Kashmir Insight September-2016

22nd Year of Publication
Vol: 22
No. 09
September 2016
Monthly
KASHMIR
INSIGHT
Demonstrations continue to rock IOK
No end to killing of Kashmiri civilians

Pak Independence Day
celebrated in IOK
despite restrictions
Kashmiris observe
Indias Independence
Day as Black Day
OIC stands
united with
Kashmiris
Ban Ki-moon deplores civilian killings

in occupied Kashmir
I deplore the ongoing killings in Indian-held Kashmir as security forces there try to stamp out
weeks of anti-government protests by Kashmiri civilians, and urge India and Pakistan to settle
Kashmir and other issues through dialogue. I stand ready to offer my good offices, should it be
requested by both sides, to facilitate dialogue in order to achieve a negotiated settlement. I
deplore the loss of life and hope that all efforts will be made to avoid further violence.
(UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in a letter to
Pakistan Prime Minister, Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, on August 18, 2016)
UN rights chief seeks

full and unhindered access to IOK
We need full and unhindered access to Kashmir given the recent allegations of human rights
violations as without access we can only fear the worst. However, I deeply regret that our
requests for access have not been granted. Given the seriousness of the allegations of the use of
excessive force, allegations of state sponsorship of violence, as well as the number of people
killed and the very large number of people injured, the continuing unrest and the almost daily
reports of violence in the region, it is unfortunate that our sincere attempts to independently
assess the facts in relation to reports of human rights violations have failed.
(UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein in a statement on August 17, 2016)
Kashmir Insight
Editor:
M Raza Malik
Sub Editor:
Benazir Khan
Art Editor:
M.Haroon
From The Editor's Desk
C O N T E N T S
Editorial
Indias Intransigence on Kashmir
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Demonstrations continue to rock IOK
No end to killing of Kashmiri civilians . . . . . . . . . . 03
Reports
Pakistan voices serious concern over Kashmir
bloodbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
World's condemnation of HR abuses in
occupied Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09
Pak Independence Day celebrated in
IOK despite restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Kashmiris observe Indias Independence Day
as Black Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Pictorial
Images speak louder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Reports
Glowing tributes paid to Sheikh Abdul Aziz . . . . . . . . . . 18
Islamabad seminars express solidarity with
IOK people. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
OIC stands united with Kashmiris:
Iyad Ameen Madani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Article
Why President Obama Ignores Human Rights in Kashmir
Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chronology
A chronological account of developments
on Kashmir (121) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Kashmiri people make full use of any opportunity they come

across to express their love and passion for Pakistan and
resentment and hatred against India. These two extremely
opposite emotions for Islamabad and New Delhi are being
witnessed for the last almost seven decades in the month of
August when Pakistan and India celebrate their respective
Independence Days.
The people of occupied Kashmir hold pro-Pakistan rallies and
distribute sweets on Pakistans Independence Day on 14th
August and offer special prayers for its prosperity, progress,
security and stability. The youth hoist Pakistani flags on
vantage points even in the presence of Indian troops and
sometimes they have to face their wrath. They do all this to
demonstrate their affiliation, love, affection and passion for
Pakistan and their desire to be part of this country.
All this was witnessed this year also even as the occupation
authorities continued to impose strict curfew in the occupied
territory to prevent people from staging demonstrations
against the killing spree unleashed by Indian forces following
the extrajudicial murder of mujahid commander, Burhan
Wani. The puppet authorities had enforced the curfew over a
month ago on July 9, a day after the killing of Burhan Wani.
However, despite curfew and other restrictions, people held
pro-Pakistan rallies across the territory and raised slogans in
favour of freedom, Pakistan and against India.
Conversely, Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control
and across the world observe the Indian Independence Day,
on 15th August, as Black Day to convey to the international
community that India had illegally occupied their homeland.
The observance of the Black Day is also meant to make it clear
to New Delhi that it had no right to celebrate its
Independence Day in Jammu and Kashmir as it was a UNmandated disputed territory. The day is marked by complete
shutdown in occupied Kashmir on the call of Hurriyet
leaders and organisations. People stage forceful pro-freedom
demonstrations in the territory to remind New Delhi of the
promises made by its leaders of giving them their inalienable
right to self-determination.
Ironically, India celebrates its Independence Day in occupied
Kashmir under the shadow of gun by converting the occupied
territory into a garrison. On the day, it snatches all kinds of
freedoms by putting the entire territory under military siege.
The deplorable aspect of the matter is that for the past several
decades it has killed hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris for
demanding the same thing that it had achieved for itself after
huge sacrifices of its people against the British rule.
New Delhi needs to acknowledge the fact that its worst kind
of state terrorism has failed to intimidate the Kashmiri people
into submission and it must take steps to give them an
opportunity to decide their fate by themselves.
Beauty thy name is

Tourist places in occupied Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Literature
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Feedback
Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Editorial
Indias Intransigence on Kashmir

Indian occupied Kashmir is
witnessing massive pro-freedom
and anti-India demonstrations
from the second week of July, this
year. Thousands of people are
taking to the streets every day
with the forceful demand of their
right to self-determination. The
occupied territory is on the boil
after the extrajudicial murder of
top freedom fighter, Burhan
Muzaffar Wani, by Indian troops
in a fake encounter on July 8.
Burhan Wanis killing triggered
the Kashmir Intifada and India,
despite using all its brutal and
coercive tactics, has so far failed to
bring the situation under its
control.
The imposition of continued
curfew and other restrictions in
the occupied territory and killing
of over 80 innocent civilians and
injuring of more than eleven
thousand in the firing of pellets,
bullet and teargas shells by Indian
police and troops on peaceful
protesters could not stop the
Kashmiri people from expressing
their resentment against the
Indian forcible occupation of their
homeland. It seems that the
Kashmiris have decided to fight
their final battle to force India out
of their soil even at the cost of
their lives.
It is unfortunate that instead of
taking these huge demonstrations
as a referendum against its rule
over Jammu and Kashmir, New
Delhi continues with its traditional intransigence by blaming
Pakistan of fomenting trouble in
the territory. It is ready to
eliminate all the Kashmiris by
sending more and more killer
troops in occupied Kashmir but is
not willing to respect their
aspirations - their demand for
plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir
for deciding the political future of
the territory. Indian Prime
Minister, Narendra Modi, and
other leaders are playing a
nefarious game by raising the
issues of Balochistan, Gilgit-
Baltistan and Azad Jammu and

Kashmir to divert the attention of
the world community from the
grim and deteriorating situation
of occupied Kashmir.
Indias brutal actions in the
occupied territory during the
period of last about two months
have sent the alarm bells ringing
across the world. The international community is expressing
serious concern over the killing of
innocent Kashmiri civilians at the
hands of Indian troops and police
personnel. The UN, the US, China
and the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation are calling upon
New Delhi to stop use of brute
force on the protesters and take
steps towards settling the
Kashmir dispute in accordance
with the aspirations of the people
of Jammu and Kashmir.
At the same time, Pakistan has
offered India to settle all
outstanding issues including the
Kashmir conflict through
meaningful and result-oriented
talks. But New Delhi is repeating
its mantra of talks on terrorism
only - the excuse it has been using
to evade international pressure. It
is a fact that all its efforts to equate
the Kashmiris freedom movement with terrorism have
miserable failed. The reality is
that whatever Indian armed
forces are doing in Kashmir to
suppress the Kashmiri people is
nothing short of state terrorism.
The international community
needs to come out of the rhetoric
of mere issuing statements of
condemnation of Indian brutalities in the occupied territory and
initiate practical measures to
permanently resolve the
lingering dispute.
It is also high time for New Delhi
to accept the reality that no
amount of its state terrorism can
intimidate the Kashmiris into
submission and they are determined to carry forward their
struggle till it reached its logical
end.
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Demonstrations
to rock
IOKDay
Kashmiris
mark Indiascontinue
Republic Day
as Black
No end to killing of Kashmiri civilians
In occupied Kashmir, while
massive anti-India and profreedom demonstrations kept on
rocking every town and village
of the territory in the second
consecutive month in August
2016, Indian police and troops
continued with the killing spree.
During the ongoing Kashmir
Intifada, which was triggered by
the extrajudicial murder of
charismatic mujahid
commander, Burhan Muzaffar
Wani, in a fake encounter by
Indian troops on July 8 this year,
87 people had been killed by
Indian forces till August 31. In
August alone 27 unarmed
civilians were shot dead while
thousands others were injured
due to the firing of bullets, pellets
and teargas shells by the occupation forces on protesters in
different parts of the occupied
territory.
In order to stop people from
staging demonstrations, the
puppet authorities continued to

impose strict curfew and other
restrictions across the Kashmir
Valley during the month. The
curfew was enforced on July 9, a
day after the killing of Burhan
Wani. The unprecedented
curfew caused severe hardships
for the people who faced
shortage of essential commodities including vegetables, baby
food and medicines.
Despite restrictions and curfew,
thousands of people waving
Pakistani flags and raising profreedom, pro-Pakistan and antiIndia slogans marched on the
streets of Srinagar, Badgam,
Ganderbal, Bandipora,
Kupwara, Islamabad, Bijbehara,
Baramulla, Sopore, Palhallan,
Pattan, Pulwama, Shopian,
Kulgam and different parts of
Jammu region throughout the
month to register their protest
against civilian killings and
seeking an end to Indian occupa-
tion and demanding their right to

self-determination.
The people also observed
complete shutdown throughout
the month of August in protest
against the killing of innocent
protesters by Indian forces. Call
for holding of the protests and
observance of the strike was
jointly given by the Chairman of
All Parties Hurriyet Conference,
Syed Ali Gilani, and Hurriyet
leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and Muhammad Yasin Malik, as
part of protest calendar. Shops
and business establishments,
private offices and petrol pumps
were shut, while government
offices and banks witnessed thin
attendance as public transport
remained off the road. The
authorities kept almost all
Hurriyet leaders under house
arrest or behind the bars to
prevent them from leading the
demonstrations.
On August 11, Indian police
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arrested Syed Ali Gilani and
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq soon after
they defied their house arrest
and left their residences to lead a
march towards the Martyrs
Graveyard at Eidgah in Srinagar
to pay homage to prominent
martyred Hurriyet leader,
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, and other
martyrs of 2008 and 2010
uprisings. Syed Ali Gilani was
lodged at Humhama police
station while Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq at Nigeen police station.
However, thousands of people
defying curfew and restrictions
attended the rallies and protests
in the territory. The protesters
raised pro-freedom and antiIndia slogans.
Over five hundred people were
injured on August 13 and 14 due
to the use of brute force by Indian
police and troops on people
across the territory to stop them
from staging demonstrations
against Indian occupation and
conducting Referendum March
towards Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
Indian police stopped Syed Ali

Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq when they came out of
their residences and tried to lead
the march. The two leaders along
with their supporters staged sitins outside their residences.
Later, the authorities arrested the
Mirwaiz and detained him at
Nigeen police station.
On August 26, hundreds of
people were
injured when
Indian troops
and police
personnel used
brute force to
prevent people
from staging
demonstrations
against civilian
killings and
conducting
Aazadi March
towards Eidgah in Srinagar.
Hundreds of protesters were
injured on August 27 also due to
the brutal actions of Indian forces
to stop people from marching
towards Badami Bagh
Cantonment in Srinagar. Indian
police arrested Syed Ali Gilani
outside his residence when he
defied house detention and tried
to lead the march. He was lodged
at Humhama police station. The
authorities arrested Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq from his residence
and detained him at Cheshma
Shahi sub-jail in Srinagar while
other leaders
including
Muhammad
Yasin Malik,
S h a b b i r
Ahmed Shah,
Bilal Siddiqui,
M u k h t a r
Ahmed Waza
and Zafar
Akbar Butt
were already
behind the
bars. The
Hurriyet leadership had
announced the march to hand
over a letter to the General
Officer Commanding of Indian
Armys 15 Corps, asking the
Indian soldiers to leave Jammu
and Kashmir.
On the other hand, the Hurriyet
leadership while paying rich
tributes to the Kashmiri martyrs
said that the participation of a sea
of people in their funerals and in

demonstrations against their
killings was in itself a clear
referendum of people against
Indian occupation over Jammu
and Kashmir.
The APHC Chairman, Syed Ali
Gilani, in a statement in Srinagar
said that it was due to the
countless and precious sacrifices
of the Kashmiri people that the
world was today showing its
concern regarding the burning
situation of occupied Kashmir.
He said that it was the responsibility of the world community to
save innocent human lives in
occupied Kashmir and it should
impress upon India to cooperate
in holding a referendum in
Jammu and Kashmir so that the
Kashmiri people could decide
their political future by themselves. Syed Ali Gilani praised
the government and people of
Pakistan over their complete
solidarity with the Kashmiris
freedom struggle.
The Chairman of Hurriyet
forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,
sent an SOS letter to Pope Francis
in Vatican, the Dalai Lama,
Imam-e-Kaba, Shankaracharya
and ambassadors of various
countries in New Delhi as well as
the United Nations, European
Union and the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation regarding
the grave situation in occupied
Kashmir. He wrote that the
world community could not
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remain a mute spectator over the
situation in Kashmir where
peoples rights were trampled
upon by occupational forces
personnel who had been given a
licence to kill by the country that
claimed to be the largest democracy of the world. He maintained
that the situation in occupied
Kashmir was very serious as
there was loss of human lives and
people were being maimed and
blinded.
The illegally detained Chairman
of Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front, Muhammad
Yasin Malik, in a statement
issued in Srinagar said that the
Kashmiris ongoing movement
had only one goal to liberate
Jammu and Kashmir from the
illegal occupation of India. He
said that today all people of
occupied Kashmir were on
streets against Indian rule and
were demanding freedom from
it. He deplored that instead of
realising the reality, New Delhi

and its stooges were projecting
the Kashmiris ongoing indigenous movement as a sponsored
one. He said that the killings in
Kashmir had become a routine
matter of the Indian killer troops
because they feared no accountability.
The APHC General Secretary,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a
statement in Srinagar said that
Indian forces had turned
occupied Kashmir into a
slaughter house. He said that

Kashmir was not a border issue
but a disputed territory and the
UN must take steps towards
resolving it the way it had done
in settling the issues of East
Timor, South Sudan and Kosovo.
Other Hurriyet leaders including
Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi
Al-Safvi, Aasiya Andrabi,
Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Yasmeen
Raja, Zamruda
Habib, Farida
B a h e n j i ,
Muhammad
Yousuf Naqash,
Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed, Syed
Bashir Andrabi,
Bilal Siddiqui,
Mukhtar Ahmed
Waza, Javaid
Ahmed Mir,
Zafar Akbar Butt,
Firdous Ahmed Shah, Barrister
Abdul Majeed Tramboo,
Professor Nazir Ahmed Shawl,
Shamim Shawl and Ali Raza
Syed in their separate statements
also paid rich tributes to the
Kashmiris killed by Indian
troops during protests. They
termed the continued killing of
innocent civilians by Indian
forces as the worst kind of naked
barbarism and state terrorism.
They said that through brutal
tactics New Delhi would never
succeed in suppressing the

Kashmiris ongoing freedom
movement.
It seems that India has waged a
war against the unarmed civilian
population of occupied Kashmir.
The killing of around a hundred
unarmed people and injuring of
thousands others in the firing of
Indian forces on the peaceful
demonstrators is a clear indication that human life has no value
in the eyes of Indian rulers.
Imposition of continued curfew
and severe restrictions on the
movement of the people has
virtually turned the entire
Kashmir Valley into a large
prison.
It is unfortunate that the champions of global peace including
the US, UK and foremost the UN
are not doing what they should
have done in the wake of civilian
killings in the occupied territory.
This attitude of the international
community has emboldened
India to push the Kashmiris to
the wall, putting the peace and
security of the entire region at
stake. The world must take
cognisance of Indias genocidal
acts in occupied Kashmir and
resolve the Kashmir dispute by
granting the Kashmiris their
right to self-determination.
Humayun Aziz Sandeela
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Pakistan voices serious concern over Kashmir bloodbath

As the state violence by India in
occupied Kashmir continued in
the second month in August
2016, the government and people
in Pakistan kept on drawing the
worlds attention towards the
civilian killings by Indian police
and troops in the territory.
Pakistan also raised the Kashmir
dispute at the international level
to highlight the sufferings of the
people of occupied Kashmir due
to the curfew and other restrictions imposed by the occupation
authorities in the Kashmir Valley
to stop the masses from staging
demonstrations.
Pakistan Prime Ministers
Adviser on Foreign Affairs,
Sartaj Aziz, while winding up
debate in the National Assembly
on August 1 on an adjournment
motion moved by Maulana
Fazlur Rehman said that
Pakistan was intensifying
diplomatic efforts to sensitise the
world about the Indian brutalities against the people of occupied Kashmir. He said that letters
in this regard had already been
sent to five permanent members
of the United Nations Security
Council. He said that letters had
also been written to the presidents of the UN General
Assembly and Security Council,
Organisation of the Islamic
Cooperation
(OIC) and
International
Human Rights
Commission
informing them
about the plight
of the people of
o c c u p i e d
Kashmir and the
excesses of
Indian forces on
them.
A large number of people from
Lahore and surrounding areas
on the same day joined the
Kashmir Aazadi March of the
Jamaat-e-Islami to express their
solidarity with the valiant
Kashmiris engaged in the just
struggle to secure their right to
self-determination. The march
started from Nasser Bagh and
concluded at Wagah.
Hundreds of people including
refugees
f r o m o c c upied Kashmir
also came out
on the streets
in Muzaffarabad, the
capital of
Azad Jammu
and Kashmir,
to hold a rally
a g a i n s t
I n d i a n
aggression
on people
across the Line of Control (LoC).
The National Assembly during
its session on August 2 extended
complete support to the
Kashmiris in their just struggle
for securing the right to selfdetermination. At the outset of
the proceedings, the House
offered fateha for the people
martyred in occupied Kashmir
by Indian forces.
Prime Minister, Mohammad
Nawaz Sharif, speaking at the
concluding session of a three-day
conference of Pakistani envoys in
Islamabad on August 3
remarked that Kashmir dispute
was the main pillar of Pakistans
foreign policy. He urged the
envoys to convey a message to
the world that Kashmir was not
an internal matter of India.
Addressing a one-day meeting of
home ministers from countries
belonging to South Asian
Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) in
Islamabad on August 4, Interior
Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali
Khan, lambasted the use of
excessive force to suppress
protests in occupied Kashmir,
without naming the Indian
government.
He said that using torture against
innocent children and violence
against civilians qualified as
terrorism. Chaudhry Nisar Ali
Khan said that there was a need
to end an extremist mindset and
instead try to resolve the regional
issues through dialogue.
Adviser to Prime Minister on
Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, on
August 5 requested Mdecins
Sans Frontires (MSF) commonly known as Doctors
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ately provide medical assistance
to thousands of people who had
been injured due to the state
terrorism of Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir. He made the
formal request by writing a letter
to the international president of
MSF, highlighting the state of
medical emergency in the
occupied territory.
Nawaz Sharif, in a statement on
August 6 vowed to arrange
medical treatment for victims of
the oppression of Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir. He called
upon the international community to exercise its influence over
India for enabling Pakistan to
arrange for the medical treatment of the victims in the wake of
ongoing humanitarian crisis in
the Valley.
Mohammad Nawaz Sharif on
August 9 wrote letters to the UN
Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon,
and the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights, Zeid Raad
Al-Hussain, urging them to take
steps to end the persistent and
egregious violations of the basic
human rights of the Kashmiri
people and also to implement the
relevant UN resolutions on
Kashmir that promised of giving
the Kashmiris their right to selfdetermination.
The Chief of Pakistan Air Force,
Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman,
during his two-day visit to Sri
Lanka met the Sri Lankan

President, Maithripala Yapa
Sirisena, on August 10 and
briefed him about the prevailing
Since Prime Minister, Nawaz
Sharif, had already dedicated the
70th Independence Day to
freedom of Kashmir from
Indian rule, Kashmir dominated
celebrations on August 14.
President Mamnoon Hussain
while addressing a ceremony at
the Jinnah Convention Centre in
Islamabad said that Pakistan
would continue to support the
Kashmiris in their struggle for
securing their
right to selfdetermination.
Speaking on the
occasion, Prime
M i n i s t e r ,
Mohammad
Nawaz Sharif,
said that this
Independence
Day was also
memorable due
to the fact that
nowadays the spirit of freedom
from India in occupied Kashmir
was at its peak.
Pakistans High Commissioner
to India, Abdul Basit, while
addressing the flag-hoisting
ceremony arranged by the
Pakistan High Commission in

New Delhi said that Pakistan
was dedicating its Independence
Day to Kashmirs freedom and
vowed to extend diplomatic,
political and moral support to the
Kashmiri people. He said that the
sacrifices made by the Kashmiri
people would not go in vain and
they would see the dawn of
freedom soon.
The Difa-e-Pakistan Council
organised a Karavan-eKashmir rally in Karachi.
Commencing from Safari Park,
the rally culminated at Hassan
Square as the participants raised
slogans against Indian aggression in occupied Kashmir.
An All Parties Conference of the
national leaders and the leaders
of occupied Kashmir and Azad
Jammu and Kashmir was held in
Islamabad on August 18. Senator
Siraj-ul-Haq, the Ameer of
Jammat-e-Islami Pakistan,
presided over the conference.
The agenda of the conference
was to consider the prevailing
situation after the martyrdom of
Burhan Muzaffar Wani in
occupied Kashmir.
A big anti-India and profreedom motorcycle rally under
the aegis of Jammu and Kashmir
Peoples Freedom League
(JKPFL) was held in
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Muzaffarabad on August 21. The
participants of the rally called
upon the UN to save the
Kashmiris from Indian Armys
onslaught. They also urged the
World Body to force New Delhi
to allow the International
Committee of Red Cross, Red
Crescent, and UN Human Rights
Council entry into the traumatised and tormented occupied
Kashmir.
President Mamnoon Hussain
while addressing a laptop
distribution ceremony among
brilliant students of Karakoram
International University at its
S k a r d u
campus on
August 20
strongly
condemned
I n d i a n
atrocities in
occupied
Kashmir
and said
t h a t
Pakistan
w o u l d
continue to
e x t e n d
m o r a l ,
political
a
n
d
diplomatic
support to
the Kashmiris in their liberation
struggle.
Pakistans Permanent
Representative to the UN,
Maleeha Lodhi, in an interview
in New York, said that India was
non-serious in finding out a
resolution of the Kashmir
dispute. She said that it was
obligatory upon the UN to
persuade the Indian government
for peaceful settlement of the
lingering dispute.
Scores of workers of the Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Insaf staged a demonstration at the press club in
Lahore on August 21 to protest

against Indian brutalities in
occupied Kashmir.
Meanwhile, continuing with its
efforts to internationalise the
Kashmir dispute, Pakistan on
August 23 briefed China about
human rights violations in
occupied Kashmir during their
bilateral strategic dialogue.
Foreign Secretary, Aizaz Ahmed
Chaudhry, who was on a twoday visit to China, attended the
bilateral strategic dialogue
meeting in Beijing and also met
Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang
Yi.
Adviser to Prime Minister on

Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, on
August 26 briefed the ambassadors of permanent members of
the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) and the
European Union regarding the
gross human rights violations
being committed by Indian
forces in occupied Kashmir.
Nawaz Sharif, on August 27
nominated 22 parliamentarians
as special envoys for highlighting the Indian brutalities
and human rights abuses in
occupied Kashmir in key parts of
the world. "I have decided to

send these parliamentarians for
highlighting the Kashmir cause
in different parts of the world.
These special envoys have
backing of the people of
Pakistan, prayers from the
Kashmiri people across the Line
of Control, mandate of the
Parliament and support from the
government," the Prime Minister
said.
President Mamnoon Hussain on
August 29 reiterated that
Pakistan would continue to
highlight at the international
level the Kashmir dispute and
the atrocities being
committed
by Indian
f o r c e s
against
innocent
Kashmiris.
Talking to
t
h
e
President of
A z a d
Jammu and
Kashmir,
Muhammad
Masood
Khan, who
called on
him at the
Aiwan-eSadr, he said that Pakistan would
also keep on highlighting the just
struggle of the Kashmiri people
to attain their right to selfdetermination in accordance
with the UN resolutions.
Senates Standing Committee on
Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit
Baltistan on August 30
demanded of the UN to take
notice of the human rights abuses
in occupied Kashmir and play an
effective role in resolving the
decades-old Kashmir dispute in
accordance with the Kashmiris
aspirations.
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World's condemnation of HR abuses in occupied Kashmir

Protests and different functions
were organised across the world
including in some states of India
in the month of August 2016
against the killing of innocent
people by Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir following the
extrajudicial murder of Burhan
Muzaffar Wani in July 2016. The
participants of these events
urged the international community to put pressure on India to
stop the genocide of Kashmiris
and permanently settle the longpending Kashmir dispute in
accordance with the aspirations
of the people of Jammu and
Kashmir.
blinded by the pellets fired by

Indian forces protested on
August 16 against the ongoing
killings of civilians in occupied
Kashmir. The students held a
march from Maulana Azad
Library to Bab-e-Sayyed Gate of
the University.
Various civil society groups on
August 28 organised a candlelight vigil at Rajghat in New
Delhi to express solidarity with
the Kashmiris facing unrelenting
brutalities of Indian forces for
demanding their inalienable
right to self-determination. Civil
society organisations including
In an apparent reference to the

curfew and restrictions imposed
by India in occupied Kashmir to
suppress the ongoing popular
uprising in the territory, the
visiting US Secretary of State
said, We have to respect the
rights of all our citizens irrespective of creed and allow them to
protest in peace without fear that
they will be jailed.
John Kerrys comments came
days after the US State
Department said that it
supported the right to freedom
of expression and assembly,
including through civil society,
while reacting on the sedition
charges against rights watchdog,
Amnesty International, over a
Kashmir-related event in
Bengaluru, where slogans of
Aazadi (freedom) were raised.
The development was very
significant because John Kerry
made these remarks while
standing on the soil of India.
The Communist Party of India

(Marxist) leader, Sitaram
Yechury, speaking in Rajya
Sabha, the Upper House of
Indian Parliament, on August 8
questioned the use of pellet guns
against civilians in the Kashmir
Valley. He said, Even Israel
does not use pellet guns against
Palestinians.
Hundreds of students of Aligarh
Muslim University (AMU)
covering their one eye with
bandage to represent the
Kashmiri victims who had been
Khudai Khidmatgar, People

Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL),
National Movements Front,
Loksamithi, Socialist Yuva Jan
Sabha, Delhi Pradesh Sarvodaya
Mandal and Citizens for
Democracy in Delhi jointly held
the event.
The US Secretary of State, John
Kerry, while addressing students
of Delhis Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) as part of his
visit to India on August 30 said
that people should be allowed to
protest in a peaceful manner.
Kashmiri disapora in the US

organised a prayer meet on
August 2 for the Kashmiris
martyred in the current uprising.
Kashmiri Atlanta Community,
Georgia, said that a letter was
submitted to Senator Tom Price
MD apprising him of the
prevailing situation in occupied
Kashmir where dozens of
civilians had died in Indian
forces brutal actions on protesters.
A support group of Kashmiris,
Friends of Kashmir, Canada, on
August 5 wrote a letter to the UN
Human Rights Council in
Geneva seeking its intervention
to stop Indian atrocities on the
people of the occupied territory.
The Jammu and Kashmir, the
letter stated, remains a disputed
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territory based on several
resolutions of the UN Security
Council dating back to 1948 and
1949 and its status must be
decided through a UNsupervised referendum free
from coercion or intimidation.
Instead of protecting the people
as part of Indias obligations as
an occupying power, its 700,000
troops have been involved in
horrendous crimes against the
Kashmiri people and subjecting
them to collective punishment,
it added.
Kashmiris and their
sympathisers staged a demonstration in Brussels on August 7
against the atrocities committed
by Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir. It was organised by the
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front Europe zone and was led
by party leaders, Tanvir Ahmed
Chaudhary and Masood Iqbal.
The participants of the event
A massive protest was held in

Oslo, the capital of Norway, on
August 22 against the human
rights violations by Indian
forces personnel in occupied
Kashmir. A large number of
Norwegians and prominent
members of the international
community staged the demonstration outside the Norwegian
Eija-Riita Korhola and Executive

Director of Kashmiri
Scandinavian Council, Sardar
Ali Shahnawaz Khan, expressed
serious concern over the grave
situation of human rights in
occupied Kashmir.
Lars Rise established the first
Kashmir group in the Norwegian
Parliament and initiated several
debates on Kashmir in the
House.
The protesters carried placards
reading Stop killings in
Kashmir, Kashmir bleeds and
the world looks on and UN
unfold your preventive diplomacy.
belonging to all walks of life

urged the international community to come forward and
impress upon India to stop the
gross human rights violations
being committed by its forces in
the occupied territory. They also
raised high-pitched anti-India
slogans.
Parliament to register their

protest against the recent killing
of peaceful protesters by Indian
troops and police in the occupied
territory. The participants had
come from different parts of the
world. Addressing the demonstrators, the speakers including
former MPs Lars Rise and Dr
A silent protest demonstration

against civilian killings and
human rights violations in
Kashmir was held at the National
Center for Civil and Human
Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, in the
US on August 29. The focus of the
demonstration remained on
highlighting the blinding of the
people by Indian forces through
the use of pellet gun that had
blinded over 150 people in
occupied Kashmir from July 9 to
August 31.
Organised by a group of NonResident Kashmiris, with a
participation of non-Kashmiri
human rights advocates, the
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protest was completely silent.
The public events in major cities

across the world were also
supplemented by engaging in an
online campaign using hashtags
like #StandWithKashmir and
#DisappearedKashmiris which
had around four million impressions, said Kashmir Crisis, an
online group, which coordinates
information regarding
campaigns for Kashmir globally.
violations by
the Indian
state on the
Kashmiri
civilians. The
s a v a g e
response of
the state to
the popular
demand of
right to selfd e t e r m i n at i o n
i s
unprecedented, said Ejaz
Raboodi Gosani, a Kashmiri
doctor based in Atlanta and one
of the organisers of the event, in
an interview.
Kashmiris and human rights

activists here in Atlanta have
organised this event in order to
highlight the gross human rights
Meanwhile, hundreds of
Kashmiri-Americans and their
well-wishers gathered at center
of Chicago and staged a protest
The organisers of the event said

that they were conscious of
associating the event with the
global campaign of protests
launched by Kashmiris living
worldwide.
to raise public awareness about a

growing political and humanitarian crisis in occupied Kashmir
that has threatened the peace in
the entire South Asia. The
protesters urged the US legislators to join human rights activists
in condemning the Indian state
terrorism in the occupied
territory.
AI faces sedition charges in India for raising HR abuses in IOK

In India, the activists of Akhil
Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
(ABVP), a student organisation
affiliated with the rightwing
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP), attempted to storm the
Amnesty International (AI)
Indias office in Indiranagar in
east Bengaluru, on August 13,
2016, to spoil an event, which
was organised by the world
human rights watchdog as part
of its campaign to seek justice for
the victims of human rights
violations in occupied Kashmir.
Bengaluru police on August 15
on a complaint lodged by ABVP
filed a criminal case against the
Amnesty International India for
organising the event in which
discussions took place with the
families from Kashmir that were
featured in a 2015 report and had
travelled to Bengaluru to narrate
their personal stories of grief and
pain. The FIR reportedly
mentioned a number of offences

including sedition, unlawful
assembly, rioting and promoting enmity.
With the threat of violence and
protests outside its headquarters
in Bengaluru, the Amnesty
International on August 17
closed its office there and asked
the employees to work from
other locations.
Executive Director, Amnesty
International India, Aakar Patel,
in an interview said that merely
organising an event to defend
constitutional values was now
being branded anti-India and
criminalised. The police were
invited and present at the event.

The filing of a complaint against
us now and the registration of a
case of sedition show a lack of
belief in fundamental rights and
freedoms in India, he stated.
Among those who spoke at the
event were the family of Shahzad
Ahmed Khan, one of three men
who were killed by Indian Army
personnel in a fake encounter in
Machil area of Kupwara district
in occupied Kashmir in 2010.
Five Indian soldiers were
convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment for the extrajudicial killing of the three
innocent civilians.
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Pak Independence Day celebrated in IOK despite restrictions

In occupied Kashmir, people
defying curfew and other
restrictions celebrated Pakistans
Independence Day on August 14,
2016, with great enthusiasm by
staging forceful pro-Pakistan
rallies and hoisting Pakistani
flags in every nook and corner of
the territory.
Despite the strict curfew - which
was imposed in the territory over
a month ago on July 9, a day after
the killing of top commander of
Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan
Wani - thousands of people took
to the streets in Srinagar,
Badgam, Ganderbal, Kangan,
Sopore, Baramulla, Pulwama,
Islamabad, Aishmuqam,
Bijbihara, Kulgam, Shopian,
Bandipora, Kupwara and other
areas and held pro-Pakistan and
pro-freedom rallies. They also
raised high-pitched slogans in
favour of freedom and Pakistan.
Pakistani flags were hoisted at
many places, on telecommunica-
several of them. Dozens of

women including the
Chairperson of Dukhtaran-eMillat, Aasiya Andrabi,
Referendum March towards

Srinagar's Lal Chowk. Call for
the march was jointly given by
the Chairman of All Parties
sustained injuries when Indian

armed forces fired teargas shells
to quell a women march in Tral
town. Aasiya Andrabi had
managed to reach Tral to lead the
rally.
tion towers and buildings across

the territory. Pakistans national
anthem was also played to mark
the day. Indian forces' personnel
fired pallets, bullets and teargas
shells on the protesters, injuring
The occupation authorities had

deployed Indian Army, police
and paramilitary personnel in
strength in Srinagar and all other
towns of the territory to prevent
people from conducting
Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali

Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and
Muhammad Yasin Malik, as part
of protest programmes against
India's illegal occupation and the
killing spree unleashed by Indian
forces' personnel in the Kashmir
Valley. The authorities stopped
Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq and did not allow
them to lead the Referendum
March. The two leaders staged
sit-in protests outside their
residences in Srinagar. Their
supporters carried banners and
placards reading Go India Go
Back". Later, the authorities
arrested Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and lodged him at Nigeen police
station.
The Hurriyet leaders felicitating
the people and the government
of Pakistan on their
Independence Day thanked
them for their continued moral,
political and diplomatic support
to the Kashmiris just struggle for
securing their inalienable right to
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self-determination.
said that after Allah Almighty
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
was the only visible support to
the people of Kashmir. He said
that the country was the centre of
wishes and feelings of the
oppressed Kashmiris. He said
that India had never accepted the
existence of Pakistan. He said
that from day one of Pakistans
creation, India had been trying
its best to destabilise it, and it was
Indias conspiracy and military
invasion that resulted in the
disintegration of Pakistan and
formation of Bangladesh in 1971.
He said, Indias imperialistic
mindset does not want to listen to
the call for Aazadi (freedom) that
is echoing in the streets of
occupied Kashmir. He said that
Kashmir was a globally recognised dispute and Pakistan being
basic party to it had every right to
intervene.
forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in
a statement in Srinagar said that
Pakistans continued support to
the Kashmir cause had always
been a source of inspiration for
the people of occupied Kashmir
in their freedom struggle. He

prayed for the peace, progress,
integrity and prosperity of the
country.
The illegally detained Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin

Malik, in a statement issued in
Srinagar said that Pakistan had
always highlighted the
Kashmiris miseries and
supported their freedom
movement on international
forums. He prayed that Pakistan
might touch new heights of
peace, progress and prosperity in
the days to come. He said that the
hearts of Kashmiris throb with
the people of Pakistan and they
were thankful for the moral,
political and diplomatic support
extended by Pakistan to the
Kashmir cause.
The incarcerated APHC General
Secretary, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
in a statement
felicitating Pakistan
on its Independence
Day said that
Pakistan enjoyed a
significant position in
the Muslim World.
He said, Pakistan has
always raised voice in
favour of the
oppressed and
subjugated Muslims
across the world and the undeterred role it played with regard
to the Kashmiris right to selfdetermination is hidden from
none. Pakistans unflinching
support to Kashmiris on politi-
cal, moral and diplomatic fronts

is laudable and we hope that this
support will continue in the
future as well. We are proud of
having a nation like nuclear
Pakistan as our well-wisher and
hope the country will always
prioritise Kashmir in talks with
India, he added.
Al-Safvi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan,
Muhammad Yousuf Naqash,
Hakeem Abdur Rasheed, Syed
Bashir Andrabi, Bilal Siddiqui,
Yasmeen Raja, Zamruda Habib,
Farida Bahenji, Mukhtar Ahmed
Waza, Zafar Akbar Butt, Javaid
Ahmed Mir, Shabbir Ahmed
Dar, Muhammad Iqbal Mir,
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo,
Imtiyaz Ahmed Reshi and
Ghulam Nabi War in their
statements said that Pakistan
was the torch-bearer of the
Muslim Ummah. They said that
the enemies of Islam were always
conspiring against Pakistan so it
was the responsibility of every
Muslim to work for the security,
stability and prosperity of
Pakistan. They also condemned
the continued imposition of
curfew and reign of terror
unleashed by Indian forces in
every nook and corner of the
occupied territory.
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Kashmiris observe Indias Independence Day as Black Day

Kashmiris on both sides of the
Line of Control and the world
over observed Indias
Independence Day as Black Day
on August 15, 2016, to convey the
message to the international
community that New Delhi
continued to deny the people of
Jammu and Kashmir their
inalienable right to selfdetermination.
The puppet authorities had
converted the entire occupied
territory into a garrison through
imposing unrelenting curfew
and other restrictions for smooth
conduct of the Independence
Day celebrations. Tight security
measures were taken around
Bakhshi Stadium, the main
venue of the official
function in
Srinagar. Sharp
shooters were
deployed in all
sensitive areas and
vital installations.
Closed circuit
television (CCTV)
cameras were used
to monitor the
movement of
people while
mobile phone and
Internet services
r e m a i n e d
suspended.
The authorities continued to
enforce strict curfew - which was
imposed in the territory over a
month ago on July 9, a day after
the killing of top commander of
Muzaffar Wani - to prevent
people from staging anti-India
demonstrations. Call for holding
of the protests was jointly given
by the Chairman of All Parties
Muhammad Yasin Malik.

However, defying curfew,
thousands of people took to the
streets in Srinagar, Badgam,
Ganderbal, Sopore, Baramulla,
Pulwama, Islamabad, Bijbihara,
Kulgam, Shopian, Bandipora,
Kupwara and other areas and
held forceful anti-India demonstrations and rallies. They also
raised high-pitched slogans in
favour of freedom and Pakistan
and against India. Pakistani flag
was hoisted at many places.
Indian forces' personnel fired
pallets, bullets and teargas shells
on the protesters, injuring scores
of them.
The occupation authorities also
continued to put Hurriyet
leaders including Syed Ali

Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,
Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Bilal
Siddiqui, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza
and Zafar Akbar Butt under
house arrest or in jails to prevent
them from leading the protests
and rallies.
Hurriyet leaders in their statements said that the observance of
Indias Independence Day as
Black Day by the Kashmiri
people should serve as an eye-
opener for New Delhi and the

world community that the
Kashmiris rejected Indias illegal
occupation of their homeland
and wanted freedom from it.
said that India had no right to
celebrate its Independence Day
in Jammu and Kashmir as it had
illegally occupied the territory
against the will of the Kashmiri
people. He made it clear that the
Kashmiris were not against the
freedom of India but until this
country accepted their freedom
right and provided them a
chance to decide their future by
themselves through an independent plebiscite in Jammu and
Kashmir, it had
no moral and
constitutional
right to organise
the functions of
i
t
s
Independence
Day on the soil
of Kashmir. He
said that if
anything like
conscience was
present among
the Indian
leaders, then
they should
immediately
stop this process and these
functions should be limited to
their own country.
a statement in Srinagar appreciated the people of the territory
for their passion for freedom and
observing the Indian
Independence Day as Black Day.
He said that the use of excessive
force by India would not be able
to break the will of the Kashmiris
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or force them to give up their
struggle for securing their
inalienable right to selfdetermination.
The illegally detained Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, in a statement said that the
people of Jammu and Kashmir
would never accept Indian rule
over their homeland. He said
that India claimed to be the
largest democracy of the world
but it continued to deny the
Kashmiri people all their basic
democratic rights. He said that
peace and prosperity in the
region could only be achieved if
the Kashmir dispute was
resolved according to the
aspirations of the Kashmiri
people.
The incarcerated APHC General
Secretary, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
in a statement said that India was
celebrating its Independence
Day in Kashmir in presence of
over eight lac troops for the last
Yousuf Naqash, Hakeem Abdul

Rasheed, Bilal Siddiqui, Syed
Bashir Andrabi, Javaid Ahmed
Mir, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza,
Farooq Ahmed Dar, Zafar Akbar
Butt, Zamruda Habib, Farida
Bahenji, Barrister Abdul Majeed
Tramboo, Professor Nazir
Ahmed Shawl and Ali Raza Syed
in their statements said that the
Kashmiris had every right to
observe Indian Independence
69 years and the people of the

territory continued to demand
freedom from its occupation.
Al-Safvi, Aasiya Andrabi,
Yasmeen Raja, Muhammad
Day as Black Day as it had

illegally occupied their motherland. They also condemned the
puppet authorities for
converting the occupied territory
into a military garrison on the
occasion of Indian Independence
Day.
Meanwhile, the Azad Jammu
and Kashmir chapter of the All
Parties Hurriyet Conference
staged a sit-in protest outside the
UN office in Islamabad to mark
Indias Independence Day as
Black Day. The protesters
denounced the ongoing killing
spree unleashed by Indian forces
in occupied Kashmir. They said
that New Delhi could not break
the Kashmiris will for freedom
through brutal tactics.
The participants of the protest
through a memorandum
submitted to the office urged the
UN Secretary General, Ban Kimoon, to impress upon India to
stop its atrocities in the occupied
territory and resolve the Kashmir
dispute as per the Kashmiris
aspirations.
British Kashmiris held a demonstration outside the Indian High
Commission in London to
observe Indias Independence
Day as Black Day. They were
joined by members of Sikh
organisations. The protesters
strongly condemning the killing
of civilians by Indian forces
personnel in occupied Kashmir
called for bringing the perpetrators of such crimes to book
through an international
tribunal.
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Glowing tributes paid to Sheikh Abdul Aziz

Kashmiris living on both sides of
the Line of Control paid glowing
tributes to prominent martyred
Hurriyet leader, Sheikh Abdul
Aziz, on his 8th martyrdom
anniversary on August 11, 2016.
August 11 brings sad memories
to ones mind as on this day in
2008 one of the most devoted and
dedicated freedom fighters of
Kashmir and a frontline leader of
All Parties Hurriyet Conference,
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, was mercilessly gunned down by the
ruthless Indian troops in Uri area
of Baramulla district when he
was leading a march towards
Muzaffarabad against the
economic blockade of the
Kashmir Valley by Hindu
extremists of Jammu region. The
march was in protest against the
blocking of Srinagar-Jammu
Highway by Hindu zealots to
punish the Kashmiris for
disallowing the illegal transfer of
a large chunk of land to Delhibased Amarnath Shrine Board
that manages the annual
Amarnath Yatra in occupied
Kashmir.
The occupation authorities
continued to enforce strict
curfew - which was imposed in
the territory a day after the
killing of top commander of
Wani, on July 8 - and deployed
Indian Army, police and paramilitary personnel in strength in
Srinagar and all other towns of
the territory. The action was
aimed at preventing the people
from conducting a march
towards Martyrs' Graveyard at
Eidgah in Srinagar to pay
tributes to Sheikh Abdul Aziz
and other Kashmiri martyrs. Call
for the march was jointly given

by the Chairman of All Parties
Muhammad Yasin Malik, and it
was also aimed at protesting
against India's illegal occupation
of Jammu and Kashmir and the
killing spree unleashed by Indian
polce and troops in the Kashmir
Valley.
However, defying curfew and

restrictions, thousands of people
held rallies and protests in
Srinagar, Badgam, Ganderbal,
Pulwama, Kupwara, Bandipora,
Islamabad, Kulgam, Rajouri and
other areas of the territory. The
protesters raised pro-freedom
and anti-India slogans. Besides
youth, the rallies were attended
by women, children and elderly
alike. Indian police and troops
used brute force to disperse the
protesters, injuring hundreds of
people.
said that the best way to pay
tributes to Sheikh Abdul Aziz
was to carry forward his mission
to its logical conclusion. He
reiterated that the Kashmiri
people would continue their
liberation struggle till last Indian
soldier left occupied Kashmir.
Indian police arrested Syed Ali

Gilani and Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq when they came out of
their residences and tried to
march towards the Martyrs
Graveyard to pay homage to
Sheikh Aziz and other martyrs of
2008 and 2010 uprisings. Syed Ali
Gilani was lodged at Humhama
police station while Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq at Nigeen police
station. Hurriyet leaders, Abdul
Ahad Parra and Masroor Abbas
Ansari, and the spokesman for
Jamaat-e-Islami of the occupied
territory, Advocate Zahid Ali,
were also arrested by the police
and lodged in different police
stations. The authorities had
sealed all roads leading to the
Eidgah.

a statement in Srinagar said that
Sheikh Abdul Aziz spent his
whole life seeking the right to
self-determination for the
Kashmiris and even sacrificed
his life for the purpose. He said
that the martyred leader occupied unique place in the hearts
and minds of the Kashmiri
people for his contribution in the
ongoing freedom movement.
The Mirwaiz said that the
commitment and resolve shown
by Sheikh Aziz during his
lifetime for the freedom struggle
was exemplary. He stated that
India could not suppress the
freedom struggle of Kashmiri
people through military might,
adding that the Indian leadership had to accept the reality that
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coercion and military occupation
could not force the Kashmiris to
abdicate their political aspirations.
The incarcerated Chairman of
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front, Muhammad Yasin Malik,
in a statement while paying
homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz
described him as a thorough
gentleman, freedom-lover and
selfless leader. He said that
Sheikh Aziz was a humble soul
and dedicated freedom-lover
who always stood in the front
row of the liberation movement
and even laid down his life for
the Kashmir cause. He said that
the sacrifices and contribution of
the martyred leader in the
ongoing freedom movement
would always be remembered.
The unlawfully detained APHC
General Secretary, Shabbir
Ahmed Shah, in his statement
said that Sheikh Aziz was among
the pioneers of Kashmir liberation movement and a legendary
leader whose contribution for the
he added.
Al-Safvi, Nayeem Ahmed Khan,
Muhammad Yousuf Naqash,
Hakeem Abdur Rasheed, Syed
Bashir Andrabi, Bilal Siddiqui,
Aasiya Andrabi, Yasmeen Raja,
Zamruda Habib, Farida Bahenji,
Zafar Akbar Butt, Javaid Ahmed
Mir, Farooq Ahmed Dar, Shabbir
Ahmad Dar, Muhammad Iqbal
Mir, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo,
Imtiyaz Ahmed Reshi and
he lived. They said that the

