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NIA puts up posters seeking info about four militants in J&K

SRINAGAR — The National Investigation Agency has put up posters in many parts of Kashmir seeking information about four militants of The Resistance Front (TRF), a front organisation of the proscribed militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials said on Saturday. The four militants, including two Pakistani nationals, are wanted by the NIA in connection with a conspiracy to radicalise, motivate and…

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कश्‍मीर: सेना ने दिखाई पत्थरबाज को राह, 11 महीनों से जेल में था बंद, दिलवाई नौकरी

कश्‍मीर: सेना ने दिखाई पत्थरबाज को राह, 11 महीनों से जेल में था बंद, दिलवाई नौकरी

गोविंद चौहान, श्रीनगर जम्‍मू-कश्‍मीर में सेना ने एक ऐसे पत्‍थरबाज को समाज की मुख्‍यधारा से जोड़ा है जिस पर पथराव करने के 11 मामले दर्ज थे। वह पीएसए के तहत 11 महीनों तक जेल में बंद रहा, पर अब सेना ने उसे नौकरी दिलवाई है। ऐसे ही नौ और युवकों को प्राइवेट कंपनियों में सेना ने नौकरी दिलवाई है।

सेना ने इसके लिए पहले दो-तीन महीने काउंसलिंग की थी। साउथ कश्मीर में इस साल अभी तक 80 युवक आतंकवाद में शामिल…

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Most Controversial Films in Indian Cinema

Indian cinema has no scarcity of films which either courted major controversy or faced complete ban and were never released in the country. Interestingly, these pictures have garnered rave critical reviews and been well-received at international film festivals. From themes that deal with communal violence to homosexuality and politics, these are some of the most controversial films ever made in India.

Garm Hawa (1973)

Garm Hawa is a film based on an unpublished story by eminent Urdu writer Ismat Chughtai. In 1947, India gained independence from the British colonial rule, but it also came at a heavy price—the division of the country to India and Pakistan. Garm Hawa tells the poignant story of a Muslim businessman who is torn between staying back in India, the land of his forefathers, or joining his relatives in Pakistan. It is one of the best films to showcase the plight of the Muslims in the country in a post-partition era. The film was deferred for eight months, fearing communal violence, before it was released.

Aandhi (1975)

This political drama centres around a woman politician whose appearance was uncannily similar to that of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. This led the film to face allegations that it was based on her, especially Gandhi’s relationship with her estranged husband. However, the filmmakers had only borrowed the protagonist’s look from the Prime Minister and the rest had nothing to do with her life. Even after its release, the director was asked to remove scenes which showed the lead actress smoking and drinking during an election campaign and the film was completely banned during the national Emergency later that year.

Kissa Kursi Ka (1977)

Directed by Member of Parliament Amrit Nahata, the film is a satire on the administrative regime of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi. Kissa Kursi Ka was submitted for certification from the Central Board of Film Certification in 1975 but the country was put under Emergency the same year and so the film was banned during that entire period. All movie prints, including the masterprint, were confiscated and destroyed during the time, a move which even landed Sanjay in jail.

Bandit Queen (1994)

The biographical film is based on the life of Phoolan Devi, a feared woman dacoit who led a gang of bandits in northern India. Phoolan belonged to a poor low caste family and was married to a man three times her age. She later took to a life of crime. The film, directed by Bafta-winner Shekhar Kapur, was criticised for its excessive use of abusive language, sexual content and nudity. Despite the backlash, Bandit Queen went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.

Fire (1996)

Fire is the first instalment in the Elements trilogy directed by acclaimed filmmaker Deepa Mehta. It is considered a pathbreaking film for being the first Indian cinema to explore homosexual relationship. But on its release, it faced adverse reactions with vandals burning posters and destroying cinemas where the film was being screened. Following the scandal, Fire was retracted briefly and Mehta even led a candlelit protest in New Delhi to oppose the move.

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)

Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love, directed by Mira Nair, was banned in India with the officials stating the film’s sexual content was too harsh for Indian sensitivities. An ironic suggestion, considering the book Kama Sutra originated in India and is easily available for purchase. Protesters labelled the film as unethical and immoral, but it received widespread critical acclaim. Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love explores the relationship of four lovers in 16th-century India.

Paanch (2003)

Anurag Kashyap is a pioneer filmmaker, but also one of the most controversial in the Indian film industry. He has never shied away from broaching bold topics, which may not sit well with many in the Indian community. His directorial debut Paanch, which revolves around the life of five band members entangled in a kidnapping plot gone wrong, remains unreleased to this day. Inspired by true life incidents, the drugs, violence and sex depicted in the film was considered inappropriate for the Indian audience.

Hava Aaney De (2004)

Hava Aney De is an Indo-French film which works with the sensitive subject of India-Pakistan war. The Censor Board of India demanded over 21 cuts in the film, but the director Partho Sen-Gupta would hear nothing of it. Hava Aney De, therefore, was never released in India. It did win multiple awards at film events held abroad including Best Film at Durban International Film Festival and the BBC Audience Award at the Commonwealth Film Festival.

Water (2005)

Water is the third and final instalment in Deepa Mehta’s trilogy of films. It tackles the subject of ostracism and misogyny through the lives of widows at an ashram in Varanasi. Water was believed to show the country in a bad light, and even before filming started, right-wing activists wrecked film sets and issued suicide threats. Mehta was eventually forced to move the filming location to Sri Lanka. Not only that, but she had to change the entire cast and shoot the film under a pseudo title, River Moon.

