Kashmir Insight Magazine, July 2017

23rd Year of Publication Vol: 23 No.
07
Monthly July 2017
KASHMIR
INSIGHT
Kashmiris celebrate 13th July - The Burhan Wani A new

Pakistans victory Kashmir phase of Kashmir
over India Martyrs' Day resistance movement
UN Chief engages to help resume
Pak-India talks on Kashmir
I call upon India and Pakistan to find a peaceful solution through engagement and dialogue to
resolve the Kashmir dispute. I am already engaged in bringing about a dialogue between India
and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute through my meetings with the prime ministers of
the two countries. I met three times the Prime Minister of Pakistan (Nawaz Sharif) and two times
the Prime Minister of India (Narendra Modi). For someone accused of doing nothing, it is quite
a number of meetings.
(UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, at a press conference in

New York on June 20, 2017)
Kashmir Insight JULY 2017
Editor: M Raza Malik From The Editor's Desk
In occupied Kashmir, people erupted in jubilation on June
Sub Editor: Benazir Khan 18, 2017 after Pakistan gave a humiliating defeat to India in
the final of the ICC Champions Trophy at the Oval in
Art Editor: M.Haroon England by a huge margin of 180 runs. Thousands of
firecrackers were burst as youth celebrated Pakistans
C O N T E N T S stunning victory throughout the night on streets in
Srinagar, Budgam, Ganderbal, Baramulla, Rafiabad,
Editorial Sopore, Uri, Sangrama, Pattan, Palhalan, Tangmarg,
Kashmir freedom movement is legitimate . . . . . . . 02 Kunzar, Handwara, Langate, Kupwara, Kralpora, Lolab,
Islamabad, Kulgam, Shopian, Pulwama, Bandipora and
Cover Story other areas. Markets and transport in Srinagar and all other
Bloodbath by Indian troops in IOK continues . . . . . 03 towns had shut much before the start of the match between
Reports the two arch-rivals. In some areas, Indian police and troops
used brute force on the people celebrating Pakistans victory
Kashmiris celebrate Pakistans victory against India. Several people were injured when Indian
over India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 troops fired pellets on the jubilant youth.
It was a great victory for Pakistan and we could not have
NIA raids on Hurriyet leaders, activists wanted anything else this Eid-ul-Fitr. We are overjoyed at
in IOK denounced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09 Pakistans win, said Imran Butt, a resident of Nowhatta in
Srinagar. We were supporting Pakistan. Kashmir will
Articles always celebrate the Indian teams defeat, no matter who
13th July - The Kashmir Martyrs' Day . . . . . . . . . . 10 they play against, said Saleem Ahmed, a resident of
Bandipora town.
Importance of Accession to Pakistan Resolution . . . 13 Even the students of different private as well as government
Pictorial schools in Srinagar and other areas celebrated Pakistans
win against the arch-rival.
Images speak louder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 It is worth mentioning here that such scenes of joy are often
witnessed in the occupied territory whenever India faces a
Human rights situation defeat in important matches and tournaments. Indian team
had to face a hostile crowd when it played against the West
HR violations in IOK during June 2017 Indies in the inaugural One Day International match in
Raies Ahmed Mir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Srinagar in 1983. When India lost to Australia at the same
stadium in 1986, the crowd again rooted against the Indian
Article team. The Kashmiris had also celebrated when Indian team
faced defeat at the hands of Australia in 2015 World Cup
Burhan Wani A new phase of Kashmir resistance
match and then again when West Indies beat it in World T20
movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 clash in 2016.
Report It is a reality that the Kashmiri people do not relate
themselves with the Indian cricket team as India continues to
UNHRC session: World attention drawn towards Indian usurp their right to self-determination for the past over
atrocities in IOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 almost seven decades. They also observe Indias
Independence Day and Republic Day as black days to
Chronology express their resentment against the Indian occupation of
A chronological account of developments their homeland.
New Delhi needs to acknowledge the fact that it has totally
on Kashmir (131) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 failed to win over the hearts of Kashmiri people during the
last almost seven decades and they reject its forcible
Beauty thy name is occupation of their homeland as ever. It must respect their
sentiments and give them their right to self-determination.
Lakes of Jammu & Kashmir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Editorial
Kashmir freedom movement is legitimate

The people of Jammu and Kashmir
have been engaged in a just Following the 9/11 attacks in
struggle to secure their right to America, India tried its best to link
self-determination for the past the Kashmiris liberation move-
almost seven decades. They are ment with global terrorism but
continuing their struggle on failed in its nefarious designs. The
political and diplomatic fronts to world community did not accept
achieve this right which was New Delhis narrative. While the
acknowledged by several UN political and diplomatic nature of
Security Council resolutions the Kashmir movement is interna-
sponsored by major world powers tionally-recognised under several
including the US, UK, Germany, UNSC resolutions, the armed
Canada, former USSR, etc. and struggle of the Kashmiri people is
accepted by Pakistan and India. also legitimate under the UN
It is a fact that India had promised resolution adopted in 1982 that
the people of Jammu and Kashmir reaffirms the legitimacy of the
of giving them an opportunity to peoples liberation struggle from
decide their fate by themselves but foreign occupation by all available
later backed away from its means, including armed struggle.
commitments. Indias refusal to In a recent unfortunate develop-
resolve the Kashmir dispute ment, the US in an attempt to
through peaceful means forced the appease India, designated veteran
Kashmiris to adopt other options Kashmiri leader, Syed
including the armed struggle to Salahuddin, as a global terrorist
secure their inalienable right. They thus trying to link the Kashmiris
launched a massive struggle in freedom movement with terror-
1989, giving sleepless nights to the ism. The move was illogical as
Indian rulers. The Indian armed Syed Salahuddin is only fighting
forces responded to this popular against Indias illegal occupation
movement with extremely brute of Jammu and Kashmir and has
force. The worst kind of Indian never worked against the
state terrorism during the last American interests. He has never
twenty eight years has resulted in pursued any global agenda and
the killing of around one hundred involved himself in any incident,
thousand Kashmiris including which could be described as
over eight thousand in custody. terrorism. The people of Kashmir
These killings have rendered over consider him their hero and the
twenty two thousand women fact is that they are victims of the
widowed and about one hundred worst type of Indian state terror-
eight thousand children ism.
orphaned. Over eight thousand
The US should acknowledge the
people have been subjected to
reality that the people of Jammu
custodial disappearance by Indian
and Kashmir have been engaged
troops and police personnel
in a long and peaceful struggle
during this period. The discovery
of thousands of unnamed mass aimed at achieving their basic
graves across occupied Kashmir human and political right - the
has raised the apprehension that right to self-determination -
the people killed or disappeared in guaranteed by the UN but
custody might have been secretly ruthlessly resisted and suppressed
buried in these graves after being by the Indian state through the use
killed in fake encounters. It is a fact of extreme force. It should take
that the brutalities of Indian forces steps towards mitigating the
could not intimidate the Kashmiri sufferings of the people of Jammu
people into submission and they and Kashmir by putting pressure
are determined to continue their on India to resolve the Kashmir
struggle till it reached its logical dispute in accordance with their
conclusion. aspirations.
KASHMIR INSIGHT JULY 2017 02

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Bloodbath by Indian troops in IOK continues

The people of occupied Kashmir news about the killing of the protesters were injured when the
have been facing the worst kind youth had spread, thousands of troops fired teargas shells, stun
of Indian state terrorism in their people had assembled in the grenades and pepper gas on
just struggle aimed at securing native villages of the martyrs at them.
their inalienable right to self- Brath Kalan and Bomai in Sopore On June 6, a 12th class student,
determination for the last almost and participated in their funeral Aadil Farooq Magray, was killed
seven decades. Indian troops and prayers. They raised high- and several people were injured
police personnel enjoying pitched anti-India, pro-Pakistan in the firing of Indian forces
unbridled powers under black and pro-freedom slogans. The personnel on peaceful demon-
laws are committing grave martyrs were wrapped in strators who were protesting
human rights violations - in fact Pakistani flags and laid to rest. against a siege and search
crimes against humanity - in the Complete strike was also operation in Ganowpora area of
occupied territory to intimidate observed in Sopore, Tral and Shopian. Thousands of people
the Kashmiris into submission. Bhaderwah areas against the offered funeral prayers of the
Killing of innocent youth and killings. martyred student before he was
other atrocities by the troops are On June 5, Indian troops laid to rest amidst wet eyes, high-
order of the day in the occupied martyred four youth in a fake pitched pro-freedom slogans
territory, turning the paradise on encounter in Sumbal area of and emotional scenes.
earth into a hell for its inhabit- Bandipore district. The locals Anti-India protests, marked by
ants. Indian troops killed thirty refuted the claim of Indian police shutdown, were held across the
seven Kashmiris in occupied that the youth were shot dead occupied territory on June 7
Kashmir in the month of June after they attacked an army against the killing of Aadil
2017. camp. They said that bodies of Farooq Magray. Indian troops
On June 1, the troops martyred the martyrs were badly muti- used brute force and fired
two youth, Aijaz Ahmed Mir and lated by the troops. teargas shells on the protesters,
Basharat Ahmed Sheikh, during The killings led to intense clashes mainly students. Hundreds of
a crackdown operation in between protesters and Indian students of Islamic University of
Nathipora area of Sopore. As the forces in Sumbal. Many Science and Technology,

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Awantipora, were subjected to

brute force by the troops when
they raising pro-freedom and
anti-India slogans marched on
Srinagar-Jammu Highway. The
troops fired teargas shells and
pellets on the protesters in
Pulwama, Namblabal and
Pampore areas, critically injuring
several persons including girl
students. The mobile Internet
services that were restored four
days ago were again suspended
in the territory.
Indian troops during violent
military operations killed seven
Kashmiri youth in Machil and India and pro-freedom slogans. pitched pro-freedom, pro-
Nowgam areas of Kupwara On June 16, two civilians, Pakistan and anti-India slogans.
district on June 7 and six others in Muhammad Ashraf and Ahsan Funeral prayers were held
Uri area of Baramulla district on Dar, were killed and several multiple times to accommodate
June 9. One more youth was others injured due to the use of the participants. The martyred
martyred by the troops in Gurez brute force by the troops on youth were laid to rest after being
area of Bandipore district on June protesters in Arwani area of shrouded in Pakistani flag.
10. Kulgam district. Bodies of three The puppet authorities had
On June 15, a civilian, Naseer youth Junaid Mattoo, Nasir Wani imposed restrictions in Srinagar
Ahmed, a resident of Bandipore, and Aadil Mushtaq, were and other parts of the Kashmir
who was critically injured in the recovered from the debris of two Valley on June 17 to prevent
firing of Indian paramilitary houses blasted by the troops in people from staging demonstra-
personnel on protesters in the area. Tens of thousands of tions against the killing of the
Rangreth area of Srinagar youth in Rangreth and Arwani
areas. Complete shutdown was
observed in the occupied
territory on the call of joint
resistance leadership to register
protest against the killings.
On June 21, Indian troops,
martyred two Kashmiri youth,
Gulzar Ahmed and Basit
Ahmed, during a siege and
search operation in Rafiabad area
of Baramulla district. Thousands
of people participated in the
funerals of Gulzar Ahmed and
Basit Ahmed in their native
Sopore and Pattan areas.
On June 22, Indian troops
succumbed to his injuries at a people participated in the martyred three more Kashmiri
hospital. Thousands of people funeral prayers of the martyred youth in Pulwama district. The
attended the funeral prayers of youth, Junaid Mattoo, Nasir bodies of the youth identified as
Naseer Ahmed at his native Wani and Aadil Mushtaq in Abdul Majid, Shariq Ahmed and
Ashtengoo area in Bandipore. Islamabad, Shopian and Irshad Ahmed were recovered
They raised high-pitched anti- Pampore areas amid high- from the debris of a house

