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https://theprint.in/opinion/kashmiri-pa ... ok/689476/

Kashmiri Pandits facing casual bigotry—from Clubhouse to Facebook. In Kashmir, those who are seen loyal to the Indian State are labeled as ‘informants’, making it easy for Pakistani terror groups to mark them for elimination.

worth reading in full to get the manner in which KMs target minorities
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wig wrote:https://theprint.in/opinion/kashmiri-pa ... ok/689476/

Kashmiri Pandits facing casual bigotry—from Clubhouse to Facebook. In Kashmir, those who are seen loyal to the Indian State are labeled as ‘informants’, making it easy for Pakistani terror groups to mark them for elimination.

worth reading in full to get the manner in which KMs target minorities
What happened to respect the minorities and these shameless people want to get the human rights while living in Hindu majority India. But don't want to do anything with India or to give human rights to minority Hindus living in the Kailash Pradesh.
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https://twitter.com/ajayjandyal/status/ ... 5634071556


Report Jammu Kashmir Police started reactivating the VDCs on border village to counter suspected drones and terror related threats.
wig wrote:https://theprint.in/opinion/kashmiri-pa ... ok/689476/

Kashmiri Pandits facing casual bigotry—from Clubhouse to Facebook. In Kashmir, those who are seen loyal to the Indian State are labeled as ‘informants’, making it easy for Pakistani terror groups to mark them for elimination.

worth reading in full to get the manner in which KMs target minorities
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Did anyone expect anything different from these people?
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Nice. Kandi areas of #Jammu can surely use this water. It is criminal how long it took Indian government to properly make a plan for these rivers.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/ind ... 91964.html

India to divert excess waters under Indus treaty to irrigate own land

India is working on exercising its rights to stop excess water flowing to Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 to irrigate its own lands, Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said.
The move to harvest excess water comes against the backdrop of India working on a plan to divert the waters of Ujh, which is one of the main tributaries of the Ravi river that flows into Pakistan. This is also of strategic importance to India, given that control over river water flow acts as a force multiplier during times of aggression.
“We got the waters of Ravi, Beas and Sutlej; they got the waters of Jhelum, Chenab and Indus. The water of the first three rivers and their tributaries that we get is our absolute right. If we construct irrigation projects on those waters and tap their potential, Pakistan can’t raise a question, which they try to do, but that’s illegal," he added.

With an eye on Pakistan, India is also expediting other strategically important hydropower projects in Jammu and Kashmir such as 850-megawatt (MW) Ratle, 800MW Bursar, 1,000MW Pakal Dul, 624MW Kiru and 540MW Kwar in the Union territory following the reorganization of the terror-hit state.
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https://kashmirobserver.net/2021/07/08/ ... ir-police/
4 Militants Killed In Two South Kashmir Encounters: Police
KO Web Desk | July 8, 2021

Srinagar: Police on Thursday claimed to have killed four militants, three of them from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in two separate encounters in twin districts of Pulwama and Kulgam in south Kashmir.
The gunfights, according to a police spokesperson, broke out during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday after specific inputs about the militants were received.
In Pulwama, the police spokesperson said a cordon and search operation (CASO) was launched during the intervening night by police, army’s 53 RR with the assistance of CRPF personnel from 183 battalion on the basis of specific inputs suggesting presence of militants in Puchal area.
“During the search operation as the presence of militants got ascertained they were given repeated opportunities to surrender, however, they fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated leading to an encounter,” the police spokesperson said.
In the ensuing gun-battle, he said, two militants were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of the encounter.
He identified the duo as Kifayat Ramzan Sofi of Padgampora Awantipora and Inayat Ahmad Dar of Samboora. Sofi was associated with LeT and Dar with the Al-Badr outfit.
In the neighbouring Kulgam district, two more militants were killed in the encounter that erupted during the night hours at a checkpoint, police spokesperson said.
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maha boobi's sense of entitlement is astounding but then again every jehadi in cashmere thinks the same

she thinks that cashmere is her jagir

The Indian taxpayers have to be in the servitude of the jagirdar



4 PDP leaders asked to vacate govt quarters, Mehbooba Mufti writes to L-G alleging 'selective targeting'


Jul 10, 2021

Srinagar: Four leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been asked to vacate their government accommodations in Srinagar.

The leaders include former minister and Pampore MLA Zahoor Mir, former MLA and party’s general secretary Nizamuddin Bhat, former Shopian MLA Yusuf Bhat and DDC member and former MLA Aijaz Mir.

Responding to the decision, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has sought the intervention of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha against the alleged forcible eviction of her party leaders from their government quarters.

The former chief minister warned that she would hold the Lt Governor administration responsible if “anything untoward happens” with them.

She alleged that the administration is selectively targeting PDP leaders and made them vacate their official residences in Srinagar without providing any alternate accommodation.

“I am deeply concerned by the manner in which the administration is selectively targeting PDP leaders and ex-MLAs. At a time when militancy is on the rise yet again, they have been made to vacate their official residences in Srinagar without providing any alternate accommodation,” Mehbooba said in a letter addressed to Sinha.

