Kashmir Insight June 2016

22nd Year of Publication
Vol: 22
No. 07
July 2016
Monthly
KASHMIR
INSIGHT
IOK people determined

to resist Indias
anti-Kashmir designs
Indian state terrorism

continues
unabated in IOK
India losing war in

Kashmir, admit Indian
Army, police and CRPF
Kashmir will top agenda of dialogue with India
Pakistan will not accept Indian diktat over Kashmir. However, the
country does not want tensions on the Line of Control. Kashmir
will top the agenda of dialogue with India.
(Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, in a press briefing at the
Foreign Office in Islamabad, June 27, 2016.)
Kashmir Insight
Editor:
M Raza Malik
Sub Editor:
Benazir Khan
Art Editor:
M.Haroon
C O N T E N T S
Editorial
India losing battle in Kashmir
A stark admission
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02
Cover Story
Islamabad seminar urges UN to appoint
special envoy on Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
Reports
IOK people determined to resist Indias
anti-Kashmir designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08
Indian state terrorism continues
unabated in IOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
India losing war in Kashmir, admit Indian Army,
police and CRPF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Pictorial
Images speak louder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Human rights situation
HR violations in IOK during June 2016
Raies Ahmed Mir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Reports
Cold-blooded murder of civilians strongly
denounced in IOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Human Rights abuses by Indian troops in IOK
highlighted in Geneva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chronology
A chronological account of developments
on Kashmir (119) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Beauty thy name is
JULY 2016
From The Editor's Desk
In occupied Kashmir, India is facing stiff resistance to its
nefarious anti-Kashmir designs including construction of
colonies for retired Indian soldiers, separate townships for
Kashmiri Pandits and implementation of East India
Company-type Industrial Policy in the territory to prolong its
illegal occupation over Jammu and Kashmir. Following the
joint protest programmes announced by the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and
Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad
Yasin Malik, people continued holding of forceful
demonstrations in the territory for the second consecutive
month in June 2016 to express their resentment against these
moves.
The occupation authorities are keeping the APHC Chairman,
Syed Ali Gilani, and General Secretary, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
under continued house arrest and detain Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, Muhammad Yasin Malik and other resistance leaders
time and again to prevent them from leading the
demonstrations. They are not even allowed to perform their
religious obligations like offering of Juma prayers.
The Hurriyet leaders have said that a Do or Die like
situation has been created for the Kashmiris and pro-freedom
organisations would jointly resist tooth and nail the
implementation of the RSS agenda in the occupied territory.
They have also said that these designs of the RSS-BJP
communal government in New Delhi pose serious threat to the
existence, individuality, Islamic and cultural identity of
Muslims of occupied Kashmir and the disputed status of the
region.
It is a reality that Indian policymakers fully know the fact that
sooner or later they will have to accept the Kashmiris demand
for plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir and that the end result
will not be in their favour. Therefore, under a planned manner
they are trying to convert the Muslim majority into minority
by permanently settling non-state subjects including Hindu
extremists belonging to RSS and other communal
organisations in the occupied territory in different names like
soldier colonies, separate townships for Pandits and
industrialisation.
There is no denying the fact that all pro-freedom leaders and
organisations are striving to achieve the one same objective freedom from Indian occupation - although their line of action
is different from one another. However, given the massive
public response to recent programmes announced by the
leaders, a joint strategy can be more effective to take the
ongoing freedom movement to its logical conclusion. The same
collective approach adopted by them in 2008 had forced the
then puppet regime to revoke its decision of transferring the
Kashmiris private land to Delhi-based Amarnath Shrine
Board, which manages annual pilgrimage of Hindus
(Amarnath Yatra) to a cave in occupied Kashmir.
Tourist places in Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Literature
Fugitive Fawn
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Feedback
Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Editorial
India losing battle in Kashmir A stark admission

Indian Army, paramilitary
Centre Reserve Police Force
(CRPF) and police have finally
conceded, although too late, that
India is losing battle in occupied
Kashmir. General Officer
Commanding of Indian Army's
16 Corps, Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda, IG
Operations CRPF, Nalin Prabhat,
and police officers in the occupied territory recently said that
despite spending billions of
rupees on a large number of
programmes undertaken by the
Army in the name of Operation
Sadbhavna (Operation
Goodwill) during the past over a
decade, New Delhi has failed to
win the hearts and minds of the
Kashmiri people. They also
acknowledged ever growing
public support for militants
(Mujahideen) in the occupied
territory.
Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda while
admitting the helplessness and
failure of Indian forces to
suppress the Kashmiris love,
affection and passion for the
freedom fighters and the
ongoing freedom movement
even maintained that the Army
was not feeling comfortable in
conducting militancy operations
as the crowds favouring militants (Mujahideen) have become
a huge problem.
It is to mention here that for the
past several months, it has
become a norm in occupied
Kashmir that whenever Indian
troops launch a siege and search
operation in any part of the
occupied territory on the
intelligence outputs regarding
the presence of Mujahideen, the
residents of that particular area
start staging anti-India protests
and fight pitched battles with the
forces personnel to give a safe
passage to the freedom fighters.
Many people including women,
children and minor students
have lost their lives and scores
others have sustained injuries in
the use of excessive force on such
protests by Indian troops and
police. Similarly, the presence of
thousands of people in the
funeral prayers of the youth

martyred by Indian forces
during the past almost one year
has given sleepless nights to the
Indian rulers and policymakers,
who time and again come up
with different plans to prolong
Indias illegal occupation over
Jammu and Kashmir.
Operation Sadbhavna is part of
these nefarious anti-Kashmir
designs. It is a project of Indian
Army to corrupt the people of
Kashmir by providing them with
different facilities of life and
arranging tours for the Kashmiri
students to different parts of
India to divert their attention
from the freedom struggle.
However, all these tactics have
strengthened the resolve of
Kashmiri people and they are
resisting the Indian occupation
on political and armed fronts.
The recent killing of eight CRPF
troops in an attack by
Mujahideen is not an ordinary
incident but a clear message to
the Indian rulers that the
Kashmiris would use all possible
means to get freedom from New
Delhi.
The realisation of the reality by
Indian military, paramilitary and
police authorities vindicated the
stance of Hurriyet leadership
that no amount of Indian state
terrorism and its carrot and stick
policy can intimidate the people
of Kashmir into submission.
Unfortunately, instead of
respecting the sentiments of
Kashmiris, the ruling rightwing
Bharatiya Janata Party is continuing with its aggressive
approach and has demanded
aerial strikes on Azad Jammu
and Kashmir. Indian rulers
should keep in mind that war is
not a solution to any problem.
New Delhi must give up its
intransigence on the Kashmir
dispute and resolve it by
fulfilling the promises it made at
the international level with the
people of Jammu and Kashmir of
giving them their right to selfdetermination.
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Kashmiris
mark
Indias
Day envoy
as Black
Day
Islamabad
seminar
urges
UN toRepublic
appoint special
on Kashmir
Condemns India's plan to change IOK demography
A two-day International
Kashmir Seminar organised by
the Mirpur University of Science
and Technology (MUST) at the
Jinnah Convention Centre in
Islamabad on June 1-2, 2016,
demanded of the United Nations
to appoint a special envoy for
Kashmir to investigate the gross
and blatant violations of international norms and laws by Indian
authorities and explore ways of
implementing the relevant UN
resolutions on Kashmir. It
condemned the RSS-backed BJP
government's plans to settle
Hindu chauvinists in occupied
Kashmir under the garb of
industrialisation, impose Hindu
ideology in occupied Kashmir
and obliterate Muslim culture
and civilisation in the territory.
It said that the international
community could no longer stay
as a mute spectator towards the
matchless struggle of the people
of Kashmir to achieve their
inalienable right to selfdetermination.

The event was attended by
political luminaries of different
shades, intellectuals and leading
journalists of Pakistan and Azad
Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as
well as Hurriyet leaders, journalists, members of the High Court
Bar Association and intellectuals
of Indian occupied Kashmir
besides law makers from UK and
Europe. The speakers included
the AJK President, Sardar
Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, Raja
Zafarul Haq, Chaudary Barjees
Tahir, Sardar Khalid Ibraheem,
Dr Habib-ur-Rehman, Shaikh
Tajammul-ul-Islam, Dr Attiya
Inayatullah, Dr Muhammad
Khan, Nafees Zakaria, Ghulam
Muhammad Safi and Abdur
Rasheed Turabi. From Indian
occupied Kashmir those who
attended the seminar included
Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi
Al-Safvi, Zafar Akbar Butt,
Narinder Singh Khalsa,

Advocate Arshad Andrabi and
Advocate Muhammad Ashraf
Butt. From Europe Amjad Bashir,
Yasmin Qureshi and
Muhammad Rafiq participated
in the event.
During the seminar, video
messages of Hurriyet leaders,
Syed Ali Gilani and Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, were played while
messages of Shabbir Ahmed
Shah, Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai,
Aasiya Andrabi, Muhammad
Yousuf Naqash, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed and Bilal Siddiqui were
read out.
The President of Azad Jammu
and Kashmir, Sardar
Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, in
recognition of the services of the
All Parties Hurriyet Conference
Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, for
the Kashmir cause, announced to
confer honorary degree of
Doctorate of Letters on him. The
degree was conferred by the
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Mirpur University of Science and
Technology (MUST).
The Chairman of Pakistan
Muslim League-N, Senator Raja
Zafarul Haq, while addressing
the inaugural session of the
seminar described Kashmir as an
unfinished business of the
Partition of Indian subcontinent.
He said, Kashmir is the bleeding
wound of South Asia and a major
source of unrest and instability in
the region. He said that Pakistan
as a party to the Kashmir dispute
was duty-bound to support and
uphold the right to selfdetermination of the Kashmiri
people.
The Executive Director of
Kashmir Media Service, Shaikh
Tajammul-ul-Islam, in his
opening remarks said, Kashmir
dispute has endangered the
peace and stability of South
Asian region and thus Jammu
and Kashmir is not merely an
issue but a dangerous conflict.
Addressing the session, former
Senator, Attiya Inayattullah,

said, Kashmir is not a territorial
dispute between Pakistan and
India. It is an international
dispute which was taken by
India to the UN. She said that
there was dire need of pro-active
strategy to raise the issue
vociferously at the international

level.
Professor (Dr) Habib-urRehman, the Vice Chancellor of
the Mirpur University of Science
and Technology, while thanking
the delegates for participating in
the seminar said that the unresolved dispute of Kashmir had
been a stumbling block in the
way of peace and prosperity in
the region.
The All Parties Hurriyet
Conference Chairman, Syed Ali
Gilani, in his video message
played on the occasion thanked
the organisers for arranging the
international seminar on
Kashmir. He said that the

seminar helped in sensitising the
international community about
resolution of the Kashmir
dispute besides highlighting the
plight of Kashmiris who
happened to be the worst
sufferers of the long drawn
conflict in the region. He said that
it was high time that the government of Pakistan and its diplomatic missions working abroad
should redouble their efforts to
promote the cause of Kashmir
vociferously at the global level.
The General Secretary of All
Parties Hurriyet Conference and
the President of Jammu and
Kashmir Democratic Freedom
Party, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a
paper distributed during the
seminar said that unresolved
Kashmir dispute was the main
cause of sufferings of the
Kashmiri people and posed
continued threat to the peace and
security of South Asia. He stated
that Kashmir was not a border or
territorial dispute between
Pakistan and India but an issue
pertaining to the right to selfdetermination of more than 15
million Kashmiris.
The Secretary General of World
Kashmir Awareness, Dr Ghulam
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Nabi Fai, in his paper urged the

