Hassan Nasrallah: protests in Srinagar's old city and in other parts of Kashmir against the killing of Hezbollah chief in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon.
Not many people remember that when Tufail Matto was killed on Jun 11, 2010, the cops initially said he died while tripping on a stone during chase. Then, the cops blamed "miscreants" for his death. 36 days later, police FIR said Tufail died of "high velocity projectile firearm".
Srinagar: Yasin Malik is the talk of the town. All major Srinagar markets including Lal Chowk are shut. Traffic plying normally. People, mostly neighbours and relatives, are thronging JKLF chief's house at Maisuma. Tight security in place with forces patrolling sensitive areas.
"If I had not dissolved Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Article 370 wouldn't have been abrogated. It was my decision (to dissolve the assembly)."
Former J&K gov Satya Pal Malik busted his own fax machine LIE in an interview to
@kumkumchadha
.
Full interview:
More than anyone or anything, the political demise of Syed Ali Shah Geelani has vindicated leaders like Maqbool Bhat, who said no to Pakistan at a time when Geelani worshipped it, and ofcourse lended more credibility to the stand of likes of Qayoom Najar and Zakir Musa. 1/n
Two things are pretty clear from official statements on Poonch:
- Neither the Army nor the J&K govt. denied the charges of custodial killings.
- Neither the Army nor the J&K govt. rejected the purported torture videos as fabricated/unverified/propaganda.
The case is open.
Government directs telecom operators to snap Internet services on all networks across
#Kashmir
till further orders. The order is being implemented, according to the telecom operators.
Kashmiri street hawkers must be supported in every way possible. they are our people, our neighbours, relatives and friends. they deserve full respect. Privileged can shoot videos from their cars (unobstructed) and cry in their tweets.
Street hawkers have overrun every nook and cranny of the city, obstructing both pedestrian and vehicular traffic! Their encroachment now extends even to bridges, necessitating immediate intervention by the relevant authorities!
The issue requires a lasting solution, not merely
Born, raised, and forever grateful to call it home. No matter where life takes me, I'll wear my downtown pride with joy. Endless reasons to love where I come from!
#Srinagar
Burhan Wani, who supposedly was part of Hizbul Mujahideen, never mentioned Pakistan or accession with Pakistan, Hurriyat, right to self determination or United Nations in his known public statements. What we did hear from him was that he was striving for Caliphate.
POST-RIYAZ NAIKOO ENCOUNTER: A 30-year-old youth, Jahangir Ahmad of Uthmulla, Pulwama, who was hit by bullet during protests yesterday has died of injuries. He succumbed last night and was buried this morning in presence of family members.
#Kashmir
I don't know why people are in disbelief and shock after watching this video. Is this something new in our part of the world? Or we were living in Disneyland before 2019?
What is this behaviour? How can forces behave like this, aren’t they supposed to be disciplined? Request their higher authorities to look into the matter and punish the culprits.
Video from Nowgam, Bypass (Kashmir)
Kashmiri women earning their bread and butter is not unusual. Publicity is. Go check the honourable women at Amira Kadal or Jamia Masjid premises. But then the abrogated media would want you to believe otherwise because they were born after 2019 to peddle nauseating narratives.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Goa. His grandfather ZAB signed the Shimla Agreement post 1971 Dhaka defeat. In early 90s, his mother BB called militants in Kashmir 'mujahideen' & militancy a 'freedom movement'. In 2008, his father Asif Zardari called Kashmir militancy 'terrorism'.
Authentic Kashmiris are home, sitting with families, enjoying pheran and kanger, and sending love to power department. Those marred by identity crisis are shouting and acting to please online and offline. Poor souls.
After Internet, now mobile phone services also snapped across
#Kashmir
. As of now, only state-run BSNL numbers working. Complete communication blackout in Kashmir. A total clampdown.
PTI report on latest Poonch deaths: "The deceased were among the eight people reportedly picked up by the Army for questioning in connection with Thursday’s attack".
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First major endorsement of Taliban from Pakistan: Mufti Taqi Usmani, who is a top notch Islamic jurisprudent with close ties to PM Imran Khan, has likened Taliban takeover to the Muslim conquest of Makkah in 7th century. Usmani had issued a fatwa of jihad against U.S in 2001.
کابل میں طالبان کے پرامن داخلے، عام معافی اور امن کی ضمانت نے فتح مکہ کی یاد تازہ کی اور دنيا بھر کی ٹیکنالوجی سے لیس طاقتوں کو عملاًُ بتادیا کہ ایمان کی قوت کے آگے کوئی طاقت ٹھہر نہیں سکتی بشرطیکہ وہ ہر قربانی کے لئے تیار ہو کاش ہم اور عالم اسلام اس معجزے سے سبق لے سکیں
Some questions: is it possible to get covid test results in less than 24 hours? Acc. to police, the second militant was killed at 7.14 pm yesterday. Or is it a bid to ensure people deny shelter to militants due to covid suspicion? Are troops/cops part of op now in quarantine?
Yasin Malik sentence: Srinagar markets including Maisuma and Old City shut; Additional Security personnel deployed to maintain order; All eyes on NIA court.
Shahrukh Pathan, whose picture showing him pointing gun at unarmed policeman during
#DelhiViolence
went viral on social media, sent to three more days' police custody: Officials
EU parliamentarians visiting
#Kashmir
will camp in a 5-star hotel overlooking Dal Lake; shall meet J&K Guv & his advisories, unnamed "civil society" members & "elected" representatives; visit Dal Lake & dine with J&K chief secy. All arrangements done by Indian state.
#Kashmir
youth raise slogans in favour of Zakir Musa inside Jamia Masjid, briefly disrupting Mirwaiz's address last night. Earlier, it was 'choice choice Mirwaiz' & now it's 'Musa Musa'. With each passing day, the turf is shrinking for separatist politicians.
Came across a sermon of
@msajjadnomani
in Kashmir about Kashmiris' properties. The only conclusion that I have come to is that their 'azurwun' is permanent, irrespective of caste, colour, creed and religion.
The last time militants in Kashmir killed a Colonel was in 2015 when Abid Khan, one of the associates of Burhan Wani and Zakir Musa, shot dead commanding officer of 42 RR, Col. MN Rai, during a close fight inside his house at Tral.
CORRECTION: J&K police now says that the third militant killed in Srinagar gunfight isn't the missing PhD scholar from Bemina, but another youth Mohsin from Anchar -- the epicenter of last year's protests against stripping of J&K special status -- in Soura area of the city.
Geelani owes an apology to all the living & dead whom he tried to discredit in his lifetime. If he is the well-wisher of Kashmiris, he should tell people that they shouldn't trust Pakistan. As a wiseman once said: 'Nations have no faith, they care only about their interests.'
As expected, newly created militant outfit The Resistance Front now formally owns two militants killed in Handwara. Both have been identified as locals from Handwara and Sopore. The claim has been posted on social media platforms including Twitter along with their pictures.
'Dravidian Nationalism is based on 3 ideologies: dismantling of Brahmin hegemony; revitalization of the "Dravidian Languages" ( includes Tamil) & social reform by abolition of existing caste systems, religious practices & recasting women's equal position in the society.'
Two civilians injured in north Kashmir's Handwara in a firing incident involving men in uniform after an argument broke out between soldiers and locals over the filming of worshippers inside a mosque, according to witnesses. Situation tense, official word awaited.
A directory containing satellite phone numbers of
#Kashmir
's senior civil and police officers emerged on social media messaging apps and what it means is that the telecommunication network in the region may be snapped from anytime now.
Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind issues a statement, "congratulating the whole Ummah in general and people of
#Kashmir
in particular on the glorious martyrdom" of it's ameer Zakir Musa. It says: "the glorious martyrdom of our ameer will bear the fruits".
Shujaat Bukhari assassination: Govt. of India & Jammu &
#Kashmir
Police maintain that militants are behind the killing of senior journalist. But in a statement issued minutes ago, Lashkar-e-Taiba condemns Shujaat's killing & claimed that militants didn't kill the veteran scribe.
SRINAGAR UPDATE: Explosions continue at the encounter site along with heavy firing between militants and govt. forces. Stonepelting reporting from interiors of the neighbourhoods adjacent to the encounter site. Huge presence of forces for both gunfight & law and order situation.
LATEST: Two senior Indian army officers, one police officer and two soldiers have lost contact with their teams currently engaged in counter-insurgency operation in Handwara area of north
#Kashmir
. Sources say attempts to reach out them are underway, but no response as of now.
J&K police chief: 'Overground militant workers are everywhere in Kashmir...with no age or gender barriers...from scholars, doctors, teachers, businessmen, lawyers...'
LEFT: Before May 23, 2019.
RIGHT: After May 23, 2019.
WORDS: Spiritual sons of Abdullah Bin Ubai, the Godfather of hypocrites since the time of Prophet of Islam.
LOCATION: Kashmir.
Factually speaking, the 2024 Kashmir polls are increasingly looking like 1977 elections when it was NC Vs all. Interestingly, just like 1977, Jamaat-e-Islami & BJP have once again found a common ground in Kashmir. With new proxies emerging every hour, it is a perfect '77 déjà vu.
Maqbool Bhat was perhaps the first Kashmiri leader who had understood what Pakistan is upto in Kashmir. When Maqbool was resisting both India and Pakistan, Mr. Geelani was serving legislator. For Geelani, Maqbool Bhat was a dacoit and ofcourse a double agent.
Will be interesting to see whether bureaucrats and police officers of Jammu and Kashmir will side with "Pakistan crescent" or wait till Monday to mark eid as per "Indian crescent". While Kashmiris have gone to sleep happily, the babus & officers would be in real dilemma.
And hasb-e-riwayat, 'Grand Mufti' of Kashmir was quick to endorse it. So were various religious organizations & clerics from Khadanyaar to Khannabal and beyond.They couldn't "sight" the Eid Cresent before Pakistan Ruet-i-Hilal people did.That's called "traditional" moon sighting.
Even though Geelani swore on Indian constitution for nearly 15 years, his love for Pakistan wasn't a secret. After militancy erupted in Kashmir, Geelani utilised all his energy to discredit pro-independence JKLF led by Ashfaq Majeed Wani. He branded them hooligans & secular.
The big news is that a DySP rank officer of J&K police, Devendra Singh has been arrested along with Naveed when they along with an OGW were enroute to Delhi in an i20 car. Sources within police say the officer held was posted in anti-hijacking wing of police at Srinagar airport.
Big blow to Hizbul Mujahideen as police arrest its top Commander Syed Naveed alias Naveed Babu from Kulgam district of south
#Kashmir
. Naveed was handling Hizbul Mujahideen operations in south and central Kashmir since a last few months. Before joining militancy, he was a cop.
From day 1, the "encounter" in Amshipora village of Shopian district was suspicious. The army had launched the operation on its own; the cops joined the troops later; the police didn't attend the army presser; no arms "recovery" was displayed; no family claimed the slain.
UPDATE: Witnesses present at Beighpora in Awantipora say that there has been a pause in the exchange of fire since nearly an hour now. The firing shots were heard only twice since morning. As of this moment, no firing from any side.
#Kashmir
A confident Jammu and Kashmir police says they have trapped a top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen during an ongoing counter-insurgency operation in Beighpora village of Awantipora in south
#Kashmir
. The village is home to Hizb op commander Riyaz Naikoo. More details awaited.
There is nothing called alvida nimaz, you idiots. The last Friday of Ramadhan is called Jumat-ul-Vida and Friday prayers can be offered only in congregation, not individually. Now when we are under lockdown, people offer Salat-ul-Zuhr and not Salat-ul-Juma'ah in their houses.
Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind names Abdul Hameed Lelhari alias Haroon Abbas as the successor of Zakir Musa, according to an audio statement of it's spokesperson Abu Ubaida; Ghazi Ibrahim Khalid has been named deputy of the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.
#Kashmir
Interesting how Indian state, which otherwise has banned almost all gatherings in Kashmir, allowed hundreds of people sympathetic to Iran to gather in Srinagar & Budgam to mourn Suleimani who oversaw the killings of hundreds of thousands of ordinary Muslims in Iraq and Syria.
Even though Bilawal's India visit was never about Kashmir, the fact of the matter is that you cannot take away Kashmir when it comes to India and Pakistan and that is is evident from the pressers of India and Pakistan foreign ministers.
Big development: al Qaida in Indian subcontinent (AQIS) central spokesman Usama Mehmood releases an over 13 mins audio statement eulogising Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind chief Zakir Musa. Mehmood hails him as "righteous leader" & appeals
#Kashmir
militants to embrace Musa's cause.
Islamist militant Mugees Mir, who was killed this evening, is the third militant to die from Srinagar city in 2017. He was among those
#Kashmir
militants who had abandoned Pakistan & and it's lackeys. His body lies wrapped in black flag. What will 'tribute' brigade do now?
In addition to stringent charges against three Kashmiri journalists, two others - Asif Sultan and Qazi Shibli -- remain jailed since months. Sadly, a very few people remember them.
The emergence of Zakir Musa drew the battle lines in Kashmir. Once again, Geelani as a loyal soldier of Pakistan, launched a massive character assassination campaign against Musa and his men. Geelani had no answers for the questions posed by Musa over the role of Pakistan in K.
Multiple cordon and search operations launched by government forces in Handwara police district of north
#Kashmir
after two major militant strikes that has left 8 security men including two army officers dead. Mobile Internet services also suspended.
Squeezed by Pakistan militarily and financially since past three years, Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin now pins hopes on Taliban, says, "I pray to Allah that He strengthens Islamic Emirate so that they aide Kashmiris against India," in a congratulatory message online.
Shootout in Malla Bagh area of Srinagar between militants & govt. troops. One paramilitary soldier and one unidentified person, who forces believe could be a militant, are killed. All casualities occured in the initial exchange of gunfire. Calm since nearly an hour. Searches on.
Some plain facts for
@trtworld
1. Zakir Musa was never linked to ISIS, but al-Qaeda. As is AQ stand, he very clearly termed Kashmir Jihad a fight for shariah & called out Pakistan state incl. its army - something Naikoo didn't like & denounced publicly.
A confident Jammu and Kashmir police says they have trapped a top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen during an ongoing counter-insurgency operation in Beighpora village of Awantipora in south
#Kashmir
. The village is home to Hizb op commander Riyaz Naikoo. More details awaited.
How Pakistan crushed pro-independence militants of Kashmir with the help of Hizbul Mujahideen is no secret. And, how Mr. Geelani provided ideological support for the obliteration of JKLF and the like-minded forces is known to all. Just for the sake of Pakistan.
The letter written by Geelani clearly reveals that he was being sidelined by Pakistan chapter of Hurriyat Conference and that they were making key decisions since past two years. Geelani is also unhappy with some of his colleagues who were free but maintained distance from him.
Both India & Pakistan are set to prevent Kashmiris from breaching so-called Line of Control as thousands in Pakistan-held
#Kashmir
are gearing up to cross the ceasefire line that divides a mother from her son, a father from his daughter & a brother from his sister.
Today, Mr. Geelani complains of irregularities, nepotism, bypassing of Kashmiri leadership and his colleagues' lack of interest in the movement. But he would be well aware of the fact that nothing happens without the involvement of Pakistani state.
Did Burhan Wani quit Hizbul Mujahideen days before his killing on July 8, 2016 to fight independently? In a purported audio clip released by AGH's official media, he allegedly says he was no more with the Hizb & that they (HM leaders) should look for his replacement in
#Kashmir
.
Amid so much of drama over surrender of Majid Khan, Lashkar-e-Toiba issues a statement minutes ago, saying they permitted the footballer to leave their ranks on his mother's request. Here is full statement.
#Kashmir
When a militant dies, thousands are in line to claim him. But when a unionist is killed, forget people, his own masters refuse to accept him. Such is such the worth of 'mainstream' in
#Kashmir
.
Kashmir lawyer, activist and TV panelist, Babar Qadri, shot dead by gunmen in Srinagar. He shot to prominence after appearing as a counsel for minor kids charged for stonepelting in 2011. He was a regular on TV debates and his social media posts often generated controversies.