She further said what makes matters worse is that even after the repeated requests of the party leaders to grant them security in villages where they originally reside, these requests have been “declined”.

“The state administration has cited the presence of militants for their refusal to provide security. But the same administration has no qualms in evicting them from secure government accommodations in Srinagar and deliberately putting them in harm's way,” the PDP chief said in her letter.

The administration has also cancelled residential accommodations of government officials as part of ending the age-old practice of darbar move.
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the gravy train seems to be slowing down

apparently, no previous cashmeri fuddu govt saw anything wrong in employing the sons and family members of a sworn enemy of the Indian state.

the father syed salahudin is the head terrorist and founder of the hizbul mujahideen.

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Out of the 11 employees dismissed, 4 are from Anantnag, 3 from Budgam, 1 each from Baramulla, Srinagar, Pulwama and Kupwara. Out of these, 4 were working in the Education Dept, 2 in J&K Police & 1 each in Agriculture, Skill Development, Power, SKIMS and Health depts: Sources

via@ANI

11 J&K govt employees sacked for terror links includes two teachers from Anantnag found involved in anti-national activities and two police constables who supported provided inside information to the terrorists: Sources
Sons of most wanted terrorist and founder of the terror outfit, Hizbul Mujahideen founder Syed Salahudin among those dismissed from service by J&K govt. Sons, Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Shahid Yousuf were also involved in terror funding: Sources
via@ANI
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https://kashmirpatriot.com/2021/07/09/g ... o-decades/
Govt orders high-level probe into all illegal appointments made in municipal bodies of Kashmir in past two decades
Patriot Monitoring Desk -July 9, 2021

3-member committee of officers to be headed by Director ULB; To submit report within one month
Srinagar : In a significant move, the administration of Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory has ordered a high-level probe into all illegal appointments/ regularisations made in the municipal bodies of Kashmir Valley during the past two decades.
A committee of officers headed by Director Urban Local Bodies Kashmir, Mathoora Masoom has been constituted to inquire into all illegal appointments made in the municipal councils and committees of Kashmir Valley since 2001.
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jamwal wrote:Image
https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/stat ... 40/photo/1
Is this TFR for J&K believable?
I have looked at TFR in India in some detail and it is broadly correct (though data for census of 2001 and 2011 for J&K is sketchy) insofar as
TFR in Kashmir has been falling and falling at a faster rate than rest of India.
Kashmiri women have been marrying when they are older, which reduces fertility. The other factor is increase in female literacy.
Infant mortality has reduced significantly since 2001, which is why the population has increased.
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I can understand a TFR of something close to two like 1.9, but 1.4 seems like fudged data. Majority of people in Kashmir region have a minimum of 2 and in many cases, more than 2 children. Non-muslims rarely have more than 2, but 1.4 means a lot of 1 or 2 children per couple which doesn't seem right.
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With 50% of Afghanistan under Taliban and more areas expected as September draws nearer, can we expect a repeat of activities of the 90s when Afghan Mujahideen were diverted to Kashmir?

Is there any indication in the media or from thinktanks that this might happen?
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Its not like the taliban were short of fighting age young men that they were unable to spare few canon fodder towards the Kashmir cause in the last 20 yrs. Even back in the dark days of 90s and early 2000s most of the militants infiltrating into Kashmir were punjabi pakis with few uzbekis and tajakistanis in the mix. Its a shame because of our short sightedness and bending over backwards in the name of secularism we have been unable to use some of these so called minority run institutes to our advantage. The point i am trying to make is India is home to both darul uloom deoband and sunni barelvi, the taliban are deobandis , if only we could guarantee our investments in afghanistan and work towards defeating our common enemy Pakistan by negotiating and influencing the taliban through the deobandi ulema in India instead of relying on the Qataris we would have been much better of.
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Ambar wrote:Its not like the taliban were short of fighting age young men that they were unable to spare few canon fodder towards the Kashmir cause in the last 20 yrs. Even back in the dark days of 90s and early 2000s most of the militants infiltrating into Kashmir were punjabi pakis with few uzbekis and tajakistanis in the mix. Its a shame because of our short sightedness and bending over backwards in the name of secularism we have been unable to use some of these so called minority run institutes to our advantage. The point i am trying to make is India is home to both darul uloom deoband and sunni barelvi, the taliban are deobandis , if only we could guarantee our investments in afghanistan and work towards defeating our common enemy Pakistan by negotiating and influencing the taliban through the deobandi ulema in India instead of relying on the Qataris we would have been much better of.
Ambar ji, no offence, but that sounds a bit like our good taliban vs your good taliban.
I would rather that happen outside of our soil (support good TSP vs bad TSP) not on our soil where we will have to support the "good taliban" openly.
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Unfortunately the "good taliban" already exists within our border . Both barelvi and deobandi schools of thought originated from India, we have countless seminaries and luminaries both in deobandi and barelvi who can and should be used to our advantage. Why will the Qataris care about our interests ? And how can we control the dialogue sitting in a foreign country ? Instead if Afghanistan's destiny is the taliban then i'd rather have the heads of taliban listen to darul uloom in UP under the supervision of GoI than to some sheikh in Doha representing the Qatari monarchy.
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Sir
Deobandi or Barelvi they still strictly adhere to the : 'Fatwa e Jahandhari'
The final word for the cult is from the Caliph or from some 'Tent in the Desert'!!
Its not like Chini appointing Bishops and Lamas to toe the official line!
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Over the last few years, locals have encroached upon all natural ravines, nallahs etc all over the state. These are mostly seasonal and stay dry except during rainy season. Jammu being on foothills of not so high hills, is right on drainage area of hundreds of such big and small features. Now 2-3 days of rains have brought a bit of water and since it has nowhere to go, it has flooded flat parts of the city. Also the locals keep on throwing trash with reckless abandon everywhere which clogs whatever meagre drainage infrastructure the city has.
Similar thing happened in Srinagar in 2015 (2016?) when whole city went under 3-6 feet of water for dats. One could see the marks on buildings even in 2019. Jammu had a taste of it in 2018, but didn't learn anything.