The Pink Mirror (2006)

The Pink Mirror is the first mainstream film to have two transsexuals as protagonists. While it was a groundbreaking moment in Indian cinema, the Central Board of Film Certification had other opinions, calling the film “’vulgar and offensive”. The Pink Mirror remains banned in India but it went on to win the Jury Award for Best Feature at the New York LGBT Film Festival and the Best Film of the Festival at Question de Genre in Lille, France. You can catch the film on Netflix now.

Black Friday (2007)

Black Friday, another Anurag Kashyap venture, also faced a temporary ban. It deals with the 1993 Mumbai bombings, and the Bombay High Court decided to suspend the release until the trial was over. This meant that Kashyap had to wait for another three years until Black Friday hit cinemas. The film received praise from both international and national media with the New York Times comparing it to Academy Award nominees Salvador and Munich.

Parzania (2007)

Parzania is inspired by the true story of a 10-year-old boy, Azhar Mody who disappeared after the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre during which 69 people were killed. This is one of the many incidents which led to the Gujarat riots, one of the worst acts of communal violence the country has ever witnessed. Cinema owners in Gujarat were allegedly threatened not to screen Parzania and the film went on to face an unofficial ban in the state.

Inshallah, Football (2010)

Inshallah, Football is a documentary film about a young boy from Kashmir who dreams of becoming a famous footballer. But his ambitions are crushed when he is not allowed to travel abroad because his father is an alleged militant. Critics felt the documentary showcased the reality of violence-afflicted Kashmir, but it failed to get the green light from the authorities for release in India as they felt the film was critical of how the Indian military operated in the politically sensitive region of Kashmir.

India’s Daughter (2015)

India’s Daughter is a documentary by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin and is based on the horrific Delhi gang rape and murder of 23-year-old student Jyoti Singh in 2012. The film includes an interview with Mukesh Singh, one of the four men convicted in the case. India’s Daughter was banned in India because the rapist airs certain views on gender which show the country in a poor light. These incendiary comments were believed to disturb the peace restored after a countrywide protest following news of the rape.

Padmavati (2017)

Padmavati is the latest Hindi film to court serious controversy as some right-wing groups felt that the film misrepresents history and thus tarnishes the reputation of certain communities in Rajasthan. A bounty was also put on the director and the lead actress, who portrays the historical queen Padmavati in the film. The film was scheduled for release in December 2017 but remains shelved so far. Historians, however, have debated the real life existence of the queen, with many saying she was a fictional character in an epic poem.

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Zakir Musa and Kashmir: Beyond Al-Qaeda

On the morning of Might 24, government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir declared the killing of a domestically popular militant commander, Zakir Musa, following a 10-hour gun struggle. Countless numbers of people today attended his funeral, held at his house in Tral region of South Kashmir. Seemingly spontaneous civilian protests also broke out in several elements of the disputed Himalayan region, subsequent which Indian authorities imposed a curfew and minimize off online companies.

Because their 1947 independence from British rule, both of those India and Pakistan have been persistently jostling with each individual other for handle about the Kashmir location. The two neighbors have fought a few wars and administratively divided the erstwhile princely condition. But due to the fact attaining nuclear energy position in the early 1990s, both have prevented an all-out confrontation even though occasional skirmishes and proxy wars between the two continue to be a threat to peace in South Asia. Most not long ago, when a motor vehicle suicide bomber hit an Indian military convoy killing 40 men in February, the sub-continent was pushed to the brink of a potential nuclear war.

For at least 3 times considering that the information of his loss of life was damaged to Kashmiris, a flurry of people arrived to Musa’s home to pay out their tributes to the fallen militant. Having said that, Musa was a controversial determine. The 25-calendar year-old’s declaration of allegiance to al-Qaeda a several many years ago not only exposed new faultlines in Kashmir’s militancy, but also extra a new, unpredictable dimension to the longest stretching conflict in the entire world. His pan-Islamist stance prompted distress amid Indian security agencies, as effectively as among the Pakistan-backed separatist groups functioning in Kashmir, who accused him of being section of an Indian conspiracy to discredit Kashmir’s political struggle.

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Even however Musa had only a handful of fighters fully commited to his cause and most of them have presently been killed, his thoughts nonetheless have many takers.

At Musa’s residence, a substantial accumulating of men and young boys sat under a tent pitched in the garden. Posters of the lifeless militant were hung throughout four sides, and speakers have been placed in the corners. His grieving father, Abdul Rashid Bhat, a government employee, sat going through the crowd. Subsequent to him, a middle-aged guy keeping a microphone tackled the accumulating.

“Youth are staying misguided, and turned on every single other for political gains. If you talk to me currently, children are offering us an choice, we should really not oppose them and label them as agents,” he stated. “We really should welcome them in its place not act as the sole bearers of the movement. No question one can use wisdom and be nuanced but what has been attained by means of that in all these a long time?”

One of the younger boys in the collecting, Sameer, experienced traveled all the way from Srinagar – about 40 km from Tral – together with six other pals to exhibit his regard for Musa. “He was telling them the reality. Why really should we struggle India to be a part of Pakistan? We need to battle them all and set up legislation according to the Sharia. There is no thought of country-condition in Islam,” he reported with self-confidence. “Musa bhai (brother) spoke for Muslims. He courted Indian Muslims to join the jihad due to the fact he understood what they had been dealing with. He also invited Pakistani Muslims to sign up for the real jihad.”

A university dropout from a well-to-do family members, Zakir Rashid Bhat (Musa’s real name) joined the militancy at the age of 19. His spouse and children members allege that he went down that path immediately after remaining harassed by Indian governing administration forces. He joined Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM), the oldest Pakistan-supported militant group running in Kashmir, in 2013. In the subsequent many years, he arrived to be acknowledged by his nom de guerre, Musa. But in all that time he primarily played a supporting part right until Burhan Wani, the encounter of new-age militancy, was killed at the age of 21 in a shootout by Indian governing administration forces in July 2016.

