Kashmir interlocutors submit first report!Kashmir separatists withdraw shutdown call on Diwali!Shabbir Shah demands referendum in Kashmir! Expressed hope that US President Barack Obama would intervene on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir and press both India and Pakistan to hold a dialogue.

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US trespassing India's concerns?

Valley riot toll: lakh jobs
Srinagar, Nov. 3: Kashmir has paid for five months of unrest with one lakh job cuts and Rs 14,000 crore in financial losses, according to the state industry chamber.
The Telegraph - 04 Nov 03:53AM

J & K govt continues to evade real problems: Mufti
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and Peoples Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed on Wednesday said that it was futile to expect peace in Kashmir while the government continued to evade real problems.
rediff.com - 03 Nov 10:26PM

Mission Kashmir: Off to a rocky start?
As the newly appointed interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir finish their first round of meetings, controvresy and criticism dogged them at every step. NDTV debates the issue.
NDTV - 31 Oct 08:07PM
'Russia can help resolve Kashmir dispute only on India, Pak's request: Andrey Demidov
Karachi, Oct 31 Russia can play a role in resolving the Kashmir dispute only if India and Pakistan make such a request, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Pakistan, Andrey V Demidov has said.
New Kerala - 01 Nov 06:21PM

Sonia slams RSS over terrorism, expresses concern at Kashmir deaths at AICC session
New Delhi, Nov.2 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday touched upon a host of issues, including Jammu and Kashmir, terrorism, price rise, Naxalism, the Women's Reservation Bill and the party's preparations for the next round of state assembly elections, besides targeting the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh and praising the Ayodhya verdict.
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After three months of curfews and strikes hitting Jammu and Kashmir, the state administration on Wednesday launched a massive facelift drive to beautify the region's famous gardens.Normal activities resumed in Kashmir Valley today as hardline faction of Hurriyat Conference headed by Syed Ali Shah Geelani exempted two days from its strike-cum-protest calendar.

However,Separatist leader and Democratic Freedom Party President Shabbir Ahmad Shah on Thursday said that a referendum should be held in Jammu and Kashmir to decide the state's future.Ahead of US President Barack Obama's arrival on a four-day official visit to India, prominent separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah on Thursday appealed to him to facilitate India-Pakistan talks to resolve the Kashmir issue. "If he cannot mediate, he should at least facilitate Indo-Pakistan talks to find a solution to Kashmir dispute," said Shah.

On the other hand,Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday defended his remark on Instrument of Accession saying that what he said was based on his historic assessment and described interlocutors' maiden visit to Kashmir "a success". HT reports.

The president of the Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party and a member of the executive council of All Party Hurriyat Conference was released from a jail in Jammu on late Wednesday night.

Responding to the appeals of the Sikh community to allow Diwali celebrations, hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Geelani Tuesday said there would be no protest shutdown in Kashmir Valley on Diwali.
Talking to reporters, he said it was "because of the Kashmir issue that India is unable to get a permanent seat in the UN Security Council".
Shah sought demilitarization of Gilgit and Baltistan areas of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
In September, Gilgit and Baltistan areas came to grab international attention due to the presence of Chinese troops. The areas were part of undivided Jammu and Kashmir until 1947.
Shah, also called "Nelson Mandela of Kashmir", said that if there was a need to demilitarize Jammu and Kashmir, so was the need for withdrawing military from areas under the control of Pakistan, including Gilgit Pakistan.

Earlier, activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the main opposition party of India, tried to disrupt his press conference.

"Both India and Pakistan should approach the United Nations and then a referendum should be held here," said Shah, whose press conference was disrupted by activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Shiv Sena in Jammu.

Shah was attacked while he was briefing reporters. He was in jail for nine months and was released on Wednesday on the recommendation of the Centre's interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir.

"I don't take this attack seriously. These workers were hired to attack. I request the parties not to play politics," he said.

He also hoped that dividing Jammu and Kashmir could be a solution.

"Small states have gained independence from larger ones. I hope we will also be free one day," he added.
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The team of interlocutors on Kashmir Tuesday presented its first report to the government, days after returning from a visit to the troubled state that has been rocked by violent protests and civilian killings since June.The three interlocutors -- Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M.M. Ansari - met Home Minister P. Chidambaram at his office and gave their initial recommendations to him.

Meanwhile,Senior separatist leader and chairman of the Democratic Freedom Party Shabir Ahmad Shah was released by the state government in Jammu on Wednesday where he had been under detention for the last ten months.

Sikhs in the valley had appealed to the separatist leader not to announce any protest shutdown Friday so that the festival of lights could be celebrated without any difficulty.

"In deference to the wishes of our non-Muslim brothers, it has been decided that there would be no protest shutdown Nov 5 so that they are able to celebrate the Diwali festival," Geelani said here.

Shops, other businesses, public transport, educational institutions, banks and post offices started functioning normally across the valley Tuesday as the hardline Hurriyat group asked people to resume normal activities of life Nov 2, 4 and 5.

The authorities did not impose curfew anywhere in the summer capital Srinagar to facilitate the resumption of normal life here Tuesday.

"No curfew restrictions have been imposed anywhere in the valley today," a senior police officer said here.

The authorities here maintain the frequent protests and shutdowns called by separatist leaders as part of their over four-month long protest calendar have started losing steam.

"Even when separatists have called for protests and shutdowns in recent days, the response to their appeals has been lukewarm," said a senior police officer here.

"Most activities of life have been going on normally during the last fortnight despite separatist protests. Life has started returning to normal in the valley."

Shah was arrested in February this year while leading protests against the killing of two students and later booked under the stringent Public Safety Act.

The state government had in September released Shabir Shah on parole, with strict conditions attached to it, to attend to his ailing mother. But Shah declined to accept the strict conditions attached to the parole .

This time, no conditions have been attached to his release. After his release, Shah informed journalists that the team of three interlocutors, appointed by the Centre, had tried to meet him in jail. "However, I refused to see them," he said.

The interlocutors had met his mother on their maiden visit to the Valley in September.

"We gave a series of recommendations and suggestions... We are now preparing to go back to Jammu and Kashmir. We shall do so as early as in 10 days and travel to district headquarters in the state," Padgaonkar told reporters outside the home ministry office.

The three were appointed by the home minister last month for a "serious dialogue to find a political solution" to the problems in the state following stone-pelting protests since June 11 that saw some 110 civilians killed, mostly in firing by security forces.

The interlocutors have a year-long mandate to talk to all shades of political opinion in Kashmir and suggest ways to solve the problem.

The three paid a six-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir late last month, meeting many leaders, students and families amid a boycott by separatist leaders in the valley and of political parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in Jammu.

Kashmir pandits object to Arundhati Roy's remarks

Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 1 : Writer Arundhati Roy's remarks on Kashmir were 'focussed on a limited part of Kashmir,' Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch leader Ajay Bharati said today.Addressing a seminar on the problems in the state, he alleged the ground realities in the Valley were being ignored by a section of the people.

''Official narrative on Kashmir, right from the dawn of Independence and the subsequent reporting by print and electronic media does not largely match the actual ground situation. This has ensured that a lot of misconceptions created deliberately by vested interests have become firm beliefs. This is the greatest tragedy Kashmir is facing,'' he opined.

