Is Delhi Trying To Repeat Its Kashmir Experience In Maoist-Hit States?
Baba Umar May 30, 2013 Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh maybe 1300 miles apart. But one thing that binds them together is decades-old insurgency and almost similar state response. However, unlike Kashmir where the mobile phone service is massively used to track and hunt down rebels, large swathes of Chhattisgarh and portions of almost eight other Naxal-hit states have so far remained […]
Al Qaeda gets a new military chief in Kashmiri. India tops his hit list
Baba Umar December 4, 2010, Issue 47 Volume 7 Is Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, born in Mirpur, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, now al Qaeda’s head of military ops? This is what US intelligence agencies believe. IS MOHAMMAD Ilyas Kashmiri, born in Mirpur, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, now al Qaeda’s head of military ops? This is what US intelligence agencies believe. In that case, […]
WikiLeaks disclosures: Screams from Kashmir
January 1, 2011, Issue 52 Volume 7 WikiLeaks disclosures on torture in Kashmir have fuelled fresh demands for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Baba Umar reports on the plight of victims THE WIKILEAKS exposé of the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) telling US diplomats in 2005 about “torture of civilians” in Kashmiri jails comes at a time when Union […]
‘New Delhi and Mufti created 35 militant outfits in Kashmir’ – Mustafa Kamal
January 22, 2011, Issue 03 Volume 8 NC MLA and Farooq Abdullah’s brother Mustafa Kamal tells Baba Umar the Pandits are unwilling to return to Kashmir On what grounds do you say that the Pandits were forced to flee Kashmir by none other than New Delhi, the army and the then home minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed? It was a conspiracy hatched in New […]
Kashmir dispute will not end even if Geelani becomes CM – Sheikh Abdul Rasheed
March 19, 2011, Issue 11 Volume 8 Sheikh Abdul Rasheed, 42 Langate MLA Sheikh Abdul Rasheed is popularly known in Jammu & Kashmir as ‘Engineer Rasheed’, a reference to his professional qualification. Rasheed was a separatist and then became a human rights activist. In a candid chat, he tells Baba Umar what the Centre needs to do to solve the Kashmir issue. Excerpts: […]
‘Not hawala money, donations keep us going’ – Syed Ali Shah Geelani
March 26, 2011, Issue 12 Volume 8 Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Hurriyat (G) chairman, tells Baba Umar the State is fanning rumours of another unrest You have proclaimed that there will be no prolonged strikes this year. Is it a strategy shift? Hurriyat (G) was never for violent agitation. From 2008, we have been regularly saying that ours is a […]
‘We aren’t fighting from Pakistan. We are fighting from liberated Kashmir’ – Syed Salahuddin
Baba Umar April 2, 2011, Issue 13 Volume 8 MUHAMMAD YOUSUF SHAH was born on 18 February 1946 in Budgam’s Soibugh village. He studied medicine and political science before becoming chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), an amalgam of 14 militant outfits operating in Jammu & Kashmir that seeks the state’s accession to Pakistan. He […]
Mines of Kashmir war maim innocents
April 30, 2011, Issue 17 Volume 8 The landmines planted by India along the LoC were supposed to keep Pakistanis at bay. But Kashmiris end up losing their limbs and lives, reports Baba Umar SHAHEEN AKHTER, 29, vividly remembers the field rigged with thousands of landmines laid on 8 March 2002 in Karmara, the last mountainous village […]
‘No harm in talking about Kashmir’s trifurcation’ – Abdul Ghani Bhat
June 18, 2011, Issue 24 Volume 8 Hurriyat (M) member Abdul Ghani Bhat tells Baba Umar that Kashmiris should take the initiative for restarting peace parleys Why do you think that trifurcation is a natural solution? We have been seeking settlement in the larger interests of the subcontinent. India and Pakistan have gone nuclear and Kashmir can constitute a flashpoint. I know it’s also an RSS plan, […]
Fake Terrorists: Grounded for 5 years, will he ever fly again?
Baba Umar July 2, 2011, Issue 26 Volume 8 FAKE TERRORISTS 1, A series on Kashmiri youth Imran Ahmad Kirmani, 29 Nelipora hamlet, Handwara Jammu & Kashmir WHY: Arrested on the purported charges of being a Lashkar-e- Toiba operative planning to carry out 9/11-style terror attacks in the country. He was sent to Tihar Jail. WHEN: 15 November […]