Instead of acknowledging the problem, everyone is blaming gobarment. I am just waiting for proper rains to start and most parts of city to go under water just like Srinagar.
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jamwal wrote:Over the last few years, locals have encroached upon all natural ravines, nallahs etc all over the state. These are mostly seasonal and stay dry except during rainy season. Jammu being on foothills of not so high hills, is right on drainage area of hundreds of such big and small features. Now 2-3 days of rains have brought a bit of water and since it has nowhere to go, it has flooded flat parts of the city. Also the locals keep on throwing trash with reckless abandon everywhere which clogs whatever meagre drainage infrastructure the city has.
Similar thing happened in Srinagar in 2015 (2016?) when whole city went under 3-6 feet of water for dats. One could see the marks on buildings even in 2019. Jammu had a taste of it in 2018, but didn't learn anything.

Instead of acknowledging the problem, everyone is blaming gobarment. I am just waiting for proper rains to start and most parts of city to go under water just like Srinagar.
Not a single municipal authority in India is prepared for climate change. They simply do not have funds or expertise to manage anything. Most government officials are only there for salary and 10% cut of project funds. Most projects are designed for bureaucracy benefit rather than public benefit. The bureaucrats are set for life and cannot be fired. No wonder there is a mad rush for govt jobs in India. My estimate is less than 60% of project funds are used for project, 10% goes for cut, 10% as interest on working capital, 10% contractor profit, 10% taxes. If you are bidding for a project then you will make loss if you do not take into account the above. Govt officials do not suffer the consequences of not paying contractors on time.
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Ambar wrote:Its not like the taliban were short of fighting age young men that they were unable to spare few canon fodder towards the Kashmir cause in the last 20 yrs. Even back in the dark days of 90s and early 2000s most of the militants infiltrating into Kashmir were punjabi pakis with few uzbekis and tajakistanis in the mix. Its a shame because of our short sightedness and bending over backwards in the name of secularism we have been unable to use some of these so called minority run institutes to our advantage. The point i am trying to make is India is home to both darul uloom deoband and sunni barelvi, the taliban are deobandis , if only we could guarantee our investments in afghanistan and work towards defeating our common enemy Pakistan by negotiating and influencing the taliban through the deobandi ulema in India instead of relying on the Qataris we would have been much better of.
We seem to have this infinite and unbounded belief that "darul uloom deoband" and "sunni barelvi", taliban "good, bad" makes for logic and change in behavior, location is important because of the alleged Indian cultural meme that supposedly influences it.

for more than a thousand years, there is irrefutable evidence that these muzl!mz haven't given a rats about any other "culture" but their own desert cult memes.

They will ally with the enemy (like the cheeni in afghanistan) because taqiya is a sharia sanctioned ploy to fool the enemy and kill them when the opportunity arises.

each Hindu thinks that he/she has found the answer and only he/she knows the truth.

these guys are in India because of gazwa e hind. taqiya is the best way forward for them right now. there is no tolerance or leeway permitted in their 1400 year old narrative. there is no chink in their armor, whereas, the Hindus have no armor because they have no unity.

iran, turkey, saudi, qatar will ally, sunni to shia when they see an advantage because they are, first and foremost, drinking from the same pond which is unmistakably kor@nic in belief, ideological structure and the ever reiterated conviction of sole supremacy and reinforced by repetition five times every day. That focussed narrative hasn't changed an iota in over 1400 years.

So, why do we still insist on being fooled so easily, all the time, by all the muz!imz.