US to shape up its policy towards
Kashmir by the principles of just
and durable peace, and not by
the relative strategic significance
of India or Pakistan to America.
He hoped that the US would not
ignore the wishes of the people of
Jammu and Kashmir and bypass
the expression of those sentiments.
Pakistans Minister for Kashmir
Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan,
Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees
Tahir, in his speech said that
Pakistan would continue its
political, diplomatic and moral
support to the Kashmiris
struggle for securing their
inalienable right to selfdetermination.
He said that the present government had substantially highlighted the Kashmir dispute at
the international fora. "India has
to reciprocate Pakistan's efforts
for peace and stability in the
region," he added.
Senior APHC leader, Agha Syed
Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, said
that India had been trying hard
to portray Kashmir dispute as a
border issue between the two
countries but the fact was that the
conflict was unfinished agenda
of the Partition Plan.
Speaking on the occasion,

Hurriyet leader, Zafar Akbar
Butt, said that the Kashmiris had
rendered unparalleled sacrifices
to achieve their cherished goal of
right to self-determination
during the past almost seven
decades.
Jamaat-e-Islami Azad Kashmir
Chief, Abdul Rasheed Turabi,
APHC-AJK Convener, Ghulam
Muhammad Safi, Dr
condemned the killing of

civilians, house detentions and
arrest of Hurriyet leaders and
activists including Syed Ali
Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
The seminar had inaugural,
plenary and technical sessions.
The main topic of the seminar
was Kashmir Conflict International Dimensions,
Indian Current Plans to Suppress
Freedom Movement". The topics
of technical sessions were;
Role of international
community in resolving the
Kashmir dispute
Role of indigenous
freedom movement: Jammu &
Kashmir A case study
Indian current agenda to

suppress the Kashmir freedom
movement vis--vis bringing
demographic changes in Indian
occupied Kashmir.
Gross human rights

violations in IOK and mechanism to stop them.
Muhammad Khan of National

Defense University, Islamabad,
Member European Parliament,
Amjad Bashir, and Mushal
Malick also highlighted the need
to resolve the Kashmir dispute
without any further delay. They
Recent BJP-RSS antiKashmir moves: Penalising

people for not showing Jammu
and Kashmir with India, settling
Hindu fundamentalists in IOK
under the garb of industrialists.
At the end of interactive sessions,
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a five-member committee
drafted the memorandum for the
seminar that was later discussed
and subsequently adopted in the
general session of delegates and
participants. Members of the
committee were Dr Attiya
Inayatullah, Justice (Retd) Syed
Manzoor Gilani, Dr Muhammad
Khan, Professor Nazir Ahmed
Shawl and Advocate Arshad
Andrabi.
Full text of the memorandum is as
follows;
The seminar:
1
.
Applauds the
robust indigenous freedom
movement of
IOK sounding
a death knell to
the fascist
policies of
I n d i a n
Hindutva
forces.
2.
Rejects
Indian latent
and manifest
machinations
to change the
demographic
composition of
Jammu and Kashmir by engineering different methods like
fiddling with Article 370 and
Article 35-A of Indian
Constitution, establishment of
separate colonies for soldiers,
exclusive townships for
Kashmiri Pandits and providing
State Subject status of Jammu
and Kashmir to the 1947 West
Pakistani non-Kashmiri refugees.
3.
Condemns Indian plan
to settle Hindu extremists from
India in IOK in the garb of new
Industrial Policy by leasing them
out the Kashmiri land for a
period of ninety years. The plan
is in contravention of the principles of International Law.

4.
Emphasises that Jammu
and Kashmir is an internationally-recognised disputed
territory and India has no legal or
other justification for penalising
the people and institutions who
decline to show the territory as its
part in their maps. The vicious
designs of BJP and RSS to initiate
legislation on this subject are
reprehensible.
5.
Underlines the need to
address the humanitarian
supervision of the UN, as agreed

by India and Pakistan, decided
by the UNSC. No out-of-the-box
approach needed to be adopted.
8.
Considers that the
political and humanitarian
neglect of Kashmir conflict
makes it the biggest security
threat in the region as the dispute
is totally linked with peace and
stability in India, Pakistan,
Afghanistan and the region.
9.
Observes that the silence
on Kashmir needs to be broken
and a comprehensive approach
is required
to highlight
the conflict
using all
available
channels of
public and
diplomatic
advocacy
besides
digital
m e d i a
diplomacy.
10. D e m ands of
emergency thoroughly in IOK

caused by the brutal and systematic violation of human rights by
resorting to all available mechanisms in the UN system, in
accordance with international
humanitarian and criminal laws.
6.
Agrees that the Kashmiri
people, irrespective of their
creeds, religions and regions,
must be the main stakeholders of
any attempt towards resolving
the Kashmir dispute.
7.
Declares that Kashmir's
status must be determined in
accordance with the Kashmiris
inalienable right to selfdetermination through an
impartial plebiscite under the
India to
stop state
terrorism
in IOK and
appeals the international
community to help in resolving
the world's oldest dispute of
Kashmir.
11.
Condemns the
continued house arrest and
detention of Hurriyat leaders
and victimisation of freedomloving people in IOK on the
pretext of draconian laws as well
as the sub-human conditions the
Kashmiri political prisoners are
being kept in.
12.
Appreciates the role and
contribution of the Kashmiri
diaspora for projecting the
Kashmir cause that needs to be
further accelerated vigorously
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and through coordinated efforts.
13.
Expresses satisfaction
over the recent decision of profreedom leaders in IOK to work
with a common approach against
the nefarious BJP-RSS designs
aimed at harming the interests of
the Kashmiri people and hopes
that the same approach will be
followed in the future also.
14.
Demands that the
United Nations should appoint a
Special Envoy for Kashmir for
investigating the gross and
blatant violations of international norms and laws by Indian
authorities and also explore
w a y s
o f
implementing
the relevant
U N r e s o l utions.
15.
Maintains that the
South Asian
region has
undergone a
sea change
since 1947,
when the
K a s h m i r
dispute was
dealt with
under Chapter
VI of the UN
Charter. Wars have been waged,
1971 war resulted in debacle of
the East Pakistan through
planned invasion of Indian
armed forces and detachment of
the East Pakistan. Pakistan and
India have become nuclear
powers, over one hundred
thousand people have been
martyred since 1989 in IOK and
the Kashmiris are continuously
asserting/ struggling for
freedom by rendering unparalleled and unending sacrifices
making clear that they, in no
case, are willing to reconcile with
Indian illegal occupation. More
importantly, the region is on the
verge of a nuclear catastrophe.

Jammu and Kashmir is pivotal to
all these developments. As such,
the Kashmir dispute is a suitable
case to be placed in Chapter VII
of the UN Charter, therefore, it is
demanded that all necessary
steps be taken for shifting the
dispute from Chapter VI to the
Chapter VII of the UN Charter.
16.
Thanks the Mirpur
University of Science and
Technology and its Vice
Chancellor, Prof Dr Habib-urRehman, for holding such a high
stature International Kashmir
Seminar and hopes that such
academic and intellectual

interactions among the academicians of both AJK and IOK will
take place in the future as well.
Kashmiris have been facing the
worst kind of Indian state
terrorism since 1947 but after
1989 when they intensified their
indigenous liberation struggle,
human rights violations in
occupied Kashmir by the
occupational forces have
increased alarmingly. Ever since
every man, woman and child in
Kashmir has suffered at the
hands of Indian troops and
police personnel. The Kashmiri
people are being constantly
victimised for demanding

liberation from Indian bondage
but they are rendering innumerable sacrifices for the just cause of
achieving their right to selfdetermination. The people of
Pakistan have always extended
moral, political and diplomatic
support to the Kashmiris' just
struggle. The effort on part of
Mirpur University of Sciences
and Technology was also part of
the same congeniality which
shows that Kashmir remains to
be one of the core vital national
interests of Pakistan. As a party
to the dispute, Pakistan has been
fulfilling the
responsibility
of promoting
a
n
d
projecting the
Kashmir
cause in the
letter and
spirit of the
UN Charter,
w h i c h
a c k n o w le d g e s
peoples right
t o s e l f d e t e r m i n ation. This
seminar was
part of a
multi-pronged mission-oriented
strategy to seek resolution of the
Kashmir dispute peacefully. This
seminar has sent a strong
message to the international
community that it can no longer
stay as a mute spectator towards
the sufferings of the Kashmiri
people and the sacrifices
rendered by them to achieve
their inalienable right to selfdetermination. As per Raja
Zafarul Haq, Pakistan has hosted
many seminars and conferences
on Kashmir but this seminar was
unique in all respects.
(Humayun Aziz Sandeela)
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IOK
people determined
to resist
Indias anti-Kashmir
designs
Kashmiris
mark Indias
Republic
Day as Black
Day
In occupied Kashmir, as India
continues to stick with its sinister
anti-Kashmir designs including
construction of colonies for its
retired soldiers, separate
townships for Kashmiri Pandits
and implementation of East
India Company-type Industrial
Policy to prolong its forced
occupation over Jammu and
Kashmir, the people of the
territory seem more determined
to oppose these plans. They
continued holding of forceful
demonstrations across occupied
Kashmir in the month of June
2016 to register their protest
against these moves. Call for the
demonstrations was jointly
given by the All Parties Hurriyet
Gilani, and Hurriyet leaders,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and
Muhammad Yasin Malik.
However, the occupation
authorities continued to put
Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah and several other Hurriyet
leaders under house arrest or
illegal detention to prevent them
from leading the demonstrations. They were not even
allowed to offer Juma prayers on
all Fridays in the holy month of
Ramazan.
On June 3, people staged forceful
demonstrations and hoisted
black flags in Srinagar, Badgam,
Ganderbal, Baramulla,
Handwara, Kupwara, Sopore,
Bandipora, Islamabad, Tral,
Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian and
other areas to protest against
India's nefarious designs. The
protesters shouted pro-freedom,
pro-Pakistan and anti-India
slogans. Besides black flags,
Pakistani flags were waved
during the protests. Indian police
used brute force to disperse the
demonstrators at different places

