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Prasad like the writer you are focusing on one part of the message. Look at his lament on his birth in that religion.
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It should also be seen in the context of lamentation by a TFTA visiting the Museum in NY and not able to claim thousands of years of inheritance just because there is partition . This undercurrent of rethinking process needs strengthening. Contrast needs to be enhanced.

They should also reflect on the fact of forced conversion of their ancestors has got them nothing but misery and violence . Indic dharma should think on providing a return path to the fallen.
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Decline and demise of Kashmir prominent families

Changing Times
Srinagar, 30 November 2011: Who could have imagined that the Abdullahs would remain afloat in politics, the Mirwaiz's would make good in politics-cum-religion and that some of the great old Kashmiri business families would sink and be replaced by boors? Yes, times have changed in Kashmir.

When Farah Pandith became the United States' first special representative to Muslim communities in 2009, her family was animatedly discussed in Kashmir's small and intimate social circles. Following the death of Farah's grandfather, Abdul Samad Pandith, the once popular Pandith family was pushed into oblivion.

The Pandith family of Sopore led in business. Abdul Samad Pandith started Kashmir's first cinema hall, Samad Talkies. The popularity of the family, however, grew with the generous and kind deeds of Abdul Samad Pandith.

"Samad Pandith was one of Kashmir's finest persons," says his friend and eminent writer Zareef Ahmad Zareef. "One of the richest persons of the Valley, he would spare no opportunity to help the needy."

Samad Pandith arranged marriages for poor girls and supported scores of families across the Valley. "He was called "Hatim Ti" of Kashmir because of his extremely generous nature," says Ahmad Zareef.

Samad Pandith went bankrupt and his children scattered around the world. The Pandiths like other old families of Kashmir enjoy no salience now. Economic growth and spread of education has arisen new unknown clans that have eclipsed the former ruling class.

"Just forty years ago," says historian Fida Hassnain, "Kashmir was a small place with a countable number of educated people and rich families. Every sphere of life, be it education, the bureaucracy, business or politics, was dominated by a handful of families."

In politics, Kashmir was dominated by the Abdullah, Mirwaiz and Bakshi families. And in business and the bureaucracy, the powerful surnames were Wazir, Agha, Ashai, Aamla, Dhar, Chopra, Mattoo, Jalali, and Pandith.

Agha Ashraf Ali, in his eighties, an educationist and writer, recounts the glorious days of his family when the Maharaja ruled Kashmir. "My great grandfather, Agha Hakeem, was the royal physician of Maharaja Ranbir Singh. He was succeeded by his son."

The Agha family produced Kashmir's first matriculate, Khan Bahadur Agha Syed Hussain. "My maternal grandfather was the first matriculate of Kashmir," Agha Ashraf says. "He travelled for twelve days to Rawalpindi to appear for his exams. He was a judge and minister."

The Maharaja connection extends to the Wazir family of Kishtwar as well. The family were wazirs of the Maharaja. They controlled the state administration for long years.

"My father, Jankinath Wazir, was the chief justice of Kashmir," says Widur Wazir, who is a contractor. His uncles served as governor of Ladakh and heads of the police force and state treasury. The Wazirs left Kashmir after the troubles although they own properties and pay occasional visits.

The Chopras are another well-known family of Kashmir. Colonel Ram Nath Chopra fought in World War I and was the first Kashmiri to be knighted. He set up several drug research laboratories. "His sons are settled outside Kashmir but his daughter comes here," says Widur.

Perhaps the best known of the Kashmiri Pandit families is that of the Dhars, who migrated from the Valley in 1989. The most prominent of them is Durga Dass Dhar (D.P.Dhar), a politician.

D.P.Dhar joined the Quit Kashmir Movement launched by Sheikh Abdullah against Maharaja Hari Singh in 1946. He served under Sheikh Abdullah and rose to become Union planning minister.

Compared to these exalted families, the case of the Abdullahs is curious. Sheikh Abdullah had no political lineage to speak of. His father was a small manufacturer and trader of Kashmiri arts. :mrgreen:

Sheikh Abdullah's wife was half-European. He started out as a teacher. He built his career on opposing the Maharaja's rule and floated his own political party, the National Conference, in 1952.