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destroyed by the troops during a General Bipin Rawat, the Farida Bahenji, Shabbir Ahmed
crackdown operation in occupational forces were treating Dar, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo,
Kakapora area of the district. occupied Kashmir as a hunting Bilal Siddiqui, Zafar Akbar Butt
Later, a civilian, identified as ground and were ruthlessly and Javaid Ahmed Mir in their
Tauseef Ahmed Wani, was killed killing whosoever came in their statements also paid glowing
after the troops fired bullets and way. He said that the sacrifices of tributes to the martyred youth.
pellets on protesters who had Kashmiri martyrs would not be They appealed to the interna-
gathered in thousands in allowed to go waste and their tional community to take
Kakapora to attend the funeral mission would be accomplished cognisance of Indian state
prayers of the martyred youth. at all costs. terrorism in occupied Kashmir
The authorities also imposed The Chairman of Hurriyet and impress upon New Delhi to
restrictions and suspended forum, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, in settle the Kashmir dispute in
Internet services in all major a statement in Srinagar said that accordance with the Kashmiris
towns in south Kashmir soon the Kashmiri youth were aspirations to mitigate their
after the killings. sacrificing their lives for a sacred sufferings.
On June 25, Indian troops cause. He said that it was the The killing of innocent people in
martyred two Kashmiri youth collective responsibility of the occupied Kashmir by Indian
inside a school building during a people of Kashmir and the troops is not a new thing as such
violent cordon operation in Hurriyet leadership to take the killings have been occurring
Pantha Chhoke area of Srinagar. ongoing movement to its logical since 1947. However, the
The troops had phenomenon saw
killed the youth in a an alarming
vindictive action increase during the
after the killing of an last three decades.
army officer and The rigidity and
injuring of two other stubbornness of
personnel in an India is the only
attack in the area. cause of this
On the other hand, bloodshed in
Hurriyet leaders Kashmir. Kashmiris
paying glowing want to live a
tributes to the peaceful and
martyred youth said prosperous life but
that killing of the key for estab-
innocent Kashmiris at the hands conclusion. lishing peace in Kashmir lies
of Indian troops would continue The Chairman of Jammu and with India. The criminal silence
till settlement of the Kashmir Kashmir Liberation Front, maintained by the international
dispute in accordance with the Muhammad Yasin Malik, in a community and world human
Kashmiris aspirations. statement said that India had rights organisations on the
The All Parties Hurriyet turned Kashmir into a killing happenings in occupied Kashmir
Conference Chairman, Syed Ali field and a big prison. He said has further emboldened India to
Gilani, in a statement issued in that the worst kind of Indian continue its brutalities in the
Srinagar said that the oppression state terrorism could not stop the territory.
against the youth in Kashmir was Kashmiris from carrying The world community particu-
part of Indian policy. He said that forward their freedom move- larly the UN must put pressure
Indian oppression in Kashmir ment. on New Delhi to stop its state
had been going on for last several Other Hurriyet leaders including terrorism and take steps towards
decades and the rigid policies of Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Agha Syed settling the Kashmir dispute in
Indian rulers were aggravating Hassan Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, accordance with the Kashmiris
the situation in the territory. He Mukhtar Ahmed Waza, aspirations to prevent further
said that after the recent state- Muhammad Yousuf Naqash, bloodshed in occupied Kashmir.
ments of Indian Army Chief, Yasmeen Raja, Zamruda Habib, Humayun Aziz Sandeela

Report
Kashmiris celebrate Pakistans victory over India

In occupied Kashmir, people celebrating Pakistans victory firecrackers to express their joy
erupted in jubilation after against India. Two youth were over the victory of Pakistan
Pakistan thrashed India in the injured when Indian troops fired cricket team.
final of the ICC Champions pellets on them in old city area of Witnesses said that the students
Trophy at the Oval, England, by a Srinagar. Indian forces smashed of a private school at Lal Chowk,
huge margin of 180 runs on June vehicles in Fatehkadal and soon after the school was off,
18, 2017. Thousands of Sakidafar areas of Srinagar and burst firecrackers. The students
firecrackers were burst in dispersed crowds by resorting to were seen praising the
Srinagar and other towns of the teargas shelling. performance of Pakistan cricket
Kashmir Valley while people
It was a great victory for team, the witnesses said. They
were seen exchanging sweets.
Pakistan and we could not have said that the students of other
Joy was palpable in Srinagar and wanted anything else this Eid-ul- government schools including
all other areas as youth came out Fitr. We are overjoyed at SP Higher Secondary School also
of their homes to celebrate Pakistans win, said Imran Butt, burst firecrackers.
Pakistans victory. a resident of Nowhatta in If India lost to anybody
Markets and transport in Srinagar. Kashmir would have celebrated
Srinagar and all other towns had Kashmiris while sitting in front but India losing against Pakistan
shut much before the start of the of their television sets were seen doubles the celebrations, said a
match between the two arch- cheering for Pakistan team. student.
rivals.
Thousands of firecrackers went
up as youth celebrated Pakistans
win throughout the night on the
streets of Srinagar, Budgam,
Ganderbal, Baramulla, Rafiabad,
Sopore, Uri, Sangrama, Pattan,
Palhalan, Tangmarg, Kunzar,
Handwara, Langate, Kupwara,
Kralpora, Lolab, Islamabad,
Kulgam, Shopian, Pulwama,
Bandipora and other areas.
Firecrackers disrupted the eerie
clam in Srinagar right at the start
of the Indian innings when India
started losing its wickets. In old
city areas, hundreds of youth
assembled outside Jamia Masjid We were supporting Pakistan. Reports of similar celebrations
and held prayers amid slogans Kashmir will always celebrate by the students were also
and firecrackers. In the hostels of the Indian teams defeat, no received from other parts of
the University of Kashmir, the matter who they play against, occupied Kashmir.
students came out and started said Saleem Ahmed, a resident of After Pakistans victory over
singing and dancing. Mosques at Bandipora town. India in the Champions Trophy,
many places hummed with pro- Students of different private as nobody celebrated more
Pakistan and anti-India slogans. well as government schools in passionately than the Kashmiris.
Pakistans anthem was played at Srinagar celebrated Pakistans In Srinagar, the air was filled
many places. success. with the sounds of firecrackers as
In some areas, Indian forces used The students of different schools victory processions went up and
brute force on the people in Srinagar on June 19, burst down the streets. A local

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journalists video of jubilant

crowds was uploaded on Twitter
by Director General Inter
Services Public Relations in
Pakistan, Major General Asif
Ghafoor, whose page identifies
him as the official spokesman for
the Pak Army. Thirteen hours
after the post, it had received
more than 13,000 likes and 6,000
retweets.
Pulwama and Tral areas of south
Kashmir saw victory marches
during wich the participants
raised high-pitched anti-India
slogans.
The authorities of National Kashmiris. This is what people assembled at the gate of his
Institute of Technology, in India think of us, said a residence. They had come from
Srinagar, had closed the gates to young man in Srinagar. So if we Rajouri Kadal with the
the campus. Massive clashes are bad, lets be bad then. firecrackers in vehicles. For 15
between Kashmiri students and Meanwhile, the Chairman of All minutes, they burst the
the students from different Parties Hurriyat Conference, firecrackers and danced at
Indian states studying in the Syed Ali Gilani and other freedom slogans.
university were witnessed in the resistance leaders greeted the Finally, the Mirwaiz, though
campus last year when the local people of Pakistan for Pakistani under house arrest, came out and
students had celebrated Indias teams win in the Champions talked from the wall of his house
defeat to West Indies during T20 Trophy by thrashing India in the briefly to the cheering crowd.
World Cup. final. The leaders in their Later, he requested the youth to
A picture popular in the Kashmir statements said that they shared return to their homes and stay
Valley was one of a spectator at joyful moments with the safe. He thanked the youth for
Pakistanis. driving all the way from Rajouri
During the Kadal to see him at 11pm in the
day on June 18 night.
w h e n In an interview, the Mirwaiz
Pakistan won said, Anti-India sentiment is so
the final, strong now. It wasnt like this
s e n i o r even in the 1990s.
resistance He said, the Kashmiri youth are
l e a d e r , reacting to the way they are
M i r w a i z being portrayed. He said that for
Umar Farooq, some time now, the genuine and
was under indigenous struggle of
house arrest. Kashmiris had been seen as
the match in the Oval ground His party had Pakistan-sponsored.
sporting a T-shirt that read condemned his house detention Everything is thought to be
Winner takes Kashmir. saying that he was being Pakistani here. So its a way of the
Some young people explained prevented from discharging his youth getting back at the
the euphoria as a reaction against social and religious obligations. government, he added.
the hyper nationalism on Indian But even the Mirwaiz did not
Three days back the Mirwaiz had
TV channels and the popular know what will happen. At
tweeted wishing best of luck to
narrative of hatred against the around 11pm, hundreds of youth
Pakistan. As we were finishing