injuring several people. The
police also arrested dozens of
Hurriyet activists during the
protests.
On June 10, people took to the
streets in Srinagar, Khudwani,
Kaimoh, Islamabad and other
areas and shouted slogans in
favour of freedom and against
India. The protesters at
Nowhatta in Srinagar waved
Pakistan's National flag during
the protests while Indian police
fired teargas shells to disperse
them.
Meanwhile, the Imams and
Khateebs of different mosques in
their sermons informed the
people about the serious consequences of the anti-Kashmiri
agenda being advanced by RSSbacked Indian government and
its local collaborators in the
territory.
On June 12, Hurriyet leaders
while addressing a seminar at
Hyderpora in Srinagar said that
India was using colonial tactics
to change the demographic
composition of Jammu and
Kashmir. The speakers warned
that joint protests would

continue if New Delhi did not
gave up its designs against the
Kashmiri people. The seminar
was presided over by the APHC
Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and
was addressed among others by
Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, Muhammad Ashraf
Sehrai, Bashir Ahmad Butt,
Muhammad Abdullah Tari and
the President of High Court Bar
Association, Mian Abdul
Qayoom. Muhammad Yasin
Malik and Shabbir Ahmad Shah
could not attend the event
because they were kept under

house arrest.
Meanwhile, the activists of
Jammu and Kashmir Salvation
Movement held a demonstration
in Srinagar against the setting up
of colonies for Indian soldiers
and separate townships for
Kashmiri Pandits in the territory.
On June 17, massive demonstrations against Indias antiKashmir plans rocked all major
towns of the occupied territory.
Thousands of people took to the
streets in Srinagar, Badgam,
Ganderbal, Palhallan, Pattan,
Tangmarg, Baramulla,
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Bandipora, Islamabad,
other areas and shouted profreedom, pro-Pakistan and antiIndia slogans. Pakistani flags
were waved during the protests,
which were led by Hurriyet
leaders including Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, Muhammad Ashraf
Sehrai, Advocate Bashir Ahmed
Butt, Altaf Ahmed Shah, Peer
Saifullah, Noor Muhammad
Kalwal and Zamruda Habib.
Indian police fired teargas shells
and pallets to disperse the
protesters at various places,
police took into custody
Muhammad Yasin Malik along
with several party members
when he was going to Islamabad
town to address a public rally.
On June 18, at a consultative
meeting in Srinagar, the APHC
Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and
Hurriyet leaders, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq and Muhammad Yasin
Malik, said that the puppet rulers
upon the recent statement of the

so-called Minister for Industries
in which he had said that
industrial policy stood implemented from March 15 this year
and there was no question of
reviving it.
Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq and Muhammad Yasin
Malik in a joint statement issued
after the meeting said that the
assertion of the so-called
policy will be revisited. Also one

of the so-called ministers in a
press conference said this policy
will be revived and hasnt been
implemented yet. But the
statement of so-called Minister
for Industries has exposed their
hypocritical politics and blatant
lies that are only being spread to
hoodwink the public opinion
and pacify the anger of masses on
these issues, the joint statement
said.
The leaders also referred to news
reports about the process
initiated by the puppet administration for identification of land
in many districts of the Valley for
setting up of separate townships
for the Pandits.
They said, the people of occupied
Kashmir stand against these
conspiratorial plots of RSSbacked PDP-BJP regime. They
said that protests would
continue till Indian government
totally gave up its anti-Kashmir
ideas.
were telling lies about the

separate townships for Kashmiri
Pandits, colonies for retired
Indian soldiers and Indias new
Industrial Policy in the territory.
In the meeting, they deliberated
Minister for Industries had

exposed the hypocritical politics
of PDP-BJP regime.
Recently in the so-called
Assembly, the puppet Chief
Minister said that industrial
On June 20, Indian police

arrested Muhammad Yasin
Malik from Batamaloo while he
was on his way to Hyderpora in
Srinagar to meet Syed Ali Gilani.
He was first lodged at Kothibagh
Police Station and later shifted to
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Srinagar Central Jail.

On June 24, people held forceful
anti-India demonstrations in
Srinagar, Badgam, Islamabad,
Pulwama, Kulgam, Kupwara,
Sopore and other areas to mark
the Kashmir Day. The protesters
raised high-pitched slogans in
favour of Pakistan and freedom
and against India. They also
waved Pakistani flags in Srinagar
and Islamabad. Indian forces'
personnel fired bullets and
teargas shells to disperse the
protesters, injuring several
people.
The occupation authorities
continued to place Hurriyet
leaders including Syed Ali
Gilani, Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Ghulam
Nabi Sumjhi, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed and Showkat Ahmed
Bakhshi under house arrest or
from leading the demonstrations.
On June 25, a large number of
leaders and activists of All
Parties Hurriyet Conference, the
Hurriyet forum led by Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq and Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front held a
big sit-in protest in Srinagar
against Indias anti-Kashmir
plans in the territory.
Hundreds of activists of profreedom organisations led by

Muhammad Yasin Malik
assembled near Lal Chowk in
Srinagar and chanted highpitched anti-India and profreedom slogans.
Addressing on the occasion,
Muhammad Yasin Malik said
that the Kashmiris would
continue their protests until

India announced scrapping of
these plans.
Hurriyet leaders including Raja
Meraj-ud-Din Kalwal and
Ghulam Nabi Zaki also
addressed the participants.
On June 29, the leaders and
activists of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference, the Hurriyet forum

led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation
Front once again held a sit-in
protest in Nowhatta area of
Srinagar against Indias antiKashmiri agenda. The protesters
led by Muhammad Yasin Malik
chanted high-pitched slogans in
favour of freedom and against
India. They warned New Delhi
and its stooges that the people of
Kashmir would launch a forceful
agitation if any attempt was
made to construct colonies for
Pandits and Indian soldiers in
the territory. Others who
participated in the protest
included Altaf Ahmed Shah,
Yasmeen Raja, Bilal Siddiqui,
Syed Bashir Andrabi, Bashir
Ahmad Butt, Ghulam Nabi Zaki,
Raja Meraj-ud-Din Kalwal and
Muhammad Ramzan Khan.
On the other hand, the APHC
Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, in a
statement in Srinagar said that

extremist Hindu organisation,
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS), and Sangh Parivar wanted
to implement their communal
agenda in Kashmir with force
and the puppet administration
was obeying their every
command. He said that the
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Muslims, Pandits, pro-freedom
leadership and the civil society of
the occupied territory in one
voice were opposing the
construction of separate colonies
for Pandits but the puppet Chief
Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, was
rigid on creation of such colonies
for the Pandits and showed no
respect for the public voice. He
said that to appease the RSS, the
puppet Chief Minister wanted to
slit the throats of the Kashmiri
people and she could go to any
extent in the lust of power.
The APHC Chairman, while
opposing the setting up of
colonies for retired Indian
soldiers in the Kashmir Valley,
revealed that most of the residential quarters meant for the retired
Indian forces personnel in
Jammu had been secretly sold by
them and they were living at
their native places. Every
retired serviceman after his
retirement prefers to live at his
native and ancestral home but

the Sangh Parivar wants to
accomplish its anti-Kashmir
designs under the garb of these
colonies. They want to change
the demography of Jammu and
Kashmir by creating safe zones
for the non-state subjects. It is an
Israeli-type policy which they

want to implement in Jammu
and Kashmir, he said.
The APHC General Secretary,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a
statement in Srinagar
condemning the continued
illegal detention of Hurriyet
leaders deplored that Mehbooba
Mufti-led puppet administration
had turned the entire territory
into a prison. He said that

Kashmir was not a part of India
but New Delhi had forcibly
occupied it. He said that the
people of Kashmir had always
raised their voice against the
Indian yoke and they would
continue their struggle till they
got rid of it. He said that the

puppet Chief Minister,
Mehbooba Mufti, was furthering
the Indian agenda in the territory
to appease her masters in New
Delhi.
The Chairman of Hurriyet
forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in
a statement said that Indias plan
of setting up colonies for retired
Indian soldiers in the territory,
separate townships for Kashmiri
Pandits and introducing the socalled Kashmir Industrial Policy
would be resisted with full force.
The JKLF Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a
statement strongly denounced
the puppet authorities for
imposing curbs on resistance
leaders to prevent them from
carrying out their peaceful
political activities. He said that
Mehbooba Mufti and her party
PDP had made the Kashmiris an
easy target of extremist Hindu
organisation, RSS, and had left
the entire territory on the mercy
of these fanatic communal forces.
He, however, maintained that
India's brutal tactics could not
force the Hurriyet leadership to
give up its stand on the Kashmir
dispute.
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Indian state terrorism continues unabated in IOK
Kashmiris25mark
Indias
Republic
Day2016
as Black Day
Kashmiris
martyred
during June
In occupied Kashmir, Indian
troops, in their unabated acts of
state terrorism martyred 25
Kashmiris including a woman at
different places in the month of
June 2016.
On June 13, the troops killed a
Kashmiri youth, Sheikh Tanveer
Sultan, and a woman during
checking in a passenger bus at
Kud on Srinagar-Jammu
Highway. The bus was on its way
from Srinagar to Jammu. The
killings sparked massive protests
in Bemina - the native area of the
youth - and other localities of
Srinagar. Indian police and
troops fired teargas shells on the
protesters, injuring several of
them .
Thousands of people defying
curfew and other restrictions on
June 15 came out in the streets in
Srinagar and participated in the
funeral prayers of Sheikh
Tanveer Sultan.
On June 15, the troops killed one
youth during a violent military
operation at Katwara in Machil
area of Kupwara district.
On the next day, the troops
martyred four more youth
during a military operation near
Tangdhar in the district. The
occupation authorities after
conducting the post-mortem at
Sub-district hospital Tangdhar
took the bodies of the martyred
youth to remote Jabdi forests, 10
kilometres away from Tangdhar,
and handed them over to the
local residents for burial. The
identity of these youth could not
be ascertained.
On June 17, two more youth,
Altaf Ahmed and Imtiyaz
Ahmed, were killed by the troops
during a siege and search
operation in Bomai area of
Sopore town. Indian forces'

