I’m tempted to say that this is yet another politician joining the blog-wagon. But I think these rather present a better perspective to their words and views. I cannot vouch for this blog’s authenticity, but my personal opinion is that this blog does belong to Omar Abdullah:
Linked by sudipta. Join Blogbharti facebook group.They say you cannot keep all of the people happy all of the time and life has shown me that this is true. I guess one has to reach out to as many people as possible knowing that there are some who will not appreciate what is said (or in cases done), some will be down right critical – not because they disagree but because they have such strong personal dislikes that they are unable to rise above them and be objective and yet others will be indifferent. So has been the case with the reaction to my speech. This blog has been reflective of the way in which the speech has been received.
Omar, do you know what you people have done in jammu.
Jammu is burning.
Why double standards while deailing with Jammu
Improve your Image in Jammu.
Your Party members are hiding.
No body is coming out and consoling the diturbed.
Please look for some solution.
Offcourse you (Omar) I mean according you to make evry people happy, Congress appreciate you in the parliament,
but,Beyond the polictics , being an human being, being a public of the nation, state( J&K), what u have done to solve the issue, what is ur active participation to solve the issue, our brothers , sisters ,are getting injured in jammu and in kashmir first, but no policalicaly want to think about the feeling of common man, whatever is happening in jammu, it reflects the economy of our state , it has stopped the development in J&K , I think you are the one of us who are resposible for all this, if u think u can do somthing then come ahead show us that ur the loyal to J&K, How your soul is in peace when the people of Jammu are burning, if u think u are part the family ( J&K) the come out and make a decion and show the public practicaly , then u will get the real apprection,
Dear Omar, please accept my heartiest congratulations for an impassionate speech you delivered in the parliament on July 22. It would be remembered as one of the best speeches ever delivered in the parliament. I have always felt proud about your secular and nationalistic credentials. Unlike most other politicians in Kashmir, you and your illustrious father Dr Farooq Abdullah have the distinction of never playing with the secessionist sentiments of people in Kashmir. As you began your speech in the parliament that you are a Muslim and you are an Indian and there was no difference between the two, you were speaking straight from your heart. In fact you never needed to say that, you have always proved it indeed.
However I beg to differ with the widespread public opinion generated by your “extempore speech”. For the speech was not at all addressed to the parliament, nor to the billion Indians who were watching you live on the television. It was aimed at the select “secular Muslims of Kashmir” whom you are going to ask for their vote very soon. I salute you for the courage to call a spade a spade. You rightly criticized the Bharitya Janata Party for its communal agenda. I believe your regret and accept the apologies which were obviously aimed at the Kashmiri Muslims. You rightly criticized the Communists for being self proclaimed guardians of the Indian secularism, while not minding to side with the “communal BJP” in toppling the government.
Dear Omar, I know and you know that you paid a heavy price in 2002 assembly elections in Kashmir for not having resigned on the Gujarat riots. You and your party were defeated in the elections, mainly because you were blamed for sharing power with the “communal BJP” at the centre. That ghost might be still haunting you. But you showed enough moral courage to apologize to the Kashmiri Muslims. You berated the BJP to the maximum possible extent. That is for you and the BJP to decide. Your speech was rated among the best by various television channels. Taking it on the face value everybody would like it. Because, it was rhetoric at its best. Particularly when you had chosen the two best targets, the Communists and the BJP, who were obviously not liked by many across the country for their opportunistic “understanding” to topple the government for entirely different reasons.
I wish you gathered the same moral courage, which you showed in the parliament to denounce the Hindu communalists, to condemn the Muslim communalists in Kashmir who are seeking the secession of Kashmir from a secular India just because Kashmir is a Muslim majority area. I feel sorry the way you defended the anti Amarnath land transfer agitation in the parliament. And hats off to you that you presented it to be a “secular” agitation for the land. Let you tell me and the whole of nation who was going to take away the land from you. Had LK Advani been allotted the land to settle down his “communal brigade” there. It was just a temporary transfer to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board to facilitate the pilgrimage of lakhs of pilgrims coming from across the country. And is the Shrine Board an outside agency. Isn’t it just a state agency controlled by the state government itself. The matter of the fact is that you joined the course of competitive communalism that was initiated by your rivals, the People’s Democratic Party and hijacked by the communal secessionists like Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani. And how brilliantly you presented it in “secular colours”. What if the Hindus outside Kashmir rebel in the same way and seek vacation of Haj houses? That has never been done and it will never be done.
I am sure, you are an honest and a well meaning person. I not only see a bright future for Kashmir in you, but for the entire country. We need leaders like you, passionate, forthright, honest, brilliant and daring. To conclude I tell, rather I request you one small thing. This is too personal. That I am myself a Kashmiri like you. I am thorough Kashmiri in language, in culture, in life and in everything. I have been thrown out of my Kashmir 18 years ago. Even remaining away, I have maintained my language, my culture and my lifestyle as a true Kashmir. You will say that, I was not thrown out as it was Jagmohan who prompted me to move out. Presuming that I went out at Jagmohan’s behest, but can you help me now to return my piece of land, less than half an acre, no big deal. It has been occupied by one of my “secular Muslim” classmates with whom I used to go to school for twelve long years. He knows I cannot do anything. You said, you will fight for the rights of your land. Will you help me to return my land, like you pleaded the cause of other fellow Muslim Kashmiris. I am also your fellow Kashmiri who still cherishes the memories of his home. Don’t disappoint me. Because I think you are not only brave but bold as well. Have courage to speak for me. Whether I get my land back or not, would not bother me, but I would feel consoled that a fellow Kashmiri stood for me, like he stood for other fellow Kashmiris.
Yours truly,
Vimal Sumbly
R/O Batmohalla, Sumbal Sonawari,
Kashmir.
At present,
306 Premimum Apartments,
Pakhowal Road, Ludhiana,
Punjab.
09878814015
Mr omar
u call urself a leader of kashmir in otherwords u care for kashmir but let me remind u when indian army raped 75 women in kudan posh pora , u didnt even say a single word against indian forces barberic crime , while u stay mum proves indirectly you spoort that incident, so Mr omar dont u think u r real cowerd?
if u have gutss reply me but with facts
i hope u say “i am a muslim & an indian & theres no difference between the 2″ in ur constituency in the upcoming october elections okkk
Dear Mr Abdullah
I saw you speak in the parliament. What a wonderful speech it was! We are proud of that speech. We need politicians like you in our parliament. Well done! Dr Yadu Singh, Sydney, Australia
Surely you deserve all respect and applaud for being so vibrant in the parliament. Truly it has brought you on the national scene and hopefully state will find its share in national politics. It reminds of Sher-e-Kashmir who had a great vision, it was through his efforts that Land reforms were possible in both regions of the state (which I consider as the best in India).
But you have seemed to be more pro-Kashmir and one feels you tried to gain lost ground in Kashmir at the cost of Jammu.. There was always a disconcerm in Jammuites for step-motherly treatment and the wrong interpretations of your speech have fueled the same. Though there is no doubt of you being an impartial leader. Only political implications could have been reason for few biased elements in your speech. Furthur, I want to say land belongs to people of J&K and they have to collectively fight and infact they had been together for the cause of their motherland. Your limited referance to Kashmir is very unfortunate and unacceptable.Now when situation is worst in Jammu, and negative rumours are spreading in Kashmir about communal tensions in Jammu. I hope you will come with still another vibrant and more refined speech.
Rakesh Atri has posted a very balanved view. I really appreciate
Dear Omar,
I saw your speech on TV and on youtube when the no confidence motion was on. I also read the transcript from the Walk The Talk show. All I can say is well done and that now you have raised our hopes, do not let us down.
You are no longer a representative of Kashmir, you are now a representative of a young and resurging India, although many debates and incidences will try and pull you back every now and then.
I hope that you and some of the other young MP’s from all parties are able to put the right items on the table for discussion and decision making, both at the state and the center.
The list of such things is long and there are millions who will thank you for getting the ball rolling, even though many may not not your name.
Best Wishes and hope to read about you soon
Harmit
It is very unfortunate that stir in Jammu over transfer of land is dubbed as communal though every efforts has been made by right wing to make it a communal event. The discontent in the mindset of Jammuites is quite similar to Kashmiries. Kashmiries, feel exploited by the Govt.of India, on the other hand Jammuites feel expoited and unrepresented in the state decision making process.
In the past also there has been stirs against Kashmiries, whether it is issue regarding MBBS seats or selection procedure by JKPSC.This event has touched almost everyone in Jammu and lost of lives has further intensified it.
More unfortunately Govt. and media are interpreting it communal even when various muslim amd sikh organisations from Jammu are standing in support with the Hindus.It is more a regional issue than a religional one. Alhough sparse, but every communal news brings shame and pain with it.
Due to language and cultural gap, and minimum communication between two regions, there is always a possibility of such a misunderstanding in future also. The issue is making it strong to think about regional autonomy. And the Govt. should balance the representation of both the regions in various state Committes and Boards to lessen Kashmiri dominance in state affairs. Even Chief minister should be from Jammu for 3 years and from Kashmir the next 3 years.
So far as the Land use is concerned it should have been better that instead of the controversial site, land should have given somewhere else in Kashmir to SASB for making permanent Campuses. And during yatra land(controversial site) along yatra route could be handed over to Shrine Board for the desired purpose.
Kashmir’s environmental concern is always welcomed, but it will be considered true and unbiased only if a movement of same amplitude be started by so called environmentalists, Kashmir warriors and politicians against the encroachment and degradation of Dal and Wular, against polluting Jhelum, against the loss of biodiversity and alteration of geology by the constuction of roads and railways. I am sure Kashmiriat is only limited to the issues which oppose India and till date even after your enthuasiastic speech you are bold enough to tackle the problem at the cost of political benefits.
MR ABDULLAH at least respond if ur running this blog!!!!!1
dear omar
your speech in parliament was extraordinary
exemplery , you touched the core issue that no KASHMIRI
whatsoever his conditions he is not anti hindu
kashmiris have always been a tolerent race this amarnath yatra has always been provide real logistics by muslim population, these few vested intrests are bent upon creating a divide in two communities with leaders like OMAR ABDULLAH around we should hope for etrenal harmony among the communities once again i congratulate you on your un abashed straight forward speech in parliament
Omar
Your speech in the parliament was a real confusion in your mind,which needed to explode some where,Please thank God that you had an opportunity to do it there.
First Mehbooba nd Her Party created Confusion and set Jammu on fire and Now you all are appreciating Omar Abduallah as great future leader, who again added fuel to fire of his statement ” 1 inch bhi zameen nahin denge”, I recall Ashok Khajurias’ BJP comment, Zameen kaya Omar Abduallah ke…….. ki hai. I think Ashok Khajuria Rightly said That. We need to correct Mr. Abdullah on that. He needs to be corrected….. please do not side with his communal Mind Set which he has very recently got cloned from Mehbooba and her Party.
Though burning presently but Jammu is rising against the stupid Poltical Gimmicks of politicians like Mehbooba and Omar.
Please comment
Leave amarnath shrine to Hindus. Its indian soil , why we cant practice our religion in peace. Hindu religion respect other religions. All politicians in india are stupid and visionless , good people cant work in right terms. Mulyam singh , Amarsingh & spoke person of congress is busy in vote bank of muslims. Why people are so stupid. SP is making muslims fool in india. So stupid congress , who never did any thing in real for muslims in india. Still many muslims are not uplifted , congress always used them , so other parties. Indian needs new thinking , new political outfit which is young and edcuated. No political party has ever taken bold steps to save country.
India is a socialist secular country. Every religion has its right to preach and worship. When Indian Govt. gives subsidy to Haj Muslims, it does not do any favour, its right of Fellow Muslims. Same is true for Amarnath Land, its right of Hindus to have it and they will. If Kashmiri Muslims feel Kashmir is islamic land, they badly need some education which Secular Indians should provide. If anyone from Kashmir wants to join Pakistan, they are free to do so.
YOU ARE REALLY A TRUE KASHMIRI.I WAS IN PUNE THAT DAY WHEN YOU MADE THAT SPEECH IN PARLIMENT.I WAS WATCHING T.V ALONG MY FRIENDS.YOUR SPEECH MADE ME SO PROUD TO BE CALLED KASHMIRI.IT WAS ROCKING.I FELT TOO GOOD.I HAVE ALL THE PRAISES FOR YOU.MAY GOD BLESS YOU.WE COULD SEE THE GLIMPSE OF SHEIKH ABDULLAH IN YOU.SO YOU ARE THE NEXT “SHAIR E KASHMIR”.GOD BLESS YOU AND GET GOING..HATTS OF TO YOU OMAR
Hi Omar,
Well your speech has definitely got lot of appriciation & applaud but now its time to show & prove those words which u said in parilament.
Now J&K is burning, at this point of time what are you doing, r u drafting another speech for the upcoming election to attract the voters.
Its your party NC alonwithh PDP who are palying in the hands of anti national separists (Hurriyat ..& all those pro pakistanis) like puupets helping them in igniting the communal fire & mis leading the people.
Forget to mention congress with whom you will join hands (the way you did ith BJP last time) just for Power.
Today youth is looking at you as future leader, they don;t believe in communal kind of stuff, just want peace ful , powerful nation…….so please come on & prove your words & do something to extinguish the fire which is burning in J&K.
Kitne vote haaasil karoge communal aag laga ke , kuch to is desh ka soch lo.
Tum politicians ka imaan dharam hai ke nahin, sirf apne liye sochte ho, omar why didn’t u quit when gujrat (godhra) happened, actully u were enjoying power at that time, so didn;t got time to listen to your inner voice,was it sleeping at that time????????????????
Chalo finally tumne apni inner voice ko jagaya to sahi for few hours in parliament atleast speech dene ke liye,
Ab phir se u people are pushing J&K in to same old path but this time in more dangerous communal flame, what will you achieve?
Ek baar You tube pe footage mil gayee, dubara nahin milegi………..Itna padne likne ka kya fayada, tuchhi politics hi karni,
Thank you……. thank you for what u said in the Lok Sabha but now prove it. please! i believe that u can do it. hindus and muslims are from the same backround and culture. blame the british for creating disunity among the 2 but isnt it the job of us indians to unite them again. u say in that u are a Muslim, u re an indian, now please prove it or else this will lead to partition of Jammu and Kashmir. do u want this to happen to the very land where u live?
ur speech on 22nd july was fantastic…i loved it
Omar,
What is your Qualification other than being son of Farooq Abdullah to be a leader or head of NC???
What is your standing in National Politics of India if Kashmiri’s are not always threatning to go to Pakistan???
Why are you so Dumb to understand the stand of Political parties of being non-secular for so long as mentioned by you in Parliament?
Do you ever feel ashamed of being what you are or does it mean to be totally Shameless being a Politician???
How do you see yourself being treated in Jammu after all this mess has been created by you people???
What did you ever do to get the Kashmiri Pandit’s back to Kashmir whenever you guys were in power???
Get a life you Looser & learn to respect people’s sentiments rather than playing with their lives….you all have done enough harm to this country.
Just think if India gives away Kashmir to Pakistan or to Hell, what will you live with or what will you eat?
I just say give Kashmir away & I bet in two years all these Kashmiri’s will cry to come back to India & trust me we all will have hell lot of comfortable life!!!
Fuck you all Indian Politician’s who have made life hell of all Indian’s right from Congress, BJP, JD, NC, PDP & all the other SHIT PARTIES…FUCK YOU ALL BIG TIME!!!
Mr. Atri,
I read your views after I spilled my frustration….sorry not to read it earlier.
Now, the communal or secular is a big time thing in India. It has become a label of being Criminal or like a bad social element.
Here is my explanation about communalism:
When in 1947 this country was divided on the basis of religion was it not communal?
Did anyone ever question that?
Now, the Political recognition of Pakistan, how do you describe it as, is it not communal?
The Imam’s getting Salaries from Govt. of India, is it not Communal?
The discrimination on the basis of Caste, even if it is giving reservations, is it not communal?
Let’s accept the fact we all deep in our hearts are communal, the only fact is it surfaces when our personal interests are hurt. So yes we are communal & anyone has a problem the line was drawn in 1947 respect it & if you really want to have your mainland, please Google the Pakistan or Bangladesh Embassy address in India, file an application for Asylum & Fuck Off!!! Otherwise behave like good Indian’s respect Indian Flag & be an asset to the society & be a part of Nation’s progress.
If you still want to hang in India & host the Pakistani flag, I am sure Indian Army would Love to do some Live Target Practice.
Hinduism is the only religion which never went across the border to preach, we never force anyone to become Hindu as there is no provision, but that doesn’t mean you live in HINDUSTAN & illtreat Hindu’s.
Live like our brother’s & we will treat you will all the love & respect, mess with us & you will go in grave SIX INCHES SHORT FROM TOP.
omar abdullah,
Why did not you say in parliament that “I am an Indian and a muslim (rather than “I am a muslim and an Indian).What do you want to promote by being a muslim first and an indian second ? want to gain just votes. you have no right to critise those who say, I am a hindu and an indian.
About your ” i will not give an inch of land” , someone rightly said ” zameen kya tumare ____ hi hai?.
why did and mehbooba had to run away on the martyr`s day leaving your shoes behind ? becoz you dashed the hopes of an average kashmiri whose livelihood is based on tourist traffic and who was hoping to earn lots of money with the record traffic of pilgrims of amarnath yatra.
Also if you had so much moral values, why did not you resign during gujrat problem. becoz u were then enjoying the ministerial post and now when u have to get votes , you are befooling the people by enforcing your muslim identity.
Your father, who changes colors like a chamleon was saying in jammu that there is no harm in giving away the land to sasb , changed his stand the moment he crossed jawahar tunnel.
You even no longer can proclaim yourself as a muslim as you people (abdullas )and muftis do not have any IMAAN.
Jai Hind !
Dear Dante,
Thanks for the wonderful Arse Kicking comment!!!
I specifically didn’t say anything about Farooq Abdullah as I think he is such a Moron that he is not even worth mentioning in anything.
Honestly, if the law is made real strict against Treason, then both Abdullah’s & Mufti’s will be publically hanged or exterminated.
As far as Omar’s being Muslim is concerned, I think Muslims overall have a very strong Character & Nationality (which way they go), which however is not with Abdullah’s as they are Moron’s first & nothing later.
Mr.Omar you will do great service to India if you and Mufti take all Muslims of Kashmir and settle there.Anyways you spend most of your time in London.In Pakistan you will get a taste of your own medicine.
God save India from hypocrites like you.Mehbooba Mufti should actually be hanged
Yuvraj Singh you are perfectly right.India should snatch all the land and show then wos jameen it is.Time has come for an Israeli style blockade.Cut off roads to Srinagar and seal the border with POK.Ensure no Kashmiri Muslim remains alive inclucing that bastard Farooq (Nehru’s illegitimate son) and that slut Mehbooba
Hi Omar!Im a KAshmiri Pandit born in KAshmir,.aged 19 who hs never lived in valley.After teh turmoil everyone in my family hs anti feelings for Muslim.But we hv always loved and respected u more as a person dan a politicIAN.U have been an inspiration for the youth irrespective of the caste and religion.But ur supporting to PDP hs deeply heart my sentiments for they been anti-India. Mufti has been openly supporting militancy.And y did the KAshmiri Muslims protest on land transfer.This shows their anti-Hindu and anti muslim approach.Moreover their march to Muzaffarabad shows their love for Pakistan.If u r a true Indian u must come forward to criticise this step.I would like u to continue blogging for the sake of passionate Indians.JAI HIND.HAppy Independence Day.
Spoken like a true kashmiri muslim in the parliament with total allegience to pakistan.
all your bullshit for votes impress no one.
you are a parasite..you live on Indian tax payers money..dont you ever forget that you beggar
Omar,
Give me your London address & I will for sure KICK YOUR ARSE SO HARD THAT YOU WILL NEVER GO TO INDIA BACK!!!
At least one less!!!
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Response to Planforindia.blogspot.com
Reply to a discussion on http://planforindia.blogspot.com/2008/08/truth-about-holy-amarnath-cave-and.html
Where replies were supressed by the blog owner for reasons quite obvoius!
1. The shrine was discovered by a Kashmiri Muslim.
Response: According to a legend….
Reply to response:
Definition of Legend Oxford Concise English Dictionary: A traditional story popularly regarded as historical but which is not authenticated; Oxford Pocket English Dictionary: A traditional story from the past which may or may not be true
Definition of Puranas : eighteen ancient books consisting of legends and mythological narrations dealing with creation, recreation and the genealogies of sages and rulers
Definition of Mythology (Oxford Pocket English Dictionary): Set of widely held but exaggerated or false stories or beliefs.
2. The Yatra has always been conducted by Kashmiri Muslims
Response: Yes the yatra has been supported by the Malik family descendents but not conducted by them
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Supported by Malik Family agreed. But who are the pony owners? Who give shelter to Yatris during storms? Who carry the old on their backs? For your information, they are all Muslims since you seem to have seen Kashmir only through the internet and through “mythological” stories.
3. No Yatri was ever harmed by a Kashmiri Muslim.
Response: Yes, numerous. Even this year some were killed at Bus Stand (5), grenade attack at Gulmarg, etc. Here are only some of them from previous years, it is a long list but i have taken only 3 years
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Total No. of Kashmiri Muslims Killed (as per Govt. of India Statistics) since 1988 – 31,000
Total Number of Kashmiri Pandits Killed (as per your own blog): 361
It is grossly incorrect to term Kashmiri Muslims as terrorists. The statement “All terrorists are Kashmiri Muslims” can to an extent be a valid statement. But when you take the converse statement it is an utter violation of logical reasoning. The total Terrorist population by exaggerated estimates would be no more than 1% of the entire population.
Hence if you say Yatris were killed by Kashmiri Muslims, I suggest you go back to school and take a class in reasoning.
By the way, terrorists have no religion and have been misusing religion/race/creed since time immemorial across the world.
4. This year, we had record number of Yatris (more than 300,000) visiting the holy Shrine.
Response: Yes, that is good but it has nothing to do with the valley as the arrangements are done by the SASB. Generally Yatra’s world over are matter of faith and people endure great hardship to complete them. Kashmir being part of India, 300,000 or 3 million is no big deal.
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SASB had only 8 Hindu members – Justice (Retd) G D Sharma, Prof Vishnu Murti Shastri, Sunil Sachdeva, Manoj Gaur, Dr Vimla Dhar, Professor Neerja Mattoo, Raghu Modi and Dr Arun Kumar. The people who did the actual work on field were all Kashmiri Muslims. Thus, to say that just 8 people managed a gathering of 3,00,000 people is absolutely ridiculous.
5. Each and every Yatri had praises for the locals who fed them in spite of scanty supplies due to the economic blockage of the highway
Response: Well, that is what was the great sufi kashmiri culture that Paki’s wanted to destroy. This was the culture of Lal Ded and Rishi peer….
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I absolutely agree with your statement. The primary aim of Pakistan is to destroy any and every system in India. They had been trying to disconnect the Valley from the rest of India for the past 20 years. When they didn’t succeed people in Jammu came to their aid. For God’s sake stop communalizing the whole issue.
6. Entire country including the 300,000 Yatris are fully satisfied with the arrangements
Response: Well, the arrangements were done by SASB.
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As in point No 4
7. A handful of communal elements at Jammu have a problem.
Response: It is not as our P.M say “an issue of modalities”. It is a decision of how people will be treated. 400,000 pandits were forced out of their land, 361 were killed, their temples destroyed and sahbir shah, sajjad lone, yasin mailk and their likes are saying that Jammu has communal elements. Well it is like Pakistan accusing India of supporting Taliban
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I’m sorry but I’ll again say that Jagmohan was responsible for the unfortunate uprooting of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. He planned to “cleanse” the Kasmiri separatists in an indiscriminate planned attack. He along with his agencies spread terror amongst the KPs and they used to send Military Trucks to aid the migration. Even today, 1100 KP families still live in the valley. Why did anyone not touch them?
Coming to issues at Jammu, we have heard all voices coming from Jammu and from Kashmir. The voices and actions from Jammu are categorically against Muslims to the extent that even houses of Gujjars are being destroyed and supplies to the valley have been stopped.
On the contrary, Kashmiris made all attempts to make the Yatra successful by all means. Who is communal?
8. The local Jammu Dogra has never in history protested like this.
Response: Well that is the point, their patience has now broken and the last straw in the camels backs was Omar Abdullah’s speech in the parliament. It is he who shouted “it is OUR LAND and we will die but not give it away”….
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Excuse me; the land belongs to the people of Jammu as well, unless they choose not to associate themselves with the state. They have an equal right being state subjects. I agree that Kashmiri Pandits are also inhabitants of the land and Omar never disputed that in his speech. However, many of the Pandits chose to leave their homeland. I have read the other story about your childhood on your blog. But tell me how were Muslims different from Pandits. More Muslims who went against the terrorists were killed than Pandits. I will again reiterate that Jagmohan was responsible for the migration. Why did Sikhs and Christians never leave? Even after Chhati Singhpora incident? As I have already stated more than 31,000 Kashmiri Muslims have died due to Militancy, and the number excludes the number of Kashmiri Terrorists.
9. Some of the people who migrated from valley more than decade ago see this as an opportunity to take a revenge to rout out Muslims from Jammu
Response: Well again you are missing the point. Surely 20 years is a long time to take revenge. It is akin to agreeing that temporary structures 13000 feet at Baltal can be used for changing the demographic’s of the valley
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Well, if 20 years is a long time to take revenge, you would not have been blogging hatred today!
It is not about demographics. It is about pollution and contamination of ecology. The SASB started a helicopter service to add to the pollution. They were constructing permanent structures thereby destructing ecology. For evidence you may check their site at http://www.shriamarnathjishrine.com/amarnath-shrine-board.html
Moreover, if the Yatra is going on smoothly, isn’t it immaterial whether the land is transferred or not?
10. The Jammu Dogras have fallen prey to the game plan.
Response: same as above. Sadly, you are missing the point.
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Same a/a
11. Who is benefiting from the protests?
Response: Sometimes, protests are done without immediate gains. What will be gained is that the fact that Kashmiri’s have got too much without doing anything. .…
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Pakistan & ISI are benefiting from the protests and from the economic blockade. Wake up!
12. Our soldiers have laid down their lives fighting militants to keep the National Highway open for the past 20 years.
Response: Yes, that is the point. The Highway is a scared piece if land for all and we cannot allow it to be used to pump in secessionist elements. Just for your information, an R.O.P (road opening party) of the army clearing the….
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Our soldiers died to keep the link open but our fellow citizens- brothers and citizens succeeded!
13. Whose cause are people at Jammu supporting?
Response: They are fighting for the cause of India and the right of an Indian over secessionists.
Reply to response:
By blocking the road they are supporting the plans of secessionists
14. Kashmiri Leaders want a unified state including Jammu/Kashmir/POK/Ladakh
Response: Sorry but that is not a consolation. It is and will remain unified as per the 1947 agreed boundaries. It is the writ of the Parliament that the P…
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We want a unified state under India. Recent developments in Jammu aim at further dividing the state.
15. Protestors at Jammu want separate Jammu, Separate Kashmir, Separate KP Land, Separate Ladakh and maybe further slices of the flesh of our motherland.
Response: Haven’t heard that but there will always be multiple view points and that is the corner stone of democracy. People in valley who have been following nizam e Mustafa cannot and will not understand what a pluralistic….
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I’m sorry but Sikhs and Christians still continue to live in harmony with us. They, like us, never bowed down to terrorism. We have some of the leading schools run by Christian missionaries. Churches, Gurudwaras and temples and mosques continue with their religious proceedings.
If you now say that temples were destroyed, I would like you to find out how many mosques and shrines were destroyed by terrorists? Remember the destruction of one of the holiest shrines at Chraresharief? I again reiterate, terrorists don’t have any religion.
It is very unfortunate that sometimes ill informed individuals start to “blog” half-truths encouraging communalism. In the world today when everyone is striving towards peace, please use your efforts to contribute for a better tomorrow. Dont sow seeds of violence and hatred!
Mr Omar is novice and supporter of Anti nationals only for political mileage and lust for power on the cost of bloodshed of local jammuwala and kashmirwala. LET me remind them that u are eating Indian grains and show your disobedience to India by chanting pak name and Azadi. What sort of Azadi do you people want ???? You people not even tolerated in your godfather country paxistan not more than 2 days. And the illusion of kasmiri’s shed when they go to pakistan and make there leaving their. I urge only to you if you are true Muslim respect your country India who give you food, shelter, power and every think.
Think again
1) love all hate none
2) believe in God not in religion
3) solution for all disputes – treat with others the way you would like to be treated from others.
4) seek happiness in other’s happiness and peace.
5) if you are not strong enough to change others at least be firm on your own good points and thoughts.
6) assisting a wrong doer either covertly or overtly is more sinful than the person doing the same.
7) even if we can embibe some of the good points we can do lot good to the mankind.
I am given to understand that when deliberations for export of products was being discussed with Pakistan through Muzaffarabad, Srinagar Apples were also agenda item, But Pakistan did not accept Apples to be imported from Srinagar as their local produce would suffer.
is that true.
The only thing Pakistan accepts from Kahmir, is Kashmiri women.
The morons in Kashmir do not understand that.
IT IS HIGH TIME FOR INDIA TO LET KASHMIR GO TO PAKISTAN & ALONG WITH ABDULLAH’S MUFTI’S SHOULD BE SENT ALL THE MUSLIMS!!!!
The biggest Traitor to this country are Gandhi & Nehru….
I have stepped in late, and have therefore had to read the entire string of posts at one go. it was frighteningto say the least. from the tone of most entries, the posts appear to have come from young people. frankly i am dissapointed. no not because i ma old. i am not. but because i thought young india had managed to leave aside the persecution complex that marked the old inida. all the angry posts here seem to come from deeply disturbed individuals, will very low self esteem and inability to articulate a position based on a rational presentation of clearly understood views. merely spewing swear words and cursing omar and mehbooba can make you feel good for having got it out of your system. but there will be more hate fomenting where the previous outburst cae from. india is great, and mind you, and many ways it is great, because of its pluralism. there are few experiments in the history of human societies where so many diverse people have lived so equably for so long. we may not like what the kashmiri separatist think or say or do. let us also assume their mitives are not fuelled by azadi, but gratification from pakistani spyrunners. so what. this is not the LOC. this is a blog for god’s sake. if we cannot discuss differences of opinions somewhat dispassionately here, where else? were i to be rude, i could almost be tempted to ask the hotheads to grab guns and head for the border to fight militants and pakistanis. while they are at it they could take mr prvin togadia along. he rants a lot as well. but from a very safe distance. this is the worst form of cowardice. to scream obscenities form the cover of anonymity. are we part of amob here. or are we individuals trying to share our views with each other. let’s share some serious iddeas here. maybe then the perennially deaf (read politicians; about them i share the same disregard many here have expressed) can pick up a few things form here. some of them can read, i am told. if they cant hear, at least they can read. I’ll come back once to gauge the response. i hope i dont return to have calumny and hate poured upon me for what i’ve written. instead i’d delighted to read severely worded, but minus expletives, criticism of my views.
Without meaning any harm to anyone, the first thing I would like to point out is that all the mainstream political parties have tried shamelessly to politicise the prevalent volatile situation in Kashmir. Second things that needs be pointed out is that rather than showing restraint the leaders of various political outfits have tended to identify themselves with the masses without caring to understand the consequences of this mass hysteria. I am sorry to point out that even you, MR Omar, have behaved irresponsibly by becoming a party to the present conflict. One cannot say the same about your father Dr Farooq Abdullah who has shown great deal of maturity and wisdom in addressing the prevailing set of issues in the state.
The mob fury is today directed twards India, thanks to leaders like Ali Shah Geelani. He has all along survived on anti-India rhetoric and for him this moment may be the moment of triumph but for mainstream political parties like the one you are leading as president have nothing to gain by joining the chorus of separatists. So my earnest advice to you Mr Abdullah is ‘follow in the footsteps of your father and grandfather’ and don’t get misled by the heat of the moment.
I think Omar’s Father is a better politician than all.
He befools for years but rules without any communal tension.
Those who donot believe in the secular nature of India will make it a hell to live. Whether Kasmiri’s or someone else. Being a Jammuite, I always felt proud of our secular fabric, even during Ayodaya and Godra events our secular faric remained intact. But the vested interest of few politicians have created a mess and turned it into a communsl one. I only want to make an appeal lets not follow the path that KASHMIRI FUNDAMENTALISTS have been followed from decades. Lets prevent another migration from critical Doda and Kistwar.
And every effort that should prevent the furthur divison of country on communal is welcomed.
Mr Sahil
Sorry for late answering, and sorry u have interpreted me wrong I am only putting an unbiased view. And u keeps no right to question my nationalism. It was unfortunate that India got divided on religion basis only because we had wrong definitions of a nation. The secular pillers of our country makes it a successful democracy whereas on the other side what fundamentalism can do , u know better.
Your definition of communalism shows the class and caste to which u belong. You terming reservation on caste basis as communal upsets me. Ok, tell me one thing. Each year In India, Mandirs collects more money than the Annual budget of country, where the money goes, in the pockets of Priests and to so called religion parties (as we have very few shrine boards). IS that not reservation! You look childish in your approach. Have u ever raised ur voice against social hierarchy, it is tough to take the blame on urself, have u ever ever questioned wrong elements in so called biased religious books, infact I am sure u would have never gone thru any of them.
Do u know Rigveda is only Religius book in UN HERITAGE LIST! u know why! Mr. U DONOT KNOW. So think before U PASS ANY SUCH VULGUR AND IRRESPONSIBLE comment, or just keep away. Think! otherwise my Father who still have a Bullets in his leg would feel ashame of the nation for Whom he stakes his life.
Nationalism should not come at the cost of harrmssing others. Of course we would like KASHMIR ISSUE should be peacefully solved and u are true our security forces are strong enough to hold Kashmir.
Mr. Atri,
The moment India recognizes Pakistan & Bangladesh where does the stand of whole country being a Secular remain?
Don’t you think accepting the Partition on the basis of religion itself meant that we want a division on the basis of religion?
Why is it always taken in a negative sense if we say this is “Hindustan”? This country belongs to people who are Hindu’s.
The one’s who are Muslims (still having sympathy for Pakistan) please Google the Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi & file your papers for Asylum or just take a bus to Muzaffarabad or Hell!!!
I think this is the time to set the History right & send Muslims to their Land!!!
Muslims in the whole world can never live in peace with anyone, the matter of fact is any religion which thinks it is great by being spreader can never be peaceful.
So leave this Gandhiwadi culture & set the things straight, at least now.
Indian Muslim
I have read 99000 Kashmiri Pundits were killed. Though I see your point and I do agree that everything needs to be looked at carefully. But religion is a delicate issue and it is only best that conducting yatra be left to Hinuds of J&K alone. Ecological issues needs to be addressed and you are right there. But lets discuss it as environmentalist. If it is given a religious touch it will become a problem like Ram Setu. I think Ram Setu should not be broken because it will hamper the ecological balance. I do not care if Ram or Shyam has built it.
See the problem were Hindus get so touchy about is the division issue. I keep telling everywhere that India is the janambhumi, karambhumi, matribhumi and dharmbhumi for Hindus and of course Sikh, Jains and Buddhists. Other religion started coming in here for business or took refuge. You will agree that Islam came here due to invasion. I will stop here because I will not like to play the communal. Those invasions have happened 1000 years back. Cut to 20th century, we parted with Pakistan and Bangladesh over religious issues. Yes political parties are to be blamed as well. And Hindus and Muslims are to be blamed like wise. Now it is Kashmir. Again on the line of religion. Again all the parties are to be blamed. But someone like me, who has never got an opportunity to visit Kashmir because of terrorism questions how many pieces of land will we have to give away in the name of religion. 100 people have hundred point of view. Many turn violent, many spread hatred, many stop talking to people of other religion, some blog….. And u will have to listen to everyone. Because this is everyone’s country. Largely Hindus do not shy away from taking blame and blaming fellow Hindus. But dear unfortunately, Muslims never accept their fault. If mosques were burnt it was done by Muslims, yes government should have protected it. Did Indira Gandhi not use Sikh against Hindu Punjabis and then gunned them down at Golden Temple. If Sikh were killed so were Hindus. But we settled that score. And it was not long ago. Why is it we are not able to do it with Muslims. Forget the rest of the countries, but why in India. Coming back to burning religious places, when a temple is burnt by a terrorist (who happen to be a Muslim) will be viewed by Hindus as a religious persecution because those bastard use the garb of religion. U may say that terrorism has no religion but those terrorists are using religion as a reason. Can we keep quiet. On top the problem as I said Muslims are not working in a constructive way. Look what Kafeel has done. Could he have not used his talent in a better way. The Muslim engineere who used that American’s IP address has only put people like me to a caution. U may argue they were not Muslim. But do u not think many Muslims will also be cautious now in trusting a Muslim over such matter saying ‘WHAT IF?’ And this is what is killing. We condemn RSS and religious intolerance, and it is high time we stop flying the flag of secularism and U and I look within our religion and solve the problems it has rather than showing each other the number of atrocities done against each other. But last word, unfortunately not many Muslims are working for the betterment of Muslims. They need to come out of the ghettos they are living in or someone needs to go in their and tell them about education, hygine…… Same with Hindus.
Indian Muslim
One more thing… Muslim said Mumbai Blast was a reaction to Babri demolition, the next Mumbai train blasts were for Godhra…. why Mumbai? Then Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and other cities….. Now if people of those cities turn back and start killing Muslims? The chain continues….. I as a Hindu will always blame a Muslim and u as a Muslim will always blame Hindus. But as a human we must stop this chain reaction. And I personally believe, the root cause is Kashmir. The government allowed terrorism to flourish too long in Kashmir. First these terrorists were outsiders who got in and trained Indians.
Now if reports are to be believed the Indian Mujaheedin are getting trained alongwith Naxalites in Kerela. Dangerous!! U know what I think in five years time this will become a corporatised terrorism for the buy and sell of arms and we will never get over it. So it is time all the bloggers to bury our hatred and make sure u do not listen to anyone who says anything against any religion. Just say NO. Believe me its getting to be a corporate crime like in USA and we are a poor country.
Muslims,
The matter of fact is they can never live with anyone, you guys are seeing it from the prospect of India, I am an Indian a Hindu, but living for last 4 years in Europe.
This is one race or say religion who can never live in Harmony with anyone, how much or how less you give them. I don’t say it’s good or bad, I am no one to judge for what they do unless they harm me.
However for last 61 years they have never accepted India or let’s say Hindu’s as their Mates maybe because of being Schedule Casts getting converted into Muslims, as they were never Originally Muslims & were only converted after Mughal invasion.
Now, if somebody has a inferiority complex no one can help him. The point to be seen is Pakistan was made & till date both Pakistan & Bangladesh are Politically & Diplomatically recognized by Union of India, so where does the question of India being Secular comes? We divided our own country on the basis of Religion, so let it be. Now if the Muslims were held back for whatever Political reason & after 60 years we have seen it’s not working. It is now high time to revert back from the mistake.
Look at the rate of Population growing of Muslims (again nothing against it). It would be in benefit of both India & Pakistan if the migration is done today under the Supervision of UN & Muslims should be given safe passage to their Homeland which is undoubtfullyn Pakistan or Bangladesh. The Govt. of India should compensate them for their properties. All the Hindus (if any) living in Pakistan or Bangladesh should be sent to India with appropriate compensation.
The Benefits would be enamors as the amount of money both countries spending on Arms race to threat each other can be utilized for some fruitful purposes. On top of that once you have nothing left to hate, both countries can put their energy in the right directions.
Now, why this formula will never work. If you look at the political structures of both the countries who were the people involved during Partition & how many families running that show have changed? At least in India it’s still the same family running the show!!! On top of that this is something which is beyond thinking of common man, the conflict of India & Pakistan opens a wide range of opportunities for West to Trade their Arms & other materials. These countries will never let this hatred go away as this will break their biggest markets.
The West or at least lets say the P5 (Permanent members of UN) who also happen to be the Biggest Arms Producing Countries in the world will never let their share fade away so easily.
Given all these considerations the best option would be reunification of India & Pakistan along with Bangladesh, however after 60 years since this is not possible the only way out is letting the Muslims go to their Homeland as it is the Holly Land of muslims (Pak-istan) & let Hindus live in Hindustan.
How simple can be sometimes Solutions only if you know what the Problem is!!!!
& all these years we have been just living with the problems.
S
Sahil
i marvel at your naivete. you seriousl;y believe Indians and Pakistanis will have nothing to hate after an exchange of muslims and hindus respectively. boss, hating the other is an esential aspect of the construction of identity. you define urself in opposition to others. and believe me in indina there enogh differences between regions and linguistic groups to produce hate to last a thousand years.
the issue is not so simplistic. cultural plularism does notmean either absorbtion in, or erasure, of other cultures, but their acceptance and celebration. that way we enlarger our sense of the world.
and by the way being hindu is not my primary identity. let’s talk about identity. what we are? what did great people (indians; gurus; hindu thinkers)say about being hindu? have you read Vivekananda and what he has to say about muslims (and orthodox hindus for that matter). explore these thoughts a little and maybe then we can take this discussion a few steps further. mere spewing of hate is a fruitless excercise. it is also embarrassing for those whoi are less insecure than you about being hindu and the Q of identity.
Debaj,
If the hatred is an essential part of identity, then let it be. But, after the exchange it will be clear where the enemy is & where the line is. Not that you have a lot inside & a lot on the other side. Who is scared of hatred or war, but the whole question is WHO IS THE ENEMY? If after exchange this still persists, then we have a clear target.
As far as Vivekananda & his philosophy is concerned, Debaj, I never met the Gentleman & honestly just tell me from where he was & also is there not a problem in his birth place? If there is any problem in his place, then my dear I don’t follow him. My only way of following is of the solutions which work.
60 years, Muslims in India didn’t work, its time to rethink otherwise this will never be solved.
As far as Hindu Guru’s, I don’t know which one to follow… so let’s talk about Geeta “If you are not against Evil, then you are with it”!!! Keep on being a submissive race, first it was the Mughals, then British & now will be someone else.
I mean, we Hindu’s never go anywhere even to preach religion. This is only one country which is our homeland, every Motherfucker came from outside here & is now trying to tell us to be patient.
This is Hindustan & that is Pakistan, you are a Hindu stay in Hindustan, you are a Muslim go to Pakistan. That was the simple line of Partition. I mean what is the big fuss all about.
& as far as exploring the thoughts, Darwin said very right “Survival of the Fittest” that is the only Law of nature, rest all is Bullshit. Just words with no weight.
Hope this helps you to think out of the Box!!!
Cheers,
S
Debraj Mookerjee
Very true indeed, religion is more a identity than a thing of respect. i haven’t seen too many religious mind around there. If muslims are a threat, then what is wrong with the christians in orissa, are they posing threat to national security, I wonder when people call them millitants, how illiterate and poor tribals have become so strong in such a short span of time.
dear sahil
sorry about getting personal. yuor land is both your janambhoomi and your karambhoomi. ur janambhoomi is India; your karambhoomi is europe. every muslim who toils in india has the right to shape its destiny. abul kalam its missiles; aamir khan its entertainment industry; and your average abdul or karim the exquiiste brasswork of moradabad or even the delectable kakori kababs of luncknow.
how can you extricate a person from his or her work, which is so much a part of ones life.how can you even begint o think of these ordinary people as fit subjects for displacement ot pakistan. what wqil they do there? you are an alien in europe. you know what it means to be in unfasmiliar situations. lucknow is home, not lahore, for so many muslims of that city. the tehzeeb is different, as is the water, or the marinate for kebab, th azan sounds diffrent, the lingua franca is punjabi and not urdu ….
think about these things before you prescribe your ‘final solution’!
and Vivekananda was much more than either bengali or india. if you have the courage to have your ideas challenged pick up some f his writings.
regards
PS: sahil, i appreciate your civility. pl keep opposing me oir anybody else, but within the boundaries of civility. that way we can get this discussion going. let us avoid abuse. four taps on the keyboard is easy; restraint however bespeaks maturity and evokes serious introspection.
regards again
PPS: i teach in delhi university. i work har to be close to my students. i dare say they are fond of me. i am used to rabid opinions of viderse nature. i do not judge. i only attempt to persuade. and i find it very difficult to hate.
Debraj Mookerjee and Rakesh Atri,
Get some history lessons.Poeple should learn lessons from history but unfortunately, that will never happen.Mankind will suffer for ages because of ignorance. Empires that ruled for decades crumbled like a pack of cards.Sixty years is not a very long time in history.If only we could live that long to see the shape of things for ourselves but that previlage is not granted to us by the almighty.Unfortunately we sow the seeds for our future generations to reap.Poeple with fascist ideas are gaining ground and the results can be forseen.A disaster in the making!
Good luck.
Omar,
Rise and lead the poeple of kashmir in this hour.I can see history in the making.The kashmiris are no longer scared of the indian brutal forces of evil occupying and subjugating them for the past six decades.Kashmiris compare you to your grandfather and are looking up to you.Grab this historic moment and join them in their struggle to unshackle them from this cruel occupation.
You can do it only if you have no desire to become a puppet Chief Minister who dances to New Delhi’s tunes.
Kashmiris have suffered the worst kid of voilence, torture, rape and plunder at the hands of indian occupation forces.
dear mr.omar.
it is important for people like you to take the initiative in the peace process and make jammu and kashmir a paradise in reality.it must be understood across sextions of the society and the world that the borders between indai and pakistan cannot be changed and the only other solution rather than accepting this fact is a war which will only worsen the future of J&K.its time leaders of gen nextlike you take initiative an bring on board the people of J&K,the hurriyat,pdp,jklf and other such representations to achieve a common objective of finding a solution to J&K rather than making it into another political fallout.its time to put the past behind for india as well as pakistan and look forward to accept the realities and work towards peace.the elections in J&K is definetely the first step towards such a peace process.afetr your sppech in the parliament,i’m toroughly sure that you have the capability to take the region forward and to bring an end to the woes of J&K.
Dear Omar,
Kashmir has suffered less because of misinformation by the Indian govt. to the outer world and more because of lack of leaders who could do justice to the real cause of the Kashmiris.
You may please note that, this side of the LOC or that side, the leadership has never addressed to the prosperity and happiness of Kashmiri people. Our dear neighbour Pakistan, instead of abetting terrorism and funding arms and ammunition, could have poured in millions of dollars into Kashmir to bring about technical advancement, industrialization and upliftment of the people of Kashmir as it existed. But since there was no able leader to guide the masses, our dear neighbor, right from day one had only one thing in mind; annex Kashmir, no matter what happens to its people. Indifferent to the thought process of the kashmiri people, Pakistan has always welcomed leaders from kashmir who would talk of Kashmir’s accession to Pakistan. And these were the leaders who, unmindful of the sentiment of the masses, bought whatever their so called saviors had on offer; guns, bombs, mercenaries and the list is full of things which can only destroy a race and not do any good .
And talking of Pakistan’s leadership, they have nothing to offer to their own people even. Whenever there is unrest, crisis, elections, change of leadership (via coup), they start crying hoarse over Kashmir, diverting their masses’ attention to a non-issue. Kashmir has seen many a natural calamity like earthquakes, floods etc. but has our neighbor ever offered to help Kashmiris with food, blankets, tents and the like.
Its never too late. The dream the people of kashmir are chasing is not a far cry. If the leadership of Kashmir movement segregates itself from the terrorising antics and snaps its ties with the gun and bomb culture, it will be a proof enough to show the world, that our cause is genuine. Such a step will not only make the leaders of the world turn their heads this way, there will be mobilization of forces to assure help to a state in distress.
But for all this to happen, from amongst Kashmiris a Gandhi, a Mandela, or a Castro has to emerge. With current leadership the road leads nowhere.
You know omar you r a son of bastard and so was your bastard fathern you people have always deceived the kashmiris especially muslims.But there is the time to come when we kashmiris will cut you people in pieces and feed the dogs and get your bloody Sheikh abd.from that place and cleanse the kashmiri soil from this dirt.Actually you should change your names when you r not muslims why are you deceiving the people with muslim names
Reading nauseating opinions about someone is perhaps something that will have appeal for perverts only. The level of observations and remarks seems to be taking a nosedive hitting the rock-bottom of indescency or else how could some commentators go to the level of emptying all their contempt on Omar Abdullah though I am equally critical of some of his opinions and recent politically correct yet socially and morally stinking statements with regards to regional factor in politics of J&K state. But then it is equally repelling to see some people thirsting for the blood of this well-meaning politician who still has a long way to go. He lacks the depth and profundity of his grandfather and tactfulness and evasiveness of his father. His condition can be likened to the spider who weaves a net to trap unsustecting victims but due to wrong designing finds himself trapped in the selfsame web. That hardly justifies any vituperatives against him. All he has to do is rid himself of certain misguiding forces, think on his own and go forward accordance with his gut feelings. One remembers with admiration how successfully he worked as the Minister of State for External Affairs, GOI, in the NDA led government. That time he was away from regional politics and saw the things in national perspective. Right now he has to regain his poise and balance and leave behind the impression with the masses that he is the one who has everything the state of Jammu & Kashmir expects in its next prospective Chief Minister.
You fit all the criterion for India’s next Obama….don’t let us down…though I believe we had bigger leaders than obama in past.
but we desperately need one rite now.
I’m not a kasmiri/hindu/muslim
The outcome of assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir shall be crucial to giving a decisive shape to Omar’s political career. He has recovered successfully or so it seems, from the regional and communal bind in which we found him chained during 2-month long Amarnath land row that created bitterness and caused estrangement between Jammu and Kashmir regions the like of which is not to be found in post partition period. Even during the hightide of militancy, this kind of open malevolence was an exception rather than a rule. It hardly looked respectable getting patronage from a person who is panting to be rthe next chief minister of the state. That he has reposed his trust in the Constitution of India and decided to take part in assembly elections doesn’t indicate some sudden prudence dawning on him. Everyone knows it is opportunism and nothing but opportunism. Still, if opportunism leads to the cleansing of his mind, this would be worth it!
Dear Omar Abdullah,
I am 73 years old. I have heard several times our founder Prime Minister Shri Jawahar Lal Nehru who was benevolent, forwarding looking and progressive leader of India. A great visionary. I read Chester Bowels Book Amabassador’s Diary and thereafter I heard V.P. Singh the Janata Party Prime Minister of India. I see in you a thought provoking a future Prime Minister of India who is benevolent, forward looking, visionary and promising young man of growing India. I wish I would be able to see you when you attain that position. With love, affection and blessings. Your sincerely, Sujan Singh
Dear Mr Abdullah,
i am living in Belarus(former CIS)where u also have been some years back.I have yet to bring my family to see the beautiful valley,the place where I was born and grew up.The enchanting valley,rivers,mountains,lakes and especially my FRIENDS and the lovely people who were the REAL KASHMIRi’s.I am absolutely sure that soon things will be normal and we will again start rebuilding the NEW Kashmir which will only bring back memories of the old Kashmir.MAY the almighty shower the blessings for all who want such a day to come and to all the people of KASHMIR so that they also attain what they deserve!!!
People fight and die for their narrow vested ends. Guru Nanak has said that there is only one God for all. (Sabna jiyan da eko data) then what is there left whether one is Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh or any person living in any country or community. Earlier also it was said the whole world is my family. Vishwa kutumbakam. One Great Saint of India said people are fighting like a dog in a glass house containing several colours barking at different colours of his own reflection. We are children and species of one al mighty barking like a dog at our own image. Let light come and prevail on the wicked. There is no happiness or inner peace without love, affection and gorgiveness. Sujan Singh
CONGRATULATIONS..
The chances are getting stronger and brighter for Omar to be the next Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir. His lateast public interviews and utterances reveal that he has left behind him the parochial and communal sentiments and looking forward to being the leader of a team that has the willingness as well as the will to steer the state from the present crisis. A good governace alongwith a transparent and well-defined agenda of development can make all the difference to the people of the state who are no doubt tired of violence and bloodshed that have left the state gasping for prosperity and progress. Let’s pray that Omar rises above his follies which he has committed in the past by distancing the people of Jammu through his ascerbic remarks during the Amarnath-land-row. For him all the three regions of the state namely Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh should be worthy of equal attention. That alone can save him from political disaster which may be close to his taking over as Chief Minister of J&K, otherwise. Let’s hope that he reads the writing on the wall.
I congratulate him for his success at the hustings and also wish him ‘ HAPPY, 2009′
CONGRATS FOR A GREAT VICTORY IN POLLS IN JAMMU…….
CONGRATULATIONS FOR BEING THE NEXT CM OF OUR STATE JAMMU…WE REALLY NEED A YOUNG AND COMMITTED CM LIKE U…
MAY GOD ALWAYS GIVE HIS BEST BLESSING TO U..
Congratulations for your magnificent victory in the Jammu and Kashmir polls. It is a victory for Kashmiriyat and the composite cultural values which are a part of our culture and heritage. Please strengthen these values to the best of your ability.
About ourselves. Kasheer Foundation is a registered NGO devoted to preserving, strengthening and disseminating the composite cultural values and heritiage of Kashmir. It presently operates from New Delhi but plans to reach out to every nook and corner of Kashmir. Among its many culture-promoting activities, it runs a quarterly journal in English appropriately titled Miraas (‘Heritage’).
Congratulations for your magnificent victory in the Jammu and Kashmir polls. It is a victory for Kashmiriyat and the composite cultural values which are a part of our culture and heritage. Please strengthen these values to the best of your ability.
About ourselves. Kasheer Foundation is a registered NGO devoted to preserving, strengthening and disseminating the composite cultural values and heritiage of Kashmir. It presently operates from New Delhi but plans to reach out to every nook and corner of Kashmir. Among its many culture-promoting activities, it runs a quarterly journal in English appropriately titled Miraas (’Heritage’).
(Dr.) Pankaj Bhan
Hony. Secretary, Kasheer Foundation &
Ediotor, Miraas
Congratulations on behalf of Kasheer Foundation and its quarterly publication Miraas which is exclusively devoted to the promotion, strengthening and dissemination of the composite cultural heritage of Kashmir.
(Dr.) Pankaj Bhan
Hony. Secretary, Kasheer Foundation &
Editor, Miraas
Dear Omar
Congratulations for being the next CM of our
State. I hope under your dynamic leadership our state
will progress day by day.
May Allah bless you with his blessings.
Your affectionate
Hilal Rajpori
Dear omar Abdullah,
Congratulations for being the next CM of our State
I hope under ur dynamic leadership our state will show
enhance progress in all sectors.
May Allah bless u with his blessings.
Dear OMAR
OUR (YOUNG GENERATION) FUTURE IS LINKED WITH YOUR PERFORMANCE SO PLEASE DONOT FAIL US
wishing you all the luck, perhaps our good luck too.
pankaj
One can have a fair idea of how the younger generation is excited at having Omar as the next CM of India. He has come through the hard and grinding process of democratic process and one hopes time has made him understand the currents, undercurrents and cross-currents of politics prevalent in Jammu & Kashmir. You lose your poise and the whole house comes tumblimng down. So, the real trying time now starts for this upbeat youngster who has everything in him sans patience. One has already seen him bursting with instinctive cynicism bordering on religious fanaticism during the Amarnath land Row that kept J&K burning for nearly two months. If he still maintains that bitterness, there will be tough times ahead for him. The moment of achievement shouldn’t become the moment of his collapse. Once he is through the process of elections which demand hostilities to be taken to the highest pitch in order to yield the electoral dividends, there has to be a cooling down of tempers. If Omar still continues to reiterate what he mindlessly blabbered during the paralytic and paranoid days of Amarnath land dispute, he will only be harming himself and his party and none else. Here I repeat what I have already said in an early posting- Omar has a lesson or two to learn from his father who has profound understanding of the sensitivities of the people belonging to different parts of the state.
As a well-wisher of this young scion of Kashmir, I extend him heartiest good wishes for a meaningful tenure as the new Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir!
- Prof Rishi Dogra
Dear Omar,
Wishing you all the best in your endeavour of providing smooth & corruption free governance to the people of J&K.
May God bless you.
Regards,
Vijay
Dear Omar
Congrats on becoming the CM Don’t See what people have done in Past as it will hurt people do listen to people they r tired i am also a kashmiri and voted for u to change my fait hope u do that and do best
CONGRATS FOR TAKING OVER THE REINS. YOU ARE THE HOPE FOR LAKHS OF YOUNGSTERS HERE IN J&K. PLEASE DO SOMETHING FOR US
At frist except Grettings for being a CM of J&K, I really believe & look forward you will continu doing this Years after Years, every youth of Kashmir is watching you and expecting good results for you….
Wishing Good Luck in all you do!!!
Congratulations on conversion to C.M from Omar.You have made gigantic promises for good governance and we hope you will not disappoint the docile masses of valley.The biggest menaces this state is facing are corruption and unemployment and we hope you will eradicate them.Kindly beware of sycophants,corrupt bureaucrats and politicians.
Omar perhaps knows & he must remember that he is the first link to ensuing change that indian politics is going to see in coming years. As we all know more than half of indian population is aged below 25 rears. so coming decades will be shaped by these youngsters who neither have known much of partision,religious devide & cast systems etc. nor thay want to be bogged down with these. Their only faith is future full of prosperity.So politians beware slogan bajhi & religion/caste based politics is a history now, what will survive is delivery of progress & growth, recent state election results are very clear sign of thing to come. So Omar you are among the first few to join the list future young leaders. A leading observer called you Obhama of India after hearing Your speach in parliment in July 2008. You are a leader of J & k but have national responsibilities so do every thing in right earnest. You have already started well criminals have no place in politics ensure this to begin with, you & country would have won half the battle just by ensuring this. I wish you All the best Omar, country will stand by you & other sincere young political leaders just work towards helping young generation in achieving their hopes & aspirations
Wishing you a Happy New Year and I pray you all the success because task before you is very tough and people of state from all the three regions aspiring very high.It is for the first time a young leader is taking over the reins of the state.
People aspiring crusade against corruption but your secretariate is in the contol of brokers and they are govt.officers engineers from all departments,officers from agriculture and soil conservation and almost from all departments and you can put a strict control by making such elements of out of Secretariate,Ministerial,Bureaucratic offices and residences and issuing some code as was used to be in force during the times of Late Sheikh sahib.I am also of your age but remember that he kept Canteens,Corridors free from those elements.
I am under treatment since last two years SO inactive but i will be the person who will keep you well informed about many things from people’s point of view by using my pen and sending factual writings for you as THIRDEYE in association with my team.
Though job is tough but your self esteem and the blessings from the almighty will help you to achieve success and authority of your Govt.establishes in the next few days.
Wishing you all the success again.
hi, i feel great after your win.god bless you.
you have to bring development to j& k.though i live abroad but my soul is there.
while travelling across the globe i always wonder why we cant build our kashmir a secure and safe place.you must be aware that we can survive only on tourism if properly developed and managed.
be brave,sincere .this is your golden chance to prove yourself.
look at the political stalwarts around the world and try to learn from the best and have faith in the great almighty he will support you.
take care
Dr Rumisa Wafai
congrates to omar abdullah ,inshallah he ll prove all his promises to the people and bring new hope to the kashmir,well i must say first n foremost problem in j&k is corruption then umemployment he should give first prefrence to both of them ,i wish him all the best…
Omar
Congrats on your win. Its truly heartening to see the progress you have made. Young people coming forward and taking responsibility is great. You have vision, energy and integrity. Thats what our system requires.
Big leaders have a large heart, a big vision and capability to include and embrace. They are full of hope.
Small leaders have a small heart, narrow vision and a penchant to divide the world into little bits. They are full of hate.
May you be the former.
Deepak Dhawan
Best of luck Mr Omar for taking over the Chief Ministership of Jammu & Kashmir. It is different to be the Chief Minister of a state whose allegiance with the Indian union has always been under cloud. Generation after generation, the whole breed of politicians has thrived by whipping up communal passions. Even Omar couldn’t resist the temptation of spitting venom in Indian Parliament against the majority community by making remarks about which he will always feel guilty. It is good that he has forged and alliance with a national political party like INC. At least that will help him look at the issues from wider political perspective. He is no doubt young and inexperienced but that doesn’t give him licence to blabber all the antinational rhetoric. I wish him success in his new role which puts upon his shoulders the responsibility of being highly responsible in making utterances in private and public. There is no room for indulging in cheap rhetoric once he swears the oath of office and secrecy as the youngest Chief Minister of J&K.
Congratulations to him and his team for a meaningful innings!
-Prof Rishi Dogra, Jammu
Mr Omar abdullah
Hearty congratulations on becoming yougest CM of J&K .yOU HVE A VERY TOUGH TASK AHEAD . I believe with the grace of almighty you will succeed.The secret of your success will be to reach to the poorest of poor and unemployeed youths. The youths have to be rehbilitated and should feel as part of your success. you may not do wonders in a day or so but strong foundation has to be laid to bring back normalcy in trouble torn State. If any one is to be blamed for Kashmir it is Pakistan.However our own politcians in the State also will have to share the blame. I trust you will be pragmatic in your approach and will carry Kahmiri Pandits Dogra,s and Ladhkis with you .A sense of togetherness for all the regions in the State must be felt by every individual of the State.
WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. TAKE CARE . GOD BLESS YOU
USHA BHAT
DEHRADUN
Dear Abdullah Omar,
TODAY U HAVE BEEN SWORN AS THE YOUNGEST CHIEF MINISTER OF KASHMIR, CONGRATULATIONS. I WAS A FAN OF TOWERING PERSONALITY JANAB SHEIKD MOHD. ABDULLAH, I STILL BOW. WHEN HE PASSED AWAY, I AS A YOUNG MAN OF JUST 22 YRS. OLD.I WAS WEEPING BELOW A LAMP POST BEFORE MLA HOSTEL, SRINAGAR AT 1 PM IN THE NIGHT WHEN AN OLD MUSLIM MAN KEPT HIS HAND ON MY SHOULDER AND SAID ” AB KAUN KAHEGA HINDU MUSLIM SIKH ITEHAD” PRESUMBELY RECGNISING ME FROM THE PANDIT MINORITY COMMUNITY AS I WAS WEARING “MOLY” ON MY RIGHT WRIST.LATER ON WHEN TURMOIL HAD STARTED TAKEN ROOTS, I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK FREELY TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH SAHIB AT GULMARG WHEN TIMES OF INDIA WAS CELRBRATING CENTENARY AND KISHORI AMONKAR WAS REDERING HER CLASSICAL SONGS.NOW I AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE EAGERLY WATCHING U AS TO HOW U WILL KEEP THE SLOGAN OF ” SHERI KASHMIR KA KYA IRISHAD? HINDU, MULIM, SIKH ITIHAD” ALIVE. WE WRE WITH U BECAUSE SOUL OF SHEIKH SAHIB IS WITH US
TODAY U HAVE BEEN SWORN AS THE YOUNGEST CHIEF MINISTER OF KASHMIR, CONGRATULATIONS. I WAS A FAN OF TOWERING PERSONALITY JANAB SHEIKD MOHD. ABDULLAH, I STILL BOW. WHEN HE PASSED AWAY, I AS A YOUNG MAN OF JUST 22 YRS. OLD. WAS WEEPING BELOW A LAMP POST BEFORE MLA HOSTEL, SRINAGAR AT 1 PM IN THE NIGHT WHEN AN OLD MUSLIM MAN KEPT HIS HAND ON MY SHOULDER AND SAID ” AB KAUN KAHEGA HINDU MUSLIM SIKH ITEHAD” PRESUMBELY RECGNISING ME FROM THE PANDIT MINORITY COMMUNITY AS I WAS WEARING “MOLY” ON MY RIGHT WRIST.LATER ON WHEN TURMOIL HAD STARTED TAKEN ROOTS, I HAD A CHANCE TO TALK FREELY TO FAROOQ ABDULLAH SAHIB AT GULMARG WHEN TIMES OF INDIA WAS CELRBRATING CENTENARY AND KISHORI AMONKAR WAS RENDERING HER CLASSICAL SONGS.NOW I AND PEOPLE LIKE ME ARE EAGERLY WATCHING U AS TO HOW U WILL KEEP THE SLOGAN OF ” SHERI KASHMIR KA KYA IRISHAD? HINDU, MULIM, SIKH ITIHAD” ALIVE. WE ARE WITH U BECAUSE SOUL OF SHEIKH SAHIB IS WITH US
Dear Omar
Many congratulations on becoming chief minister of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. You would be surprised as to why did I not write Jammu & Kashmir only? My answers is that as chief minister of this loving and beautuful yet beleagured state, you will have to work towards ensuring all-inclusive and all-embracing development of all the three regions of your state. Though I do not belong to your state, I had the fortune of visiting Srinagar and few other places in 2007 and I realised duirng my visit, how this beautiful state has been wounded in the last 20 years. How the simple and loving people of the state have been made to live in fear and made to feel aline in their own home turf.
My heart bled for the Kashmiris who are subjected frisking and segregation at security checkposts whenever they venture out of their area. While my wife, daugter and I sat in the bus, the kashmiris would be asked to disembark from the bus and stand in a line formation for frisking and security check. I guess for any human being nothing can be more humiliatin experience.
During my visit I ventured out to the downtown Srinagar – Zaina Kadal, Habba kadal, Khanyan, Hazratbal, Nawhatta and Amira Kadal and interacted with the locals. They all wanted peace and normalcy, though they resented preence of the security forces. How they wished for normalcy to return, for terrorism is hurting them badly – financially, physically and mentally.
Few things that you must do to bring about a change:
> Bring about a sense of trust among the Kashmiris by reducing security interference in their daily lives.
> Facilitate skill training for the educated youth and provide them with economic activity opportunity
> Look at very basic things which can make a lot of difference in the lives of people of your state.
> Big projects are good but they take long time to fructify – look at small, basic and large projects / programmes to bring about quick gains, long term development.
> You are honest and uncorrupt – single out corrupt officials and bring about instant justice and punishment
> All three regions are critical for progress of your state, all three must of given due importance
> Start industrial centres at Jammu, Anantnag, Srinagar, Qazigund, Udhampur and few other locations
> Give due importance to development of Tourism, Food Processing,Education, Pharmaceuticals, Handicrafts & Handloom, Ayurveda, Sports goods manufacturing
> Tourism, I think is one area which if devoped and nurtured well can bring about significant change in the development of the entire state.
> Avoid appeasement of powerbrokers and politicians – listen to the voice of people.
> Hold fortnightly ‘Darbar-e Aaam’, where common people should be allowed to meet you and express their unbiased views and issues with you – not through officials
> Manage the aspirations of population in the age group of 15 to 45 years, beacause this is the generation which has suffered the most during the last 20 years.
There is much more that can be done and tried out whcih I can discuss, if you have the time. Do let me know, if I can be of any assistance.
I dream of a day when the people of your state can in true sense live the way Tagore dreamt:
” Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action–”
Into that heaven of freedom, ….. let my Kashmir awake. Insha allah!!
Mohammed Nasir
Nehru Nagar, Bhopal
9826953500
Dear Omar,
You have many miles to go and many promises to keep. Please keep it up. Wish you all the best. Yours sincerely, Sujan Singh
Congrats Mr.Omar on becoming Mr.CM.You are being looked as a man of change by the youth of state.Unfotunately you have not begun well by inducting tainted people in your cabinet.Some have corruption charges and some are involved in sex scam.If this is the the way you are going to bring good governance as promised by you then I feel GOD only can save the people of stae.So Mr.Omar wake up and enthuse your conscience and select upright and dynamic members for your team.
Dear Omar you have many miles to go and many promises to keep. Please keep it up. Wish you all the best and success in life.
I do not belong to your state omar but yes as a dynamic leader i appreciate you a lot. India at this time is in need of young , thoughtful and well versed leaders. I CONGRATULATE YOU for your achievement. I just pray to God that you fulfill the expectations of the people of your state and encourage honest and hard working people in your government. Tenure of Azad Sahib had been commendable and my friends at jammu expect a lot from you.
God Bless You
Dear Mr.Omar,
Well Done! on making surprise visit to the most pathetic L.D hospital in Srinagar.Such acts will revive the indolent and callous administration.The conventional planned visits by C.M do not give true picture as thing are well staged by local administrators to give pseudo cosy picture.Being the denizen of your home town I observe that this act has shaken the inept and corrupt administrators.I believe that exigencies of CM post shall not give you the luxury of setting things right all by yourself.The key for good governance is to have upright and dynamic people at key positions.That will alleviate the burden on your shoulders.I agree with your assertion that rigt to information act needs to be at par with central act in order to empower masses.Moreover you can reach out to the people through internet as even village blocks have CIC now.May GOD bless you in your endeavour.
Dear Omar.
I would like to know somethig completely different. You are a known dog lover. which breeds do u own at the moment? Congratulations on the victory in J&K by the way.
I feel happy at a young politician of Kashmir, more accurately of Jammu & Kashmir, being ensconced by some eager admirers for some swift actions he has taken against employees at Lala Ded Hospital, Srinagar. This kind of flattery will not do young Mr Abdullah any good. Acts that generate momentary excitement do not make a man great. Mr Omar shall have to go beyong the smokescreen of illusiory and misleading facts which doubtlessly will be placed before him for seeking his atamp of approval. He will have to be watchful against those people trying to get closer to him for no obvious reason except for self propulsion. He will have to crack the whip on those who fail to deliver not because their is lack of resources but because their is stubbornness to hamper the smooth process of governance. Mr Omar shall have to keep an eye on the problems of the people and do his best to provide relief to the deserving. the needy and the most most oppressed in the society. If he fails in doing all this, he shall soon find adverse tides billowing against him. This will be unfortunate if it all it happens!
- Prof Rishi Dogra, Jammu
Dear Umer,
If you really are serous in nailing down corruption in the state, then you must bring whose people in accountability commission who are sincere and honest people who are not corrupt people no one can point figure upon, really very hard to find such people in to days world . i know one Justice Malik, a person with class, sincerity , loyalty and less expensive. First ever justice from state who served in delhi high court for about a decade, during your fathers time when he was CM Justice Malik heeded consumers commission of state taking some historic decisions which later became amended law, first and only justice who lived without security throughout his service period and after, lives in a small house in small town of sopore drives his small maruti 800cc car, the best person available in state for a person of your class. when i read in news paper about your surprise visit to LD hospital, First time in my life i feel some good is going to happen to this state,i believe that it is not easy for you to make such surprise visits again and again cause of obvious security cover, but you can assign people like justice malik for this job. Who can drive in without security unnoticed. since you are heading my state i believe i have every right to express my feelings to you , please give a little thought
Dear Omar
1.congrats on being the youngest CM v ll hav for 6 yrs.i wish u good luck n hop u ll b able to meet the expectations of the public.
2. Whatever happned as a amarnath row should be taken to vet ur anger out i see u a matured politician n hop u ll hav a leasons from that.
3.Do look after the forces who are giving there life n time so that v r safe,these guys hav been awake so that v cn sleep wd peace,look after them.
4. be generous n impartial
hav a gr8 innings
Sandhir
I think it’s great that politicians have opened up a communication channel directly with the masses. I think Obama’s internet campaign in the US has fueled this trend. Even grampa Advani has gone online
Dear Mr.Omar,
I must appreciate you for continuing with surprise checks of government institutions.The public feedback for these acts is quite encouraging and we the denizens of your home town request you to keep it up.Most of the people working in government sector are getting paid without doing any work.This concept of pay without work has enticed people towards government jobs.This is a dangerous trend for the youth of state.I believe government jobs need to be made less attractive by enforcing strict work culture and eradicating corruption.Otherwise this trend of money without work shall doom our society.The youth of state have great expectation on you.I believe in order to generate employment urgently the best way suitable and practical is to commence infrastructure development on mass scale.This sector has potential to employ people in mass numbers both educated and uneducated.Apart from government sector the infrastructure development should be started on public private partenership basis.The very first step in this direction is to rejuvenat the lethargic,pampered and corrupt bureaucracy of state who have spoiled this state by working in Maharaja style.I wish you all the best.
Dear Mr.Omar,
The persistent statements from your coalition government regarding development of state on regional basis is not an advisable thing.I believe this unnecessarily induces regional bias in the people of one state.The plausible thing is that every district should get its share of development as per its need and requirement.For example Bandipore or Poonch may need big hospital but Srinagar or Jammu needs flyovers and metro.The role of government is to make people believe that Kashmir belongs to Jammuite as Jammu belongs to Kashmiri.
Dear Mr. Omar,
I am your fan in Delhi. I like very much your personality and your way of talking and working. I am very much happy that you became the CM of J and K.
I am very sure that you will do your best to carry people of Jammu and people of Kashmir together and create harmony among them. The jammu and kashmir is one state of India and people of the state is one. Separatists are trying to create divide among the people of jammu and kashmir which is very unfortunate. I am sure that you will end the gap of people of the state. This is not the easy task but you can do it. Some of my Muslim friends in Delhi also told me that It is pakistan that is trying to create problems in the state and increasing militancy in the state. I believe that you will overcome these problems.
WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. TAKE CARE . GOD BLESS YOU
Naresh Kumar
Delhi
Dear Mr.Omar,
Your appeal to corporate India at Mumbai regarding investment in J&K has been tried by your predecessors without significant results.The fact is these mighty corporates are driven by profits but not by philanthropy.I think our focus should be on the industries viable for J&K.The manufacuring industry is not viable for Kashmir valley because of constraints of raw material,connectivity.However the Kashmir valley has great potential for tourism,agriculture,horticulture,floriculture and hydropower industries.But the key is they need to be privatised as government has failed to make any major development in these sectors for the last sixty years.
dear OMAR
reaction to mr. imtiyaz
i think u didnt listen the whole interview of Mr.OMER he spoke about mr. vijay malia, person related to tourism industry, points u mentioned i believe are true. we have around 200 tourism gtraduates (BTS) in state who are jobless one of the largest industry in kashmir with more than 22 development authorities, jktdc, golf courses, etc, but still our tourism graduates are jobless, if largest industry can not produce jobs for youth then, we dont have any hope, but it is history, i believe omar is the only.hope.
Dear Omar,
It is time for action now. Politics can wait till the next assembly elections come along. Impartial, meticulously planned and well executed time bound action only will make J&K the Crown of the nation. Please don’t be fettered by narrow party political, partisan, regional or communal concerns of those who think that they have your ear.The common citizen has lost the most, not only in the last two decades but ever since independence. If his/her needs are addressed, you would have left an enduring legacy at the end of your term. Reach out to all without fear or favour and rout out those that are corrupt,lackadaisical and inefficient. Listen with your ear to the ground and you won’t go wrong. The youth of J&K today needs robust action from you to lead it out of despondency. Let the State not fail them, as it failed the youth of the past. With you at the helm there is great hope for J&K and the nation at large. The possibilities of success beckon you to your duty, for the fear of your failure is a frightening thought for those whom you serve. There are miles to go before you sleep.Godspeed.
Dear Omar,
The 100 days target that you have set for various government departments is a precursor for good governance but the same needs to be publicized so that public will act as watchdog for the completion of targets.
Dear Omar,
I congratualte you on becoming youngest CM of J&K. You are not only the hope of J&K but of entire India. We wish that a person of your stature may become primeminister of India. In you, we see Obama of India. Please keep in touch with like minded parties and try to come at centre stage of Indian politics which at presnt stage is murky and needs liberal, articulate, honest and young people like you
Dear Omar,
Your direction to administrative secretaries to be available for public between 2pm to 4pm is commendable step towards good govenance.The public servants irrespective of their official status need to be made understand that their job is to serve public and nothing else.The last twenty years of political uncertainity has made these high profile public servants callous and arrogant and thus do not bother about concerns of common people.Moreover the mechanism needs to be put in place to monitor whether problems of people are being sorted out as mere listening would no suffice.I believe this is a another step towards positive change from the man of change.God bless you.
you are the young politician of our state.I am least intresred in talking about reservations,poilitical issuesetc my only question to you that why we can’t match other states like andhra pardesh, gujrat,delhi they all are growing like anything.why we can’t have metro in our state when pepole will understnd that they people are not different from us but they do differ in their passion for growth and development why we can’t be a state ull of peace…..the day you will provide in our state the day yoiu will start living in the hearts of the people.
With the coming into power of Omar Abdullah, let’s not presume that the core issues afflicting the state over the years will dissipate like vapor in the thin air. He has to have his breathing time. We ought to give him enough time to put his house in order first. He is the leader of a coalition alliance and the sensibilities associated with this kind of arrangement do influence the process as well as the quality of decision-making. As long as the young CM is showing signs of measuring up to the expectations of the people, he will certainly get public support and backing. Deviation from promises or distritions in the system of governance shall naturally attrack flak. Now it is for our young CM to decide what he is going to do for his people to provide them a government that delivers and doesn’t only sell promises. If people can award you with popular mandate they can subject you to severest scrutiny as well. There is considerable change on ground in J&K and it is hightime the government started undoing the mistakes committed by preceding governments thus taking the ire of the people to new heights in the recent past.
Reaction to Prof Dogra,
The people of state do not expect astronomical measures from young C.M. The expectation of good governance and corrupt,nepotism free administration is a genuine expectation which has nothing to do with coalition compulsions and should be met forthwith.I believe no calition partner will object to the measures towards good governance.The immediate predecessor of C.M Mr Azad did take genuine measures towards good governance and declared zero tolerance approach towards corruption and the same needs to be improved.The C.M must act fast as people expect change as the alibi of coalition compulsions do no hold any water before the masses who are the victims of bad governance for the last sixty years.
Congrats Omar,
I have hopes for peace in Kashmir, Be Like your Great Grandfather ” Lion of Kashmir “, I am expecting a Return of Lion… Dont let the people of J&K Down like your father did.
Just to Awaken you about your Great Grandfather.
” The Return. as the Great Sheik Abdullah, was held on to the windshield of his jeep and waved to crowds lining the road and jamming the towns along the way as he rode. Srinagar welcomed him with a frightening din. When the Sheik appeared on the balcony of a Moslem shrine, people prostrated themselves in a heap below, crying vows that they would lay down their lives for him.”
Best of Luck
Omar, you have to work really hard to come up to the expectations of the people. The state has many problems and the difficult part is that solution of one problem leads to the creation of one more problem. There is a big divide between the people of Jammu and the people of Kashmir. They are separated by religion, culture and language. No public leader so far has so far been able to bridge this psychological chasm. That doesn’t mean things will remain the same for all times to come. If you succeed in ridding the state of these mutual misgivings, perhaps no leader, past or present, will be able to match your stature. We hope you to be able to address the complex problems of the state with all your talent, ability and wisdom.
Dear Omar
unemployment, un employment, unemployment,
there is a hoar in your state as i see young doing nothing, after completing their studies, who often fell prey to WRONG, when find nothing to do, please use most of your efforts to create employment for these people who will surely prue an asset for the development of this state.
COUNSELING OFFICES for guidance for further studies, who just dont know what are what for to study.
BEAURACATIC HELP:- Your offices should be handy and most coperative to young to guide them to help them in nurturing their ideas, to set up industries, which will surely absorb a lot of unemployment in the state.
EASY FINANCING:-
BREAK ON CORRUPITON.
I would be writing more to you and hope it reaches you encouraging me to do my bit towards the bettement of my nation KASHMIR.
HI Omar,
Congrats for Getting Indian of the Year Award from NDTV.
I am seeing a good future of India under your leadership.
Best of Luck for your Future Work
Warm Regards
Nitesh
Dear Omar,
I was a bit busy and could not folow the news of you being named as INDIAN OF THE YEAR, was a news to me through blog bharti, and belive me i am so happy for you, for your being recognised, for your stand and speech in parliment.
You are perhaps and inspiration for youngesters like us, to keep doing good, which will be surely recognised once.
i just read a news about the PLY BOARD industry, of the valley, at least what GK says is an injustice tot he unit holders and industries of Kashmir, please look inot the matter personally ensuring relief to industry.
keep doing good.
yours
shahjahan.
Dear Omar,
Congrats for getting NDTV Indian of the year in one of the categories.The fact of matter is media hype does not last long unless it is backed by tangible results on the ground.The media opinion is so volatile that one moment person is a hero and next moment he becomes zero.The credible awards are those which are being earned by actions on ground but not by being media savy.The people of J&K have wrested great hopes and expectations on you and it is imperative on you to deliver fast.I believe public,media and central government are on your side and thus there should be no alibi for not bringing in prompt change and good governance.
In a democracy the hands of the elected government are tied. It is only through peoples participation and overall cooperation that a government can attain its ends and successful performance of its policies. So far as investment from the corporate world is concerned it would be possible only when peace, stablity and continuity is assured. The private sector is mainly motivated for profits and unless and until they are sure that no disturbance in their business activity would be there they will not risk their capital. West Bengal is an example. Because of violence and labour unrest there was no capital investment for a long long time. Similar was the case in many other States where there was no stability. So far as J&K is concerned there was a time when it was considered a paradise on earth. Let us make concerted efforts that it regains its lost position and glory by extending fullest cooperation to the administration through peaceful means and suggestions so that stability is created to assure the investors to make investments for fullest growth and raising living standards of the people. Education, secularism, health care coupled with opening of non pollution industries would be an ideal start for the people of J&K. With best wishes and continuity.
dear omer,
cong’ts … people are not seeing any change at grassroot level.. i am one of your admirers but to make people see change u may have to show doors to certain guys who have taken their positions for granted
,book those people who are sucking the state, bossyou may have to behave as there is no next day left…… THE NAYAK
HOPE YOU SUCCESSED IN YOUR ENDEVOUR
dear omer
you have chosen the best man for district ganderbal as SP jank police Mr. Imtiyaz, he is much needed in sopore, create a police district in sopore and send imtiyaz to sopore as SP, if you really want peace in kashmir. he is the only one.
Dear Omar,
Two months of your governance have elapsed.Although it is a small time to judge a government yet it is enough time to set the tone of good governance.Contrary to expectations your march towards good governance is too slow.History is witness that reforms of nations take place by taking radical and revolutionary measures.Our state is infested with corruption and red tape.I believe these are prime reasons for under development.There are immense schemes from central government for public welfare like Bharat Nirman,NRHM,JNURM,PMGSY,PMSSY etc but because of our systemic problems of corruption and red tape these schemes are under utilized and thereby resulting in under development.The time has come that government officials from minister to peon need to be judged on there efficiency and integrity.
DEAR OMAR
WORK CULTURE IN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT IS REALLY A CONCERN,
PEOPLE IN REST OF INDIA WORK BETWEEN 10 TO 6 WHILE WE HAVE SCHEDULES FOR 10 T0 4, WHICH NEEDS TO BE THOUGHT ON, AGAIN TIMING IS MOST OF THE CONCERN.
PLEASE INTRODUCE, BIOMETRIC TIME CHECKS AT THE TIME OFFICE, CONNECTED TO THEIR SALALY SLIPS, FOR PROPER ATTENDANCE WHICH IS OFTEN MANUPULATED IN DEPARTMENTS.
THIS WILL ENSURE PROPER TIMINGS AND GOOD WORK CULTURE,
YOU MAY INCREASE WORKING HOURS TO CONSIDER, THE PENDING PAY COMMISION.
REGARDS & ALL THE BEST.
SHAHJAHAN
9419407813
hi omar sir ;
first all congrlation,, you are the futre of youth,please notice the youth are seating the front of div com. office.if you will meet personaly these guy . they will give the response
dear omar sir
kind your imfomation, your GAD.dept. They have given the e-mail dictoroy. But we the send question by e-mail adress, NO body give the response.Ihave send mail to the higer education dept.But they are sleeping and one copy mail to C.M SECTT.But they are also idle. plse Sir see this issue.they wii be gievn the answer
REGDS
RAJINDER KUMAR
MIRAN SHIB
JAMMU
9858273821
dear sir,
Iwant to convey to you, sir yourGAD Deparement E-MAIL Directory mention by diferent dept e mail adress.But all in vain, because if we send the mail in deferent dept.No body give the response e.g NOW
recently ihave send the mail to higher education deptt and C. M. Sectt. so plse sir notice in this side. ti is very important for far flag areas. we convey to by internet. ples see thius issue
regds
rajinder kumar
miran sahib, jammu
9858273821
Dear Omar,
We all know that our J&K lacks behind further in many fields from other cities. Kindly improve the situation not only of Kashmir but also Jammu and ladhakh also. So that our J&k would be able to develop like other cities Chandhigarh, Delhi, or Banglore.
Municipal Council Sopore, a resourceful public office, owns sizable number of assets and generates a healthy revenue but manipulations and malpractices have robbed the financial strength of the M.C.
It is our moral compulsion and as citizen, a deep concern which has driven us to the extent that we decided to apprise your good self about the state of affairs of this public institution.
A few facts are drawn here so that as an elected public representative using the powers vested on you, public institution and public money both are put to the better use.
1. Twenty years ago, assets owned by the M.C sopore were the sources of sound financial strength and twenty years on, till date, with addition of another hundred shops the M.C sopore does not show any improvement as far as revenue generation is concerned and it needs a serious thought and immediate action to prevent further detoration.
2. Adda Entry Fee: as per the norms to collect adda entry fee from transporters entering the town, tenders are invited by the M.C and then auctioned . in year 2006-07, adda entry fee was awarded to the contractor for an amount of 18lacs and pertinent to mention that 3 lacs amount is yet to be paid by the contractor which should have not been permitted and hence speaks huge volumes of favouritism bringing huge loss to the public institution. 2007-08, again same procedure was implies and contract awarded for an amount of 19 lacs and fifty thousands. Year 2008 is gone but M.C has yet to recover 1lac 60thousand from the contractor. Coming to year 2008-09, the contract was again awarded to defaulter contractor for an amount of Rs 23lacs and 50thousand surprisingly, year 2008 is over but contractor has not paid balance amount of rs 12lacs till date knowing the fact that contract period is almost over. Favouritism is evident as defaulter has been awarded contract hence smells fishy.
3. Hording auction is another tool for misappropriation of public money. Needs to be examined and verified in detail.
4. Illegal inclusions in employment roll. Racket has surfaced many times and was reported by print as well as electronic media and even vigilance deptt. Raided the campus. But to extreme shock, it was declared that ALL IS WELL. The ex- executive officer of the M.C has employed seventy persons illegally on consolidated basis and salaries were drawn in their favor up to the tone of Rs. 17lacs but physically are not existing. 22 persons were confirmed by the same executive officer with director local bodies satisfying their confirmation under order no: DULB/Estt/9369 date:01/12/2007 when the news broke the director immediately canceled their affirmation to same his skin and reports suggest, that 10 persons from this lot were adjusted in other M.C, thus again playing foul.
5. The revenue generated in terms of G.R receipts is not deposited in the chest and amount around 5 to 6 lacs thus goes into the hands of vested interests.
the facts are put in front of u in black and white, if u fail to investigate and bring the guilty to book then OMER govt. Is no more needed in state.
Hi Omar,
First of all the situation on garbage lifting is pathetic. We see huge dumps of garbage on the roadside especially the polythene in Sainik colony Trucks do not come to pick up garbage . If there is a shortage of trucks to lift garbage from different areas of the city then they should get more trucks.
Sweepers do not come regularily and if they come once in many areas they dump the garbage and filth of the drains in one place and bolt away. This garbage is scarcely lifted letter on.
The number of stray dogs and animals like cows etc. Stray dogs have created a scare in Sainik colony.
Here we got many other problems such as-
1)Roads are not properly made .
2)Drainage system is poor.
3)We have unschedule power cuts after having electronic meters.
4)Many other genuine problems which has to be soughted out by concerned authorthies.
Pls do the needful.
umar sahib,untill now yu were riding on the shoulders of your family status,now it is the time to prove your metal.this is not the constitueny of 1980 but of 2009 which is blooming with the talented and brave youth,this time your fate will be decided for the rest of your political life and your political family.you have to face the youth of ganderbal who have formed the most powerfull organisation of youth in gandrbal i.e youth power(dreams and concerns).you will have to face their quarries and questions on development,education and economy of ganderbal in particular and not of employment.come and join us to make this contituency as one of the most prestigeous in the education and economic areas.
Dear Shri. Omar Abdullah, Among all the young politicians, i am very much impressed by you. I feel after Narendra Modi you are the best Politician around. Todays youth wants a Politician like you who is straight forward, able & above all non-corrupt. Hope you remain that and i know you will. I don’t believe in Caste differentiation. All are human beings first and then Indians next, thats it. If not to anybody else, we are answerable to ourself and to GOD. we have not come on this Earth by our choice. We all are here to co-exist peacefully, then why this Caste differentiation? What is the gain in this? Where will it lead? How will our future generations lead their lives? It is becoming chaotic by each passing moment. So first and foremost a Movement should be started to abolish Reservations and to have a Common Civil Code. Not like one rule for Hindus and one for Muslims. In this era of (forced) Globalisation, INDIA needs to survive and succeed. How is it possible with such things like Reservations and the kind which was supposed to be discontinued way back in 1960??? Why no Poltician talks about it? Not even the BJP? Only for Votes!!! a big shame. Whom are they fooling??? To the people or themselves. This will have a very bad effect on ‘EVERYBODY’ if not removed with immediate effect. It is good for everybody, even for the people who are treated Backward. Hope you along with other like minded, sensible politicians do something about this seriously and immediately. Once these 2 things happen everything will fall in place, and it will take care of exploding population also. I pray to you to do these 2 things for benefit of ‘EVERYBODY’.
Dear Omar,
We the residents of Sainik colony got problem with public transport because when ever we board matador from Sainik colony to other places .We always get late because it takes to much time to reach .The matador is taking the long route via Kunjawani, Gangyal, Satwari to city instead of that the matador should also take route via Narwal, Bikram chowk ,Jewel and then to city and also we do not get auto from Sainik colony . When ever we have to hire auto we have to go to nearest place .
Atleast students should not get into this problem of getting late and its my request to concerned authorthies to solve this problem .
Dear Omer
On what grounds ur going to nominate Mr Javaid Rana as MLC from Distt Poonch. u have already given one cabnit rank to the Gujjars and Congress has also accomodated them with one cabnit chair.
pharies being by passed by ur party form their right espacialy in ur govt. PDP has already got one seat from this Distt which remain ur stronghold in past. If pharies will not be accomodated as MLC it may be a turning point. Moreover there are much senior leader then Mr Rana in this Distt.
Najam Jaffar
Mandi Poonch
i
Mr. Omar
With reference to the press release published in Daily Excelsior dated 22nd March about the 24 diploma holder Junior Engineers of Mechanical wing who have obtained fake degrees from Vinayak Mission’s Research Foundation Saleem, Tamil Nadu for promotion.
I want to ask u as Chief Ministers of the state, what is the fate of those Engineering Graduates who study hard to get into NIT’S and other Engineering colleges recognized by AICTE/UGC and study for 4 years, attending classes, doing practicals.Then at the time of job these people with fake degrees come up getting a job.
Sir
This is not a Question of promoting a JE to higher level ,what i think is and i am sure that some people working is the department must also have fake diplomas.These working Engineers in the State departments don’t even know the basics of engineering.
This is just a wake up call for the Young chief of the State to get into the matter and take necessary step against these people and make room for the qualified Engineers.
Dear Omar, Try and make Kashmir like how it was earlier when there was no Terrorism at all. The times when Hindi Films used to get shot there, a place of Tourism which can be compared with the best in the World. Kashmir is losing so much economically n otherwise also considering Peace.
“DO OR DIE” IS WHAT THE HOUR DEMANDS.
THE Bomai killings led to the relocation of army camp much to the relief of people dwelling in the area. The strong resentment exhibited by the people and peaceful demonstrations held under the banner of local co-ordination committee, not allowing any outside interference from any quarter and moreover, the die hard determination of chief minister to curb the misuse of power, made the removal of army post “a mission possible”. National Conference was caught in a situation, no party would like to be put in. the president of the party and the chief minister of the state was adamant that wrong doers would be taken to the task and since the inception and deployment of huge security forces in the state, it was observed that, for the first time, the chief minister exercised his powers and authority to demonstrate his “WILL TO PERFORM”. Nc, Congress and PDP all the three parties ruled the state for last twenty years. Ruthless, pitiless and unsparing killings that took place during all these years also evoked strong resentment but lack of qualitative leadership bore no results. Omar Abdullah proved his point by acting swift to register peoples voice then endorsing it and finally approving it with a clear message all around he possesses tenacity to stem the rot out and thus indicating that the man in power values his word while as the Hurriat leadership seems divided almost at all fronts, as stone pelting was declared an unislamic act, against the freedom movement and who actively participated in the act were labeled as Indian agents only a couple of months back but at the moment, a different language is cropping up from the same leadership to justify stone pelting. Whom to believe and what to believe has become a question of concern. The people fail to distinguish and are confused as what to acknowledge and what not? Omer as C.M has promised welfare and development for the state, with lots of days ahead to register his value while as united Hurriyat in “letter and sprit” is still a dream to come true. Masses are on receiving end and it is THEY WHO HAVE THE FINAL SAY.
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Please note that VINAYAKA MISSION UNIVERSITY is UGC approved university and the courses done in the university are recognized by UGC, regarding the engineering diplomas the university HAVE STARTED SOME ENGINEERING COURSES IN THE DISTANCE MODE BUT AFTER THE NOTIFICATION THEY STOPPED IT
PUBLIC NOTICE
F.No. 37-3/Legal/AICTE/2007
17.04.2007
It has come to the notice of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Distance Education Council (DEC), that some Universities, Institutions Deemed to be Universities and other institutions are offering technical education programmes in the ‘distance mode’ without the approval of the concerned statutory Councils.
All Universities, Institutions, Deemed to be Universities and other institutions are hereby cautioned that running such programmes and giving misleading advertisements regarding unapproved ‘ distance mode’ courses and programmes of study, shall attract severe action under the provisions of applicable laws, including that of de-recognition and withdrawal of institutional approval.
It is hereby clarified, in the public interest that there are a number of courses or programmes of study leading to Degree / Diploma or other awards in Engineering & Technology, Management, Computer Applications, Architecture & Town Planning, Pharmacy, Hotel Management & Catering Technology, Applied Arts and Crafts, etc., which have not been approved by the appropriate Statutory Council for being conducted in the ‘distance mode’. It is also reiterated that all courses or programmes of study in the ‘ distance mode’ require the approval of the DEC.
Students, their parents and the general public are, therefore, advised to refer to the web-sites of the UGC (www.ugc.ac.in), the AICTE (www.aicte.ernet.in) and the DEC (www.dec.ac.in), to verify and satisfy themselves of the list of approved courses or programmes of study, before joining any programme in the ‘distance mode’. Students, their parents and the general public are also requested to bring any violation of the above statutory position to the notice of the UGC/AICTE/DEC/ other appropriate Council.
(Dr. T.R. Kem) (Dr. K. Narayana Rao) (Dr. Rajasekhran Pillai)
(SECRETARY) (MEMBER SECRETARY) (CHAIRMAN)
University Grants Commission All India Council for Technical Education Distance Education Council
(Statutory Body of Govt. of India ) (Statutory Body of Govt. of India) (Body setup under IGNOU)
State-wise List of fake Universities as on 18thJanuary, 2009
Bihar
1. Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga, Bihar.
Delhi
2. Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Varanasi (UP) Jagatpuri, Delhi.
3. Commercial University Ltd., Daryaganj, Delhi.
4. United Nations University, Delhi.
5. Vocational University, Delhi.
6. ADR-Centric Juridical University, ADR House, 8J, Gopala Tower, 25 Rajendra Place, New Delhi – 110 008.
7. Indian Institute of Science and Engineering, New Delhi.
Karnataka
8. Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum, Karnataka.
Kerala
9. St. John?s University, Kishanattam, Kerala.
Madhya Pradesh
10. Kesarwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Maharashtra
11. Raja Arabic University, Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Tamil Nadu
12. D.D.B. Sanskrit University, Putur, Trichi, Tamil Nadu.
West Bengal
13. Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkatta.
Uttar Pradesh
14. Mahila Gram Vidyapith/Vishwavidyalaya, (Women?s University) Prayag, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
15. Indian Education Council of U.P., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
16. Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith, Prayag, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
17. National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
18. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University (Open University), Achaltal, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
19. Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya, Kosi Kalan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
20. Maharana Pratap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh.
21. Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad, Institutional Area,Khoda,Makanpur,Noida Phase-II, Uttar Pradesh.
22. Gurukul Vishwavidyala, Vridanvan, Uttar Pradesh.
Reaction to Mr.
Please note that VINAYAKA MISSION UNIVERSITY is UGC approved university and the courses done in the university are recognized by UGC, regarding the engineering diplomas the university HAVE STARTED SOME ENGINEERING COURSES IN THE DISTANCE MODE BUT AFTER THE NOTIFICATION THEY STOPPED IT
PUBLIC NOTICE
F.No. 37-3/Legal/AICTE/2007
17.04.2007
It has come to the notice of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Distance Education Council (DEC), that some Universities, Institutions Deemed to be Universities and other institutions are offering technical education programmes in the ‘distance mode’ without the approval of the concerned statutory Councils.
All Universities, Institutions, Deemed to be Universities and other institutions are hereby cautioned that running such programmes and giving misleading advertisements regarding unapproved ‘ distance mode’ courses and programmes of study, shall attract severe action under the provisions of applicable laws, including that of de-recognition and withdrawal of institutional approval.
It is hereby clarified, in the public interest that there are a number of courses or programmes of study leading to Degree / Diploma or other awards in Engineering & Technology, Management, Computer Applications, Architecture & Town Planning, Pharmacy, Hotel Management & Catering Technology, Applied Arts and Crafts, etc., which have not been approved by the appropriate Statutory Council for being conducted in the ‘distance mode’. It is also reiterated that all courses or programmes of study in the ‘ distance mode’ require the approval of the DEC.
Students, their parents and the general public are, therefore, advised to refer to the web-sites of the UGC (www.ugc.ac.in), the AICTE (www.aicte.ernet.in) and the DEC (www.dec.ac.in), to verify and satisfy themselves of the list of approved courses or programmes of study, before joining any programme in the ‘distance mode’. Students, their parents and the general public are also requested to bring any violation of the above statutory position to the notice of the UGC/AICTE/DEC/ other appropriate Council.
(Dr. T.R. Kem) (Dr. K. Narayana Rao) (Dr. Rajasekhran Pillai)
(SECRETARY) (MEMBER SECRETARY) (CHAIRMAN)
University Grants Commission All India Council for Technical Education Distance Education Council
(Statutory Body of Govt. of India ) (Statutory Body of Govt. of India) (Body setup under IGNOU)
State-wise List of fake Universities as on 18thJanuary, 2009
Bihar
1. Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga, Bihar.
Delhi
2. Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Varanasi (UP) Jagatpuri, Delhi.
3. Commercial University Ltd., Daryaganj, Delhi.
4. United Nations University, Delhi.
5. Vocational University, Delhi.
6. ADR-Centric Juridical University, ADR House, 8J, Gopala Tower, 25 Rajendra Place, New Delhi – 110 008.
7. Indian Institute of Science and Engineering, New Delhi.
Karnataka
8. Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum, Karnataka.
Kerala
9. St. John?s University, Kishanattam, Kerala.
Madhya Pradesh
10. Kesarwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Maharashtra
11. Raja Arabic University, Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Tamil Nadu
12. D.D.B. Sanskrit University, Putur, Trichi, Tamil Nadu.
West Bengal
13. Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkatta.
Uttar Pradesh
14. Mahila Gram Vidyapith/Vishwavidyalaya, (Women?s University) Prayag, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
15. Indian Education Council of U.P., Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
16. Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith, Prayag, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
17. National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
18. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University (Open University), Achaltal, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
19. Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya, Kosi Kalan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
20. Maharana Pratap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya, Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh.
21. Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad, Institutional Area,Khoda,Makanpur,Noida Phase-II, Uttar Pradesh.
22. Gurukul Vishwavidyala, Vridanvan, Uttar Pradesh.
MR. OMAR ACT FAST
Press Club of Sopore in an emergency meeting called here at club office took a serious notice of an advertisement published in a local Hindi news paper hardly heard off, the inauguration of dubious press club office at Sopore by union water resources Minister and state congress president Mr. Saifudin Soz at eidgah road Sopore, as appeared in the advertisement. It is for the information of one and all that Press Club Sopore has been established in the town many many years ago. The president of Press Club Condemns the act of providing fictions information and misleading the public in general
Dear Mr. Abdullah,
Hello!! My name is charlie noone, i am a sociology student from Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado USA. i am trying to contact you regarding a project that i am trying to start that would send skis to kashmir. i am a skier myself and was inspired to do this after reading the BBC article entitled “Ski respite for war weary Kashmiris.” i have looked at the costs and have found 1000 pairs of skis, boots, and poles that i would like to send to the area i just need somewhere to send them. anything helps.
thank you
charlie noone
Mr.charlie noone
if u r really serious about ur project then plz call at
919906873744
i will tell u all the things.
Mr.charlie noone
if u r really serious about ur project then plz call at
919906873744
i will tell u all the things and i will guide accordingly.
Regarding elections
Regarding Assembly Elections :
Dear Mr Abdullah,
This is regarding the candidature for by poll assembly elections for sonwar constituency.this is really very sad that you and your party dont seem to give way to honest,sincer,hard worker,truthful & candid persons like Mr MOhd Yaseen Shah.I have been his supporter since long & he seems to have done a lot for the people & party. The party does not seem to give recognition to such worthy candidates. It would be shocking & ghastly if you take this stance of not giving way for such people to work.
Being a staunch supporter of Mr. Shah, I along with my associates strongly oppose the tactic of fielding any other candidate for the said constituency. We hope that your party takes the correct decision & fields Mr. Shah.This would be highly commendable.
Wishing you good luck.
Regards,
Dear Omer Abdulla;
i wab born and brought up in front of new secrteriate building in Srinagar. probably if you would look out of your office the single diapelated house next to assembly complex you see is our house.It was called House no 1 Park Road. It was park Road because the land on which new sectt building stands was Usmama zannana park,accross it was another park called Gandhi park, beautifull park it was we would along with all children of locality go to play cricket in there.
since 1989 we been living in one city or other for sustinence.webeen summoned by Land aquisition department for acquiring the house ,it is for extension of Assembly complex .we go to the department to get the compensation of my dreams and aspirations of life my formitive years.
What I am made to understand compensation is as per 1999 years award.
Can I request your good self to look into the issue and least we be compensated adequatly
Dear Mr Abdullah
You have successfuly demonstrated that by being poised and less hyperactive on contentious issues, one can deliver and deliver exactly in sync with the expectations of the people. However,as the drift of circumstances indicates, a storm of sorts is likely to sweep all across our neighbouring country. The shockwaves of this are likely to impact the people of Kashmir in particular and all countrymen in general. The wrong and misleading hopes thus emanating from across the border have to be effectively countered failing which anarchy which is fast spreading in our meighbourhood might as well get some fertile ground in Kashmir in which case Mr Abdullah and his entire team shall have to devise necessary pre-emptive strategy. It will be plain tragic if he is not already doing so!
Hi Omar: Hows the political life treating you out there in Jammu and Kashmir.
Suggestion …
Hi, i am a kashmiri local boy, right now in USA. i have a one suggestion.
To build any nation, its better to start with building a good roads. because roads give a first view of a nation or state.
Regards
Suhail
Dear Omar Abdullah,
The Lok Sabha election results have once again demonstrated that the communal forces would not have any place in the J&K state under your able leadership. We hope that such communal forces will have many more shocks and set backs in the times to come and they will not be able to disturb communal harmony in the state any longer where philosophical thoughts and cultural heritage have simultaneously grown and prospered in coexistence and harmony.
Hello Sir i am a student my name is yasir i live in Rainawari Sir today i was on my way towards your home Sir but you were not there i have met you Sir only one time & that was on first of Jan 2009 i really respect & honour you i want to become a part of your party sir my mother regards you just like as her own son i want to choose my carrer as a politician i really admire you Sir i am sure that you can be a good CM of J&K like your Grand Father SHEIKH SAHAB Sir i regard him as my idol l love you Sir i really want to meet you again my brother i pray to God that may God destroy your every enemy Good Luck Sir …
You and your party have again in Jammu And Kashmir, this is what the youth and your well wishers are were looking for, now we do expect that you
will make the state run toward bright future, i look that
you continu doing this for next 30years atlest..
sorry WON
Hello Sir its me agaian your well wisher sir today i am writting on a issue which is called SOG please Sir axe them they are killing innocent kashmiris on no basis Sir please probe that incident of alochi bagh under your own authority & dont give the opposition any chance to raise a finger on your admimistration Sir i am a great fan of yours i really like you I wish you a very best of luck in running the administration in a very good possible way & Sir am a resident of Rainawari it falls in Hazratbal constituency SIR the condition of the roads are very bad here in Rainawari because of drainage please take a note on that Have A Very Great Time Sir THANKS…..
Mr Omar Sahib,
Model code of conduct has gone but we are yet to see the commencement era of development in state.I am the denizen of capital city Srinagar which dosen’t look capital from any angle.You owe your chair to the people of Srinagar who have given you all eight assembly seats.Guaging by all parameters Srinagar city is in pathetic condition and needs prompt treatment.Mere framing of commitees won’t do but actual action on the ground is needed. I think you should take cue from Mrs Shiela Dixit as same modus operandi is required for development of Srinagar as was applied for development of Delhi in recent years. Mr Omar,honeymoon is over and it is the time to act.
Dear Omar,
Congratulations on getting your father aand brother in law berths in the cabinet. It was a woderful sight whwn all the three of you posed for a photograph. It would have been better, if you had joined Central cabinet and became Foreign minister. Any way, best of luck to all of you. May you prosper a lot and get everything inyour life. We are proud of you. Indian polity needs honest young, forthright people like you.
A.K. talwar
dear umer,
it has been prety a long time since you inherited the chair of CM.. of j&k.lot of expecttion were from you as you seem to be young and energitic and it was supposed that your word and deed would be same.the days have gone nights have passed .still there seems to be no chang in the ground suituation expect that the suitation has worsen day ofter day.you have cted gust like the actor in a movie who is far from the reality.your credidbility has gone with the winds and your family charisma has faded away.i tell you honestly that no one among you has the capability to reach even near to the energy,honesty and dedication of your grandfather.you are winning the election on his name and none else.try to ponder over it and do something if you can for this violance tourn valley.
Dear Sir i am very depressed to see these daily hartals we are losing our precious time regarding our education & tourism sector please my Brother do something bring the culprits to book & today many our youth are listening to some black sheeps who are living in our state & ARE PROMOTING STONE PELTING … please Sir do something we are with you .. your wellwisher .. yasir sultan ..
Dear omar
enough is enough
geelani cancer is growing and needs to be eradicated
kill him and his associates
that will be great
a hartal for four days is what these bastards will get and after that it will be hopefully peace and prosperity
Dear Omar Sahab geelani cancer is really growing JAK brother is right its time to clean the weed out of pond Sir he is creating very chiotic situation & Sir i think you should pave a visit to Shopian & see yourself what has happened there & shut the every mouth with your Honesty & Integrity you are doing a very good work I Love You My Brother keep it up We are with you & we will keep you supporting to our last breath …
Dear CM,
1. I as a normal citizen of J and K feel that your government is doing a
wonderful job for meeting the aspirations of all the citizens, it is a fact that
one can not satisfy all but its a good start………. Today my gut has forced me
to write an article on frequent road accidents in our state specially in hilly
areas like erstwhile District Doda.
2. Dear Omar I feel if your administration is not paying the attention
which is required in this matter than citizens have all the right to convey
the things required to be done at ground level . I don’t say your
administration is not doing its job but I thought if my article can bring
down the accidents in our state I will feel much relived.
3. The amount of money spend on post accident visits by officials n
ministers can be utilized in getting the things done before accidents happen
again. Prevention is better than cure.
4. I request you to give a due consideration to my article and try if any
one of my recommendations comes handy.
Regards
Sandhir Singh Kotwal
INTRODUCTION
1. In the last few months there has been a sharp rise in vehicular traffic
thereby increase in the road accidents in hilly areas. There are some
general causes like inadequate sight distances, sharp curves, steep
gradients and lack of visibility often aggravated by poor weather
conditions. In addition to these which are more prominent these a days
can be mended to reduce the frequency of these unfortunate road mishaps
which cause an irreparable loss to humanity by taking some appropriate
measure. Further, difficult terrain conditions pose Constraints in ensuring
adherence to design and construction norms, as also safer operations. This
calls for added vigilant application of safety principles during the planning,
construction, operation and maintenance stages for prevention of accidents
on hill roads.
PLANNING
2. Hill roads are characterized by risk prone stretches:?
(a) Narrow Widths.
(b) Steep Grades.
(c) Sharp or Blind curves.
(d) Steep dangerous valleys
3. While planning new road alignments on the hills, geologically
unstable and fissured areas prone to landslide and erosion should be
avoided. Due care has to be exercised in ensuring that the intervening road
length connecting the obligatory points at different altitudes have gradients
mostly within the ruling gradient limits. Adequate safety features like
parapet/guide walls, safety barriers, drainage arrangements, appropriate
sign ages, road markings, delineators etc. should be planned and provided.
4. During the construction stage, at the time of formation width
identifying the rock cutting/earth excavation without proper planning
disturbs the natural inclination of the hill face thereby, creating conditions
for large scale landslides, shooting boulders or rock fall. At places where
the alignment passes through landslide prone areas, advance geological
studies are required to be carried out and adequate protection works such
as breast walls, retaining walls and toe walls have to be erected prior to
starting the construction work. All visible cracks and fissures should be
properly sealed. Wire crated check walls along the valley side should be
provided with the formation cutting for retaining the excavated material so
as to check the damage to the habitations in the valley. At the same time,
the blasting operations should be minimum and well planned with
controlled techniques. The accidents, may it be due to fall of boulders or
blasting, cause loss of precious lives and property and hence to be avoided.
Sufficient warning arrangement should exist at the site for the workers and
public in such situations. Landslides pose chronic problems causing
damages to hill roads and loss of precious human lives and property.
Landslides are frequent and annually recurring phenomenon in the hills.
5. Most of the landslides occur due to exhaustive deforestation being
undertaken for urbanization and plantation. In these areas, rainwater
directly penetrates into the soil and causes landslides. The identification of
areas susceptible to landslides is necessary to support the infrastructure
development plans in the hills in reducing the risks of potential damages to
life and property. Timely mitigation measures
Should, therefore, be undertaken to either prevent or reduce occurrence of
landslides. However, technological innovations in India in the area of
landslide control have been very few and lot of work needs to be done in
this area.
It is mentionable here that since my childhood I see the landslide at
Malhori, Doda (malhori passi) on which Government has spent Crores of
rupees but all has gone down the drain. On the contrary if there had been a
plantation of tree stuff of erosion control(afforestation) the situation would
have been different and that too without spending much money. This is one
of the numerous examples.
MEASURES To REDUCE ACCIDENTS
6. LONG PLANNING MEASURES
One of the major causes of failure of slopes and road formation in
hills is poorly designed, constructed and inadequately maintained drainage
system which becomes a major cause of damage.
(a) Most landslides and damages to roads are associated with
water either from rainfall or underground sources. Drainage system
should, therefore, take care of cross?drainage, road surface drainage,
sub?surface drainage and also erosion control.
(b) In hilly roads, the side drains should be large enough to
effectively remove large discharges but, should not be deep enough
for vehicles or pedestrians to stray into them. Gentle side slopes and
shallow depths are preferred for safer traffic operations. Drains
should also be easily maintainable by keeping wide flat bottom for
easy cleaning and providing self cleansing velocities.
(c) Quick debris clearance of road side drains should be done to
avoid flow of rainwater over the surface causing damage of surface
and retaining walls by backfill penetration. The cracks and cavities
developing along the hill slope particularly before and during rainy
season need careful inspection and sealing well in time.
(d) Geographical Information System (GIS) technology has
been a popular and handy tool for visualization of accident data and
analysis of hot spots in highways. Many traffic agencies have been
using GIS for accident analysis. Accident analysis studies aim at the
identification of high rate accident locations and safety deficient
areas on the highways. So, traffic officials can implement
precautionary measures and provisions for traffic safety.
7. IMMEDIATE MEASURES
(a) Parapets, guide walls properly white washed on both ends and
white washed vertical strips on hill side at regular intervals serve
as life saving guides as these afford a feeling of safety to the
drivers and the pedestrians.
(b) Site?specific and appropriate safety measures like crash barriers;
wire rope fencing etc. should be erected in high accident riskprone
road stretches for avoiding fatal accidents.
(c) An important element of traffic management is proper traffic
signage’s, delineators and markings. The standard signs should be
displayed in prescribed layout, convey a clear simple warning,
command respect and attention of road users.
(d) The positioning of the signs must give drivers sufficient time to
understand and respond to the information. Signs must be clean
and well maintained.
(e) As fog is a problem in the hilly areas, use of luminous paints/strips
may be used for signboards.
8. IMMEDIATE ADMINSTRATIVE MEASURES
(a) Issue of driving licence: Comprehensive issuing of driving
license by the authorities according to the ruled laid down. It is
unfortunate to tell that even I have the licence without the driving test
and anybody having some money to offer can have a driving licence
sitting at home without going through the test or viva. We need strict
test conducted by the concerned authorities, MAYBE WE NEED TO TEST
OUR CONDUCTING AUTHORITIES FIRST.
(b) RTO/ ARTO Office Have ARTO office upgraded to RTO in
DODA and setup ARTO at kishtwar.
(c) Checks by police :? Police (Traffic and Executive) be delegated
the authority to check n account of any defaulters, they should be made
accountable for failure in checking overloading and speed limits.
(d) More PublicVeh :?Main cause of overloading is less number of
vehicles as per the requirement and i appreciate your immediate
sanction of 100 SRTC buses but unfortunately they are yet to arrive .We
agree its difficult to get all of them in one go,but there is a solution to that
too…Our Transport Minister need to get all the transporters together and
get them to induct more vehicles in effected areas on priority . A sincere
and dedicated government can get this done.
(e)Accountability Make the responsible people accountable
and distribute their area of responsibility, give them time limit n expect
them show results, and failures if any should be dealt strictly, we citizens
have yet to see a single sacking of any bureaucrats or a minister. Sack the
culprits and see the results.
(f) Earmark Prone Areas:? It has been noticed that there exists
stretches of the roads which needs special attention due to geological
factors, and are accident prone areas. work on them ON PRIORITY.
(g) Use of mobile phone while driving:? It has become a fashion
amoung the drivers to talk while driving and it takes fraction of a second
in these hilly terrain roads to loose the control over the vehicle. It is
recommended to cancel the driving licence on the spot of the guilty.
CONCLUSION
For enhancing road users’ safety on hill roads, action needs to be
initiated on priority for identification of accident black spots and taking
remedial measures at such vulnerable, accident prone locations. This
would also necessitate scientific investigations and analysis of accidents
without relying merely on accident reports and data available with the
local enforcement authorities.
Dear Omar Shab
First of all i want to congradulate you for becoming the youngest chief minister of J and k.Omar you have announced on your visit to Islamic University Awantipora that you are going to keep a special package for establishing infrastructure for the university.So What are your plans about the development of that university.
Today i saw a despondent Omar but was always used to see a scintillating Omar. Times change Mr.CM… U exhibited the fact that Honour weighs more than the chair…
Jai HO!!
we all feel proud of him.
don’t quit omar! we see you as a role model which is rare for a politician in India.
his resignation is not accepted.
Dear omar i think this is what these crocodiles wanted they dont want to see this state to be run by a clean honest dynamic and bold leader like you.I have a very strong belive coming deep inside from my heart that a person/politicain like you is a god’s gift to kashmir which kashmiris are not able to understand. Sir,it may be very strange to know that even i belong to a opposition political family but sir i dont have so much of regard to any one as compared to you and its because of your clean personality truthness. Dear friend omar i suggest you one thing instead of giving resignation on a baseless allegation you should have given a press conference and told tese crocodiles that i am ready for any enquiry as they “crocodiles want ” this could have made their faces black. Be strong dont get emotional and take hasty decisions this will lead to problems befor taking any hasty decisions consult your most reliable friends family members and above all refer to “Almighty ALLAH ” i promise you he will guide you to the right path with this i once againg request you not to take hasty decisions like this for the sake of Jammu and KAshmir
with lots of love and regards from
Eshan Ahad
Dear Omar
U are indeed a man of character but in politics one has to be thick skin and learn to handle such tricky Issues,thr is no doubt in ur integrity and ur character but J & K needs a young and dynamic leader like u.
I m Sure had it been Mr Farooq on this chair,he would not hav resigned but would have conveyed to the opposition and the world that i m clean n let thr b an inquiry. Thats end of it,i m sure this incident ll have a gr8 impact on u and u ll b more stronger in ur approach .
All the best Omar
regards
Sandhir Singh Kotwal
Hello CM,
Sorry to for yesterday! but next time becarefull while you are sitting on your chair,be cool and hit them but hit them hard, you are a great leader, we need you so dont let us down my daer, we are with you always dose not matter what they say.
hi!Omar
Really , A great hero . U have the power to change the Future of J&K
Dear Omar,
Resignation has vindicated your moral stand.But as C.M it is your duty to expose one and all involved in sex scam as public has every right to know the facts.
Mr Omar -
Its your moral duty to show those culprits to public.who are sole responsible of using flesh of teens girls for their pleasure. and playing with their life’s. so please open those and put them behind bars and punish hard n harder so it will be lesson for all. I am also a big fan of ur sincerity. Now government stop shedding those culprits..if it doesnt happen. people will loose faith on law.
Regards
Suhail
Dear Omar Abdullah,
Being a true democrat your resignation from the post of cm was commendable in the best traditions and practices of democracy. But kindly remember one thing that the norms and conventions being developed by your opponents are not for the healthy growth of polity in the J&K State as well as in the country. Mud slinging and street barking by your critics without any rhyme and reason would only leave scars and hiatus for the peaceful progress and growth of the state as well as the polity. Our founding fathers tried their best to maintain decencies while commenting at each other as their sole aim was to develop healthy practices on the pattern of British Parliament. Although many a great statesmen have resigned from their top posts but those resignations were made when they themselves took the moral responsibility for an happening in the state interest. Krishna Menon’s resignation as a Defence Minister during 1962 war as well as C.D. Deshmukh’s resignation as Finance Minister and Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Resignation as Railway Minister are the notable examples. I strongly feel you ought to have not resigned when the opposition has come to lowest norms of polity. Such resignations would lead us no where. When mud slinging and character assassination has come a general practice by the opposition as they have no other issues in the public interest to plead your resignation would only accomplish their designs to remove you from the scene. Please keep cool and do not be lead away by the barking of the ………….Lord Diserali’s maiden speech in the British Parliament was a memorable speech. With best wishes.
Sujan Singh
dear Ommer,once u opted politics as a career,don’t allow emotions to rule u.I will definitely advise u to keep your flock together and give credence to those of your collegues who are known in the populace.Don’t be mislead by your so called wellwishers.Give due regards and audience to your grassroot workers and not highflying opportunists.Learn thoroughly about the experiences of ur grandfather.Grassroot worker is the treasure of ur party so don’t spoil ur career vis a vis the party.I will guide u at the behest of experience that don’t be comlacent and dependant on congress.God has given u heavenly opportunity to build up ur party and restore its lost glory becuse PDP is a tough blocade in future for u.Also expose the PDP tactfully in front of kshniri masses.Hope u would build up NC Vigrously with a mission.
respected sir,
through the esteem coloums of your blog i would like to convey the situation of swine flu in jammu.The conditions are as follows:
1.less quarentine wards
2.no kits and medicens to doctors of GMC
3.no provisions made for our safety
ON 11th aug fuw cases were reported in gandhi nagar and sarwal hospital in which mainly were rsidents of nanak nagar colony. mostly the students from pune(aakanshi)and few others from banglore,also a soilder of BSF who returned from uttar pradesh is also suffering from swine flu.
The protection measurs are very costly as compared to other cities.
THE PROTECTION MASKES ARE OF Rs60/Pc.WHICH ARE HARDLY USED FOR ONE DAY.ITS A FORMAL REQUEST BY AN INFORMAL STUDENT IN JAMMU CITY.I AM ANKUR(9622007816)
Dear Mr Omar Abdullah
I am so sorry that I am filing a complaint in this way in connection with not getting an appointment with you. It seems that there is some lacuna in the working of your esteemed office that is keeping people away from you, especially those who are concerned about the welfare of the state and its people.
I am an Advocate practicing in state High Court at Jammu and a child rights activist working on behalf of internationally reputed NGO Child Rights and You (CRY) that works in 18 states across India for the protection of the child rights. CRY has seriously initiated its work in J&K and wants active cooperation from the state government in its various endeavours.
In this connection, I have been trying to seek an appointment for last two months for a delegation of CRY that wants to meet you and discuss certain important issues related to child rights in the conflict ridden state where children have been mostly at the receiving end and suffered immensely due to the insurgent violence. Unfortunately your secretary Asghar Husain doesn’t feel like giving us the opportunity to highlight the cause. Perhaps he doesn’t understand the seriousness of the issue.
When I tried to repeatedly call Asghar Husain to provide me an appointment with you as per your convenience, he was very rude and told me that “what is your problem …madam’’. Such behavior from the officers most close to you is ruining the image of the chief minister’s office. You have a different image, with most people thinking that you are a very approachable CM who cares about people of the state. But the way some officers in the office of the CM are functioning, is bringing a bad name to you.
I hope after going through this mail, your good self will give us an appointment as the issue concerns the welfare of the state and its children.
Regards
Deepika Thussoo
Advocate, Human rights activist and a freelance Journalist
Dear Omar Abdullah,
I have strong reservations that this blog is your’s yet i am addressing you through it because i believe in miracles……i adore you for being the youngest CM of the state but at the same time i feel sorry to say that so far you have not exhibited the spirit of your youth….The least expected of you(personally although not personal) was to bring in jobs for the youth ass kashmir is potent enough for that i know, you being an MBA need not be tutored about these petty things i know yet i want to draw your attention towards the IT infrastructure in KASHMIR region…Internet is an alien thing to most of kashmiris and you have to take responsibility for this…..Much is expected of you sir
Subject: No Right to Use the Bathroom in “Democratic” India
Illegal Encroachment of Bathroom in the building of Karan Market
Dear Sir,
We the Shop Owners and All Female Employees in Karan Market are running our Business here for more than 10 yrs now. We are facing a big problem; the Dharmarth Trust locked the Bathroom which was used by all Female’s of the Karan Market and now Dharmarth Trust is planning to sell off the said Bathroom.
Sir, we want to bring to your kind notice that Dharmarth Trust person came on April 6th 2009 Morning at 11am and locked the said bathroom, which was used by Females only.. As there is no other Bathroom/Toilets for Females .All the Females of the Karan Market are facing numerous problem. Later after one week the Bathroom key was given to us after so many arguments. Again on 22nd June 2009 the Bathroom was locked till date.
We request your goodself to kindly look into the matter .
Despite of various phone calls made to the Dharmarth Trust they are not ready to talk to us. Every time We tried to communicate things with them they always refuse by saying ” do whatever you can do” .Therefore We are requesting you to take necessary action. We need a early & strict corrective action against the Dharmarth Trust so that We can justify our stand to go legally against it as we have full faith in J.M.C.
Kindly look into the matter on sympathetic ground at the earliest and oblige.
Mr. Omar congratulations that you are picking up the things in a very fast and matured manner . The day is not far away when we will see the sea change in the whole system. I appreciate your efforts. In my personal opinion you are the only person in the cabinet who can change the direction of the wind for the prosperity of the state. I wish you all sucess.
KARAN MARKET IS BACK SIDE OF RAGHUNATH JEE TEMPLE
Dear Omar (Abdullah please and not Omar Farooq),
As one of your contemporaries, I will take the liberty of addressing you by your first name and not as the honourable CM or any of the official titles. I write to you as a fellow Kashmiri whose ancestors shared the same land, air and water as yours. But somewhere I seem to have lost the right over the place while you have achieved the highest office in land. As an Indian and a Kashmiri I was thrilled to see someone like you take the oath of office of the CM, rather than a rabble rousing ranter. The gods of Kashmir seem to be finally listening.
Though you might know and be aware of the existence of the community of Kashmiri Pandits, I don’t know how many of the current generation of the Valley are aware that such people did live alongwith their ancestors not so many years back. For their information I will add a few details about the community. Kashmiri Pandits are Hindus (all of them Saraswat Brahmins) whose generations were the early habitants of the Valley. Sparing the detailed historical tomes over here, the Kashmiri Pandits or KPs as they are called for short, suffered a series of religious persecutions over centuries. Yet to the surprise of everyone they managed to survive and achieve a high-level of erudition, both at the scholastic and spiritual levels. However as history teaches us, smartness doesn’t always lead to success. Continuous years of persecution created a shift in demographics against us pushing us to lose our religion and culture. However being a very stubborn and at times a very arrogant race, the Kashmiri Pandits decided to fight back on ways to preserve their way of life.
One of the many stories that Kashmiri Pandits tell their children is about an era when due to the religious persecution only 11 KP families were left in the Valley. It is left to that and no details are given. It is left to the imagination of their children to think of the dogged determination of their ancestors to struggle in the face of severe winters and a primitive lifestyle to safeguard and retain their culture and way of life for their descendents. Setting apart its religious angle, it is a story which strengthens the resolve amongst many of us– the descendents of those 11 families– to conserve and retain that culture. Over the years brothers of the different branches of families decided to leave the Valley and become part of the rest of the country. Here also they flourished. Of course one can never forget the legacy of the Nehrus, the Saprus, the Haksars to name a few.
When India became a sovereign nation, while the rest of the country burnt in communal frenzy, the Kashmiris fought back the tribal invaders and retained their independence. I don’t think I even need to delve on the way your grandfather Sher-i- Kashmir, Shaikh Abdullah managed to retain Kashmir for us and ensured that none of the KPs were harmed.
Post independence we worked and managed to build our lives in the state. Many of the landed gentry lost their land in the decree of “land to the tiller” without being given any compensation. But we never resisted or opposed those socialist decrees. We hung our heads down, prayed to Mother Sharika and walked to Ganpatyar for our morning prayers.
For us we did not care about the religion of our neighbor. We shared a common bloodline with our co-religionists in the Valley and we lived by it. So while rumours started in the 90s and people talked in hushed tones about our leaving the Valley, we did not think that was essential. We thought it was a bunch of lies. But then the killings started and the loudspeakers became blaringly louder to the cries of “kashir nimav bhatav bhagar bhatneyov saan” (we will take Kashmir, without the KP men but with the KP women). This time we knew it was over. The 11 families had managed to survive the sword, but we could not have managed in front of the Kalashnikovs. So we packed and moved. The heat and dust of the plains consumed many of us. But it did not matter. Nobody bothered about us. We were not even a minuscule part of the electoral ballot. As was with our ancestors we sought refuge in our pedagogy. We spread across this vast country. So many of us moved across the seven seas, to the US, UK and the rest and started again the process of reconstruction alongwith a tenacious determination to preserve the centuries old traditions.
As things start settling in the Valley, we understand if we are not wanted back. After all we can be a demographic danger to the rest of our brethren in the Valley. It is but obvious human nature to feel insecure. But I want to ask this to you and to everyone out there. What kind of history of Kashmir will be taught at the schools? When books are written about the history of Kashmir, will there be no mention of the Kashmiri Pandits? I am a citizen of India. The constitution of this country makes me feel very secure about my fundamental rights. But that security does not extend to the land of my forefathers. As a KP not born in the Valley I have no legal claim over the place. For that I have to first become a state subject and go through corrupt and red tape state babudom to get such a status. More so, as a KP married outside the community, I have completely negated my right over the land of my ancestors. My marriage is registered under the Hindu Act which was furiously debated and given a modernized outlook by the fathers of the constitution but sadly enough this did not extend to my legal claims over Kashmir.
Israel is lambasted for taking away the land of the Palestinians. What will the current denizens of the Valley answer for? As the head of the state, you need to start asking your people some of these questions. Because if you do not history will question them tomorrow. However, if you think these questions are irrelevant, and we need to again bow our heads and keep silent, please let us know. At least the souls of the ancestors of those 11 families will know their final status in a land which they fought so hard to be a part of.
Contributed By :- Preeti Bakaya
Dear CM,
J and K State
I firstly extend my hearty wishes to u and your team,for the way u are going,ohnestlly speaking,j and k state will be having bright future.
Dear sir,
i am persuing my doctorate progrmme at present and here i want to draw your kind attension towards the statement that, ten years ago my sister, residing at nabdi pora alamgari bazar srinager gave thier two shops on rent basis attached with domestic house having two rooms only for accomodation, on the verbal agreement that,the rentee namly Mr imtiyaz mirza R/O GANI DOOR ALAMGARI BAZAR SGR will ocupy the same for about ten years only, which was accepted.The agreement took place in presence of two respectable persons of the concerned locality.When my brothe-in-law namely Gh.Mustafa approached him to vacate he totally refused and threatned the same.we requested him a lot that we are having big family comparising of five daughters and a son, all studying and suffering from acute accomodation problim.he rufused and denied totally. i applead to concerned locality,then to shop keepers union and then to concerned police station but all got veined.
Dear sir we don’t have any influence to approach some body. AND LASTLLY I WAS SUGGESTED TO APPROACH COURT WHICH I DID.
THROUGH THIS EMAIL I REQUEST YOUR GOOD-SELF TO INTERVEIN INTO THE MATTER SO THAT THE FUTURE OF OUR KIDS WILL BE SAVED AND JUSTICE WILL BE GIVEN TO US,FOR WICH PEOPLE OF KASHMIR HAVE ELECTED U.
i tried my lot to meet u personally,but could not.THIS WAS ONLY THE WAY TO INFORM YOU.
THANKS AND HOPING POSITIVE FOR YOUR RESPOSE.
Dear Mr Omar,
I have read this blog for the first time and i sincerely feel that kashmir needed a Politician who has a vision and who can break the old fundamentalist ,misinformed social fabric from kashmir.
I would like to press my point about returning of Kashmiri Pandit’s to the valley agian.What will be your and your Goverments roadmap for that.
Amit Koul
Mr. Umar, are you really a kashmiri, loving the mother land Jammu Kashmir. I dont think so, forget about the past, what they (rulurs) did. You can do something good to the people of jammu kashmir in order to make forgiveness for your elders. You know that majority of people want independent jammu kashmir, what is wrong in this, you should be happy and join hands with the people to achieve this independence, which every citizen and society want for their motherland, so why dont you. Is this because you are born outside kashmir and studied and stayed lang time outside kashmir, dont you love your mother, so why dont jammu kashmir,. Please still you have time, do the best for independence of jammu kashmir, dont think in terms of india and pakistan. independence is the best, work for that, otherwise you will understand one day but that will be too late.
Hello Omar: Thought of sharing my views with you and rest of folks on your work and current status of State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Well, since i have left state around seven to eight years back but am still connected coz of my entire family there at Jammu itself. Really speaking, i have seen very less news on any developmental works during your stint of last eight month and am sure and confident you would have definitely done good amount of work and reforms in our systems and processes out there in our motherland but audacity of all these things is very less.
Last, but not least, let me assure you most of the younger and educated generation are having great expectations from you and we expect lot of reforms compared to what have taken in past.
Your education and thought process is definitely ahead of all old folks out there.
I would suggest you to maintain excellent balance of developmental tasks for all three regions of the state and simultanoeously should be taking care of egoes of all Old politicians.
Best way to grow politically , i believe is by being attached to entire population of the state by doing good amount of reforms and developmental work and at the same time you should be carryong every one along even though it is very difficult task.
I wish you good luck for your future and keep doing good work.
Great Regards
Arvind
Even as I walk through a garden in Kashmir full of red roses fit for kings of an age that had no democracy but peace in a place not far of from there a wife laments the loss of a husband that died through no fault of his own and no one claims responsibility for the deed and no one accuses anyone. The valley is more silent now than ever before and all this in a democracy
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Dear Omar,
I have read many comments and suggestions on the re-settlement of kashmiri pandits who migrated during tensions, riots and turmoils in J&K. A period comes when the displaced persons settle in their new homes and they get gainfully employed in their new settlements. They develop new interests at new places but desire to go back to their natives places is always a longing for ever. Many Indian professionals are settled in foreign countries as doctors, engineers and skilled workers and they have made those countries their permanent homes. Even in a metropolitan city one has to change many houses and a house once dearer becomes a strange place after some time although its memories do remain in the mind. Those who plead and make suggestions for the resettlement of the migrated people do not know that such people are already emotionally settled and they have created new relationships socially, economically and they are already assimilated and integrated in their new social set ups. Those who migrated during riots if they are willing to go back to their native places and they have their economic interests left over there they will not await any order from any government as they have their inherent right to re-possess their properties which might have been usurped from them during their riots. Let us leave it to the wisdom of the migrated people to decide about their future plans. With best wishes.
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???? ? ????? ?? 29 ???? ???? ??? ???? ”???? ???????“ ?? ???? ????? ???? ?????? ????? ???????? ?? ???? ??? ???? ????? ??? ??? ??? ???? ? ????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ???????? ? ?????? ?? ????? ???? ??? ? ??????? ?? ??????? ???????? ??? ????? ???? ??? ?? ????? ?? ????? ??? ????? ???? ? ????? ??? ?????? ??????? ?????? ????? ??? ????? ???? ?? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ????? ???? ????? ??? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ??? ?? ???? ?? ??? ??? ???? ? ????? ?? ??? ???? ”???? ????? “ ??? ??? ?????? ???? ????? ?? ??? ????????? ??? ???? ????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?? ????? ????? ???? ?? ??? ???? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ???? ?? ??? ?? ????? ?? ??? ??? ?? ??? ????? ?? ???? ?? ???????? ???????? ??? ?????????? ?? ??????? ????? ????? ??? ????? ?? ?????????? ?? ????? ?? ???? ??????? ????????? ?? ??? ???????? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??? ?? ???? ???? ?? ???????? ??????? ??? ???????? ?? ??? ? ??? ?? ???? ????18 ???? ?? ???? ??????? ?? ??? ???? ??????? ??? ????? ???? ?? ??? ?? ???? ????? ???? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ???? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ?? ??????? ?? ????????? ?????????? ??? ?????????? ?? ???? ? ????? ??? ?? ?? ???? ?? ???? ????? ?? ???? ???????? ???? ?? ?????? ??? ????? ??? ?? ??? ???? ???????? ?? ???????? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ??????? ???????? ??? ?????? ??????? ?? ?? ?????? ???????? ?? ???? ?? ??????? ????? ??????? ?? ?????? ????????????? ????? ????????? ?????? ?? ???? ?????????? ??? ?????????? ?? ???????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ?? ???????? ???????? ????? ? ????? ??? ??????? ??? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ??????? (??????? ???????? ??? ???????????) ?? ”????? ????????“ ?? ?? ?? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ?????? ?? ?? ? ????? ??? ?? ?? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ???? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ?? ??????????? ???? ??? ????? ?? ??????…. ???? ???????? ?? ???? ???! ????? ?? ?????? ????? ??? ?????????? ?? ???? ?????? ??????? ?? ?? ??????? ?? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ??? ??? ?? ?? ????? ? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ??? ???? ????? ??????? ??????? ?? ??? ??????? ?? ??? ?? ???? ? ????? ?? ????? ??? ???? ?? ??????? ????? ????? ??? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ???? ????? ???? ?? ????? ???? ????? ??? ??????? ?? ???? ??? ???? ???? ????? ? ????? ?????? ???? ????? ?? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ??? ??????? ?? ???????? ?? ???? ????? ?? ???? ???? ??? ???
?? ????? ???? ? ????? ?? 750 ??? ???? ????? ???? ?? ??? ???? ????? ??????? ??? ?? ???????? ?? ????? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???? ???? ?? ????? ?? ??? ??? ????? ???? ??? ???? ???? ???? ???? ? ????? ?? ???? ? ??? ????? ??? ????? ??? ??? ??????? ?? ???????? ??? ????? ????? ?? ???????? ?? ?? ???????????? ?????? ??? ??? ? ???? ?? ????? ??? ????? ?? ??? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ???? ????????? ??????? ??? ?? ??? ?? ?????? ??????? ?? ??? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???? ?? ???? ????? ????? ???? ??? ???? ?? ????? ?? ?? ??? ??????? ?? ??????? ?? ???? ?? ????????? ???? ???? ??? ?? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ???? ?? ?? ???? ????? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ?? ??????? ?? ??????? ?? ??? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???? ???? ?? ????? ?? ?? ? ?? ????? ??????? ?? ??????? ?? ???? ??? ?????
???? ??? ??? ?? ??????? ?? ???? ? ????? ?? ??? ???? ???????? ?????? ?? ?????…. ????????? ?? ?? ??? ???? ????? ???? ??? ?? ?? ???? ??? ”???? ????? “?? ???? ?? ????? ??? ???? ???? ??????????? ???? ?? ???????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ?? ????? ???? ???….! ???? ? ????? ?? ?????? ????? ??? ?? ????? ???? ???? ?? ????? ??? ??? ?? ?????? ???? ???? ?? ?? ?? ?? ???? ?? ??? 1964 ???? ?????? ????? ?? ?? ??? ?? ?? ?? ?? ???? ????? ?? ????? ?? ????? ???? ???? ????? ??? ?? ??????? ???? ??? ?? ? ??? ????? ?? ??? ?? ??????? ??? ???? ?? ?? ??? ?? ?? ????? ??? ??? ????? ???? ??? ????????? ?? ???? ??? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???? ???????? ?? ????? ?????? ??? ?????? ????? ???????? ?? ????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ?? ??????? ?? ????? ??? ??? ??? ?? ??? ????? ???? ?????? ?? ???? ?? ??? ???? ??? ?? ?? ??? ??? ???? ?? ??? ???? ??? ???? ?? ?? ????? ??? ??????
Assalamu Alikum,
DEar brother please visit the following link.
http://www.kashmiruzma.net/full_story.asp?Date=22_12_2009&ItemID=4&cat=8
Now work for the jammu kashmir, the ultimate and real future is here. Forget india and pakistan, They and even we can enjoy a beautiful life if we remain nutral between these two divided brothers, Why to be indian or pakistani, we were independent and should be independent, Both will be our friends i mean india and pakistan. Please try to understand the wishes of people, nobody want india and pakistan, so should also try to fulfill these wishes of people. It is the ultimate future, and one day it will come true. INSHA ALLAH. Hope u understand.
Wassalam.
omar abdullah ….reform islam from within
or face the consequences
this is just the beginning…af/pak, iraq,…
kashmir was in india
kashmir is in india
kashmir will remain in india
IF kashmir wants OUT JUST BECAUSE majority there are MUSLIM,then it is a FAILURE of Indian Secularism
That will PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL that Muslims CANNOT coexist with Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Jews and Buddhists
AND if kashmir seceeds from the indian union….ALL MUSLIMS MUST LEAVE india…BAG BAGGAGE AND Their HATEFUL KORAN
we kashmiris dont want to remain with a bloody country like india and insha ALLAH we will get freedom from your india soon harminder and you called our QURAN hateful you son of a hateful bitch how dear you I DONT KNOW WHETHER YOU R A SIKH OR HINDU but one thing is sure that you are an ASSSSSSSSSSSSSS HOOOOOLE A BIG ONE & AN ADVICE GO & GET YOURSELF FUCKED FROM A GIAT DICK OF KASHMIRI FUCK YOU !
the “reply” from “yasir”…..is exactly my whole point
muslims have ZERO tolerance and are the MOST THIN SKINNED SET of whining humans on this planet
i dont even know “yasir” and he concludes that i am of doubtful parentage (in fact off beasts…this is the MOST FREELY USED MUSLIM expression against any NON MUSLIM)
a muslims typical obsession with oversized human male phalusses is very clearly apparent in his above comment
an animalistic liking for endless illicit fornication too fills his “mind”
yasir
just leave india and GO TO ANY ONE of the 57 muslim countries
bye bye
Hello Omar: I want to share some thoughts on development of the state at a great rate( would focus on Public Private partenership in developing infrasturcture.Should you get a chance to go through this message, please feel free to drop me a mail at arvin.hmc@gmail.com.
Great Regards
Arvind
hi shimur you are such an asshole..you are like your father who is a traitor of our homeland..how can you support our killers ?
indian armed agression in this heavy militarised zone has murdered more than 100 thousand civilians , equal number of people are languishing in infamous indian? jails , equal number are displaced and left homeless. rape and humiliation is everywhere..indian armed terrorists have torched and looted billions worth of property…so if we react we are terrorists ? even united nation recognizes that kashmir is a disputed territory occupied by india. we had a prime minister of our own till 1952….
Dear Omar:
Had you not joined politics, you would have been wonderful scholar in a reputed university!There is no doubt that an intellectual and a good person reside in you.
Your grand father was an instituion in himself,who was right to save nativity, while associating himself with other native ,Nehru.The history has proven him right.Look at in our neighbourhood.
The Cold war made the huge difference, where they had no choice but to remain unassessed in real sense.I wrote abook on Kashmir,as it has been my passion and I have spent first twenty yeras in its lap.The book is,Kashmir: Fractured Nativity(closed options,open possibilities),published by VDM,Germany,2009.In October issue ,it was reviewed by prof Joseph Langer in the ‘journal of European Perspectives’,October,2009.I still feel, there has to be agenuine book on Abdullah,Nehru family in context to Kashmir and international social order.
All the best.We have faith in you.
God bless you.
Ashok kaul
BRUDY FUL YASIR GET OUT OF THE .
saale harami yasir patak parega.
bahut maar paregi.
Sir, I am a great fan of yours nut it doesn’t mean that i will blow my trumpet with your name. i want to make you ponder over he recent central university in the region. I know you have strive hard for the allocation of university in hte state… though there are many already. I have a question, why didn’t you emphasis a one university for ladakh region. the people of ladakh are migrating to other state for higher eduaction and and in tis way they jut blow out their hard earned money in other state. Ladakh is the integral part of J&K na dit will remain. UT for Ladakh is not the solution but equal status for ladakh is the best solution for some discontentment going on in hte region. i believe you as a young and dyanmic leader……please make something to set up a university in Ladakh……
long live Omar
Dear Omar,
We will not support you for this statement that Kasmiris want to return from POK and you will welcome them. Why don’t you not think about the Kasmiri pandits .Why don’t you welcome them back. Are they not part of Kashmir. KP’S are living the life of migrants from last two decades and no body is bordered about them .They even don’t have proper roof on there houses.Why don’t you think about the future of there children .What gonna happen with them .You only know politics and doing these type of things to gain a political mileage.What do you think when these People across the border will return will be faithful to India . No not at all at any cost . So think about the people who are the part of intergral J&K . We will not allow outsiders in our India again to flourish militancy again.We want our state save and secure.
Omar think about the J&K and development here . We people voted you as our representaive in govt so think about the citizens here.
The recent political stunt by Omar our youngest Chief Minister is a welcome come step. the J&K politics has been only limited to the valley and the other two parts under the negligence. you can only get back the people from POK but what about the wounds of thousands of Pandits who are alienated in their own land. First you need to clean your home than invite the guest or outsider.
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Assalamu Alikum
Legality of Indian Claim on Kashmir
Kashmir Watch, Feb 16
By Dr. Raja Muhammad Khan
Following the World War-II, there has been an unremitting resistance by the people of Subcontinent against the ruling British colonial power. Under the swelling pressure of the people of subcontinent, the British Government finally had to announce the partition of the Subcontinent on June 3, 1947. However, the British Parliament formally passed The Indian Independence Act-1947 on July 17, 1947. As per provision of Article-I of the Independence Act, India was to be partitioned into two Dominions namely India and Pakistan from 15th day of August 1947. However, Article 7 of the Indian Independence Act very clearly states that from 15th August 1947, the suzerainty of His Majesty over the Indian states lapse and with it lapses all treaties and agreements in force at the date of the passing of this Act between His Majesty and the rulers of Indian states. Consequent upon this, all powers and functions, which were exercisable by the British Government in relation to the Princely States, also ceased.
All agreements of British governments with either rulers or states also lapsed on 15th of August 1947. Since the state of Jammu and Kashmir was a Princely State with a special autonomous status, therefore, it can be very conveniently said, that on 15th day of August 1947, the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh was not the permissible ruler of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as all his treaties with British India lapsed on that day. Once he was not a ruler of the state, he had no right to sign the instrument of accession (if at all he signed that) with the new Indian dominion. This title to the state was granted to him by the British Government (East India Company) under the Treaty of Amritsar (Kashmir Sale deed) signed on 16 March 1846 and lapsed on the appointed day of 15th August 1947.
Besides, on July 25, 1947 in his address to special full meetings of the Chamber of Princes held in New Delhi, Lord Mountbatten categorically told all princes of Princely States that they were practically free to join any one of dominions; India or Pakistan. He however clarified that, while acceding to any dominion they could take into account geographical contiguity and wishes of the people. In case of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, either of the above factors was favouring state’s accession to Pakistan, but Maharaja Hari Singh did not accept this basic precondition of accession.
Indian claim that its forces landed Srinagar Airport on October 27, 1947, only after signatures on Instrument of Accession by Maharaja and the Indian government is also fallacious. Indeed, a heavy contingent of Patiala State was involved in fighting against the Kashmiri rebellions in Uri Sector on 18 October 1947, which means that they were very much inside the State’s territory much earlier than October 27, 1947.
On 24 October 1947, Kashmiris formally declared their independence from Dogra Raj and established their own government with the name of Azad (Free) Kashmir Government. Following this Maharaja Hari Singh sent his deputy Prime Minister Mr. R.L. Batra to New Delhi for Indian military assistance to his Government against those revolted and tribal from NWFP who joined their brethrens against a tyrant rule. He (Batra) met the Indian Prime Minster and other prominent Indian leaders and requested for assistance without making any mention or promise of state’s accession to the Indian Union. The Indian government instead sent Mr. V.P Menon (Indian Secretary of State) to Kashmir to assess the situation on the spot by himself on 25 October 1947.
After assessing, the situation in Kashmir Mr. V.P Menon flew back to New Delhi on 26 October 1947, together with Kashmiri Prime Minster Mr. Mahajan, who met top Indian leadership, seeking military assistance. He was refused to get that until state’s formal accession with India. On this Kashmiri Premier threatened the Indian leadership that if immediate military assistance was not granted, he would go to Lahore for negotiations with Pakistani leadership over the future status of the state. In a parallel development, Sheikh Abdullah met Indian Premier, Jawaharlal Nehru, on the same day, October 26, 1947, who agreed to despatch military assistance to the Kashmir government.
As stated by Mahajan, the Kashmiri Prime Minister, that V.P. Menon accompanied him to convince Hari Singh for accession of the State with India on 27 October 1947. Under the compulsion, Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession on the same day i.e. 27 October 1947, which was later taken to Lord Mountbatten (Indian Governor General), who also signed that on the same day (27 October), which was practically difficult. V.P. Menon, however, states that all these formalities of signatures were completed on 26 October 1947, which is impracticable. This version, however, seems concocted as even contradicted by pro Indian Kashmiri Premier. Both however are unanimous on one point that Indian state forces landed at Srinagar airfield in the morning of 27 October 1947 and a battalion of Patiala State received them there, which was already there.
In his travel account, Kashmiri Prime Minister Mahajan has described that he had refused to return to Kashmir and hand over powers to Sheikh Abdullah until Srinagar airfield had been physically taken over by the Indian forces. This creates doubt as to whether Mahajan and V.P Menon even went to the State (Jammu) for getting the signatures of Maharaja Hari Singh on the Instrument of Accession before 27 October 1947. This is further confirmed by variation in the statements of V.P. Menon and Mr. Mahajan (Kashmiri Prime Minister) regarding their travel to Kashmir either on 26 or on 27 October 1947 for getting the signatures of Maharaja Hari Singh.
However, whatever be the case the factual position is that; Maharaja Hari Singh was not in favour of State?€™s accession to Indian Union therefore, he only requested the Indian government for military assistance without any pre-condition of accession. Indeed, the accession documents and letters to Lord Mountbatten were initiated through the Joint efforts of V.P Menon and pro India Kashmiri Premier Mahajan, as wished by Indian Government and Hari Singh was forced to sign it on the evening of 27 October 1947 or thereafter. Whereas, Indian forces landed on Srinagar airport on the early hours of 27 October 1947. The time calculation of Mr. V.P Menon’s (Indian Secretary of State) visit to Srinagar, Delhi, Jammu and vice versa does not fit in with the concocted story of the signing of the Instrument of Accession.
Even if there is an instrument of accession between Maharaja Hari Singh and Indian government, it provides a number of safeguards to the state’s sovereignty, e.g. Clause 7 of the instrument says, Nothing in this instrument shall be deemed to commit me in any way to acceptance of any future constitution of India. Whereas, Clause 8 of the Instruments says, Nothing in this Instrument affects the continuance of my sovereignty in and over this state.
Supposedly, the all instrument of accession was signed by the Maharaja and Indian government, it was clearly mentioned in his reply to Maharaja’s letter by Lord Mountbatten that after the restoration of law and order in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and the expulsion of the raiders, its future will be decided in accordance with the wishes of the people of the State. The same stance was taken by UNO in its over 23 resolutions, passed from time to time. Besides, over the years, Indian leadership had been reiterating their commitments to Kashmiris, Government of Pakistan and to the world community that after the restoration of peace in the state, its future would be decided as per the wishes of the people of Jammu and Kashmir through UN mandated plebiscite. However, with the passage of time India refused to fulfil her commitments/obligations, which means she had ill designs right from the very beginning. Nevertheless, implementation of these resolutions and the fulfilment of Indian commitments is still awaited.
Another significant fact is that, had there been any accession treaty between the state of Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian government, why it could not be published in the Indian White Paper of 1948? This has left a great disbelief regarding the conclusion of any such agreement. Yet another very serious reservation arises, had Kashmir been part of the Indian Union, why it was given a special status under the provision of internal autonomy through Article 370 of the Indian constitution? It is momentous to mention that the Indian government did not accord a similar status to any other state under this provision. Indeed, out of 560 Princely states, over five hundred joined India, but none was accorded this special status.
Through this status and a number of commitments, India kept luring in Kashmiri masses to become its part. Upon failure of winning their commiserations, India forced its way, through a fake assembly resolution in mid 1950s and thereafter started calling the state as its integral part. United Nations, however, through its resolution, No.2017 of 30 March 1951 and S.3779 of January 24, 1957, made it absolutely clear that; any action which Kashmir Constituent Assembly may have taken or might attempt to take to determine the future shape of state or any of its part would not constitute the disposition of the state and that election of State’s Constituent Assembly cannot be a substitute for plebiscite. Thus, this act of India was a blatant violation of the UNSC resolutions that India had accepted too.
Inaccuracy of Indian claim of accession can be judged from the top-secret letter addressed to British Government by Mr Alexander Symon, UK High Commissioner to India. In this letter, he briefly described the events until 4.00 P.M on October 1947, as; ten Indian aircrafts loaded with arms and troops were despatched to Kashmir from New Delhi on the morning of 27 October 1947. Until 4 P.M of 27 October 1947, Mr V.P. Menon has not reported from Jammu, which mean accession documents were either not signed or signed by Hari Singh on 27 October 1947, and there were only rumours of Kashmir accession to Indian Union without any confirmation.
Indian antagonistic approach can be imagined from the fact that Kashmiri Administration had requested for a Standstill Agreement with both India and Pakistan. Pakistan, however, accepted this offer but India owing to its pre-planned evil designs did not accept it. Instead of accepting it, India started interference in state’s affair through leaders like Sheikh Abdullah. Finally, they paved the way for illegal interference in the state’s affair through military invasion by her forces in October 1947.
From July to October 1947, with the connivance of Indian leaders like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Patel, and V.P Menon, three Kashmiri Prime Ministers were changed one after the other. Pandit Kak, the State’s Prime Minister, was indeed favouring state’s accession to Pakistan or to keep it independent. He was a strong opponent of states accession to India, in spite of being a Hindu Pandit. Mahajan, who replaced Pandit Kak as new Prime Minister was a non-Kashmiri. He was a Judge of East Punjab High Court and has been the member of Radcliff Award, and hence a party to giving away the Muslim majority areas of Gurdaspur to India. He was very close to the top Indian leadership. To get him appointed as a Prime Minister of the state was through a planned strategy to force Maharaja from all around for surrendering to Indian Union.
In the light of the above-mentioned facts it can be very conveniently said that the Indian claim over the state of Jammu and Kashmir is completely illegitimate and unsubstantiated. India is negating its own commitment with Kashmiris, Pakistan and world community. Indian leadership should realize this and adopt a realistic approach for the solution of this outstanding issue as a goodwill gesture. Let UNO settle it under its auspices through plebiscite as per its resolutions.
An Open Letter to Mr. Omar Abdullah
“I am a Muslim and I am an Indian”
kudos to you sir for having dared to make such a bold statement.
A section of people would consider you anti-nationalist. They would argue that by placing your religion ahead of nation, you are actually going against the notion of secularism- for which India stands but little will they understand that a country is formed by its people and not vice- versa. Your views are not against secularism. You have every right to celebrate your religion. Doing this does not make you less patriotic. After all India thrives on pluralism, where people of different religious and political beliefs come together to form our nation.
I am a 1st year English Honours student of the Delhi University. We discussed the speech, that you delivered in the parliament on 22 July 2008, in the class while reading about Tagore’s views on Nationalism.
After reading the part of the speech which said- “the enemies of Indian Muslims are the same enemies that all poor people of India face…”, I thought to myself- here is a young leader trying to make an innocent attempt to highlight the sentiments of a particular section of the society that for long has been looked at suspiciously and their people have the right to call themselves Indian as much as the people from other dominating communities namely the Hindus.
I think India has had enough of her politicians trying to use religion for their personal gains. Parties like BJP do not shy away from using religion as a tool to fill in their petty vote banks vying for power..it is very convenient for them to blame a particular community for a mishap.. it is such dirty politics that i am against.
India needs young leaders like you who
1) are aware of the problems faced by India
2) are honest in admitting them
3) work towards getting rid of these problems and own accountability
Countries like USA also face problems like poverty, unemployment,etc but its the way they handle these issues that makes them stand apart.
I think India has the power to lead the world. We have a nice blend of experience and youth. The need of the hour is to solve our internal matters and collectively work towards the realization of a better country based on the higher moral principles like love for humanity,sympathy with mankind…which our forefathers like Tagore and Gandhi dreamt of.
I the youth of this country appeal to you to always listen to your conscience and take decisions that benefit not just your constituency but also act as a model for the entire country..
You have an ominous task in your hand in Kashmir of bringing together the conservatives and radicals and ensuring peace in the terror hit state…i wish you all the best for the same.
Salaam Saab,i m a resident of sopore town presently m in nuscat,working in defence.Sir now u r the king of kashmir,y dont u do anything 4 an educated kashmiri youth,Kashmir has all the quality educated men but we are wid out jobs.All thanx 2 u sir.Every state gives jobs n makes employment opportunities but in kashmir 4m last 20 yrs we are heading towards darkness all becoz of poiliticians.Sir no one wants voilence we jus want peace now and also employment.So if u please read dis msg plz do something for the youth of kashmir..
Dr Mohammad Sidiq – Why u people talk only about Kashmir or Kashimiri’s……why don’t u talk abt Jammmu . Is Jammmu different from Kashmir…..or it is seprated from Kashmir.Jammu people or dogras r facing the same problem even jammu is having the same problem . Even eduacated youth from Jammu have the quality of eduacated men but r deprived from jobs . So instead of that u should think about the whole (J&k) and it’s my request to u that pls don’t think for a particular region but for whole region as it is known from last many years the full and complete state (J&K).
Dear Asish sharma,
thanx 4 commenting,but i wud like to make ur datas correct that in past 20 years jammu has seen maximum employment than kashmir.I jus saw the statistics from employment board it clearly shows the 80:20 ration,so now u can atleast make out.We are not against the jaamu youth,may God bless u all,M a proud kashmiri Doctor so i speak regarding my people,so should u do..No hard feelings ashish.
Best wishes n regards.
Salam to all:
Unemployment isn’t the problem, it will vanish in days when we are free from india and pakistan. Everybody will get a fine job, peace of mind only in independent jammmu kashmir. So do and act for this independence.
wish u all the best.
Dear Doctor saab,
sorry to say but this section also co-exists in our state of Jammu & Kashmir with one dotted line motto….
(itni saab daud ke baad wohi purana gisa pita raag “aazadi” ,are bhai kise ……unemployment ,development ya apne nasamji se)…
Parviaz bhai dune aage ja rahi hain , 16 saal ho gaya ,hum pandit bhi waha se jaa chuke aab kab tak ye raag alapte rahoga.
Think positive and work hard
Dear Dr. Mohammad Sadiq, thank you for providing the data of employment. I totally agree with you kashmir youth should be provided with more employment oppurtunities. But the same time it is also important to analyse the reasons for about being unemployed even when most of the political powers has been concentrated in the Kashmir Division. Is it because most of the youths in Jammu joins armed forces and other central government jobs/ Quality of Education has suffered due to the insurgency in Kashmir, But Jammu division being least affected has grown up rapidly/ Most of the Reserved categoty posts(which makes nearly 50%) goes to Jammu region. It is time to stop the blame game. Lets stop for a while and think what we have achieved in the past 20 years. And what is our aim for the next 20 years. Are we going to put our children on the same berth we have been travelling. We have a high land: people ratio, Oppurtunities can be created if we demand together.
Agian when we condemn argument should be healthy.
With Wishes……….
Unemployment touches new heights
Over three lakh candidates apply for 5,000 posts
SRINAGAR: Unemployment among the educated youth in Jammu and Kashmir has touched new heights with lakhs of candidates applying for a few thousand posts advertised by recruitment agencies.
The number, according to experts, is likely to increase with no solution in sight. The State Government is contemplating setting up Jammu and Kashmir Overseas Employment Corporation to facilitate recruitment of both skilled and unskilled people abroad, particularly the Gulf countries.
A recent advertisement by the Service Selection Board (SSB) sent the policymakers into a tizzy with unprecedented response from educated unemployed youth of the State. For over 5,000 posts which included teachers, the Board was flooded with requests for application forms. “So far we have issued over 3 lakh forms against this particular notification,” said Board Chairman Khazir Mohammad Wani. “The process is on and it will continue till the end of next month.”
He said the number of applicants might cross 4 lakhs which “is the highest in the history of the Board”. Though there are multiple posts for which a candidate is applying, the number is still very high. “The posts are also distributed among districts and for the district cadre posts only people hailing from a particular district can apply.”
Keeping in view the response, the Board has had to set up 35 collection centres at various tehsil headquarters. The process of selection, according to Mr Wani, will take many months as the number of aspirants is so high. “It will go through many stages.”
Similarly the Public Service Commission (PSC) which makes appointments for gazetted posts has been receiving large numbers of applications for the posts advertised.
Dear parvaiz ahmad kuansi independence ki baat kar rahe hain aap,Plz stop day dreaming becoz kashmir is now integral part of india and india is spending millions of crores on kashmir secutity so itz jus stupidity 2 think also tat kashmir wil as a seperate territory as was b4 1947.Now being a kashmiri youth,i realised this long back that pakistanis took advantage of emotional n simple kashmiris.Thatzy we lost almost 2 lac young brothers who were future of kashmir.Now pakistan is seeing same turmoil & bloodshed vich we hv seen for 20 yrs.now itz pakistans turn to get some taste of terrorism.Now considering the situation of our state our youth should now work for our future becoz our all hurriyat n all netas are playing jus merky politics and sitting behind and watching in their AC rooms.We are resilient by force not by choice.My comment might luk strange 2 u but dis is a fact every kashmiri guy shud realise,kya hum ko aise hi apni life waste karni hai or we wanna do something for our families n 4 our state.May peace return to our state.
Mr Amit Koul,
i would like to know ur reasons why r u not returning back 2 kashmir.I wil tel u some facts.itz becoz u know kashmiris are being killed and if u return might be ur loved ones have to taste same.So plz dont be diplomatic & talk truth.If we talk about independence or autonomy itz the right to be freed from the bloodshed and molestation which we have suffered from 20 yrs.Amit saab jab apna koi marta hai iss tarah den everything is shattered.Yeh wohi samaj sakta hai jisne apno ko khoya ho.We welcome all Pandits back to kashmir.Now u are suffering becoz of dogras apki nasamjhi se.It was ur choice to leave kashmir nobody threw u 4m there.but still we call u back if u dont itz all ur wish.And u jus see the Govt employees they are mainly from jammu division.Hope u know dis.
Dear Dr Mohammad Sidiq – Kashmiri pandits are thrown out from Kashmir and u know the reason well and who told u that they are suffering because of dogra’s Either they were given shelter by Jammu people and if they were suffering from dogra’s they would not have been given most of the job’s and in govt as well as private sectors. Dimplomat’s, bearucrats,and even minister’s are from Kashmir.Stop the blame game and god bless u too.so should u do..No hard feelings Mohammad.
Best wishes n regards.
Dear Dr Mohammad Sidiq – Kashmiri Pandit’s r not suffering from Dogra’s rather they suffered a lot and harrashed by Kashmiri muslims and r now suffering due to Kashmiri muslims. It would be difficult for all of us to work out in a positive way and as said said by mr Rakesh It is time to stop the blame game. Lets stop for a while and think what we have achieved in the past 20 years. And what is our aim for the next 20 years. Are we going to put our children on the same berth we have been travelling. We have a high land: people ratio, Oppurtunities can be created if we demand together.
Again when we condemn argument should be healthy.
Beat wishes n regards.
Dear Dr Mohammad Sidiq- You welcomed the Kashmiri Pandits back .I would ask u on what basis u welcomed them back .Will u take the quaranty that if they will come back they will not by attacked and torchered again . Will there status and property will be given back to them.Will the govt of (J&K) do something to settle them back and for ur kind information no wants to leave there home .It was not there choice they were forced to do that.It’s my request to u don’t u try to diplomatic and just comment because u have to.
Beat wishes n regards.
Assalamu Alikum,
Dear Doctor sahib, who says Kashmir is now integral part of india, No other country is accepting this other than india(partially). All coutries say Indian occupied and pakistan occupied kashmir. Na-umeedi kufr hai, Independence from india and pakistan is the feasable and best solution for all the three regions of Jammmu Kashmir. This is best for Hindus, muslims, sikhs and other communities of Jammu Kashmir. Peace will never be there untill India and Pakistan is present in our home land. These two divided our homeland, so they have to go back, they divided people of jammu kashmir on the basis of religion and region, but i tell u one day will come, when all muslims sikhs and hindus will unite aginest india and pakistan, and set free the homeland from these occupiers, Inshaallah.
Wa alaikum assalam dear parvaiz saab.
Ya we all know india nd pakistan have occupied kashmir,Dear u said naummidi kufr hai,i also know,but dear aisi ummide hi nahin karni chahiye to puri na ho,U jus think practically we are fighting for justice,kuch hua kya,jus we lost our brothers.M not against freedom but we have become little practical thatz it.Our Netas,jus earn money from india nad pakistan but do nothing.So itz all upto Allah to decide the fate of kashmir.
Hello to all u.
Hi, to all of u. May god bless u.
Dear Parviaz Ahmad : India never said Kashmir is not part of India partially .Pls don’t think like this .Kashmir is Intergral part of India and will be always remain like this. Pls Don’t try to divide India or Kashmir. It would be very difficult if this thing ever happened then u know wat will happen then our country will be slave again .We got the Independence from England 60 yrs bck and you Know well without unity it we could never be happened .There is some misunderstanding in our people which we have to sought it out by having some positive talks. Hindus, muslims, sikhs,Christians r all brothers and sisters. So it’s my request to u that pls maintain communal harmony and definately we will also follow that and pls follow this also ……… let’s live let the other’s live.
Beat wishes n regards.
Dear Friends,
First of all thanks for carrying this debate in a very positive frame of mind ,otherwise this topic ends at no logic.
Doctor saab i appreciate the advice u gave to pervaaz ahmad and that too a very practical and methodical one.we pandits had the pleasure to have Muslims and dogras as our neighbours and sincerely we have enjoyed all the support and trust from both the communities .you people are really very good humans.
But there is a dark patch to our history also that we were forced to leave our homes for no fault of ours and we had to settle in at places we never had gone before.May be the percentage of people who supported our exile is less but it is there.Doctor saab minorities always has to be taken care of by the majority otherwise even a simple incident can creat fear and untrust among the minorities.
We all get hurt when we see our Muslim brothers dying in kashmir or the attrocities committed there but one simple question who invited all this misery for us and why. politicians have exploited all of us there is no doubt about that but now let’s think for the future and don’t become a dummy in their hands.
God bless u all.
Thanks
Amit Koul
Assalamu Alikum,
Bhai Ashish and Doctor, Main na to indian hoon na pakistani, I am only the son of Jammmu Kashmir, Which neveer was part of india, it was onlt captured by indian rulers first by some mughal emperor, and then by indias and pakistans independence, it got diveded between these two sons of same land and origin, both are our friends, so we should n’t be divided between these two, our Jammu KAshmir should be one state, friendly to both of these, So not only i but majority of jammu kashmir is for independence including hindu muslims and sikhs,
People of JK will never be happy with india or pakistan, whole peace and harmony is in independence. Ye khwab nahi hai ane wala kal hai, INSHA ALLAH.
May ALLAH bless people of JAmmu KAshmir and others as well.
May peace prevail everywhere. AAMEEN
Dear Friend Pervez,
Don’t draw inference of the majority based on your whims and fancies ,you support something so let it be and u be happy with that.Doctor saab has given u a reason to qunatify the position of J&k so has ashish.For us J&K will always be a part and parcel of India ,no matter how much pakistan cries or other third parties.
Cheers and God Bless
Amit Koul
Thanks koul saab for ur wishes.the moment we grew up we heard from elders tat hindu muslims in kashmir were like brothers to each other but dis is so unfortunate that politics ruined our state.Now terrorists in kashmir ask us dis questions always,Bhai hum to tumhein aise hi maarenge,tum kya kar loge,and til the time we dont know hw to give dem answer we wil suffering and loosing our dear ones in kashmir blood shed thru forces,thru agencies n all,they are d real terrorists who exist on our land.Our politicians shud stop baashand baazi and shud do ateast something for us now.Or the future of our kids will see same ‘dooms day’.we condemn all those who are creating fuss and terror in kashmir.we jus wannt that same peace and brotherhood which prevailed in kashmir years b4.We jus appeal hindu brothers to fight for justice for our state so that some resolution of autonomy wil come and we cud see free kashmir wid no sense of terror and untimely deaths for our loved ones.
May Allah send some Divine powers to free us from this bloodshed.
Assalamu Allikum
Brothers why do u think india, why not independence. Until we r deivided between india and pakistan, We willnever see the united jammu kashmir. Don’t y want united jammu kashmir, why we forget other parts,.
The PEACE u all want is in independence, no other way can bring peace, harmony etc.
Jammu Kashmir was never part of india, neither it is and nor it will be. It is a separate nation, separate country separate from india and pakistan.
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thanks for ur advices, but i love independence.
The Arab nations are represented by 21 separate countries.There is only one Jewish nation with a tiny country, Israel. The combined territories of Arab countries is 650 fold greater than Israel .
Their population is 50 fold greater than Israel.
The average per capita GDP in Arab countries is $3,700 versus $18,000 for Israel. This despite the fact that many Arab countries have world’s richest oil resources.
Country Territory(sq km) Population(2001 est.) GDP(Billions)
Israel 20,770 5,938,093 $110.20
ARAB
(21 Countries) 13,486,861 292,400,267 $1,195.49
Arabs are 649 folds to Isreal in terms of Land Area.
Arabs are 50 folds to Isreal in terms of Population.
Arabs are 11 folds to Isreal in terms of GDP.
Fact: Arab Nations initiated four wars against Israel:
• 1948 War of Independence
• 1956 Sinai War
• 1967 Six Day War
• 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Israel defended itself each time and won. After each war Israeli army withdrew from most of the areas it captured. This is unprecedented in World history and shows Israel’s willingness to reach peace even at the risk of fighting for its very existence each time anew.
Anonymous quote:
If the Arabs (Moslems) put down their weapons today there would be no more violence. If the Israelis put down their weapons today there would be no more Israel.
Think about it…
Hope all of You will like this: India is much bigger than Isreal, small pop corns don’t make any differences to its existence.
We are being nice, that does not mean, small ass hole’s are trying to take us for granted. The day we(India) forgets being nice.. Things would be great and in favour of India.
Arvind seems u like israel so y dnt u go dere only.wt u doin in india.u seem pleasing israeli bastards who dont care about human values.Do u watch news,do u know how much dey have made palastians suffer,molestation,murders,destroying properties of palastaeins.Jews are real enemies of mankind n Dey wil soon get same taste as pakistan is gettin now.N i tel u 1 thing if only saudi declares war on israel it wil hardly 1 day 2 finish all israel n israelis as dey r jus animals,dey dnt know watz humanity.Cant u see every day people being killed by dese jews.
I hope 1 day wil soon come wen palastains will be freed from israeli cruel jews.
Sidiq: I am not pro Israel/Jews and at the same time i am not anti Islam. I hate violence and cruelty being spread by any fundamentalist group of any religion. I believe India is been the only country wherein every religion has equal rights to practice in comparison to any other nation of the world.
At the same time, most of people out here in this blog are publishing all non sense stuff against India which ideally you too should not support.
I strongly believe Jammu and Kashmir alone can’t survive. Even if you get so called independence, you will end up in a prey like situation, Hiena’s like PAK and China and many more are waiting for that situation, thats the only reason they are supporting anti India elements.
My friend, should you have seen the face of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, you would never talk of Independence.
Think of a situation, wherein there is peace in the valley because of no terrorism and you are in India and don’t have any armed forces around to keep a check on terrorists. Kashmir will be Heaven for sure.
Think of a situation, wherein you are free and…..for your information your situation would be as worst as Afghanistan and tribes in Pakistan, where women are treated as object and even common people have to live under the shadow of fear and guns. I can see, nothing worst than that is going to happen.
To conclude, i would pray almighty god to show good direction to everyone and navigate everyone towards peace.
Note for Sidiq: Whatever i shared/published earlier was part of a study on international conflicts—WAS NOT MY PERSONAL OPINION.
A bloody account of mass massacres
A brief chronological account of mass massacres in Kashmir that this area has witnessed and its people have suffered since 1931
The Dogra rule, followed by Indian occupation in 1947, is a bleak chapter in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. The Dogra rule, which continued from 1846-1947, is considered as the gloomiest period. Indian armed forces occupied a major part of Jammu and Kashmir on October 27, 1947 that is continuing to date.
The Indian troops pursued the policy of suppression in a systematic manner to reduce the overwhelming Muslim majority in occupied Jammu and Kashmir. To achieve this objective Indian troops started the process of mass massacre. There are plenty of events and evidences to support this gory fact.
1931
July 13:The people of Kashmir had been raising their voice against the Dogra usurpation of their land and as a result they faced brutal consequences. On July 13, 1931, a large number of Kashmiris gathered in front of the Srinagar central jail, at a time when the trial of a youth Abdul Qadeer accused of involvement in a case of agitation, was in progress inside the jail. The objective was to demonstrate solidarity with the young man. As the time for obligatory prayer approached a young Kashmiri stood for Azan (Call for the prayer) and the Dogra police opened fire on him, and he got martyred. Thereby, another youth took the place of the martyred young man and started the Azan. He too was shot dead. In this way 22 Kashmiris embraced martyrdom in their efforts to complete the Azan.
1947
August 26: In June 1947, people of Poonch had launched a no-tax campaign against the heavy taxation of Maharaja. To curb the agitation, Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of the state, ordered the use of brute military force. On August 26 the protesters were confronted by the Dogra-armed forces. The Dogra troops opened bran-gun fire on the huge crowd of 5,000 civilians, martyring and wounding hundreds of them.
October-November: Maharaja Hari Singh fled from Srinagar to Jammu on October 26th 1947, as the liberation activists were poised in Srinagar’s suburbs to capture the city. On reaching Jammu, he issued orders to his troops and police besides the Hindu extremist groups, to kill Muslims found anywhere. The Muslims were asked to assemble in parade ground in Jammu so that they would be driven to Pakistan in lorries. While on their way, on October 20, 1947, eight thousand Muslims were massacred at Malatank Jammu. On October 22, 1947 at least 14000 Muslims were massacred at Saniya Jammu and 15,000 Muslims were gunned down near the bridge at Akhnoor.
On November 5 and 6, 1947, more than 100 lories, loaded with women, children and old men were taken into the wilderness of Kuthua forests. Hindu extremists and armed gangs were let loose on these innocent people and an unparallel butchery was perpetrated, killing thousands of them. Women were raped, molested and their valuables looted. All these bloodsheds were taking place in full view of the Indian army, which had by that time occupied a major part of the state. In another act of butchery, a large gathering of 25000 Muslims, in Miran Sahib and Ranbir Singhpora, were machine-gunned.
During migration to Pakistan in 1947, nearly 300,000 people were massacred in cold
British daily “the London Times” wrote on October 10, 1947 in a report from its special correspondent in India that the Maharaja, under his own supervision, got assassinated 237,000 Muslims, using military forces in Jammu area. The editor of “Statesman” Ian Stephen, in his book “Horned Moon” wrote that till the end of autumn 1947, more than 200,000 Muslims were assassinated.
Right from 1947, the fury of mass killings is going on unabated. Kashmiris suffered massacres in 1965 and 1971. Since 1989, India increased its acts of brutalities and people were killed in mass groups. Some of the savage events are as under.
1990
January 8:Firing at various places in Srinagar city, 17 people were killed. Enquiry ordered by then Governor Jagmohan. No outcome appeared.
January 15: In Handwara town, the Indian army and paramilitary forces shot dead 17 unarmed civilians including one woman when troops opened unprovoked fire on peaceful protesters.
January 21: 55 innocent civilians were killed in the localities of Basantbagh and Gawkadal in Srinagar city by CRPF troops when more than 20,000 people took to the streets, defying curfew.
January 22: The Indian army and paramilitary forces resorted to unprovoked firing at Alamghari Bazar Srinagar and killed many unarmed civilians. The people had come out unarmed to protest against the military killings at Gaw Kadal in Srinagar.
January 25: 26 civilians were shot dead in Handwara town of Kupwara district. The township was set afire by BSF after the latter was panicked by a bang. Some of the slain persons including women were roasted alive.
March 1: In order to halt massive demonstrations by the people, who were to submit a memorandum to United Nations Military Observers Group on India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), Indian army opened fire at Tengpora bypass and Zakoora crossing in Srinagar, killing 21 and 26 demonstrators, respectively.
May 21: Seventy persons were put to death by CRPF troops near Islamia College Srinagar. The unarmed civilian mourners were carrying the dead body of late Mirwaiz Molvi Muhammad Farooq, prominent liberation leader and father of APHC chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. More than three hundred people were injured. Five women, one of them pregnant, were killed. Even minors were not spared. The forces did not spare even the coffin-bearers. The dead body of late Mirwaiz was also shot at.
August 6: The troops besieged Mashali Mohalla in Srinagar, raided the houses of local inhabitants and killed innocent civilians. In this incident more than two-dozen people were brutalized, of whom nine died on the spot.
August 10: BSF cordoned off the whole area of Pazipora, Kupwara. The male inmates were ordered to gather in a park for identification parade. The locals objected to let ladies stay at their homes without being accompanied by any male members. Later the forces, in absence of male members, entered the houses and raped and molested a number of ladies. By hue and cry of the ladies, the male members tried to rush to their respective homes in order to rescue the ladies from the clutches of the armed forces. But the troops fired on the unarmed civilians of the locality and killed 25 of them on the spot.
September 11: A civil passenger bus, carrying about fifty persons, was intercepted by the BSF troops. Passengers were fired upon. 22 died on the spot. The bus was set on fire due to which eight persons got burnt alive.
October 01: The BSF personnel in Handwara town of Kupwara district started indiscriminate firing on the unarmed civilians, who were busy in marketing activities, killing 20 of them on the spot.
1991
January 19: The personnel of 42-CRPF opened indiscriminate fire, killing 11 civilians in Magarmalbagh, Srinagar. Most of the victims were waiting for bus and being a busy place, most of the passers-by received bullet shots and died on the spot.
January 30: In Achabal Islamabad, the Indian armed forces opened indiscriminate fire, killing seven innocent persons.
March 11: At Rakhi Haigam, Sopore, in Baramullah district, Indian armed forces started indiscriminate firing, killing six civilians, including Manzoor Ahmad Dar aged only 12 years.
March 16: The Indian troops cordoned the area in Pishwari Trehgam in Kupwara district. At that time about 12 persons were offering prayers in a mosque within the cordoned area. The forces directed the worshipers to come out of the Mosque but they could not come out as they were engaged in the prayers. The forces entered into the Mosque and started firing. The Imam (Leader of the prayers) did not break the prayers. He was shot in his head. Other persons were dragged in the compound of the Mosque and six more persons were shot dead.
May 05: At Khayam, Khanyar in Sriangar, the troops fired indiscriminately on the pedestrians due to which, five persons including a girl, Aisha, aged three years were killed.
May 8: In Pir Dastgeer, Khanyar locality of down town Srinagar, troops of CRPF, BSF’s 2nd and 60th Bn opened fire on thousands of people who were assembled to bury some martyred Kashmiris. 18 civilians were killed. In this incident, one infant aged two years, and his father were also killed.
June 11: The CRPF troops opened indiscriminate fire, having been frightened by the sound of a tire burst, leaving 32 civilians killed in the densely populated area of Chotabazar, Srinagar. The killed included, shopkeepers, passers-by, old persons, women and children.
September 03: At Safanagri and Nelora in Pulwama district, the armed forces fired on unarmed civilians and more than 23 got killed.
1992
April 2: In Aloosa village of Bandipore tehsil of Baramullah district, the villagers were kept confined to the village limits for the whole day by the Indian troops, while those out for fishing were fired upon. At least five boatmen were killed in the firing. Many bodies were recovered from the Wular Lake as they had been made to sink by tying heavy stones to their limbs.
April 13: During early hours of the day, BSF troops charged into the area, comprising Mohalla Hajama, Talian, Syed Sultanpora, Mahrajpora, and Chinkipora, started indiscriminate firing which resulted in killing of 13 civilians including one woman.
July 2: There was a tyre burst of a moving vehicle, which created a panic in the crowded market of Lal Chowk Srinagar. In response the CRPF troops, posted at Hari Singh High Street, fired indiscriminately, killing six civilians.
July 6: The BSF men subjected Ishbar locality in the outskirts of Srinagar to indiscriminate firing and at least 7 civilians were killed.
July 13: Army personnel entered the village of Nasrullahpora, adjacent to Budgam, and started indiscriminate firing, killing ten innocent people.
August 15: In Taj Mohalla of Tral in Pulwama district, BSF troops killed 6 civilians in cold blood. One of them was burnt alive.
October 2: 10 civilians were killed in Handwara town of Kupwara district by BSF troops.
December 12: Indian troops killed 7 civilians in Kishtwar area of Doda district.
1993
January 6: 94 BSF-Bn personnel ran amuck, killing 57 civilians, mostly roasted alive, when they set ablaze 37 residential and 35 commercial structures at Sopore in Baramullah district.
April 10: 47 innocent Kashmiris were burnt alive when BSF set afire, most of the Lal Chowk, Srinagar, destroying 59 houses, 190 shops, 53 godowns and 2 office complexes.
July 01: In Baba Reshi area of Baramullah district, the troops started indiscriminate firing and killed 9 civilians who had come to the shrine.
July 30: In Hangubutch, Pulwama district 12 civilians were killed and 100 injured. A magisterial probe was announced but never completed.
August 01: Sub inspector Ajmer Singh of BSF, 60Bn along with three of his subordinates, killed a couple Abdul Rashid Dar and Hajra after barging into their residence in Daribal Srinagar. Their critically injured son Hilal succumbed to wounds in hospital. After thousands of people took to the streets in anti-India demonstration, the police and army resorted to firing, killing 10 of them.
August 14: Indian secret agents dragged out passengers from a bus on Sarthal link road in Kishtawar, Doda and sprayed them with bullets, killing 14 civilians.
October 22: Troops of BSF 7Bn opened fire on a procession in Bijbehara town of Islamabad district, killing 50 and injuring 100 civilians.
November 20: At Aadipora, in Sopore area of Baramullah district, the BSF personnel opened fire and killed five persons including a woman.
November 24: In Sangrama in Baramullah district, the BSF troops fired indiscriminately and killed seven unarmed civilians.
December 22: At Bulbul Nowgam in Shangas area of Islamabad district, the Indian troops fired indiscriminately, killing six civilians.
1994
January 24: Indian troops killed 18 Kashmiris in Kupwara.
May 10: In Bandipora BSF troops, during crack-down, arrested 9 persons in presence of the locals, took them to a military camp in Bandipora where they were killed and their dead bodies were handed over to their relatives.
1995
February 10: BSF opened fire in narrow business street, in Gad Kocha, Srinagar, killing 6 shopkeepers and injuring 38 others.
1996
January 5: Indian armed agents massacred 15 Kashmiris, 10 of them belonging to one family, in Barshala village of Doda district.
June 8: In Kamlari village of Doda district, Indian armed agents killed eight civilians.
1997
March 20: Seven civilians were killed in Sangrampura (Budgam).
April 7: A group of Indian secret agents swooped on Sanghrampora village, in Beerwa outskirts in Budgam district, and shot dead seven Kashmiris.
April 18: 27 civilians were killed in Prankote in Udhampur district in Jammu region.
September 19: In mortar shelling by BSF, 11 villagers were killed in remote village of Arin in Baramullah district.
1998
January 26: Indian agents swooped Wandhama village of Ganderbal tehsil in Srinagar district and massacred 26 Kashmiris.
June 19: 25 civilians were killed in Chapnari area Of Doda district in Jammu region.
June 28: In Madwa, Doda 9 villagers were massacred by 26-Rashtriya Rifles, on the Eid (Muslim festival) day.
July 28: 16 civilians were killed in two villages of Doda District in Jammu region.
August 3: Twenty civilians were killed in Sailain village of Surankote, Poonch. The dead included seven children.
August 8: 35 labourers were killed in Kalaban on Jammu-Himachal Pradesh border.
1999
February 20: Four civilians were killed at Muraputta-Rajouri, nine at Barlyara-Udhampur and seven at Bllala-Rajouri in Jammu.
February 20: In Baljaralan hamlet of Udhampur district, Indian armed agents killed 10 civilians. Apparently, the same group reappeared in Mora Pota in Budhal belt, and killed 4 members of a family.
June 29: Indian troops and their agents dragged out 17 civilians, including 5 women and 7 children, in twin hamlets of Morha Bichai and Sahotri in Poonch and killed them.
June 30: Fifteen labourers were killed in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
2000
February 28: Five civilians were killed near qazigund in Anantnag district of Kashmir.
March 17: Indian secret agencies killed 7 truck drivers near a BSF camp at Qazigund in Islamabad district.
March 20: 35 civilians were massacred at Chatisinghpora in Anantnag.
March 24: Five innocent civilians, missing since March 24, 2000, were killed in custody and subsequently roasted by army at Brakpora in Islamabad district.
March 30: 7 protestors were killed by SOG troops near Pathirbal in Islamabad district, who were demanding dead bodies of Brakpora massacre.
May 14: Five teenagers, arrested from Sopore, were killed by Indian troops in Tangdar area of Kupwara district.
August 1: 35 Amarnath Yatris (pilgrims) were killed by Indian secret agencies and CRPF troops at Pahalgam in Islamabad district.
August 1: 31 civilians were massacred at Pahalgam in Anantnag.
August 1: 27 labourers were gunned down in Qazigund and Achabal in Anantnag.
August 2: Seven people of one family were killed in frontier district of Kupwara in North Kashmir.
August 2: 11 civilians were killed in Doda district of Jammu.
2001
February 03: Indian secret agencies killed 7 Sikhs at Mahjoornagar in Srinagar.
February 10: At Kotchatwal in Bhudal area of Rajouri district, 12 civilians including 6 kids and 4 women were killed by Indian troops and their secret agencies.
March 17: Eight people were massacred near Atholi in Doda.
March 21: At Mandi in Poonch district, the Indian troops used helicopters and gun ships and killed 10 Kashmiris.
March 31: At Doru, Islamabad, 7 Kashmiri drivers were killed by Indian troops.
July 21: 13 civilians were killed at Sheshnag in Anantnag.
July 22: 12 people were massacred in Cheerji and Tagood in Doda district of Jammu.
August 4: 15 villagers were killed in Ludder-Sharotid Har area of Doda.
August 6: Indian agents killed 7 civilians in Sajjar village of Atholi, in Kistwar tehsil of Doda district.
December 8: 10 unarmed civilians, including women and children, were killed in the indiscriminate military firing in Baramullah.
2002
January 6: 6 civilians were killed at Luddu and Ramsu,Doda.
January 20: 11 civilians were killed at Behra, Poonch.
January 21: Indian troops killed 14 persons including 8 children of 3 families, at Salwa village in Maindher area of Poonch in Rajouri district.
February 16: 8 civilians were killed at Nirala. Rajouri.
May 14: 36 civilians were killed at Kaluchak, Jammu.
July 13: 28 civilians were massacred at Kasimpura in Jammu.
August 5: Nine pilgrims were killed in Nuwan Pehalgam in Islamabad district.
2003
March 24: 24 civilians were massacred including 11 women and 2 children at Nadimerg village of Pulwama.
October 22: Seven members of a family were shot dead when armed Indian agents opened indiscriminate firing at a wedding ceremony in Domail area of Doda district.
2004
April 5: Seven civilians were killed at Pahalgam in Islamabad.
2006
May 01: 35 civilians were killed at Basantgarh in Udhampur and Kulhaang in Doda district. »
Did you know something about Palestine/Israel issue? Here are some points?
1 – THAT, when the Palestine Problem was created by Britain in 1917, more than 90% of the population of Palestine were Arabs, and that there were at that time no more than 56,000 Jews in Palestine?
2 – THAT, more than half of the Jews living in Palestine at that time were recent immigrants, who had come to Palestine in the preceding decades in order to escape persecution in Europe?… And that less than 5% of the population of Palestine were native Palestinian Jews?
3 – THAT, the Arabs of Palestine at that time owned 97.5% of the land, while Jews (native Palestinians and recent immigrants together) owned only 2.5% of the land?
4 – THAT, during the thirty years of British occupation and rule, the Zionists were able to purchase only 3.5% of the land of Palestine, in spite of the encouragement of the British Government?… And that much of this land was transferred to Zionist bodies by the British Government directly, and was not sold by Arab owners?
5 – THAT, therefore, when British passed the Palestine Problem to the United Nations in 1947, Zionists owned no more than 6% of the total land area of Palestine?
6 – THAT, notwithstanding these facts, the General Assembly of the United Nations recommended that a “Jewish State” be established in Palestine?… And that the Assembly granted that proposed “State” about 54% of the total area of the country?
7 – THAT, Israel immediately occupied (and still occupies) 80.48% of the total land area of Palestine?
8 – THAT, this territorial expansion took place, for the most part, before 15 May 1948: i.e., before the formal end of the British forces from Palestine, before the entry of Arab armies to protect Palestinian Arabs, and before the Arab-Israeli war?
9 – THAT, the 1947 recommendation of the General Assembly in favor of the creation of a “Jewish State” was outside the competence of the Assembly under the Charter of the United Nations?
10 – THAT, all attempts by the Arab States and other Asian countries to have the Assembly submit “the question of constitutionality” of its recommendation to the International Court of Justice for an “advisory opinion” by the Court were rejected or ignored by the Assembly?
11 – THAT, when the Assembly began to experience “second thoughts” over the matter and convened for its second special session in 1948, it failed to reaffirm the 1947 recommendation for the partition of Palestine-thus destroying whatever dubious legality that recommendation for the establishment of a “Jewish State” had had?
12 – THAT, that original 1947 recommendation to create a “Jewish State” in Palestine was approved, at the first vote, only by European, American and Australian States…for every Asian State, and every African State (with the exception of the Union of South Africa) voted against it?…And that, when the vote was cast in plenary session on 29 November 1947, urgent American pressures (which a member of the Truman cabinet described as “bordering onto scandal”) had succeeded in prevailing only upon one African country (Liberia), both of which had special vulnerability to American pressures, to abandon their declared opposition?…And that, in other words, the “Jewish State” was planted at the point-of-intersection of Asia and Africa without the free approval of any Middle Eastern, Asian or African country except that Union of South Africa, itself ruled by an alien minority?
13 – THAT, Israel remained, ever since its inception, a total stranger in the emerging world of Afro-Asia; and that Israel has been refused admission to any inter-state conference of Asian, African, Afro-Asian, or Non-Aligned States ever held?
14 – THAT, since the General Armistice Agreements were signed in 1949, Israel has maintained an aggressive policy of waging military attacks across the Armistice Demarcation Lines, repeatedly invading the territories of the neighboring Arab States…And that Israel has been duly rebuked, censured, or condemned for these military attacks by the Security Council of the General Assembly of the United Nations on eleven occasions-five times by the Security Council and six times by the General Assembly?
15 – THAT, no other country in the world, whether member of the United Nations or non-member, has been so frequently condemned by the United Nations?
16 – THAT, no Arab State has ever been condemned by any organ of the United Nations for military attacks upon Israel?
17 – THAT, besides expelling the bulk of the Arab inhabitants of Palestine, and besides constantly attacking the neighboring Arab States, Israel has also consistently harassed the United Nations observers and other personnel stationed along the Armistice Demarcation Lines: It has assassinated the first United Nations Mediator and his military aide; it has detained some truce observers; it has militarily occupied and illegally searched the Headquarters of United Nations personnel; and it has boycotted meetings of the Mixed Armistice Commissions?…
18 – THAT, Israel has additionally imposed a system of apartheid upon the Arabs who stayed in their homeland? More than 90% of these Arabs live in “security zones;” they alone live under martial law, restricting their freedom to travel from village to village or from town to town; their children are denied equal opportunities for education; and they are denied decent opportunities for work, and the right to receive “equal pay for equal work?”
19 – THAT, notwithstanding the foregoing facts, Israel has always been, and still is, widely portrayed in the Western press as the “bastion of democracy” and the “champion of peace” in the Middle East?
20 – THAT, the Western Powers have persisted in declaring their determination to ensure a so-called “arms balance” in the area, as between Israel, on the one hand, and the one-hundred million inhabitants of the thirteen Arab States, on the other hand?… And this unilateral Western doctrine of so-called “arms balance” is no more reasonable than the suggestion that, in the Cuba-U.S.A conflict, there should be “arms balance” as between Cuba and the United States… or that the whole Continent of Africa should not be allowed to acquire more arms than South Africa… or that Mainland China should not be permitted to have more arms than Taiwan… or that the military allowed to acquire more arms than South Africa… and that only thus can peace be safeguarded in the Western Hemisphere, in Africa, in Asia, or in Europe?…
21 – THAT, Israel allots 85% of the water resources in the occupied territories for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of the water is given to about 500 settlers, while 15% must be divided among Hebron’s 120,000 Palestinians?
22 – THAT, The United States awards Israel $3 billion in aid each year, more than to any other country in the world: US aid to Israel exceeds the aid the US grants to the whole sub-Sahara Africa?
23 – THAT, GDP, per capita, and consumption per capita in the Occupied Territories have dropped about 15 percent in the West Bank and Gaza since 1993 – that’s even with large foreign assistance pouring in, from Europe, mostly?
24 – THAT, Up until 1993, the U.S. and Israel permitted humanitarian aid to come into the territories. UN humanitarian aid was permitted into the West Bank and Gaza. In 1993, that was restricted?
25 – THAT, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?
26 – THAT, Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites?
27 – THAT, Israel currently occupies territories of two sovereign nations (Lebanon and Syria) in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
28 – THAT, High-ranking military officers in the Israeli Defense Forces have admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed by the IDF?
29 – THAT, Israel refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
30 – THAT, Israel routinely confiscates bank accounts, businesses, and land from Palestinians and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer the confiscation?
31 – THAT, Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions?
32 – THAT, Israel’s current prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was found by an Israeli court to be “personally responsible” for the Sabra and Shatilla massacres in Lebanon in which thousands of unarmed Palestinian refugees were slaughtered in 1982?
33 – THAT, Today’s Israel sits on the former sites of more than 400 destroyed Palestinian villages, and that the Israelis renamed almost every physical site in the country to cover up the traces?
34 – THAT, Ariel Sharon’s coalition government includes a party — Molodet — which advocates expelling all [of the over two million] Palestinians from [their homes in] the occupied territories?
35 – THAT, Israel’s illegal settlement-building in the Occupied Palestinian territories more than doubled doubled in the eight years since the Oslo agreements?
36 – THAT, Illegal settlement building under Prime Minister Barak doubled compared to settlement building under Prime Minister Netanyahu?
37 – THAT, More illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories were built under Prime Minister Barak than at any other time in the history of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land?
38 – THAT, Despite a ban on torture by Israel’s High Court of Justice, torture has continued by Shin Bet interrogators on Palestinian prisoners?
39 – THAT, Palestinian refugees make up the largest refugee population in the world?
40 – THAT, Israeli military checkpoints surround every Palestinian population center in violation of the Oslo Accords?
41 – THAT, The right of self-determination is guaranteed to every human being under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December, 1948), yet Palestinians were/are expected to negotiate for this right under the Oslo Accords?
42 – THAT, Palestinians have the highest ratio of PhDs per capita in the world?
Dear All
1.I happen to be going thru the blogs posted by various persons recently and i must appreciate the difference of opinion but is this the right place,i m sure u guys know whom this blog belongs to.lets discuss things which we can get executed on grnd than having each other.
2.This discussion ll nvr take us anywhere so lets have healthy n strong discussion than letting each other down.
Cheers Guys Life is much beyond all this.
Assalamu Alikum
Wake Up Umer Saab
Kashmir represents the dark side of reality. Everyone wants the night to go as slowly as possible because most nights in Kashmir are followed by MOURNINGS instead of MORNINGS. The soil of paradise is painted with innocent blood. This bloodshed has a sequence. A brutal killing by police, CRPF or Army. Violent protests. Stone pelting. Undeclared curfews. Pressure on state government. Consultation of the Central Government. A so-called probe. News of “investigation on.” Dilution of pubic anger, and finally the government win by making people forget the incidents. File closed! The recent killing of Zahid Farooq is a case in point. Deep inside the smiling face of every Kashmiri child, a careful observation in his pretty dark eyes reflects the message: “We want Peace.” Orphanages are getting saturated. All this is happening and the government is watching it helplessly and silently too.
Mr arvind read ur msg,We all know nowadays watz happening in pakistan or POk.innocent people r being killed on daily basis now.We muslims condemn any kind of brutal killings and bloddshed.Thw whole world is watching sufferings of islamic countries,wats the mistake of iraqis,USA has launched a campaign their to kill innocent people,United kingdom supports killing of innocent muslims worldwide,but no body wil protest bcoz muslims are being labelled as terrorists.wat ever happen in WTC,we also condemn and share a deep regret for that event.But the question still stands?when muslims wil be given a same status as other caste.Kashmiris jus want peace and no interference of any damn country into its affairs,Dear arvind jus come to kashmir,stay there for 1 week u wil realise wat kashmiris want and wat dey deserve,So itz better to stop commenting b4 being in that situation wid ur family.Itz very hard to survive in this kind of warfare which is goin on.I jus wanna c a day wen kashmir wil breath free jus like it was b4..Insha Allah.
Time to accept the facts
Against the solemn pledges of its founding fathers, India can’t escape from its international obligation of granting the right of self-determination to Kashmiris
Eight young souls have fallen prey to the military prowess of Indian forces since the beginning of 2010. Bolstered with the unbridled powers, the security forces have become reckless and callous with least regard for human life. They easily escape from any sort of accountability and enjoy the freedom to kill whom they like. Kashmir is nothing but a combatant zone where they (security forces) have been deployed to restrict, stifle and muzzle the voice of people.
According to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, which is rarely seen in Kashmir. As even peaceful protests by Kashmiris demanding their right of self determination, promised by India, are being dealt with iron fist.
It was India who took Kashmir dispute to UN and promised plebiscite to Kashmiris before the whole world. In his historic address broadcasted by All India Radio (AIR) on November 2, 1947 then Indian PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, “We have declared that the fate of Kashmir is ultimately to be decided by its people. This pledge we have given, while the Maharaja has supported it, not only to the people of Kashmir but also to the world at large. We are prepared when peace and law and order has been restored to have referendum held under the auspices of UNO.”
But how bizarre it is, on the part of India which claims to be world’s largest democracy, to backtrack on its own promise so brazenly and then lay claim for permanent membership of UNSC of whose resolution it is continuously violating. Against the solemn pledges of its founding fathers and relentless struggle of the people of Kashmir, India can’t escape from its international obligation of granting Kashmiris the right of self determination. Time cannot abrogate moral values and commitments nor invalidate international community’s right to intervene in conflicts arising from denial of freedom. We have the example of East Timor, where a dispute was settled through a reference to the wishes of people under UN supervision, where Indonesia upheld people’s verdict.
How shameful for India that on one hand it parrots peace to the world and is proud of its peacekeeping efforts in many parts of world as in DRC, MONUC and on another hand dreaded killers and extortionists whose hands are drenched red by the blood of innocent Kashmiris who are demanding nothing but the life of their own choice.
Kashmir dispute is lingering because of hypocrite attitude of Indian leadership and with it the peace and security of South Asia is in peril, though subtle the re-engagement of India and Pakistan is a welcome step but needs to be followed with sincerity and without any pre-conditions attached to it, but yes talks which sans Kashmiris are bound to fail as is evident from the past. Kashmiris are the real stake holders as their every thing is on stake, neither they nor their national aspirations can be kept aside forever.
“Exodus of pandits a deep rooted conspiracy”
Srinagar: Accusing the Congress and the National Conference of the blood shed in the valley, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party (JKNPP) on Tuesday said that the exodus of Kashmiri pandits from valley was a deep rooted conspiracy.
“Our tragedy is that we have always remained the slaves of National Conference and Congress. We lost one Lakh youth in the conflict. Who is responsible for their deaths? NC and Congress are the real culprits,” JKNPP, President, Prof Bhim Singh said, while addressing a news conference at party office Rajbagh on Tuesday afternoon.
“Kashmiri pandits were not forced out by the majority community. I know it. Why are the houses for pandits being raised in Nagrota and Jammu, not Kashmir? It is a deep rooted conspiracy and not just one party but many parties are part of this conspiracy,” he added.
Referring to the pro-freedom leader and Chairman of his faction of Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Singh said that Geelani offered him full support and cooperation to ensure the safe return of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community.
“Geelani sahib expressed his willingness to welcome the pandits at Qazigund, on their return,” Singh added.
Stressing for peaceful and result oriented dialogue between the estranged countries, JKNPP; President said that India and Pakistan should continue their dialogue process with a clear agenda. He said both the countries should solve the issue of Line of Control to bring the people of both the sides closer.
“India and Pakistan should settle the issue of LoC, once for all. However, the solution should bring people closer, not alienate them,” he added.
Advocating the need for addressing the internal dimensions of the Kashmir issue, Singh said, all the three provinces of the state have a unique identity. The three provinces, he said, should be reorganized not bifurcated.
On this occasion Singh said that his party will recruit 10 Lakh members during the ongoing member ship drive in the valley. (PBI)
Dear Sadiq: Believe you are medico, you must be knowing the meaning of Chronic.Complete thought process of fair amount of people from state of Jammu and Kashmir has gone into chronic stage. I cannot help, for your information, even though i am not staying in the state for long now, but i belong to the same land and have seen things quite closely. I remember the time, when there was no violence in the valley/state, life used to be awesome.
You believe it or not, what ever atrocities you people are publishing/pretending/facing or whatever………….you people.. to good extent are responsible for this.
Govt. of India is spending great amount of Money on defense against terrorism. Why don’t we people take same money and invest that in the development of the state.
I believe dialogues will have greater impression in comparison with violence and shedding of blood. Ask your leaders to enter into dialogue and go for peaceful protests.
Thanks
Arvind
Mr arvind,
See u cant hold people of kashmir responsible for this Bloodshed.We know our politicians dont act according to the needs of the people.Todays kashmiri youth wants peace and employment and we dont want be slaves in the hands of merky indian politics.And ya u talked about spending million on safety of kashmir.Thats rubbish.They are spending on indian forces.Indian forces have only made life of common people miserable.Indian forces jus know how to make kashmiri public suffer,We dont need any security as any indian state.Jus keep our j&k police dere.They wil tak care.Itz the greed tahtz keeping india to keep this much unnecessary army there.We jus hope they get lost soon from our state.
Wahhhh. Dialog process.
Dear upto now india and pakistan held more than 130 talks on kashmir, what happened.
Nothing………….
It’s only a tool to suppress people of jammu Kashmir and nothing.
A blessed child born to lucky parents of a Khan family of Ashtangoo Bandipore grew up to be the favorite of his family, life of his friend circle and king of his own world, traveling the untrodden paths of life, this carefree brat was never bound to the silly rules of this materialistic world and lived by his own will loving the freedom and joy of his beautiful world of satisfaction and excitement. No one ever imagined even in a dream, that this spoilt lad breathing in his own blissful world would one day convert into a committed soldier, leaving the luxuries of world for the cause of liberation of the suppressed people of his motherland and even present the most precious thing, his life for his love for the sake of his creator. He first lived his own contentment and felt that he was the happiest person on earth but when he opened his eyes and saw around, the world looked quite black filled with cries of agony, so at last this bird felt the suffocation of cage and understood the atmosphere around, watching the face of real life in Kashmir and decided to choose the way of rising against suppression and occupation by joining the freedom fighters, this son of mother Kashmir proved the temperature of his young blood and stepped into the ranks of Hizbul Mujahideen in 1989 and fought till his last breath for the peace of his people caged in the traps of brutality and cruel grasp of tyranny. The lad is Shaheed Manzoor Ahmed Khan and his love was Kashmir. He was the pride of Ha Meem, the crown of his family, the peace of his company and a loving father for me. I never saw that smiling face again after March 7, 1997 lying on a bed on the shoulders of countless people, roaring for his bravery, jumping overhead to get a glimpse of the king. But I don’t miss my father anymore, yes! from last two yeas I never missed him because you don’t miss the people who are always around you, I see him everyday in the eyes of every youth of Kashmir , I saw him in the eyes of Wamiq , Zahid, the ten months old infant from Baramullah. My father loves to get martyred again and again and this time he crossed the limits of patience and achieved the honor at the age of just ten months.
The blood is spilling its color and the light is reflecting it beautifully as invested blood never goes vain, last time I had asked my people to choose among the two options, either to respect the martyrdoms and lead the movement to a meaningful conclusion or to betray the blood , but my people proved to be real freedom lovers and have bounced back strongly boiling their vasculature to burn the basics of their suppressor, neo generation warriors with the most ancient weapons have attracted bunches of opinions in recent few months, some calling them the frustrated jobless people, some terming them as crazy violent kids and some even called them terrorists working for money but their message is loud and clear that they are not throwing stones but their anger and no one can stop them now because they have killed their fear already before setting their feet in the streets of the most beautiful prison of world where freedom and death are now synonyms for these sons of ailing mother, preferring to catch a bullet of freedom in their chest , than a cricket ball of imprisonment in their fist.
Let me share an event of my life with you; Once in a beautiful summer day while walking through the lush green fields of my ancestral area I met an innocent friend, it was a little boy with a mask of anger on his face sitting on the bank of Zanager canal, I stopped and sat down with him but he was buy in pelting pebbles in the canal with his full tiny muscle power and blasting the innocent anger to the flowing water of huge canal. I asked him the reason of his act but he didn’t replied as he was not interested in talking to anyone but I again enquired and with a sight of annoyance he looked at me and said,” this bad canal took my kite while I was playing with it, it fell in its water and flowed down the canal.” That naive angel made me smile and I asked him, what favor will the stone throwing do you in getting your kite back, he turned to me and looked like the mercury of his anger went bit down and he said,” it gives me satisfaction, my heart relaxes when I see my stone shaking the water of canal and making ripples on its face”.
The child was innocent , we too are innocent, the canal didn’t broke the law of nature but it was guilty for the little boy as he had lost his kite, now what about us,
We lost thousands of dear ones not the kites.
And our suppressor breaking the every single rule of Human rights.
HOW COME WE DON’T PELT STONES??
For my father and the people who gave their lives I say:
They lost a lot but what they earned is priceless
They dreamt a dream which was their destiny but serpents came on them, betrayed and ruined their cause. For sure they will be rewarded, let the people know we are their successors and we are their followers, world will see so will the enemy, end of tyrants is hell so we are the one who will send them.
Sadiq: I am in complete disagreement to your thought process, so i am quitting from this discussion which is going to turn into some heated argument.
God Bless You. You live with your ideology and let me be happy without any political ideology.
No more discussion please.
Hello ,
Kashmir is the part of India and will always remain like this…..No one can change demography….and kindly Don’t blame Indian army for any thing . We know Indian army very well and abt J&k police they r not well equiped & well trained too. So they can’t do anything to save lives.We don’t know wat is kashmir and wat is Jammu. we only Know (J&k) …..which is part of India from which we represent our selves and don’t think that Jammmu people share same ideologies of freedom like people in Kashmir. People from Jammu don’t want freedom .We want to remain with our country India.It’s ur personal ideology and just keep it wid u. The people from Jammu want’s the development in whole (J&k)and in J&K ladhakh also comes.
Todays not only kashmiri youth wants peace and employment but also Jammmu youth wants but this can happen with a political will.
Definitely we are responcible for all this misery, killings….
because we want peace, prosperity and freedom.
Untill we sacrify our lives, peace etc we will never get the peace we want, harmony for which we search, that all is hidden in independence from india and pakistan.
We have to fight, offer our lives, property everything in order to acheive that freedom and we will, untill that.
U also want peace but i wonder what kind of peace, they are ruling our state from 62 years and more, and were not succesful in crushing the freedom movement and never will they, Now time has come, they have to leave now, for ever and ever.
Typical questions asked to Indians in Abroad
To help the new wave of incoming students from India, here are the proper answers to awkward questions asked everyday:
Q. What does that red dot on women’s forehead mean?
A. Well, in ancient times, Indian men used to practice archery skills by target practicing by aiming at their wife’s red dot. In fact, that is one of the reasons why they had many wives. You see, once they mastered the art of archery and hit the target….
Q. You’re from India? I have read so much about the country. All the wonderful places, the forests, the snake charmers, the elephants. Do you still use elephants for transportation?
A. Absolutely. In fact we used to have our own elephant in our house. But later, we started participating in elephant-ride sharing schemes with our neighbors, to save the air. You see elephants have an “emissions” problem…..
Q. Does India have cars?
A. No. We ride elephants to work. The government is trying to encourage ride-sharing schemes.
Q. Does India have TV?
A. No. We only have cable.
Q. Are all Indians vegetarian?
A. Yes. Even tigers are vegetarian in India.
Q. How come you speak English so well?
A. You see when the British were ruling India,they employed Indians as servants. It took too long for the Indians to learn English. So the British isolated an “English-language” gene and infused their servants’ babies with it and since then all babies born are born speaking English.
Q. Are you a Hindi?
A. Yes. I am spoken everyday in Northern India.
Q. Do you speak Hindu?
A. Yes, I also speak Jewish, Islam and Christianity.
Q. Is it true that everyone there is very corrupt?
A. Yes, in fact, I had to bribe my parents so that they would let me go to school.
Q. India is very hot, isn’t it?
A. It is so hot there that all the water boils spontaneously.That is why tea is such a popular drink in India.
Q. Are there any business companies in India?
A. No. All Indians live on the Gandhian prinicples of self-sufficiency. We all make our own clothes and grow our own food. That is why you see all these thin skinny Indians — it is is a lot of hard work.
Q. India is such a religious place. Do you meditate regularly?
A. Yes, sometimes I meditate for weeks without food and drink. But it is difficult to keep my job, because I have to miss work when I meditate like that. But the bosses there do the same thing. That is why things are so inefficient there.
Q. I saw on TV that people there walk on burning coals. Why do they do that?
A. We don’t have shoes. So we burn the botton of our feet to make it hard so that we can walk.
Q. Why do you sometimes wear Indian clothes to work?
A. I prefer it to coming naked.
Assalamu Alikum
Kashmir: a consensus proposal?
While the process of exploring various “solutions” to Kashmir Issue was initiated soon after the birth of Kashmir “problem” out of the Indian and Pakistani guns in October 1947, till recently the process was confined to a bilateral Indian and Pakistan official framework or in the cases of Dixon and some “secret” talks between Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdullah and
American officials, to the UN and US circles. Over the past few decades, especially after the uprising in the Indian occupied Kashmir, the process seems to have expanded and proposals are being mushroomed from a wide range of individuals and agencies including Yousaf Bach a veteran Kashmiri from Valley settled in US after working with UN since the birth of Kashmir Problem; Bava Krishan Dev Setti from Jammu who fought hand in hand with other Kashmiris against maharaja system and migrated from Mirpur when Pakistani tribes and troops invaded the State. The Kashmiri organisations that proposed different solutions include National Conference, JKLF, Hurriyat, (by now Peoples League and PDP has also come up with their proposals) All Parties National Alliance, International Kashmir
Alliance , Association of British Kashmiris, Balawirstan (Gilgit-Baltistan) Front etc. Some Western Think Tanks, BBC and South Asia based NGOs have also forwarded various proposals for peaceful resolution of the issue.
The proposals presented so far have some distinguishing features in terms of their
implementation and out come as some presume Autonomy, others the division on ethnic and/or communal lines and still others independence of the state. However, a close reading of all the suggestions challenges the general and wide spread perception that there is no common ground on which Kashmiris of different viewpoints and India and Pakistan can agree to find a mechanism of solving Kashmir question acceptable to all the contesting parties.
Drawing on various proposals this article tends to illuminate the ground for consensus and proposes a mechanism through which an inclusive, democratic, just and peaceful solution can be achieved for Kashmir issue that is used as one of the major excuses used by the rulers of India-Pakistan and their subordinates in divided state of Kashmir for keeping people apart and building destructive war machines rather than houses, schools, hospitals, roads, factories, in short, lives.
Consensus indicators?
1. Almost all proposals recognise the distinct identity and entity of the State of Jammu and Kashmir by accepting that the problem of Kashmir is a problem of the entire state and not of any particular region of Kashmir .
2. That the problem is to determine the future of this state which implies that problem is not determined as yet. Indian official position is that the entire state belongs to her while Pakistan claims it has hers and Kashmiris are generally divided between the accession to either India or Pakistan and independence.
3. There also seems a general agreement, at least, amongst Kashmiris that for any solution oriented exercise to be meaningful the involvement of Kashmiri peoples is indispensable.
3. Almost all external and internal proposals recognise the ethnic diversity of the State and
suggest for the diversity to be incorporated in the processes to develop any mechanisms for a solution.
4. The view that Kashmir is primarily a political problem that has to be addressed through a political mechanism also seems shared by various forces involved
in addressing the issue.
5. It is largely recognised in India , Pakistan and internationally that the movement in Kashmir Valley has not been instigated from outside. However, it is also widely perceived that foreign involvement had been there for various interests that not necessarily have been compatible with the interests of the peoples of the State.
6. It is well documented and acknowledged fact that the Human Rights are widely violated by the Indian armed forces in the Indian Administered Kashmir and that the first and foremost priority for engaging the peoples of Kashmir in any peace process is to end all human rights violations in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.
7. The fact that a large number of political activists and civilians are kept in Indian prisons without substantial grounds or in some cases without any charges is also acknowledged. Some who were charged and tried are kept in even after they have spent their tariffs. Zahoor Butt is kept in for no legal reasons. In the case of Maqbool Bhatt, he is imprisoned even twenty six years after his execution on 11th February 1984 as his body was not
handed over to his family and remains buried in the courtyard of Tihaar prison. Afzal Guru is another example of manipulating investigative and judicial systems by the Indian state.
8. Human Rights are also violated by some of the militant activities carried out by several groups fighting the Indian occupation.
9. Human Rights of the Kashmiris under Pakistani occupied Kashmir including Gilgit Baltistan are also not respected by the Pakistani governments in these parts of the State. Pro-independence politics is suppressed in AJK and Gilgit Baltistam. Open violation of State Subject, restrictions on the participation in politics and employment of pro-independence Kashmiris are also the other most identifiable and quantifiable examples.
10. There is also an expressed desire that peoples of Kashmir State must have right to free
movement, socio-economic, cultural and political interaction and rights of free speech and association that have to be assured in all parts of the state.
11. At present the right of the peoples of the State to participate freely without any restrictions in the existing administrations at Gilgit, Muzaffarabad and Srinagar-Jammu is not fully recognised and respected.
12. The wishes repeatedly expressed by the people of Jammu and Ladakh for their regional assemblies similar to those in Valley, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan carry significant support amongst the Kashmiris across the division line as well as amongst Indians and
Pakistanis.
13. It is also very obvious that none of the existing political parties, alliances or assemblies can claim as true representatives of the state in its entirety.
14. An estimated three million strong Kashmiri Diaspora in India , Pakistan , Middle East, Europe, Britain and USA and Canada has multiple links and attachments with, and stakes in, the affairs of their “homeland” and can play positive and constructive role in finding the
solution as well as in the development of the State.
This list of course is not exhaustive and more possibilities for a broader consensus can be traced in the proposals. However, the most significant task facing the peoples of the divided State of Kashmir at present is whether a mechanism can be developed through which a wider consensus and state wide representation can be achieved? For India and Pakistan
are internationally recognised states with relatively established systems of electing representative governments but no such system is currently available to the peoples of Kashmir for the entire state.
The State is currently divided, since 1947, into three administrative structures namely
Gilgit-Baltistan Council (so called Northern Areas Council); “ Jammu and Kashmir ” Assembly and “Azad” Kashmir Assembly. There is also a Council in Ladakh. While these assemblies are elected with varying degrees of people participation, none of these is representative of the people who they claim to represent even in the modest sense. Similarly, while none of the dozens of political groups operating outside of the “official political institutions” of the State
represents the entire state, they actually are not allowed to operate in the entire state. Only
those parties have access to mainstream politics and employment that have developed under or are product of the Indian and Pakistani States’ civil and military machineries operating in the State or those who accept the status quo and state’s accession to India and
Pakistan on each side of the division line.
Suggestions
1. Against this background the first and foremost requirement for moving towards any meaningful solution to the problem, as suggested in several proposals, is to open the traditional travel routes between all regions of the divided state namely Gilgit, Hunza, Yasin,Baltistan, Ladakh, ‘Azad’ Kashmir, Jammu, and Kashmir Valley. In terms of travelling documents, the State Subject to be issued in a card form by the regional or district officers seems the best option available. Alternatively, the regional or district offices perhaps could be authorised to issue other agreed documents.
At this point India and Pakistan should mutually announce the time period for removing their armies away from the populated areas across the division line and in case of India from the towns and cities of the Indian occupied Kashmir (IOK) or as it called by the Indian officials“The Jammu and Kashmir ”.
2. All personnel deputed or appointed by the Indian and Pakistani governments (also commonly called lent officers) in Kashmiri administration should also vacate their positions for the Kashmiri officers.
3. The next step should be the release of all political prisoners in all parts of the State along
with the transfer of Maqbool Bhatt’s body from Tihar prison Delhi to Kashmir and the release of Afzal Guru, who is evidently wrongly implicated to appease the extremist Hindu forces inside India .
4. All restrictions currently imposed on the freedom of press and association in the
Indian and Pakistani administered Kashmir including Gilgit-Baltistan, should be lifted at once followed by necessary constitutional amendments in all three existing political setups in Gilgit, Muzzafarabad and Srinagar-Jammu to make these assemblies fully inclusive and democratic by lifting restrictions on Pro independence parties. At the same time steps
should be taken to recognise the demands by Jammu and Ladakhi people for regional assemblies. However, here consultation must be taken place with Ladakhi and Baltis because there is certainly a strong relationship between the two regions currently under the control of different states. In other words before holding elections free interaction is a
useful way of giving people opportunities to discuss these issues.
5. Date for the elections of all regional assemblies should be announced with inclusive right of all peoples of the State to participate in elections. To make sure that elections are transparent, free and fair the international observers and media should be given open access to all parts of the State. The regional assemblies should have mandate for policies and strategies on regional affairs including local resources, development, trade and investment etc.
6. After an agreed period similarly inclusive, democratic, fair and free elections should be held for the State Assembly. In order to make this assembly representative of the entire state, seats should be distributed to all five regions according to the population of each region. One way of electing the representations from Kashmir diaspora in India and Pakistan and in USA , Europe, Britain and Middle East can be to allocate certain seats for diaspora
according to their population.
This State Assembly should be recognised as the representative government of the State with the mandate to represent Kashmiris in all negotiations regarding the future status of Kashmir with India and Pakistan and if and when Kashmiri representation is needed at international forums.
While there is certainly a room for improvisation in the plan, it seemingly incorporates almost all of the proposals presented so far, internally and externally, to move forward towards a peaceful, democratic, just and inclusive mechanism of resolving Kashmir question. This proposal while does not rule out any outcome, it gives locally elected assemblies to all regions with the potential to stay beyond the final determination of the future status of the state whatever that might be.
The proposal primarily speaks to the interested individuals and groups in Kashmir – Valley, Ladakh, Jammu , “Azad” Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and the diaspora. For after all it is the peoples of Kashmir who although form the primary party in Kashmir “dispute” are not represented in the ongoing process of negotiating Kashmir and are also deprived of any mechanism to elect the representative voice of Kashmir State. Critical feedback from wider viewers and readers would also be of great value for the proposal to be developed or improvised further. It is however clearly understood that without the support of peoples in and from all parts of the divided state of Kashmir this proposal is going to become just another addition in the growing long list of such documents.
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Umer saab jag jao, Apki neend kab tote gi.
According to the instruments of partition of India, the rulers of princely states were given the choice to freely accede to either India or Pakistan, or to remain independent. They were, however, advised to accede to the contiguous dominion, taking into consideration the geographical and ethnic issues.
In Kashmir, however, the Maharaja hesitated. The Maharaja, fearing pressure from Pakistan army which entered Kashmir, agreed to join India by signing the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947. Kashmir was provisionally accepted into the Indian Union pending a free and impartial plebiscite. This was spelled out in a letter from the Governor General of India, Lord Mountbatten, to the Maharaja on 27 October 1947. In the letter, accepting the accession, Mountbatten made it clear that the State would only be incorporated into the Indian Union after a reference had been made to the people of Kashmir.
In the last days of 1948, a ceasefire was agreed under UN auspices; however, since the plebiscite demanded by the UN was never conducted, relations between India and Pakistan soured,[15] and eventually led to two more wars over Kashmir in 1965 and 1999. India has control of about half the area of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan controls a third of the region, the Northern Areas, or historically known as regions of Gilgit and Baltistan; and Pakistan Administered Kashmir. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab (in Pakistan) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region. Pakistan was left with territory that, although basically Muslim in character, was thinly populated, relatively inaccessible, and economically underdeveloped. The largest Muslim group, situated in the Vale of Kashmir and estimated to number more than half the population of the entire region, lay in Indian-administered territory, with its former outlets via the Jhelum valley route blocked.”[18]
The UN Security Council on 20 January 1948 passed Resolution 39, establishing a special commission to investigate the conflict. Subsequent to the commission’s recommendation, the Security Council ordered in its Resolution 47, passed on 21 April 1948, that the invading Pakistani army retreat from Jammu & Kashmir and that the accession of Kashmir to either India or Pakistan be determined in accordance with a plebiscite to be supervised by the UN. In a string of subsequent resolutions, the Security Council took notice of the continuing failure by India to hold the plebiscite. However, no punitive action against India could be taken by the Security Council because its resolution requiring India to hold a Plebescite was non-binding, and the Pakistani army never left the part of the Kashmir they occupied as required by the Security Council resolution 47. The Government of India holds that the Maharaja signed a document of accession to India October 26, 1947. Pakistan has disputed whether the Maharaja actually signed the accession treaty before Indian troops entered Kashmir. Furthermore, Pakistan claims the Indian government has never produced an original copy of this accession treaty and thus its validity and legality is disputed. However, India has produced the instrument of accession with an original copy image on its website. Alan Campbell-Johnson, the press attache to the Viceroy of India states that “The legality of the accession is beyond doubt.”[citation needed]
The eastern region of the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir has also been beset with a boundary dispute. In the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist takeover in 1949. By the mid-1950s the Chinese army had entered the north-east portion of Ladakh.[18] : “By 1956–57 they had completed a military road through the Aksai Chin area to provide better communication between Xinjiang and western Tibet. India’s belated discovery of this road led to border clashes between the two countries that culminated in the Sino-Indian war of October 1962.”[18] China has occupied Aksai Chin since 1962 and, in addition, an adjoining region, the Trans-Karakoram Tract was ceded by Pakistan to China in 1965.
In 1949, the Indian government obliged Hari Singh to leave Jammu and Kashmir, and yield the government to Sheikh Abdullah, the leader of a popular political party, the National Conference Party. Since then, a bitter enmity has been developed between India and Pakistan and three wars have taken place between them over Kashmir. The growing dispute over Kashmir also lead to the rise of militancy in the state. The year 1989 saw the intensification of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir as Mujahadeens from Afghanistan slowly infiltrated the region following the end of the Soviet-Afghan War the same year. [2]
Mr Ashish,
I told u na that u dnt knw Bloody indian army who jus have made kashmiri’s life miserable.Actually this is not ur fault itz bcoz ur brother or father was not killed unnecesarily by indian army,Ur sisters were not molestated by army men.Thatzy u talk like that.We have suffered this and these deep rooted pain wil go only wen indian army wil be thrown out from pur holy land of kashmir which they are polluting by their Untidy presence.Our kashmir wil be again paradise only when the trators of kashmir wil leave our land.We are jus hoping to see that day..If u wanna c army brutality den bring ur family to kashmir and b a part of same molestation by dem.
Dr Mohammad Sidiq- Instead of blaming Indian army why don’t u blame militants ,which don’t have any religion and just keep on killing innocent people .Militants r bloody nor Indian army .Militants r making the life miserable of whole (J&k).They molest the ladies and forced them to marry them.If the people will throw stones ,or any thing on army then definately they will retaliate.Army jawans r supressed by doing so long duties …..they r doing even suicides. They r having family sickness.No one wants disturb situation and every one wants happy life . The situation like this will remain continue till the militancy will not be finished as finished in Punjab.This could only be finished by political will and nothing else.No more discussion please regarding this.
Assalamu Alikum………..
People of Jammu Kashmir love HM and other organisations, as they fight for the independence, The are heroes of kashmir, they never killed any innocent, it is army and other indian agencies which are engaged in killing people of kashmir.
Upto now indian army has killed more than one lac innocent people in kashmir valley, thousands of un-named graves were found recently in kupwara near army camp, even recently whole world knows innocent people were even middle calss students were killed by crpf…
Here is the chart showing the number of murders, rapes by indian army.
From Jan. 1989 to February 28, 2010
Total Killings * 93,142
Custodial Killings 6,966
Civilians Arrested 116,931
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 105,832
Women Widowed 22,719
Children Orphaned 107,326
Women gang-raped / Molested 9,901
February 2010 Total Killings * 23
Men 22
Women 0
Children 1
Custodial Killings 0
Tortured/Critically Injured 458
Civilians Arrested 204
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed 54
Disappeared 3
Women Widowed 4
Children Orphaned 13
Women gang-raped / Molested 1
* Including custody
How did kashmir dispute arise?
Kashmiris are the people who appreciate all shades of views; but views value if taken in the context of history.
Now what is history of the Kashmir dispute? how did it emerge? who took it where? who invited the help? what help? of whose help? and finally what did happen? implementable attitude? or arrogance? on whose part?
One liner answers: Kashmir was turned into a dispute by India of Jawarlal Nehru; it emerged out of the armed Indian occupation; India took it to the UN Security Council, got it registered as dispute on Jan 1, 1948 in UNSC.
Jawarlal Nehru sought the UNSC solution help; the UNSC handed back the verdict that fair, free and international plebsicite under UNO should decide the political affiliation of Kashmiris (UNCIP resolutions of Augusdt 13, 1948 and of Jan 5, 1949); this was the first basic verdict India got back from the UN doors; afterwards India started procrastination under one pretext or the other despite international commitments to solve the dispute; the frozen Indian attitude is now internationally known as arrogance/obduracy/stubbornness, characteristic earned by India herself.
History: the south Asian subcontinent is the scene: the grand solution to the dispute of subcontinent was sought by two parallel representative parties: Muslim League and Indian Congress; the British agreed after hectic haggling to grant self-determination to populace behind these two parallels; Muslims determined their political fate as Pakistan; Hindus determined their destiny as Hindustan; this is simple arithmetic of the political scene of those fleeting British days in the subcontinent.
Decision: How did the decision emerged? it emerged among three parties; the regions/areas with Muslim majority will constitute Pakistan; the regions/areas with Hindu majority will become Hindustan; this is the principle of ideological majorities; the Muslim ideology opted for Pakistan; the Hindu ideology opted for Hindustan; no doubt about this; June 3rd 1947 subcontinental settlement plan.
Logic: the above logic is the birth raison de’tre of both Pakistan and Hindustan’s independence, sovereignties; no doubt about this.
Ideology of each as basic principle: Muslim ways of life; Hindu way of life: civilizations apart; heroes and helms of affairs apart; no meeting/common point/ground between these two parallel/competing civilizations.
Now to the specific: Jammu and Kashmir being Muslim majority region should have become part of Pakistan; Maharaja Hari Singh offered Standstill Agreement in 1947 (12th August 1947) to both India and Pakistan; Pakistan accepted the Agreement on August 15, 1947 and conveyed its acceptance to the Maharaja; India did not accept Maharaja’s Standstill Agreement.
Outcome: By that agreement the subjects of communications, currency, defence and foreign affairs of the 1947-State of Jammu and Kashmir went to Pakistan; on August 14, 1947, the Independence Day of Pakistan, Pakistan flags were hoisted on all buildings of Post Offices and Telegraphs in J&K under Maharaja Hari Singh’s rule; history stands witness to this fact; geophysically Pakistan has taken over its jurisdiction in Jammu and Kashmir – the affairs following Standstill Agreement acceptance by her;
Who aggressed: On October 27, 1947 India landed her troops at Srinagar airport at 9.05 am.
Violation: by the Standstill Agreement, the defence of the State was the jurisdiction of Pakistan; Indian troops landing stands as violation, therefore the act of violation constitutes aggression.
Then what happened: India herself took Kashmir as a dispute to the UNO; got back the verdict of the UNO that free, fair and international plebiscite be held in J&K to decide the future affiliation of the State; that means clearly that the UNO had repudiated all Indian views on Kashmir; UN interevention sought by India, is a 3rd THIRD PARTY solution.
Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru promised plebiscite in Kashmir: The promise was made to the world, to the Kashmiris, but later on backed out of that Indian pledge; Nehru’s speeches in the Indian parliament and outside of that.
Now the talks: Kashmiris welcome talks; India evades the meanings of history; tries to apply her own version; not only Kashmiris alone, but the whole world does not accept Indian freeze on Kashmir; Kashmir exists as dispute on UNSC agenda; it exists as dispute on EU agenda; it does exist on OIC’s, on African Union agendas; even on Indian agenda Kashmir is a dispute/issue/problem; that is why she agrees on ongoing talks on Kashmir.
If Hindustan itself comes into independent emergence as a result of talks among three parties – Britishers, Muslim League and Congress – why India is jittery over third party involvement in Kashmir settlement; Kashmir an unmet aspect of that grand settlement of south Asian subcontinent;
This is the genuine explanation in the light of phase to phase chapters of history; by Kashmiris mean every member of the original community in Jammu and Kashmir irrespective of their religious or political affiliations.
Kashmiris by nature are peace-promoters: Look for centuries Hindus and Muslims lived together; even today there is no Hindu-Muslim or Muslim-Hindu clash in J&K; Kashmiris want to throw away those hands whose grip is around their necks and throats since October 27, 1947; all peace roads of south Asia converge on Kashmir; today’s Kashmir is ringed by three nuke powers; the situation on ground is most sensitive; peaceful struggle is on; refusal to grant international pledges keep the struggle alive; passage of time cannot be a closure cork; around 600,000 human lives stand sacrificed in the Kashmiri struggle since August/September 1947.
Note: the write-up has been written in response to popular demand to have a flash back of the bloodiest world dispute – Jammu and Kashmir.
Terrorists use women against Indian army in Kashmir
While the Indian army has asked its troops to stay away from women in Jammu and Kashmir, it is increasingly becoming clear that the terror outfits are using women as pawns against the security forces.
CJ: Abhishek Behl Tue, Jul 31, 2007 00:00:00 IST
Views: 2221 Comments: 2Rate: 0.0 / 0 votes PLAYING CLEVER, terror outfits in Jammu and Kashmir are using women to remove the ‘hurdles’ in their way. According to highly placed sources, terrorist organisations in J&K have been asked by their mentors across the border to take the help of the women over ground workers in hitting at security officials, actively involved in anti-terrorist operations.
As a result of this strategy adopted by militants, an increase has been witnessed in the number of cases in which women have made allegations of rape and molestation against security men.
In one such high profile case in district Surankote, Shehnaz Akhtar wife of Farid Ahmed, alleged to be an over ground worker told the court that she had been raped by Swaran Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police—Operations, Surankote.
Accusing the police of harassing her, Akhtar demanded action against the official and filed a rape case against him. The police on the other hand has categorically denied these allegations and said that this was a ploy being used to harass the officials. Talking to media persons, DSP Swaran Singh, outrightly rejected the rape allegations and said that the accusation has been made to seek revenge.
“This woman was arrested on June 4 by the police in connection with a bomb blast at Mastan durrah in which one person was killed,” said Singh, adding that Akhtar was sent to Joint Interrogation Centre in Jammu for further questioning. He said all this is being done under a well-planned scheme to harass police officials and tarnish the image of security men doing good work against the terrorists.
Even as no case has been registered against the DSP, security officials speaking on the condition of anonymity admitted that these charges put pressure on the officers as well as the rank and file. “The militants know that women can be used to harass the police and army and they have started doing that,” they said, adding “We agree there are some black sheep in our troops, but it is always the innocent, who get caught in the wily machinations.”
Asserting that these charges were made in the spirit of revenge, additional Superintendent of Police, Tahir Bhat said, “yeh sab badle ki bhawna se ho raha hai” (All this is happening for revenge).
While DSP Swaran Singh was fortunate that no case was filed against him, Naik Mohd Majid of 150 Territorial Army was not so fortunate. Majid, son of Mohd Bashir, a resident of Darrah Sangla in Poonch was arrested after a 13-year girl of the same village accused him of rape. According to police, Muneera Begum, daughter of Abdullah of Darrah Sangla alleged that the army man had forced sex with her with the help of two village women. Not being very well connected and under pressure from the villagers, the police arrested Majid under section 376. The two women accused of helping him, Shehnaz Begum and Hanifa Begum were also arrested in this connection. The arrest of the soldier, however, has sent a strong wave of resentment in the area as family members of the accused have alleged that Muneera Begum was acting on the behest of terrorists. Majid’s brother said “Few days back the security forces had made recoveries from a place very near to her house.”
Demanding justice, the family members said that there should be proper inquiry before a person is arrested under such serious charges. While men like Majid fight the charges, which often ruin their careers, Indian Army has today instructed its men to stay clear from women in the state, as they were likely to be used by terrorists to tarnish its image.
Key groups of militants in Kashmir
However, the three main groups – Hizbul Mujahideen; Lashkar-e-Toyeba; and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen – are reluctant to stipulate in detail what they are fighting for, beyond the removal of India from Kashmir.
Militants and Pakistan Islamabad admits to:political diplomatic
and moral support
India alleges Military support It remains to be seen how long they will remain powerful because many militant groups in Kashmir that were prominent five years years ago no longer appear to wield influence today.
The pro independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front was one of the most active militant groups at the start of the Kashmir insurgency, but today this group appears to have a dwindling membership and far less military power.
All three of the currently largest militant groups are thought to have bases in Pakistan, which says it provides them only with political, diplomatic and moral support.
Armed by Pakistan? Islamabad denies allegation
But India alleges that most militant groups receive weapons directly from Pakistan.
Hizbul Mujahideen is one of the older militant groups, comprised mostly of Kashmiris. It has been active since the early days of the insurgency.
Lashkar-e-Toyeba is predominantly made up of non-Kashmiri fighters and is thought to embrace a rigid form of Sunni Islam.
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen is believed to have been formed out of a merger of two factions, and according to British defence sources it is in effect an international brigade, composed mainly of Afghans, Pakistanis and even some Arabs.
Non-Kashmiris first joined the insurgency in large numbers in 1994. Estimates of their number vary from 600 to 2000.
Recently another group – Jaish-e-Mohammad [Army of Mohammad] – has emerged in Pakistan.
It was formed by an Islamic cleric, Maulana Masood Azhar, to fight against Indian rule in Kashmir.
Masood Azhar was released from an Indian jail last December, in exchange for hostages on board a hijacked Indian airliner.
Separatist alliance
One of the few organisations allowed by India to operate against its presence in Kashmir is the All Party Hurriyat [Freedom] Conference.
This is a non-violent umbrella group of secessionist organisations.
It is made up of at least 23 constituent groups including trade unions and religious and political organisations.
Although the Hurriyat is at pains to disassociate itself from violence, it is believed that the political wings of some militant groups are represented within its membership.
Commentators say that Hurriyat’s influence in Kashmir is undermined by its lack of unity.
THE TIDE AGAINST MILITANCY
One should not get the impression that despite Pakistan’s proxy war the entire population of the Valley or even a majority of them are sympathetic to the militants. The demonstrations against the dastardly deeds of the various militant groups clearly show that the tide is turning; fear is gradually being replaced by angry outbursts against militants.
A spontaneous public protest was first witnessed in March 1990 when the gory killing of a popular political leader Mir Ghulam Mustafa took place. People held massive rallies in the Chadura Assembly constituency of Badgam raising anti-militant and anti-Pakistan slogans.
Such resentment gathered pace in 1991 when from February to December that year, on 25 occasions local citizens staged demonstrations against militant violence inter-gang clashes of militants killing of local youth, extortion of money and attempted bank breaks, timber-looting by militants and grenade attacks and bomb explosions. The popular protests were marked by people taking out processions and strikes.
Following the killing of a Muslim Janbaz Force (MJF) militant Nazir Ahmed Shah by the Hizbul Mujhideen (HUM) militants, 600 local people of Lassipora Kupwara demonstrated on February 10, 1991, raising anti-Pakistan and pro- India slogans. When a young man was killed by HUM militants at Batmaloo Srinagar on April 30, 1991, more than 200 people of the area took out a slogan- shouting protest procession.
Shops and establishments in Lal Chowk, Srinagar, remained closed in protest against a grenade attack by militants at Goakadal (November 18, 1991). Four citizens had lost their lives and 20 others were wounded. It was generally believed that the blast was caused by HUM. Again the killing of Ghulam Mohammed Butt by the militants at Chawalgam, Anantnag, resulted in shops remaining closed and transport being suspended on November 30, 1991.
On the same day in different areas some more angry protests were witnessed. Local shopkeepers observed a “hartal” in protest against killing of a local Muslim by militants at Bijbehara, Anantnag. Again, following the kidnapping of a youth by the Al Umar militants, shopkeepers pulled down their shutters and 3000 people held a demonstration at Alamgari Bazar, Srinagar. On December 14, 1991, a large number of villagers of Wagooke, Baramula, took out an angry procession expressing resentment against the atrocities committed by the militants. Two days later in Kalantra, also Baramula, the villagers overpowered two Al Barq militants, Jamshed and Ezer, when they were found extorting money. Their arms were snatched away and they were given a severe beating.
The voices of protest became more strident in 1992. There were about 50 instances of open protests and demonstrations by villagers, women and city- dwellers against violence perpetrated by militants; injuries caused to women, violent, inter-gang battles, abductions, rapes, misuse of mosques and the killing of Shia Muslims.
Following the slaying of several pro-Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and pro-independence overground leaders and those who had surrendered to the security forces by the pro-Pakistani militants at Anantnag during March 1992, a number of militants fled to Jammu. The brutal killings generated resentment among the people. Muslim women in large numbers (March 15-17, 1992) demonstrated against the killing of innocent people. During a public protest meeting (Anantnag March 17, 1992) burqa clad women delivered angry speeches alleging that 300 women had been raped by militants during February-March 1992.
RAPE BY MILITANTS
When on March 31, 1992 militants of HUM abducted an area commander of the Al Jehad Force and shot at five members of his family at Sultanpura Badgam (the brother and sister of the “Commander” succumbed to their injuries while three other members of the family including the mother were seriously wounded), considerable local wrath was witnessed against militancy.
When three members of a Hindu family were killed at Srinagar on April 1 1992, after the housewife and her teenage daughter had been gang raped, there was such indignation and revulsion that 5000 local citizens staged a protest demonstration as also enforced a two-day local hartal at Habbakadal, Srinagar. In sympathy with this, 2000 college girls held a demonstration at the Women’s College, Kothibagh, Srinagar, and later took out a protest procession.
There have been a number of demonstrations, protests and agitation, particularly by women against the molestation of girls and the raping of women by militants. More than 300 women of Batmaloo, Srinagar, took out a procession against the activities of militants (April 10, 1992). Five days later when a married woman Khatjee, wife of Ghulam Qadir Sofi, was abducted by militants, the local people mounted a sit-in strike at Babademb, Srinagar. Again in the wake of the abduction of a woman by some militants at Chakla Baramula, an armed clash took place between two rival militant groups in which three villagers were killed and fifteen wounded. Later the villagers caught hold of three militants, shaved their heads, blackened their faces and paraded them through the village (May 12, 1992). Following the rape of a Muslim girl by three militants and her subsequent attempt to commit suicide (Baramula June 6, 1992), more than 600 locals gathered, raising anti-Pakistan and anti-militancy slogans.
Three thousand angry men marched raising condemnatory slogans against militancy when a young boy Ghulam Mohideen was kidnapped by the militants at Anantnag on April 10, 1992. On that day there were angry slogans raised at Rainawari, Srinagar, and about a 100 women took part in a procession at Ziarat Batmaloo.
ATTACK ON SHIAS
Similarly, there were protest marches by the Shia Muslims at Badgam. A Shia Muslim, Mohammed Yunis Yaloom, was shot dead by militants at Sumbal, Baramula. The local Shias resented the killing and closed their shops in protest on November 4, 1992. Local citizens of Shopian, Pulwama, came out on the streets raising anti-militancy slogans (May 20, 1992) when the body of a local Muslim, Hassan Mir, resident of Arigam, was found hanging from an electric pole. Hassan Mir along with his son were kidnapped two days earlier following the rescue of his abducted daughter from the militants by the security forces.
When clashes took place between gun-wielding rival militant groups resulting in the death of innocent people and the destruction of property the local population showed their anger and resentment through slogan shouting demonstrations. Such incidents were recorded at Noorpora, Pulwama (May 20, 1992); Sopore, Baramula (May 29, 1992); Pattar, Baramula (September 5, 1992); Khanwari, Srinagar (December 9, 1992).
Following an explosion in a taxi when four Muslims including a woman were killed and the driver was seriously injured the locals at Phlipora, Anantnag, demonstrated against the militants on October 13, 1992. Again, when a grenade exploded on the road at Soura, Srinagar, wounding 14 persons, including four women, the local residents organized an anti-militant demonstration (November 2, 1992).
The people are also angered by the systematic damage done to educational institutions by the militants. Muslim fundamentalist militant groups have gone about destroying school and college buildings as also kidnapping school boys and girls for forcible indoctrination recruitment to militant groups or for obtaining ransom money. Except the Islamic fundamentalist educational institutions, schools and colleges have remained the prime targets of the militants. Five graduate colleges one professional institution, 79 primary schools, 81 middle schools, 63 high schools and 23 higher secondary schools have been destroyed by the militants. In addition, 240 other educational institutions have been damaged. Christian missionary schools at Srinagar and Baramula have been subjected to repeated bomb attacks.
Militants have entered school campuses, interfered with the administration of schools attacked libraries and harassed girl students. This has resulted in heavy dropouts. During 1991-92, dropout rate of boys was 44 per cent and of girls 50 per cent. This has resulted in resentment which was voiced when militants entered a school at Hajan in Bandipur (May 20, 1992) and tried to pull out a student, Ghulam Nabi, from his class. All the students of the school came out of their classes and pelted stones on the militants.
The strain of militancy on the economy social order and law and order has taken a heavy toll of the average Kashmiri’s self-confidence. He is beginning to crack. It is a question of time before the people’s resentment against militants who have interfered with their daily chores often depriving them of their livelihood turns to fury. And when that happens, the militants will be truly on the run.
LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT………………
We are what we are…………
Whatever is happening is coz of our own………………..deeds.
Some one wants to Die……..coz his life is sucking.