousaf Khan
while addressing the 26th session
of UN Human Rights Council said
that people of occupied Kashmir
had been robbed of all rights by the
enactment of draconian laws. They
said that torture, extrajudicial
killings, fake encounters, enforced
and involuntary disappearances,
arbitrary detentions, rapes and
molestations and restrictions on
freedom of speech and free
movement were part of routine life
in the territory. They said that
despite the fact that the violations
of human rights in occupied
Kashmir were in direct disregard to
the principles of international
human rights and humanitarian
laws, no attention had been paid to
address the issue.
Altaf Hussain Wani and Sardar
Amjad Yousaf Khan said that an
appropriate response was necessi-
tated by the fact that the violations
of human rights in Kashmir had a
direct bearing on civilian Kashmiri
population. They said that the UN
Human Rights Council had a moral
obligation to take cognisance of the
situation of human rights in
occupied Kashmir as Kashmir
remained on the agenda of the
United Nations as an unresolved
dispute.
In occupied Kashmir, the puppet
authorities acknowledged on June
17, 2014, that 16,329 people have
been booked under draconian law,
Public Safety Act (PSA), in the
territory since 1988.
The authorities admitted this in
reply to an application filed by the
head of the Legal Cell of the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference, Abdul
Manan Bukhari, under Right to
Information. The application asked
the authorities to disclose that how
many complaints and FIRs had
been so far lodged against the
personnel of Indian forces
including CRPF, BSF, STF and
police for civilian killings, rapes
and other crimes in occupied
Kashmir. The Home Department of
the territory in its reply maintained
that out of 16,329 cases of PSAs, 249
persons were bracketed under PSA
twice, while 707 FIRs were filed
against juveniles.
Since 1988, 230 persons were
detained in Sopore under the PSA
and nine of them were booked
under the Act for two times.
In Shopian district, 121 PSAs were
slapped so far after the creation of
this district in 2008 while during
the same period 21 FIRs were
registered against juveniles. The
information provided by the
authorities revealed that in
Islamabad district 567 persons were
booked under PSA and 18 of them
were bracketed twice. 21 minors
had been booked on fake charges in
the district during the period.
In Baramulla 316 persons had been
detained under PSA while 26
persons were bracketed under this
Act two times. 32 FIRs were filed
against the juveniles in the district
since 1988.
In Kulgam district, 266 persons
were booked under PSA and 10 of
them were bracketed twice. Since
1988, 27 minors were booked on
fake charges in the district. In
Bandipora, 167 persons had been
detained under PSA while 5 were
bracketed under this Act twice. 13
FIRs were filed against the juveniles
in the district since 1988.
During the last sixteen years, 118
persons had been detained in
Kathua district under PSA while in
the same district 37 people had
been bracketed under the draconian
law twice.
The reply given by the Deputy
Superintendent of Police Kathua
under Right to Information Act
revealed that 141 juveniles were
arrested in Kathua since 1988. At
least 25 minors were booked in 2013
in Kathua.
Giving details of registration of
FIRs against the men in uniform in
response to a query sought under
Right to Information by Abdul
Manan Bukhari, the Home
Department of the occupied
territory revealed that 1,311
complaints and FIRs had been
lodged against Indian troops and
police personnel for different acts
including rape and killings since
1988.
It stated that 108 cases were
registered against the troops in
Sopore. The number of such cases
against armed personnel in Shopian
district was 5, while in Kulgam
district 90 cases of rape, killings and
other crimes were registered by
police against the Army, BSF, CRPF
and personnel of other Indian
paramilitary forces.
In Islamabad district, 3 rape and 51
killing cases were registered in
different police stations against the
personnel of Army, BSF, CRPF and
other paramilitary forces. 64 FIRs
and complaints were lodged
against the troops in this regard in
Baramulla district followed by 2
rape cases in Bandipora.
According to the Home
Department, two CRPF personnel
were arrested on charges of rape in
1997 while in 2006 for the same
crime, two paramilitary troopers
were booked. The department
further revealed that 3 murder
cases were registered against police
in 2008 and in this regard 3
policemen were arrested. Another
police official was arrested on
charges of murder in 2009.
Interestingly, the information
provided by the authorities
maintained that not a single trooper
or policeman was arrested or
booked in 2010 - the year that
witnessed mass uprising in the
occupied territory and killing of
over 120 innocent people due to the
use of brute force on peaceful
protesters by Indian troops and
police personnel.
Over 16,000 booked under
black law PSA in IOK since 1988
Report
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai, the Secretary
General of World Kashmir
Awareness, on June 8, 2014, said
that resolution of the Kashmir
dispute was essential to create an
environment of peace and security
in South Asia.
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai while
addressing the press and commu-
nity leaders in Springfield, Virginia,
said that the willingness of Pakistan
and India to intensify their efforts
to settle the Kashmir dispute would
prove fruitless unless the two
countries directly associated the
Kashmiri leadership with the
negotiation process to peacefully
resolve the dispute over Kashmir.
He maintained that a sincere and
serious effort towards a just
settlement of the Kashmir dispute
must squarely take into account the
ground realities. India and
Pakistan need to know that any
peace process that ignores the
wishes of the people of Kashmir
will not only prove to be an exercise
in futility but can also cause
incalculable human and political
damage, he added.
Dr Fai pointed out that the
Kashmiri American community
was prepared to help in the
initiation of a credible process of
negotiations between all parties
concerned i.e. the governments of
India and Pakistan and the
leadership of the people of
Kashmir.
Barrister Sultan Mahmood
Choudhary, former Prime Minister
of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and
senior leader of Pakistan Peoples
Party Azad Kashmir said, The
freedom struggle in Jammu and
Kashmir has passed through its
transformation from an armed
struggle to a non-violent mass
movement. This non-violent,
indigenous and peaceful struggle
needs to be recognized and
strengthened by the world
powers.
He expressed concern over the
silence of the international commu-
nity on the unending Indian
atrocities against the Kashmiris.
The international community
seems to have forgotten about
Kashmir in the midst of everything
that happens in Afghanistan. The
world powers should know that
there would be no peace in
Afghanistan until there is a solution
of the Kashmir conflict. The road to
peace in Afghanistan passes
through Kashmir, he added.
Barrister Sultan Mahmood
Choudhary urged India to posi-
tively respond to Pakistan's sincere
efforts and willingness for a
peaceful settlement of all issues
through composite dialogue,
including the Kashmir dispute. He
pointed out that the Kashmiris were
the real sufferers and unless they
were taken on board no such
process can make any headway. He
stated that it was imperative that
right to self-determination was
granted to the people of Jammu and
Kashmir for ensuring durable peace
and stability in the region.
The former AJK Prime Minister
said that the leadership of Jammu
and Kashmir should be associated
with the Pak-India dialogue,
adding that only Kashmiris had the
right to decide the future of their
territory. The people of occupied
Kashmir should know that they are
not alone in their struggle and the
people and leadership of Azad
Jammu and Kashmir stand by
them, he added.
The host committee of the event
included Sardar Zarif Khan, Sardar
Zulfiqar Khan and Sardar Zubair
Khan.
Kashmir settlement imperative
for peace in South Asia: Dr Fai
Report
Kashmir exists on UNSC agenda,
admits Indias ex envoy at UN
Indias former permanent representative at the UN, Chinmaya R
Gharekhan, has said that India cannot wish away the Kashmir question by
refusing to talk about it with Pakistan.
Chinmaya R Gharekhan, who is currently working as a senior fellow with
New Delhi-based independent think tank, Delhi Policy Group, in an article
published in The Indian Express on June 21, 2014, wrote that Jammu and
Kashmir remained an item on the agenda of the UN Security Council.
The dispute regarding the state of Jammu and Kashmir exists. We
ourselves unwisely took it to the United Nations, where it remains an item
on the agenda of the Security Council, he wrote.
Chinmaya R Gharekhan stated, the fact that the Council has not discussed
it for decades does not mean that it will not be discussed if the situation in
Jammu and Kashmir deteriorates to the extent of threatening international
peace and security.
Even the Simla Agreement of July 1972, which we seem to swear by,
speaks of a final settlement of the Kashmir issue, he maintained.