Even Roy's accompanying remarks sympathising with the displaced Kashmiri Pandits were made 'out of compulsion,' he alleged.

''She would have joined our dharna at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi where we were fighting for our rights when she was in New Delhi. But, she did not even visit us. And particiapted in another dharna by violators of our rights,'' he alleged.

''The Sufi ideals that led the Kashmiri people being radicalised. Roy is aiding that,'' he alleged.

''The Manch leaders are currently travelling across the country to highlight the real picture of what is happening in the Valley'', he said.

''The first casualty is the myth that Kashmir means Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir is just 7.13 per cent area of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as it existed and acceded to The Dominion of India on October 26, 1947. It is only 15.63 per cent of the area that continues to be within Indian administration. So, we need to be very careful when we talk of Kashmir issue,'' he added.

Mention of Kashmir by Obama will be potentially explosive

Any mention of Kashmir by US President Barack Obama during his trip to India can be potentially explosive, a top American strategic expert has said, adding that Pakistan will dominate in his talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Noting that Obama's visit would take place against the backdrop of the revival of Kashmiri question, Bruce Riedel of Brookings Institute in his latest comment on the region said that Pakistan will move to capitalise on the unrest.

"The intifada that exploded this summer in Kashmir cannot be ignored by the President during the visit but any comments on it will be potentially explosive," said Riedel, a former CIA official, who is a known American expert on South Asian affairs.

He said Obama and Singh need to cooperate to help Pakistan solve its jihadist nightmare. It cannot be resolved by outsiders, nor can it be contained and isolated from the outside.

"Senior Indian officials in private say that New Delhi and Washington now share a common diagnosis of the problems, but neither has developed a strategy that promises success."

"It is an increasingly urgent concern, but one that does not have any magical answers. Both agree that engagement with Pakistan is the only way forward, but neither feels satisfied that its engagement is working," he said.

"The third parties also involved, particularly Pakistan's ally China, will also figure extensively in the private talks. Obama is keen to find ways to use regional diplomacy to strengthen Pakistan, and Beijing must be a player in that process," Riedel said.

"By all accounts, Obama and Singh have developed a good working relationship. They will have to brain-storm together about how they can collaborate to rescue the sick man of South Asia," he said.

Riedel said Pakistan will dominates the private conversations between the President, Singh and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi because it is the future of Pakistan that is the most uncertain question in South Asia today.

"Pakistan has become the most dangerous country in the world for everyone but especially for the US and India. It is the epicenter of the global jihadist movement that attacked New York in 2001 and Mumbai in 2008. Its weak civilian government may have good intentions, but seems powerless to address the country's multiple crises," he said.

Govt finalizes surrender policy for PoK returnees

Rakhi Chakrabarty, TNN, Nov 4, 2010, 02.58am IST
NEW DELHI: As part of its outreach in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union home ministry has finalized
the surrender policy for those who have crossed over to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and now want to return even though the initiative will not offer an unqualified general amnesty.

If there are cases of a serious nature against militants wanting to surrender, they will be prosecuted while cases of crossing into PoK will be reviewed separately.

The policy has been sent to Jammu and Kashmir government in September and is likely to come up for discussion in the next state cabinet meeting, said a senior state government official. The policy will be implemented after it is passed in the Jammu & Kashmir assembly.

Read more: Govt finalizes surrender policy for PoK returnees - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-finalizes-surrender-policy-for-PoK-returnees/articleshow/6868715.cms#ixzz14L92PIUA

Foreign militants train for anti-India Jihad in PoK: Report

November 04, 2010 14:45 IST
Hundreds of university students, including foreigners, are being trained in militant camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir [ Images ] to wage jihad against India [ Images ], BBC Urdu Service has reported.
After a lull, several militant outfits have increased their activities in and around Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK, and pro-Jihad slogans can be seen on the walls of the city, said the report.
A 25-year-old engineering student from Lahore [ Images ], fresh from a training stint in one of camps, told BBC from Muzzaffarabad, that "a large number of youths from Pakistani universities and abroad are undergoing training in PoK under the supervision of a militant group to wage jihad against India."
The student, who identified himself as a Kashmiri, said he received training for two months in PoK after finishing his engineering course this year.
"Nearly 20 per cent youths in the training camps are from Kashmir and 10 per cent are from other countries...Majority of those receiving training are from Pakistan's Punjab [ Images ] province," he claimed.
He also said that many other students from his university have joined the militant training programme run by a tanzeem (group) located near Lahore, an apparent reference to Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is headquartered at Murdike on the outskirts of the city. He said a decision to send them to Kashmir will be taken by the Tanzeem's Amir.
"We could be sent to Kashmir or we could be stationed in Pakistan itself for propagating Islam," he said in response to a question.
He claimed that his family approved of his association with the jihadi group. But when contacted by the reporter, his mother said, "My son sought my permission for propagating Islam which I gave him. But I was not aware that he associated himself with the jihadi group".
"After returning home, he told me that he has received militant training and wants to join jihad. I was disappointed and I told him you cannot go to Kashmir to fight till I'm alive," she said.
The claims made by the student contradict the statement by Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik [ Images ], who had recently denied reports about the existence of militant camps in PoK.

Settlement of Kashmir issue not far away, says OIC aide

Abdullah Alam, OIC secretary-general's special representative on Jammu and Kashmir, speaks at a Kashmir Black Day meeting in Jeddah on Wednesday night. (AN photo)
By ARAB NEWS
Published: Oct 29, 2010 00:15 Updated: Oct 29, 2010 00:41
JEDDAH: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) believes that the people of Jammu and Kashmir, after so many years of suffering, deserve full respect for their legitimate right to self-determination.
"Surely, it's (settlement) not far away," Abdullah Alam, assistant secretary general and special representative of the OIC secretary-general on the Jammu & Kashmir dispute, told a "Kashmir Black Day" event organized by Pakistan International School-English section at Pakistan Consul General Abdul Salik Khan's residence on Wednesday night.
"As we all acknowledge the great importance of a peaceful solution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, we commend the commitment of Pakistan to the peace process and hope that India will show the same attitude in order to give the peace process a significant and positive push forward," Alam said.
He added that the OIC is examining all existing possibilities and authorities to help people gain their rights. "The permanent inclusion of the Jammu and Kashmir issue on the agenda of OIC's summits and ministerial sessions is a clear indication of the Islamic organization's strong support and continuous solidarity with its people.
"We are now trying to explore, through the OIC offices in New York and Geneva, the Human Rights Council, international human rights groups and humanitarian organizations to prevent further violations of the human rights of the Kashmiri people and work toward helping them realize their right to self-determination," Alam said.
Other speakers, including Muhammad Umar Badahdah of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, the consul general and members of the Kashmir Committee, explained the significance of commemorating the Kashmir Black Day every year on Oct. 27 and said in recent months there had been an alarming increase in violation of human rights and indiscriminate use of force against Kashmiris in Indian Kashmir, which has resulted in the killing and injury of dozens of people. "It was on Oct. 27, 1947, two months after the end of British occupation of South Asia, that Indian forces entered Jammu and Kashmir and they have since been violating all established principles of law, justice, morality and politics," the consul general said.
"The occupying power must realize that bullets and batons are not an answer to the demand of fundamental rights. Kashmiris can never accept their subjugation. It's time to start a meaningful dialogue with Pakistan for the resolution of this longstanding dispute," the consul general added.
"On its part, Pakistan is fully committed to a just and peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions and, most importantly, the aspirations of the Kashmiri people."
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Arundhati Roy and Kashmir's struggle for justice