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taraweeh (special payers held through the

during the holy month of barrel of
Ramadan), could hear the gun and has
firecrackers bursting, well miserably
played team #Pakistan. Best of failed to win
luck for the finals!, Mirwaiz hearts and
wrote on micro-blogging site minds of
Twitter. That was when Pakistan even those
won the semi-finals against who had
England. some corner
Even member of the so-called for New
Kashmir Assembly, Engineer Delhi in
Abdur Rasheed, in a statement Kashmir,
he said. It is strange that even Kashmiris had gathered outside
said that the celebrations held all
across the territory after large numbers of cops belonging the stadium and staged an anti-
Pakistans victory over India in to local police were praying for India demonstration. Videos and
the Champions Trophy was Pakistan which is an ample proof photos of the demonstration
Kashmiris referendum against that New Delhis grip on went viral on social media in
Indian occupation. He asked Kashmir is now only through the occupied Kashmir. The
New Delhi to learn lessons from courtesy of military might. The demonstrators were seen
the celebrations that anti-India celebrations have proved like a holding placards with slogans
sentiment had got deep-rooted in referendum against Indias Free Kashmir, Go India Go
occupied Kashmir. He said that it arrogance, he added. and Demilitarise Kashmir
was strange that Indian TV On June 12, Indian Army and while spectators were entering
Channels were still trying to paramilitary personnel had the stadium. Besides posters and
distort the facts and putting their vandalised houses, shops and placards, pictures of Burhan
Wani were also raised during the
protest. The demonstrators were
also holding a large Pakistani
flag with Srinagar written on it.
Reports said that for the past
several days, Kashmiris settled in
the UK had been preparing to use
the scheduled match as a
platform to highlight the
atrocities being committed by
Indian forces on the people of
occupied Kashmir as well as to
spread awareness among the
world community regarding the
Kashmir dispute.
It is worth mentioning here that
the Kashmiris have been rooting
own narratives and fabricated vehicles in Shopian district against Indias cricket team for
versions. The way Kashmiris against celebrations over the past several decades
celebrated Pakistans victory Pakistans win against Sri Lanka particularly since 1983 when the
over India in the Champions in the Champions Trophy. West Indies beat India in the
Trophy, not only in cities and Earlier on June 4, before the start inaugural One Day International
towns, but in the remotest of pool match of the Champions match in Srinagar. When India
hamlets from Kupwara to Trophy between Pakistan and lost to Australia at the same
Kishtwar, it is proven beyond India at Edgbaston, Birmingham, stadium in 1986, the crowd again
doubt that New Delhi is ruling a large number of British rooted against the Indian team.

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NIA raids on Hurriyet leaders, activists in IOK denounced

In occupied Kashmir, the joint take undue advantage of this other restrictions across the
resistance leadership strongly agency against their opponents or Kashmir Valley on June 9, 2017 to
condemning the arbitrary and those pursuing their freedom prevent people from staging anti-
coercive raids conducted by struggle in Kashmir, they India demonstrations over the
Indian National Investigation pointed out. NIA raids. Call for the march was
Agency (NIA) on the residences The resistance leaders maintained given by the joint resistance
and offices of Hurriyet leaders that Kashmir dispute is a reality leadership.
and activists termed it as a and through such repressive People staged peaceful
malicious campaign by India to measures, India will not be able to
defame the Hurriyet leadership demonstrations across the
achieve any good. They suggested Kashmir Valley on June 16 on the
and the ongoing freedom the Indian authorities that instead
movement. call of the joint resistance
of meddling through these leadership against the NIA raids.
The joint resistance leadership feverish tactics, they should
comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Indian police arrested
address the core issue and provide
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik from his
an opportunity to the Kashmiri
Muhammad Yasin Malik in a office in Srinagar and lodged him
people to decide their political
statement issued in Srinagar on future by themselves. It will at Kothibagh Police Station to
June 3, 2017 denounced the definitely make an end to prevent him from leading the
crackdown by the NIA against the prevailing political uncertainty in demonstrations. Later, he was
resistance leaders to implicate Jammu and Kashmir and also shifted to Srinagar Central Jail.
them in false cases to break their boost economic condition of The puppet authorities had also
resolve towards the freedom
movement. They said that the NIA
was threatening to re-open the old
fake cases in which the courts had
acquitted the Hurriyet leaders.
They said that such coercive
tactics could not deter the
Hurriyet leaders from pursuing
their just cause.
Referring to famous religious
scholar, Dr Zakir Naik, the
resistance leaders said that he too
was forced to leave India after
being framed on basis of
concocted stories. In a similar
manner, Indian authorities, in
order to suppress the freedom
movement, are planning to frame
fake cases against the leadership,
they said and warned of dire Indian citizens, they added. placed Hurriyet leaders including
consequences if this process (NIA The resistance leaders said that Syed Ali Gilani, Shabbir Ahmed
raids) was not stopped forthwith. the NIA raids depicted frustration Shah and Mukhtar Ahmed Waza
The leaders said that during raids of the Indian government over the under house arrest or in custody
in Srinagar no objectionable exemplary unity among the to prevent them from leading the
material was found but through Kashmiri people and Hurriyet demonstrations.
their mischievous plans, the NIA leaders. They said that It merits mentioning here that
officials were trying to get hold of harassment by the Indian after the failure of Indias different
resistance leadership on fictitious authorities could not weaken the tactics to suppress the Kashmiris
charges as was done in Dr Zakir freedom sentiment of the ongoing freedom struggle, NIA
Naiks case. This has proved Kashmiri people and they would launched raids in June 2017 to
beyond any doubt that NIA is not continue their struggle till it intimidate and harass the
an autonomous agency but a tool reached its logical conclusion. Hurriyet leaders and activists,
in the hands of fanatical On the other hand, the puppet putting them to questions for
authorities in New Delhi; and they authorities imposed curfew and hours.

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13th July - The Kashmir Martyrs' Day

Background
Kashmiris on both sides of the
Line of Control and across the
world observe Kashmir Martyrs'
Day on July 13, every year. The
day is commemorated to pay
homage to 22 Kashmiris who
were shot dead, one after the
other, outside the Srinagar
Central Jail by the troops of
Dogra Maharaja. The victims had
gathered in the jail premises to
attend the court proceedings
against one, Abdul Qadeer, who
had asked the Kashmiri people to
challenge Dogra rule.
The Jammu and Kashmir was on
the boil since 19th April 1931 large number of people had July, thousands of people who
after stopping of the Imam, gathered in different areas of had converged at the Central Jail
Munshi Muhammad Ishaq, from Srinagar. One such gathering to witness the proceedings
giving Eid Khutba (sermon) in was held in Khanqah-e-Mualla demanded open trial of Abdul
the Municipal Park of Jammu by and was addressed by prominent Qadeer. 22 people were killed
the Dogra police chief, Chowdry Kashmiris. A youth, Abdul and scores others injured after
Ram Chand. The incident had Qadeer, was also among the the troops opened fire to disperse
triggered massive people listening to the speeches the protesters on the orders of
demonstrations in Jammu city of the leaders. When the meeting Dogra Governor, Ray Zada
that continued for many days. concluded, he pointed his finger Tartilok Chand.
Later, the desecration of the Holy to Maharaja's palace and raised Before the occurrence of this
f u l l - incident, the Kashmiris had been
throated facing the worst atrocities of their
slogans rulers since the selling of Jammu
destroy and Kashmir - with
its every predominantly Muslim
brick. population - by the Britain to
He was Dogra dynasty for Rs 75 lakh
immed- under the Treaty of Amritsar in
iately 1846. The Dogra period is
taken considered to be the worst phase
i n t o of the Kashmir history on
custody account of cruelty meted out to
and was the Muslims. This situation was
charged amply depicted by Walter
under Lawrence who wrote: Almost
Quran by Dogra troops in sedition. The simmering public everything save air and water
Jammu added fuel to the fire and anger had forced the trial of was taxed in Kashmir. The poor
led to widespread resentment Abdul Qadeer from court to coolies, who were engaged to
throughout the territory. Srinagar Central Jail. On 12th carry load for travellers, had to
In order to denounce this July, people held massive give up as tax half of their
blasphemy and demand demonstrations throughout the earnings.
punishment to the culprits, a city against the move. On 13th It can be safely said that July 13,

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1931 is significant for the fact that

it was the first occasion when the
Kashmiris challenged the
autocratic rule and rose en masse
against the oppression of Dogra
Maharaja.
Indian occupation
The new saga of Kashmiris'
sufferings started after the
announcement of the
understanding behind the
Partition Plan of the Indian
subcontinent by the British
Government in 1947. Under the
Plan, the British India Colony
was to be divided into two
sovereign states - Pakistan and
part of the partition of South of the Kashmir dispute through
India. The understanding behind
Asian subcontinent. holding of a free and impartial
the Partition Plan had given the
The Indian invasion faced stiff plebiscite to be conducted by the
right to the then princely states to
resistance from the people of UN. However, India which itself
accede to either of the two
Jammu and Kashmir. They had taken the Kashmir dispute to
countries on the basis of their
launched a freedom struggle and the UN, backed away from its
geography and demography.
succeeded in liberating a large commitment of settling it by
The Kashmiris had a great feeling
part of the state, which is now giving the Kashmiri people their
to join Pakistan due to their
known as Azad Jammu and right to self-determination.
strong geographical, religious
Kashmir. The resilience and Mass uprisings
and cultural bonds with the
India's continued intransigence
on the Kashmir dispute and
denial of basic rights to the
Kashmiris, compelled the people
of occupied Kashmir to start a
massive uprising in 1989. It
picked up momentum with each
passing day, giving sleepless
nights to the Indian rulers.
However, India responded to
this mass movement with
extremely brute force. The worst
kind of Indian state terrorism
since 1989 till May 2017 has led to
the killing of 94,697 Kashmiris,
custodial disappearance of over
10,000 people, arrest of 141,533
country. However, their dream determination of the Kashmiris civilians and destruction of
of becoming part of Pakistan was pushed India on the verge of 108,089 structures. The killings
shattered by the landing of defeat forcing it to approach the have rendered 22,845 women
Indian Army in Srinagar on United Nations Security Council, widowed and 107,646 children
October 27, 1947 in total on January 1, 1948 and seeking orphaned. Indian troops and
disregard to the Partition Plan help of the World Body to settle police personnel have molested
that sowed the seeds of the the issue. The Security Council 10,931 women during this period
Kashmir dispute. This shows through its several successive to suppress the Kashmiris'
that Kashmir is the unfinished resolutions called for settlement freedom movement.