About the recent meeting between Pakistan Prime Minister, Mohammad
Nawaz Sharif, and Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi,
Chinmaya R Gharekhan said that he had no means to ascertain whether
Nawaz Sharif raised Kashmir during his one-on-one meeting with Modi or
not. Be that as it may, India cannot wish away the Kashmir question by
refusing to talk about it with Pakistan. The dispute regarding the state of
Jammu and Kashmir exists, he added.
of Kashmir dispute to the regional
peace. It is on the agenda of the
UNO and other international fora.
Innumerable resolutions on
Kashmir emphasizing peaceful
settlement of the dispute through
independent plebiscite have
substantiated that Kashmir and
peace in South Asia are inter-
connected and declaring Kashmir
as a nuclear flashpoint is not an
exaggeration.
Kashmir is the main cause of
tension in the region. Indian armed
forces high handedness and blatant
human rights violations cannot
subdue the Kashmiris freedom
struggle. Insertion of Article 370 in
the Indian Constitution was an
affirmation by the then Indian
leadership that Kashmir is a
disputed state till its judicious
settlement.
India must avoid copying Israeli
pattern of grabbing through a
demographic change. India is
sitting on the powder as other post-
independence separatist move-
ments in the frontier region of
North-East India called seven
sisters states - Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
and Sikhs demand for Khalistan -
posing threat to Indian integrity,
due to their strong reservations
about government in New Delhi. In
addition, rampant corruption and
rising incidents of gang rapes are
the other skeletons in the cupboard.
The fundamentalist and extremist
Jews leadership resorts to all forms
of destruction and continued killing
spree has not succeeded to quell
Palestinians freedom struggle.
Rather, it is gaining momentum day
by day. Israelis cannot sleep
peacefully even for one day and
will not though worlds unwar-
ranted and illegal backing is always
there to help out the land grabbing
Israeli leadership. India must accept
the reality and start work on
finding lasting solution to the
Kashmir dispute according to the
wishes of the Kashmiris instead of
engaging in futile exercise to repeal
Article 370.
Iranian
Ambassador
to India,
Ghulam Raza
Ansari, on
June 5, 2014,
said that the
people of
occupied
Kashmir were
oppressed
and his
country, Iran,
had always
been standing
by the people facing subjugation
and oppression.
Ghulam Raza Ansari addressing a
seminar organised by the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference at a
hotel in Srinagar during his three-
day visit to the occupied territory
maintained that the people of
Kashmir should be given their
political right, an APHC spokesman
said in a statement.
The seminar was held to commem-
orate the 25th death anniversary of
founder of Islamic revolution of
Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, on the occasion,
stressed unity among the people of
Kashmir to advance their freedom
movement in the light of Imam
Khomeinis teachings.
Others who addressed the event
included Agha Syed Hassan Al-
Moosvi Al-Safvi, Masroor Abbas
Ansari, Dr Yousuf-ul-Umar and
Zahid Ali.
Before attending the seminar, the
Iranian delegation visited historic
Jamia Masjid and along with senior
Hurriyet leaders offered afternoon
prayers in the mosque. The prayers
were led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Earlier on June 4, speakers at a
conference in Madina Public High
School at Gund Khwaja Qasim in
Patan area of Baramulla district,
paid glowing tributes to Ayatollah
Khomeini on his 25th death
anniversary. The conference
organised by Al Abbas Relief Trust
and Madina Public School was
chaired by senior APHC leader,
Maulana Abbas Ansari, while the
Iranian Ambassador, Ghulam Raza
Ansari, was the chief guest. The
speakers included Ghulam Raza
Ansari, Maulana Abbas Ansari,
Agha Syed Aijaz Rizvi and
Maulana Masroor Abbas Ansari.
The speakers at the conference
declared Imam Khomeini as a
leader who abolished thousand-
year-old monarchy and established
an Islamic system of government in
spite of the opposition of world's
imperialist powers.
Ambassador Ghulam Raza Ansari
in his speech said that Imam
Khomeini's death anniversary was
not only being commemorated in
Kashmir but also all over the
world. He said, the purpose of
Islam is to direct humanity towards
the path of perfection and Imam
Khomeinis revolution established
the Islamic government in Iran to
achieve this goal.
In his presidential address,
Maulana Abbas Ansari, declared
Imam Khomeini as the charismatic
leader of the century. He said that
the purpose of the Iranian revolu-
tion and Imam Khomeini was the
divine purpose because it was for
Islam.
Article
Article
The new Indian Minister of State in
Prime Ministers Office Dr Jitendra
Singh has revealed about beginning
the process to abrogate Article 370
that grants special status to
Kashmir. It would not amount to
verbose if one says that without
peaceful settlement of Kashmir,
peace and tranquility in this volatile
region is still light years away. BJP
considers the Article as the only
legally binding provision about the
disputed Himalayan state with the
Indian Union. His revelation has
triggered the controversy about the
special autonomous status to
Jammu and Kashmir. J&K Chief
Minister sees the Article 370 as the
only constitutional link between
Kashmir and rest of India. While
terming Jitendras views as ill-
informed and irresponsible, the
Chief Minister has stated that long
after Modi government is a distant
memory either J&K would not be a
part of India or Article 370 will still
exist.
Actualization of the BJP agenda is a
manifestation of criminal eye
closure to the ground realities and
understanding the genesis of
inserting Article 370 in the Indian
constitution. This unwarranted
move is prone to further push the
region into high-tension rather
paving way to facilitate conducive
environment that may help in
achieving the targets of economic
uplift and development, Modi
sarkar intends to implement.
During heated debate about Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharifs Delhi
yatra, repeated show of smile,
handshakes and photo-taking
sessions, conveying a message that
BJP wants to work on the agenda
that may bring feel good condition.
In less than a weeks time, the
fundamentalist Indian sarkar under
the thumb of extremist Hindu
group Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) has started work to
repeal the Article 370 granting
special status to the state of Jammu
and Kashmir. It was no one other
than first Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru who brought the
Kashmir issue on the table of UN
Security Council in 1948 is enough
to understand that resolution of the
Kashmir dispute is not so easy as
the BJP mandarins think. If India
really wants to achieve economic
development, peaceful resolution of
the Kashmir is essential. It is good
that UN is ready to mediate as the
mechanism outlined in the Simla
Agreement 1972 to resolve the
Kashmir dispute bilaterally has
miserably failed. In the post 9/11
scenario, India is using the so-called
terrorism phenomenon as an excuse
which will never deliver in terms of
peace and resolution of Kashmir
dispute. India cannot play down
the gravity of the Kashmir dispute
through various diplomatic
juggernauts and political machina-
tions. Therefore, an independent
mediation as provided in the UN
resolutions of 1948 and 1949 is the
viable solution.
In my article BJPs landslide
victory in Pakistan Observer on 30
May, 2014, I had concluded that
Pakistan is ready to resolve all
outstanding differences and
disputes through result-oriented
dialogues. Only time will tell as to
whether BJP government will focus
on fundamentalist agenda i.e
uniform civil code, promotion of
religious intolerance, protection of
cows, building of temple on the
disputed Ayudhya site and
opposition to special constitutional
status of Muslim majority Kashmir
or will facilitate the flame-shaped
memorial as the flames of reforma-
tion and peaceful regional environ-
ment.
Although Congress claims to hold
secular credentials, but it never
bothered during its decades long
rule to have good relations, taking
refuge behind so-called issue of
terrorism. In this arena of security
that encompasses the mantra of
business, trade and economy,
Indias focus on terrorism shows its
reluctance to come to serious
business and remove the causes
that have blurred the situation. It is
a fait accompli that Kashmir is the
bone of contention between South
Asias neighbouring nuclear
powers. Until and unless this
unfinished agenda (Kashmir
dispute) of the Partition Plan is not
completed, talk of peace and
stability would be day dreaming.
in his reaction to Dr Jitendras claim
has stated that the special status to
Kashmir under Article 370 has been
diluted by Indian governments
after 1953. Presence of 700,000
troops in the state of 7-million
population is indicative of Indian
leaderships approach and conver-
sion of Kashmir into a police state.