Roy's persecution for speaking out over Kashmir shows India's growing intolerance of the region's distress

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Murtaza Shibli
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 October 2010 13.59 BST
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The news that the prize-winning Indian author Arundhati Roy may be arrested for her remarks about Kashmir is not surprising. It is a sign of growing Indian intolerance towards the issue. During the current phase of the Kashmiri intifada, the only Indian response to Kashmiri demands for justice and self-determination has been the use of overwhelming military force. More than 112 civilians – mostly youths – have been killed and several thousand injured, mainly by the Indian military and paramilitary.
In the absence of strong international criticism, the Indian state has been emboldened to crush any dissent or demands of justice ferociously. Intimidating Kashmiri civil society has always been part of the standard Indian response, but it has grown exponentially over the last few months. In early July, the police arrested Mian Qayoom, president of the Kashmir Bar Association (the main lawyers' body), for protesting against human rights violations. He was arrested under the draconian Public Safety Act, which authorises incarceration for up to two years if the authorities feel that the detainee may disturb peace and order or threaten the security of the state.
Several other human rights activists, such as Ghulam Nabi Shaheen and political workers remain behind bars, along with hundreds of Kashmiri youths who have been detained for offences such as throwing stones at gun-toting Indian armed forces.
Frustrated by having to treat the mounting casualties amid curfew restrictions and with dwindling medical supplies, a group of doctors at the government medical college in Srinagar staged a peaceful sit-in – only to be accused by the police of various "offences" including rioting and "disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant". The police also accused them of inciting people and using "anti-national slogans". The largest local newspaper, Greater Kashmir, lamented that creating an atmosphere of intimidation in this way "speaks of the mindset that always contributed to the worsening of the situation". It continued: "Rather than establishing a connect with its people and knowing from them what has gone wrong and how can it be corrected, government, by initiating such actions against people, is only pushing the situation towards worse."
From the very beginning of the current unrest, the government adopted the policy of restricting journalists reporting on demonstrations and brutal government responses. The Indian army and paramilitary forces beat several journalists, refused to respect their curfew passes and even forced closure of leading newspapers as their offices remained locked and the journalists were denied access. In one such incident in July this year, 12 photojournalists working for local, national and international publications suffered serious injuries from security forces trying to stop them recording the demonstrations. One of the BBC's Urdu service journalists, Riaz Masroor, was stopped and beaten by police as he went to collect his curfew pass on 9 July. According the BBC, he suffered a fractured arm.
In September, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) renewed its call to allow Kashmiri journalists to cover the unrest. This is how Anuradha Bhasin, the executive editor of the Kashmir Times, described the situation to me in an email in September: "The level of intimidation is so high that many reporters have been forcibly doing table [desk-based] stories, mainly operating from the homes. And as an editor, sometimes, even I find that a safer arrangement, given the vulnerability of the reporters in simply stepping out of their homes".
The current phase of intifada has deeply exposed Indian vulnerability in Kashmir. In absence of any Pakistani support to the new generation of Kashmiris, Indian claims to blame Pakistan, Islamic terrorism and Lashkar-e-Taiba have lost credibility even among its own population.
This has provoked several newspaper reports and opinion articles by Indian journalists and commentators that not only question India's brutal tactics but also have shown sympathy to Kashmiri demands. It has created what Roy rightly describes as "panic about many voices", and the threat of charging her with sedition, she says, "is meant to frighten the civil rights groups and young journalists into keeping quiet".
As the "ISI or Laskhar-e-Taiba" theory of the protests becomes increasingly untenable, Kashmiri demands are finding greater resonance within Indian civil society. The threat to Roy may be a crude attempt to prevent such criticism from gathering momentum at a time when Barack Obama is planning a visit to India next month. India is determined to keep Kashmir out of the picture and, to achieve this, intimidation and terror against Kashmiris has already entered another phase.
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'If Omar questioned Kashmir merger with India, he should quit'

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that if his Jammu & Kashmir counterpart Omar Abdullah has questioned the merger of Kashmir with India , he should quit his post.

"If Omar Abdullah had said that Kashmir had not merged with India, then he should leave his post," Chouhan told reporters last evening.

He also said that criminal proceedings should be initiated against writer Arundhati Roy and veteran Kashmir Hurriyat leader Sayed Ali Gilani for sedition.

"Nobody could be allowed to attack the country's unity and sovereignty in the name of freedom of speech. Allowing this sort of freedom of speech would definitely send a wrong signal to the people," the Chief Minister said.

When asked about 'saffron terrorism', Chouhan said," Those who talk of saffron terrorism are directly attacking Indian culture."

Protests Flare In Kashmir As India Attempts Talks

by Corey Flintoff

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Kashmiris salvage their belongings from the debris of a house after a gunbattle between Kashmiri separatists and Indian troops on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on Oct. 22. Both India and Pakistan claim the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, on the edge of the Himalayas, in a decades-long conflict.

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Kashmiris salvage their belongings from the debris of a house after a gunbattle between Kashmiri separatists and Indian troops on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, on Oct. 22. Both India and Pakistan claim the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir, on the edge of the Himalayas, in a decades-long conflict.
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India says it is taking a new approach to the decades-old conflict with Pakistan over the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government is seeking a dialogue with Kashmiri separatists.
Both India and Pakistan claim the Muslim-majority state on the edge of the Himalayas. After the British empire in India ended in 1947, the rivals fought three armed conflicts over Kashmir, the last in 1999, after the two sides had acknowledged acquiring nuclear weapons.
Since then, the Indian government has largely suppressed the Pakistan-backed insurgency, but the conflict has taken on a new dimension — an indigenous street protest movement, not unlike the Palestinian uprisings against Israel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The protests are carried out mainly by young men and boys. Since June, many of them have devolved into stone-throwing clashes with Indian security forces. Over the past four months, Indian forces have killed scores of Kashmiris.
The Indian government has sent a team of independent facilitators who are trying to restart a dialogue with all parties in the conflict. But so far, the key players in the conflict, the separatists, are refusing to talk.
Containing Protests Difficult

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Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani (right) addresses a press conference at his party headquarters in Srinagar on Oct. 25. Geelani, who is under house arrest, has refused to speak with a team of Indian negotiators dispatched to revive Kashmir talks.

