I was under the impression that the Al-Badr was decimated and ceased to exist??In the ensuing exchange of fire, Al-badr chief commander Haider was killed on Sunday morning, the spokesman added.

I was under the impression that the Al-Badr was decimated and ceased to exist??In the ensuing exchange of fire, Al-badr chief commander Haider was killed on Sunday morning, the spokesman added.
No, it wasn't decimated nor did it cease to exist. Here is a brief on Al Badrsum wrote:I was under the impression that the Al-Badr was decimated and ceased to exist??In the ensuing exchange of fire, Al-badr chief commander Haider was killed on Sunday morning, the spokesman added.
Treachery must be punished
A Surya Prakash
A bunch of US and Europe-based India-baiters, many of whom are possibly our fellow citizens, have done signal disservice to our Constitution, secular order and territorial integrity by putting their weight behind the arguments of Kashmiri separatists and shooting off a petition full of factual inaccuracies and patent lies to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The signatories to this petition, mostly academics in leading US universities, have called for UN intervention to deal with what they claim is a "humanitarian crisis" in Jammu & Kashmir.
Unfortunately, the UNCHR fell into the trap and criticised India for violation of human rights. The Union Government promptly rebuked it for making statements which were "uncalled for and irresponsible". This ugly episode has been triggered by a petition which has suppressio veri, suggestio falsi as its leitmotif. Though most of the signatories are university teachers, their commitment to truth is so abysmal that it will set you wondering on the quality of education they impart in their classrooms. For example, the whole world is aware that four lakh Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out of their homes in the Kashmir Valley in 1989-90 in the most ruthlessly executed ethnic cleansing operation in recent times in this part of the world. However, the petition makes no reference to this ugly episode but sheds copious tears for some imaginary attack last month on the Muslims in the Jammu region of the State. The Jammu agitation was so disciplined and organised that it would have made Mahatma Gandhi proud. Also, just as Gandhi would have wanted it, this movement was backed by Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims, all of whom were upset over the selfish, insular attitude of the Muslims in the Valley. Yet, this petition makes the outrageous claim that there was "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims in the Jammu region.
What is even more invidious is that the petitioners say, rather approvingly, that since 1989 "there has been an armed pro-independence struggle in Kashmir, together with other non-violent movements for self-determination" and that Indian counter-insurgency operations "have resulted in grave abuses of human rights" with social, economic, psychological, political, and environmental consequences, "which meet the definition under international law of crimes against humanity".
There are two glaring omissions in the petition, which raise doubts about the intellectual integrity, intentions and affiliations of the signatories. The first of these is their reluctance to acknowledge the ethnic cleaning of Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir Valley. The second omission is the deafening silence of the petitioners about the complete absence of even rudimentary human rights in so-called 'Azad Kashmir' and specially in Shia-dominated Gilgit-Baltistan, which is under the illegal occupation of Pakistan. If the academics did not have the know-how to ascertain facts, they could have sought the help of primary school children, who would have done a simple Google search and given them tonnes of material on the horrendous human rights record of Pakistan in Gilgit-Baltistan. This material would most certainly include the opinion of Ms Asma Jehangir, the special UN rapporteur on Human Rights, who has said that successive Pakistani Governments have ignored these rights in the case of the Northern Areas and 'Azad Kashmir'. The kids would also have fished out the report of Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-Chairperson of the European Union Committee on Foreign Affairs, which was adopted by the European Parliament in May 2007. This report said that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan "are under direct rule of the military and enjoy no democracy" and are subjected to "frequent incidents of terror and violence perpetrated by armed militant groups".
Many of the signatories to this petition have Indian surnames like Chatterji, Seshadri, Mathur, Bose, Basu, Khan and Nagarajan. If any of them are citizens of India and if the Government stands committed to protecting India's unity and integrity, then the following course of action may be considered: Impounding the passports of all these worthies at the port of entry whenever they return to India; arrest on arrival; and framing of charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Section 2(1)(o) of the Act describes 'unlawful activity' as any action taken by an individual or an association (whether by committing an act or by words, either spoken or written...) : (i) which is intended, or supports any claim, to bring about, on any ground whatsoever, the cession of a part of the territory of India or the secession of a part of the territory of India from the Union, or which incites any individual or group of individuals to bring about such cession or secession; or (ii) which disclaims, questions, disrupts or is intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India; or (iii) which causes or is intended to cause disaffection against India. Section 2(1)(i) of the Act further explains that "cessation of a part of the territory of India from the Union includes the assertion of any claim to determine whether such part will remain a part of the territory of India".
It is quite clear from a reading of this law that all citizens of India who have signed this petition which approves of the "armed pro-independence struggle in Kashmir, together with other and non-violent movements for self-determination", fall foul of Section 2.
Further, the claim that the Indian Government's response to the demand for self-determination by the Kashmiris "have resulted in grave abuses of human rights", attracts Section 2(1)(o)(iii) which prohibits Indian citizens from saying or doing anything which causes or is intended to cause "disaffection against India". Indian signatories must therefore be brought to book. As regards the foreigners who have lent their names to this petition, they will have to be blacklisted and denied visa, so long as they do not publicly disavow this petition. Those who drafted this law have truly given it a long arm because Section 5(a) says it applies to "citizens of India outside India" and Section 1(4) says the law applies to offences committed outside India "in the same manner as if such act had been committed in India". So, there can be no dispute about the applicability of this law on many of these signatories, who belong to what may be called the 'Arundhati Brigade'. India's unity, integrity and the basic structure of the Constitution will be in great peril if the state does not firmly shut out these discordant and treacherous voices.
It will be some complicated sell out by India. And with the details buried, like the nuke deal', it will split Indian polity endlessly arguing, MMS/Sonia & their DDM supporters saying its not secession or appeasement, while BJP will impotently kick and scream to no avail. Meanwhile, Unkil and his lackeys will laud this as India's arrival on the global scene (which DDM will celebrate) as they and TSP go luaghing to the bank. Mark my word on this.kumarn wrote:Good news on Kashmir issue soon, says Zardari
He further said contacts were underway on Kashmir issue and soon people would hear good news before Indian polls.
Zardari said he was also aware of back door contacts on Kashmir issue and announced to form a Kashmir committee soon.
Looks like something might be in the offing from the UPA sarkar.
If there is one statement which scared the daylights out of me, this must be it....He further said contacts were underway on Kashmir issue and soon people would hear good news before Indian polls.
Zardari said he was also aware of back door contacts on Kashmir issue and announced to form a Kashmir committee soon.
Disturbing.Zardari has news on J&K
Islamabad, Sept. 9: Pakistan’s new President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday said that backdoor negotiations were on with India and the nation would “hear good news about Kashmir” soon, possibly “within a month” and definitely before India’s general elections, due next year.
Shortly after being sworn-in, Mr Zardari thanked the people of Pakistan for “their trust”. Mr Zardari said he accepted the presidency in the name of his slain wife Benazir Bhutto and the “martyrs of democracy”. He said his Pakistan People’s Party does not believe in the politics of vendetta, and would not victimise anybody, including Pervez Musharraf. “Parliament will decide about the fate of the former President. My party does not believe in victimising anybody. I have been a victim myself, so would not try it on anybody.”
vast quantities of real forest land was destroyed in this project, unlike the AY land which is barren.Avinash R wrote:Mughal Road connecting Jammu and Srinagar nears end
Rajouri, September 9 (ANI): A land route used by the Mughals when they invaded Kashmir is now being reborn as a modern engineering marvel connecting two sides of the Himalayan region. The long awaited Mughal Road- an alternative highway between the summer capital Srinagar and winter capital Jammu -is just three months away from completion.
Residents say the road, once completed would slice off a huge distance.
The GoI provides the turd a special plane for his treatment and he repays in kind!!!!!An Islamist’s resurrection in Kashmir
Praveen Swami
Tehreek-i-Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has emerged as the principal secessionist voice in Jammu and Kashmir. What does it portend?
Syed Ali Shah Geelani woke up shortly after four in the morning and turned on the radio — the sole news source in the beautiful but sparse mountain cottage which briefly served as his prison last month. Half an hour later, an attendant who brought tea heard Kashmir’s Islamist patriarch sobbing quietly. News was coming in about an encounter near Jammu, which had claimed the lives of three terrorists, three soldiers and five civilians. “So many people have given their lives for the movement I lead,” Mr. Geelani said, “I will have no answers to give them in the hereafter should I falter now.”![]()
Four years ago, when he was released from prison and flown on a government jet to the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai![]()
, Mr. Geelani’s autumn appeared to be upon him. He faced an uphill battle against cancer — and what appeared an even more certain defeat at the hands of his political adversaries.
On his return to Kashmir, Mr. Geelani found himself sidelined by the Jamaat-e-Islami, the party he had led for years. Worse, in 2005, the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led All Parties Hurriyat Conference opened negotiations with New Delhi, breaking with its historic rejection of a dialogue that did not include Pakistan. Less than three years later, though, Mr. Geelani has become the principal voice of the Islamist movement against India. How did this come about?
In the build-up to the Assembly elections, which were scheduled to have been held in October, the APHC’s doves began pushing for a dialogue with New Delhi. Part of the reason lay in a successful campaign by the People’s Democratic Party to recruit influential secessionists. The former Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front supreme council member, Pir Mansoor Husain, became party president Mehbooba Mufti’s political advisor; the former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Mohammad Bhat’s brother, Abdul Khaliq Bhat, was lined up to contest from Sopore; Mirwaiz Farooq’s trusted lieutenant, Mohammad Yakub Vakil, too, joined the PDP in search of a seat.
APHC leaders could see the writing on the wall. As things stood, the secessionist formation would see its ranks slowly eroded by unionist parties or be forced to join in the dialogue with New Delhi after accepting that it was not the sole voice of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. If the secessionist cause was to survive, leaders like Mirwaiz Farooq argued, its leaders had to open a dialogue with India — and consider terms short of independence.
Mr. Geelani charged the realists with treachery. Speaking at a religious conference in Baramulla on May 26, he warned his audience that the stakes were too high for their defeatism. India was seeking to change “the Muslim majority into a minority by settling down troops along with their families here permanently.” “After turning Kashmiri Muslims into a minority,” he continued, “it will either massacre Muslims as it did in Jammu in 1947 or carry out a genocide as was done in Gujarat.”
Ever since 2006, Mr. Geelani has used similar polemic to build a new mass constituency. He welded together elements of the pious petty bourgeoisie, and angry, lumpenised young people from the middle and lower-middle classes who felt that they were denied a share of prosperity and power. Similar class alliances, the work of French scholar Oliver Roy has shown, propelled Islamists to prominence across much of West Asia and north Africa. In Kashmir, Mr. Geelani built his campaign on the twin pillars of piety and paranoia, arguing that Islam and Kashmiri identity were being threatened.{usual Islam Khatre mein hai slogan}
When the Amarnath Shrine Board protests began in June 2008, a configuration of circumstances helped Mr. Geelani turn the tables on his tormentors. He, for one, was the sole politician with the tools needed to build a credible mass movement. More important, as the former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s fortunes waned, Mr. Geelani’s allies in Pakistan — particularly the Lashkar-e-Taiba and hardliners in the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate — became increasingly powerful. During a visit to Dubai in February, Mirwaiz Farooq is believed to have been bluntly told to accept Mr. Geelani’s leadership. Fearing for his life should he refuse, the cleric agreed. The shrine board protests provided him the perfect pretext for pushing the proposal past anti-Geelani moderates in the APHC.
In the secret June 19 unification declaration that brought the Mirwaiz and Mr. Geelani together, a copy of which has been obtained by The Hindu, the APHC dropped the option of direct talks with the Indian government — thus addressing the Islamist leader’s long-standing grievance.
“Both sides,” the document states, “after considerable argument and discussion, reached the conclusion that the Hurriyat Conference will continue its political struggle for self-determination, which can be achieved through tri-partite talks against the backdrop of the historic struggle of the Kashmiris and their numerous sacrifices.” “It was decided,” the document continues, “that both the Hurriyat groups will, on an interim basis, maintain their respective identities but strengthen [the] mechanism to achieve the right to self-determination by appointing a six-member team made up of three representatives from each side. The committee will go into the 1993 Hurriyat constitution and make any necessary amendments.”
Ironically, the document contained just two words about the issue which leaders of both factions said that they had united to pursue. “Shrine Board,” read the third clause — followed by a blank space. Just two days later, the Mirwaiz flew to Pakistan.
“We have not yet decided who is to lead us. Do you accept me as your leader,” Mr. Geelani asked the mass of protesters who had gathered at Srinagar’s Tourism Reception Centre on August 18. Tens of thousands of hands waved back, signalling their assent.
Reinvented in Mr. Geelani’s image, how would the secessionist movement look like? Few doubt that the United Jihad Council and the Lashkar will have a renewed influence on the contours and content of secessionist politics. It was the UJC that called for a march to Muzaffarabad on August 6, a day before fruit growers set a date for the fateful effort. Mr. Geelani has also ensured the deepening of the Lashkar’s integration with Kashmir’s secessionist politics. He discussed the Muzaffarabad march with the Lashkar’s spiritual and political head, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, on August 11 — and followed it up with addressing a convention organised by the proscribed terror group on Pakistan’s independence day. Two weeks ago, the Lashkar and the Hizb staged joint rallies in Muzaffarabad.
But the staff at Mr. Geelani’s prison-cottage in Gulmarg had a firsthand view of the most important consequence of all. Mirwaiz Farooq, imprisoned along with Mr. Geelani last month, was given the sole cottage in Gulmarg which had a television set.{Yindoos playing off each other?} Even as Mr. Geelani spent the morning of August 27 listening to the news from Jammu, the young Srinagar cleric watched cricket. Where Mr. Geelani complained to the staff about what he described as a growing culture of aggressive materialism in Kashmir, the Mirwaiz joked about cricket star Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s new hair colour.
Above all, Mr. Geelani’s rise marks the triumph of a vision of Kashmir which rejects its integration into modern high capitalism. His Islam articulates the concerns of social classes angered by the inequity in the wake of economic growth; for a social order threatened by a pluralist, commodity-based culture; and, perhaps ironically given his age, for the rage of young people who stand at the gates of the earthly paradise that a fast-growing India has promised them, only to find they are denied entry by communal prejudice.{Cant believe Swami spouts this BS in every article}
Islamic nizamiat
In his pronouncements in recent weeks, the Islamist patriarch himself has left the world in little doubt of his ideological agenda. Speaking to the New Delhi-based journalist Aasha Khosa, Mr. Geelani called for the creation of an Islamic nizamiat, or state, in which the “creed of socialism and secularism should not touch our lives and we must be totally governed by the Koran and the Sunnat [precedents from Prophet Muhammad’s life].”
For long, Mr. Geelani has argued that Hinduism and Islam are locked in an irreducible civilisational opposition. At an October 26, 2007 rally in Srinagar, he demanded that “the people of the State should, as their religious duty, raise their voice against India’s aggression [emphasis added].” This duty stemmed from the fact that “practising Islam completely under the subjugation of India is impossible because human beings practically worship those whose rules they abide by.”
For those familiar with the work of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian Islamist whose work deeply inspired the global jihadist movement in general and Osama bin-Laden in particular, this argument will be familiar. Qutb argued for a radical reorganisation of “relations between the Islamic community and other camps, whether idolaters or people of earlier revelations.” He asserted that it had proved “impossible to achieve coexistence between two diametrically opposed ways of life.”
“Osama has come only during the last few years,” rasped Mr. Geelani in a recent interview. “People like me have been fighting for this all our lives.” He is right. Everyone who cares for the future of democratic rights in Jammu and Kashmir ought to be paying close attention.
What he is behind is that Islamic state is no longer viable and will not work in the 21st century.ramana wrote:Its good that he is providing the leadership role for the Partitionists. Cant think of a better person for the job - pious and parochial!
Only thing is parochial doesn't aling with his TSP merging desire. So there is a built-in dichotomy in him.
http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/08sep09/index.html
Divergent views in all party meet
NEW DELHI, Sept 8: Political parties today voiced divergent views at their separate meetings with the Election Commission over the timing of holding Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir which are due this year.
While the main regional party, National Conference choose not to give any recommendation about holding polls and demanded that the Government must first take corrective steps to restore normalcy in the Kashmir valley, the Congress party steered clear of the issue leaving it to the Election Commission to decide the timing.
However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Left Parties demanded that elections should be held on schedule by November end. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stoutly opposed holding of elections at the present juncture while Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) wanted delimitation be done first before finalising the date.
Talking to reporters after attending a meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami, National Conference president, Omar Abdullah said that any election in Jammu and Kashmir with "less than expected turnout" will not solve any purpose, adding "we told the Election Commission that for holding election, ground situation must be conducive. The atmosphere must be peaceful so that all sections of people can take part in the polls".
He said that EC has called the National Conference to give its view on the ground situation prevailing in the State, especially in the wake of recent violent incidents following the Amarnath land row.
"EC did not ask regarding elections. So we did not give any recommendation to EC on holding polls. We have given our views on the current prevailing situation in the State. We said the need of the hour is to take corrective steps in Kashmir," he said.
Asked whether the NC would boycott the polls if the EC announces the election dates now, Mr Abdullah evaded a direct reply saying the party working committee will take a decision on it at the appropriate time.
Congress, which sent a big delegation including Union Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan, PCC chief Saifuddin Soz and former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad left it to the EC to decide the date.
"We will cooperate whatever the dates the EC decides," Chavan and Soz said after the meeting with the Election Commission.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation comprising party’s vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, R P Singh and R Ramakrishna of the party’s election cell, told the EC that they were in favour of State polls between October and November, before expiry of the term of the current Assembly in November.
"We asserted that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was even worse in 2002, when the polls were held in the State. There had been ‘‘open threats and calls for boycott of elections’’ but the Commission held them peacefully to strengthen the democratic set up in the country", Mr Naqvi told the reporters after the meeting.
The law and order situation in the State was "near to normalcy" today and there should be no reason for the delay in elections, he added although conceding there could be some stray incidents which should not deter "determination to hold free and fair polls."
"We are against holding the elections now. We have requested the EC not to hold the polls as situation in the State is not conducive," PDP general secretary Nizamuddin Bhat told reporters after meeting Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami.
Bhat said there was "no rule of law" and the feeling of alienation in the minds of the people was very high.
"The Government’s authority has been weakened. People’s anger is very high. Election is now a non-issue. Any fiddling with the current situation will further dent the system," he said, adding "unfortunate" land row incident had polarised the two regions on communal lines.
CPI national secretary D Raja and CPI(M) politburo member Ramachandran Pillai echoed views that elections should be held on time. "But the EC should ensure free and fair polls," Raja said.
NCP and Panthers Party, however, demanded that delimitation of the constituencies should be done first before finalising the dates. The JKNPP delegation comprised party chief Prof Bhim Singh, former legislators Harsh Dev Singh and Yashpal Kundal and president Delhi Pradesh NPP Sanjoy Sachdev.
The decision to call leaders of seven national parties and three State parties was taken last week by the Commission as the Governor’s rule in the State ends on January 10.
The Election Commission decided to meet political parties to assess the situation in the State after doubts were expressed over the possibility of holding Assembly polls in the wake of the recent violence over the Amarnath land row.
In the normal course, the tenure of the Assembly was to expire on November 20. However, the Assembly was dissolved on July 10 and Governor’s rule imposed following a political crisis in the wake of the Amarnath land row which triggered violence in Jammu region and the Kashmir valley resulting in imposition of curfew in both parts for prolonged periods.
A sense of normalcy has returned to Jammu following the agreement with the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangarsh Samiti but the Valley continues to be tense with separatists raking up issues beyond the land controversy.
Also, if elections are to be held, then it has to be done by November because the weather conditions in the Valley are not conducive after the onset of winter.
After receiving inputs from political parties, the EC is expected to meet the Union Home Secretary to take Government’s view on elections.
vishwakarmaa wrote:Cross posting from X-?-forum.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... cleId=2319
Future Map of ME,Pak,POk.
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/MEmapTHEN-s.jpg
I found someone posting this in an online forum, with no word on source.
Which political parties in J&k are supporting this just demand? These Hindu and Sikh refugees have been disfranchised by the Kashmir-based politicians, who have absolutely no stake in recovering either POJ or Gilgit-Baltistan.The Government should go in for the comprehensive settlement of refugees before starting trade with Pakistan through Pak occupied Jammu (PoJ).
Talking to reporters here today, chairman of the SOS-International, Rajiv Chuni, strongly criticised the Central Government for its failure to ensure permanent settlement of the cases of the PoK refugees. He said the Government of India should have demonstrated its constitutional claim over J&K’s territory occupied by Pakistan.
Otherwise such moves may weaken the claim of the Government of India on the PoJ.
"We are not being given the status of refugees by the Central Government because the PoJ is being considered an integral part of the State as well as country despite illegal occupation of Pak and no Government would seek permission from others for visit of its citizens to its own land," Mr Chuni maintained.
Dr Gurmeet Singh general secretary said if the Government of India wants trade ties with Pakistan through PoJ, it should first settle over sixty years long pending issue of the refugees. Opposing opening of trade routes, he said this move would further give rise to terrorism in J&K. Moreover, it would jeopardize India’s claim over State area under Pakistan’s occupation.
Others present in the conference included D V Gupta, R K Kohli, Suchwant Singh, Mohinder Singh, J S Mangal, Lalit Kumar, Kulwant Singh, Sohan Singh and Mohinder Singh.
Same news with more info3 Huji militants killed in gunbattle in JK
Jammu, Sept 12 (PTI) Three Huji militants, including a self-style commander, were today killed in a fierce gunbattle with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district.
Acting on a tip-off, troops of 11 Rashtriya Rifles launched an operation in Chigam area of the district and in subsequent encounter killed three militants and recovered arms and ammunition from the spot, sources said.
They said two of the slain militants have been identified as Saifulla (area commander) and Mohammad Akbar, while the identity of the third person is yet to be ascertained.
Rifles, grenades and other explosive materials were recovered from the spot, they said. PTI
9/12/2008 8:10:06 AM
Top HuJI Commander Akbar Chechi and two more militants were killed in an overnight encounter with the security forces in Chatroo of the Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir. Akbar Chechi is said to be behind the killing of Border Roads Officer (BRO) officer Lieutenant Colonel Ajay Verma.
The encounter with the 11 Rashtriya Rifles began late Thursday (September 11) night and lasted for four hours. However, no casualties have been reported.
Acting on a tip-off, the troops launched an operation and in subsequent encounter killed three militants and recovered rifles, grenades and other explosive materials from the spot.
On September 7, two top ultras, one each of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), and a soldier were killed and seven jawans injured in three separate encounters in the state. (Read more)
The number of encounters has escalated with the increase in infiltration bids along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border. With the Jammu and Kashmir state elections around the corner, the army has upped their vigil to ensure peace is maintained in the state.
2 LeT militants killed
Srinagar, Sept 12: Two militants of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed in a joint operation by the police and CRPF in Kupwara district.
The two were gunned down in an encounter last night at village Choti Marg in Kupwara after information was received about militants hiding in the village,a police spokesman said on Friday.
Two AK assault rifles, five magazines and 90 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the possession of the militants, whose identity was being ascertained.
Preliminary investigations have revealed that the slain militants were affiliated with LeT outfit, the spokesman added.