personnel, however, faced stiff
resistance from the people as
scores of youth and women
staged demonstrations against
the operation. The youth hurled
stones at the police and paramilitary personnel.
The police resorted to teargas
shelling to break up the protests
resulting in the injuring of
several people including two
women.
Meanwhile, thousands of people
Chandrahama and Wusan

villages located near the
Srinagar-Baramulla Highway.
Youngsters took to the streets
and fought pitched battles with
Indian forces personnel
throughout the day in Brath
Kalan, Bomai, Tujjar and
Shangargund. They shouted fullthroated slogans in favour of
freedom and against India.
The police fired tear-gas shells
and pepper-gas grenades to
disperse the protesters.
participated in the funeral

prayers of the two martyred
youth. As the bodies of Altaf
Ahmed and Imtiyaz Ahmed
reached their native areas in
Brath Kalan, Sopore, and Wusan
in Bandipora, thousands of
people participated in their
funeral prayers. The participants
raised high-pitched pro-freedom
and anti-India slogans.
Complete shutdown was
observed in north Kashmir areas
on June 18 to mourn the killing of
the two youth. All shops and
business establishments
remained closed in Hyderbagh,
Pattan, Palhallan, Goshbugh,
Complete strike affected normal

life in entire Sopore with all
commercial establishments
remaining closed and traffic off
the road.
Meanwhile, a large number of
people visited the residences of
Altaf Ahmed and Imtiyaz
Ahmed to express sympathies
and offer condolences with their
families.
The General Secretary of All
Parties Hurriyet Conference and
the Chairman of Democratic
Freedom Party, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah, talking to the bereaved
families on telephone said that
the sacrifices of Kashmiri
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martyrs would not go waste. He
reiterated the Kashmiris resolve
to continue the mission of their
martyrs till it reached its logical
conclusion.
On the directive of Shabbir
Ahmed Shah, a delegation of
DFP visited Sopore and Pattan
and expressed sympathy with
the families of the martyred
youth. Hurriyet leaders
including Muhammad
Musaddiq Aadil, Farooq Ahmed
Tawheedi, Shabbir Ahmed Dar,
Muhammad Ramzan Khan,
Bashir Ahmed Qureshi,
Advocate Zahid Ali, Qutab
Aalam, Imtiyaz Reshi, Ghulam
Hassan Mir and a JKLF delegation also visited the bereaved
families and sympathised with
them.
On June 19, the troops killed one
more youth during a violent
siege and search operation in
Ladoo village near Pampore
town. Complete shutdown was
observed in Pulwama and
Baramulla districts on the next
day against the killing.
On June 20, complete strike
paralysed business and other
activities in Sopore on the rasme-chaharam of the two youth

who were killed by Indian troops
in Bomai.
On June 23, Indian troops,

martyred six youth - three each in
Dhobiwan Khurhama and
Dragmulla areas of Kupwara
district. Hundreds of people
prayers of the youth.
On June 24, the troops martyred
one more youth during a cordon
and search operation in
Waderbala area of the district.
On the next day, hundreds of
people attended the funeral
prayers of the martyred youth at
Waterkhani Drugmulla village
in the district. The participants

raised high-pitched anti-India
and pro-freedom slogans on the
occasion. People also held
funeral prayers in absentia in

Srinagar of the martyred youth.
On June 25, the troops killed two
more Kashmiri youth during a
military operation in Lachipora
area of Baramulla district.
youth during two military
operations in Nagri and Warnow
areas of Kupwara district. The
killings led to forceful demonstrations in Sopore, the native
area of one of the martyred
youth, Sameer Ahmed Wani. The
angry protesters raising proPakistan and anti-India slogans
also set ablaze police vehicles in
the area. The people carrying the
body of the martyred youth
marched on the streets of Sopore.
Several people were injured in
clashes between police and
protesters at Nagri, Kawardi and
adjacent areas of the district. A
large number of people
including Hurriyet leaders and
activists participated in the
funeral prayers of Sameer
Ahmed Wani at the martyrs
graveyard at Dooru in Sopore.
Hurriyet leaders, Ghulam
Muhammad Khan Sopori,
Ghulam Nabi War and activists
of Tehreek-e-Hurriyet and Mass
Movement attended the funeral
of the youth. People also held
demonstrations in Warnow
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against the killings. The demonstrators chanted pro-freedom
and anti-India slogans on the
occasion.
more Kashmiri youth during a
siege and search operation in
Malwari Newa area of Pulwama
district. Indian police used brute
force and fired pellets on the
demonstrations in the area.
On the other hand, the Chairman
of All Parties Hurriyet
Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, and
other Hurriyet leaders including
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and
Muhammad Yasin Malik in their
statements paid rich tributes to
the martyred youth.
Syed Ali Gilani in a statement
issued in Srinagar condemning
the killing of the youth said that
India had given its
troops a freehand to kill
innocent Kashmiris. He
maintained that
participation of
thousands of people in
the funerals of the
martyred youth should
serve as an eye-opener
for India and its local
agents in the territory.
He said that the
Kashmiri people had
great love for the youth
who had been
rendering their lives for
the Kashmir cause. The APHC
Chairman appealed to the
international community to take
cognisance of Indian state
terrorism in occupied Kashmir
and impress upon it to settle the
Kashmir dispute in accordance
with the Kashmiris' aspirations.
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a
Indian forces' personnel were
committing gross human rights
violations in occupied Kashmir.
He said that the Kashmiri
martyrs were offering sacrifices
for a sacred cause and their

mission would be accomplished
at all costs.
Muhammad Yasin Malik in a
the trigger-happy Indian troops
were committing crimes against

humanity in the occupied
territory to suppress the
Kashmiris' ongoing freedom
movement but they would never
succeed in their nefarious
designs. He said that the
Kashmiri martyrs' sacrifices,
which had centre-staged the
Kashmir dispute at the global
level, would not be allowed to go
waste.
Other Hurriyet leaders including
Al-Safvi, Aasiya Andrabi,
Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Yasmeen

Raja, Zamruda Habib, Farida
Bahenji, Muhammad Yousuf
Naqash, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed, Syed Bashir Andrabi,
Bilal Siddiqui, Mukhtar Ahmed
Waza, Javaid Ahmed
Mir, Zafar Akbar Butt
and Firdous Ahmed
Shah in their separate
statements paid rich
tributes to the
martyred youth. They
said that Indian
forces' personnel had
unleashed a reign of
terror across the
occupied territory to
intimidate the
Kashmiris into
s u b m i s s i o n .
However, they maintained that
India's suppressive measures
could not break the resolve of the
Kashmiri people to continue
their freedom struggle.
The leaders appealed to the
international community to
impress upon India to stop its
state terrorism in occupied
Kashmir and take steps towards
resolving the Kashmir dispute in
accordance with the Kashmiris'
aspirations.
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India losing war in Kashmir, admit
Kashmiris mark
Indias
Day as Black Day
Indian
Army, Republic
police and CRPF
In occupied Kashmir, Indian
Army, police and Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
have finally admitted that India
is losing war in the territory.
The Indian Armys top
Commander in Northern
Command in a surprisingly
candid admission told Voice of
America on June 3, 2016, that the
Indian Army had failed to win
hearts and minds of the
Kashmiri people despite running
the so-called Operation
Sadbhavna (operation goodwill)
for a period of past more than a
decade in the territory.
Lt. General D.S. Hooda, General
Officer Commanding (GOC) 16
Corps, was quoted as having said
that the Army was not comfortable doing anti-militancy
operations as the crowds
favouring Mujahideen had
become a huge problem. Its a
big problem, a challenge for us to
conduct anti-militant operations
now, he added. He noted that
armed soldiers had little hope of

competing with the militants for
public sympathy.
The growing public support for
Mujahideen had not only hit

Armys intelligence capabilities
but also its operational capacity
as people had started interfering
during the encounters in a bid to
give Mujahideen a chance to
escape.
The General then went on to say
what many within Indian
security establishment see but
refuse to believe. Frankly
speaking, Im not comfortable

anymore conducting operations
if large crowds are around, he
said. Militarily, theres not
much more to do than we already

have done. Were losing the
battle for a narrative, Lt. Gen.
Hooda added.
The top Generals view was also
seconded by the paramilitary
CRPF that assists the police
during law and order situation
and operations against
Mujahideen. During an average
counterinsurgency operation,
general law and order has
become more important to tackle
than the actual operation itself.
Its a matter of serious concern,
IG Operations CRPF, Nalin
Prabhat, said.
South Kashmir seems like a
liberated zone and I am not
joking. Militants can shoot and
flee at will. There is really
nothing we can do other than
watch. The militants can only do
this because they know they have
public support. We are sitting
ducks, a senior police officer
said in a media interview.
Media reports quoting police
sources said that policemen had
for the first time since 2010 begun
to hide their identity and
profession to avoid being
attacked.
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Human Rights Situation
HR violations in IOK
during June 2016
June 1: Indian police arrested
Tehreek-e-Hurriyet activist,
Ashiq Hussain Sofi, from
Khanyar in Srinagar.
June 2: The puppet authorities
put all top Hurriyet leaders
including Syed Ali Gilani,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,
Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and
Nayeem Ahmed Khan under
house arrest or behind the bars to
prevent them from leading
demonstrations after Juma
prayers on the next day against
Indias plans to construct
colonies for retired Indian
soldiers, separate townships for
Kashmiri Pandits, harassment of
Jammu Muslims and Delhis socalled Industrial Policy in
Kashmir.
under house arrest or illegal

detention to prevent them from
leading the demonstrations and
did not even allow them to offer
Juma prayers.
June 4: The police personnel beat
up and arrested Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, during a press conference
in Srinagar.
The authorities continued to put
Hurriyet leaders including Syed
Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai,
Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Raja
Merajuddin Kalwal, Altaf
Ahmed Shah, Ayaz Akbar,
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza and Hilal
Ahmed War under house arrest
or behind the bars.
June 5: The occupation
authorities continued to place
Hurriyet leaders under house
arrest or behind the bars.
two youth, Waseem Ahmed
Lone and Parvez Ahmed Mattoo,
from Kudwani area of Kulgam.
June 7: The police beat up and
dozens of Hurriyet activists

during protests in Srinagar
against India's anti-Kashmir
designs.
The authorities continued to
place all top Hurriyet leaders
arrested several job aspirants

during a protest at Press Enclave
in Srinagar.
June 8: Indian police arrested the
Jammu and Kashmir Muslim
League activist, Manzoor
Compiled by Raies Ahmed Mir

India has been resorting to the
worst kind of state terrorism for
the past almost seven decades to
suppress the Kashmiris' just
struggle to get freedom from its
illegal occupation of Jammu and
Kashmir. It has given its troops
and police personnel unbridled
powers under black laws like
Armed Forces Special Powers
Act, Public Safety Act and
Disturbed Areas Act to
intimidate the Kashmiris into
submission. Indian forces
personnel enjoying impunity
under these black laws have
ruined the daily life of the people
of occupied territory. Killings,
arrests, destruction of property,
use of brute force against
peaceful demonstrators and
molestation of women have
turned the paradise on earth into
a hell for its inhabitants.
The recent cold-blooded murder
of two innocent civilians
including a woman by Indian
police personnel while searching
a bus on Srinagar-Jammu
Highway is a glaring example of
Indian brutalities in the occupied
territory. It is a reality that
despite using all brutal methods,
New Delhi has miserably failed
to subdue the Kashmiris' resolve
for freedom and they are
determined to take their
liberation movement to its
logical conclusion at all costs.
Following are the details of
human rights violations in
occupied Kashmir during the
month of June 2016.
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Ahmed Lone, from Hanjan.
The authorities shifted the
illegally detained Hurriyet
leader, Hilal Ahmed War, from
Kothi Bagh Police Station to
Srinagar Central Jail.
seven youth during house raids
in Kulgam.
June 10: A 42-year-old civilian
identified as Vijay Kumar was
killed after he was deliberately
hit by a speedy vehicle of Indian
police at Vikram Chowk in
Jammu.
Several people were injured after
the police fired pellets and
teargas shells on protesters in
Nowhatta, Shalteng, Khudwani,
Qoimoh and Islamabad areas.
The authorities placed Hurriyet
leaders including Syed Ali
Gilani, Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Peer
Saifullah, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed, Syed Bashir Andrabi,
Bilal Siddiqui and Syed Imtiyaz
Haider under house arrest or

from leading demonstrations
against India's anti-Kashmir
plans and did not even allow
them to offer Friday prayers.
June 11: The authorities put
Ali Gilani and Shabbir Ahmed
Shah under house arrest or in

police stations.
June 12: Indian police raided the
residence of JKLF Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, in
Maisuma area of Srinagar and
arrested him hours after his
release from illegal detention.
June 13: Indian police personnel
stopped a bus at Kud in
Udhampur on Srinagar-Jammu
Highway and killed in cold
blood a civilian, Sheikh Tanveer
Sultan, and a woman besides

injuring several other
passengers.
June 14: Many people were
injured when Indian police used
brute force on a demonstration
against the injuring of a youth,
Bashir Ahmed Butt, by an Indian
Army vehicle at Lawaypora on

Srinagar-Baramulla Highway.
Ten other persons were
wounded due to the use of force
by the police on people in
Srinagar and at Qoimoh in
Kulgam.
June 15: Indian troops killed a
youth during a violent military
operation in Machil area of
Kupwara district.
Indian police beat up and injured
four people and ransacked
houses of Tauseef Ahmed Sheikh
and Abdul Majeed in Qoimoh.
The puppet authorities put
Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq
and Muhammad Yasin Malik
under house arrest or behind the
bars to prevent them from
leading anti-India
demonstrations.
June 16: Indian troops killed four
youth during a military
operation at Tangdhar in
Kupwara.
Indian police arrested several
persons from Srinagar, Sopore,
Islamabad and Jammu areas.
June 17: The troops killed two
youth and damaged a residential
house during a siege and search
operation in Bomai area of
Sopore.
The troops also beat up and
injured nineteen persons in
Sopore, Islamabad, Kulgam and
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other areas.
The authorities continued to put
Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah, Hakeem Abdul Rasheed,
Bilal Siddiqui and other Hurriyet
leaders under house arrest and in
police stations and did not allow
them to offer Juma prayers even
in the holy month of Ramazan.
June 18: Indian police used brute
force and injured nineteen
people in Sopore and Boniyar
areas of Baramulla. The police
personnel also disgraced two
women in Boniyar.
June 19: Indian troops killed a
youth, Khubaib Qasim, during a
siege and search operation at
Ladoo in Pampore.
the JKLF Chairman, Muhammad
Yasin Malik, in Batamaloo area of
Srinagar and lodged him at
Central Jail.
June 21: The police detained
Hurriyet leaders including

Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi, Bilal
Siddiqui, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed, Peer Saifullah and
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza in police
stations and jails.
June 22: The authorities arrested
several Hurriyet leaders and
lodged them in different police
stations.
June 23: Indian troops killed six
youth during continued military
operations in Dhobiwan and
Waterkhan Drugmulla areas of

Kupwara district.
June 24: The troops killed a
youth during a siege and search
operation at Wudarbala in
Handwara.
Fifty seven people were injured
after Indian police used brute
force on protesters in Srinagar,
Shopian and
Kupwara
areas.
T
h
e
authorities
continued to
p l a c e
Hurriyet
l e a d e r s
including
Syed Ali
G i l a n i ,
Muhammad
Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmed
Shah and Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi
under house arrest or illegal
detention to prevent them from
leading anti-India
demonstrations and did not even
allow them to offer Friday
prayers.
June 25: Indian troops killed four
youth, two each in Pampore and
Baramulla areas, during military
operations.
Fourteen people were injured
after Indian police fired pellets

and teargas shells on protesters
in Maisuma and Islamabad
areas.
Indian police arrested four youth
from Maisuma and Shopian
areas.
youth during siege and search
operations in Nagri and Warnow
areas of Kupwara district.
Ten people were injured in
violent Indian police actions in
Kupwara.
The police arrested three youth
from Kupwara and Handwara
areas.
June 29: Indian Army agents
killed a civilian, Qayoom Khan,
at Hyhama in Kupwara.
Twenty five people were injured
in violent Indian police actions in
Kulgam.
Indian troops disgraced four
women during house raids in
Kulgam.
youth and damaged a residential
house during a siege and search
operation at Malwari Newa in
Pulwama.
Over two dozen people were
injured after Indian police fired
pellets and teargas shells on
protesters in Kakapora,
Pulwama, Newa, Gundibagh,
Newa and other areas.
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Cold-blooded murder of
Kashmiris mark
Indias
Republic
as Black Day
civilians
strongly
denouncedDay
in IOK
In occupied Kashmir, the coldblooded murder of a youth and a
woman by Indian police during
checking in a passenger bus at
Kud on Srinagar-Jammu
Highway, on June 13, 2016,
triggered massive protests in
Bemina and Batamaloo areas of
Srinagar.
The police personnel shot dead
the youth, Sheikh Tanveer
Sultan, a resident of Bemina, and
the woman during checking in a
passenger bus which was on its
way from Srinagar to Jammu.
On the following day Indian
police and army personnel fired
teargas shells on protesters in
Bemina who were demanding
the body of the martyred youth.
The police had sealed all entry
points of the area to prevent
people from visiting the family of
the victim.
Meanwhile, thousands of people
defying curfew and other
restrictions on June 15 took to

the streets in Srinagar and
prayers of Sheikh Tanveer
Sultan.
Hurriyet leaders, Bashir Ahmed

Butt, Shakil Ahmed Bakhshi,
Muhammad Yousuf Mir, Noor
Muhammad Kalwal, Yasmeen
Raja, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Abdul
Ahad Parra, Muhammad Rafiq
Ganai, Farooq Ghautapuri,
Farooq Ahmed Tawheedi and
Peer Saifullah participated in the
funeral.
The Chairman of Jammu and

Kashmir Liberation Front,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, along
with a delegation met the
bereaved family members and
expressed solidarity with them.

Addressing a gathering on the
occasion, he said, Kashmir is the
land where thousands of people
have been brutally killed in fake
encounters and in custody and
the killing of Tanveer Sultan has
also raised many questions. He
paid rich tributes to the martyred
youth and said that this family
had already sacrificed one son
during the ongoing freedom
movement and now had given
their second one also for the
cause.
A delegation of Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq-led Hurriyet forum also
visited Bemina and sympathised
with the bereaved family. Javaid
Ahmed Mir, who led the delegation, addressing a gathering of
the mourners demanded an
impartial probe into the killing.
He said that the unbridled
powers enjoyed by the Indian
forces personnel under Armed
Forces Special Powers Act and
other draconian laws were the
main cause of the killing of
innocent people in the territory.
Hurriyet leaders, Muhammad
Yasin Attai and Imtiyaz Reshi,
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during their visits to the
bereaved family and
Muhammad Iqbal Mir in a
statement also paid tributes to
the martyred youth.
Meanwhile, the family of 32year-old Sheikh Tanveer Sultan
said that the victim had been
suffering from psychiatric
ailments for about two decades.
Tanveers elder brother, Sheikh
Arshad Sultan, in a media
interview in Srinagar said that
the deceased was admitted to
psychiatric hospital for some
time and was bedridden at home
for four years after developing
the disorder in 1997.
He said that Tanveer Sultan was
an engineering student at SSM
College in Parihaspora in Pattan
but he left his studies halfway
after developing the bipolar
disorder.
On the morning of June 13, he
left his home for Amritsar for
treatment of his shoulder, which
had suffered fracture during
outing with his friends in
Harwan on the outskirts of
Srinagar. He was carrying Rs

60,000 with him for the treatment
but officials claim they recovered
only Rs 35,000, he added.
Later on June 17, thousands of
people staged forcefull

dmonstrations in Srinagar,
Badgam, Ganderbal, Palhallan,
Pattan, Tangmarg, Baramulla,
Bandipora, Islamabad,
other areas against the killing of
Sheikh Tanveer Sultan and
shouted pro-freedom, proPakistan and anti-India slogans.
Pakistani flags were waved
during the protests. The protests
were led by Hurriyet leaders
including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,

Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai,
Advocate Bashir Ahmed Butt,
Altaf Ahmed Shah, Peer
Saifullah, Noor Muhammad
Kalwal, Muhammad Shafi Reshi,

Zamruda Habib, Ghulam
Ahmed Gulzar, Molvi Bashir
Ahmed and Muhammad Ahsan
Untoo. Indian police fired
teargas shells and pallets to
disperse the demonstrators in
Srinagar, Sopore, Islamabad,
Kulgam and at other places
police also arrested dozens of
Hurriyet leaders and activists
after subjecting them to torture.
continued to put Syed Ali Gilani,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Hakeem
Abdul Rasheed, Bilal Siddiqui,
Muhammad Yousuf Mir,
Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, Showkat
Ahmed Bakhshi, Qazi Yasir and
other Hurriyet leaders and
activists under house arrest or
illegal detention. The action was
aimed at preventing them from
leading the demonstrations.
They were not even allowed to
offer Juma prayers in the holy
month of Ramazan.
On the other hand, pro-freedom
leaders and organisations paid
rich tributes to Sheikh Tanveer
Sultan, and demanded impartial
probe into his cold blooded
murder.
The All Parties Hurriyet
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Gilani, in a statement issued in
Srinagar condemning the killing
of the youth demanded an
impartial investigation by some
independent agency into the
incident so that the involved
personnel could be brought to
book.
The Chairman of Hurriyet
forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in
a statement in Srinagar, termed
the killing of Tanveer Sultan as
unfortunate.
He said that innocent killings in
the occupied territory should be
a matter of concern for the
international human rights
bodies and it was their responsibility to stop such incidents. He
also demanded impartial probe
into the murder of the innocent
youth.
The APHC General Secretary,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in a
statement in
Srinagar, describing
the killing of
Tanveer Sultan as
another gift of
Mehbooba Mufti-led
regime to the
Kashmiris said that
Mehbooba must
confess that the
killings were part of
her fathers vision.
The worst part is
that to appease her
masters in Delhi, the
puppet rulers are
trying to justify the innocent
killings in every possible way,
he deplored.
Hurriyet leaders including
Ghulam Nabi Sumjhi,
Muhammad Yousuf Naqash,
Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar, Farida
Bahenji, Syed Bashir Andrabi,
Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Zafar
Akbar Butt, Imtiyaz Ahmed
Reshi, Ghulam Nabi War and
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, and
delegations of Democratic
Freedom Party, Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front,
Jammu and Kashmir Muslim
League and Dukhtaran-e-Millat
expressed solidarity with the
bereaved family and demanded
transparent investigation into
the murder.
The High Court Bar Association

in a statement in Srinagar
demanded a judicial enquiry into
the killing so that the people
could know that why a 32-yearold youth, who was reportedly
suffering from a Psychiatric
ailment for the last two decades
and was going to Amritsar for
treatment of his shoulder, was
murdered along with a woman.
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir
chapter of the All Parties

Hurriyet Conference held a
condolence reference in
Islamabad, on June 20, to pay
homage to Sheikh Tanveer.
The speakers including representative of minority communities, J Salik, Hurriyet leaders,

Zafar Akbar Butt, Muhammad
F a r o o q
Rehmani,
Mehmood
Ahmed Saghar,
Manzoor-ulHaq Butt,
Sheikh Abdul
M a t e e n ,
K h a d i m
H u s s a i n ,
Muhammad
Sultan, Imtiaz
Iqbal, Abdul
Majeed Malik,
Muhammad
Rafique Dar,
Ejaz Rehmani, Hasan Al-Bana,
Abdul Hameed Lone, Syed
Muzaffar Shah, Advocate
Pervez Ahmed, Altaf Ahmed
Butt and Raja Khursheed
Usmani on the occasion paid
rich tributes to the martyred
youth. The meeting was
chaired by APHC-AJK
Convener, Ghulam
Muhammad Safi .
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Human Rights abuses by Indian troops
Kashmiris mark
Indias
Republic
Day as Black Day
in IOK
highlighted
in Geneva
Kashmiri representatives
addressed different seminars
and events during the 32nd
session of the UN Human Rights
Council (UNHRC) held in
Geneva from June 13 to July 1,
2016, and highlighted the human
rights violations perpetrated by
Indian troops in occupied
Kashmir and the miserable
plight of the people of the
territory.
The eight-member Kashmiri
delegation for UNHRCs 32nd
session comprising Altaf
Hussain Wani, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, Ishtiyaq Hameed,
Mir Tahir Masood, Mrs Shamim
Shawl, Ahmed Quraishi,
Professor Shagufta Ashraf and
Zartasha Niazi also met with
different dignitaries and
apprised them of the prevailing
human rights situation in the
occupied territory. They stated
that the Kashmiri people were
engaged in a peaceful struggle to
secure their inalienable right to
self-determination and their
ongoing freedom movement was
strong evidence of the fact that
they did not want to live with
India.
On June 13, Shamim Shawl
addressing the UNHRC session
under item 2 urged the Council
to take immediate action against
the inhuman treatment meted
out to the Kashmiri people at the
hands of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir. She said that the
people of occupied Kashmir
were living a life with fear and
insecurity due to the presence of
over 700,000 Indian troops. She
maintained that Kashmir was the
place where death was dancing
in every street and corner of
villages and cities, where
children were shot dead during
playing cricket, where international law was rejected by

AFSPA, where family and social
values were ruined by search
operations, killings,
kidnappings, disappearances
and curfews and where
performing religious obligations
was prohibited and searching of
masques, houses and schools
was a daily practice.
She further said that Kashmir
was the place where point blank
shooting on peaceful protesters
with Deputy Secretary General

of the United Nations in Geneva
stressed the need of implementing the World Bodys
resolutions on Kashmir to ensure
durable peace in South Asia.
On June 16, Altaf Hussain Wani
while taking part in a discourse
on elimination of extreme
poverty held on the sidelines of
the UNHRC session said,
People under foreign occupation have not only been deprived
of their political rights but also
and teenagers was common,

where killing women was
allowed, where political prisoners were kept with criminals,
killers and drug addicts, where
jail was death cell and place of
punishment and where families
of political prisoners were not
allowed to meet them. She urged
the UN Human Rights Council to
take immediate action against
this inhuman treatment meted
out to the Kashmiri people and
impress upon India to allow the
Kashmiris exercise their right to
self-determination.
Meanwhile, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi during his meeting
social, cultural and economic

rights. This colonial mindset, he
said, has been a stumbling block
in the way of eliminating
poverty. He said that occupied
Kashmir was one of the regions
where the occupation state had
failed to fulfill its international
obligations to frame policies to
eliminate poverty.
Altaf Hussain Wani deplored
that instead of fulfilling its
responsibilities towards implementing the UN resolutions to
settle the Kashmir dispute, India
had planned to construct
settlements in occupied Kashmir
for homeless Indians to grab the
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land of Kashmiris and render
them homeless. He told the
world audience that on one
hand, occupation troops had
already got possession of
thousands of acres of agriculture
land, while on the other, government of India was planning to
construct colonies for its retired
soldiers and homeless Indians in
the Kashmir Valley. He termed it
as flagrant violation of the UN
resolutions calling for free and
fair plebiscite in Jammu and
Kashmir. He drew attention of
the UN towards the aggressive
policies of government of India
to change the demographic
composition of the territory.
On June 19, speakers at a seminar, while pleading for restoration of all fundamental freedoms
of the Kashmiri people, appealed
to the international community
to take notice of the prevailing
situation in occupied Kashmir.
The seminar on challenges faced
by Kashmiri women was
organised by the International
Muslim Womens Union and

Women UN Report Network
(WURN) on the sidelines of the
UNHRC session. The distinguished panel of experts that
spoke on the subject consisted of
Professor Alfred de Zyas,
independent expert on
Promotion of International
Order; Dr Iqtedar Cheema,
Director Institute of Leadership
and Management, UK;
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal,
Executive Editor Kashmir Times;
Shamim Shawl, representative
International Muslim Women
Union; Lois A Herman, WURN
Coordinator; Zamruda Habib,
Kashmiri human rights
defender; Sadia Mir, WURN EU
Gender Policy Specialist; and

Shagufta Ashraf, lecturer
Kashmir University.
Professor Alfred de Zyas,
speaking on the occasion,
referred to the sufferings of the
women in a conflict situation.
The challenges of Kashmiri
women for security, rights and

peace are also similar. It is
important to coordinate with
different NGOs and groups for
building an effective voice for
conflict resolution through selfdetermination, he added.
Dr Iqtedar Cheema said that
India was trying to suppress the
will of the people of Kashmir by
humiliating their women.
"Kashmir has a legal and political
dimension. India is not acknowledging the ground reality. It is
not responding to the voice of the
people of Jammu and Kashmir.
We will continue to raise our
concern till this South Asian
quagmire is addressed according
to the aspirations of the people,
he added.
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal
stressed the need to write
extensively on the issues of
human rights, communalism,
borders and landmines. She
informed the audiences about
the impact of landmines
implanted by Indian troops in
occupied Kashmir. She lamented
that Indian judicial system had
failed to provide justice to the
victims of human rights violations. She pleaded for a just and
honourable life for the people of
Jammu and Kashmir.
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Lois A Herman in her presentation said that widows and halfwidows constituted a big
challenge in Kashmir and that
her organisation would support
these Kashmiri women.
Shamim Shawl in her speech
highlighted womens issues,
their security and particularly
their responsibility of their
children who were most affected
by the conflict due to the heavy
presence of Indian troops in
occupied Kashmir. These
children were not safe in their
homes, schools and playgrounds, she
pointed out.
Zamruda Habib
in her speech
d e l i v e r e d
through video
link spoke about
the trauma and
human rights
violations that
were being faced
by the women in
particular and all
other people of
the occupied
territory.
She
pleaded for restoration of all
fundamental freedoms in
occupied Kashmir and appealed
to the international community
to take notice of the prevailing
situation in the territory. The
session was moderated by
Shagufta Ashraf.
On June 20, the rising star of
Kashmir cricket, Naeem Butt,
who was killed by Indian Army
personnel two months ago, was
remembered at a special event
held on the sidelines of the 32nd
session of the UN Human Rights
Council. The World Muslim
Congress and the international
Kashmir lobby group, Youth
Forum for Kashmir (YFK), jointly
organised the seminar. This was
for the first time that an entire
side-event was dedicated to one

man from Kashmir. The event
titled The Story of A Promising
Sportsman Killed by Indian
Army in Kashmir, started with a
20-minute presentation by
Ahmed Quraishi. The presentation included a 3-minute heartrending short video report on the
last day in the life of Naeem Butt,
who was killed while shopping
for grocery on April 12, 2016.
International human rights
activists and defenders listened
intently as the film titled Indian
Bullet for a Kashmiri Cricketer,

written by Ahmed Quraishi and
produced by Waqar Malik,
garnered sympathy for Naeem
Butt, who was 19 when he was
killed by Indian troops.
The reason we are dedicating
this event to Naeem Butt is
because his case has implications
for education in conflict zones
and disputed territories worldwide, said Ahmed Quraishi.
India is the only occupation
force in the world today that
targets students in a disputed
territory, he added.
The landmark event was jointly
chaired by Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi and Ishtiyaq
Hameed.
On June 23, the All Parties
Hurriyet Conference leader,