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Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani (right) addresses a press conference at his party headquarters in Srinagar on Oct. 25. Geelani, who is under house arrest, has refused to speak with a team of Indian negotiators dispatched to revive Kashmir talks.
The protests have spread beyond cities like Srinagar, the state capital, to small towns in the countryside, making it more difficult for authorities to contain is the demonstrations.
On a recent day in Bandi Pora, a farming community surrounded by fruit orchards and the fabled peaks of the Himalayas, the chilly air was filled with the acrid smell of tear gas from sporadic protests by small crowds of young men and boys.
The protesters moved from street to street, many of them masked by scarves with holes cut for the eyes.
They chanted slogans, calling for azadi, or freedom, and shouted: "India go back."
The young men hurled a rock at armed Indian security men who had blocked one end of a street. The security forces answered with tear gas.
Many of these confrontations escalate into stone throwing by protesters and beatings or shootings by police. Each side accuses the other of starting the fights.
According to separatists, since June more than 111 people have been killed in encounters with the CRFP, India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force. Police won't comment on individual cases, but spokesmen have accused the protesters of provoking fights by throwing stones at police.
Kashmiri Separatists Refuse To Talk
Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani says the violence all originates on the Indian side. He says no police officer has been killed by stone throwers, "but 111 people have been killed by their guns and their tear-gas shelling … and bullets."
Geelani is the chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat, an umbrella organization of Kashmiri separatist groups. At 81, he's spent some 15 years of his life in various Indian prisons.
Currently under house arrest at his home in Srinagar, he is in no mood to compromise.
Specifically, he is refusing to talk with the Indian team that is trying to revive a dialogue in Kashmir.
The team is led by Dilip Padgaonkar, a retired journalist who covered the Kashmir conflict for years before he rose to be the editor of the prestigious Times of India.

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Family members mourn 40 days after the death of Mudasir Ahmed Kachroo, a 20-year-old Kashmiri man who was shot by Indian security forces in the town of Sopore. His family says he was not a protester; Indian officials decline to comment on individual cases.

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Family members mourn 40 days after the death of Mudasir Ahmed Kachroo, a 20-year-old Kashmiri man who was shot by Indian security forces in the town of Sopore. His family says he was not a protester; Indian officials decline to comment on individual cases.
He says he wants the conflicting sides to focus on two things.
"One is, you must spell out what you want, in absolutely clear, precise, concrete terms," Padgaonkar says. "We cannot proceed on the basis of sloganeering. Secondly, every proposal you make must take into account the big picture."
Padgaonkar says that includes how the proposal will be received in India and Pakistan as well as the various regions of Kashmir, including Jammu, a predominately Hindu city south of Srinagar.
The atmosphere there is far different.
"We are Indians. Kashmiris are part of India," says Akash Gupta, who is studying for an MBA at Jammu University. Gupta says most of his fellow students, especially the Hindus and Sikhs, would be fearful of independence or a merger with mostly Muslim Pakistan.
Meanwhile, Geelani regards the proposal for negotiations as a stalling tactic by the Indian government. He says he will talk when the government agrees to his group's five-point proposal, which includes acknowledging that Kashmir is a disputed territory and withdrawing Indian forces.
He also wants investigations and trials for the soldiers responsible for the shootings of protesters.
Deaths Continue To Mount
The pain of those shootings is fresh. In the town of Sopore last week, the Kachroo family marked the 40th day after the death of their 20-year-old son, Mudasir.
In a room lined with wailing women, Mudasir's cousin, Waseem Kachroo, poured out a litany of praise for the dead man and complaints against the Indian administration.
"He was 20 years old," Kachroo said. "He was a software designer and a soccer player, not a protester."
He suggested that his cousin was a random target of police violence and said the police refuse to investigate their own. The CRFP has declined to comment on individual killings.
Geelani, the separatist leader, says the Kashmir conflict ought to be on President Obama's agenda during his visit to India that begins on Saturday.
"This is the responsibility of you people, particularly the United States," says Geelani. Since the United States says it is in favor of justice, democracy and oppressed peoples, he says, it should favor the cause of separatist Kashmiris.
Padgaonkar, the Indian negotiator, and his team say they'll return to Kashmir at least every month, and that when separatists like Geelani are willing to talk, they'll be ready.
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By MUHAMMAD ANWAR CHOUDHRY, JEDDAH

Kashmir, Arundhati Roy and Pakistan

This is a rejoinder to Shabir Chaudhry's article, "Can Pakistan produce one Roy to speak the truth" (Nov. 3).

Chaudhry has rightly appreciated the views of the renowned Indian writer Arundhati Roy on Kashmir. There cannot be two opinions about what Roy said. However, Chaudhry's assertion that Pakistan was obstructing a plebiscite or referendum in Kashmir was biased and against historical facts. Pakistan, from day one has maintained that the only solution to the Kashmir issue was through the implementation of UN resolutions and conducting a plebiscite under the auspices of the UN. Secondly, Pakistani intellectuals and writers, like Roy, believe that Kashmir is the unfinished agenda of the partition and that Kashmir is a Muslim majority state and its people must be given a chance to exercise their free will. The presence of more than 700,000 Indian troops in Kashmir has failed to force the Kashmiris into surrendering their demand for plebiscite and exercise their will and self-determination. It is also unfair to equate the conditions in the occupied Kashmir with that of Azad Kashmir.

How can one shut one's eyes to the killings, tortures, rapes, kidnappings, and human rights violations by the Indian forces in the occupied Kashmir? Is there any such thing present in Azad Kashmir? Roy has voiced the views the Pakistani intellectuals have always expressed about Kashmir.

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AJIT
Nov 4, 2010 04:23
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Were you all sleeping when Muslims killed, raped and forced Hindus to leave valley. There has been a systematic cleansing of Kashmir from Hindus by Muslim goons. This can not be tolerated any more. Roy is trying to grab lime light and in the process has become the laughing stock. Roy thought that she for sure will be arrested and she will get more attention. GOI acted very wisely for not giving it a damn. She has been left speechless by completely being ignored by GOI. You guys can cling around her in your pursuit of Azaadi. May be she brings you one.
DEV SAHA
Nov 4, 2010 10:13
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What about Taslima Nasreen? Why not give her a medal of honor for telling the truth about how Hindus are being prosecuted in Pakistan and Bangladesh? Are Muslim lives are holier than Hindus?
JACK DANIELS
Nov 4, 2010 10:22
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Arundhati Roy's expertise is in FICTION. The whole world recognised her talent for writing FICTION and awarded her the BOOKER PRIZE, which is for the best FICTION writer. That pretty much sums up her expertise. So when she says something on the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, you can be sure 100% it is FICTION as well. Who knows, they may award her another prize for such FICTION as well.
MOIN ANSARI
Nov 4, 2010 10:23
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Shabir Chaudhry rhetoric gets a full page on Arab News, and Mohammad Anwar's truth gets a paragraph and a quarter. What's happened to Arab News? It was disappointing and hurtful to see Arab News publish the diatribe of Mr. Shabir.

I guess we should be grateful that Arab News gave the opinions of a Pakistan some space at all!!!

Mohammad Anwar is absolutely right, Kashmir is disputed territory, and it takes 800,000 Indian soldiers to suppress the Kashmiris. When will world conscience wake up to the reality of Kashmir

Violence Update in Bharat:
From Jan. 1989 to September 30, 2010
Total Killings * 93,471
Custodial Killings 6,975
Civilians Arrested 118,424
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 105,877
Women Widowed 22,742
Children Orphaned 107,382
Women gang-raped / Molested 9,962
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Ajit is example of an extreme hate monger with blatant lies. What a shame this person is. Ethnic cleansing happened in Indian city of Jammu when a million muslims were either killed brutally, raped and arsoned against. In comparison Hindu exodus from kashmir was mere incidents followed by a migration facilitated by Government. i.e they were ferried in army vehicles and their jobs stayed intact. not more than 300 pandits died , Hindu's have killed more sikhs in punjab, more christians in kandhamal and more north east folks or more muslims in gujrat riots. So if a handful of pandits are held superlative to 1oo,000 kashmiris , or punjabis, Orissa christians, north easst christians and tribals, Gujrat muslims , it proves that India is a hindu country which only cares about high caste hindus.
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Kashmir protests go digital

By Yousra Y. Fazili, November 4, 2010 Share

This summer as Kashmiris took to the streets, pelting rocks, holding sit-ins, and chanting slogans during demonstrations in the moments between eerily empty streets where haartal (strikes) and military-enforced curfews, closed the city, a Facebook campaign went viral. The campaign was a simple two words "I protest." For a people without a national flag, let alone consensus on what a solution for Kashmir would look like, there are no simple symbols for an expression of nationalism. Yet overnight on Facebook, Kashmiris in the valley, across the Line of Control, and in the diaspora urged their friends and family to change their profile pictures to a single simple message of solidarity: "I protest."
But what exactly is it that Kashmiris are protesting? The Indian presence in Kashmir is nothing new, and this summer's violence did not match that of 1989 when Kashmiris took up arms in an effort to be rid of Indian control over the region. The summer of 2010 was marked by calls for trilateral talks as protests seeking azadi (independence), curfews, and strikes spread from the capital of Srinagar throughout the valley of Indian-administered Kashmir. Tensions had been mounting since the summer of 2009 when the May 30 alleged rape and murder of two young women, Nilofer Shakeel and Asiya Jan from the apple orchard village of Shopian by Indian security forces sparked protests throughout Kashmir. The case came to represent several injustices: rape as a weapon of war, a Delhi-based effort to cover up the crime, and the immunity that shields the allegedly criminal behavior of Indian security forces in Kashmir. Though protests and demonstrations against India's policies in Kashmir continued throughout the year, popular discontent was catalyzed on June 11 when local police in Kashmir killed 17-year-old high school student Tufail Ahmad Matoo, who had been walking, backpack in hand, close to a demonstration.
His death marked the fourth time in 2010 where police and CRFP (India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force) killed teenagers through the use of excessive force. The ensuing demonstrations opened the floodgates of popular expression against India's heavy-handed military rule and the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (applied to Kashmir since 1990), which gives the Indian army and paramilitary forces sweeping powers to shoot and kill, search homes and people, detain civilians indefinitely without charges, and confiscate property. Human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch have decried the Armed Forces Special Powers Act because it shields soldiers from prosecution while opening the door to rampant human rights violations.
A few years ago mainstream Kashmiri separatists consciously began to turn away from violent methods towards peaceful civil disobedience. Yet even these efforts, with sit-down demonstrations, rallies, frequent strikes and stone-pelting, have been met with disproportionate excessive force by Indian security forces including bullets and tear gas. Approximately 245 teenage stone throwers have been held in indefinite custody since June.
These abuses face scant media attention, both from the Indian and international media. This is largely due to India's policies blocking journalists from entering Kashmir, making media coverage of Kashmir a near impossibility in times of unrest. However, Kashmiris are slowly harnessing the power of the internet to create a communal digital protest and to forge a voice for themselves in the democratic realm of cyberspace. In 2010 Kashmir's Generation Next, those who were born or young during the turbulence of the 1990s, found their voices. Unlike Kashmiri youth of the 1990s who were silenced given India's media, U.N. and NGO blackout of Kashmir, new technologies and social media have made it possible for Kashmiris to begin to tell their own stories, to have a voice and a narrative that can reach beyond the Valley and into international consciousness. Facebook and You Tube have been transformative, creating a cadre of citizen-journalists and more artistic expressions in which Kashmiris create video montages set to music and images, providing a voice whether in Kashmiri or English, such as Kashmiri-American Mubashir Mohi-u-Din's take on the Steven Van Zandt song Patriot.
This summer Kashmir's youth have learned two lessons from other international struggles for justice: Iran and Palestine. In 2009 Iranian youth and social activists harnessed the power of social media as young Iranians took to the internet and street in the face of state suppression. Iranians demanded "where is my vote?" -- the slogan, appearing curiously and ubiquitously in English, was meant for an international audience, to raise attention to the struggles occurring within the Islamic Republic of Iran after the results of the presidential election were called into question. Similarly, "I protest" cries out in a language that is not native to Kashmir but has united Kashmiris globally as they seek an international audience.
The second lesson has come from the first Palestinian intifada of 1987, which started shortly before Kashmiris began to protest in earnest on a cold January day in 1989 against rigged election results. Unlike the "children of the stone," the moniker given to the stone wielding youths who sought a way to express their discontent with Israeli occupation, the Kashmiris of the early 1990s soon turned to violent means to oppose India's acute military presence and perceived human rights violations. Since that time both documented human rights violations and a strong military presence of 700,000 continues; there is one Indian security personnel for every 20 Kashmiris. In 1995, Yasin Malik, the head of the populist Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), publicly renounced violence as a means of liberation. While this tactic created divisions within the JKLF, Kashmiris are turning away from weapons to adopt less violent means. Last year Malik continued his efforts to encourage a passive resistance marked by sit-ins, strikes, and the lesson from the intifada, throwing stones instead of exchanging bullets.
Kashmiris have made a critical move from guns to stones. They have largely moved from militancy to civil demonstrations and protests. Despite this shift, India has failed to recognize how the shift to less violent tactics has opened a space for dialogue and continued its heavy-handed policies, which only stir resentment towards India. Just recently, acclaimed novelist Arundhati Roy faced possible sedition charges for criticizing India's military occupation and for suggesting that force may not be the best means to keep India a cohesive nation. She cast her support for the Azadi movement, which she characterized as a struggle for justice.
Yet, despite tactics meant to invoke international sympathy and raise attention for the people of Kashmir, Kashmiris remain outsiders to a process that will decide their fate. As U.S. President Barack Obama heads to India this weekend, Kashmiris hope that Kashmir will be more than a talking point regarding Indian and Pakistani security, more than a discussion of jihadi movements from Afghanistan into India, and more than a focal point of Indian-Pakistani tension. Perhaps what they protest most is their invisibility, the refusal to see Kashmiris as part of a solution. The iProtest refuses the bilateral assumption of India-Pakistan negotiations that leave Kashmiris silenced.
Remarking on the political nature of current unrest in Kashmir and India's refusal to seek productive dialogue with separatists, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a leader of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, remarked: "It is the youth of Kashmir agitating. Why are they throwing stones and risking their lives? No one wants to hear their story." Indeed, the e-protest of this summer remains a real protest on the ground, with flesh and blood casualties. The iProtest has moved beyond Facebook and Blogspot; it has sparked hope in a young generation while renewing the hopes of an older generation, that maybe the critical moment has come when someone will look to the "I" who protests to ask exactly what is it that they want, and perhaps, we should listen in.
Yousra Y. Fazili is a Kashmiri-American attorney based in Washington DC where she works on South Asian and Middle East policy. A Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Brown University and Harvard Divinity School, she has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and the United Nations.
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Why the U.S. can't find bin Laden

BY PETER BERGEN

American taxpayers have forked over around half a trillion dollars to U.S. intelligence services since the 9/11 attacks, yet nearly a decade after al Qaeda assaults on New York and Washington, the American intelligence community still cannot answer the most basic of questions.

