“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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