Blatant human rights violations,
extrajudicial killings, fake encoun-
ters etc. have become a routine in
this Muslim majority state. JKLF
Malik, while terming opposition of
National Conference and Peoples
Democratic Party to the repeal of
Article 370, a drama has vowed to
launch Quit Kashmir campaign
to strengthen the ongoing liberation
movement in the Valley. Syed Ali
Geelani sees the pro-India parties
stance an absurd efforts to cash the
situation.
Indias purported intention to do
away with the Article 370 will be a
failed attempt to present Kashmir
as part and parcel of the mainland.
Incumbent fundamentalist Indian
leadership cannot skip the vitality
Fazal Hakeem
Kashmir and Article 370 Iran supports Kashmiris political right
of Kashmir dispute to the regional
peace. It is on the agenda of the
UNO and other international fora.
Innumerable resolutions on
Kashmir emphasizing peaceful
settlement of the dispute through
independent plebiscite have
substantiated that Kashmir and
peace in South Asia are inter-
connected and declaring Kashmir
as a nuclear flashpoint is not an
exaggeration.
Kashmir is the main cause of
tension in the region. Indian armed
forces high handedness and blatant
human rights violations cannot
subdue the Kashmiris freedom
struggle. Insertion of Article 370 in
the Indian Constitution was an
affirmation by the then Indian
leadership that Kashmir is a
disputed state till its judicious
settlement.
India must avoid copying Israeli
pattern of grabbing through a
demographic change. India is
sitting on the powder as other post-
independence separatist move-
ments in the frontier region of
North-East India called seven
sisters states - Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura
and Sikhs demand for Khalistan -
posing threat to Indian integrity,
due to their strong reservations
about government in New Delhi. In
addition, rampant corruption and
rising incidents of gang rapes are
the other skeletons in the cupboard.
The fundamentalist and extremist
Jews leadership resorts to all forms
of destruction and continued killing
spree has not succeeded to quell
Palestinians freedom struggle.
Rather, it is gaining momentum day
by day. Israelis cannot sleep
peacefully even for one day and
will not though worlds unwar-
ranted and illegal backing is always
there to help out the land grabbing
Israeli leadership. India must accept
the reality and start work on
finding lasting solution to the
Kashmir dispute according to the
wishes of the Kashmiris instead of
engaging in futile exercise to repeal
Article 370.
Iranian
Ambassador
to India,
Ghulam Raza
Ansari, on
June 5, 2014,
said that the
people of
occupied
Kashmir were
oppressed
and his
country, Iran,
had always
been standing
by the people facing subjugation
and oppression.
Ghulam Raza Ansari addressing a
seminar organised by the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference at a
hotel in Srinagar during his three-
day visit to the occupied territory
maintained that the people of
Kashmir should be given their
political right, an APHC spokesman
said in a statement.
The seminar was held to commem-
orate the 25th death anniversary of
founder of Islamic revolution of
Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini.
The APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, on the occasion,
stressed unity among the people of
Kashmir to advance their freedom
movement in the light of Imam
Khomeinis teachings.
Others who addressed the event
included Agha Syed Hassan Al-
Moosvi Al-Safvi, Masroor Abbas
Ansari, Dr Yousuf-ul-Umar and
Zahid Ali.
Before attending the seminar, the
Iranian delegation visited historic
Jamia Masjid and along with senior
Hurriyet leaders offered afternoon
prayers in the mosque. The prayers
were led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.
Earlier on June 4, speakers at a
conference in Madina Public High
School at Gund Khwaja Qasim in
Patan area of Baramulla district,
paid glowing tributes to Ayatollah
Khomeini on his 25th death
anniversary. The conference
organised by Al Abbas Relief Trust
and Madina Public School was
chaired by senior APHC leader,
Maulana Abbas Ansari, while the
Iranian Ambassador, Ghulam Raza
Ansari, was the chief guest. The
speakers included Ghulam Raza
Ansari, Maulana Abbas Ansari,
Agha Syed Aijaz Rizvi and
Maulana Masroor Abbas Ansari.
The speakers at the conference
declared Imam Khomeini as a
leader who abolished thousand-
year-old monarchy and established
an Islamic system of government in
spite of the opposition of world's
imperialist powers.
Ambassador Ghulam Raza Ansari
in his speech said that Imam
Khomeini's death anniversary was
not only being commemorated in
Kashmir but also all over the
world. He said, the purpose of
Islam is to direct humanity towards
the path of perfection and Imam
Khomeinis revolution established
the Islamic government in Iran to
achieve this goal.
In his presidential address,
Maulana Abbas Ansari, declared
Imam Khomeini as the charismatic
leader of the century. He said that
the purpose of the Iranian revolu-
tion and Imam Khomeini was the
divine purpose because it was for
Islam.
Article
Article
The new Indian Minister of State in
Prime Ministers Office Dr Jitendra
Singh has revealed about beginning
the process to abrogate Article 370
that grants special status to
Kashmir. It would not amount to
verbose if one says that without
peaceful settlement of Kashmir,
peace and tranquility in this volatile
region is still light years away. BJP
considers the Article as the only
legally binding provision about the
disputed Himalayan state with the
Indian Union. His revelation has
triggered the controversy about the
special autonomous status to
Jammu and Kashmir. J&K Chief
Minister sees the Article 370 as the
only constitutional link between
Kashmir and rest of India. While
terming Jitendras views as ill-
informed and irresponsible, the
Chief Minister has stated that long
after Modi government is a distant
memory either J&K would not be a
part of India or Article 370 will still
exist.
Actualization of the BJP agenda is a
manifestation of criminal eye
closure to the ground realities and
understanding the genesis of
inserting Article 370 in the Indian
constitution. This unwarranted
move is prone to further push the
region into high-tension rather
paving way to facilitate conducive
environment that may help in
achieving the targets of economic
uplift and development, Modi
sarkar intends to implement.
During heated debate about Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharifs Delhi
yatra, repeated show of smile,
handshakes and photo-taking
sessions, conveying a message that
BJP wants to work on the agenda
that may bring feel good condition.
In less than a weeks time, the
fundamentalist Indian sarkar under
the thumb of extremist Hindu
group Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) has started work to
repeal the Article 370 granting
special status to the state of Jammu
and Kashmir. It was no one other
than first Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru who brought the
Kashmir issue on the table of UN
Security Council in 1948 is enough
to understand that resolution of the
Kashmir dispute is not so easy as
the BJP mandarins think. If India
really wants to achieve economic
development, peaceful resolution of
the Kashmir is essential. It is good
that UN is ready to mediate as the
mechanism outlined in the Simla
Agreement 1972 to resolve the
Kashmir dispute bilaterally has
miserably failed. In the post 9/11
scenario, India is using the so-called
terrorism phenomenon as an excuse
which will never deliver in terms of
peace and resolution of Kashmir
dispute. India cannot play down
the gravity of the Kashmir dispute
through various diplomatic
juggernauts and political machina-
tions. Therefore, an independent
mediation as provided in the UN
resolutions of 1948 and 1949 is the
viable solution.
In my article BJPs landslide
victory in Pakistan Observer on 30
May, 2014, I had concluded that
Pakistan is ready to resolve all
outstanding differences and
disputes through result-oriented
dialogues. Only time will tell as to
whether BJP government will focus
on fundamentalist agenda i.e
uniform civil code, promotion of
religious intolerance, protection of
cows, building of temple on the
disputed Ayudhya site and
opposition to special constitutional
status of Muslim majority Kashmir
or will facilitate the flame-shaped
memorial as the flames of reforma-
tion and peaceful regional environ-
ment.
Although Congress claims to hold
secular credentials, but it never
bothered during its decades long
rule to have good relations, taking
refuge behind so-called issue of
terrorism. In this arena of security
that encompasses the mantra of
business, trade and economy,
Indias focus on terrorism shows its
reluctance to come to serious
business and remove the causes
that have blurred the situation. It is
a fait accompli that Kashmir is the
bone of contention between South
Asias neighbouring nuclear
powers. Until and unless this
unfinished agenda (Kashmir
dispute) of the Partition Plan is not
completed, talk of peace and
stability would be day dreaming.
in his reaction to Dr Jitendras claim
has stated that the special status to
Kashmir under Article 370 has been
diluted by Indian governments
after 1953. Presence of 700,000
troops in the state of 7-million
population is indicative of Indian
leaderships approach and conver-
sion of Kashmir into a police state.
