“In honour of your last name, we have sent a mission to the Moon” Baba Umar This week UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Kashmir to take stock of the ongoing bloodbath. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, pro-India local leaders Omar Abdullah, Mahbooba Mufti and Ghulam Nabi Azad flanked Moon whose visit prompted an estimated seven million people to take to streets in.
Kashmir doesn’t have a military solution as established by previous wars neither it is a law and order problem Baba Umar A bulletin of deaths and injuries is constantly being updated inside a key hospital in Kashmir. Last time the white board showed 48 killings and 3,548 injuries in a week paradoxically just above the marble plate, announcing the launch of the building by pro-Indian.
Unilateral scrapping of Kashmir water treaty is not the option anymore Baba Umar In Cameron Stracher’s 2011 novel The Water Wars Vera and her brother Will struggle in a country collapsed from the environmental cataclysm. The authorities hoard water, dam rivers, and even exploit clouds as glaciers vanish and polar caps melt. In their bid to find their lost friend, the duo take.
What can be expected from the visit of uninvited parliamentarians without a clear mandate? Baba Umar Last week the Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani closed the doors for Indian parliamentarians. But he didn’t shut the doors for talks. Neither was the act a discourteous snub. Those who’ve been visiting him – officially or privately – will tell you how gracious host.
Baba Umar Currently what Kashmir is watching are three parallel realities. The first bids for the India’s ‘surgical strike’ inside Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The other competing reality suggests it was a ‘cross fire’. After all Pakistanis were on toes across the de facto perimeter following deadly Uri attack and quick revenge calls by New Delhi and handle bar-moustached.
India has announced plans to help thousands of Kashmiri Hindus, or Pandits, return to “composite townships” in India-administered Kashmir, from which they fled in hordes 25 years ago after an armed rebellion broke out against New Delhi’s rule. The plan is opposed by pro-independence groups as well as a segment of Kashmiri Hindus in the Muslim-majority region who see it as a replication.
Fresh rains and mudslides have halted efforts to recover the body of a six-year-old boy buried under mounds of mud, four days after landslides and flash floods pummeled India-administered Kashmir for the second time in seven months. Amid heavy rains and recurring landslides, rescuers made another abortive bid on Thursday to recover the body of Faisal Ahmad, who was buried along with 11 family.
Clashes between protesters and police in Indian-administered Kashmir have left a teenage student dead, a day after a prominent Kashmiri separatist leader was arrested for spearheading a recent protest march against Indian rule.Police Inspector-General SJM Gilani said the boy was killed after officers opened fire on a protest in the western village of Nabal on Saturday, as shops, businesses and public.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected foreign “advice and analysis” on disputed Kashmir as authorities scuttled a proposed “million march” called by pro-independence groups to protest against Modi’s visit.Modi, speaking on Saturday, said India would instead follow former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s doctrine “to address Kashmir’s problems”.
So why would a figure like him refuse to even have a word or two with the Indian parliamentarians who dropped by obviously to see if Geelani could help diffuse the current tension in Kashmir. Guilty or not guilty? That must be intriguing query hanging on the head of confined Geelani.But the record must be set straight.The police has shut the main gate leading to Geelani’s house since god-knows-when..
