India’s ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party has vowed to strip decades-old special rights from the people of Indian-administered Kashmir, by repealing Article 370 of the constitution, which bars Indians from buying land in the disputed territory. via @TRTWorld
TRT World’s Baba Umar spoke with journalist Najeeb Mubariki about what the Indian elections mean for Kashmiris. @TRT World
Citizens of India’s largest province, Uttar Pradesh, headed to cast their ballots in the first of seven phases of voting. As the biggest state, they are electing the highest number of representatives into the lower house of parliament. via @TRTWorld
Baba Umar In 2013 images and a video to highlight a new documentary ‘No Fire Zone’ by UK-based writer and investigative journalist Callum Macrae, on Sri Lanka showed government soldiers executing the 12-year-old son of separatist supremo of LTTE, Velupillia Prabhakaran in 2009. Sri Lankan army has been maintaining for long that the boy Balachandran Prabhakaran was killed.
Basharat is an 18-year-old soccer player coached by a couple from South America. He has been selected to play in Brazil. This is his big ticket out of a tiny Himalayan region ravaged by years of deadly conflict – except he is being denied a passport by the government of India that administers the region since 1947. Basharat’s father, Bashir, was a rebel fighter who was arrested and imprisoned.
Directed by Ashvin Kumar, Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror, a 2012 documentary is a assemblage of testimonials of people living in the most militarized place in the contemporary world – Kashmir. More details here – Crew Director, narrator – Ashvin KumarCo-producer – Jaaved Jaafferi Associate Producer – Giulia Achilli Kashmir researchers – Baba.
Baba Umar Directed and shot by Baba Umar for New Delhi-based Tehelka, the short film looks at the fallouts in Kashmir after New Delhi led by the Congress government hanged former Kashmiri rebel Afzal Guru in 2013. Kashmir immediately erupted in anger. I travelled to Kashmir where the new-age stone pelters are back with new tactics. They have already wounded over 650 personnels from.