Blatant human rights violations,
extrajudicial killings, fake encoun-
ters etc. have become a routine in
this Muslim majority state. JKLF
Malik, while terming opposition of
National Conference and Peoples
Democratic Party to the repeal of
Article 370, a drama has vowed to
launch Quit Kashmir campaign
to strengthen the ongoing liberation
movement in the Valley. Syed Ali
Geelani sees the pro-India parties
stance an absurd efforts to cash the
situation.
Indias purported intention to do
away with the Article 370 will be a
failed attempt to present Kashmir
as part and parcel of the mainland.
Incumbent fundamentalist Indian
leadership cannot skip the vitality
Fazal Hakeem
Kashmir and Article 370 Iran supports Kashmiris political right
include Altaf Hussain Wani, Syed
Faiz Naqashbandi, Sardar Amjad
Yousaf Khan, Mrs Shamim Shawl
and Mrs Sadani Malaine.
March 16: The Chairman of
International Chamber for Peace
and Conciliation-Kashmir Concern,
Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl, and
the Chairman of International
Council for Human Rights-Kashmir
Project, Barrister Abdul Majeed
Tramboo, on the sidelines of a
function in London meet the
Labour Party leader, Edward
Miliband. They urge him to revisit
the policy resolution of the Labour
Party adopted in its Brighton
conference in 1995 that has
promised that the party will help
the Kashmiris in securing their
right to self-determination in
accordance with the relevant UN
resolutions.
March 17: Member of Indian
Parliament and Lok Janshakti Party
President, Ram Vilas Paswan,
speaking at a seminar organized by
Center for Policy Analysis in New
Delhi calls for repealing draconian
laws, Armed Forces Special Powers
Act and Public Safety Act, to allow
democratic space to the people of
occupied Kashmir. He criticises the
Indian authorities for putting
Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani and
Muhammad Yasin Malik under
house arrest saying that the action
is against the spirit of democracy
and cannot be justified. Ram Vilas
Paswan says that hearts and minds
of people of Kashmir cannot be
won through hard measures. He
deplores the role of Indian media in
reporting the ground situation of
occupied Kashmir maintaining that
what has been highlighted about
human rights violations in Sri
Lanka by the Indian media, much
Tramboo, and the Executive
Director of Kashmir Centre
London, Professor Nazir Ahmad
Shawl, addressing a seminar in
Brussels in connection with the
World Water Day stress resolution
of the Kashmir dispute for settling
the water issues between Pakistan
and India. They say that India has
been playing havoc with the lives of
Kashmiris for the last several
decades and now it has created
water disputes to add to the
miseries of the people of the region.
They urge the international
community to hold India
accountable for killing innocent
people in the occupied territory and
ensure the just distribution of water
reservoirs. The seminar is organised
by the Kashmir Centre Brussels in
collaboration with International
Human Rights Association of
American Minorities and is also
addressed by Members of European
Parliament, Phil Bennion, Jean
Lambert and Helmut Scholz, as
well as Professor Ashok Swain,
South Asia water expert, Ms
Josephine Barbas, water expert, and
Dr Undala Alam, Indus Water
Treaty expert. They say that water
has caused several disputes among
the nations in the world that need
amicable settlements.
March 22: The Asian Centre for
Human Rights, a New Delhi-based
regional human rights organization,
in a report expresses concern over
the detention of minors in occupied
Kashmir. The ACHR in its report
says that the children in the
occupied territory continue to be
detained under the black law,
Public Safety Act, which allows
detention for up to two years
without trial. Highlighting the
problem, the report mentions six
cases in which the minors have
been detained in brazen violation of
the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child. It says that in occupied
Kashmir and at many places in
India, the juveniles are arrested and
kept in police stations and camps of
the army and paramilitary forces
illegally. It further maintains that
children, irrespective of their age,
are treated as adult and subjected to
human rights violations including
arbitrary arrest and detention,
torture, extrajudicial executions and
sexual assaults as part of the
counter-insurgency operations.
Indian Supreme Court directs the
puppet authorities of occupied
Kashmir to inform Hurriyet leader,
Masarrat Aalam Butt, before a week
if they want to book him under the
draconian law, Public Safety Act,
on the same grounds he has been
detained earlier. A Division Bench
of Supreme Court headed by Justice
R N Lodha passes the direction
after counsel for the puppet
administration of the territory,
Sunil Fernandes, informs the court
that the authorities have revoked
the detention order against Aalam
on March 18, 2013. Masarrat Aalam
is under illegal detention since
October 2010 for his role in mass
uprising in the territory in the same
year.
March 23: A Member of Indian
Parliament from West Bengal, Kabir
Suman, pays tributes through a
song to Kashmiri youth,
Muhammad Afzal Guru, who was
hanged in New Delhi's Tihar Jail on
February 9, 2013. The Kolkata-
based singer-turned-politician
Kabir Suman of All India
Trinamool Congress Party in the
song uploaded on his website
mentions the hanging of Afzal
Guru, enforced disappearances in
occupied Kashmir and the question
of right to self-determination of the
Kashmiris.
Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders, human
rights activists and students stage a
sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in
New Delhi to press the demand for
the return of the mortal remains of
Kashmiri leaders, Muhammad
Maqbool Butt and Muhammad
Afzal Guru, to Kashmir from
Delhi's Tihar Jail. The sit-in is
attended among others by Hurriyet
leaders, Zafar Akbar Butt and Javed
Ahmed Mir, besides human rights
activist, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo.
March 26: Another Indian artist
pays tributes through a song to
Kashmiri youth, Muhammad Afzal
Guru. The Mumbai-based rapper,
Ashwini Mehra aka A-list, releases
his five-minute song titled True
lies - Tale of Afzal Guru on Sound
Cloud, an online audio distribution
platform. The song mentions
excesses and massacres committed
by Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir with Afzal's tale as its
central theme. The tale of Afzal
Guru - listen and learn what the
Indian media never tells you,
Ashwini posts along with the song
on Sound Cloud. The song starts
with a loud chorus Enough of the
lies, let me tell you what is true, this
is how we took the life of Afzal
Guru and repeats after every
verse.
March 14: The National Assembly
of Pakistan unanimously passes a
resolution calling upon the United
Nations and the international
community to help the Kashmiris in
achieving their right to self-
determination. The resolution
moved by the Chairman of
Parliamentary Kashmir Committee,
Maulana Fazlur Rehman,
emphasises that Kashmir is not an
internal affair of India and the
world community should play its
role in settling the Kashmir dispute
in accordance with the Kashmiris'
aspirations. The resolution
reiterates that Pakistan will
continue to extend political, moral
and diplomatic support to the
Kashmir cause. It urges India to
stop brutal actions against the
people of occupied Kashmir and
hand over the body of Muhammad
Afzal Guru to his family members
for proper burial. It also calls upon
the Indian government to lift curbs,
ensure freedom of expression and
allow the people of the occupied
territory to freely practice their
religion.
Kashmiri representative, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, while addressing the
22nd session of the United Nations
Human Rights Council in Geneva
says that Kashmir is a UN-
recognised disputed territory and
the World Body has failed to force
India to implement its resolutions
on the dispute.
March 15: Speakers at a seminar on
the sidelines of the 22nd session of
the UN Human Rights Council in
Geneva say that the culture of
impunity has resulted in over one-
lac deaths besides rape and
custodial disappearances in
occupied Kashmir. The speakers
more has taken place in Kashmir.
March 18: Keeping in view the
situation of occupied Kashmir after
the hanging of Kashmiri youth,
Muhammad Afzal Guru, by India
on February 9, 2013, the Australian
government issues a travel advisory
to its citizens visiting Kashmir
asking them not to travel to several
parts of the territory. The advisory
asks the Australian citizens not to
travel to Srinagar, Jammu and
Ladakh region due to frequent
curfews, protest demonstrations
and clashes between demonstrators
and Indian forces.
March 19: Senior Congress leader
and former Indian diplomat, Mani
Shankar Aiyar, in a media
interview in New Delhi says that
India should explain why it has not
implemented the recommendations
of the three interlocutors appointed
by India after 2010 uprising in
occupied Kashmir. He says that
there is a lot of alienation and
countless grievances in Kashmir
and the situation in the territory has
gone from bad to worse.