Nayeem Ahmed Khan, while
addressing a seminar through
video link from Srinagar on the
sidelines of the UNHRC session
said that India had occupied
Kashmir through military power
and it now planned to change
demographic complexion of the
disputed territory. He said,
Kashmir is a disputed territory so
selling or allotting land to nonKashmiris is a direct assault on
the ethnic identity of the locals.
This policy, he added, is aimed at
outnumbering Kashmiri
Muslims so that
results could be
twisted in
Indias favour if
plebiscite takes
place in Jammu
and Kashmir at
any point of time
in future.
Nayeem Khan
s a i d t h a t
i n n o c e n t
freedom loving
people of
Kashmir were
facing the worst
kind of human rights violations
because there was no accountability or transparency in
Kashmir due to the blanket
impunity given to Indian forces
personnel.
He also referred to the killing of
five unarmed and innocent
civilians who were recently
killed in Handwara when Indian
Army personnel resorted to
unprovoked firing on peaceful
demonstrations against the
molestation of a school girl by an
Indian soldier.
The APHC leader appealed to
the international community to
come forward and save the
Kashmiris from the Indian
brutalities.
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Chronology
A chronological account of
developments on Kashmir (119)
By: KMS Research Desk
2013
September 12: Ghazi Abdul
Rasheed, a senior leader of
Jammu and Kashmir Peoples
League and a close associate of
prominent martyred Hurriyet
leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, is
found dead under mysterious
circumstances near SangramaBaramulla railway track in
Baramulla district.
Forceful demonstrations are held
in Baramulla town against the
killing of the JKPL leader.
impose indefinite curfew in
Shopian, Kulgam and Pulwama
towns to foil anti-India protests
against the killing of another
civilian by Indian troops in
Shopian town. The authorities
put APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz
Umar Farooq, and other
Hurriyet leaders under house
arrest.
September 13: Several persons
including Jammu and Kashmir
Liberation Front Chairman,
Muhammad Yasin Malik, are
injured when Indian police resort
to brute force on a big protest
demonstration at Lal Chowk in
Srinagar.
A protest rally is taken out from
Jamia Masjid in Srinagar against
the recent killing of civilians in
Shopian. APHC leaders, Javaid
Ahmed Mir, Hakeem Abdur
Rasheed, Yasmeen Raja and
Mushtaq Ahmed Sofi lead the
rally. On the appeal of APHC
Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, black flags are hoisted in
the territory to protest the
killings. Senior APHC leader,

Al-Safvi, leads a demonstration
in Badgam, while Democratic
Political Movement Chairman,
Firdous Ahmed Shah, leads a
rally in Srinagar. Several people
are injured when Indian police
personnel use excessive force on
the protesters at Rajouri Kadal in
Srinagar.
In Geneva, Kashmiri
representative, Sardar
Assadullah Khan, in his address
Indian troops in the territory. All

shops, business establishments
and educational institutions
remain closed while traffic is off
the road.
continue to impose curfew in
Shopian and restrictions in
Kulgam, Pulwama and
Khudwani areas to prevent
people from holding
recent killings by Indian troops
to the 24th session of the UN

Human Rights Council and
meetings with the
representatives of different
human rights organisations
apprises them of the gross
human rights abuses perpetrated
by Indian troops in occupied
Kashmir.
September 14: In occupied
Kashmir, complete strike is
observed on the first day of the
two-day shutdown against the
killing of innocent people and
other human rights violations by
in Shopian. Despite restrictions,

people stage anti-India
demonstrations in Srinagar,
Badgam, Kulgam and Shopian
areas. The APHC Chairman,
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and other
Ali Gilani, Muhammad Yasin
Malik and Shabbir Ahmed Shah
remain under house arrest.
In Geneva, Kashmiri
representatives, Syed Faiz
Naqshbandi, Altaf Hussain
Wani, Sardar Assadullah Khan
and Sardar Amjad Yousuf,
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talking to representatives of the
European Union and various
NGOs urge them to send their
teams to occupied Kashmir to
take stock of the human rights
situation in the territory.
September 15: In occupied
Kashmir, complete shutdown is
observed on the second
consecutive day to protest
against the civilian killings in
Shopian and other human rights
violations by Indian troops in the
territory. Call for the two-day
shutdown has been given by the
veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali
Gilani, to convey the message to
India that the Kashmiris are
determined to continue their
liberation struggle till complete
success. All shops and business
establishments remain closed
while traffic is off the road.
Curfew remains in force in
Shopian town on the ninth
consecutive day to prevent
people from holding

killings. Restrictions are put in
place in Kulgam and Pulwama
areas. The occupation authorities
continue to keep Hurriyet
leaders including Mirwaiz Umar
Farooq, Syed Ali Gilani,
Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem
Ahmed Khan and Zafar Akbar
Butt under house detention.

Senior leader of pro-India
National Conference, Dr Mustafa
Kamal, in a media interview in
Srinagar says that the
investigation ordered into
Shopian killing is merely an
eyewash. Dr Mustafa Kamal,
who is also uncle of the puppet
Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah,
says that we know that the killers

are enjoying impunity under
draconian law, Armed Forces
Special Powers Act, and such
killings will continue to occur till
AFSPA is in vogue in Kashmir.
September 16: People stage
protests against the atrocities
and rampage committed by the
troops of Indian Central Reserve
Police Force in Bijbehara town.

The troops beat up people and
ransack the houses without any
provocation at Zirpara in the
town. Besides, the troops smash
the windowpanes of the houses
and thrash passers-by.
The High Court Bar Association
of occupied Kashmir urges
Canada to take cognisance of the
unabated Indian state terrorism
in the territory and impress upon
New Delhi to settle the Kashmir
dispute in accordance with the
Kashmiris' aspirations. The
demand is made when a
delegation from the Canadian
High Commission in New Delhi
calls on the office-bearers of the
High Court Bar Association in
Srinagar.
In Geneva, Kashmiri
representative, Mrs Shamim
Shawl, taking part in the debate
during the 24th session of the
United Nations Human Rights
Council says that the denial of
right to self-determination to the
people of Jammu and Kashmir
has lead to gross and systematic
human rights violations by
Indian forces in occupied
Kashmir. She says that huge
presence of Indian troops is the
main cause of human rights
violations in the occupied
territory.
Compiled by: Showkat Ali

To be continued...
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Beauty thy name is
Tourist places in Kashmir
Visit to Jammu and Kashmir is

outstanding experience for
everyone in lifetime. This place is
heavenly blessed with numerous
unmatched attractions, which
are admired throughout the year.
Its sheer natural bounty
including snowcapped silver
mountains and wide varieties of
flora and fauna have earned it the
title 'heaven on earth'. It is the
most favored destination among
nature-lovers, honeymooners
and adventure seekers. Visit to
this beautiful place is like dream
comes true, which is really
beyond the word to describe.
Journey to this beautiful place is
equally to discover the beautiful
world. This beautiful place is
generally known for majestic
mountains, romantic rivers,
salubrious climate, snowcovered valleys and the lovely
M u g h a l
gardens.
Apart from
t h e s e
attractions
there are
plenty of
options for
adventure
s e e k e r s .
Tourists can
enjoy various
adventurous
activities at the hill stations
where such fun filled
opportunities galore. Snow
sports, specially skiing, are
something that lures
many tourists.
Although there are
several enchanting
tourist places in
Kashmir but the most
highlighted ones for
beauty and adventure
are Sonamarg,
Gulmarg, Pahalgam
and Srinagar.
Sonamarg
This place is
synonymous with
quiet meadows and flowercarpeted fields surrounded by
amazing glaciers, miniature
plateaus, snowfields, pines and
islets. This region, just 80 km
away from Srinagar, has some of
the highest
mountain ranges of
the world. The
snow-clad peaks
when reflect the
golden rays of the
sun, give a
sparkling effect to
the entire Valley.
The glaciers,
waterfalls, and
placid lakes add
some more beauty
to this place. Along with its

tremendous beauties, this place
has ample opportunities for
adventure enthusiasts.
Gulmarg
Gulmarg, which means 'meadow
of flower', is known for its lush
green slopes and legendary
beauty and is situated in
Baramulla district of occupied
Kashmir. The hill resort has
magical meadows, snow-clad
peaks and exquisite panorama.
Pahalgam
Pahalgam, also major tourist
attraction in occupied Kashmir,
is famous for inviting natural
beauty. This hill station is

situated at the confluence of the
streams flowing from Sheshnag
Lake and the Lidder River.
Srinagar
Srinagar, the capital of occupied
Kashmir, is an enthralling and
mesmerizing city. This place is
dotted with several enchanting
attractions including beautiful
lakes, aromatic Mughal gardens
and many alike, which make this
place completely outstanding.
Dal Lake is the major attraction of
this place, which is globally
acclaimed for its pristine beauty.
Kashmir is visited by tourists to
see and explore its heavenly
natural beauty and its
astounding tourist places.
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Literature
There was a village within a
forest area. The forest was also
a game preserve and no one
could enter it without a permit.
A beast straying into the
boundaries of the game
preserve would at once be
impounded; and unless the
owner redeemed it early it
found itself with the auctioneer
and the proceeds were deposited in the treasury. A man
spotted there had to pay
exorbitant fines for trespassing
and if ever he took pains

personally for anything, it was
for the welfare of the horned
beasts in the game preserve.
Once it so happened that a fawn
left the game preserve and
drifted towards the village
habitation at dusk. A young
man of uncommonly high
spirits who had an eye for
adventure spotted the little
beast. He sat quietly till the
fawn covered several hundred
yards towards a grove of trees
Fugitive Fawn
(A Kashmiri folktale)
over prohibited area if he failed
to propitiate the watchers. The
status of the beasts in the game
preserve was higher in comparison with that of an individual
villager, though occasionally
they ran the risk of being shot at
by people fond of spikes. Man
in the village and beast in the
game preserve were, however,
neighbours and all the enactments on the bluebooks could
not prevent the settled facts of
their neighbourliness.
Sometimes, while men were
away at home, the beasts came
down into their farms and had
their fill with maize or any
other crop; or men were led into
the game preserve in search of
strayed domestic animals. On
the whole the villagers
regarded the game preserve as
a nuisance and would have it
done away with. But they knew
that it enjoyed the patronage of
the ruler himself who seemed
to be even fonder of a horned
beast than of a minister of state
near the edge of a fountain. The