Wani is credited with getting revived militancy in Kashmir utilizing social media after a 10 years of lull, which noticed numerous mass civilian protests crushed by Indian safety forces. His dying was adopted by another yr-extensive spell of mass civilian protests, which achieved the exact destiny. In the meantime, Musa, a single of Wani’s close aides, was elevated as Wani’s clear successor amongst the militant ranks that commanded mass civilian support.

In an unanticipated shift in the early 2017, Musa accused Hurriyat – the political confront of the secessionist movement in Indian-administered Kashmir – of hypocrisy, and threatened to slash off their heads in an audio assertion. He also announced his ambition of establishing Sharia law in each India and Pakistan. “I will not battle for a secular/democratic state,” he declared. “My blood will spill for Islam of Sharia, not only in Kashmir but in India and Pakistan, also.”

The household dwelling in which Musa experienced been cornered by Indian govt forces.

This kind of statements by him drew solid disagreements from the HuM management based mostly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir which led him to splinter and begin a new militant faction, named Ansar-Gazwatul-Hind. This revolt made him the new face of militancy in Kashmir, second only to Wani, and he utilised it to his gain to propagate his views.

Musa did not restrict his criticism to India, but also openly castigated Pakistan for hampering the trigger of jihad. In just one of his final audio releases, Musa explained, “The reality is that the Pakistani military is the slave of America and no unique from them. They befool militants, particularly militants of Pakistan-administered Kashmir only Allah is there to aid us.”

According to senior police officers, Musa’s group did not acquire any logistical or money assistance from al-Qaeda, as the team had no community in the location, and his fallout with Hurriyat leaders also lower off help that Pakistan-backed teams like HuM experienced. This is why they could not survive for prolonged. “No question he was a menace to the security and peace in the condition, but even far more concerning was the perilous new ideology he was preaching,” a senior law enforcement official mentioned. “It was essential to get rid of him. You can deal with men and women or groups but battling ideologies is a tricky and lengthy fight.”

Aamir, a PhD scholar at Kashmir College, states, “People believe Zakir Musa arrived very first and then arrived the ideology, but that is an incorrect and illogical conclusion.” The ideology was by now there, he argues, Zakir Musa just became the encounter of it by speaking it out publicly. In his viewpoint, persons, specially children, in the valley turned to Musa because of to a lack of a far better selection.

Father of Burhan Wani, Mr. Muzzaffar, becoming courted for picture requests at Musa’s home.

“Whoever comes up coming may well not be as well-liked as him but the ideology will be carried ahead. We also have to accept the fact now that Musa has been killed by exact same forces that are noticed as occupiers, (so) his concept and ideas will resonate much more with the men and women,” he extra.

Aamir also thinks that Kashmir’s youth are embracing new pan-Islamic tips due to a sense of rising threat to the Muslim id in India and throughout the globe. “Today, data how Muslims are remaining slaughtered in India and close to the earth is offered freely to absolutely everyone and that performs a massive portion. They see how UN hasn’t accomplished nearly anything to prevent it. And infarct has facilitated it. You might connect with pro-Pakistan fighters (as) rebels and al-Qaeda (as) terrorists, but Indian media do not differentiate, and nor does the Indian army. So why should it subject to widespread Kashmiris?”

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Arms, ammunition seized in J&K’s Poonch

JAMMU: Security forces Sunday recovered a cache of arms and ammunition near the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, a police officer said. This was the third round of recovery of arms and ammunition in the district following the busting of a three-member module of Jammu and Kashmir Gazanvi Force. Poonch Senior Superintendent of Police Ramesh Angral said the fresh recovery has been made during a search and cordon operation from Dabbi village along the LoC in Balakote sector. The recovery include one pistol, three magazines, 35 bullets and five hand grenades, he said. Three militant associates were arrested in Balakote area on December 28 and six hand grenades were recovered from them. “During sustained interrogation of the trio, some more vital clues were developed after which police team along with Army launched an operation in Dabbi village located ahead of LoC fence in Balakote from where the consignment of arms, ammunition and grenades have been recovered this morning,” the SSP said. He said this is the third recovery under this module of militant associates busted in the LoC area. Angral said Jammu and Kashmir Gazanvi Force is the militant outfit which was operating this module from the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). “Jammu and Kashmir Gazanvi Force is trying to carry out militant activities and is attempting to target religious places with an aim to trigger communal tension in Jammu region,” he said. He said in the first recovery of six hand grenades that was made from the arrested three persons, it is evident that grenades were to be lobbed on religious places in Ari and Mendhar town areas of Poonch district. The second recovery was made from Dabi village wherein two pistols, seventy bullets and two grenades were recovered. “The handlers from across (the border) used to drop the consignment in hidden patches right in front of Indian locations and these arrested militant associates then managed to pick it up for further carriage in hinterland,” the SSP said. He said the total recovery made so far include 13 grenades, three pistols, five magazines, 105 rounds, four Pakistan made balloons, one Tehreek ul Majahideen terror group’s flag and 18 posters of J&K Gazanavi Force.

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Burhan Wani – an icon of Kashmir’s freedom fight

Nobody knew in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) that a 22-year-old boy will change the narrative of guerrilla warfare by mounting a challenge to the massive Indian security grid. That, too, without concealing his identity. He appeared with his real name. Showed his presence in combat uniform from dense forests and lush green orchards in the south of IOK and ruled over the hearts of the young generation of Kashmir across the Line of Control (LoC). The boy was born in September 19, 1994 at Dadsara village of Tral area of Pulwama in an upper middle-class family of Muzaffar Wani who named him Burhan. Both his father and mother are teachers at government schools in Tral. Burhan is survived by two young brothers and a sister. Burhan joined the armed struggle in October 16, 2010 to avenge the humiliation when he was severely beaten by Indian troops along with his brother Khalid Muzaffar Wani, who was later killed by the Indian army in custody on April 13, 2015 for meeting Burhan in Tral forest.

Since 2011, Burhan was popular on social media as a commander of the largest indigenous Kashmiri freedom fighters orgnaisaiton — Hizbul Mujahideen. Burhan used the latest technology and the internet to promote Kashmiri cause on social media that sent shock waves across top ranks of the Indian army in New Delhi and gave sleepless nights to the New Delhi’s security establishment for more than six years. Burhan had his own schedule of armed life. He and his colleagues used to sleep in the day and moved from one area to another at night to change their location in south Kashmir. The pictures of their movement in forests and orchards made Burhan and his whole group famous among Kashmir’s young generation. He broke more than 20 Indian army crackdowns with the help of local people who came to rescue him while pelting security forces with stones during siege and search operations that showed the popularity and love of the people for Burhan in IOK.

Burhan was a smart Kashmiri freedom fighter with political guts and was completely following the line of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) to promote Kashmiris struggle. India using chemical agents against Kashmiris: FO On the issue of separate colonies for Kashmiri Pundits, who migrated from IOK to India during the 1990s on the instructions of the then Jammu and Kashmir Governor Jagmohan, Burhan issued video messages on different occasions and discouraged separate residential colonies, saying Kashmiri Pundits were part and parcel of Kashmiri culture and wherever they wanted to live they could live, showing Burhan’s mature political approach on the issue. A soft-spoken Burhan having European features with a dashing look became the real face of Kashmiri freedom fighters since 2011 to 2016 on social media. It was only Burhan who gathered all militants in Kashmir to fight under an umbrella against illegal Indian rule in IOK.

He never used a laptop and cellphone twice for sharing and uploading images, posters and videos during his six years in armed struggle. Burhan was a good cricketer and big fan of Pakistan’s star cricketer Shahid Khan Afridi. To arrest Burhan, the Indian army had announced one million Indian  rupees bounty. It was the martyrdom of Ishfaq Majeed Wani in March in the 1990s that shook the entire IOK and after 27 years Burhan’s martyrdom gave a new life to the freedom struggle. The Indian army along with other security agencies martyred Burhan Wani and his two colleagues — Sartaj Ahmad Sheikh and Pervaiz Ahmad Lashkari — at Bumdoora village in Kokernag area on July 8, 2016. More than one million people gathered at Eidgah Tral and offered 40 funerals of Burhan. He was laid to rest close to the grave of his elder brother Khalid Muzafar Wani.

Following the martyrdom of Burhan, the entire IOK was embroiled in violence beginning July 8, 2016 to February 2017. During the longest shutdown and curfew in the history of IOK to mourn the martyrdom of Burhan, clashes erupted between Indian forces and protesters in which nearly 100 people were killed, 15,000 injured and hundreds were made blind by pellet guns. The martyrdom of Burhan by the Indian army was also highlighted by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who termed him the icon of Kashmir’s young generation for the struggle of right to self-determination at the UN General Assembly session on September 2016.

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Militants in Jammu and Kashmir have been facing a shortage of weapons despite Pakistan’s attempts to provide arms to various terrorist organizations active in the valley, Director General of Police (Jammu and Kashmir) Dilbag Singh said on completion of one year of the abrogation of Article 370 in the former state.

The situation is that if Pakistan manages to recruit militants, it is not able to provide them with weapons, Singh told IANS here.

The DGP said that Pakistan has failed to facilitate weapons for the militants despite adopting various methods like the use of drones and the infiltration of militants, with each carrying more than three firearms. Citing incidents between January to July this year, the officer said the security forces foiled several Pakistani attempts when it tried to sneak weapons into Jammu and Kashmir through drones in various districts bordering the Line of Control (LoC) and via Punjab by seizing caches of arms.

“There is a weapons shortage in Jammu and Kashmir. If new recruits are made by terrorist groups they cannot provide them weapons. The J&K Police recently seized one of the dumps in a narco-terrorism case. We seized around 25-30 weapons that were sent to Kupwara. These weapons were seized along with a big haul of narcotics.” Pakistan tried to send weapons through drones but those were also seized, he said, adding that firearms were smuggled here by Pakistan through Punjab in two or three cases.

In this year’s Nagrota encounter, Singh said, three militants infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir carrying nine weapons. “Pakistan’s tactics to send weapons through this method was also foiled by us. Pakistan’s every attempt to sneak in weapons has been foiled so far.”

The DGP said Pakistan’s attempt to send weapons into Indian territory by using drones is a matter of serious concern. “We will have to work on that aspect”.

Singh said Pakistan tried to send weapons through drones in Samba and Hira Nagar in Kathua district as well as Jammu’s Khour sector. “They also tried to send weapons to Rajouri and Poonch districts but they could not succeed.”

“They (Pakistan-based handlers) are trying to send weapons from different places but they could not succeed in their attempts.” Despite these attempts by Pakistan, our overall plan is to keep our operations neat and clean and we want that the public should not face any kind of problem, the DGP added.

This behavior of the police force in Jammu and Kashmir has “changed the minds of the people here. If it had not happened, you would have seen stones everywhere yesterday (August 5 anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370),” Singh said. Since the July 2016 killing of militant leader Burhan Wani, there have been around 2,600 law and order incidents, he added.

Burhan Wani, 22, was killed in an anti-insurgency operation in Jammu and Kashmir on July 8, 2016, leading to violence in the Valley which claimed many lives and led to an over one-month-long curfew.

Post abrogation, the DGP said, there have been around 1,100 law and order incidents that include 550 incidents of pasting of posters and many linked to fixing of flags. Of the total 1,100 incidents, there were only 196 violent incidents this year and none of them were serious in nature.

“No civilian was killed by bullets post abrogation of Article 370.”

Claiming success in the anti-militancy operations in the last two years, the DGP said it has happened as the security forces have targeted the terrorist support structure — the Jamaat-e-Islami (JK), Hurriyat and their members and the Over Ground Workers (OGWs).

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Shutdown observed in Kashmir to mark Burhan Wani’s 4th Martyrdom Anniversary

Putrajaya, 08 July 2020: Several parts of the Indian-administered Kashmir have observed a shutdown on Wednesday to mark the 4th martyrdom anniversary of militant commander Burhan Muazaffar Wani, who was killed in an encounter in the Bumdoora village of the Kokernag area of the valley on 8 July, 2016.

Said to be ‘The Poster Boy’ of the freedom struggle of Kashmir, Wani is described as a youth leader of resistance against the Indian occupying forces in Kashmir, both by Kashmiri separatists and Pakistan. He was the commander of the militant organization Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, which seeks to free Kashmir from Indian control. 

Businesses and shops have remained closed during the day in Kashmir’s cities and towns, while rallies came out in the Pakistan-administered Azad Kashmir to pay tribute to him. 

The Indian authorities snapped mobile internet services in four districts of South Kashmir, citing it as security measures.

Earlier, a letter allegedly issued by the separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for a protest strike across the Indian-administered Kashmir on 8 and 13 July. The letter was claimed as a ‘fake’ by the J&K police, who are now probing its whereabouts.

Burhan’s death has triggered a massive outrage against the Indian forces in the valley in 2016, which led to deaths of almost 100 people while injuring 15,000 civilians and 40,000 Indian security personnel. 

He remains popular in Kashmir, while the Indian journos and media mostly decry the sentiment around him as being ‘extremist’.  

Both the hashtags #BurhanWaniOurHero and #BurhanWaniNotMyHero is trending on Twitter and other social media platforms, as debate heated up on the day of his demise.  

08 July 2020, 10:25 PM

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FIR lodged after militant posters found in Rajouri

JAMMU — Police have registered a case after posters of a militant group were found pasted in a village in the Thanamandi area Rajouri district, officials said on Sunday. Two posters of the Jammu and Kashmir Ghaznavi Force (JKGF) were found pasted outside shops in the border district’s Azmatabad village on Saturday, they added. The officials said an FIR under the relevant sections of the Unlawful…

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Election’s gun-wielding poster boys  | News Lens Pakistan Lahore: Over the years, known militant group and Hafiz-Saeed led, Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) has been making headlines the world over for their Kashmir jihad and in Pakistan for their anti-India and pro-army demonstrations and social work under their charity – Falah Insaniyat Foundation.

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With the killing of the Hizbul chief #commander , Riyaz Naikoo on Wednesday, operation 'Jackboot' conceived and supervised by #national Security Advisor Ajit Doval has claimed its last high-value target. The operation codenamed 'Jackboot' was conceived by #doval when the south Kashmir districts of #pulwama , Kulgam, Anantnag and Shopian were claimed as 'Liberated areas' by the militants. Homegrown militancy had become a big problem for the security forces. The Burhan group of #kashmiri youth Burhan Wani, the poster boy and chief commander of the Hizbul and his associates Sabzar Bhat, Waseem Malla, Naseer Pandit, Ishfaq Hameed, Tariq Pandit, Afaqullah, Adil Khandey, Saddam Paddar, Wasim Shah and Anees had added new colours to militant activities. . . Stay updated Follow us @dailyknowledgeupdates . . #jammukashmir #indiaarmy🇮🇳🇮🇳 #armylover #fauji #civil #goverment #bsf #crpf (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2j0zLhFZO/?igshid=omkalzvxjmhk

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Shikara Movie Review: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Tries To Do A Balancing Act But It's Lopsided

Shikara Movie Review: A poster of the film (courtesy vidhuvinodchoprafilms)Cast: Aadil Khan, SadiaDirector: Vidhu Vinod ChopraRating: 2.5 stars (out of 5)It goes without saying that it has usually been beyond the ambit of mainstream Bollywood to fully comprehend and encompass the multiple skeins that constitute the old, intractable Kashmir imbroglio. It is, therefore, not surprising at all that Shikara, intended to be an elegy to a lost paradise, falls short of its avowed goal. It tells the Kashmir story from the point of view of those that were forced to leave the Valley when militancy erupted there in the late 1980s. Inevitably, the film is limited in its scope. No matter how hard director Vidhu Vinod Chopra tries to do a balancing act, it cannot be anything but lopsided.Shikara is a love story set against the backdrop of the exodus but it floats largely in shallow waters and stays away from the muddied whirlpools that are inevitable when the unrest in the Valley has continued as long as it has. The film revolves around an idealistic couple who pines for their lost home without letting hate and distrust rob them of their humanity. They cling to the hope of returning some day to the land of their birth, reflecting the yearning of all victims of conflict, not just Kashmiri Pandits.It would be pertinent to question the timing of Shikara. Kashmir, where much of the action is set, has been under lockdown for several months now and the rights of the people of the Valley have been summarily curtailed. It redounds to Chopra's credit that the Hindu-Muslim binary at the heart of this fictionalized account "based on true events" isn't manipulated to overtly tar a whole group of people with the same brush although the film has a couple of defining moments where the them and us divide comes to the fore and determined the flow of the narrative.Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movieIn trying to pull of the tightrope walk, the screenplay takes recourse to sweeping means. We see grainy footage of Benazir Bhutto (on a black and white television set) addressing a rally and exhorting Kashmiris to fight for freedom. In another scene, news of an agreement between George Bush Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev is flashed on TV. One character, in reaction to the second bit of news, scoffs at the idea of world peace. He blames the Americans for pumping arms into Afghanistan to help the Mujahideen fight the Russians and then diverting weapons to militants in Kashmir. Another says that politicians aren't interested in a lasting resolution in Kashmir, all they want is to win elections.That is about it. By pinning the blame for the rise of militancy on external geopolitical forces and on domestic politicians who thrive on fishing in troubled waters, Shikara ignores a local history of exploitation and suppression that extends back into the 19th century. But then Chopra recognizes the limits of a two-hour film and does not claim that he is presenting an exhaustive portrait of Kashmir in the run-up to, and in the aftermath of, the exodus of Pandits from the Valley.He filters the plight of a forcibly displaced community through the sieve of a tragic story that straddles three decades. Shikara, which the director has co-written with journalist Rahul Pandita and screenwriter Abhijat Joshi, glosses over the granular details and uses simple, broad strokes to trace the genesis and manifestations of the Kashmir conflagration.But in tracking the relationship between Shiv Kumar Dhar (Aaadil Khan), a poet and literature professor, and Shanti Sapru (Sadia), who meet by accident when they are roped in as impromptu extras during a Hindi film shoot in Kashmir in the mid-1980s. Love blossoms and, helped along by Shiv's bosom pal Lateef Lone (Faisal Simon), they marry before the end of the decade.Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movieWithin a year, the couple builds a house, which Shanti names Shikara because it was on a boat that the pair had consummated their love after their wedding night. But their stay in the new abode is short-lived. Trouble erupts for the Pandits and they are forced to flee.The second half of Shikara is set in a refugee camp in Jammu, where the pain of displacement takes its toll on the young and old alike. A sense of loss hangs heavy. An ageing Pandit refugee cannot stop himself from constantly pleading with anybody within earshot to be taken back to Kashmir: a snapshot of the psychological toll that the turn of events took on the older refugees.Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movieIn one scene, in 1992, a young boy leads a group in shouting "Mandir wahi banayenge", reflecting the changing political climate in the country and its influence on impressionable minds. Shiv steps in and tells the boy that a true leader does not divide, but unites. There is at the core of Shikara an attempt to exercise caution in the portrayal of an emotive, polarising theme.Yet, the predicament of Shiv and Shanti (which also was the name of the director's mother who was forced to leave her home in the Valley and could never return) is real and informed with sensitivity and lyricism. In the opening scene of the film itself, it is revealed that Shiv has been writing letters to a succession of US presidents for 28 years with a plea for help. This is an intriguing and original, if not entirely convincing, flight of fancy. Shiv's epistles are like his poems, dripping with optimism and an undying spirit of positivity.For a film that deals with people who have become refugees in their own country, Shikara is devoid of anger and bitterness. The two principal characters, unlike many of their ilk in the real world, have not allowed their despondency to push them in seeing the situation in black and white. They are befuddled and shocked all right but they aren't consumed by rage.Shot wonderfully well by Rangarajan Ramabadran, who crafts frames that are unfailingly evocative of both mood and place, Shikara oscillates between aching beauty and deep darkness as a tender, old world love story plays out in a fractured world.The casting lends authenticity to the depiction of the milieu - Sadia as Shanti and Aadil Khan as Shiv are real and completely believable although the manner in which the 30-year ageing process is captured is somewhat dodgy. Faisal Simon as Shiv's best friend and a Ranji Trophy cricketer who is radicalized as Kashmir sinks into fear and gloom, is effective too.Shikara is evasive on many crucial counts, but, judged on purely cinematic parameters, its strengths are noteworthy. Read the full article

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Shikara Movie Review: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Tries To Do A Balancing Act But It's Lopsided

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Shikara Movie Review: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Tries To Do A Balancing Act But It's Lopsided

Shikara Movie Review: A poster of the film (courtesy vidhuvinodchoprafilms)

Cast: Aadil Khan, Sadia

Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Rating: 2.5 stars (out of 5)

It goes without saying that it has usually been beyond the ambit of mainstream Bollywood to fully comprehend and encompass the multiple skeins that constitute the old, intractable Kashmir imbroglio. It is, therefore, not surprising at all that Shikara, intended to be an elegy to a lost paradise, falls short of its avowed goal. It tells the Kashmir story from the point of view of those that were forced to leave the Valley when militancy erupted there in the late 1980s. Inevitably, the film is limited in its scope. No matter how hard director Vidhu Vinod Chopra tries to do a balancing act, it cannot be anything but lopsided.

Shikara is a love story set against the backdrop of the exodus but it floats largely in shallow waters and stays away from the muddied whirlpools that are inevitable when the unrest in the Valley has continued as long as it has. The film revolves around an idealistic couple who pines for their lost home without letting hate and distrust rob them of their humanity. They cling to the hope of returning some day to the land of their birth, reflecting the yearning of all victims of conflict, not just Kashmiri Pandits.

It would be pertinent to question the timing of Shikara. Kashmir, where much of the action is set, has been under lockdown for several months now and the rights of the people of the Valley have been summarily curtailed. It redounds to Chopra’s credit that the Hindu-Muslim binary at the heart of this fictionalized account “based on true events” isn’t manipulated to overtly tar a whole group of people with the same brush although the film has a couple of defining moments where the them and us divide comes to the fore and determined the flow of the narrative.

Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movie

In trying to pull of the tightrope walk, the screenplay takes recourse to sweeping means. We see grainy footage of Benazir Bhutto (on a black and white television set) addressing a rally and exhorting Kashmiris to fight for freedom. In another scene, news of an agreement between George Bush Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev is flashed on TV. One character, in reaction to the second bit of news, scoffs at the idea of world peace. He blames the Americans for pumping arms into Afghanistan to help the Mujahideen fight the Russians and then diverting weapons to militants in Kashmir. Another says that politicians aren’t interested in a lasting resolution in Kashmir, all they want is to win elections.

That is about it. By pinning the blame for the rise of militancy on external geopolitical forces and on domestic politicians who thrive on fishing in troubled waters, Shikara ignores a local history of exploitation and suppression that extends back into the 19th century. But then Chopra recognizes the limits of a two-hour film and does not claim that he is presenting an exhaustive portrait of Kashmir in the run-up to, and in the aftermath of, the exodus of Pandits from the Valley.

He filters the plight of a forcibly displaced community through the sieve of a tragic story that straddles three decades. Shikara, which the director has co-written with journalist Rahul Pandita and screenwriter Abhijat Joshi, glosses over the granular details and uses simple, broad strokes to trace the genesis and manifestations of the Kashmir conflagration.

But in tracking the relationship between Shiv Kumar Dhar (Aaadil Khan), a poet and literature professor, and Shanti Sapru (Sadia), who meet by accident when they are roped in as impromptu extras during a Hindi film shoot in Kashmir in the mid-1980s. Love blossoms and, helped along by Shiv’s bosom pal Lateef Lone (Faisal Simon), they marry before the end of the decade.

Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movie

Within a year, the couple builds a house, which Shanti names Shikara because it was on a boat that the pair had consummated their love after their wedding night. But their stay in the new abode is short-lived. Trouble erupts for the Pandits and they are forced to flee.

The second half of Shikara is set in a refugee camp in Jammu, where the pain of displacement takes its toll on the young and old alike. A sense of loss hangs heavy. An ageing Pandit refugee cannot stop himself from constantly pleading with anybody within earshot to be taken back to Kashmir: a snapshot of the psychological toll that the turn of events took on the older refugees.

Shikara Movie Review: A still from the movie

In one scene, in 1992, a young boy leads a group in shouting “Mandir wahi banayenge“, reflecting the changing political climate in the country and its influence on impressionable minds. Shiv steps in and tells the boy that a true leader does not divide, but unites. There is at the core of Shikara an attempt to exercise caution in the portrayal of an emotive, polarising theme.

Yet, the predicament of Shiv and Shanti (which also was the name of the director’s mother who was forced to leave her home in the Valley and could never return) is real and informed with sensitivity and lyricism. In the opening scene of the film itself, it is revealed that Shiv has been writing letters to a succession of US presidents for 28 years with a plea for help. This is an intriguing and original, if not entirely convincing, flight of fancy. Shiv’s epistles are like his poems, dripping with optimism and an undying spirit of positivity.

For a film that deals with people who have become refugees in their own country, Shikara is devoid of anger and bitterness. The two principal characters, unlike many of their ilk in the real world, have not allowed their despondency to push them in seeing the situation in black and white. They are befuddled and shocked all right but they aren’t consumed by rage.

Shot wonderfully well by Rangarajan Ramabadran, who crafts frames that are unfailingly evocative of both mood and place, Shikara oscillates between aching beauty and deep darkness as a tender, old world love story plays out in a fractured world.

The casting lends authenticity to the depiction of the milieu – Sadia as Shanti and Aadil Khan as Shiv are real and completely believable although the manner in which the 30-year ageing process is captured is somewhat dodgy. Faisal Simon as Shiv’s best friend and a Ranji Trophy cricketer who is radicalized as Kashmir sinks into fear and gloom, is effective too.

Shikara is evasive on many crucial counts, but, judged on purely cinematic parameters, its strengths are noteworthy.

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Government Fights Young Indian Protesters with Internet Lockdown

@ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9hdXRob3IiLCJzZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJiZWZvcmUiOiJieSAiLCJhZnRlciI6IiIsIm5hbWVfZm9ybWF0IjoiZGlzcGxheV9uYW1lIiwibGluayI6Im9uIiwibGlua19kZXN0aW5hdGlvbiI6ImF1dGhvcl93ZWJzaXRlIn19@ Mobile internet has been cut for tens of millions in India during demonstrations against a new citizenship law @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF9leGNlcnB0Iiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJ3b3JkcyI6IiIsInJlYWRfbW9yZV9sYWJlbCI6IiJ9fQ==@ India is the world leader when it comes to cutting off access to the internet, activists say, despite the country's ambition to be a digital superpower. Seven million Kashmiris have been offline since August, and over the past week mobile internet was cut for tens of millions of others during demonstrations against a new citizenship law criticized as anti-Muslim. Mumbai student Suvarna Salve said she and her friends started formulating tweets and eye-catching memes hours after the legislation was passed. "We are using technology to amplify our message by means of tweets, posters, hashtags on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and even Telegram to mobilize people to come in large numbers to register their dissent," Salve told AFP. "We are using social media with common hashtags to keep them on top of India trends," Salve said, adding that she was inspired by the youth-led pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.  Young Indians started formulating tweets and eye-catching memes hours after the legislation was passed As of Thursday evening, the hashtags #IndiaAgainstCAA and #CAAProtest were among Twitter's top trends in India, with more than 300,000 tweets. On photo-sharing app Instagram, posts offering advice on everything from what to take to a demonstration to what to do if you are detained by police have gone viral. Politics has even made it to TikTok - which, like WhatsApp and Facebook, has more users in India than anywhere else and is usually a showcase for amateur Bollywood dance performances. Now the Chinese-made platform is being used to share montages of marching students and videos -- set to music -- of police beating demonstrators. Mohammed Javed, 23, initially heard about the demonstrations on social media. On Thursday afternoon, he made his way to a protest in Mumbai -- his first. "When I saw my friends sharing videos about this issue on TikTok and Instagram, I felt that I needed to be here," he told AFP. Internet Lockdown  There were no restrictions in Mumbai for Thursday's protests, which were peaceful, but elsewhere in areas where police and demonstrators clashed -- and even where they didn't - mobile internet was blocked. In India's northeast, where the current wave of anger began and where six people have died, a 10-day mobile internet blackout only ended on Friday.  On Thursday, people in parts of the national capital Delhi saw their phones go dead, unable to access the internet, make calls or send text messages.  And in Uttar Pradesh -- home to over 200 million people - mobile internet and text messaging services were cut in several areas including in Ghaziabad, which neighbors Delhi. There, like elsewhere, the demonstrations have not always been peaceful, with protesters hurling rocks at security forces and setting fire to buses and police outposts. Young Indians started formulating tweets and eye-catching memes hours after the legislation was passed Chinese Praise  In Kashmir, where tens of thousands of people have died since 1989 in an anti-India uprising, most of them civilians, the government says that the blackout is to stop militants communicating. But the shutdown has had a devastating effect on Kashmiris and the local economy, with the region's paltry dozen "internet kiosks" set up by the government being of little help, residents say.  Social media in India is also awash with misinformation with the government warning that at times of heightened tensions, the sharing of such material could "inflame passions".  This week New Delhi won praise from Chinese state media.  India's actions show "that shutting down the internet in a state of emergency should be standard practice for sovereign countries", an editorial in the People's Daily said. "China's favorable statement effectively puts India in the same category as an authoritarian state," said digital rights activist Nikhil Pahwa. "It makes it clear that democratic protest is being stifled in this country," Pahwa told AFP. Onslaught Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and its supporters meanwhile have been avid users of social media to get their message across, as have their opponents. "There has been an onslaught of tweets attacking our protests, so we are using social media to push back against them," student Salve said. "If opposition IT cells can push forward their propaganda on social media, we are also countering that this time around instead of sitting on the margins." But if an internet shutdown forces her and fellow protesters to log out, she said they would "use pamphlets and send volunteers across the city to create awareness". "There's no stopping public protests now." by Ammu KANNAMPILLY / Vishal MANVE/photos/afp Read the full article

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TERRORISTS SEALED SHOPS, PASTED POSTERS IN MARKETS, MOSQUES AND OTHER AREAS WITH DO AND DON’T DIKTATS :

TERRORISTS SEALED SHOPS, PASTED POSTERS IN MARKETS, MOSQUES AND OTHER AREAS WITH DO AND DON’T DIKTATS :

Incidents of terrorists sealing shops and posters, both handwritten and typed, being pasted in markets, mosques and other areas with do and don’t diktats have become a regular feature in Kashmir Valley, say officials.  There have also been instances of armed militants walking into shops to warn owners to keep shutters down and barging into Jammu and Kashmir Bank branches in south Kashmir to ask…

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'Love, Sex and Dhoka': How terrorist Zakir Musa was killed in Kashmir

SRINAGAR: With Zakir Musa's killing, security forces have recorded an extremely important kill in the battle against Islamic fundamentalism in the Valley, in the main south Kashmir where the jungles are now being used to train local youth. Musa, a byproduct of generation X, is a neophyte who grew up in turbulence and turmoil and experienced the so-called 'azadi' struggle first-hand, but chose the path of 'sharia' instead, brainwashed as he was by Wahabi Salafism indoctrination. The role of a woman in the death of Kashmir's most wanted terrorist commander Zakir Musa, as revealed in an IANS story, has Twitter users crediting women for their positive role in fighting militancy in the Valley. "As With Punjab, it is the Awaam and the women of Kashmir who are turning against the militants. They are the ones at the forefront of reporting the presence of militants...," wrote one Twitter user while providing a link to the IANS story 'Love, sex and dhoka in Kashmir'. https://twitter.com/Leopard212/status/1132633584236343296 Caught between two lovers, one of whom snitched to the intel network which moved with alacrity to pin Musa down and kill him. Apparently poster boy Burhan Wani and Samir Tiger too died because their ex-lovers squealed to police snitches and gave them the exact location of the prey. "The playbook is not very different from Punjab. Kashmir is changing," wrote the user. "Most of these so-called jihadis have similar story. Becoming terrorist, getting many lovers and eventually one of them gives info about them to intel agencies. Wonder they pick arms for so-called jihad or to get laid...," wrote another user This is a major downside and new IG Kashmir S.P. Pani is meticulously using his intel network to nail these terrorists one by one. "Zakir was betrayed by his girlfriend just like Burhan...," wrote another user on twitter, while referring to the dead Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani who had become a poster boy of the Valley's militancy. https://twitter.com/mani_2860/status/1132687893145694211 Musa was killed last week by security forces in Pulwama district when security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Dadsara village of Tral area following information about militants' presence. Critical information about the location of the terrorist, who headed the Al Qaeda affiliate Ansar Gazwatul Hind, was provided by one of the two women who had reportedly fallen in love with him. And contrary to the claim of one his supporters who wrote on Twitter that "we're the nation who love to die in the battlefield, not on bed", the death of several Kashmiri terrorists has now been linked to former lovers who snitched to the intel network.  IANS   Read the full article