India as always is on the other side of the taqiya equation and will always be, like it has been for over a thousand years. We stayed that long in afghanistan because the afghans allowed us to and mostly because they were fleecing the unbelievably foolish Hindus, who were building dams, roads, hospitals, railways, schools and providing food, all for free in the name of some stoopide "historic ties", exactly like the eyranians fleeced us and there was bugger all we could do or did do when we got kicked out after making investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars. we also have "historic ties" with turkey and eyran and we have made the same mistakes with them too. We had no stake in the afghan pie.

and mind you, we will never learn from our mistakes because each individual Hindu insists on testing relations with turkey, afghanistan and eyran, independently, by himself, just in case the millions of Hindus who had previously tested such relations with the butchers in turkey, afghanistan and eyran had made a mistake.

There are no good or bad taliban, deoband, barelvi or whatever, only foolish, gullible and naive Hindus.

for once, we need to think of ourselves and make preparations to defend the homeland because, for sure, the vengeful blowback will come.

let these other $#%^&*() mofos go and bugger themselves.

we need to understand which BIF(s) conned us and pushed us into afghanistan. That will answer a lot of questions.

BTW, are folks here aware that there is a constant and considerable flow of mullah/maulvi traffic between both the darul uloom deoband and sunni barelvi organisations in India and pakiland for which long term religious visas are easily issued by the GoI even when other visas may not be so easy to come by, even during these wuhan virus times. This has been going on uninterrupted since the independence days

remember the uncounted thousands upon thousands of "jaamatis" thookers who flooded into India, even using the illegal nepal, SL and beedi routes during the shaheenbagh days
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No one is denying that from an Islamic perspective the world is simply binary, i.e. it is divided into darool harb and darool islam, it is true for everyone be it sunni barelvi, sunni deobandi, sunni ahle hadith, shia or anyone who believes in Islam. India has no desire to rule Afghanistan or introduce dharma in that cursed land , but India has invested in Afghanistan and it is better to align with the pashtuns to fight the common enemy pakjabi than for the taliban to align with pakjabis and hurt India's interest in Afghanistan and elsewhere. If all the past governments had the foresight to use many of these islamic theocratic fountainheads in India to our strategic advantage then we wouldn't have to resign to the fate of being dhimmis in our own land. If Rabbis can be arm twisted by the globalists/leftists to criticize Israel and her actions and if the pope can be hammered enough to speak about climate change and lgbtq rights then why can't a darool shaikh or grand mufti sitting in deoband or delhi be used to neutralize Pakistan's influence on the taliban ?
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By her own public admission, even the traitors like mahabooba moofti who have long supported the paki jehadis are afraid of them because they cannot be trusted and she actually fears for her life, and yet, us gullible Hindus are hopeful that shaiks and grand muftis can be arm twisted into helping in neutralizing the paki influence on the taliban.

BTW, didn't the pakis assassinate (or execute, to use a more appropriate word) some "shaiks and grand muftis" types in cashmere in a bid to appear friendly and chummy with the locals.

The ever silent and present mirwaiz would know how the pater was 72ed and there endeth the lesson. Taught and learned or caught and bowled like mahabooba too is similarly fearful of also being 72ed.

how many more centuries will the Hindus continue this farce of hopeful appeasement, that is, if they have the time left to continue it.

how much more damage should the Hindus absorb before they finally realize : Ye sab ek thaili ke chatte batte hain and therefore expecting any gratitude or even understanding and accommodation from this desert cult is like a pie in the sky
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has sought the intervention of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha against the alleged forcible eviction of her party leaders from their government quarters

Srinagar: Four leaders of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have been asked to vacate their government accommodations in Srinagar.

The leaders include former minister and Pampore MLA Zahoor Mir, former MLA and party’s general secretary Nizamuddin Bhat, former Shopian MLA Yusuf Bhat and DDC member and former MLA Aijaz Mir.

Responding to the decision, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti has sought the intervention of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha against the alleged forcible eviction of her party leaders from their government quarters.

The former chief minister warned that she would hold the Lt Governor administration responsible if “anything untoward happens” with them.


https://www.timesnownews.com/india/arti ... l-g/782869


@JAVED0909·20h
Genius of PDP shows it, for the farce it actually is.

1s who urge @narendramodi to talk to Pakistan beg @OfficeOfLGJandK
for occupation of CMs bungalow on "security threat" from militants supported by it?

India won't kill u. Why not write to Pak to let u stay in ur own house!
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4 #PDP leaders asked to vacate govt quarters in #Srinagar, #MehboobaMufti writes to L-G.
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Ambarji
As Chetakji has elucidated quite well, no amount of 'Hammering' will ever get you an iota of rationality from the Grand Mufti/Mullah/Ayotullah.
All you will get is el taqqyiyya and nothing else.
Like Mr Owaisi they always hold a 'Book of Constitution' in one had to talk about rule of law when its suits them but the other hand has 'Kanjar' hidden in the folds for you know what and you know when!
The movement for rationality should begin within the community:
1. look at Arya Samaj or Brahmo Samaj ( and I am not agreeing to RR Roy's real agenda's)
2. Luther and other protesters
3. Even the Shankaracharya's now bat an eyelid about second marriage or widow marriage
With the Parsees even though the code is rigid, there is an in built attitude of philanthropy and leeway that it provides.
When the code is so rigid with in built quest for world dominance and/or total subjugation at any cost, what rationality are you going to bring in!!
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https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news ... -busted-jk
Group behind threatening officers, scribes busted in J&K
Aarish Bilal, July 17, 2021