man moved quietly and
unobtrusively towards the
grove, took the animal unaware
and caught it. The matter
alerted the whole village and
people thronged to the house of
the headman to have a look at
the beautiful little fawn or to
know how this unique visitant
was to be disposed of. Many
were tempted by the prospect
of a community dinner and
taste of venison, and urged the
headman to bury the matter
along with the horns and skin
of the deer.
Experience has taught me that
the murder of a man or a fawn
will be out, whatever care we
take to bury the horns. For me
there is only one way open and
that is to lead the animal back to
the game preserve. However, I
have another plan to settle the
matter amicably, the headman
said.
What's it? shouted a few.
He gave them the plan. He
wanted them to go down to the

capital city, seek audience of
the ruler and present the prize
to him.
The elders appreciated the
wisdom of which the plan was
born and the more youthful
ones claimed their representation in the party that was to lead
the fawn to the capital.
Preparations were made
swiftly and early next morning
a party of eleven left the village
under the leadership of the
headman, escorting the little
fawn. Early next morning they
reached the outskirts of the city.
The boat stopped as usual at the
post and their difficulties
began. Every head of animal
was charged a tax. But in the
long experience of the clerk a
deer had never been led into the
city and he could not say what
he was to charge. The headman
claimed tax-free entrance of the
"royal beast" into the city,
which the clerk would not
concede in the interests of the
state revenue. Ultimately the
headman deposited a sum of
money with the clerk in expectation of obtaining royal
commands for its refund and
probably of an order of
dismissal for the clerk. This
suited the latter as he would
seek the advice of his superiors
regarding the exact amount of
tax to be charged. The party
moved towards the palace.
Sighting the palace gates they
shouted at their loudest and
praised the ruler and people
from the neighbouring houses
came to stare at them and the
little captive quadruped whom
they were dragging along. "Is it
a village circus?" they asked.
The sentinels on duty at the
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gates, not knowing the intentions of the people, alerted
themselves and the procession
was stopped a hundred yards
away from the palace gate and
the guards asked them what
they wanted. The headman told
the guards that they wanted to
talk to the ruler.
When the corporal asked them
what they were going to make
of the deer, the headman told
him that it was to be presented
to the ruler. The corporal
conveyed the message to the
captain and the captain passed
it on to the private secretary of
the ruler. The small crowd
waited for long before a man
came to the gate and told them
that since His Highness was not
feeling well he had asked his
prime minister to attend to
them and that they should
approach him. The headman
led them enthusiastically to the
prime minister. The prime
minister was an experienced
and intelligent man who had
risen from the ranks. Forests
and villages were in the
portfolio of his cabinet
colleague, the minister for
revenue, and he directed the
villagers to visit him.
Disappointment was now
written large on every face. The
headman was burning with
rage in the heart of his hearts,
but did not think it discreet to
express it.
Here was another genius at the
files and the decorum of red
tape. He never bothered his
head about such petty matters
as game laws in the state but
remembered many cases of
international law. He could not
help the villagers in any way, as
he had never poked his nose
into the game

preserves,
which interested His
Highness
a n d h i s
guests. In all
such matters
h e
w a s
guided by
the advice of
the collector.
He referred
the villagers
to the collector as a
matter of
course. From
His Highness
t o
t h e
collector,
what a big
fall it was!
The headman said,
My dear
men by ill luck His Highness is
unwell, otherwise each one of
these should have tried to seek
your pleasure.
There was no response from the
throng and the villagers
followed in his wake famished,
disheartened and broken, to the
collector. The last mentioned
officer was the only one
familiar with local conditions in
most parts of the state and he
could at once visualise what it
meant for the villagers to have
come to the capital from the
distant village bordering on the
game preserve. Beyond that the
laws bound him. He consulted
the warden of game preserves
who gave him to understand
that the villagers would incur
severe punishment if he were to
take official notice of the
presence amongst them of the
little fawn. He, however, was

inclined to take a lenient view of
the matter and disregard the
offence.
The best course for you, he
said, is to go home quietly and
set the fawn free in the game
preserve.
The villagers stepped into their
boat. The boat was pushed
upstream and the villagers
experienced a feeling of relief,
their faces away from the city.
The breeze was cool and they
felt refreshed as they lost sight
of the far-famed metropolis,
and they sang in chorus,
unburdening their hearts of the
feelings by no means enviable.
The refrain of the song was:
hanglo karyo lola mate lad
(O deer, may I fondle and
caress you!).
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Letters to Editor
Indian designs
July 13 and Kashmir
India has been working on

different plans including setting
up of separate townships for
Kashmiri Pandits, construction
of colonies for retired Indian
soldiers and introduction of
Industrial Policy in occupied
Kashmir to prolong its illegal
occupation over Jammu and
Kashmir. These moves are aimed
at changing the demographic
composition of Jammu and
Kashmir and its disputed
character.
The Governor of occupied
Kashmir approved the allotment
of land in Srinagar, Baramulla,
Kupwara and other areas earlier
this year for construction of
separate colonies for Kashmiri
Pandits and retired Indian
soldiers. This move is part of a
well-designed plan to erode the
special status enjoyed by Jammu
and Kashmir under Article 370 of
the Indian Constitution that
prohibits the allotment of land to
any non-state subject in the
occupied territory. It is also an
attempt to harm the disputed
character of Jammu and Kashmir
acknowledged by the United
Nations through the resolutions
of its Security Council.
The work on these anti-people
projects had been expedited
since the inception of PDP-BJP
regime in the territory. It seems
quite evident that communal
forces have started materialising
the communal agenda of RSS
through use of government
machinery. However, the people
of occupied Kashmir have
expressed strong resentment
against these moves by staging
forceful demonstrations across
the territory.
Sameer Sheikh
Srinagar
Dear editor, it was on July 13,

1931, when twenty-two peaceful
protesters were gunned down by
the forces of Dogra Maharaja
Hari Singh outside Srinagar
Central Jail while demanding
release of one Abdul Qadeer,
who had dared to condemn the
autocratic ruler of Kashmir.
Therefore, July holds a special
place in the hearts and minds of
the people of Jammu and
Kashmir. In this long struggle for
emancipation, hundreds of
thousands of Kashmiris have
rendered their lives and others
have been forced to become
captives in their own land since
1947. After the partition of Indian
sub-continent in 1947, over
100,000 Kashmiris have been
killed by Indian troops for
demanding their right to selfdetermination, but despite all
hardships, the Kashmiri people
firmly believe that the sacrifices
of their martyrs would not go
waste and they would soon get
rid of Indian bondage. I believe
Indias brutal tactics will, in no
way, be able to break the resolve
of the Kashmiri people to carry
forward their struggle for
securing their inalienable right.
Thanks
Amjad Abbasi
London
Genocide of Kashmiris
India has been committing
genocide of the Kashmiris for the
past almost seven decades in a
planned manner. It is muzzling
the peaceful voices of the
Kashmiri people through its
military might. Killing of
innocent people, custodial
disappearances, extrajudicial
murders, rape of women and
destruction of the properties by
Indian troops and police
personnel is a routine matter in
occupied Kashmir. Indian forces

personnel are committing the
worst kinds of human rights
violations - in fact crimes against
humanity - with impunity due to
the unbridled powers given to
them under draconian laws like
Armed Forces Special Powers
Act and Disturbed Areas Act.
The world community must take
steps towards resolving the
Kashmir dispute to save the
Kashmiris from Indian brutalities.
Thanks
Muhammad Sameer
Brussels
Kashmiri heroes
Dear editor, Kashmir once called
a paradise on earth has now been
converted into a hell for its
inhabitants by Indian occupational forces. Kashmir looks so
wonderful, beautiful and
colourful from outside, but when
one looks it from inside it is
bleeding from everywhere. Why
shouldnt Kashmiris have the
freedom to live without fear?
Why are they labelled as terrorists by Indians? Just because
they are resisting Indian occupation of their homeland and
demanding freedom from it.
If Indian people consider Bhagat
Singh as a martyr who loved his
country so much that he sought
its freedom from British rule and
gave his life for this purpose. If
anyone wants to live with
dignity and protect his life, is he a
terrorist? If Bhagat Singh is
regarded as a hero by Indians
then the Kashmiris are rightful in
describing all those who have
laid down their lives for the
liberation of Kashmir from
Indian bondage as heroes and
martyrs.
Thanks
Salim Ahmed
Islamabad
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Atrocities by Indian troops

(January 1989 to June 30, 2016)
Total killings
94,391
Custodial killings
7,058
Civilians arrested
135,052
Structures destroyed/damaged
106,071
Women widowed
22,816
Children orphaned
107,569
Women gangraped/molested
10,193
Including custodial killings
Source: Kashmir Media Service (www.kmsnews.org)
Words remembered by history!
"The question of accession is to be decided finally in a free plebiscite, on this there is no

dispute. There will be no victimisation of any native of the State, whatever his political
view may be, and no Kashmiri will be deprived of the right to vote".
(White Paper on Kashmir issued by Government of India in 1948.)
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India losing battle in Kashmir A stark admission

funeral prayers of the youth

inalienable right to selfdetermination.

Narinder Singh Khalsa,

Senator, Attiya Inayattullah,

vociferously at the international

Kashmir. He said that the

Nabi Fai, in his paper urged the

Speaking on the occasion,

condemned the killing of

Indian current agenda to

Gross human rights

Muhammad Khan of National

Recent BJP-RSS antiKashmir moves: Penalising

is in contravention of the principles of International Law.

supervision of the UN, as agreed

emergency thoroughly in IOK

verge of a nuclear catastrophe.

academic and intellectual

victimised for demanding

(Humayun Aziz Sandeela)

demonstrators at different places

that joint protests would

because they were kept under

upon the recent statement of the

policy will be revisited. Also one

were telling lies about the

Minister for Industries had

On June 20, Indian police

Srinagar Central Jail.

Hundreds of activists of profreedom organisations led by

continue their protests until

Conference, the Hurriyet forum

statement in Srinagar said that

native and ancestral home but

Israeli-type policy which they

into a prison. He said that

got rid of it. He said that the

Indian state terrorism continues unabated in IOK

Sopore town. Indian forces'

Chandrahama and Wusan

participated in the funeral

Complete strike affected normal

activities in Sopore on the rasme-chaharam of the two youth

On June 23, Indian troops,

in the district. The participants

funeral prayers in absentia in

for a sacred cause and their

were committing crimes against

Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Yasmeen

India losing war in Kashmir, admit

armed soldiers had little hope of

Mujahideen had not only hit

speaking, Im not comfortable

much more to do than we already

Human Rights Situation

under house arrest or illegal