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General Petraeus's ambitions

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Gen. David Petraeus forged extremely good relations with Pakistan's armed forces. Will his ambitious strategy in Afghanistan destroy that goodwill, and with that mess up the U.S. endgame?

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Granta goes to Pakistan

BY MADIHA SATTAR | OCTOBER 11, 2010

Last month, at the launch of Granta's Pakistan-themed issue at Asia House in London, short story writer Daniyal Mueenuddin wasn't reading from a piece about religion or violence or politics. It felt, suddenly, as if one had more room to breathe.

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BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | OCTOBER 8, 2010

On September 30, NATO helicopters killed two and injured four soldiers from Pakistan's paramilitary organization, the Frontier Corps (FC), when NATO aerially attacked the FC border post within Kurram agency. Curiously, the Frontier Corpsmen thought it would be prudent to issue "warning shots" when the helicopters entered Pakistani airspace. Unfortunately, the NATO helicopter crew shot two rockets in self-defense.

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Bob Woodward's missing Afghan perspective

BY GERARD RUSSELL | October 6, 2010

The current U.S. clue- and helplessness in Afghanistan, with its strategy that no one knows whether it will work and with no Plan B, is definitely crying out for some "out of the box" thinking.

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America's image problem in Pakistan

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Drones have been the tactic of choice in targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) in the past few years. The strikes have increased significantly under President Obama's administration, with the New America Foundation noting 79 reported attacks in 2010 so far compared to 53 in all of 2009.

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European Parliament's Kashmir Hearing

Kashmir Watch, Nov 4

Hameed Shaheen

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On October 13, 2010 the European Parliament (EP) held its first ever Parliamentary Hearing on Kashmir dispute in Brussels. Pakistan was represented by Brussels-based ambassador Mr Jalil Abbas Jilani and India by its retired General Ashok Mehta while Kashmiri delegation was headed by Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan Prime Minister of Azad Government of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.It included Barrister Abdul majid Tramboo Director Kashmir Centre Brussels and Prof Nazir Shawl, Dirctor Kashmir Centre London. The event is of top significance from several angles.

Firstly it was held for the first by a parliament representing 27 highly developed industrialized democracies of Europe. Secondly the European Union/Parliament is considered in modern day globo-political scenario as the United Nations of Europe. Thirdly the EP held Hearing on Kashmir Case/Dispute as its own initiative, not sponsored by any other forum. Fourthly, it was held in a free, frank and absorbingly listening manner. Fifthly, the event of Hearing represents the sentiments and future vision of 27 nations of Europe.

All these five significances listed above go a long way in favor of the voice of Kashmiris on the global plane. The dispute over Jammu and Kashmir assumes the core attention of the world. This is the second world forum having Kashmir dispute on its agenda. The dispute exists already on the agenda of UN Security Council and of the OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference). Now it is up to the dispute solution planners to crystallize the approaches towards the solution stage of this 63-year old dispute, jeopardizing South Asian progress, peace and security. Kashmir dispute is ringed by three nuclear powers today. It is not an ordinary dispute of territory or 'border' adjustment. Kashmir is basically a dispute rooted in South Asian history that brought Pakistan and India into sovereign nations.

EP debates/discusses Kashmir dispute on yearly basis; sends its monitoring missions in both parts of Kashmir � AJK and IHK. It publishes yearly reports on Kashmir. That means within geographic diaphragm today there are six parties to the Kashmir dispute: UN, Pakistan, India, Kashmiris, EP, OIC and China. The last mentioned though less vocal, yet has a Kashmir focus: China issues visas to India-occupied Kashmiris via separate staples. That initiative of Beijing needs to be understood correctly in regional context. That should not be seen just as a technical need only. That shows China's firm stand on Kashmir.

Again it needs to be understood that Kashmir becoming part of EP and OIC agenda gives us politico-diplomatic edge. Who knows how many recurring convulsions and gripes the South Block in India undergoes daily just from this aspect of the recognition of Kashmir as a dispute? Each year Indians are made to stand in the dock in the EP initiated Global Discourse on Kashmir. On September 2006 such a Global Discourse on Kashmir was inaugurated in the European Parliament by the then President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf. The Indians could not digest the bone. 'Look! Pakistan President is opening a Grand Global Debate on Kashmir dispute in powerful European Parliament' was Indian refrain. Since then the bone slips deeper in their throats.

The EP held Hearing on Kashmir is not an exercise in puzzles, but as a forward move.

What Pakistan/Kashmiris achieved from the Hearing? (1) AJK Prime Minister's first ever proposal to associate UNO and OIC with EP initiatives on Kashmir was accepted on the floor of the Hearing House in the presence of the Indian delegate; it heightens seriousness on Kashmir as an unresolved dispute; (2) the Chair Mr Chris Davies (active Member EP and Vice Chairman of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in EP, a powerful group of parliamentarians) issued on the spot directives to his executive staff to start forthwith high level contacts with the UNO and OIC inviting them to participate in the next Global Discourse on Kashmir the EP is holding on March 14 and 15, 2011 in Brussels. It is no small success that the European Parliament is inviting the UNO and the OIC, making them part of its initiatives on Kashmir? It again highlights the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir as an unresolved international agenda; (3) it reminds the UNO of its obligations vis-�-vis Kashmir resolutions of August 13, 1948 and of January 05, 1949? (4) it is a big moral global victory of the voice of Kashmiris fighting their way in an indigenous, unarmed struggle in India-held Kashmir today, under killings curbs of five month long curfew. (5) at the conclusion of the Hearing the Chair ruled in the presence of the Indian delegate that the Indian forces were killing Kashmiris in held Kashmir. (4) the head of the Indian delegation General (Rtd) Ashok Mehta had had to admit on the floor of Hearing House that Indian forces did stage fake encounters in occupied Kashmir; (5) this admission at the international forum a big success for to resolve this dispute internationally. (6) again the Indian delegate had had to conclude: "We want solution of Kashmir immediately and expeditiously".

Within the same parliamentary premises in a separate meeting with the Kashmiri delegation headed by AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, the famous EP marksman Parliamentarian Mr James Elles, who chairs South Asian Affairs, assured that the EP was straining every nerve to seek a solution to Kashmir dispute. In this regard he made a specific parallel. Kashmir knot is bound to unravel sooner or later.

India may today go jittery over third party involvement in settling Kashmir dispute, but she must understand that already there are three global parties very much intricately involved in seeking solution to this dispute: UN Security Council, European Parliament and OIC. What we need at the domestic front now on Kashmir is to clarify our signals to the world community. The efforts of the international forums already discussing Kashmir on their respective forums should be fully and rationally coordinated.

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Kashmir submerged in a culture of grief: HR group	*
Obama should bring up "K" word: Angana Chaterji AIP

Srinagar, November 4: Calling India's recent peace process initiative "deceptive" noted Professor and co-convener of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights (IPTK) and Justice in Kashmir, Dr Angana Chaterji on Thursday said that 'all the steps from New Delhi's side will be futile unless it won't halt military strength and reckon the main stakeholders of the conflict in Kashmir'.

Chaterji including the civil society members in Kashmir also drafted a memorandum which would be sent to the United States president Barak Obama and to the international community.

"Indian state has implemented a deceptive peace plan without reckoning the dispute, formulated resolution without reckoning the loss a d designated the post conflict status," flanked by the various civil society members, Chaterji briefed a press gathering here.

She sought concern from the international community which according to her can play tremendous role in resolving the long pending Kashmir issue.

She said, we ask the President Obama to bring the K word as Kashmir has been pejoratively labeled, in his discussion with PM Manmohan Singh of India.

"The US shouldn't compromise the rights of Kashmiri people, regional peace and security concern in South Asia which act as a deterrents to resolutions of past part ions and current conflicts."

Asking the international community for the support of Kashmiri's demands the Professor said that International Community should bring their judicious counsel to persuade the government of India and government of Pakistan to initiate the meaningful exchanges, engagements and reconciliations between Kashmiri people as a precondition to conflict resolution.

"India should end its hostilities on Kashmiri people and formally recognize the rights of them to determine their future. Right now Kashmir is submerged in a culture of grief. India must practice accountability and atonement with respect to Kashmir as the negligence, indifference and callousness from the Indian side has delayed the Kashmir dispute continues to have serious repercussions on the everyday life of Kashmiris," she said.

About the ongoing four months long unrest in Kashmir, Chatterji, who in December 2009, had demanded an International probe into the existence of mass graves in Kashmir valley said.

"We note that the recent protest in Kashmir don't evidence to the present events alone but are indicative of civilian sentiments an responses to the sustained confinement of civil society by Indian military an parami8ltary forces since 1989. It seems that the Indian state continues to be neo-imperial and aggressively militaristic."

Slamming the India's claims of calling Indian Kashmir to be an internal matter she said "By calling it (Kashmir) as an internal matter India is refusing transparency, international scrutiny and is showing adherence to humanitarian laws in Kashmir."

The memorandum has been endorsed by Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil societies, Kashmir High court Bar Association, Chamber of Commerce and Industries Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Trade Union Council, Kashmir minorities Front, Majlis-Mashrawat, and Kashmir University Students Union, Association of Parents Disappeared persons, people's Rights Movement, Jammu and Kashmir Hussaine trust, VIVA Kashmir, including scholars and noted journalist of Kashmir.

Imprisoning Kashmir

The military siege can not be called peace
By Majid Maqbool

It's a quiet afternoon of yet another curfewed day in Kashmir. On the fourth consecutive day of one of the recently imposed curfews, we drive out of our home. An eerie silence on the road is broken by the noise of an occasional military vehicle that drives past us.

A close relative, whose son is More

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The stones on our streets

By Majid Maqbool

Street is the home of stones. Streets can be occupied, but stones are free to be picked up by people, and angrily flung in the air, in protest. In the hands of the oppressed, once pelted, the stones deliver a message for the oppressor: while you kill with all your weapons, I'm not going to keep quiet More

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Tufail, we remember you

Majid Maqbool

Dear Tufail,

The killing didn't stop with you. Even as we were mourning your loss, we lost two more boys. We are not even allowed to mourn properly now. We are unable to comprehend this quiet, oppressing annihilation.

The funeral processions of our youth get fired upon, and more funerals of the More

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An Open Letter to the 'Chief Minister'

Majid Maqbool

Dear Chief Minister,

You must have seen the latest picture of Kashmir. Tufail, a 12th standard student, is lying dead in a police control room in Srinagar. If you look closely, his eyes are half open in the picture, arms folded in a position as if he's praying against death, still hoping for life More

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The US Treasury department targeted three senior leaders of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba by designating them as global terrorists. The two terror groups receive support from Pakistan's military and intelligence service.

Today under Executive Order 13224, the Treasury added Massod Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders Azam Cheema, a top military commander, and Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, a political official, to the list of specially designated global terrorists. The designation allows the US to freeze the assets of the Pakistani Taliban and its two senior leaders, prevent them from using financial institutions, and prosecute them for terrorist activities.

The Lashkar-e-Taiba has launched multiple terror attacks against India, including the 2008 terror assault on the city of Mumbai which killed 165 civilians and Indian security forces. The Jaish-e-Mohammed has also participated in multiple terror attacks in India. Operating together, the two terror groups executed the December 2001 terror assault on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. And both groups carry out attacks against Coalition and Afghan forces in Afghanistan, and serve as al Qaeda affiliates in the region.

Pakistan has refused to crack down on home grown terror groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, despite their covert and overt support for al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other terror groups. Inside Pakistan's military and intelligence services, the real powers in Pakistan, groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba are seen as "strategic depth" against India, and are used as instruments of foreign policy.

Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba who has been designated by the US and the UN as a terrorist, remains a free man in Pakistan despite openly supporting jihad in both India and Pakistan, and his group's involvement in Mumbai and other terror attacks. Pakistani Army corps commanders, one of the senior-most positions in the military, openly cavort with Saeed.

Maulana Masood Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (right).

Massod Azhar

Azhar is a long-time jihadi who trained at the same religious seminary as Afghanistan Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Azhar was released from an Indian jail in exchange for hostages held in an Indian Airlines flight hijacking in December 1999. Azhar's brother, Mohammed Ibrahim Athar Alvi, took part in the hijacking.

Azhar established Jaish-e-Mohammed the next year as an offshoot of the Harkat-ul-Ansar (or Harkat-ul-Mujahideen), one of many terror groups created with the help of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence agency to fight the Indians in India-occupied Kashmir.

Jaish-e-Mohammed was implicated along with the Lashkar-e-Taiba as being behind the Dec. 13, 2001, attack on the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi. In October 2001, the US added Jaish-e-Mohammed as a foreign terrorist organization. In 2002, Sheikh Ahmed Saeed Omar, a close associate of Azhar, was behind the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Azhar has been in Pakistani detention at least three times in the past decade. He was briefly detained after the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, but was cleared of charges by a court in Lahore. Pakistani police detained Azhar after the 2003 assassination attempts against then-President Pervez Musharraf, but freed him months later. And in December 2008, in the wake of the Mumbai terror assault, Pakistan placed Azhar under house arrest (the government later denied this, it is thought he was placed under house arrest then quietly freed). He is since thought to have fled to South Waziristan and may now be based in North Waziristan along with many of his followers.

Azhar and Jaish-e-Mohammed have been openly recruiting Pakistanis to fight in Afghanistan, according to the US Treasury. "In 2008, JEM recruitment posters in Pakistan contained a call from Azhar for volunteers to join the fight in Afghanistan against Western forces," Treasury stated.

Azam Cheema

Cheema is the commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba's Indian operations branch, known as the Dasta Mohammad bin Qasim. He is believed to have been a critical member of the team that planned and prepared the 2008 Mumbai assault.

"Cheema has also been described as LET's surveillance or intelligence chief and has been involved in LET's training activities, specifically training LET members in bomb making and skills needed to infiltrate India," Treasury stated. "The cell that carried out the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India received some of their training from Cheema. He is also reported to have been involved in the July 2006 Mumbai train bombings perpetrated by LET."