Abdullah strode like a political colossus over the state and was popularly called Sher-e-Kashmir (Lion of Kashmir). He was succeeded by his flamboyant if ineffective son, Farooq. Now Farooq's son, Omar Abdullah, continues tenuous dynastic rule in the state.

Like the Abdullahs, the Mirwaiz clan also maintains its decades' old political prominence, although the following of both families has sharply declined over the years. The Mirwaiz's hail from Hamadan in Iran and have been clerics for generations.

Maulavi Farooq was the first in the family to enter politics. He was assassinated in 1990 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son, Umar Farooq. Umar heads his father's political party, the Awami Action Committee.

The decline of the Bakshi political family, however, has been the most precipitous. Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad led the state from 1953 to 1964 when Sheikh Abdullah was jailed. He was an able administrator and remembered as the architect of modern Kashmir.

"After my uncle, Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, stepped down as chief minister, no one joined politics from our family," says Anwar Bakshi, a businessman. Distrust of the Centre was at the root of it, he says. The Bakshi family has branched out into business with no stakes in politics.

The decline of the old families and the rise of the new have inevitably provoked discontent. "The old families had culture and upbringing," says Anwar Bakshi. "Today's upstarts are literate but not educated in their minds. They are rude and lack values." :mrgreen:

Agha Ashraf sees the emergence of a brash class as a worldwide phenomenon but still cannot reconcile to its boorishness. "What is appalling is the changed attitude," he says. "The newly educated and moneyed families lack humility and decency."

For Widur Wazir, the secular feeling is missing. "I would say Kashmir has been India's most secular state," he remarks. "But today's generation, which is educated, rich and successful, lacks that sense of secularism."
I guess Kashmir reflects the national scene where except for the Nehru-Gandhi family all others are in decline or completely out of prominence and are replaced by boors like Doggy Singh.

In a way its the old notables yielding place to new ones due to politicial patronage.
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The names are very interesting. I wonder if they have some kind of family history written down.
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ramana wrote:Decline and demise of Kashmir prominent families

Changing Times
Thanks for posting this.

A pretty accurate article though I can notice a couple of discrepancies.

My family, which is not mentioned in the article :mrgreen: was pretty much close to all the Punjabis like the Chopras and Aamlas, the Dogras like the Wazir family and also to the Bakshi family (who were progressive Punjabi Muslims originally).

Ah those were the days sitting on the Pier of the Srinagar Club over the Jhelum sipping cold beer from the bar which was also on the pier, watching life pass by on the Zero Bridge with the Zabarwan in the background. ( I talking from my Dads perspective as I was too young to drink those days ).
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Why is this man going apesheet since Mansoor Ijaz got associated with memo gate? Reading his statements since that time gives an impression that he is trying hard to dissociate himself from MI. The report also links Mansoor Ijaz with Khalid Khwaja.

If true, this validates Hamid Mir's (HM) scandalous phone call to Hakimullah linking Khalid Khwaja (KK) to Mansoor Ijaz while KK was kidnapped and a few days later KK's bullet ridden body was found.

I suspect jihadi's getting doubts about their leaders.

Mansoor Ijaz met me twice: Hizbul Mujahideen chief says Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin.
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If you live in US, write to your Congressman and Senators demanding that Mansour Ijaz register as a foreign agent as the US laws require. This has to be a showdown.

in fact this guy is more of a terrorist supporter than Ghulam Nabi Fai!
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Protesters defy Srinagar curfew
However, in the afternoon, a group of mourners defied the police restrictions and assembled at Jehangir Chowk. As the mourners marched ahead, the police and CRPF resorted to cane-charge and fired tear smoke shells to disperse the mourners. More than two dozen mourners were injured in the police action while several of them were detained by the police.