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The people of occupied Kashmir

gave impetus to their liberation
movement in 2008. During the
next three years, thousands of
people hit the streets of Srinagar
and other major towns,
demanding their inalienable
right to self-determination. It
was estimated that on several
occasions, the number of
protesters was well above one
million mark. These massive
demonstrations were a clear
referendum of Kashmiri people
against the Indian rule. It is
unfortunate, that once again
New Delhi's response to this The Indian Army has intensified Kashmiris into submission and
mass uprising was use of brute the cordon and search operations they are hitting the streets and
force that resulted in the killing across the occupied territory and facing the Indian troops and
of hundreds of innocent waged a war against civilian police personnel with courage
protesters and injuring of population following the recent and valour.
thousands others. Hundreds of provocative statement of Army Conclusion
youth were put behind the bars Chief, General Bipin Rawat, and The people of Kashmir are
for participating in pro- also after the awarding of an rendering unparalleled sacrifices
liberation demonstrations. Army Major for his criminal act in their struggle to secure their
The occupied Kashmir is once of using a Kashmiri civilian as a inalienable right to self-
again simmering since the human shield. General Rawat determination since 1931
extrajudicial killing of popular had warned that the people particularly since 1947. It is due
youth leader, Burhan Wani, on to these sacrifices that the world
community has realised the
urgency involved in the
settlement of the Kashmir
dispute. The recent statements
from officials of different
international organisations
including the UN High
Commissioner for Human
Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussain,
in which they expressed serious
concern over the human rights
violations perpetrated by Indian
troops and police personnel in
occupied Kashmir are
encouraging for the Kashmiri
people. The time is not far away
when India will have no option
July 8, 2016. So far over 150 staging demonstrations during but to respect the aspirations of
people have been killed, more military operations would be the Kashmiris and give them
than 20,000 injured and treated as the over-ground their right to self-determination
hundreds others blinded due to workers of mujahideen and it had promised several decades
the firing of pellets, bullets and would be dealt with sternly. ago.
teargas shells on protesters by However, such threats have (Compiled by Kashmir Media
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Importance of Accession to Pakistan Resolution

Background took this decision of joining such document with the
19th July is an important Pakistan to protect their political, argument that had it been there,
milestone in the history of religious, social, cultural and Indian government would have
Jammu and Kashmir. It was on economic rights, as they were made it public either officially or
this day in 1947 when the well aware of their fate under at some international forum.
genuine representatives of Hindus who had deep-rooted Indian troops, the forces of Dogra
majority of Kashmiris had animosity for Muslims in Jammu Maharaja, and Hindu extremists
decided to attach their future and Kashmir. massacred over three hundred
with Pakistan. They had Indian invasion thousand Kashmiri Muslims
unanimously passed a resolution The Partition Plan of 1947 had within a period of two months
for Kashmir's Accession to stated that the Indian British with the intention to change the
Pakistan during a meeting at the Colony would be divided into demographic composition of the
residence of Sardar Muhammad two sovereign states, India and territory.
Ibrahim Khan in Aabi Guzar area Pakistan. As per the Kashmiris' resistance to
of Srinagar. Sardar Ibrahim later understanding the then princely occupation
became the first president of the states had the choice to either Right from the day one in 1947,
liberated part of Jammu and accede to Pakistan or India, the people of Kashmir rejected
Kashmir. considering their geographical India's illegal occupation and
The historic resolution, situation and communal started a revolt against it,
representing the aspirations of demography. Kashmir was a liberating a vast area now known
millions of Kashmiri Muslims,
called for the accession of the
State of Jammu and Kashmir to
Pakistan on the basis of religious,
geographical, cultural and
economic bonds enjoyed by the
two regions. The resolution
stated: "This convention of
Muslim Conference has reached
the conclusion that geographical
conditions, 80 percent Muslim
population, important rivers of
Punjab passing through the state,
language, cultural, ethnic and
economic relations and
contiguity of the state with
Pakistan make it imperative to
merge with Pakistan".
This important development had Muslim-majority state and had a as Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
come following the natural tendency to accede to Sensing defeat to its forces, India
announcement of Partition Plan Pakistan, but its Hindu ruler, approached the UN Security
of Indian subcontinent under Dogra Maharaja, destroyed the Council to seek help of the World
which the princely states were future of Kashmiri people by Body to settle the dispute. The
free to accede to either of the two announcing its accession to India UN Security Council through its
newly established countries, under a controversial accession successive resolutions nullified
Pakistan and India. The document (Instrument of Indian invasion and occupation
resolution of 19th July 1947 was a Accession). India invaded of Kashmir. At that time Indian
testimony to the fact that the Jammu and Kashmir by landing rulers had promised before the
people of Kashmir wanted to its army in Srinagar on October UN to resolve the dispute and
become part of Pakistan and they 27, 1947 on the basis of this so- provide the people of Kashmir
had linked their future with the called deal. Many neutral with their basic right of self-
country. The people of Kashmir observers deny the existence of determination but later backed

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away from their commitments.

The people of occupied Kashmir,
disappointed at the failure of all
the efforts aimed at resolving the
Kashmir dispute through
peaceful means, launched a
massive uprising in 1989 to
secure their right to self-
determination. However, Indian
authorities responded to this
popular uprising with brute
force. Since then, Indian troops
have killed over ninety four
thousand Kashmiris, widowed
more than twenty two thousand
women, orphaned over one
hundred thousand children and
molested or gang-raped more extrajudicial killing of popular inalienable right to self-
than ten thousand Kashmiri youth leader, Burhan Wani, on determination and an end to
women. The whereabouts of July 8, 2016 with thousands of Indian occupation of their
thousands of innocent people taking to the streets on motherland. India's continued
Kashmiris, disappeared in the daily basis. Unfortunately, stubbornness on the Kashmir
custody of troops, are yet to be instead of taking these mammoth dispute has posed a serious
made known while thousands of demonstrations as the Kashmiris' threat to the regional peace as
unnamed graves discovered in referendum against its illegal both Islamabad and New Delhi
the occupied territory are occupation, India subjected the now possess nuclear weapons
believed to be of the disappeared protesters to brute force, killing and a minor clash between them
could prove disastrous for the
whole world.
Pakistan's support
Pakistan is the only country of
the world that has been
extending its unconditional and
continued support to the
Kashmiris in their just liberation
struggle since 1947. Pakistan's
affinity with the people of
Kashmir can be understood in
the backdrop of several reasons -
both share strong bonds in
respect of religion, geography,
culture and aspirations. It has
been hosting since 1947
hundreds of thousands of
Kashmiri people who migrated
Kashmiris. hundreds and injuring from occupied Kashmir to
From 2008 to 2010, the Kashmiris thousands of them. During the Pakistan due to their strong
staged massive pro-freedom ongoing mass uprising, the emotional attachment to the
demonstrations and on some occupational troops have country after they were subjected
occasions the number of blinded hundreds of youth with to the worst kind of state
protesters had crossed one the firing of pellet guns. They are terrorism by Indian forces.
million mark in Srinagar city not even sparing students The raising of slogans like Long
alone. Occupied Kashmir is once including girls who are on the Live Pakistan and We want
again on the boil since the streets to demand their Pakistan by the people of

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occupied Kashmir during anti-

India demonstrations shows
their strong attachment with
Pakistan. They hoist Pakistani
flags during protest
demonstrations. They also
celebrate Pakistan's national
days with full enthusiasm and
love and that of India as black
days. The matter of fact is that
Pakistanis and Kashmiris
consider the Kashmir dispute as
an unfinished agenda of the
partition of the South Asian sub-
continent in 1947 and the
Kashmir liberation struggle as an
inseparable part of Pakistan interests of the Kashmiri people worst kind of Indian military
movement. had visited Jammu and Kashmir aggression for supporting the
The ideological and sentimental three times before 1947. He had Kashmiris during the past almost
attachment of the Kashmiris with rightly termed Kashmir as the seven decades, Pakistan never
Pakistan was worth-seeing when Jugular Vein of Pakistan. gave up its support to the
the entire valley erupted in Former Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Kashmir cause and continues to
jubilation on the Pakistani team's Ali Bhutto, had vowed to wage a advocate resolution of the
victory in the ICC Champions thousand-year war for Kashmir. dispute according to the
Trophy's final by crushing Prime Minister, Mohammad aspirations of the Kashmiri
Indian team at the Oval, Nawaz Sharif, and the Army people.
England, on 18th of June 2017. Chief, General Qamar Javed Conclusion
The Pakistani leadership has Bajwa, are forcefully advocating The passing of Accession to
Pakistan Day resolution on 19th
July, 1947 by the majority of the
people of Kashmir was their
verdict that they will be a part of
Pakistan. This resolution is still
valid and continues to establish
the fact that the Kashmiris have
spiritual, social, political and
cultural links with Pakistan and
they want to be the part of this
country. The worst kind of
Indian state terrorism in
occupied Kashmir during the
past almost seven decades and
the ongoing wave of Hindu
extremism featured with anti-
always represented the settlement of the conflict over Muslim tirade in India stand
Kashmiris' aspirations and never Kashmir in accordance with the testimony to the fact that the
betrayed the faith reposed on Kashmiris' aspirations in line Kashmiris' decision of accession
them by the Kashmiri people. with the relevant UN resolutions of Jammu and Kashmir with
The father of the nation, Quaid-e- for ensuring durable peace in Pakistan was justified.
Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, South Asia. There is no denying (Compiled by Kashmir Media
due to his commitment to the the fact that despite facing the Service)

Human Rights Situation
HR violations in IOK during June 2017

Compiled by Raies Ahmed Mir June 1: Indian troops killed three army camp at Sumbal in
India has been resorting to the youth during a crackdown Bandipore district. At least ten
worst kind of state terrorism in operation in Nathipora area of people were injured after the
occupied Kashmir to suppress the Sopore. troops fired pellets on protesters
Kashmiris' just struggle aimed at Indian police arrested seven in the area.
achieving freedom from its illegal youth from Chursoo, The puppet authorities barred
occupation of their motherland Awantipora, Qamarwari and Hurriyet leaders from holding a
for the last almost seven decades. Hajin areas. meeting at the Hyderpora
Indian troops and police June 2: At least fifteen people residence of Syed Ali Gilani by
personnel enjoying unbridled were injured when the troops placing several leaders including
powers under black laws are fired pellets and teargas shells on Mirwaiz Umar Farooq,
committing genocide of the peaceful protests in Srinagar, Muhammad Yasin Malik,
Kashmiri people to intimidate Islamabad, Sopore, Trehgam and Shabbir Ahmed Shah and
them into submission. Handwara areas against the Mukhtar Ahmed Waza under
Even the UN High Commissioner killing of the youth. house arrest or in police custody.
for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al- Over thirty shops were gutted in June 6: The troops killed a 12th
Hussein, in his opening remarks a fire that broke out due to the class student, Aadil Farooq
at the 35th session of United firing of teargas shells by Indian Magray, and injured many
Nations Human Rights Council forces at Reshi Bazaar in people by opening fire on
held in Geneva, Switzerland, in
June 2017 expressed grave
concern over human rights
situation in occupied Kashmir. He
said, ..We continue to receive
reports of increasing violence,
civilian casualties, curfews and
website blackouts in Kashmir.
This was the third successive
policy statement by the UN
official at the Human Rights
Council that chastised India for
gross human rights abuses by its
forces in the occupied territory.
Earlier, in September 2016 and
March 2017, Zeid Ra'ad Al-
Hussein had raised similar
concerns about the sufferings of
the people of occupied Kashmir at Islamabad town. peaceful protesters in Shopian
the hands of Indian forces. The puppet authorities put the and Pulwama areas.
India needs to acknowledge the All Parties Hurriyat Conference June 7: The troops killed four
fact that it will not be able to Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, and youth during a fake encounter in
continue its illegal hold on Jammu other Hurriyat leaders including Machil area of Kupwara district.
and Kashmir for long and must Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Over twenty students were
initiate measures to give the Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai, Ayaz injured in Pampore and
Kashmiri people their inalienable Akbar, Muhammad Ashraf Laya Awantipora areas after Indian
right to self-determination it had and Shahid-ul-Islam under house forces fired pellets during
promised several decades ago. arrest. protests against killing of the
Following are the details of June 3: Indian police arrested youth.
human rights violations by Indian fifteen youth from Khanpora in June 8: The troops killed three
troops and police personnel in Baramulla. youth during a violent military
occupied Kashmir during the June 5: Indian troops killed four operation at Nowgam in
month of June. youth in a fake encounter near an Handwara.