Kashmiris would not allow the
sacrifices rendered by their
martyrs to go waste and would
continue their struggle till
complete freedom from Indian
bondage.
Meanwhile, speakers at a
seminar in Islamabad through a
unanimously passed resolution
asked India to accept Jammu and
Kashmir a disputed territory,
withdraw its troops from
occupied Kashmir, and take
steps towards resolving the
Kashmir dispute in accordance
with the Kashmiris' aspirations
by giving them their right to selfdetermination.
The seminar titled "Liberation
Struggle and Journey of
Sacrifices" was organised by the
APHC-AJK chapter in connection with the martyrdom
anniversary of Sheikh Abdul
Aziz.
Kashmir cause would be written

in golden words. Sheikh Abdul
Aziz will always be remembered
for his contribution in the
Kashmir freedom movement,
Ghulam Nabi War in their

statements said that Sheikh
Abdul Aziz was a symbol of
resistance and he sacrificed his
life for the noble cause for which
The speakers said that unambiguous stand taken by Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif, and Army Chief,
General Raheel Sharif, in the
wake of civilian killings in
occupied Kashmir had encouraged the Kashmiris in their
ongoing freedom movement.
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Islamabad seminars express solidarity with IOK people

International Lobbying Group,
Youth Forum For Kashmir
(YFK), organised a seminar titled
Kashmir Dispute - New
Challenges And The Way
Forward at a hotel in Islamabad
on August 27, 2016, to highlight
the post-Burhan Wani killing
situation and human rights
violations by Indian troops and
police personnel in occupied
Kashmir.
The spokesman for the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Muhammad
Nafees Zakaria, in his address
stated that Pakistan always
condemned killings in occupied
Kashmir. These are Pakistans
diplomatic efforts that UN, OIC
and the world is now
condemning the ongoing killings
in Kashmir. UN resolutions are
the only way forward to settle
this dispute. Be it any government, State of Pakistan has
always raised the plight of
Kashmiris, he added.
occupied Kashmir.
Sardar Khalid Ibrahim,
Chairman Jammu and Kashmir
Peoples Party (JKPP), said that it
was good that Pakistan had
shown continuity in its policies
towards Kashmir. He said that
Quaid-e-Azam was very clear
about Kashmir and advocated
the right to self-determination of
Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, former

Prime Minister of Azad Jammu
and Kashmir, called for a joint
session of Pakistans Senate and
Parliament to discuss the
prevailing grim situation of
the Kashmiris even if they

decided to be the part of India.
Ali Muhammad Khan, leader of
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, said
that Pakistans independence
would remain incomplete till
Kashmirs freedom from India.

Abdul Rasheed Turabi, the
Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Azad
Jammu and Kashmir, said, We
as an individual and member of
any political party should come
forward to raise our voice for
Kashmir.
Other speakers included Dr
Muhammad Khan, Dr Habib-urRehman, Colonel (retd.) Asad,
Romina Khursheed Aalam,
Ghulam Muhammad Safi, Mir
Tahir Masood, Muhammad
Farooq Rehmani, Shaikh
Tajammul-ul-Islam, Dr Nazir
Hussain, Raja Najabat, Samar
Abbas, Shamim Shawl,
Chaudhry Shafiq, Yasmeen Dar
and Abdul Hameed Lone.
A resolution passed on the
occasion, expressed solidarity
with the oppressed people of
occupied Kashmir and appreciated their sacrifices. It said that
after the martyrdom of Burhan
Wani, the way the Kashmiris
were facing the Indian brutalities
with bravery was a befitting
response to evil designs of New
Delhi particularly the Hindutva
ideology of Indian Prime
Minister, Narendra Moodi, and
Bharatiya Janata Party.
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The resolution maintained that
settlement of the Kashmir
dispute lied in the implementation of the UN resolutions on
Kashmir to enable the Kashmiri
people exercise their right to selfdetermination. It said that the
use of lethal pellet guns by Indian
forces personnel on peaceful
protesters in occupied Kashmir
was sheer violation of international covenants and the UN
Charter and appealed to the
world community to impress
upon New Delhi to stop its
brutalities in the territory.
The resolution expressed serious
concern over the continued
curfew since July 8, 2016, that
had resulted in
acute shortage of
e s s e n t i a l
commodities
including edibles,
medicines and
baby food in the
occupied territory.
It demanded of the
United Nations,
Organisation of
I s l a m i c
Cooperation,
A m n e s t y
International,
International
Committee of Red
Cross and other world bodies to
impress upon India to repeal
black laws in occupied Kashmir,
release illegally detained
Kashmiris and lift curbs on the
movement of Hurriyet leaders.
The resolution drew attention of
the international community
towards the fact that India had
once again given the proof of its
traditional intransigence by
using coercive means and
methods to ignore and suppress
the ongoing freedom struggle in
the occupied territory which
should serve as an eye-opener for
the world that in reality, it is New
Delhi, which is the main hurdle

in the way of the settlement of the
Kashmir dispute. Until and
unless, India shuns its unrealistic
approach, the lingering Kashmir
dispute could not be resolved
peacefully, it pointed out.
It appealed to the government of
Pakistan to plead the Kashmiris
case in the upcoming session of
the UN General Assembly in
New York and play a proactive
role to convince the international
community to extend its support
to the people of Kashmir who
had been fighting for a just cause
for the past almost seven
decades.
Earlier, speakers at a seminar

titled Current Situation in
Indian Occupied Kashmir and
Role of Media organised by
Daily Kashmir Post and the
Kashmir Resolution Forum at a
hotel in Islamabad on August 18,
urged the United Nations to
appoint a special envoy on
Kashmir saying that Jammu and
Kashmir was a disputed territory
and the dispute had been
pending in the United Nations
during the last 68 years.
The speakers said that the people
of Jammu and Kashmir were
eagerly looking for a free, fair
and impartial plebiscite under
the UN auspices in accordance

with the relevant UN resolutions
so that they were able to decide
their destiny by themselves.
The speakers included Minister
for Information and
Broadcasting, Senator Pervaiz
Rashid, Mazhar Abbas,
Matiullah Jan, Afzal Butt, Altaf
Ahmed Butt, Sheikh Tajammulul-Islam, Javed Siddique, Nabi
Baig and Waleed Rasool.
Shakeel Turabi, Haji
Muhammad Nawaz Raza,
Qurban Satti, Akhtar Masood
Wani, Sajjad Ahmed Shah,
Manzoor-ul-Haq Butt, Pervez
Ahmed Shah, Abdul Majeed
Malik, Sheikh
Abdul Mateen,
members of civil
society and
journalists
attended the
seminar.
Speaking on the
occasion, Senator
Pervaiz Rashid
said that a strong
and stable
Pakistan could
advocate the
Kashmiris right
t o
s e l f determination at
the international
level in a more effective manner
and instability in Pakistan at this
critical juncture of the Kashmir
movement could harm the
Kashmir cause. He said that
Pakistans support to the
freedom struggle of the Kashmiri
people was unflinching as it had
never shown any weakness in its
support to them.
The minister said, the Kashmiris
have been struggling to secure
their right to self-determination
even before the creation of
Pakistan and those who blame
Pakistan for fomenting unrest in
occupied Kashmir actually try to
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distort the historical facts.
He said that this right of the
Kashmiri people was acknowledged by the entire civilised
world. He said that it was
unfortunate that India was not
ready to accept the principle of
right to self-determination under
which it itself secured freedom
from British rule.
Pervaiz Rashid said that Prime
Minister, Nawaz Sharif, had
raised the Kashmir dispute in the
UN General Assembly and
reminded the world of the
promises it made to the
Kashmiris. He deplored that
instead of giving right to selfdetermination to the Kashmiris,
India had been trying to crush
their struggle through state
terrorism. He said that Kashmir
was not an integral part of any
other country rather it was
integral part of Pakistan as
history showed that the hearts of
Kashmiris and Pakistanis
throbbed in unison.
The other speakers said that the
people of Jammu and Kashmir

had always welcomed every
effort aimed at resolving the
Kashmir dispute through
peaceful process of dialogue.
They condemned the continued
refusal by India to provide the
people of Kashmir their inalienable right to self-determination
and its state terrorism in occupied Kashmir to suppress the

voices of freedom.
A resolution passed in the
seminar rejected Indian latent
and manifest machinations to
change the demographic
composition of Jammu and
Kashmir by engineering
different methods. It condemned
the death and destruction carried
out by Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir
in the
a f t e rmath of
t h e
killing of
Burhan
Wani on
8th July
2016. It
termed
the use of
lethal
weapons
l i k e
pellet
guns to blind the Kashmiri youth
as a crime against humanity and
blatant contravention of the
International Law and the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. It expressed concern over
the curbs imposed by the
authorities upon the media,
subjecting media men to torture

and the frequent raids on the
media houses in occupied
Kashmir.
The resolution demanded
settlement of the Kashmir
dispute without any further
delay as per the aspirations of the
Kashmiri people in accordance
with the relevant UN resolutions. It called for full political
freedoms throughout occupied
Kashmir and an open access to
the representatives of the United
Nations, Human Rights Council
and all world human rights
organisations to monitor and
report the situation of occupied
Kashmir by visiting the territory.
The resolution demanded that
the United Nations should
appoint a special envoy for
Kashmir to investigate the gross
and blatant human rights
violations by the Indian authorities and also explore ways of
implementing the UN resolutions on Kashmir.
It also asked the government of
Pakistan to use to an optimum
level all available mechanisms in
the UN system to address the
humanitarian emergency caused
by the constant curfew and other
restrictions by Indian authorities
in the occupied territory since the
killing of Burhan Wani.
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KCEU speeds up one-million signature campaign

Kashmir Council European
Union (KCEU) organised on
August 8, 2016, a one-day camp
at Place De la Monnaie, the
central area of Brussels - the
capital of Belgium - in order to
speed up its one-million
signature campaign on
Kashmir.
The signature campaign was
launched in Europe in the
recent years to obtain signatures in favour of oppressed
people of occupied Kashmir.
stock of the
h u m a n
r i g h t s
situation in
the occup i e d
territory.
During the
camp, the
Europeans
showed
their keen
interest in the event and
expressed solidarity with the
Addressing the
participants on
the occasion, the
K
C
E
U
Chairman, Ali
Raza Syed, said
that the purpose
of the camp was
to highlight
Indian atrocities
against the
people of
o c c u p i e d
Kashmir.
The organizers
of the camp
called upon the European
Union to send a fact-finding
delegation to Srinagar to take
people of occupied Kashmir

who had been facing the worst
kind of Indian state terrorism
for the
p a s t
almost
s e v e n
decades.
T h e
K C E U
Chairman
condemn
ed the
killing of
innocent
Kashmiris during peaceful

protest by Indian police and
troops in occupied territory. He
urged the
European
Union to play
its role for a
p e a c e f u l
resolution of
the Kashmir
dispute in
accordance
with the
Kashmiris
aspirations.
He said that
the EU should
use its influence on India
to stop human rights violation
in occupied Kashmir and settle
the dispute, once for all.
The KCEU also organised a
one-day camp in Berlin, the
capital of Germany, on August
14, 2016, as part of its onemillion signature campaign on
Kashmir. The organisers of the
camp called upon the European
Union to send a team to take
cognizance of the deteriorating
human rights situation in
occupied Kashmir.
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OIC stands united with Kashmiris: Iyad Ameen Madani

The Secretary General of
Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation, Iyad Ameen
Madani, who visited Pakistan
and Azad Jammu and Kashmir
from August 20-22, reaffirmed
his support to the Kashmiris'
right to self-determination and
said that Kashmir was an
international dispute and the
OIC would continue to support
Pakistans stance on the issue.
Iyad Ameen Madani addressing
a joint press conference with
Pakistan Prime Minister's
Adviser on Foreign Affairs,
Sartaj Aziz, in Islamabad on
August 20 said, OIC stands
united with Kashmiris. He said
that Kashmir dispute should be
resolved as per the relevant UN
resolutions.
He voiced serious concern over
the brutalities and unabated
carnage by Indian forces in
occupied Kashmir. He reiterated
his call for peaceful resolution of
the conflict over Kashmir.
He said that the OIC would
continue to expose the gross
human rights violations being
perpetrated by Indian police and
troops in the occupied territory
till settlement of the Kashmir
dispute in accordance with the

relevant UN resolutions and
aspirations of the Kashmiri
people.
The OIC Secretary General
maintained that mere issuance of

statements by the world bodies
over the very serious situation in
occupied Kashmir was not
sufficient. The international
accordance with the UN Security

Council resolutions which is in
line with the aspirations of the
people of Jammu and Kashmir is
imperative for the regional peace
community has the role to play in

this regard, he said, adding that
the world must realise that
human rights violations in the
territory should be addressed
promptly.
Iyad Ameen Madani expressed
the hope that a comprehensive
dialogue between India and
Pakistan would take place to
address their
core issues
including the
K a s h m i r
dispute.
Speaking on the
occasion, Sartaj
A
z
i
z
condemned the
use of lethal
force by Indian
forces against
the defenseless
people of
occupied Kashmir. He also
thanked the OIC for consistently
supporting Pakistans stance on
the Kashmir dispute. Peaceful
resolution of Kashmir dispute in
and stability, he added.

On August 22, the outgoing
President of Azad Jammu and
Kashmir (AJK), Sardar
Muhammad Yaqoob Khan,
hosted a dinner in the honour of
the OIC Secretary General, Iyad
Ameen Madani, at the Kashmir
House in Islamabad and
apprised him of the prevailing
Iyad Ameen Madani underlined
the need for Indias engagement
with Pakistan through a dialogue
process to bring about a peaceful
settlement of the lingering
dispute. He said that the OIC
would continue to monitor the
human rights situation in
occupied Kashmir.
Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob
Khan expressed his gratitude to
Iyad Ameen Madani for OICs
consistent support to the people
of Jammu and Kashmir in their
freedom struggle.
AJK President-elect, Masood
Khan, was also present on the
occasion.
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Why President Obama Ignores Human Rights in Kashmir

Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai
Since the current uprising in
Kashmir began with the killing of
Burhan Wani on July 8, the
unjustifiable and violent attack
with bullets, birdshot from
pump-action shotguns and
extreme cane beatings by Indian
military forces upon many of
some 200,000 mourners who
attended his funeral, who were
in technical violation of a rigid
curfew that was established by
the police and armed forces, has
provoked numerous demonstrations and violent clashes
between residents and forces
personnel. Demonstrations have
occurred across the globe by nonresident Kashmiris and other
human rights activists. The
curfews and clashes have now

been sustained for over five
weeks, with limited or no access
to the basic necessities of life,
including food, power and fuel,
and the protests have continued
almost unabated, with injuries
reaching close to 10,000, deaths
over 85, and some 570 at last
count left blinded, and many
more maimed from what have
been euphemistically called
pellet wounds. While Kashmir
has been under siege for many
decades by the largest military
occupation in the world, the
recent uptick in what is nothing
less than an effort to terrorise the
population into submission and

silence has been particularly
brutal. On August 30, a letter was
submitted to US Secretary of
State John Kerry by NRK, or nonresident Kashmiris, saying, This
latest situation has been met with
inexplicable silence by the
United States. This has given a
sense of total impunity to India to
exercise the use of unprecedented force on unarmed
Kashmiri civilians. It has also
created the impression that the
United States is selective about
the application of the principles
of human rights and democratic
values. What is the significance
of an alliance between the great
democracy (USA) and the socalled largest
democracy in the
world (India),
when universal
principles,
democratic
values, and
human rights are
knowingly
ignored?
Coincidently, on
August 30, the US
and India signed
a mutual defense compact,
agreeing to share bases,
resources and logistics in the Far
East. At the same time, human
rights and what was at least a
semblance of being the symbol of
democratic freedoms has
seemingly all but disappeared
from the US agenda. Not a word,
at least publicly, has been
mentioned by President Obama
or other US officials that would
indicate that some pressure is
being applied toward India to
exercise restraint in Kashmir and
permit an airing of grievances by
the angry population. The
familiar cries of Aazadi (freedom) and Go India Go Back

continue to fall on deaf ears, not
only in India but upon those in
the US administration who
undoubtedly know the truth on
the ground, but instead have
chosen to play politics with the
facts. Indias rhetoric continues
to blame Pakistan for incitement
and cross-border terrorism, and
the U.S. has conveniently
accepted that propaganda line in
the interest of selling India more
weapons and paving the way for
other U.S. investors. In
September of last year, according
to Bloomberg, Indias cabinet
approved a $3 billion deal for
Boeing Co. military helicopters.
The 22 Apache attack choppers
and 15 Chinook cargo choppers
comprised the biggest defense
contract since Prime Minister
Modi came to power. India
surged to become the second
largest weapons buyer of the US.
Meanwhile, US State
Department Spokesperson
Elizabeth Trudeau said on
August 16, 2016, our position on
Kashmir has not changed. The
pace, the scope, the character of
any discussions in Kashmir is for
the two sides to determine.
Trudeau said we support any
and all positive steps that India
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and Pakistan can take to forge
closer relations. Were aware of
the clashes, Trudeau added.
This obviously does not bode
well for anyone looking for US
support for human rights causes.
Particularly in Kashmir. The
bipartisan support that Kashmir
issue was given by the US
Administration at the United
Nations seems to be disappearing. Is it because the United
States was wrong then or is it
because United States policy
towards international legality
and morality has changed?
History has demonstrated a
significantly different approach
to foreign policy toward
Kashmir. Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles (Republican) stated
at the UN on February 5, 1957,
that: "We continue to believe that
unless the parties are able to

agree upon some other solution,
the solution which was recommended by the Security Council
should prevail, which is that
there should be a plebiscite.
American representative to the
United Nations, Adlai Stevenson
(Democrat), stated on June 15,
1962, that: "The best approach is
to take for a point of departure
the area of common ground
which exists between the parties.
I refer of course to the resolutions
which were accepted by both
parties and which in essence
provide for
demilitarisation
of the territory
and a plebiscite
whereby the
population may
freely decide the
future status of
Jammu and
Kashmir. This is
in full conformity with the
principle of the
self-determination of people
which is enshrined in Article I of
the Charter as one of the key
purpose for which the United
Nations exists."
President Obama himself said
during his 2008 Presidential
campaign that the US ought to
help resolve the conflict over
Kashmir. But as an editorial in
the Nation the
following year
indicates,
President
O b a m a ' s
comment that
the US should
help resolve the
K a s h m i r
dispute rattled
India, and now
it seems that the
U
S
Administration
is dragging its feet. The issue of
Kashmir remains the core issue
in relations between Pakistan
and India. Bruce Riedel (former
CIA analyst at the Brookings
Institution), who chaired the
White House review that
formulated Obama's Af-Pak
strategy, is quoted by a news
agency as saying that the Obama
Administration, does not intend
to meddle in Kashmir.
What is conspicuous is that since
the Iraq war, and Libya, and now
Syria, a cynicism has grown
toward any acknowledgement of
issues of sovereignty and human

rights. These issues have pretty
much fallen off the map. US
leadership has become almost
completely absent on any voice
for such rights, unless we are
talking about Assad or Putin or
some other figure whose cooperation in the international matters
are questionable. Corporate
priorities, international banking
interests, and the needs of Wall
Street have taken control of
governments everywhere,
particularly in both India and the
US. It is extremely difficult to see
any value in even discussing
human rights, because these
have taken a backseat, if they
even have been permitted a seat,
at any discussions concerning
national interest.
In addition, there has been a shift
from political priorities to
religious priorities and an ultranationalism that trumpets
Neighborhood first in India,
much in the style and mode of
Donald Trumps America
First, where the racist divide
now holds stronger ground than
any consideration for democratic
principles. In the US we have a
similar shift, a growing nationalism combined with a distorted
sense of American
exceptionalism by some
Conservatives, led by Donald
Trump, that erodes further any
consideration for democratic
rights elsewhere in the world, or
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on the left, a New World Order
imperialism which seems to be
the primary agenda of
neoliberals who have co-opted
the priorities of the left.
One wonders why President
Obama isn't listening to the voice
of Dr Martin Luther King.
President Obama was envisioned as the man who would
bring change, a man whose
roots and affinity in black culture
gave him some significant cachet
with the oppressed. While he is
popularly known for his
Harvard Law School days, and a
brief stint as a Constitutional law
professor, what has been largely
forgotten is that he has a much
deeper background
in foreign relations
and international
politics and a
substantial focus on
economic pursuits.
At Columbia he did
not major in law but
in political science
and international
relations. He then
went to work for
B u s i n e s s
International (BI).
As a research
associate in BIs financial services
division, he edited Financing
Foreign Operations, a global
reference service, and wrote for
Business International Money
Report, a weekly financial
newsletter. His responsibilities
included "interviewing business
experts, researching trends in
foreign exchange, following
market developments. Since
taking office, he has fallen back
on that experience and is better
known for his ties to Wall Street
than to his interest in the
Constitution and justice and as
an advocate for the less privileged.
The advocacy of Dr Martin

Luther King, that injustice is
immoral, seem to have no effect
on the mindset of experts in the
corridors of power in
Washington. As King said, The
ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but
where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy. We
have perhaps no outstanding
examples of that kind of courage
that is needed by principled men
in times of challenge and
controversy. Dr King would not
believe that a person of high
intellect like President Obama
would ignore this golden rule
and not speak for the oppressed

people of Kashmir. Yet he is
briefed almost everyday about
the suffering and pain inflicted
upon the people of Kashmir by
the Indian army.
How is it possible to talk about
human rights all day when not at
the negotiating table it's not even
on the agenda?
Trade and commercial deals are
important but not at the expense
of the high moral ground
American exceptionalism has
always claimed. Moral values
and human rights are the very
essence of even being called
civilised.
The massive pain and indignities
that Kashmiris suffer are only

significant when they reach a
pitch that the mainstream press
starts noticing, as the New York
Times did recently, and realises it
can capitalise on viewing
audience because of the violence
and mayhem. The usual platitudes are rushed out to put a
public face on it, but there is no
incentive for change. Only the
realisation that eventually things
will die down, that the curfews
will end, with India regaining
full control, and then everyone
can return to the money pit,
trading in dollars, jets and other
military hardware.
It is quite unfortunate that the
Obama administration and the United
Nations both have
chosen to adopt
Indias view that this
is simply a bilateral
issue. This is a
political mask
similar to that worn
by the Joker in the
Batman series
intended to deceive.
Unfortunately, it is
the Big Lie, and an
extremely dangerous one. As
long as India continues to blame
Pakistan for problems in
Kashmir, India and Pakistan
remain on the verge of war with
each other, and this is a threat to
international peace. When two
nuclear countries are facing each
other down, as they have for
going on 70 years, with already
three wars under their belts,
thats not a bilateral issue
whatsoever. That has the
makings of a world war. Nothing
else demands international
attention like such a threat, and it
greatly behooves the US, the UN
and other allies to sit up and take
heed.
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A chronological account of
developments on Kashmir (121)
By: KMS Research Desk
2013
September 23: Indian police rearrest the illegally detained Vice
Chairman of Jammu and
Kashmir Muslim League,
Masarrat Aalam Butt, soon after
his release from sub-district
court of Baramulla.
The Chairman of Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, files a
petition in the High Court of
occupied Kashmir, demanding a
probe into the killings of over 120
innocent people by Indian troops
and police personnel during the
mass uprising in 2010 in the
territory.
The High Court Bar Association
of occupied Kashmir urges the
European Union to play an
effective role in the settlement of
the Kashmir dispute in
accordance with the Kashmiris'
aspirations to bring an end to
their miseries. A delegation of
the European Union, which is on
a visit to occupied Kashmir,
meets the HCBA members in
Srinagar. The delegation is
briefed about the prevailing
human rights situation in the
territory.
A report prepared by India's
Director General Military
Operations, Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia,
says that the Indian Army's
secret intelligence unit, Technical
Support Division (TSD), set up
by former Army Chief, General V
K Singh, carried out at least eight
successful covert operations in a
foreign country. The report says
that Rs 1.19 crore were given to
Ghulam Hassan Mir, the puppet

Minister for Agriculture in
occupied Kashmir, to topple the
Omar Abdullah regime. Bhatia's
report discloses that TSD spent
Rs 8 crore to buy interception
equipment from a Singaporebased company in November
2010 and it was misused for
tapping into
phone calls
i n N e w
Delhi. The
report also
says that at
least three
r e t i r e d
lieutenant
generals are
aware of
some of the
payoffs of
military
intelligence funds for the TSD
activities.
September 24: Former Indian
Army Chief, General VK Singh,
in an interview with a TV
channel in New Delhi admits
that the puppet ministers in
occupied Kashmir are on the
payroll of Indian Army. He also
acknowledges that the army has
funded the so-called Kashmir
Premier League to dissuade the
youth from joining the freedom
struggle.
Independent member of the socalled Kashmir Assembly,
Engineer Abdul Rasheed, in an
interview in Srinagar says that
New Delhi uses pro-India
Kashmiri politicians as tissue
papers.
In Geneva, Kashmiri leaders,

Altaf Hussain Wani and Sardar
Amjad Yousaf, meet the
members of working group on
arbitrary detention and appraise
them of the current human rights
situation in occupied Kashmir.
They tell the working group
members that the people of
occupied Kashmir are being

subjected to racial discrimination
in their own homeland.
September 25: The puppet Chief
Minister of occupied Kashmir,
Omar Abdullah, says that origin
of the Kashmir dispute dates
back to the Partition of Indian
subcontinent that took place in
1947 when the future of all States
other than Jammu and Kashmir
was decided. Talking in Srinagar
to a European delegation led by
Joao Cravinho, he underlines the
need of sustained dialogue
among India, Pakistan and
Hurriyet leaders to resolve the
Kashmir dispute, once for all.
Former Indian interlocutor on
Kashmir, Professor Radha
Kumar, in an interview in New
Delhi describing ex-Indian Army
Chronology
Chief, General VK Singh, as antiKashmiri, says that during his
tenure as Army Chief, he
pursued anti-Kashmir policies
and adopted harsh attitude
towards the Kashmiri people.
She says that she is surprised
with the shocking revelations
made by the former Army Chief
that he secretly constituted a unit
in the Indian Army known as
Technical Services Division for
conducting covert operations in
occupied Kashmir and other
countries.
September 26: At least eleven
Indian troops and police
personnel including a Lt.
Colonol are killed and over a
dozen injured during an attack
on Indian Army camp near a
police station in Kathua district.
Some unknown gunmen barge
into the Army camp at Hiranagar
in the district and kill at least
seven Indian troops and four
t
h
e
representative
of Amnesty
International
India-chapter,
Christine
Mehta, about
the gross
human rights
violations by
Indian troops
i n
t h e
occupied
territory.
Christine Mehta interacts with
the HCBA members including its
President, Mian Abdul Qayoom,
in Srinagar.
In New York, the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation's Contact
Group on Jammu and Kashmir
expresses its support for the
Kashmiris' struggle for their
legitimate right to selfdetermination. The OIC
Secretary General, Professor
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, chairs
the meeting which is held on the
policemen. The troops also kill

three civilians in the area.
In another incident, the troops
during violent military
operations martyr at least twelve
Kashmiris including a 65-yearold civilian in Trehgam area of
Kupwara district.
The members of Kashmir High
Court Bar Association apprise
sidelines of the UN General

Assembly and is participated by
delegations from Pakistan,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Niger.
A delegation of Azerbaijan also
attends as the new member of the
Contact Group.
Addressing the Contact Group,
the Adviser to Pakistan Prime
Minister on National Security
and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz,

appreciates the OIC's consistent
advocacy of the Kashmir cause.
He reaffirms Pakistan's
unwavering support to the
people of Jammu and Kashmir in
their just struggle to achieve their
right to self-determination. He
draws attention of the Contact
Group to the human rights
violations perpetrated by Indian
police and troops in occupied
Kashmir and calls for an early
resolution of the Kashmir
dispute in accordance with the
UN resolutions and aspirations
of the Kashmiri people. The
Prime Minister of Azad Jammu
and Kashmir, Chaudhry Abdul
Majeed, who also attends the
meeting, thanks the OIC for its
support and urges greater efforts
by the Muslim Ummah to help in
bringing about a just settlement
of the dispute.
Kashmiri representative,
Ishtiyaq Hameed, addressing the
meeting urges the international
community to impress upon
India to stop state terrorism,
repeal draconian laws and
release all illegally detained
leaders in occupied Kashmir and
facilitate a durable resolution of
the Kashmir conflict. He says that
the people of the occupied
territory continue to face the
worst aggression by Indian
forces from the last over six
decades.
Compiled by: Showkat Ali

To be continued...
Beauty Thy Name is
Tourist places in occupied Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is one of the
most beautiful regions in the
world. It has always been a
fascinating place for the tourists
from across the world. Following
are some of the tourist spots in
Indian occupied Kashmir.
Yusmarg:
Yusmarg or Yousmarg is a hill
station in the Kashmir Valley. It
is located in Badgam district at a
distance of 47-km in south of
Srinagar. It is an alpine valley
covered with snow-clad mountains and the meadows of Pine
and Fir. It is situated at the bank
of Doodganga River, which is a
tributary of Jhelum River. It is a
popular tourist destination,

nestled within the imposing Pir
Panjal peaks, a sub range of
Himalaya. It lies at an altitude of
2,396 metres above the sea level.
Yusmarg has a great scope for
adventure tourism. Doodganga
River flows through this
meadow. In its vicinity lies the
alpine meadow of Tosa Maidan.
A trek of 4-km leads to a small
lake named as Nilnag, which is
surrounded by pine trees.
Another 10-km trek leads to a
wonderful frozen lake in Sang-eSafed valley. Most portion of this
lake is covered by ice even
during the summer. A number of
tourist huts, restaurants and
hotels are available for lodging.
The main activities include horse
riding, fishing, skiing (during

winter) and photography.
About 13-km from Yusmarg is
Charar-e-Sharief, the shrine of
Kashmirs patron saint Sheikh
Noor-ud-din.
Sunset Peak and Mahadiv
Mountain are the major points
of interest here. Yusmarg
Valley has the best spring
flowers in occupied Kashmir.
Watlab:
Watlab is situated on the SoporeBandipore road, about 56-km
from Srinagar and 8-km from
Sopore. Apart from the untamed
beauty, Watlab is famous for its
hilltop Muslim shrine built
in the memory of Sufi
saint, Baba Shukurdin.
This place offers a
beautiful view of the
Wular Lake, stretching
out as far as the eyes can
see. The picturesque
villages edging around
the lake further enhance
the scenery. Also adding
a touch of colour to the
landscape, are the fields of
paddy nearby.
Achabal:
Achabal is a town in Islamabad
district of occupied Kashmir
situated at an altitude of 1,936
metres above the see level.
Perhaps the most beautiful of
springs in Kashmir is Achabal
which gushes out of the
Sosanwar hill and was once
enlisted by the Emperor Jehangir
in the service of beauty and
pleasure.
Achabal is an important tourist
spot about 7-km away from
Islamabad. The place is famous
and attractive due to an ancient
spring surrounded by a garden
terraced and developed by the
Mughals. The upper portion of

the garden is called 'Bagh-eBegum Abad' developed by
Empress Noor Jehan in 1616 AD
and renowned as Sahib Abad in
which there is a Hamam (treasure of water) getting heat from a
logical lamp (Tosnag).
Cascades and fountains erected
by Mughal Emperors enhance
the beauty of the spot. A mosque
standing in the garden is
believed to have been
constructed by Mughal Prince,
Dara Shikoh. Achabal was once
the pleasure retreat of Empress
Noor Jehan. It is the site of
famous Mughal gardens called
Achabal Gardens. A trout
hatchery is also located nearby.
Daksum:
Daksum is a natural scenic spot
situated at a distance of 40-km
from Islamabad town and about
85-km from Srinagar. It is on the
trekking route to Kishtwar.
Daksum, a trekker's paradise, is
swathed in coniferous forests,
gurgling streams and hidden
grassy meadows. It is also
famous for its trout - an angler's
heaven. Standing at an altitude of
2,438 metres in a densely forested
gorge, Daksum offers peace and
tranquillity. The only sound
heard there is that of the Bringhi
River, rushing right through its
centre.
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Away from the ocean the sailor is
never in his element. He falls prey
to the sharp practices of swindlers and city sharks; he becomes
the laughing stock of the townsmen. Likewise is the peasant
when he is off his land. Clever
people exploit his simplicity, his
ingenuousness and his capacity
to work. He may be made the butt
of many a jest, or the victim of a
Eh! Oh!
(A Kashmiri folktale)
practical joke, and he bears his
cross on his ample shoulders
patiently.
Owing to the rigor of the climate
in Kashmir, the peasant has to
pass through a period of unemployment for nearly five months
in a year. The well-to-do farmers
can afford to enjoy this enforced
rest, consuming cooked rice,
lentils, turnips and pickled knoll
kohl to their hearts' content.
Those who are not so well-off
supplement their slender
incomes by working on cottage
looms and turning out woolen
blankets. Others, standing at the
lowest rung of the ladder, hire
themselves out as domestic
servants in the larger towns, or
the metropolis of Srinagar. Aziz
Bhat commonly known as Aziza
belonged to this last class.
Many, many years ago when the
corn was abundant to the extent
of superfluity, Aziza could not
stretch his harvest so far as to
cover the needs of the family all
the year round. He was the father
of two children, and in spite of the
labours of the whole family even
the elder child would sometimes
contribute his mitehe ran into
debt. He was, therefore,
compelled to drift towards the
city in search of temporary
employment as a domestic
servant.
Untutored in the ways of the
world as he was, he did not think
it would be easy for him to find
some employment in the city. He
spent the first night in a mosque
wrapped in a blanket, for he
knew of no secular habitation
where he could obtain shelter. He
feasted on a couple of dry loaves
and sincere prayers rose from his
heart. The next morning had a
pleasant surprise for him, for he
met an acquaintance, a rare
experience for him. The man
belonged to a village in the
neighbourhood of his own, and
they knew each other moderately
well. Aziza considered his night
well-spent when his acquaintance promised to get him the sort
of employment he was after.
The acquaintance was as good as
his word. Aziza was taken to the
house of a man who appeared to
be very prosperous. There were
already a couple of servants in the
house and Aziza made the third.
Khwaja Saheb, that is how the
head of the house was designated, called him to his presence
and said, "Many people proudly
seek my service for the consideration of free board and lodging.
Will that satisfy you?"
Aziza was so overawed by the
manner of the Khwaja in his
costly shawl and turban that he
found words missing from his
tongue. With difficulty he
seemed to stammer out: "Noble
sir, I am a poor man having left
little ones in the village."
Khwaja Saheb was thereupon
pleased to fix half-anass load of
paddy as his monthly wages
besides the privilege of free board
and lodging. "But, mind you, if
ever one of my servants is not
able to complete a task given to
him, he is subjected to a fine," said
he, half in jest and half in serious
ness. Aziz's companion only