March 20: Human rights watchdog
Amnesty International expresses
concern over the reports of the use
of pepper gas by Indian troops to
quell street protests in occupied
Kashmir. The Amnesty in a
statement issued in New Delhi
urges the Indian authorities to stop
use of pepper gas and conduct a
prompt, thorough and independent
investigation into the three deaths
that have been caused by the use of
this gas in the occupied territory.
The killings have occurred during
anti-India protests in the aftermath
of hanging of Muhammad Afzal
Guru in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.
The Chairman of Kashmir Centre
Brussels, Barrister Abdul Majeed
By: KMS Research Desk
A chronological account of
developments on Kashmir (95)
Compiled by: Showkat Ali
(to be continued)
2013
include Altaf Hussain Wani, Syed
Faiz Naqashbandi, Sardar Amjad
Yousaf Khan, Mrs Shamim Shawl
and Mrs Sadani Malaine.
March 16: The Chairman of
International Chamber for Peace
and Conciliation-Kashmir Concern,
Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl, and
the Chairman of International
Council for Human Rights-Kashmir
Project, Barrister Abdul Majeed
Tramboo, on the sidelines of a
function in London meet the
Labour Party leader, Edward
Miliband. They urge him to revisit
the policy resolution of the Labour
Party adopted in its Brighton
conference in 1995 that has
promised that the party will help
the Kashmiris in securing their
right to self-determination in
accordance with the relevant UN
resolutions.
March 17: Member of Indian
Parliament and Lok Janshakti Party
President, Ram Vilas Paswan,
speaking at a seminar organized by
Center for Policy Analysis in New
Delhi calls for repealing draconian
laws, Armed Forces Special Powers
Act and Public Safety Act, to allow
democratic space to the people of
occupied Kashmir. He criticises the
Indian authorities for putting
Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani and
Muhammad Yasin Malik under
house arrest saying that the action
is against the spirit of democracy
and cannot be justified. Ram Vilas
Paswan says that hearts and minds
of people of Kashmir cannot be
won through hard measures. He
deplores the role of Indian media in
reporting the ground situation of
occupied Kashmir maintaining that
what has been highlighted about
human rights violations in Sri
Lanka by the Indian media, much
Tramboo, and the Executive
Director of Kashmir Centre
London, Professor Nazir Ahmad
Shawl, addressing a seminar in
Brussels in connection with the
World Water Day stress resolution
of the Kashmir dispute for settling
the water issues between Pakistan
and India. They say that India has
been playing havoc with the lives of
Kashmiris for the last several
decades and now it has created
water disputes to add to the
miseries of the people of the region.
They urge the international
community to hold India
accountable for killing innocent
people in the occupied territory and
ensure the just distribution of water
reservoirs. The seminar is organised
by the Kashmir Centre Brussels in
collaboration with International
Human Rights Association of
American Minorities and is also
addressed by Members of European
Parliament, Phil Bennion, Jean
Lambert and Helmut Scholz, as
well as Professor Ashok Swain,
South Asia water expert, Ms
Josephine Barbas, water expert, and
Dr Undala Alam, Indus Water
Treaty expert. They say that water
has caused several disputes among
the nations in the world that need
amicable settlements.
March 22: The Asian Centre for
Human Rights, a New Delhi-based
regional human rights organization,
in a report expresses concern over
the detention of minors in occupied
Kashmir. The ACHR in its report
says that the children in the
occupied territory continue to be
detained under the black law,
Public Safety Act, which allows
detention for up to two years
without trial. Highlighting the
problem, the report mentions six
cases in which the minors have
been detained in brazen violation of
the UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child. It says that in occupied
Kashmir and at many places in
India, the juveniles are arrested and
kept in police stations and camps of
the army and paramilitary forces
illegally. It further maintains that
children, irrespective of their age,
are treated as adult and subjected to
human rights violations including
arbitrary arrest and detention,
torture, extrajudicial executions and
sexual assaults as part of the
counter-insurgency operations.
Indian Supreme Court directs the
puppet authorities of occupied
Kashmir to inform Hurriyet leader,
Masarrat Aalam Butt, before a week
if they want to book him under the
draconian law, Public Safety Act,
on the same grounds he has been
detained earlier. A Division Bench
of Supreme Court headed by Justice
R N Lodha passes the direction
after counsel for the puppet
administration of the territory,
Sunil Fernandes, informs the court
that the authorities have revoked
the detention order against Aalam
on March 18, 2013. Masarrat Aalam
is under illegal detention since
October 2010 for his role in mass
uprising in the territory in the same
year.
March 23: A Member of Indian
Parliament from West Bengal, Kabir
Suman, pays tributes through a
song to Kashmiri youth,
Muhammad Afzal Guru, who was
hanged in New Delhi's Tihar Jail on
February 9, 2013. The Kolkata-
based singer-turned-politician
Kabir Suman of All India
Trinamool Congress Party in the
song uploaded on his website
mentions the hanging of Afzal
Guru, enforced disappearances in
occupied Kashmir and the question
of right to self-determination of the
Kashmiris.
Kashmiri Hurriyet leaders, human
rights activists and students stage a
sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar in
New Delhi to press the demand for
the return of the mortal remains of
Kashmiri leaders, Muhammad
Maqbool Butt and Muhammad
Afzal Guru, to Kashmir from
Delhi's Tihar Jail. The sit-in is
attended among others by Hurriyet
leaders, Zafar Akbar Butt and Javed
Ahmed Mir, besides human rights
activist, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo.
March 26: Another Indian artist
pays tributes through a song to
Kashmiri youth, Muhammad Afzal
Guru. The Mumbai-based rapper,
Ashwini Mehra aka A-list, releases
his five-minute song titled True
lies - Tale of Afzal Guru on Sound
Cloud, an online audio distribution
platform. The song mentions
excesses and massacres committed
by Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir with Afzal's tale as its
central theme. The tale of Afzal
Guru - listen and learn what the
Indian media never tells you,
Ashwini posts along with the song
on Sound Cloud. The song starts
with a loud chorus Enough of the
lies, let me tell you what is true, this
is how we took the life of Afzal
Guru and repeats after every
verse.
March 14: The National Assembly
of Pakistan unanimously passes a
resolution calling upon the United
Nations and the international
community to help the Kashmiris in
determination. The resolution
moved by the Chairman of
Parliamentary Kashmir Committee,
Maulana Fazlur Rehman,
emphasises that Kashmir is not an
internal affair of India and the
world community should play its
role in settling the Kashmir dispute
in accordance with the Kashmiris'
aspirations. The resolution
reiterates that Pakistan will
continue to extend political, moral
and diplomatic support to the
Kashmir cause. It urges India to
stop brutal actions against the
people of occupied Kashmir and
hand over the body of Muhammad
Afzal Guru to his family members
for proper burial. It also calls upon
the Indian government to lift curbs,
ensure freedom of expression and
allow the people of the occupied
territory to freely practice their
religion.
Kashmiri representative, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, while addressing the
22nd session of the United Nations
Human Rights Council in Geneva
says that Kashmir is a UN-
recognised disputed territory and
the World Body has failed to force
India to implement its resolutions
on the dispute.
March 15: Speakers at a seminar on
the sidelines of the 22nd session of
the UN Human Rights Council in
Geneva say that the culture of
impunity has resulted in over one-
lac deaths besides rape and
custodial disappearances in
occupied Kashmir. The speakers
more has taken place in Kashmir.
March 18: Keeping in view the
situation of occupied Kashmir after
the hanging of Kashmiri youth,
Muhammad Afzal Guru, by India
on February 9, 2013, the Australian
government issues a travel advisory
to its citizens visiting Kashmir
asking them not to travel to several
parts of the territory. The advisory
asks the Australian citizens not to
travel to Srinagar, Jammu and
Ladakh region due to frequent
curfews, protest demonstrations
and clashes between demonstrators
and Indian forces.
March 19: Senior Congress leader
and former Indian diplomat, Mani
Shankar Aiyar, in a media
interview in New Delhi says that
India should explain why it has not
implemented the recommendations
of the three interlocutors appointed
by India after 2010 uprising in
occupied Kashmir. He says that
there is a lot of alienation and
countless grievances in Kashmir
and the situation in the territory has
gone from bad to worse.