June 9: The troops killed six
youth during a violent military
operation in Uri area of
Baramulla.
Over forty people sustained
injuries after Indian forces'
personnel fired pellets on
protesters in Srinagar, Pulwama,
Shopian, Islamabad, Kupwara,
Hajin and Ajas areas.
Indian police arrested Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front
Chairman, Muhammad Yasin
Malik, along with party leaders,
Noor Muhammad Kalwal and
Zahoor Ahmed, from Sara-i-Bala
area of Srinagar when he tried to Indian police arrested Pulwama and Srinagar. The
lead an anti-India rally towards Muhammad Yasin Malik and forces' personnel also ransacked
Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Noor Muhammad Kalwal from several houses.
The authorities sealed Jamia Reban area of Shopian. The police arrested Tehreek-e-
Masjid, Srinagar, and did not June 12: Several people including Hurriyet leader, Fayaz Ahmed
allow people to hold Friday students and women were Dar, from Waghama area of
prayers at the historic mosque. injured after Indian forces' Bijbehara and shifted him to
June 10: Indian troops killed a personnel fired teargas shells and Kathua Jail in Jammu after
youth in Gurez area of Bandipore pellets on them in Shopian and booking him under black law,
district. Islamabad. Public Safety Act.
At least five people were injured The police arrested six persons June 15: A youth was killed and
after Indian forces' personnel from Islamabad, Awantipora and several others were injured after
Indian forces opened fire on
protesters in Rangreth area of
Srinagar.
June 16: Indian troops killed
three youth, Junaid Mattoo,
Naseer Ahmed Wani and Aadil
Mushtaq Mir, in Arwani area of
Kulgam district. Dead bodies of
the youth were recovered from
the debris of two houses
destroyed by the troops with
Improvised Explosive Devices.
Indian forces martyred two more
civilians, Muhammad Ashraf
and Ehsan Dar, by firing bullets
and pellets on protesters in the
area. Over a hundred people
fired pellets on protesters in Kupwara areas. including two photojournalists,
Pulwama and Qazigund areas. June 13: Indian forces ransacked Kamran Yousuf and Nissar-ul-
The troops damaged several several houses and shops in Haq, were injured after Indian
residential houses and vehicles Shopian, Kulgam and Islamabad. forces' personnel fired bullets,
and arrested a youth from June 14: Over seventy persons pellets and teargas shells on
Narpora area of Shopian district. including women and children protesters in Arwani, Pulwama,
June 11: The troops thrashed a were injured after Indian police Pampore, Shopian, Islamabad,
journalist, Shah Irshad, in and troops used brute force on Srinagar, Bandipore and Sopore
Shopian. protesters in Shopian, Kulgam, areas.

Indian police arrested Dar and Tawseef Ahmed Butt, June 26: Scores of people were
Muhammad Yasin Malik from and injured more than seventy injured after Indian police
Aabi Guzar in Srinagar. civilians by firing pellets, bullets subjected protesters to brute
June 17: Over fifty people were and teargas shells during a force after Eid-ul-Fitr prayers in
injured after the troops used violent cordon operation at Srinagar, Sopore, Pattan,
brute force on protesters in Kakapora in Pulwama. The Islamabad and other areas.
Srinagar, Sopore, Bijbehara, troops also destroyed two Indian troops barged into the
Pampore, Tral and Shopian areas. residential houses in the area. houses, ransacked household
June 18: Indian Army vandalised The troops killed another youth goods and beat up inmates and
property and beat up people in during a military operation in youth playing cricket at
Pahalgam. Keran area of Kupwara.
Sarmarag in Handwara.
June 19: Over a dozen people Indian forces opened fire and
The authorities continued to put
sustained injuries after Indian injured a 9th class student,
Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar
forces used brute force on Kamran Mohi-ud-Din, at Koil in
Farooq, Muhammad Yasin
protesters in Islamabad, Kulgam, Pulwama and a youth Shahid
Pulwama, Shopian, Bandipore, Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
Majeed at Ashtengoo in
Ganderbal and Pampore areas. Bandipore. Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai and
June 20: Indian troops shot at and June 23: Thirty five people were other leaders under house arrest
injured a civilian, Muhammad injured after Indian forces fired or in custody and did not allow
Altaf Zargar, at Drabjam in pellets on protesters in Shopian them to offer Eid prayers.
Pulwama and roughed up a 7th and Islamabad areas. June 27: Many youth were
class student, injured after
Faizan Fayaz, in Indian forces
Islamabad while resorted to
he was on his way brute force on
to school. protesters in
The troops barged Pulwama and
into scores of Tral areas.
residential June 28: At least
houses, thrashed fifteen people
people, ransacked were injured
household goods after Indian
a n d s e t a forces beat up
motorcycle on fire
civilians during
in Shopian.
siege and
June 21: Indian
s e a r c h
troops killed two
operations in
youth, Gulzar
Ahmed Lone and Basit Ahmed June 24: Over a dozen people T r a l a n d
Mir, during a crackdown were injured after Indian forces' Islamabad.
operation at Pazalpora in Sopore. personnel used brute force on Indian police arrested a dozen
Twenty five people were injured protesters in Srinagar and youth from Chadoora and Tral
after Indian police and troops Shopian. areas.
fired bullets, pellets and PAVA Indian police arrested June 30: Several people sustained
shells on protesters in Sopore, Muhammad Yasin Malik and injuries when Indian forces
Hajin and Pulwama areas. The shifted him to Srinagar Central resorted to brute force on
forces' personnel thrashed Jail. The authorities arrested five protesters in Srinagar, Shopian
dozens of residents and forced youth in Hajin area of Bandipore and Hajin areas.
three persons observing Aitikaf and booked them under black The authorities continued to
in a mosque to return home law, Public Safety Act.
place Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz
during a search operation in Tral. June 25: Indian troops killed two
Umar Farooq and Shabbir
June 22: The troops killed four youth in a fake encounter in the
Ahmed Shah under house arrest
youth, Majid Hameed Mir, building of a school at Pantha
and did not allow them to offer
Shakir Ahmed, Irshad Ahmed Chhoke in Srinagar.
Friday prayers.

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Burhan Wani A new phase of Kashmir resistance movement

Indian troops killed a popular movement triggered by his death Malik. The occupation authorities
Kashmiri youth leader, Burhan continues even after the passing of continued to keep mobile and
Muzaffar Wani, in cold-blood one year. However, at the same internet services suspended for
during a fake encounter in time, the past one year has been a over four months besides
Kokernag area of Islamabad year of miseries and agonies for imposing curfew and other
district in Indian Occupied the people of Kashmir. Instead of restrictions for around one
Kashmir on July 8, 2016. A sea of respecting the Kashmiris hundred days. The authorities
people was witnessed in Tral, the sentiments, India has been still continue to keep Hurriyet
hometown of Burhan Wani, on resorting to new methods of leadership under house arrest or
July 9, 2016. Thousands of people, cruelty and use of force. Since 8th in police custody. It is a fact that
defying curfew and other July 2016, more than 150 people Burhan Wani who had become a
restrictions, converged on the have been killed so far and over new icon of the Kashmiris
town from different areas of the 19,350 injured - of whom 68 have resistance movement had
territory to attend the funeral been blinded totally. Around 200 unnerved Indian authorities due
prayers of the martyred young youth have lost their eyesight in to his effective role in exposing the
leader. Additionally, funerals in one eye and over 1800 have Indian nefarious designs against
absentia were held at several suffered partial damage to their the people of Kashmir and
places in the territory. Almost eyes - due to the firing of pellets, projecting the Kashmir cause
every Kashmiri was on the streets bullets and teargas shells by through social media. This was
of the occupied territory on that Indian police and troops on admitted even by a retired Indian
day. peaceful protesters. About 18,000 Army General, Syed Ata Hasnain,
Indian forces personnel people including Hurriyet leaders who spent more than two decades
responded with brute force
against the mourners and
showered them with bullets,
pellets and teargas shells. Men,
women and children were beaten
up mercilessly on the streets and
in their homes. The participation
of hundreds of thousands of
people in the funeral prayers of
Burhan Wani and in the
subsequent protests over his
killing was a clear referendum of
the Kashmiris against the Indian
occupation of Jammu and
Kashmir. On one hand, it depicted
their love, affection and
attachment to the Kashmir
movement, while on the other, it and activists have been arrested serving in occupied Kashmir. In
rooted out the false narrative of during this period and 792 of them an interview with the New York
India and its media that had have been booked under Times dated July 10, 2016, General
always tried to equate the draconian law, Public Safety Act. Ata said, He (Burhan Wani) was
Kashmiris' liberation struggle not personally associated with
Despite all the mayhem, which
with terrorism and dub the violence so much, but was
ensued the extrajudicial murder
movement as an activity of a associated with leadership. He
of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, people
handful of misguided Kashmiri also said that Burhan Wani had
remained on streets for 133
youth. conveyed the message of
successive days as part of protest
Burhan Wanis killing initiated a programmes given by joint freedom.
new phase of Kashmir resistance resistance leadership comprising Burhan Muzaffar Wani was a
movement that infused fresh Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar brave blossoming young man.
blood to the uprising. The mass Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Like others, he had cherished

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dreams and ambitions for his life.

However, opting for a path of
resistance full of dangers meant a
lot that he had explained in many
of his posts. He had found himself
morally bound to become the
voice of Kashmiris who were
brutally suppressed, killed,
maimed and humiliated by India
and were deprived of all basic
human rights. This way he
actually represented the
aspirations of millions of
Kashmiri youth who have stood
against Indian repression even at
the cost of their lives and consider
Burhan as their hero. The murder
of Burhan Wani in a staged practice. It has been proved after of thousands of unnamed mass
encounter has not been a new thorough investigations that graves across the occupied
thing in occupied Kashmir. India dozens of encounters including territory solidifies the
accelerated the process of the the above-mentioned two were apprehension that the people
genocide of the Kashmiris after staged by Indian Army personnel killed in custody and those
1989 when they intensified their to earn medals and promotions. subjected to disappearance by the
freedom movement. The killing of Such extrajudicial killings are in troops are buried in these graves.
innocent Kashmiri youth in fake clear violation of International The world community needs to
encounters near the Line of Laws and Geneva Conventions hold India accountable for its
Control after arresting them from under which even the killing of a genocidal acts and crimes against
humanity and take practical
measures to settle the Kashmir
dispute by ascertaining the will of
the Kashmiri people regarding
their future through holding of
UN-supervised plebiscite in
Jammu and Kashmir. The stepped
up Indian state terrorism
following Burhan Wanis killing
must serve as a wakeup call for the
international community. It is also
high time for New Delhi to accept
the reality that no amount of its
state terrorism can intimidate the
Kashmiris into submission. It
should respect the aspirations of
different parts of the occupied combatant after being taken into the Kashmiri people and give
territory has been a decades-old custody is a serious crime. The them their inalienable right to
practice of Indian troops. The extrajudicial killings cannot be self-determination in accordance
main aim behind such actions has justified by any internationally with the UNSC resolutions on
been to malign the Kashmiris established law. The Indian
Kashmir. This is imperative for
ongoing freedom movement by forces personnel have so far
ensuring permanent peace and
portraying the victims as killed over 7,000 Kashmiris in
intruders. The Machil and custody and subjected more than stability in South Asia.
Pathribal fake encounters are the 10,000 to custodial disappearance (Compiled by Kashmir Media
glaring examples of this wicked since January 1989. The discovery Service)

Report
UNHRC session: World attention drawn

towards Indian atrocities in IOK
Speakers at different functions policy statement by the UN occupied Kashmir. Pellets and
including seminars, conferences official at the Human Rights bullets are being fired
and demonstrations organised Council that chastised India for indiscriminately on peaceful
during the 35th session of the gross human rights violations in protestors by Indian forces.
United Nations Human Rights occupied Kashmir. Earlier, in Medical reports show that pellets
Council held in Geneva, September 2016 and March 2017, and bullets have been fired by
Switzerland, from June 6 to 23, Zeid Raad Al-Hussein had Indian troops above the
2017 condemned the gross raised similar concerns about the abdomen. All this is happening
human rights violations sufferings of the people of in a systematic manner, as the
perpetrated by Indian troops and occupied Kashmir at the hands of forces enjoy impunity under
police personnel in occupied Indian forces in the occupied black laws Armed Forces Special
Kashmir. They asked India to territory. With these statements Powers Act and Public Safety
stop killings in the territory and ended the UNs 50 years long Act, he added.
settle the Kashmir dispute by silence on Kashmir. Syed Faiz Naqshbandi further
giving the Kashmiri people their
On June 7, the Kashmiri said that human rights abuses
inalienable right to self-
representatives while taking part had touched extreme height as
determination for ensuring
in a debate in the UNHRC called Indian forces personnel
permanent peace in South Asia.
upon the Council to appoint deployed in occupied Kashmir
Kashmiri representatives Special Representative to assess used civilians as human shield.
including Altaf Hussain Wani, the rights situation in occupied He pointed out that on April 9, a
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi, Sardar Kashmir. Kashmiri youth namely Farooq
Amjad Youssef Khan, Mrs Ahmed Dar was tied to the
Syed Faiz Naqshbandi in his
Shamim Shawl, Hassan Al- bumper of an Indian military
speech extended support to the
Banna, Ahmed Quraishi, Pervaiz
Ahmed Shah and Professor
Shagufta Ashraf took part in
different activities during the
UNHRC session and highlighted
the Indian atrocities in occupied
Kashmir. They also met
representatives of different
organisations and many
dignitaries and apprised them of
the present human rights
situation in the occupied
territory.
On June 6, the UN High
Rights, Zeid Raad Al-Hussein,
in his opening remarks at the
session expressed grave concern initiative of UN High jeep as a human shield. He
over human rights situation in Commissioner for Human deplored that the culprit military
occupied Kashmir. He said, Rights of sending a UN team to officer, Major Leetul Gogoi, was
..We continue to receive occupied Kashmir to take stock awarded commendation card by
reports of increasing violence, of the ground situation in the the Indian Army Chief for his
civilian casualties, curfews and territory. brutal action.
website blackouts in Kashmir. He said, systematic human rights He told the UNHRC that India
This was the third successive violations are taking place in had banned 22 social media

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applications and Internet

services in the territory. This all
is aimed at hiding the atrocities
of Indian forces on people, he
said and asked the Council that
how long it would take the UN
mechanism to intervene to stop
the loss of lives in occupied
Kashmir?
Mrs Shamim Shawl in her
address said that Indian forces
had snatched all fundamental
freedoms and human rights in
occupied Kashmir. The UN
General Assemblys Resolution
of 17th December 1979 provides
the occasion. because of the deteriorating
the guidance on the Code of
Sardar Amjad Youssef Khan situation in occupied Kashmir,
Conduct in all the conflict
commended the top UN Rights Sardar Amjad Youssef said.
zones, she said, adding that the
use of pellets to blind and kill Chief for his policy statement in Altaf Hussain Wani in his speech
people was a gross violation of which he mentioned his request drew attention of the diplomats
international law. to the governments of India and towards the crackdown on the
Pakistan to invite teams from the members of civil society and
Shamim Shawl said that the
office of the High Commissioner restrictions on peaceful protests
arrest of hundreds of students
to examine the situation of and assembly in occupied
under draconian law, Public
human rights on both sides of the Kashmir. He said that during the
Safety Act, was a deliberate
Line of Control. first five months of 2017, over 40
attempt to stop them from
people were killed and hundreds
injured in different incidents in
occupied Kashmir involving the
Indian troops.
On June 9, Syed Faiz Naqshbandi
met Ms Kate Gilmore, United
Nations Deputy High
Rights, and apprised her of
Indian atrocities in occupied
Kashmir. He told the UN official
that Jammu and Kashmir was a
UN-recognised disputed
territory where Indian troops
and police personnel were
committing massive human
right violations. He said, Indian
continuing their education. He also welcomed the statement forces fire pellets and bullets
Kashmir has been turned into a made by the Permanent indiscriminately on peaceful
graveyard, she added. Representative of Pakistan to the protesters due to which
The killing of 12th class student, United Nations, Ambassador thousands of innocent Kashmiris
Aadil Farooq Magray, in the Farrukh Amil, assuring to have been killed and injured
firing of Indian troops on facilitate the UN Mission and seriously. He said, ambulances
peaceful protesters in Shopian on asking India to do the same. and hospitals are frequently
June 6, 2017 was also raised on This Mission is essential attacked by Indian forces

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personnel who are involved in

target killings and torture of
Kashmiri youth.
On June 11, British expert and
historian, Victoria Schofield,
while speaking at an
international event on the
sidelines of the UNHRC session
said that the holding of UN-
supervised plebiscite as was
promised in the resolutions of
Security Council was a key
requirement to resolve the
Kashmir dispute.
The event was organised by three
international NGOs - World
past several decades. She of blood after the fall of Soviet
Muslim Congress (WMC),
compared life in Kashmir under Union, Alfred de Zayas
International Islamic Federation
curfews to the life in cities in wondered why Kashmir
of Student Organisations
Europe to highlight the freedom was taking time despite
(IIFSO), and International
sufferings of the Kashmiri so many sacrifices.
Muslim Womens Union
people. On June 16, members of
(IMWU) - all having special
status at the UN. Altaf Hussain She was joined by activists from Kashmiri delegation apprised
Wani moderated the event while occupied Kashmir, Palestine and the diplomats and
Sardar Amjad Youssef was a Western Sahara, and UNs representatives of international
keynote speaker. independent expert on the human rights organisations
promotion of equitable about the sufferings of the people
Victoria Schofield, the author of
international order, Alfred de of occupied Kashmir at the hands
of Indian forces.
Ahmed Quraishi told a sideline
event at the UNHRC that India
was at war against an entire
generation in occupied Kashmir.
The event titled, Youth in
Conflict and Right to Education
was presided over by Sardar
Amjad Youssef Khan and the
speakers included Altaf Hussain
Wani and Hassan Al-Bana.
Ahmed Quraishi said that the
worlds largest movement for
civil and political rights,
including the right to self-
determination, was underway
several books and papers on Zayas. The UN Independent now in occupied Kashmir.
Kashmir conflict, told the expert said that the World Body Young men and women are
diplomats and rights defenders was duty-bound to implement leading it. India is trying to stop
that settlement of the Kashmir its resolutions on Kashmir. the movement by crippling the
dispute through UN-supervised Referring to states that became younger generation through
referendum was pending for the independent without shedding torture and murder, he said.

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The rights activists On June 17, Shameem Shawl held that the women in occupied
acknowledged the role of female a meeting with David Kaye, the Kashmir were the worst victims
students in the occupied territory UN Special Rapporteur on of the atrocities of Indian troops
in leading the freedom freedom of expression and and police personnel and human
movement. Ahmed Quraishi opinion, and apprised him of the rights defenders were under
deplored that instead of continued ban imposed by the attack by the state forces.
appreciating peaceful protests by Indian government on social He said that occupied Kashmir
women, worlds so-called largest media and Internet in occupied was one of those territories
democracy responded to Kashmir. She also briefed him where people were being
unarmed women by using brute about the gross human rights humiliated, disappeared,
force. violations and brutalities tortured and killed by the
Hassan Al-Bana said that schools committed by Indian forces in occupational forces to punish
and universities were the biggest occupied Kashmir and them for raising their voice
demanded that the UNHRC against the Indian rule.
victims of Indias assault on
young men and women in teams should visit and take stock Syed Faiz Naqshbandi said that
occupied Kashmir. Amnesty of the situation prevailing in the freedom of expression and free
International has conducted a territory. assembly had been completely
research on this snatched by
i s s u e a n d Indian forces in
the occupied
concluded that
territory. He
New Delhi is
s a i d t h a t
t a r g e t i n g
p e a c e f u l
K a s h m i r s
protests ware
y o u n g e r
responded
generation under brutally by
an undeclared indiscriminate
policy, he added. firing of bullets
He said, like other and pellets.
parts of the world, Thousands have
Kashmiri youth been seriously
undoubtedly are injured and
very talented. hundreds have
Unfortunately, he lost eyesight
said, the space permanently
On June 19, Syed Faiz due to the pellets, he added.
they need to grow and work is
Naqshbandi addressing the 35th
being squeezed and narrowed. He said that Hurriyet leaders,
session of the UN Human Rights Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar
Hassan Al-Bana stated that the Council drew attention of the
young boys and girls of todays Farooq, Muhammad Yasin
world community towards the Malik, Shabbir Ahmed Shah,
digital world are great admirers gross human rights violations
of social media but Kashmiri Mukhtar Ahmed Waza and
perpetrated by Indian troops in others were continuously
youth are deprived of all these occupied Kashmir. detained, curtailing their free
facilities as the Internet is being
He said that the Vienna movement.
suspended in Kashmir day in
Declaration confirmed the Syed Faiz Naqshbandi urged the
and day out by the Indian
universality of the human rights. Council to uphold the principles
government.
He said that the plight of women of the Vienna Declaration and
Altaf Hussain Wani said that the in the conflict situations Programme of Action, and send a
civilian casualty rate in World especially in the territories under fact-finding mission to occupied
War II was five percent, but in occupation including occupied Kashmir to bring forth the real
occupied Kashmir it has reached Kashmir needed the attention of situation on ground in the
up to eighty percent. the Council on priority. He said occupied territory.

