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jamwal wrote:Mirpur, Poonch and Rajauri which form bulk of PoK are parts of Jammu. Mirpuris are mostly pahadi type people with some punjabi influence. Gilgit Baltistan don't have much in common with Kashmir either. They were conquered by Dogra kings as part of their empire. The region has been a weak sparsely populated region which was happy either paying tribute or staying under thumb of nearest strongman.

jamwal wrote:Pakis call people in PoK Kashmiris, but it'll be a pretty small percentage.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out raids at several places in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, following registration of an FIR against prominent members of the banned J&K Jamaat-e-Islami.

NIA sources said 40 locations of prominent Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) members and offices of the organisation were simultaneously raided.

"A fresh FIR has been lodged against the JeM and today's raids are part of the investigation pertaining to this FIR", sources said.

Reports here said the Falah-e-Aam trust, owned by the JeM situated in Nowgam outskirts area of Srinagar has also been raided.

The source said that searches are being carried out in Doda, Budgam, Kishtwar, Ramban, Anantnag, Ganderbal, Shopian, Rajouri and other districts of the union territory.

The source said that searches are being held at the premises of Gul Mohd War, a resident of Manigam Ganderbal, who is the district head of JEI; Abdul Hamid Bhat, a resident of Gamchipora Batweena; Zahoor Ahmad Reshi, JEI member and former teacher now running a shop at Safapora; and the premises of Mehrajdin Reshi in Safapora.

Reshi is a former terrorist and now runs a shop.

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.greaterkashmir.com/srinagar ... ade-attack
At least five civilians injured in Srinagar grenade attack
Security forces have cordoned off the area to nab the attackers.
GK Web Desk, 10 Aug, 2021
At least five civilians were injured in a grenade attack at the busy Hari Singh High street in Srinagar on Tuesday afternoon.
Quoting a police officer, news agency GNS reported that militants lobbed a grenade on security forces deployed at Hari Singh High Street near Amira Kadal.
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Gautam

#BREAKING: Journalist Aadil Farooq arrested with 2 grenades by CRPF near Lalchowk in Srinagar, Kashmir. Minutes after Grenade attack near Amira Kadal. Being interrogated by senior police officers right now. Journalist working as a Sub-Editor with CNS News Agency in Press Enclave.

Jammu and Kashmir: Indian Army’s Assam Rifles busted a hideout and recovered a huge cache of arms & ammunition including 10 UBGL grenades & two Chinese grenades in Nagmarg forest in Bandipora of North Kashmir today

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.rediff.com/news/report/9-pr ... 210811.htm
9 properties of Kashmiri Pandits restored to owners: Govt
Source: PTI, August 11, 2021
he government is taking steps to restore ancestral properties of Kashmiri Hindu migrants who had to run away from Kashmir in the wake of terrorist violence there and so far nine properties have been given back to the rightful and original owners, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said under the Jammu and Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Distress Sales) Act, 1997, District Magistrates of concerned districts in Jammu and Kashmir are the legal custodians of the immovable properties of the migrants, who take suo motto action on eviction proceedings in cases of encroachment, while the migrants can also request DMs in such cases.
"Regarding restoration of properties to its rightful and original owner, nine properties have been restored, as per the information provided by the government of Jammu and Kashmir," he said in a written reply to a question.
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Gautam

jamwal wrote:Original article is from PTI and published as is by other portals.

PTI gets Rs 84 crore govt bill

Jul 14, 2020,



UPDATE: In reference to this news report, a PTI spokesperson has pointed to the following errors. The claim that PTI was being charged for “not paying rent for the ground floor offices since 1984” is incorrect. The spokesperson said "This is entirely incorrect. The demand notice has nothing to do with paying rent for ground floor offices. The statement is also illogical since PTI doesn’t pay rent but gets rent from its tenants on the ground floor.”

PTI also denied the claim that India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has asked for a seat at the news agency’s board. “As far as we know, Prasar Bharati has never asked for a seat on the PTI Board. In any case it is not eligible for a seat under the Company’s Memorandum and Articles of Association, which says only shareholders or independent directors with no financial links to PTI can be on the Board. Prasar Bharati does not meet either criteria,” the agency’s spokesperson added.

NEW DELHI: Less than a month after Prasar Bharati threatened to snap ties with Press Trust of India (PTI), the government has now served a Rs 84.48 crore bill on the trust-run news agency for allegedly flouting the terms of the lease agreement on the basis of which it was allotted land for its New Delhi office.

Sources said PTI was charged with not paying rent for the ground floor offices since 1984, and for carrying out “illegal construction” on the premises.

Last month, amid widespread criticism from journalists’ organisations, the government had referred to PTI’s coverage of the border tensions with China as “detrimental to India’s national interest”, and bordering on “anti-national”. At the root of the sudden cold shoulder was PTI’s interview with the Chinese ambassador to India, and also PTI’s 16-member board’s denial, so far, of a seat at the table to India’s public broadcaster Prasar Bharati.