March 20: Human rights watchdog
Amnesty International expresses
concern over the reports of the use
of pepper gas by Indian troops to
quell street protests in occupied
Kashmir. The Amnesty in a
statement issued in New Delhi
urges the Indian authorities to stop
use of pepper gas and conduct a
prompt, thorough and independent
investigation into the three deaths
that have been caused by the use of
this gas in the occupied territory.
The killings have occurred during
anti-India protests in the aftermath
of hanging of Muhammad Afzal
Guru in New Delhi's Tihar Jail.
The Chairman of Kashmir Centre
Brussels, Barrister Abdul Majeed
By: KMS Research Desk
A chronological account of
developments on Kashmir (95)
Compiled by: Showkat Ali
(to be continued)
2013
Kashmiri handicrafts are world-
renowned and been appreciated
since long by the people all around
the globe. The exclusive items in
exotic tastes are difficult to find
elsewhere in the world. Kashmir
produces some of its very own
handicraft items for the people
interested in Kashmiri Handicrafts,
though some duplicates are found
in several places, which people sell
and purchase by the name of
Kashmiri Handicrafts, the intricacy
and delicacy is difficult to find in
others works.
Carpet
Kashmiri carpets are very famous
for their intricate and delicate piece
of work. Kashmiri carpets are
famed for two things - firstly, they
are hand made and secondly, they
are always knotted, never tufted.
The yarn used normally is silk,
wool or silk & wool. Woollen
carpets always have a cotton base.
The carpets are woven with certain
motifs in vibrant colours. The
amiable blend of colours makes the
Kashmiri carpet a most loved
possession. The colour and the
design details differentiate it from
any other carpet.
The knotting of the carpet is the
most important aspect of carpet
weaving. The knots of the carpets
determine its durability and value,
in addition to its design and
pattern. The more knots per square
inch, the greater the value and
durability of a carpet.
The carpet weaving in Kashmir was
not originally indigenous but is
thought to have come in by way of
Persia. Silk Kashmiri carpet or rug
weaving is therefore strongly
reflective of Persian styling. Till
today most designs are distinctly
Persian with local variations. The
Silk Kashmiri carpets or rugs are
made predominantly in the
Srinagar area of Kashmir and
generally confined to the men of the
family, though nowadays, women
are also entering the trade. These
exquisite creations are hand-
knotted on the warp threads, one at
a time, in accordance to a strict code
of colours in the order of their
appearance in the pattern. The
knotted product is clipped with
shears to smoothness, and then
treated with several brightening
and protective chemical washes.
The colour-way of Silk Kashmiri
carpet or rug and its details
differentiate it from any other
carpet. Although the colours of Silk
Kashmiri carpets or rugs are more
subtle and muted than other
carpets, only chemical dyes are
used, as vegetable dyes have not
been available now for years.
Papier Mache
There are three different grades of
Papier Mache work, although if
looked at a glance all look quite
same. Some are actually cardboard
or wood. The idea is to provide a
cheaper product for someone who
wants the look of Papier Mache at
cheaper price.
To make a Papier Mache, first paper
is soaked in water till it breaks
apart. It is then crushed, mixed
with an adhesive solution, shaped
over moulds, and allowed to dry
and set before being painted and
given the final touch.
Bright colours are used on the
designs painted on objects of Papier
Mache. They are distinct in artistry
and colours. Gold is used on most
objects, either as the only colour, or
as the highlight for any particular
motif. Apart from the design, the
type of gold used also determines
the price of the object. The pure
gold work, which has an unrivalled
lustre, is far more expensive than
bronze dust or gold poster paint. It
also has much longer life and will
never fade or tarnish. Varnish,
which is applied to the finished
product, imparts a high gloss and
smoothness, which increases with
every coat.
Basketry
Willows that grow in abundance in
marshes and lakes in Kashmir are
the raw materials to make aestheti-
cally quaint items. The items
generally made are shopping
baskets, lampshades, tables and
chairs, all generally inexpensive.
Walnut Wood
The colour, grains and inherent
sheen of Kashmiri walnut trees are
unique and outstanding, and the
carving and fretwork done on this
wood is of supreme quality. The
walnut wood is almost black, and
the grain here is much more
assured than the wood of the trunk,
which is lighter in colour. The
branches have the lightest colour,
being almost blonde, and have no
evident grain. The intrinsic worth
of the wood from each part of the
tree differs - that from the root
being the most expensive and the
branches having the lowest price.
Being one of the strongest varieties
of wood, walnut has several
varieties of carving. The walnut
wood is generally used to make
several types of handicraft items
with unique Kashmiri artistry.
Copper and Silverware
Craftsmen are often seen engraving
objects of household utility -
samovars, bowls, plates and trays.
Floral, stylised, geometric, leaf and
sometimes calligraphic motifs are
also engraved or embossed on
copper and occasionally silver to
cover the entire surface with fine
designs, which are then oxidised to
stand out from the background. The
work known as naqashi and the
weight of the object actuate the
price of the object.
Kashmiri Handicrafts
Beauty thy name is
something to eat at once. I do not
wish to eat with these people, if
your parents will excuse me.
Very well, she replied, "but there
is nothing but phuhurih. If you
like to have that, I will go and bring
it.
All right, he said, bring it.
So she went and fetched some
phuhurih, and he ate it gladly.
When he had finished the plateful
he said, The taste of this
phuhurih is better than pulao to
me at this time.
Deeming it a good opportunity, she
asked, Oh, why, then, do you
always eat pulao in your house?
Because my father ordered me to
do this, just before he died, he
replied. Nonsense, said she, you
have mistaken his meaning.
No, I have not, he said, he
advised me on several other points
also.
He then told her all that his father
had said to him.
Well! she exclaimed, on this
account you built the covered way
from the house to the shop, you eat
pulao every day, and marry a wife
every week! Are you really so
stupid as to suppose for one
moment that your wise and kind
father wished you thus to under-
stand him?
Why, such a course of life will
very soon bring you to ruin, besides
making your life miserable and
your name a reproach in the land!
Listen! When your father advised
you to go and come from your shop
in the shade he meant that you
should attend to your business,
rising up early and retiring late, if
you wished to prosper and to
become great. When he told you to
eat pulao every day, he meant that
you should be economical in the
way of food, and eat only to satisfy
hunger. When he said, marry a new
wife every week, he meant that you
should not be too much with your
wife. When the wife is away you
want her. If you saw your wife only
once a week you would return to
her as to a new wife and enjoy her
company more, she added.
Alas! Alas! he cried, what have I
been doing? How foolishly have I
acted! O my dear father, that I
should have thus misunderstood
you. My dear wife, you have
spoken wisely. Henceforth I will
endeavour to atone for my
stupidity. But you have not
explained the rest of my father's
words that I may know what else to
do.
I will tell you, she replied, but
let us first go and bid my parents
good-bye. I will explain the
meaning to you on the way home.
As they were walking back she
turned aside to a gambling-den,
and showed her husband the
wretchedness and villainy depicted
on the countenances of nearly
everyone of the company.
Look at their terrible condition
and be warned. Your father
evidently wished you to see such a
sight, that you might shun the path
that leads to this state, she said.
Then she took him to a large wine
shop that was near their house, and
pointing to the immense vats of
wine, told him to climb one of them
and drink to his heart's content.
He went up the ladder and looked
over into the vat, but the stench was
so great that he did not wish to
remain there a moment, much less
to drink.
I will not drink any wine today,
he said on reaching the bottom of
the ladder.
This is precisely the conclusion
your father wished to arrive at and
therefore he told you to go and
drink the wine from the vat
whenever you wished to drink it,
she added.
I see, I see, he replied, let us go
home.
A merchant when dying called his
beloved and only son to his bedside
and said, Dear son, I am about to
depart, and shall not return. You
will be left alone in the world. I
want you to remember five pieces
of advice. Walk not in the sunshine
from your house to the shop. Let
pulao be your daily food. Take
unto yourself a fresh wife every
week. On wishing to drink wine go
to the vat and drink it. If you want
to gamble, then gamble with
experienced gamblers.
Having spoken these words the
merchant died.
The son, although good and
obedient in all things, was also a
very stupid fellow. He did not in
the least comprehend his father's
real meaning. He thought that these
words were to be understood
literally, and therefore immediately
set about erecting a covered way
from his house to the place of
business. It cost him a large sum of
money, and seemed most needless
and ridiculous.
Some of his friends suspected that
he was mad, and others that he was
proud. However, he minded not
their remarks and coldness, but
finished the building, and every
day walked beneath it in the shade
to and fro his house to the shop.
He also ordered the cook to prepare
pulao for him every day, and ate
nothing else, as his father had
directed him.
In the matter of getting a fresh wife
every week he experienced very
great difficulty. Some of the wives,
by reason of their ugliness, or bad
tempers, or slovenly manners, or
unfaithfulness and other wicked-
ness, deserved to be turned off. But
there were others who were
beautiful, and good, and kind, and
loving, and clean, and tidy, and
these the young merchant found it
extremely hard to get rid of. He had
to provoke them to anger or to
indifference before he could invent
an excuse for sending them away.
Many poor women were thus
ruined by him.
At last an exceedingly clever
woman heard of the deceased
merchant's advice, and having
perceived the true meaning, she
determined to try and arrange for
her marriage with the young
merchant. Being both beautiful and
clever, she soon succeeded. The
young merchant could not detect
any fault in her or her work, though
he was constantly on the watch for
anything wrong. She did every-
thing strictly according to his
wishes, and was exceedingly
careful about her speech, and dress,
and manner, and work. Six days
thus passed. On the seventh and
last day of the week, his last
opportunity, the young merchant
ordered her to have some fish
pulao ready for his evening meal,
intending to grumble with it, and to
pretend that he wanted a different
kind of fish to be prepared. His wife
promised that it should be ready for
him as soon as he returned.
Soon after he left she went to the
bazaar and purchased two or three
kinds of fish. At the proper time she
prepared them in different ways,
some with spices, and some
without spices, some with sugar,
some with salt, and so on. On the
young merchant's return the dinner
was waiting.
Is dinner ready? he shouted.
Yes, replied the wife, and
immediately put a dish of steaming
sweet pulao in front of him.
Oh! he said, looking up in a rage,
I want a salt pulao. Very well,
she replied, I thought perhaps you
would, and so got that also ready.
Here it is, and she set a big dish of
steaming salt pulao before him.
Yes, yes, said he, still in a rage
apparently, but not this kind of
fish. It is all bone.
Very well, she replied, then
have this kind.
But I don't mean this kind, he
shouted; and he looked as if he
would like to throw the contents of
the dish at her head. I would
sooner eat dung than this.
Then have it, she replied, by all
means.
Saying this, she kicked aside a small
basket and discovered to his
astonished gaze the dung of some
animal that had been prowling
about the place while she was
preparing the dinner, but which she
had not had time to remove, and
therefore had thrown a basket over
it, lest her husband should notice it
and be offended.
Thoroughly defeated, the young
merchant then said no more. After
eating a little from two or three of
the dishes he went to bed. During
the night his wife made him
promise to visit her father's house
the next day, and to spend the day
there.
In the morning the young merchant
and his wife went together to the
house of her father. On arrival the
wife told her parents all that had
happened to her and all her secrets,
and begged them not to cook
anything special on account of their
visit, but to prepare simply some
phuhurih, and give it to her when
she should ask for it. They said that
they would do so.
When they had been there some
hours she took her husband into a
little room, and asked him to wait
there for the dinner, which would
be ready presently. The young
merchant waited a long time, until
at last he got so hungry that he
went and called his wife and
entreated her to bring something to
eat. Yes, she said, in a few
minutes. We are waiting for other
guests, who ought to have been
here a long time ago. As soon as
they arrive the food will be served
up.
But I am too hungry to wait, said
the young merchant, give me
A stupid husband and his clever wife
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something to eat at once. I do not
wish to eat with these people, if
your parents will excuse me.
Very well, she replied, "but there
is nothing but phuhurih. If you
like to have that, I will go and bring
it.
All right, he said, bring it.
So she went and fetched some
phuhurih, and he ate it gladly.
When he had finished the plateful
he said, The taste of this
phuhurih is better than pulao to
me at this time.
Deeming it a good opportunity, she
asked, Oh, why, then, do you
always eat pulao in your house?
Because my father ordered me to
do this, just before he died, he
replied. Nonsense, said she, you
have mistaken his meaning.
No, I have not, he said, he
advised me on several other points
also.
He then told her all that his father
had said to him.
Well! she exclaimed, on this
account you built the covered way
from the house to the shop, you eat
pulao every day, and marry a wife
every week! Are you really so
stupid as to suppose for one
moment that your wise and kind
father wished you thus to under-
stand him?
Why, such a course of life will
very soon bring you to ruin, besides
making your life miserable and
your name a reproach in the land!
Listen! When your father advised
you to go and come from your shop
in the shade he meant that you
should attend to your business,
rising up early and retiring late, if
you wished to prosper and to
become great. When he told you to
eat pulao every day, he meant that
you should be economical in the
way of food, and eat only to satisfy
hunger. When he said, marry a new
wife every week, he meant that you
should not be too much with your
wife. When the wife is away you
want her. If you saw your wife only
once a week you would return to
her as to a new wife and enjoy her
company more, she added.
Alas! Alas! he cried, what have I
been doing? How foolishly have I
acted! O my dear father, that I
should have thus misunderstood
you. My dear wife, you have
spoken wisely. Henceforth I will
endeavour to atone for my
stupidity. But you have not
explained the rest of my father's
words that I may know what else to
do.
I will tell you, she replied, but
let us first go and bid my parents
good-bye. I will explain the
meaning to you on the way home.
As they were walking back she
turned aside to a gambling-den,
and showed her husband the
wretchedness and villainy depicted
on the countenances of nearly
everyone of the company.
Look at their terrible condition
and be warned. Your father
evidently wished you to see such a
sight, that you might shun the path
that leads to this state, she said.
Then she took him to a large wine
shop that was near their house, and
pointing to the immense vats of
wine, told him to climb one of them
and drink to his heart's content.
He went up the ladder and looked
over into the vat, but the stench was
so great that he did not wish to
remain there a moment, much less
to drink.
I will not drink any wine today,
he said on reaching the bottom of
the ladder.
This is precisely the conclusion
your father wished to arrive at and
therefore he told you to go and
drink the wine from the vat
whenever you wished to drink it,
she added.
I see, I see, he replied, let us go
home.
A merchant when dying called his
beloved and only son to his bedside
and said, Dear son, I am about to
depart, and shall not return. You
will be left alone in the world. I
want you to remember five pieces
of advice. Walk not in the sunshine
from your house to the shop. Let
pulao be your daily food. Take
unto yourself a fresh wife every
week. On wishing to drink wine go
to the vat and drink it. If you want
to gamble, then gamble with
experienced gamblers.
Having spoken these words the
merchant died.
The son, although good and
obedient in all things, was also a
very stupid fellow. He did not in
the least comprehend his father's
real meaning. He thought that these
words were to be understood
literally, and therefore immediately
set about erecting a covered way
from his house to the place of
business. It cost him a large sum of
money, and seemed most needless
and ridiculous.
Some of his friends suspected that
he was mad, and others that he was
proud. However, he minded not
their remarks and coldness, but
finished the building, and every
day walked beneath it in the shade
to and fro his house to the shop.
He also ordered the cook to prepare
pulao for him every day, and ate
nothing else, as his father had
directed him.
In the matter of getting a fresh wife
every week he experienced very
great difficulty. Some of the wives,
by reason of their ugliness, or bad
tempers, or slovenly manners, or
unfaithfulness and other wicked-
ness, deserved to be turned off. But
there were others who were
beautiful, and good, and kind, and
loving, and clean, and tidy, and
these the young merchant found it
extremely hard to get rid of. He had
to provoke them to anger or to
indifference before he could invent
an excuse for sending them away.
Many poor women were thus
ruined by him.
At last an exceedingly clever
woman heard of the deceased
merchant's advice, and having
perceived the true meaning, she
determined to try and arrange for
her marriage with the young
merchant. Being both beautiful and
clever, she soon succeeded. The
young merchant could not detect
any fault in her or her work, though
he was constantly on the watch for
anything wrong. She did every-
thing strictly according to his
wishes, and was exceedingly
careful about her speech, and dress,
and manner, and work. Six days
thus passed. On the seventh and
last day of the week, his last
opportunity, the young merchant
ordered her to have some fish
pulao ready for his evening meal,
intending to grumble with it, and to
pretend that he wanted a different
kind of fish to be prepared. His wife
promised that it should be ready for
him as soon as he returned.
Soon after he left she went to the
bazaar and purchased two or three
kinds of fish. At the proper time she
prepared them in different ways,
some with spices, and some
without spices, some with sugar,
some with salt, and so on. On the
young merchant's return the dinner
was waiting.
Is dinner ready? he shouted.
Yes, replied the wife, and
immediately put a dish of steaming
sweet pulao in front of him.
Oh! he said, looking up in a rage,
I want a salt pulao. Very well,
she replied, I thought perhaps you
would, and so got that also ready.
Here it is, and she set a big dish of
steaming salt pulao before him.
Yes, yes, said he, still in a rage
apparently, but not this kind of
fish. It is all bone.
Very well, she replied, then
have this kind.
But I don't mean this kind, he
shouted; and he looked as if he
would like to throw the contents of
the dish at her head. I would
sooner eat dung than this.
Then have it, she replied, by all
means.
Saying this, she kicked aside a small
basket and discovered to his
astonished gaze the dung of some
animal that had been prowling
about the place while she was
preparing the dinner, but which she
had not had time to remove, and
therefore had thrown a basket over
it, lest her husband should notice it
and be offended.
Thoroughly defeated, the young
merchant then said no more. After
eating a little from two or three of
the dishes he went to bed. During
the night his wife made him
promise to visit her father's house
the next day, and to spend the day
there.
In the morning the young merchant
and his wife went together to the
house of her father. On arrival the
wife told her parents all that had
happened to her and all her secrets,
and begged them not to cook
anything special on account of their
visit, but to prepare simply some
phuhurih, and give it to her when
she should ask for it. They said that
they would do so.
When they had been there some
hours she took her husband into a
little room, and asked him to wait
there for the dinner, which would
be ready presently. The young
merchant waited a long time, until
at last he got so hungry that he
went and called his wife and
entreated her to bring something to
eat. Yes, she said, in a few
minutes. We are waiting for other
guests, who ought to have been
here a long time ago. As soon as
they arrive the food will be served
up.
But I am too hungry to wait, said
the young merchant, give me
A stupid husband and his clever wife
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protest and even their homes are
July 13 and Kashmir Strong support
raided. The number of those
Dear editor, 13th July holds a special Dear editor, it was quite heartening
martyred since the occupation is
place in the hearts and minds of the to observe that Pakistani Army
over 100,000. The discovery of
people of Jammu and Kashmir. It Chief, General Raheel Sharif, assured
unmarked mass graves in the
the people of Jammu and Kashmir was on this day in 1931 when
territory containing mutilated bodies
that Kashmir is the jugular vein of twenty-two unarmed peaceful
shows the kind of atrocities that are
Pakistan and stressed for settling the protesters were gunned down by the
being committed with impunity by
Kashmir dispute as per the forces of Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh
the Indian forces. The Kashmir
Kashmiris' aspirations and the outside Srinagar jail while they were
dispute, which has become a nuclear
relevant UN resolutions. Such a demanding release of one Abdul
flashpoint, is the main cause of
strong signal from the Army Chief is
Qadeer, who was being tried in the
sufferings of the Kashmiris and basic
a clear indication of Pakistan's
jail for challenging the autocratic
impediment in the way of
support to the Kashmir cause. From
ruler of the territory. In their long
establishing cordial relations
this statement it is also clear that
struggle for emancipation the
between Pakistan and India. There is
there is no question of Pakistan
Kashmiri people have rendered
no denying the fact that resolution of
deviating from its traditional stand
unparalleled sacrifices as they have
the lingering dispute could bring
that resolution of the Kashmir
been forced to become captives in
peace and harmony in the region.
dispute has to be in accordance with
their own land since 1947. After the
Ali Ahmad the aspirations of the Kashmiri
partition of Indo-Pak subcontinent,
people to be expressed in a free and Islamabad
over 100,000 Kashmiris have been
fair plebiscite held under the
martyred so far in their struggle for
Resolving Kashmir issue
auspices of the United Nations.
The government of Pakistan has
It is a fact that Pakistan's continued
determination. Despite all hardships,
always stressed on the meaningful
moral, political and diplomatic
the Kashmiri people are determined
talks with India to settle all
support to the Kashmir cause has
to continue their struggle to get rid
contentious issues including the
always been a source of inspiration
of Indian bondage. I believe India's
Kashmir dispute. The people of
and encouragement for the people of
military measures will, in no way, be
occupied Kashmir also attach great
Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani
able to break the Kashmiris' resolve
expectations to Pakistan for raising
leadership has assured the
to carry forward their just struggle to
the dispute at all international fora.
Kashmiris time and again that no
It is unfortunate that some sections
solution of the dispute against their
Amjad Abbasi
of Indian media tried to mislead the
wishes would be accepted.
Murree
Kashmiri people on the account that
Pakistan should step-up its efforts to
the Prime Minister, Mohammad
Remembering martyrs highlight the plight of the Kashmiri
Nawaz Sharif, did not mention
Dear editor, every year people of people at various international fora
Kashmir in his recent meeting with as the world conscience is showing Kashmir commemorate the
signs of uneasiness over the gross the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra
martyrdom anniversaries of their
human rights violations perpetrated Modi, during his visit to attend the
martyred leaders, Mirwaiz Moulvi
by Indian troops in occupied oath-taking ceremony of the latter.
Muhammad Farooq and Khawaja
Kashmir to suppress the Kashmiris'
Pakistani leadership is well aware of
Abdul Ghani Lone, on May 21. This
genuine liberation struggle. It must
the fact that Kashmir continues to be observance reflects their unflinching
project through its diplomatic
the bone of contention between resolve to continue the struggle to
missions abroad and at the UN and
Pakistan and India and without its achieve their right to self-
other relevant platforms including
just and equitable settlement, it is determination. Given the daily acts
the Organisation of Islamic
impossible to imagine friendly ties of human rights violations
Cooperation and the European
between Islamabad and New Delhi. perpetrated by Indian troops as the
Union the Indian atrocities on the
international human rights So, Kashmiris should not pay any
freedom-loving Kashmiris.
watchdogs have recently censured in heed to the Indian propaganda and
The background of the Kashmir
their reports, there are no two keep faith in the Pakistani leadership
dispute and denial of right to self-
that it would never ignore them and opinions on how worse is the
determination to the Kashmiris by
would continue to plead their case at prevailing state of affairs in occupied
India for the past over six decades
Kashmir. The Kashmiris are the global level.
must also be highlighted.
arbitrarily picked up and fired upon
Salman Khalid
Khalid Hassan
when they are out on the roads to
Rawalpindi
Birmingham
Letters to editor
Feedback
(January 1989 to June 30, 2014)
Source: Kashmir Media Service (www.kmsnews.org)
Atrocities by Indian troops
Total killings 94,045
Custodial killings 7,023
Civilians arrested 126,316
Structures destroyed/damaged 106,007
Women widowed 22,778
Women gangraped/molested 10,121
Children orphaned 107,469
Including custodial killings
"Kashmir has been wrongly looked upon as a prize for India or Pakistan.
People seem to forget that Kashmir is not a commodity for sale or to be
bartered. It has an individual existence and its people must be the final
arbiters of their future. It is here today that a struggle is being fought, not in
the battlefield but in the minds of men".
(Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru reports to
All-India Congress Committee
(Reported in The Statesman, New Delhi) on July 9, 1951)
Kashmir not a commodity?
All Parties Hurriyet Conference Azad Jammu And Kashmir
P. O. Box No. 2617, GPO Islamabad.
Ph: 0092-51-4861457, Fax: 0092-51-4861458 (Islamabad)
0092-5822-32344 (Muzaffarabad)
Email: aphc313@yahoo.co.in

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