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establishments and shops are

A chronological account of closed while traffic remains off
the road.
developments on Kashmir (131) The troops of Indian Central
KMS Research Desk Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
during a search operation in Aali
Kadal area of Srinagar beat up
2013 Hydro Power Project in
the people and ransack the
December 15: Hurriyet leaders, Bandipore. The action is taken to
household goods. The drunken
intellectuals, lawyers and civil prevent people from protesting
CRPF personnel go berserk and
society members at a seminar in against forcible occupation of
severely thrash the people when
Srinagar say that 95 percent their land by the authorities for
the residents of the area object to
people of occupied Kashmir are the said project.
the uncivilised behaviour of the
against the Indian occupation. London-based weekly, The CRPF troops. Several innocent
They castigate pro-India parties Economist, which is famous for its civilians including a four-year-
and leaders for being hand in liberal standpoint, in its latest old girl are brutally tortured by
glove with India and its army to edition outlines a map which the the CRPF personnel. The
facilitate Indian occupation over excludes Jammu and Kashmir residents of Aali Kadal observe
Jammu and Kashmir. The from India. The All Parties complete shutdown against
speakers include Aasiya Hurriyet Conference Chairman, subjecting of locals to torture by
Andrabi, Hassan Zainagiri, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the the Indian forces.
Zahir-ud-Din, Dr Sheikh
Muhammad Iqbal and Arshad
Andrabi.
December 16: The All Parties
Hurriyet Conference while
welcoming the ongoing dialogue
process between Pakistan and
India says that relations between
the two neighbouring countries
can be taken to new heights by
resolving the Kashmir dispute.
The APHC at a meeting of its
Executive Council, chaired by
Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in
Srinagar, stresses the need for
involving the Kashmiri
leadership in the talks to settle
the dispute. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation The veteran Hurriyet leader,
Indian troops severely thrash Front Chief, Muhammad Yasin Syed Ali Gilani, and the All
and assault civilians and Malik, and the forum patronised Parties Hurriyet Conference
policemen at Gujral Chowk in by veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed reacting to the physical torture
Nowshera area of Rajouri district Ali Gilani, appreciate The on a four-year-old baby girl and
after a local police team during Economist for aligning with the other civilians by the personnel
the checking of vehicles asks an truth over Jammu and Kashmir. of Indian armed forces deplore
Indian Army Major to produce December 17: Complete that nothing has changed in
registration certificate of his car. shutdown is observed in Tral occupied Kashmir. They say that
The puppet authorities impose town of occupied Kashmir on the Indian forces are continuing to
Section 144 of Criminal scheduled visit of the puppet violate human rights and harass
Procedure Code around the site Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, people for demanding their
of controversial under- to the area. The strike paralyses inalienable right to self-
construction Kishen Ganga routine life as all business determination.
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December 18: A report
published in an influential
Argentinian daily, Buenos Aires
Herald, says that a team of experts
from Argentina jointly working
with the UN on the issue of
disappeared persons in conflict
areas had visited occupied
Kashmir on a secret mission to
investigate the surfacing of mass
graves in the territory.
December 19: The veteran
Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani,
addressing a seminar in Srinagar
says that Kashmir is not a border
dispute between Pakistan and
India and the Kashmiris will not Hurriyet Conference reveals that established. Media reports say
accept anything short of right to at least 165 civilians received that the bunkers are established
self-determination. He says that injuries due to pellets fired by on the 14-km stretch from Pantha
the Kashmiri people will Indian troops and police Chhowk to Parimpora on the
continue their struggle till they personnel against protesters in bypass road.
are given their inalienable right
the past four years. The data December 20: The pro-India
to self-determination and the
shows that of those injured, 118 National Conference leader, Dr
Kashmir dispute is resolved in
were admitted to Soura Institute Mustafa Kamal, says that the
accordance with their
of Medical Sciences and 47 to the resolutions adopted by the
aspirations. Syed Ali Gilani
SMHS Hospital. The records of United Nations on the Kashmir
deplores that India is using
Soura Institute of Medical dispute several decades ago are
cultural aggression in Jammu
Sciences also show that 14 relevant even today and that's
and Kashmir to strengthen its
persons are visually impaired in why the office of the United
illegal occupation over the
Nations Military Observer
territory. He deplores that Indian one or both eyes.
Group in India and Pakistan
troops have been given a free Indian paramilitary Central (UNMOGIP) is in Kashmir for
hand to kill, beat or humiliate Reserve Police Force sets up at the past over six decades. In a
anybody at their will. least 18 new bunkers on the statement in Srinagar, he says
A report issued by the All Parties Srinagar bypass road in last one that Kashmir dispute is a bone of
week while more are about to be contention between Pakistan and
India and its resolution is
imperative for ensuring
permanent peace in South Asia.
Indian police start installing a
network of Close-Circuit
Television (CCTV) cameras in
Poonch and other areas of the
territory to keep a watch on the
movement of Kashmiri people. A
senior police official in Poonch
district says that 16 CCTV towers
have been erected in Poonch and
other areas and cameras will be
installed within two months.
Compiled by: Showkat Ali
To be continued...
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Beauty Thy Name is
Hangul - the Kashmir stag

The Kashmir stag, also called Threats and conservation 141 km of the Dachigam
Hangul, is a subspecies of Red This deer once numbered from National Park located on
Deer. It is a native of occupied about 5,000 animals in the foothills of Zabarwan range in
Kashmir and Indian state of beginning of the 20th century. Srinagar. Known for its
Himachal Pradesh. It is listed as Unfortunately, they were magnificent antlers with 11 to 16
critically endangered animal by threatened, due to habitat points, hangul was once
the International Union for destruction, overgrazing by distributed widely in the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) domestic livestock, and mountains of Kashmir. During
as population was counted 160 poaching and they dwindled to 1940s, their number was believed
mature individuals in 2008 as low as 150 animals by 1970. to be about 3,000 to 5,000. As per
census. However, the administration of the latest census in 2008, only
Description occupied Kashmir in around 160 animals existed.
This deer has a light rump patch collaboration with the IUCN and The hangul moves between
without including the tail. Its the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) upper and lower Dachigam in
coat colour is brown with a prepared a project for the search of food. It spends winter
speckling to the hair. The inner protection of these animals. It on lower elevations below 2,000
sides of the buttocks metres in valleys and
are grayish white, gorges while in spring
followed by a line on it moves up the
the inner sides of the mountain slopes in
thighs and black on the search of lush green
upper side of the tail. grass that comes up
Each antler consists of after the snow melts.
five tines. The beam is The deer spends the
strongly curved summer months at
inward, while the brow elevations between
2,700 to 3,600 metres
and bez tines are
and again returns to
usually close together
lower elevations at the
and above the burr.
onset of winter.
The male hangul is
The stags use lower
known for its became known as Project Dachigam between September
magnificent antlers that can have Hangul. This brought great and April; the mating season
nine to 16 branches. It is an results and the population starts in mid-September and
extremely shy deer found either increased to over 340 by 1980. ends a month later. By the end of
alone or in small groups. It is Shortly before the expedition April, after the fawning, they
termed critically endangered was mounted, Fiona Guinness move to upper Dachigam to their
by the IUCN Red List and in and Tim Clutton-Brock, both summer grazing grounds.
Schedule 1 of the Wildlife noted deer experts, had visited Currently, these same grazing
Protection Act in India. occupied Kashmir and had grounds are used by the Gujjars,
Distribution and ecology gathered some useful field data, Bakarwals and other shepherds
This deer lives in groups of two which confirmed that hangul who take their livestock to higher
to 18 individuals in dense numbers were at a dangerously altitudes during summer. In the
riverine forests, high valleys, and low level. vast areas of Nageberan and
mountains of the Kashmir Valley Scientifically known as Cervus Marser, thousands of sheep,
and in northern Chamba area of elaphus hanglu, the hangul is the goats, horses and cattle are
Himachal Pradesh. only surviving race of the Red grazed by Gujjars, Bakarwals
In occupied Kashmir, it is found Deer family of Europe in South and Banyaris. This has created
in Dachigam National Park at an Asia. The animal is battling for its potential competitors and
altitude of 3,035 meters above the survival in its last bastion. The persistent sources of disturbance
sea level. stags are now scattered within for hangul during summers.

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Away from the ocean the sailor is employment as a domestic ness. Aziz's companion only
never in his element. He falls prey servant. laughed "ha! ha" by way of taking
to the sharp practices of swin- Untutored in the ways of the the sting out of these words and
dlers and city sharks; he becomes world as he was, he did not think he himself grinned bashfully.
the laughing stock of the towns- it would be easy for him to find The winter was on and Aziza
men. Likewise is the peasant some employment in the city. He gave his best to the employer.
when he is off his land. Clever spent the first night in a mosque Late at night before he went to his
people exploit his simplicity, his wrapped in a blanket, for he bed Aziza had the privilege of
ingenuousness and his capacity knew of no secular habitation being admitted to the bed
to work. He may be made the butt where he could obtain shelter. He chamber of his employer. He was
of many a jest, or the victim of a feasted on a couple of dry loaves asked to massage the legs of
and sincere prayers rose from his Khwaja with his strong muscular
Eh! Oh! heart. The next morning had a

pleasant surprise for him, for he
hands, for he found sleep
evading him until he was
met an acquaintance, a rare subjected to this process. Early in
(A Kashmiri folktale) experience for him. The man the morning, sometimes even
belonged to a village in the before the rooster crew, the
practical joke, and he bears his neighbourhood of his own, and Khwaja would shout "Aziza" and
cross on his ample shoulders they knew each other moderately the latter was expected to be
patiently. well. Aziza considered his night ready with the hubble-bubble,
well-spent when his acquain- refilled with fresh water from the
Owing to the rigor of the climate
tance promised to get him the sort river, with tobacco and live coal
in Kashmir, the peasant has to
of employment he was after. to enable his employer to fumi-
pass through a period of unem-
The acquaintance was as good as gate his interior to his fill. He was
ployment for nearly five months
his word. Aziza was taken to the the favourite of the harem so far
in a year. The well-to-do farmers
house of a man who appeared to as he would be entrusted with all
can afford to enjoy this enforced
be very prosperous. There were tasks requiring personal atten-
rest, consuming cooked rice,
already a couple of servants in the tion. His colleagues the fellow
lentils, turnips and pickled knoll
house and Aziza made the third. servants in the house encouraged
kohl to their hearts' content.
Khwaja Saheb, that is how the him in this belief, for otherwise
Those who are not so well-off
head of the house was desig- such tasks would fall to their own
supplement their slender
nated, called him to his presence lot. This encouragement light-
incomes by working on cottage
and said, "Many people proudly ened their tasks, for Aziza could
looms and turning out woolen
seek my service for the consider- easily be got into the right frame
blankets. Others, standing at the
ation of free board and lodging. of mind so as to volunteer to
lowest rung of the ladder, hire
Will that satisfy you?" undertake what all shirked.
themselves out as domestic
servants in the larger towns, or Aziza was so overawed by the At the end of a period of about
the metropolis of Srinagar. Aziz manner of the Khwaja in his four months Aziza thought of
Bhat commonly known as Aziza costly shawl and turban that he going home. He had not seen his
belonged to this last class. found words missing from his family all the while and soon his
tongue. With difficulty he farm would claim his attention.
Many years ago when the corn
seemed to stammer out: "Noble He made a request to the great
was abundant to the extent of
sir, I am a poor man having left Khwaja, the first of its kind. The
superfluity, Aziza could not
little ones in the village." latter did not seem to relish it, and
stretch his harvest so far as to
Khwaja Saheb was thereupon with a face beaming with a
cover the needs of the family all
pleased to fix half-anass load of mischievous smile he said,
the year round. He was the father
paddy as his monthly wages "Aziza ! I shall certainly pay all
of two children, and in spite of the
besides the privilege of free board your dues. But before I do so, go
labours of the whole family even
and lodging. "But, mind you, if to the market and get me two
the elder child would sometimes
ever one of my servants is not things, wy (eh!) and wai (oh!).
contribute his mitehe ran into
able to complete a task given to Your wages will be paid to you
debt. He was, therefore,
him, he is subjected to a fine," said only when you get the things."
compelled to drift towards the
he, half in jest and half in serious- "Eh and Oh!" ejaculated Aziza in
city in search of temporary

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utter amazement, for he had He returned after

never heard of such things. half-an-hour and
However, he had not the face to gave Aziza a
articulate his suspicions lest it be package covered in
only his ignorance. So he set out. an old newspaper
He roamed long and far, but bound with a dried
never did any shopkeeper seem weed. He got eight
to deal in these substances. Some 'annas' for his pains
laughed outright, others pricked and Aziza was glad
their ears while some came to that he could now
regard him light in the head. keep his head high
"Should I fail in this last task?" in the presence of all
cried he. "All these months I the other servants in
worked to the utter satisfaction of that he had not
everybody and now this last failed in his errand.
straw seems to be too much for The Khwaja was in a
me and the big man will probably very rosy mood
eat up my wages if I fail to satisfy when Aziza
him.... " appeared before
He was walking abstractedly, him. The tube of the
with these thoughts pressing hubble-bubble
upon his mind. He went from passed from one
shop to shop. At the seventh or mouth to another. was intrigued. The outer chord of
the seventeenth shop he met with Seeing Aziza he simulated an dry weed was unfastened and the
a different response to his angry mood. "Where, in the name wrapping removed. Two small
inquiry. of God Almighty, have you been earthenware receptacles, no
And what do you require them all this while," he shouted. "I sent bigger than a medium sized
for, my good man?" asked the you on a little errand and you inkpot, were discovered. Each
shopkeeper, an old man with a seem to have been lazing at your had a wide mouth closed over
rich stubble on his face. grandmother's. How fat you have with a piece of paper pasted with
Aziza told his tale. grown eating my cooked rice gum. Their inquisitiveness was
"And if you fail to place them here!" piqued.
before him you won't get your "Respected sir, I have been The paper covering of one of the
pay, your hard-earned dues, is roaming from street to street in
that it?" vessels was broken through and
search of it and my legs are the Khwaja peered into it. It
"Exactly; that is what the man aching with the fatigue," replied
threatens me with." appeared to be empty. While he
Aziza.
was about to throw it away out
The old man soon found out that "If your legs are so delicate, why
came a bee, which buzzed along
the Khwaja was trading upon the did you take the trouble of
simplicity of the peasant. He was the hand of the Khwaja who
coming over here for employ-
himself something of a sport and could not help crying "eh!" So far
ment? Did you not get the thing?"
he thought of playing the game so good.
"Respected sir, I have got it,"
for the fun of it. submitted Aziza. The paper lid of the other vessel
"I can give it to you provided you was broken through. But before
Khwaja relaxed as he now
hand it over directly to the the Khwaja could say anything,
expected to fill the little assembly
Khwaja himself without showing with theatrical laughter by from its interior darted a wasp
it to any one else. Do you agree?" declaring what Aziza had got as who perched directly on his brow
Aziza agreed. spurious. "What have you got? and involuntarily a painful "oh!"
"Such precious things are not Let me see it," he said in an over- escaped from his lips.
found with every grocer. Even I weaning tone. The assembly realised that Aziza
keep it in a godown. You will Aziza submitted the little had after all not failed to get the
wait here for me." package. The whole gathering rare commodity!

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Indian Criminal leadership If General Rawat had things his achieving their right to self-
Dear editor, the news stories and way he would order to shoot determination, but despite all
videos emanated from occupied every Kashmiri protester he sees, hardships, the Kashmiri people
Kashmir before the imposition of and perhaps even much worse. firmly believe that the sacrifices
ban on the Internet services in the While Narendra Modi-led of their martyrs would not go
Kashmir Valley have depicted an government cannot be expected waste and they would soon get
extremely cruel Indian to say anything, international rid of Indian bondage. I believe
occupation that has exceeded human rights groups are India's brutal tactics will, in no
even the strongest prohibitions speaking up. way, be able to break the resolve
in the laws of warfare. The Executive Director of of the Kashmiri people to carry
It was always assumed that the Human Rights Watch, Kenneth forward their struggle for
brutal actions of Indian troops in Roth, in a statement called securing their inalienable right.
occupied Kashmir - from using a General Rawat's support for Thanks
Kashmiri youth as a human human shields as criminal Saleem Gilani
shield by tying him to the bonnet leadership while the Amnesty Srinagar
of a jeep to the use of pellet guns International has called upon the Kashmiris' genocide
to blind peaceful protesters - Indian government to stop using India has been committing
were the acts of individual pellet guns as they offend global genocide of the Kashmiris for the
soldiers and commanders caught standards of policing. past almost seven decades in a
in the heat of battle. It was Despite this widespread planned manner. It is muzzling
thought that the regular Indian condemnation of its actions, the the peaceful voices of the
Army held itself to the standards Indian Army is being told by its Kashmiri people through its
of decency and proportionality leadership to continue violating military might. Killing of
enshrined in international law international law in occupied innocent people, custodial
that are upheld by all Kashmir. disappearances, extrajudicial
professional armies in the world. Saud Khan murders, rape of women and
However, the recent statements Peshawar destruction of the public
by the Indian Army Chief, Remembering martyrs properties by Indian troops and
General Bipin Rawat, indicate Dear editor, it was on July 13, police personnel is a routine
that these actions are directed 1931 when twenty-two unarmed matter in occupied Kashmir.
from the top as a policy matter. peaceful protesters were gunned Indian forces' personnel are
It was a shameful day for the down by the forces of Maharaja committing the worst kinds of
armed forces of the so-called Hari Singh outside Srinagar human rights violations - in fact
largest democracy of the world Central Jail while they were crimes against humanity - with
when General Rawat not only demanding release of one Abdul impunity due to the unbridled
personally awarded with the Qadeer, who had dared to powers given to them under
commendation card the officer condemn the autocratic ruler of draconian laws like Armed
who ordered the use of a Kashmir - the Dogra Maharaja. Forces Special Powers Act and
Kashmiri youth as a human Therefore, July holds a special Disturbed Areas Act.
shield but also openly advocated place in the hearts and minds of The world community needs to
the use of such actions in the the people of Jammu and realise the fact that peace would
future as well. Kashmir. In this long struggle for continue to elude South Asia
He has publically stated that I emancipation, hundreds of until the Kashmir dispute was
wish these (Kashmiri) people, thousands of Kashmiris have settled as per the aspirations of
instead of throwing stones at us, rendered their lives and others the Kashmiri people. It must take
were firing weapons at us, then I have been forced to become steps towards resolving this
would have been happy, then I captives in their own land. Since dispute to save the Kashmiris
could do what I want, the partition of Indian from Indian brutalities.
displaying his disdain for rules subcontinent in 1947, over Thanks
and regulations and his desire to 100,000 Kashmiris have been Salman Saif
kill innocent Kashmiri youth. martyred in their struggle for Rawalpindi

Atrocities by Indian troops
(January 1989 to June 30, 2017)
Total killings 94,734
Custodial killings 7,090
Civilians arrested 141,729
Structures destroyed/damaged 108,206
Women widowed 22,847
Children orphaned 107,648
Women gangraped/molested 10,987

Including custodial killings
Source: Kashmir Media Service (www.kmsnews.org)

Unfulfilled commitment!
"I can only repeat what I endeavoured to put before you when we met. Our object is to
give freedom to the people of Kashmir to decide their future in a peaceful way so as to
create no upset, as we said in our joint statement...
"Therefore, I had suggested that the plebiscite should be for the State as a whole and
the detailed result of the plebiscite would then be the major factor for the decision to be
taken. The detailed result will give us a fairly clear indication of the wishes of the
people not only in the State as whole but in different areas."
(Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehrus letter to

Prime Minister of Pakistan November 10, 1953)
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23rd Year of Publication Vol: 23 No.

Monthly July 2017

Kashmiris celebrate 13th July - The Burhan Wani A new

(UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, at a press conference in

Literature Printed & Published by

Kashmir freedom movement is legitimate

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Bloodbath by Indian troops in IOK continues

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Awantipora, were subjected to

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Kashmiris celebrate Pakistans victory over India

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journalists video of jubilant

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taraweeh (special payers held through the

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NIA raids on Hurriyet leaders, activists in IOK denounced

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13th July - The Kashmir Martyrs' Day

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1931 is significant for the fact that

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The people of occupied Kashmir

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Importance of Accession to Pakistan Resolution

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away from their commitments.

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occupied Kashmir during anti-

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HR violations in IOK during June 2017

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Burhan Wani A new phase of Kashmir resistance movement

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dreams and ambitions for his life.

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UNHRC session: World attention drawn

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applications and Internet

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personnel who are involved in

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establishments and shops are

Hangul - the Kashmir stag

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Eh! Oh! heart. The next morning had a

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utter amazement, for he had He returned after

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Total killings 94,734

Custodial killings 7,090

Civilians arrested 141,729

Structures destroyed/damaged 108,206