Srinagar: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested five persons for issuing threats to government officers, journalists, social activists, lawyers and political functionaries through “intimidation machinery kashmirfight.wordpress.com.”
Terming it a “major breakthrough” Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone, Vijay Kumar said that the arrests were made in a “J&K wide operation” during which houses and properties at multiple locations including Sanat Nagar, Raj Bagh and Batpura Hazratbal in Srinagar, Poonch Jammu and Hawal in Pulwama belonging to five persons were searched.
“Armed with search warrants granted by competent court of law, police parties carried out searches of the suspect premises and recovered a large amount of cell phones, digital storage devices and computing platforms,” the top police officer said. “In one house alone, 32 mobile phones, one tablet, two laptops, four hard disk storage devices, seven memory cards and one dongle were seized.”
The arrested persons include Nazish Yasrab Rehmani and Tabish Akbar Rehmani from Sanatnagar, Sofi Mohammad Akbar from Rajbagh, Peerzada Raqif Makhdoomi from Batpora Hazratbal and Javed Khalid from Poonch, he said.
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https://openthemagazine.com/feature/kas ... my-within/

Kashmir: The Enemy Within
The arrest of a senior government functionary in Kashmir reveals the deep penetration of jihadi elements

N JULY 17TH, Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) conducted multiple raids in the Valley and one in the Jammu region. They arrested a man and his several family members on charges of terrorist activities. The man, Mohammed Akbar Sofi, the police said, was behind a notorious blog called kashmirpress.wordpress.com, which had been issuing threats to social activists, journalists, political leaders and others. These included Kashmiri journalist Shujaat Bukhari, killed by terrorists in June 2018. From their houses and other properties, the police recovered more than 30 mobile phones, several laptops and hard disk storage devices.

The blog site used tacit means of targeting selected people in Kashmir. It would publish their names claiming that they worked for Indian intelligence agencies and were ‘enemies’ of the Kashmiri people. In that way, Kashmir’s Inspector-General of Police, Vijay Kumar, said, it would create a ground and provide advance justification for the killing of people like Shujaat Bukhari. Already, three people mentioned on the site in the past have been killed by terrorists—apart from Bukhari, a lawyer called Babar Qadri and a businessman named Satpal Nischal were targeted by terrorists. So far, the blog has published names of 39 people, including 27 journalists.
After the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, many suspected terrorist sympathisers were detained by security agencies. It significantly helped keep the situation in control, which many feared would turn explosive. Later, it turned out that many of those detained were involved in terrorist activities. A young man, Shakir Bashir, whom the National Investigation Agency (NIA) took into custody soon after he was released from the 2019 detention turned out to be the main associate of the Pulwama suicide attack mastermind, Umar Farooq.
In several cases, revealed police sources in Kashmir, some of them managed to convince intelligence agencies that they were assets to them. Sometimes, they may have provided minor or mostly insignificant information but the damage they caused to Delhi’s interests in Kashmir was irreparable.

Take Sofi’s case, for example. It is not known yet if someone considered him an asset, but it is shocking how someone like him remained a part of the system, becoming a senior member of the government in Kashmir, remaining undetected for so many years. “Imagine the kind of harm he would have done in all these years to the Indian state of which he was a part,” said a top police source.
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Drone shot down 6.36 kms inside Indian territory, just 500 meters short of Akhnoor bridge
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Police early today shot down a drone which had flown 6.36 kilometers inside the Indian territory and was just 500 meters short of old Akhnoor bridge at village Gurha Pattan in Kanachak area of this district and recovered powerful five kg Improvised Explosive Device (IED) carried by the flying machine which was meant to cause major terror strike here.

The drone, which was six-winged hexa m-copter had similar threads used by the flying machines which dropped bombs at Indian Air Force (IAF) Station in Satwari in the wee hours of June 27 causing injuries to two IAF personnel and minor damage to the building.
The drone had assembled parts from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan which, according to police officials, is done to scuttle probe to prevent investigators from reaching to the manufacturer by the militants. Drone was sent by the cadre of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit from across the Line of Control (LoC).
The drone was powered by four batteries–each having 25,000 MAH capacity. Three batteries were intact while one had been hit by the bullet and got jammed as a result the drone fell down. The drone was seven feet in diameter.
Significantly, old Akhnoor bridge was just 500 meters short of the site where drone was downed by the police personnel at Gurha Pattan around 1 am today.
Addressing a press conference this morning, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh accompanied by DIG Jammu-Samba-Kathua range Atul Goel and SSP Jammu Chandan Kohli said police had developed specific input that Jaish-e-Mohammed outfit will try to drop payload through drone along the border. Accordingly, an ambush was laid by the cops.
“Movement of the drone was observed when it started coming down to drop the payload and was fired upon by the police personnel to shot it down,” the ADGP Jammu said, adding five kg ready to use IED after fitting wires was recovered from it.
Police teams led by SP Operations Naresh Singh and SDPO Domana Kosheen Koul executed the operation. A Bomb Disposal Squad reached the spot to defuse the IED and see that no more explosive devices are fitted with the drone which had covered a distance of 6.36 kilometers when it was shot down. It was hovering over village Gurha Pattan of Kanachak to drop payload when brought down by firing. Significantly, sources pointed out, the village is just 500 meters from Old Akhnoor bridge.
Mukesh Singh said a major tragedy has been averted with recovery of powerful IED as it had to be planted by the militants somewhere in sensitive area to trigger blast and cause casualties.
“Analysis showed that the drone was six-winged hexa m-copter fitted with Flight Controller and Global Positioning System (GPS). Serial Number of the Flight Controller had difference of one digit from the drone which was shot down in Kathua last year which indicated that the outfits have purchased many Flight Controllers to keep sending the flying machines to this side,” Singh said, adding the drone had been assembled using parts of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Further, the ADGP said, the Strings used in dropping payload were also similar to the ones recovered from crater caused after blast at Indian Air Force Station in Satwari in the wee hours of June 27. This confirms that a drone was used to drop an IED at the Airport, Singh said.
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It might be possible to retrace the drone's path from the data in the flight controller to pinpoint its starting coords. In which case the paki posts in that sector can expect some bakrid treatment.
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https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/newsindi ... ar-AAMwA6n
Terrorist killed in encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, operation underway
Zee News, 24/7/2021

New Delhi: One unidentified terrorist has been killed in the Munand area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district in an encounter with security forces on Sunday (July 25, 2021), informed the Jammu and Kashmir Police. "One unidentified terrorist killed in Kulgam encounter. Search is going on," a police officer said.
An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Sunday morning in Kulgam. The search operation is underway.
"Encounter has started at Munand area of Kulgam. Police and security forces are on the job. One unidentified terrorist was killed. Search going on. Further details shall follow," tweeted Kashmir Zone Police.
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Cyrano wrote:It might be possible to retrace the drone's path from the data in the flight controller to pinpoint its starting coords. In which case the paki posts in that sector can expect some bakrid treatment.
Nearly 6.5 km in indian territory, with a payload load of 5 Kgs.

What's the range of these models (Chinese i presume)?

These could have been launched from within Indian territory as well..

Their list of 500+ is quite impressive - List of unmanned aerial vehicles of China
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https://www.timesnownews.com/india/arti ... rea/789040
Jammu terror bid: Security forces shoot down drone carrying 5 kg payload; probe reveals parts ‘Made in China’
Times Now Bureau, Jul 23, 2021

This is the second time in two consecutive days that alert security forces have intercepted drones near military installations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu: Alert Indian security forces once again thwarted a massive terror bid by Pakistan-backed terrorist groups from across the Line of Control after an explosives-laden drone was shot down in Jammu area.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police informed that the drone, reportedly carrying 5 kilograms of improvised explosive device (IED), was shot down in Kanachak area of Akhnoor.
“We had deployed a team near Akhnoor based on specific information. Around 1 am, a drone was detected. When it was lowered to drop payload, police team started firing and shot it down. The payload weighing around 5 kg was IED in an almost prepared condition. It was a Hexacopter with a flight controller and GPS. Interestingly, the serial number of the flight controller is a digit different from the drone which was found in Kathua last year. This drone is an assembled one with some parts from China, others from Taiwan,” Mukesh Singh, ADGP Jammu zone, said.
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"Managing elections in PoK"

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g.sarkar wrote:https://www.timesnownews.com/india/arti ... rea/789040
Jammu terror bid: Security forces shoot down drone carrying 5 kg payload; probe reveals parts ‘Made in China’
Times Now Bureau, Jul 23, 2021

This is the second time in two consecutive days that alert security forces have intercepted drones near military installations in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jammu: Alert Indian security forces once again thwarted a massive terror bid by Pakistan-backed terrorist groups from across the Line of Control after an explosives-laden drone was shot down in Jammu area.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police informed that the drone, reportedly carrying 5 kilograms of improvised explosive device (IED), was shot down in Kanachak area of Akhnoor.
“We had deployed a team near Akhnoor based on specific information. Around 1 am, a drone was detected. When it was lowered to drop payload, police team started firing and shot it down. The payload weighing around 5 kg was IED in an almost prepared condition. It was a Hexacopter with a flight controller and GPS. Interestingly, the serial number of the flight controller is a digit different from the drone which was found in Kathua last year. This drone is an assembled one with some parts from China, others from Taiwan,” Mukesh Singh, ADGP Jammu zone, said.
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What is stopping us from sending our own drones in POK over terrorist camps? Drop a bomb or two, and this will stop. This is a game two can play. Take the same drones, repair them and let them fly over POK to deliver a couple of IEDs at midnight
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sanjayc wrote: What is stopping us from sending our own drones in POK over terrorist camps? Drop a bomb or two, and this will stop. This is a game two can play. Take the same drones, repair them and let them fly over POK to deliver a couple of IEDs at midnight
We need to show not proportionate but disproportionate response, for this to stop.
Not sure, what the govt is waiting for.
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Sword and shield, while we must definitely work on ways to kill these drones and develop techniques against them. We must rather dropping a few kg explosives, make our drones to penetrate enemy airspace and give really time intelligence on targets like Cellphone tower, electricity nodes , fuel dumps, ammo dumps, Pak army vehicles, missile storage stocks, etc to enable our artillery and mortars to inflict accurate and significant casualties to the enemy.
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https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/lega ... pment-path
Jammu and Kashmir on development path
Ashok Bhan, July 31, 2021