Resisting the police action, the mourners marched ahead and when they reached Maisuma — the stronghold of pro-independence leader Yasin Malik — they were joined by more youth. When the police again tried to stop the mourners using tear smoke shells, they pelted stones at the police and CRPF.
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The situation in J&K is normal. I think we should withdraw our army.
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abhishek_sharma wrote:The situation in J&K is normal. I think we should withdraw our army.
To show enormous goodwill, it should start with the withdrawal of omar abdullah first.
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abhishek_sharma wrote:The situation in J&K is normal. I think we should withdraw our army.
I will remain mentally abnormal for a while .
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Why are Moharram processions banned in Srinagar ?
This is conspiracy of hindu India against the peace loving Muslims of the valley..Oh wait! KV has been ruled by Muslim CM's since 1999 by PDP,NC an Congress...err... oops! Someone change the topic quick...
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Better yet try NDTV, CNN style and DDM style, Ignore all such attrocities in Kashmir, POK and Pakistan. Only Gujarat and C'Garh have violence.
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J&K Minister's house attacked
Unidentified militants on Sunday attacked a house the senior National Conference leader and Minister for Law and Rural Development Ali Mohammad Sagar visited in Srinagar downtown. He and his son, former Mayor Salman Sagar, escaped unhurt.

Informed sources said that Mr. Sagar and his son visited a relative in Nawab Bazaar area to attend a family function. Soon after his arrival the militants came to the area and opened fire.

His security guards retaliated and soon there was intense exchange of fire which left at least five people injured. Later one of his guards Gulzar Ahmad died of injuries. Others were rushed to the hospital and are being treated.

When contacted a police officer said that nothing could be said at this stage. “We will investigate the case,” he said.

However, he confirmed that one policeman died in the attack. Police have launched a manhunt to nab the attackers.
Shady stuff....maybe some payments/deal gone bad.
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VikasRaina wrote:Why are Moharram processions banned in Srinagar ?
This is conspiracy of hindu India against the peace loving Muslims of the valley..Oh wait! KV has been ruled by Muslim CM's since 1999 by PDP,NC an Congress...err... oops! Someone change the topic quick...

The main reason is that the Majority sunni majority Kashmiris do not allow the minority shias to take out Moharram processions, as simple as that. Moharram processions are not banned in any other part of India.
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The reign of terror that TSP started has taken the life of another innocent brave civilian. Shame on TSP and the so called separatists. Its time that the people wake up to the real villains and demand justice, nothing can be a more costly wake up call than this.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... shopkeeper
Stone-pelters kill shopkeeper in Kashmir
TNN Dec 14, 2011, 06.10PM IST

SRINAGAR: A shopkeeper who was beaten by stone-pelters, for defying their dictates two weeks ago in Kashmir, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.

Son of Abdul Salaam Bhat, 24 years old Tariq Ahmad Bhat, a shopkeeper in Nowhatta, was severely beaten by a group of stone-pelters on Saturday, December 3, 2011, when he defied their dictate to shut down his shop.

A group of miscreants pelted stones on shopkeepers in Gojwara, Nowhatta to enforce a shut down on December. The shopkeeper, Tariq Ahmad Bhat objected to their dictates and refused to close his shop. The mob pelted stones on his shop and severely beat him with a cricket bat. He suffered serious head injuries and was shifted to SKIMS, Soura for treatment, where he succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.

Police Station Nowhatta registered an FIR and arrested four stone pelters involved in the killing of the shopkeeper.
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Dipanker wrote:The main reason is that the Majority sunni majority Kashmiris do not allow the minority shias to take out Moharram processions, as simple as that. Moharram processions are not banned in any other part of India.
The media's claims of secularism is hollow for not pointing this out too well. Shame on pseudo-secular media and all those who pass of the same media as secular.
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Dipanker wrote:
VikasRaina wrote:Why are Moharram processions banned in Srinagar ?
This is conspiracy of hindu India against the peace loving Muslims of the valley..Oh wait! KV has been ruled by Muslim CM's since 1999 by PDP,NC an Congress...err... oops! Someone change the topic quick...

The main reason is that the Majority sunni majority Kashmiris do not allow the minority shias to take out Moharram processions, as simple as that. Moharram processions are not banned in any other part of India.
::nitpick:: Moharram processions are pretty restricted elsewhere as well.For example, Shia dominated Lucknow has not been able to carry out the processions with the same rigor as well since 1990.

Also, there is a violent incident with one or more critical injuries reported there every year on the occasion.A recent proposal by the state govt. to lift the restrictions was scuttled, due to protests from minority Sunnis.
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3 CRPF jawans killed, one injured in fratricide incident in J-K
Three CRPF jawans were killed and another injured in a fratricide incident, the first of this year in the force in the Kashmir Valley, at a camp in south Kashmir's Kulgam district, police said today.

Firing shots were heard inside the barrack of 18th Battalion CRPF at Kulgam town, 75 km from here, at around 10.45 pm on Saturday night, a senior police officer said.

Head Constables Suman Pillay and P Sibbu died on the spot while S D Murthy and Javed Hussain (same rank) were critically injured in the firing incident.

Hussain, who had sustained injuries from bullets and a sharp-edged weapon, later succumbed while being shifted to a hospital here, the officer said.

All the four jawans were posted as drivers in the force.

Superintendent of Police Kulgam Maqsood-uz-Zaman said the other jawans, who were present inside the barrack at the time of incident, have been detained for questioning.
This is the first incident of fratricide in CRPF this year in the Kashmir Valley.
Seems like physiological training for the troops posted there seems to be working since having just this 1 incident in whole year is no mean feat given that this was a monthly affair till last year!!
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Kashmiri separatist clergyman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq launches radical website to prevent conversions


SRINAGAR: To prevent religious "apostasy" and conversions among Kashmiri Muslims, the Valley's top clergyman and separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has launched an orthodox Islamic website.

The site http://www.tahafuzeiman.org called as Council for Protection of Faith has been set by Majlis Tahaffuz-e-Imaan (committee for protection of faith). The site states that the committee was formed in November 2011 "after numerous cases of apostasy came into light" and "to thwart nefarious designs of pervasive forces and the deep rooted conspiracy of making youth apostate and defectors by giving them concessions and benefits secretly."

Police arrested a pastor, MC Khanna on the charges of converting several Kashmiri youth to Christianity last month. Khanna was forced to leave the Valley after getting a bail from a local court. It is this incident that led to Kashmir's Muslim clergymen setting up a front against conversions.

Chairman of Hurriyat conference Mirwaiz said that the site was launched because there was a need to use technology and modern equipment for countering conversion attempts. Mirwaiz who is also president of Mutahida Majlis Amal, the conglomerate of several Islamic groups expressed serious concern over the activities of Christian missionaries in the valley and stressed the need for Baitul Maal (fund raising ) committees to help and support needy people.

The site, he said was aimed to protect and imbibe Islamic values besides checking the conversion of young boys and girls. As such, the site warns Kashmiri Muslims not to attend new year functions. "It is un-Islamic to celebrate New Year and the Muslims should in very way refrain from attending the functions related to this event," the site preaches.

The Mirwaiz also alleged that the state government was secretly issuing licenses for sale of liquor in Kashmir. He said vested interests in the government were hatching conspiracies to allure Kashmiri youth to social evils like liquor. The clergyman also stressed the need to strength the religious institutions and Islamic banking. He urged Reserve Bank of India to allow Islamic banking in Jammu and Kashmir owing to its Mulsim majority character.
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Lots of people kicking off over CISF shooting a protestor at the gates of NHPC complex. 5 CISF personel arrested over the incident.
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shyamd wrote:Lots of people kicking off over CISF shooting a protestor at the gates of NHPC complex. 5 CISF personel arrested over the incident.
CISF is not covered by ASFPA and firing without Magistrate or area jurisdiction (i.e. within the campus) is not allowed and amounts to murder. Hence they would be in deep trouble.
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^^^^^^^

So, the MHA's shenanigans to snare in the Army by repealing the AFSPA comes back to bite one of its forces! The poor CISF jawans are now caught in the crossfire. Would be interesting to hear Chidambaram's and Pillai's spin now...
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Unfortunately , we put jawans in harms way both hands bound and asking them to protect Industrial installations. The least that could be done is to give powers of Executive Magistrate to senior officers just as in cases where Police officers are designated Commissioners.
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Unfortunately, Indian paramilitary and military soldiers are only taught how to shoot people. Policing is more than shooting.

The CISF should have called the police immediately and ONLY if the protestors were going to break into the power plant should the CISF have resorted to firing. Unfortunately, this incident - according to media reports, shows that live fire was not warranted.

Perhaps CISF and other paramilitaries in the valley should all carry one cartridge of rubber bullets for such exigencies. Also, grenade launchers should be made more widely available for their rifles along with 20mm tear gas rounds (apart from regular grenade rounds should the need arise!).

The entire country faces sever power shortages, this kind of behavior from the Kashmiris is ridiculous and they should be castigated in the media as being greedy and childish for making unreasonable demands.
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Unfortunately, this incident - according to media reports, shows that live fire was not warranted.
Honestly, knowing the DDM and their sympathies towards poor stone throwing, tax money munching Kashmiri awaam, would wait for the CISF version of the events that unfolded.
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Brando wrote:Unfortunately, Indian paramilitary and military soldiers are only taught how to shoot people. Policing is more than shooting.

The CISF should have called the police immediately and ONLY if the protestors were going to break into the power plant should the CISF have resorted to firing. Unfortunately, this incident - according to media reports, shows that live fire was not warranted.

Perhaps CISF and other paramilitaries in the valley should all carry one cartridge of rubber bullets for such exigencies. Also, grenade launchers should be made more widely available for their rifles along with 20mm tear gas rounds (apart from regular grenade rounds should the need arise!).

The entire country faces sever power shortages, this kind of behavior from the Kashmiris is ridiculous and they should be castigated in the media as being greedy and childish for making unreasonable demands.
Have you ever been on the other side of a riot?? The time it takes from a peaceful one to a violent one is very short.
What is the response time of the strength of police required?

What was the strength of CISF at the location? What was the mob size? CISF usually doesnt have a good intelligence wing, it is the local police duty to anticipate them.
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Virupaksha wrote: Have you ever been on the other side of a riot?? The time it takes from a peaceful one to a violent one is very short.
What is the response time of the strength of police required?

What was the strength of CISF at the location? What was the mob size? CISF usually doesnt have a good intelligence wing, it is the local police duty to anticipate them.
Well, as it has already been pointed out, the CISF version of events is still not known. However, with Kashmiri sensitivities being what they are, the local police ought to have been involved from the start! For the protest to have been carried out they would need police permission. Doing so without informing the police is a crime and the police can be called for that alone and the protest broken up! Further, if the local police had given them permission, they would have been aware and anything that happens could be blamed on them for not taking care of security after being aware of the issue instead of the CISF – keeping Delhi clear of any blame.
The main problem is that the Kashmiris (especially the local rabble-rousers and Paki agents) see this as Indians killing Kashmiris, as CISF is a central police force and not a local force. If the J&K police were to inxtall a heavy machine gun at the gate and pump lead into the protestors it would only be a “law and order” problem, now it’s turned into some sort of rallying cry and political circus against “Indians”.
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Unfortunately, Indian paramilitary and military soldiers are only taught how to shoot people. Policing is more than shooting.

The CISF should have called the police immediately and ONLY if the protestors were going to break into the power plant should the CISF have resorted to firing. Unfortunately, this incident - according to media reports, shows that live fire was not warranted.
Brando,

You are not getting off so easy, explain especially the bolded part and the next sentence.
the CISF version of events is still not known.
So knowing explicitly that you do not have CISF side of story, you have called ALL the Indian paramilitary units- BSF,CRPF, CISF, RPF, RAF and the Indian army as knowing only to shoot people.
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chaanakya wrote:CISF is not covered by ASFPA and firing without Magistrate or area jurisdiction (i.e. within the campus) is not allowed and amounts to murder. Hence they would be in deep trouble.
How about rights of self defence? I know this would be a tough thing to prove. And the media any way is with the freeboarding experts i.e the Kashmiris. But is a man in uniform such a sad case that any body has the rights to kill him (while he is not allowed to use at least the same amount of force back)?
Brando wrote:The entire country faces sever power shortages, this kind of behavior from the Kashmiris is ridiculous and they should be castigated in the media as being greedy and childish for making unreasonable demands.
In the present situation I dont think this would work out. Or media like Facebook or other popular sites should be used to clearly show the picture of a riot-mongering Kashmiri. That is they are a group of people who are eating away tax payer's money are champions in freeloading and have a feeling that the rest of the country should feed them for ever.
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^^ you said yourself. For men in uniform with loaded weapons and training etc this would be the last justification unless Crowd fired , arson , property damage inside or one of them got seriously injured or died. Remember ASPuar's comment in another thread. Tough call.
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The distorted truth. Malicious report of a so-called Kashmiri Human Rights group
This is not the first time such propaganda has been unleashed by “human rights groups” in Kashmir. Such propaganda has been unleashed incessantly over the last two decades to provide canon-fodder to the separatists and their sympathizers in their anti-India tirade. Of course, many foreign journalists (including those based in India) fall easy prey to such propaganda.
A friend provided this blogger a list of incidents from April to July in 2011 which have been overlooked by the report. (If anyone has a list for the complete year of 2011, he or she may leave the list/ link in the comments section.)

April 9: Militants shot dead 42 year old Abdul Rehman at Badergund, Ganderbal.
April 10: Militants kills 20 year old youth Sajad Ahmad dar at Sopore.
April 16: 46 year-old Hasina Begum shot dead for participating in elections. (Many liberals often lament the so called absence of democracy in Kashmir. This is what happens to those who support democracy)
April 25: Militants kills 30 yr-old Mohammad Ashraf Dar at Rafiabad, Baramulah.
April 28: Bus driver who was attacked by stone pelters, succumbs; accused arrested. (Another manifestation of how separatists allow democracy to thrive in Kashmir. His only mistake was he ferried those employees who were on polling duties during Panchayat elections)
April 30: Militants kill 20 yr-old Shamsudin Mir at Sopore.
May 2: IED planted by militants kills a street vendor at Udhampur.
May 10: Election candidate shot at by militants at Sopore. ( Another one for “Democracy”)
May 17: Sarpanch shot dead by militants at Sopore.
May 20: Lashkar terrorists behead pro-Democratic worker Abdul Gani Rather in Kishtawar district.
May 28: A father and son duo, Ghulam Hassan Mir and Manzoor Ahmad, killed by militants at Bowan, Handwara.
June 6: Militant shoots dead a man, Afzal Khan of Sopore, near Lal Chowk area of Srinagar.
June 7: Militants shot dead a cop, Manzoor Ahmad at Sopore.
June 15: Manzoor Ahmed Dar shot dead by militants at Shopian.
June 27: Militants shot dead Muhammad Yaqoob, 50, at Najwan.
July 25: Militants shot dead Mohsin Ahmed Wani, 35, son of Manzoor Ahmed of Jalalabad, Sopore.
July 28: Militants kill a man, Mohammad Ashraf Sheikh in Sopore, Kashmir

These, and there are many more unfortunate Kashmiris, for whom no petitions will be signed nor will any protests be staged. Their names will not be found on any list released by a Human Rights group. No celebrated ‘Kashmiri’ writers sitting in foreign lands and writing about conflict in Kashmir will highlight this aspect. No candle-light protests will be organised to lament their death.
The reason is simple. The Kashmir conflict has created a whole industry, both inside and outside Kashmir, whose livelihood and importance is dependent on keeping the conflict and its memories alive. They are supported in their cause by many ISI-backed NGOs posing as Human Rights groups in Kashmir. Ghulam Nabi Fai was just one of the more direct and blatant ISI agents. But there are many others who do it surreptitiously and indirectly. Then there are some others who do it without even realising that they are being stringed along by anti-India forces.
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There is an intense cold wave sweeping Kashmir now. Lots of suffering.
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