He was the "former LET commander for Bahawalpur, Punjab Province, Pakistan," and was "appointed to be an operations advisor to LET senior leader Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who was also previously designated by the UN 1267 Committee. As of 2004, Cheema was identified as being responsible for LET's external operational planning."

In December 2008, India demanded that Cheema, Lakhvi, Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Hafiz Saeed, and a host of other terrorists based in Pakistan be turned over by the Pakistani government. The request was refused.

Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki

In late 2008, Makki was appointed by Saeed as the chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba's "political affairs department" as well as the head of the " foreign relations department."

Makki is also a prolific financier for the terror group.

"Makki has also played a role in raising funds for LET. In early 2007, he gave approximately $248,000 to an LET training camp and approximately $165,000 to an LET-affiliated madrassa," Treasury stated.

For more on the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate' involvement with Pakistani terror groups, see Pakistan's Jihad.

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By AP MUMBAI, India (AP) — India's benchmark Sensex index closed at a record high Thursday, after the Federal Reserve's decision to buy $600 billion in government bonds to shore up the United States recovery drove a surge of foreign investment into ...

Sensex hits 52-week high on global cues, Coal India listing

NDTV.com - Varun Sinha - ‎4 hours ago‎
The markets are trading near the 52-week high. In the afternoon trade, the Sensex rose 372 points 20838 and the Nifty advanced 103 points to 6263. In intraday trade, the Sensex hit the 52-week high of 20863 today. However, this is still far from the ...

Asian stocks cheered by US easing

Financial Times - Dave Shellock - ‎2 hours ago‎
Asian stocks climbed to their highest levels in more than two years as investors across the region greeted the US Federal Reserve's decision to expand its quantitative easing policy with alacrity. Mumbai leapt to a record closing high ...

Coal India surges 40 pct in sparkling Diwali debut. Full Article

Reuters India - Rupak De Chowdhuri - ‎5 hours ago‎
The Federal Reserve launched a new policy committing to buy $600 billion more in government bonds. Full Article Harry Potter fans, black magic decimating India's owls. Full Article COLUMN: Obama visit to India: one quill at a time? ...

Sensex, Nifty rally over 20.5% since previous Diwali

Moneycontrol.com - ‎5 hours ago‎
It has been a good journey for the markets since previous Diwali; Indian equity benchmarks outperformed global markets on the back of strong flow of money from foreign investors. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed at all-time high while the 50-share NSE ...
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	Diwali comes to market early, Sensex zooms 428 pts to new peak ‎1 hour ago‎ - Economic Times
	What are the key challenges for Coal India ahead? ‎8 hours ago‎ - Moneycontrol.com
	Sensex spurts 400 pts; Oil & gas, metal rally ‎9 hours ago‎ - Myiris.com
	Sensex in Diwali mode after Coal India makes stellar debut ‎13 hours ago‎ - NDTV.com
	Nifty tops 6200 on global cues, Coal India makes a stellar debut ‎14 hours ago‎ - NDTV.com
	Coal India expected to list above Rs 300 tomorrow: Experts ‎Nov 3, 2010‎ - Moneycontrol.com

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Dollar Weakens, Euro Rises as Fed Purchases Boost Higher-Yielding Assets

Bloomberg - Lukanyo Mnyanda - ‎16 minutes ago‎
The dollar fell against its higher- yielding peers after the Federal Reserve said it will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries to boost the US economy. The Dollar Index slumped to its weakest ...

WORLD FOREX: Dollar Drops On QE - And New QE Fears

Wall Street Journal - Andrew J. Johnson - ‎12 minutes ago‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Investors bolted the dollar Thursday, believing the Federal Reserve's bond-buying plan can hurt the greenback now--and later. Investors instead sought out other currencies with higher ...

Dollar Declines on Fed Purchases; Euro Jumps After ECB Holds Lending Rate

Bloomberg - Allison Bennett, Lukanyo Mnyanda - ‎47 minutes ago‎
The dollar fell against most of its major peers as the European Central Bank signaled it likely will stick with its stimulus-exit strategy even as the Federal Reserve buys $600 ...

European Government Bonds Fall on Fed QE; Irish Debt Slides an Eighth Day

Bloomberg - Keith Jenkins - ‎2 hours ago‎
European bonds fell, led by thirty- year securities, after the Federal Reserve announced it would buy $600 billion in Treasuries and focus its purchases on medium-term debt to stimulate the economy. ...

Treasurys Up On Fed Plan; 10-Year TIPS Sold At Record-Low Yield

Wall Street Journal - Min Zeng - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Treasurys rose Thursday as investors were heartened by the Federal Reserve's $600 billion government-bond buying plan and a weak labor market report. Treasurys extended Wednesday's rally after ...

WORLD FOREX: Euro Rises At Dollar's Expense; But Ireland Woes Limit Gains

Wall Street Journal - Andrew J. Johnson - ‎3 hours ago‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Investors fled the dollar Thursday, sending it sharply lower in the wake of the Federal Reserve's announced bond buying plan that will keep US Treasury yields low indefinitely. ...

Treasurys Rally On Fed Buying Plan, Data; 30-Year Lags Behind

Wall Street Journal - Min Zeng - ‎4 hours ago‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Treasury prices rose Thursday, boosted by the Federal Reserve's $600 billion government-debt purchases plan and a weak labor market report. At the peak of the buying, the five-year-note yield hit a record low of 1.016% ...

10-Year Treasury Futures Soar To Contract High On Fed Purchases

Wall Street Journal - Howard Packowitz - ‎4 hours ago‎
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--The price for December 10-year Treasury note futures climbed to a contract high Thursday morning, a day after the policy-making arm of the Federal Reserve announced it would expand ...

US Stocks Soar On Fed Optimism; Materials, Energy Lead

Wall Street Journal - Steven Russolillo - ‎38 minutes ago‎
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--US stocks rallied to a two-year high as investors cheered the Federal Reserve's latest effort to stimulate the struggling economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up 175 ...

Analysis: Fed easing burnishes already lustrous gold

Reuters - Jan Harvey - ‎2 hours ago‎
LONDON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's $600 billion quantitative easing package has reinforced the medium-term argument for holding gold, as it pushes the dollar firmly onto a downward path and raises the risk of inflation. ...
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	WORLD FOREX: Dollar Drops On QE - And New QE Fears ‎12 minutes ago‎ - Wall Street Journal
	WORLD FOREX: Fed Move Whacks Dollar Lower Across The Board ‎7 hours ago‎ - Wall Street Journal
	Treasury 30-Year Bonds Tumble as Fed Purchases Other Securities ‎Nov 3, 2010‎ - BusinessWeek
	Quantitative easing: What does the Fed's latest move mean for you? ‎Nov 3, 2010‎ - WalletPop (blog)
	Fed to Buy $600 Billion of Treasurys ‎Nov 3, 2010‎ - Wall Street Journal
	Dollar Gains for Third Day Versus Yen Before Decision by Fed ‎Nov 3, 2010‎ - BusinessWeek
	Dollar falls ‎Nov 2, 2010‎ - MarketWatch

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