While there is still no word on whether the government will follow through with its threat to pull the plug on its Rs 7 crore annual subscription of PTI services — the government is PTI’s largest subscriber — the Rs 84 crore bill is in continuation of the pressure the government appears to be mounting on the premier news agency.

The notice served on PTI by the housing ministry’s land and development office (L&DO) on 7 July gave the agency a month to pay up, failing which it would be liable to pay a 10% penalty on the dues. The agency has also been granted a week, ending on Tuesday, to seek clarifications from the government.

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

II. 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.

III. 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.

IV. 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.

V. 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.

Chapter: 1 - The Year 2015/ 2016
Several seemingly unrelated events took place in around 2015-2016 in the Indian
subcontinent viz.:
1. The government of India cancelled the registration of 18,868 NGOs between 2011-17
for the violation of various provisions of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act,
2010 and Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011. The Government also
tightened FCRA rules as a result of which the foreign funding that non-profits in India
received in 2016-’17 fell by Rs 11,274 crore (from Rs 17,773 crore in 2015-’16 to Rs.
6,499 crore).
This money has to find new avenues.
2. Pakistan Senate publishes a report [1] on Kashmir on October 3, 2016 which, among
other things, envisages engaging global lobbying groups, and reactivate all lobbying
firms to change the global narrative of Kashmir against India.
3. A number of ‘White Experts’/ Human Rights champions suddenly pop up critical of
various ‘failings’ of India, including that on Kashmir. A number of new organizations
also mushroom, precisely around these issues. These experts including CJ Werleman,
Audrey Truschke, Anthea McIntyre, Danielle Alice Khan, Sehla Ashai etc. Likewise,
a number of global organizations also pop up expressing concerns over India’s
various issues from humanities to minority rights to Dalit rights to Kashmir including
the Polis Project, Equality Lab, Justice for Kashmir and so forth.
i. Historian Dr. Audrey Truschke starts getting traction on the Indian social media space through a
coordinated projection. She has deleted all her old tweets now, though her limited activities on
India could be traced back with simple Google searches and News items with “India”or
“Kashmir”keyword.
ii. CJ Werleman appears out of nowhere and starts tweeting on Kashmir, with his first tweet in July
2016.
iii. Danielle Khan created her account on Twitter after arriving in Kashmir in 2016.
iv. A network of new platforms also emerge which coincidentally started working on the same
topics as these people. The Polis Project founded in April 2016, and Equality Lab founded in
December 2016. Interestingly, Facebook page of The Polis Project is also run from Pakistan.
v. Hafsa Kanjwal, Ather Zia started getting exposure in prominent Indian and Internationals Web
Portals.
vi. Anthropologist Haley Duschinski, another Foreign expert appears into the picture & after joining
Twitter in 2016.
vii. Facebook page of “Justice for Kashmir” created in 2016 which later renamed to “Stand With
Kashmir”in 2019.
viii. Anthea McIntyre, Ex-MEP of Conservative Part joins Friends of Kashmir (UK) in 2016.
ix. Ather Zia gets space on the platforms of Washington Post, Scroll & AlJazeera starting 2016-17.
She also co-founds Critical Kashmir Studies Collective in May 2017.
As noted above, plethora of organizations set up in the USA & UK in the name of Kashmir
from 2015-16. In the UK alone, six new organizations were registered between 2016-2019 in
the name of Kashmir by one individual - Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur.
1 http://www.senate.gov.pk/uploads/docume ... 21_603.pdf
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Who is Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur?
Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur is a UK citizen currently living in London. He was born in Saudi
Arabia and moved to London when his father Ayyub Thakur shifted base to UK on a
Fellowship. In London, he pursued his degree in finance and economics, especially Islamic
finance. After completing his education, Muzzammil started a company Kashmir Inc. Limited
(07353812) in partnership with Mehreen Amjad on August 23, 2010. Thakur, however,
resigned from the company only after a few months on January 4, 2011. The company
Kashmir Inc is still active with Mehreen Amjad on its board as Director. There was a lull
since then.
Beginning 2016, he started setting up several companies in the UK and elsewhere in the name
of Kashmir. A list of companies registered by Thakur are as follows:  World Kashmir Freedom Movement (WKFM)- Formed on October 25, 2016 with
company number 10444828.  The Justice Foundation- Formed on October 19, 2016 with company number
10436843. Key people are Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur & Dr. Sanaah Sultan.  Kashmir House- Formed on August 21, 2017 with company no. Company number
10924615 and Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur as only Director.  The Kashmir Centre- Formed on August 14, 2017 with Company number 10914625
Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur is the only active office and currently serving as Director.  The Kashmir Company Inc Ltd.- Formed on September 14, 2018 with Company
number 11569221. Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur is the only active officer.  Adam and Bryson Limited- Formed on March 9, 2020 with company no. 12505979.
Muzzammil resigned from the company on December 1, 2020.  Kashmir Inside Ltd.- Formed on December 19, 2016 with company no. 07353812,
Kashmir Inside Ltd. was a magazine company. The company stands dissolved (on
May 29, 2018) at present date.
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To understand the ‘inspiration’ and resources for this burst of activities, the story needs to
trace its roots – to 1970s to his father Dr. Ayyub Thakur.