laughed "ha! ha" by way of taking
the sting out of these words and
he himself grinned bashfully.
The winter was on and Aziza
gave his best to the employer.
Late at night before he went to his
bed Aziza had the privilege of
being admitted to the bed
chamber of his employer. He was
asked to massage the legs of
Khwaja with his strong muscular
hands, for he found sleep
evading him until he was
subjected to this process. Early in
the morning, sometimes even
before the rooster crew, the
Khwaja would shout "Aziza" and
the latter was expected to be
ready with the hubble-bubble,
refilled with fresh water from the
river, with tobacco and live coal
to enable his employer to fumigate his interior to his fill. He was
the favorite of the harem so far as
he would be entrusted with all
tasks requiring personal attention. His colleagues the fellow
servants in the house encouraged
him in this belief, for otherwise
such tasks would fall to their own
lot. This encouragement lightened their tasks, for Aziza could
easily be got into the right frame
of mind so as to volunteer to
undertake what all shirked.
At the end of a period of about
four months Aziza thought of
going home. He had not seen his
family all the while and soon his
farm would claim his attention.
He made a request to the great
Khwaja, the first of its kind. The
latter did not seem to relish it, and
with a face beaming with a
mischievous smile he said,
"Aziza ! I shall certainly pay all
your dues. But before I do so, go
to the market and get me two
things, wy (eh!) and wai (oh!).
Your wages will be paid to you
only when you get the things."
"Eh and Oh!" ejaculated Aziza in
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utter amazement, for he had
never heard of such things.
However, he had not the face to
articulate his suspicions lest it be
only his ignorance. So he set out.
He roamed long and far, but
never did any shopkeeper seem
to deal in these substances. Some
laughed outright, others pricked
their ears while some came to
regard him light in the head.
"Should I fail in this last task?"
cried he. "All these months I
worked to the utter satisfaction of
everybody and now this last
straw seems to be too much for
me and the big man will probably
eat up my wages if I fail to satisfy
him.... "
He was walking abstractedly,
with these thoughts pressing
upon his mind. He went from
shop to shop. At the seventh or
the seventeenth shop he met with
a different response to his
inquiry.
And what do you require them
for, my good man?" asked the
shopkeeper, an old man with a
rich stubble on his face.
Aziza told his tale.
"And if you fail to place them
before him you won't get your
pay, your hard-earned dues, is
that it?"
"Exactly; that is what the man
threatens me with."
The old man soon found out that
the Khwaja was trading upon the
simplicity of the peasant. He was
himself something of a sport and
he thought of playing the game
for the fun of it.
"I can give it to you provided you
hand it over directly to the
Khwaja himself without showing
it to any one else. Do you agree?"
Aziza agreed.
"Such precious things are not
found with every grocer. Even I
keep it in a godown. You will
wait here for me."
He returned after
half-an-hour and
gave Aziza a
package covered in
an old newspaper
bound with a dried
weed. He got eight
'annas' for his pains
and Aziza was glad
that he could now
keep his head high
in the presence of all
the other servants in
that he had not
failed in his errand.
The Khwaja was in a
very rosy mood
when Aziza
appeared before
him. The tube of the
hubble-bubble
passed from one
mouth to another.
Seeing Aziza he simulated an
angry mood. "Where, in the name
of God Almighty, have you been
all this while," he shouted. "I sent
you on a little errand and you
seem to have been lazing at your
grandmother's. How fat you have
grown eating my cooked rice
here!"
"Respected sir, I have been
roaming from street to street in
search of it and my legs are
aching with the fatigue," replied
Aziza.
"If your legs are so delicate, why
did you take the trouble of
coming over here for employment? Did you not get the thing?"
"Respected sir, I have got it,"
submitted Aziza.
Khwaja relaxed as he now
expected to fill the little assembly
with theatrical laughter by
declaring what Aziza had got as
spurious. "What have you got?
Let me see it," he said in an overweaning tone.
Aziza submitted the little
package. The whole gathering
was intrigued. The outer chord of

dry weed was unfastened and the
wrapping removed. Two small
earthenware receptacles, no
bigger than a medium sized
inkpot, were discovered. Each
had a wide mouth closed over
with a piece of paper pasted with
gum. Their inquisitiveness was
piqued.
The paper covering of one of the
vessels was broken through and
the Khwaja peered into it. It
appeared to be empty. While he
was about to throw it away out
came a bee, which buzzed along
the hand of the Khwaja who
could not help crying "eh!" So far
so good.
The paper lid of the other vessel
was broken through. But before
the Khwaja could say anything,
from its interior darted a wasp
who perched directly on his brow
and involuntarily a painful "oh!"
escaped from his lips.
The assembly realised that Aziza
had after all not failed to get the
rare commodity!
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Feedback
Letters to Editor
Killings and restrictions
Dear editor, Indian troops and
police personnel are committing
the worst kind of human rights
violations - in fact crimes against
humanity - in occupied Kashmir
by killing innocent civilians with
impunity. India and its puppet
rulers have imposed restrictions
on the political, religious and
social activities of the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference Chairman,
Syed Ali Gilani, and other
resistance leaders including
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabbir
Ahmed Shah and Muhammad
Yasin Malik. These leaders have
been placed under house arrest
or behind the bars to prevent
them from leading anti-India
demonstrations and reaching the
masses in the backdrop of the
extrajudicial murder of noted
freedom fighter, Burhan
Muzaffar Wani, and subsequent
killing of innocent civilians at the
hands of Indian forces.
The world human rights
organisations must impress
upon India to lift restrictions on
the pro-freedom leaders so that
they could propagate their
ideology and perform their
political and religious
obligations.
At the same time, the continued
curfew in the occupied territory
is adding to the miseries of the
people. On one hand, India has
given its forces' personnel a free
hand to kill the Kashmiris, while
on the other, it is not allowing
people to mourn the killing of
their near and dear ones.
Thanks
Usman Khan
Peshawar
Killing innocent civilians
The killing of over 80 civilians in
the unprovoked firing of Indian
troops on peaceful protesters in
occupied Kashmir during the

past around two months is a
glaring example of Indian state
terrorism in the territory. By
killing innocent civilians, what
good the Indian troops have
achieved? Certainly nothing!
Killing of innocent people and
other grave human rights abuses
at the hands of Indian forces'
personnel are a routine matter in
the occupied territory.
It is unfortunate that killers of
innocent Kashmiris are roaming
free and the families of the
victims are moving from pillar to
post for justice. But, not a single
soldier or policeman involved in
such killings has been punished
so far.
It is a fact that Indian brutalities
during the past about seven
decades have failed to suppress
the Kashmiris' resolve to
continue the struggle for
securing their inalienable right to
self-determination and they are
determined to take it to its logical
conclusion at all costs.
It is high time that the world
community should take strong
notice of the deteriorating
situation in occupied Kashmir. It
must hold New Delhi
accountable for its brutal actions
in the occupied territory and
force it to resolve the longpending Kashmir dispute in
accordance with the aspirations
of the Kashmiri people to
mitigate their sufferings and for
ensuring durable peace in the
region.
Thanks
Abdullah Mir
Srinagar
UN role
Dear editor, the situation in
occupied Kashmir is very serious
as there is loss of human lives
and people are maimed and
blinded. It is unfortunate that the

world community - particularly
the UN - is playing role of a silent
spectator in this scenario.
The UN is duty-bound to
implement its resolutions that
had guaranteed the right to selfdetermination of the people of
Jammu and Kashmir. It is
regrettable that vague references
are being given to the current
crisis in Kashmir by the
international community
especially the US and the UN
where little distinction is made
between the oppressors and the
oppressed. They must shun this
double standard and play their
due role to stop Indian state
terrorism in occupied Kashmir.
Thanks
Karim Latif
Karachi
Pakistan's support
Dear editor, the people of
Kashmir appreciate the support,
the government and people of
Pakistan are extending by
showing complete solidarity
with the ongoing freedom
movement in occupied Kashmir.
The entire Pakistani nation
seems to be pained by the killing
of Kashmiri youth at the hands of
Indian occupational forces. Not
only in the country, but the
Pakistani people present
anywhere in the world are acting
as ambassadors of Kashmir and
are highlighting the Indian
atrocities against the unarmed
people of Kashmir which is a
great thing to watch for
Kashmiris living not only across
the Line of Control but world
over, as they can take courage
from the support extended by the
Pakistani nation.
Thanks
Abdul Aziz
Pulwama
Do you remember these Commitments?
"We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by the people.
That pledge we have given (and the Maharaja has supported it) not only to the people
of Kashmir but to the world. We will not and cannot back out of it. We are prepared
when peace and law and order have been established to have referendum held under
international auspices like the UN. We want it to be a fair and just reference to the
people, and we shall accept their verdict. I can imagine no fairer and just offer.
"We are anxious not to finalise anything in a moment of crisis and without the fullest
opportunity to be given to the people of Kashmir to have their say. It is for them
ultimately to decide".
"And let me make it clear that it has been our policy all along that where there is a
dispute about the accession of a State to either Dominion, the accession must be made
by the people of the State.
(Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehrus broadcast to nation from
All India Radio, November 2, 1947)
All Parties Hurriyet Conference Azad Jammu And Kashmir

P. O. Box No. 2617, GPO Islamabad.
Ph: 0092-51-4861457, Fax: 0092-51-4861458 (Islamabad)
0092-5822-432344 (Muzaffarabad)
Email: kashmirinsight@yahoo.com
Atrocities by Indian troops

(January 1989 to August 31, 2016)
Total killings
94,504
Custodial killings
7,062
Civilians arrested
136,434
Structures destroyed/damaged
106,261
Women widowed
22,824
Children orphaned
107,586
Women gangraped/molested
10,433
Including custodial killings
Source: Kashmir Media Service (www.kmsnews.org)

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22nd Year of Publication

Demonstrations continue to rock IOK

No end to killing of Kashmiri civilians

Ban Ki-moon deplores civilian killings

UN rights chief seeks

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Kashmiri people make full use of any opportunity they come

Beauty thy name is

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puppet authorities continued to

tion and demanding their right to

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Indian police stopped Syed Ali

of people in their funerals and in

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realising the reality, New Delhi

slaughter house. He said that

succeed in suppressing the

KASHMIR INSIGHT SEPTEMBER 2016 05

Pakistan voices serious concern over Kashmir bloodbath

Lanka met the Sri Lankan

Pakistan High Commission in

Lahore on August 21 to protest

Adviser to Prime Minister on

the world. "I have decided to

World's condemnation of HR abuses in occupied Kashmir

blinded by the pellets fired by

In an apparent reference to the

The Communist Party of India

Khudai Khidmatgar, People

Kashmiri disapora in the US

A massive protest was held in

Eija-Riita Korhola and Executive

belonging to all walks of life

Parliament to register their

A silent protest demonstration

The public events in major cities

Kashmiris and human rights

The organisers of the event said

to raise public awareness about a

AI faces sedition charges in India for raising HR abuses in IOK

mentioned a number of offences

invited and present at the event.

Pak Independence Day celebrated in IOK despite restrictions

several of them. Dozens of

Referendum March towards

sustained injuries when Indian

tion towers and buildings across

The occupation authorities had

Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali

in their freedom struggle. He

Chairman, Muhammad Yasin

cal, moral and diplomatic fronts

Kashmiris observe Indias Independence Day as Black Day

Muhammad Yasin Malik.

leaders including Syed Ali

opener for New Delhi and the

Yousuf Naqash, Hakeem Abdul

69 years and the people of the

Day as Black Day as it had

Glowing tributes paid to Sheikh Abdul Aziz