Two years after the provisions of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Constitution were made inoperable, Jammu & Kashmir is witnessing progress.
A decade ago while analyzing the development scenario in Jammu and Kashmir, the Planning Commission (Now NITI Aayog) lamented the slow growth in the region and attributed it to various factors. It said the climate of armed militancy in Kashmir and low productivity in agriculture and allied sectors has impeded employment and income generation. Poor industrial infrastructure along with the poor investment climate has left the industrial sector in its infant stage.
It mentioned that there has not been a suitable strategy for the potential sectors to achieve higher economic growth. It further mentioned that the lack of good governance and sound fiscal management has also been responsible for the poor economic growth of the state.
It now looks that since 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has been able to address the ills as mentioned by the NITI Ayog, more than a decade ago in the report entitled Jammu and Kashmir Development Report.
During the past two years, the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been marching on the path of development as a result of the government’s initiatives, which included various developmental schemes executed under the Prime Minister Development Package (PMDP) focusing on individual beneficiaries and reviving long-pending projects lying dormant for several decades by removing the obstacles, through ensuring effective and transparent administration.
Both the Union and the UT governments have been leveraging technology to provide several benefits to the local population of the UT. In the field of IT, several procedures have been framed such as providing “subsidy on rent” to the outside investors, building two large sizes IT parks (spread over half a million square feet) — one each in Jammu and Srinagar. Among some other initiatives, the UT administration also released a real estate policy equipped with a transparent bidding process to disburse government-created “land banks” to private developers. The all-around developmental approach adopted by the J&K government has a special focus on developing a network of roads and highways only.
To ensure growth in the valley and enable the UT to come at par with the other states of the country, almost all the projects across various sectors that were ignored during the past political regimes, have been infused with new life. In 2015, a huge package of Rs.800 billion was allocated by the Modi government to the state government for initiating various development projects. PM Modi had expressed his “heartfelt desire” that the J&K government would utilize this grant for the welfare of the Kashmiris and convert J&K into a modern, prosperous and progressive place. While allocating the grant, Modi had stated that “Not only our treasury, but our heart also beats for the people of Kashmir”.
Huge financial package
However, in the first four years (2015 – 2019) the J&K government could spend only 37 per cent of the huge financial package, under which several developmental works were to be completed by the end of 2020. According to the official figures, only 18 out of a total of 63 projects could be completed with the help of Rs300.49 billion that was released till March 31, 2019, for J&K. In 2020, the parliamentary panel had expressed dismay over the slow pace of work under the package.
While remaining in power for nearly 70 years, Kashmir-based politicians misled the common people with slogans like self-rule, autonomy, etc, but forgot to address people-centric issues despite the magnanimous central government’s monetary grants meant for the development of J&K.
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https://www.livehindustan.com/jammu-and ... 81128.html

जम्मू-कश्मीर: 'देशद्रोहियों' और पत्थरबाजों पर सरकार का बड़ा एक्शन, अब न सरकारी नौकरी मिलेगी, न विदेश जाने की मंजूरी
जम्मू और कश्मीर में 'देशद्रोहियों' और पत्थरबाजों पर नकेल कसने के लिए जम्मू-कश्मीर प्रशासन ने एक बड़ा कदम उठाया है। जम्मू-कश्मीर सरकार ने पत्थरबाजों और देश विरोधी गतिविधियों में शामिल रहने वाले लोगों पर नकेस कसने के लिए एक नया आदेश जारी किया है, जिसके तहत ऐसे लोगों को ना तो सरकारी नौकरी दी जाएगी और न ही उनका पासपोर्ट बन पाएगा। मीडिया रिपोर्ट में दावा किया गया है कि पत्थरबाजों और राज्य और राष्ट्र की सुरक्षा के लिए खतरा पैदा करने वाली गतिविधियों शामिल रहने वाले लोगों को अब विदेश जाने का मौका नहीं मिलेगा।
No sarkari jobs and passports to people involved in stone pelting and seditious activities.
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jamwal wrote:https://www.livehindustan.com/jammu-and ... 81128.html

No sarkari jobs and passports to people involved in stone pelting and seditious activities.
Add "no Covid vaccine or driver license" to the list.
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^^^

This needs to be made national law not just on state/UT basis. Woke types always push back against sedition charges as it is hard to prove intent.