BijuShet wrote:Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani dies

Cyrano wrote:Geelani given a quiet and quick burial less than 24h after his death, to prempt any violence getting instigated by Pak. Good step by the local admin.
And good riddance.

from a paki paper

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani, who passed away on Wednesday, was buried in a tightly controlled pre-dawn ceremony on Thursday morning as Indian authorities imposed a lockdown across Indian-occupied Kashmir — actions condemned by Pakistan.

Addressing a session organised by think tank Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, Qureshi said, "Every Pakistani, every Kashmiri, every freedom fighter, all those elements who have stood up for basic fundamental human rights will recognise what he (Geelani) stood for."

He added that he was saddened by how the Indian forces had encircled Geelani's house after his death and treated his family.

"They forced the family to bury him without a proper funeral," he lamented. "Everybody knows that there would have been a huge, huge namaz-i-janaza (funeral) for him, and the Indian forces were too scared to even allow that."

Cyrano wrote:Seems Mehbooba Mufti is under house arrest for trying to provoke retaliation against Geelani's quick quiet burial.

"Any anti India position will have consequences"

Hari Singh was guided at least by a law set forth in black and white; the Sheikh was guided by nothing but vengeance and ambition.
To Pandit the despotic rule masqueraded as popular rule meant re-enslavement after a century of life without fear; it meant return to the age of darkness and gloom under the rubric of a populist rule. Democracy in Kashmir meant the brute majority force which bulldozed the rights of religious and other minorities. The freedom that came to J&K meant for them the beginning of a new era of forced departure from the homeland as had happened earlier in medieval times.
While the ruling majority in J&K aggressively wrested power, privileges and predominance by flexing majoritarian muscle, the Pandit –- a minority underling– had to bear the brunt of being the “Indian agent”.
Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee rejected “do pradhan, do vidhan do nishan” formula of J&K. He was arrested at Lakhanpur, dragged all the way to Srinagar, house arrested in an isolated room on the outskirts of the city and let die in prison without medical assistance.
On the other hand Ali Shah Geelani, the man who instigated millions of Kashmiri Muslim youth to take up arms and fight the India army for secession from India and accession to Pakistan, was taken by special flight along with his attendants for treatment of his kidney problem at prestigious AIIMS on Government expenses.
Tika Lal Taploo,, the BJP Kashmir chief and a lawyer by profession, was gunned down by the masked jihadi terrorists in the lane leading to his house in Srinagar. It was 14 September 1989. Though the Pandits had been giving sacrifices for six centuries, in one way or the other, 14 September gets embedded in their history as the day of remembrance of their martyrs past and present.
As Tika Lal Taploo came out of his house preparing to go to the court to attend his daily work, outside the main gate of his house, he found a child girl crying and tears rolling down he cheeks. On close examination he found it was the child of his Muslim neighbour adjacent to his house. He lifted the child in his arms, wiped tears from its cheek and tuning to the neighbour loudly called the child’s mother to tell him why the child was crying. The poor mother said that the child was supposed to buy some reading material but she had no money. On knowing that the material would cost five rupees, Tika Lal Taploo took out five rupee note from his pocket, handed it over to the woman telling her that the child has to be in the school and not in home. Placing the five rupee note in the woman’s hand he said, “Get her what she wants and send her to school.”
He turned back past his house gate and had walked only ten steps when the masked gunman fired and Tika Lal lay in the lane in a pool of blood.

g.sarkar wrote:https://www.rediff.com/news/report/army ... 210923.htm
Army foils infiltration bid near LoC in J-K's Baramulla, 3 terrorists killed
PTI, September 23, 2021
The Army on Thursday foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, killing three terrorists and recovering a cache of arms and ammunition, officials said.
The Army foiled an infiltration bid near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday, killing three terrorists and recovering a large cache of arms and ammunition, officials said here.
"We noticed some suspicious movement in the Hathlanga area near the LoC. The infiltrators were challenged and three of them were killed," an army officer said.
He said a large cache of arms and ammunition ,including five assault rifles, seven pistols and grenades, was recovered.
Briefing the media at the Army's Chinar Corps headquarters here, Lieutenant General D P Pandey said there has been increased activity at the terrorist launchpads on the other side of the LoC recently.
"While there was no infiltration since the beginning of the year, there has been a lot of activity at the launchpads, which cannot happen without the knowledge of Pakistan Army commanders," he said.
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Cyrano wrote:https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... d-7529964/

Quite a cache: