Kashmir may have failed to hog media headlines in recent times, but stories of personal tragedy have continued to unfold in the picturesque valley, without respite. These are stories of young men who the government and the army believe to be ‘terrorists’ who got what they deserved. But the relatives of these ‘terrorists’ insist it was atrocities by the State that pushed these men into the folds.
Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar, 46, Commander-In-Chief, Al-Umar Mujahideen, is the chief of pro-Pakistan Al-Umar Mujahideen, which had 700 militants when the Kashmiri insurgency was at its peak in the 1990s. Zargar, who comes from a copper polishing family, crossed the LoC in 1988, and rose to lead Al-Umar after breaking away from pro-azaadi JKLF in 1990. Al-Umar’s key men were killed.
Christopher Snedden is an Australian politico-strategic analyst, author and academic specialising in South Asian studies. His consultancy, Asia Calling, works with governments, businesses and universities. Kashmir: The Unwritten History, he dismisses India’s claim that Pakhtoon tribesmen stoked the Kashmir conflict in October 1947. On the contrary, an uprising by the subjects.
The faded red cherry left the young bowler’s right hand. Matthew Wade, the aggressive Australian cricketer, charged. The delivery was a flighted off-breaker. A perfect deceiver. The stand-in Aussie skipper misjudged the length, sending the ball high into the air to be caught at long-off. For Parvez Rasool Zargar, the 24-year-old Kashmiri all-rounder, it was his “most cherished, career-best”.
According to police sources, the ex-militant Bashir has been a source for security agencies and has allegedly helped Lashkar-e-Toiba militants launch the audacious Bemina attack. Baba Umar reports Investigators of deadly Kashmir attack, that left five paramilitary personnel including two suicide attackers dead three days ago, have allegedly found role of a security agencies informer.
Will this man’s arrest dissuade former militants from returning in search of a new life, asks Baba Umar LIAQUAT SHAH, 45, never intended to be a trigger. But his disputed arrest by the Delhi Police could end up having tremendous long term impact. Ever since a high-octane debate broke out between the J&K Police and the Delhi Police over Liaquat, two things have come into.
Since Afzal Guru’s hanging, 650 police and CRPF personnel have been injured. The stone-pelters’ rage is known. Baba Umar tells the other side of the story AS THE spring wind got stronger, the hail of stones came to a halt. The CRPF personnel manning the mobile outpost sat for a quick lunch on the Azad Gunj Bridge in Baramulla, located 75 km from Srinagar.
A new art initiative has turned decades of bad headlines into distinctive papier-mâché boxes to send to gloomy editors, finds Baba Umar KASHMIR HAS received ‘bad press’ for more than two decades now. For national newspapers and magazines, the region is explained by government hand-outs declaring shoot-at-sight orders; by separatist guerrillas planning to attack military installations;.
Legal experts claim the J&K Assembly and the Cabinet have the power to revoke AFSPA in the state, says Baba Umar On 6 March, Tahir Rasool Sofi (27) of north Kashmir’s Baramulla town was allegedly shot dead by personnel of the 46 Rashtriya Rifles. Almost 380 km away, in the state Assembly in Jammu, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah nearly broke down when the news reached him. He.
As many as 40 separate depositions were made during the meeting, unarguably the largest one ever convened by any UN’s Special Rapporteur, as part of the 10-day long official mission to India from 22 April to 1 May The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Rashida Manjoo on Wednesday appealed India to repeal the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and the Public Safety.