Adding to it YAji's law of no gov job/subsidy for folks choosing to have more than 2 kids, along with stone pelting...
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https://www.rediff.com/news/report/kash ... 210801.htm
Kashmiri youth visiting Pak infiltrating back as terrorists: Officials
By Sumir Kaul, August 01, 2021

The recent killing of terrorist Shakir Altaf Bhat and subsequent finding that he had left the country on a valid passport for studies in Pakistan in 2018 and returned as a terrorist set alarm bells ringing in the security establishment in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said in Srinagar on Sunday.
Security agencies made a quick estimate of passports issued between 2015 and 2019, and found that out of the 40 youth who had gone to Bangladesh or Pakistan for studies, 28 had infiltrated back into the country as trained terrorists, the officials said.
This is in addition to over 100 Kashmiri youth who travelled to Pakistan on valid visas for short durations, and have either not come back or disappeared after their return in the last three years. The security agencies fear that they could be possible sleeper cells of terror groups operating from across the border. The July 24 encounter in the heights of Bandipora led to the killing of three terrorists, including Bhat, a resident of the same district. Security agencies believe that Bhat had targeted to assassinate Usman Majid, a former militant-turned-politician who has withstood at least three such bids in the past.
Between April 1 to 6 of last year, some youths hailing from Shopian, Kulgam and Anantnag districts of south Kashmir were seen as part of the infiltrating groups of terrorists and all of them had travelled to Pakistan on valid documents and never returned thereafter, they said.
A massive exercise was undertaken by the security agencies along with the immigration officials at Wagah border as well as at the New Delhi airport during which it was found that at least 40 youths who had travelled to either Bangladesh or Pakistan for studies were missing with their families not knowing about their wards, they said. As a precautionary measure, even the youths from the valley who travelled on valid visas for a duration of over seven days over the last three years were questioned, the officials said. The figures have surprised the officials as in some of the cases it was found that the youths never returned and in others they disappeared after their return, raising suspicion that they could have become 'sleeper cells', waiting for instructions from their masters in Pakistan's spy agency ISI or handlers in terror groups located across the border.
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No passport, govt job clearance for stone-pelters in J-K
Utkarsh Mishra, August 01, 2021

The CID wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police has ordered the denial of security clearance required for passport and other government services to all those involved in stone-pelting or subversive activities.
In an order issued on Saturday, the senior superintendent of police (SSP), CID, Special Branch (SB), Kashmir, has directed all the field units under it to ensure that the person's involvement in law and order, stone-pelting cases, and other crime prejudicial to the security of the state be specifically looked into during verification related to passport, service and any other verification related to government schemes.
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https://thedisinfolab.org/kashmir-inc-a ... -industry/

Kashmir Inc: a Conflict Industry
Benificiaries Across Generations And Continents.


The Kashmir story is the story of few interconnected stories viz.

The Kashmir conflict has become a ‘family business’ run by set of families, and like a family business is passed on from one generation to the next generation.
The way the conflict is designed, it has generated growing number of stakeholders from set of families to the Gora politicians to the Pakistani establishment in a manner, that it would be useful for them to keep the conflict in the perpetual flux.
The Kashmir narrative is a globally sponsored narrative, where every so-called human-rights ‘concern’ on Kashmir is at the end connected with a nexus, put in place by the Pak establishment.
Kashmir has become everyone’s concern except of Kashmiris. There are virtually no Kashmiris with any worthwhile connection with Kashmir involved in the discussion of Kashmir. If there were, they have been side-lined.
The centre of gravity for Kashmir narrative has gradually shifted from the Middle East (Saudi Arabia) to Thrace & Asia Minor (Turkey)
This change in 2016 has salient ramifications for the conflict narrative in South Asia. However, the story traces its origin back to key players when the seeds of conflict were sown in Kashmir by Jamaat-e-Islami players; and it has continued to be played by the same set of people through their next generation.


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Today 5th August must be celebrated as J&K Integration Day to mark the repeal of Art 370 & 35A which enabled all the people of J&K, especially women, children, minorities like Valmikis to enjoy same rights as other Kashmiris and on par with rest of India.

Aug 5th must also be celebrated as Ladhak Preservation Day to mark the official recognition of their unique culture and traditions, and the integration of Ladhaki people with rest of India on equal terms and the nation's focus on the development of its potential as per their wishes.

If we are doing none of this and going back into defensive mode of justifying the historic changes of 05Aug2019, we are missing an important aspect of the right narrative building and playing into viewing ourselves through Paki/BIF prism. Also helps contrast India wrt China which insists on diluting and progressively destroying Uiyghur and Tibetan cultures to create a ghastly communist-tibetan hybrid and alter their demographics by force.

GoI, please wake up !
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