Kashmiri man assaulted in Noida gets no help from three helplines

A Kashmiri man assaulted allegedly by the employees of a private company in Noida has said that he got no help after calling three helplines, including one set up the Ministry of Home Affairs for Kashmiris living outside Jammu and Kashmir.

Mudasir Rasool, 28, a trainee with the National Skill Development Corporation’s Udaan project - a central government scheme for J&K youth residing outside the state – said he was beaten up by employees on Monday afternoon, after he had an argument with one of them.






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Fear of prolonged violence grips Kashmir as Centre fails to break the ice with separatists

The Home Minister announced that parliamentary delegation leaders who met the Hurriyat leaders did so in their individual capacities, thereby distancing himself from Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s overtures towards the separatists.

This has further weakened Mehbooba’s position as a leader in Kashmir. Mehbooba had written a letter to the separatists to come forward and engage with the parliamentary delegation. This development will further complicate problems for the ruling alliance of the PDP-BJP led by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.

That the BJP was not on board Mehbooba’s decision to invite Hurriyat for talks was reinforced by Home Minister Rajnath Singh's statement that Mehbooba had approached the separatists in her individual capacity.

For people like Umar Wani, a resident of Rajbagh area of Srinagar, the failure to initiate talks is a big disappointment. “BJP’s Ram Madhav says Kashmir can ask for the moon within the Indian Constitution. Then why doesn’t the BJP leadership offer the same to Hurriyat? If they reject, the blame will come on them,” Wani told Firstpost after Home Minister Singh’s press conference.

“But right now, they are offering nothing. Why should the Hurriyat talk to them? There has to be a starting point for talks. I fear the situation will worsen now,” he added.

Hurriyat leader Abdul Gani Bhat told Firstpost that said that unless India and Pakistan do not engage in a sustained meaningful dialogue on Kashmir, the issue will never be resolved.

“They have to listen to the heartbeats of Kashmir. We got honored guests from Delhi and met them and later saw them off very gracefully. We were not against insaniyat. We had taken a collective decision not to meet them because they had no mandate,” Bhat told Firstpost.

Kashmir is unlikely to see the return of the normalcy any time soon and the cycle of violence is likely to prolong following the failure of the central government to break the ice. More than 70 people have been killed in the past 58 days, triggered by the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. There is no ray of hope that the unrest is turning weak, but with every new killing, injury or arrest, the people are getting angrier.

Dr Peer GN Suhail, director of Centre for Research and Development Policy (CRDP), a policy think tank based in Srinagar, said that there is no harm in talking to anyone but the dialogue has to be result-oriented and not just for photo-op.

“Since the parliament delegation did not have any mandate and there recommendations would not have been binding on the Government of India, talking to the delegation would have yielded results,” Suhail told Firstpost.

Despite all this, the situation in Kashmir will return to normalcy because as the Darbar shifts to Jammu and winter sets in, the chill automatically will calm the temperatures. But this will be temporary, because the seeds of angst buried under snow often sprout in summers in the form of another summer agitation.


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'Geelani Sullied Kashmiriyat': PDP Leader On Hurriyat Snubbing MPs

Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Haseeb Drabu has lashed out at pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, saying he has "violated the tenets of Kashmiri culture" by slamming his doors in the face of visiting lawmakers from Delhi who tried to meet him on Sunday.

Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja and Sharad Yadav of the Janata Dal United, members of an all-party delegation visiting Kashmir, were turned away from the gate of Mr Geelani's Hyderpora residence in Srinagar, while his supporters raised anti-India slogans.

Mr Drabu, a senior leader of the ruling People's Democratic Party and author of its alliance agreement with the BJP, told NDTV that the behaviour of Mr Geelani, 86, was "unacceptable". Kashmiris stand for social graces and Mr Geelani showed none, he said.

"I am not Kashmiri because of Article 370. I am Kashmiri because of my values. Geelani sullied Kashmiriyat," Mr Drabu said in the most stringent attack yet by the PDP on the Hurriyat Conference.

Mr Geelani and other separatists, members of the Hurriyat Conference, have rejected an invitation from Mehbooba Mufti to join talks with the team of Parliamentarians from Delhi, who are on a two-day visit in search of a solution to the crisis in Kashmir, torn by violent protests and clashes that have left over 70 people dead and more than 10,000 injured in the last two months.

It was made clear that Ms Mufti's invitation was sent in her capacity as PDP chief and not Chief Minister of Jammu and KAshmir; there is no offer to the separatists from the Centre or state government.

Mr Yechury and some other opposition leaders had attempted on Sunday to meet the separatists, but were turned away by each. They finally managed to have a conversation with Mirwaiz Umar Farooq at the Chashm-e-Shahi guest house, where he has been detained, and reported that the Hurriyat Conference has taken a decision "not to talk of anything tangible".

"We are hopeful that something positive will happen. Our signal to the people of Kashmir is that we have come here to share their pain. We have gone out of our way to meet the Hurriyat leaders," Mr Yechury said on Sunday evening.

The all-party delegation's visit ends today.


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Mehbooba Mufti differs from Rajnath on Kashmir crisis, says only 5 per cent involved in violence

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday took different stands over the Kashmir crisis. Singh promised a visit to Kashmir by an all-party delegation, an alternative to pellet guns and reaching out to youths of Kashmir assuring them security and safety anywhere in India. While alluding to separatists, Singh said he has no hesitation in talking to anyone under the ambit of humanity, democracy and Kashmiriyat.

In contrast, Mehbooba Mufti said five per cent people in Kashmir were involved in the violence and they will be dealt with under the law. She said these five per cent have made lives of 95 per cent, who want Kashmir's solution through peaceful means, a hell.
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All-party meet: Centre must show it is a caring govt, says Manmohan Singh

Responding to the unrest in Kashmir, former Prime minister and senior Congress leader Manmohan Singh has asked the central government to show that it is caring.

Singh, according to NDTV, was expressing his views on Kashmir during an all-party meet chaired by PM Modi in New Delhi.
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PM Modi breaks silence on Kashmir, says sad to see youngsters carrying stones instead of laptops

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday finally broke his silence over the Kashmir issue. Evoking the Vajpayee model of 'insaniyat', the prime minister appealed for peace in Jammu and Kashmir, at a rally in Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district, reported NDTV.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, earlier on Tuesday, also visited Chandrashekhar Azad's birthplace in the tribal-dominated Alirajpur district of Madhya Pradesh and paid rich tributes to the revolutionary leader.


"Be it the Jammu and Kashmir government under Mehboobaji or the central government, we are finding solution to all problems through development," Modi said at the rally.

He said only a "handful of people who have been misled" were causing trouble in the Kashmir Valley, where protests, since the killing of rebel commander Burhan Wani on 8 July, left over 55 people dead and thousands injured.

"Some people are causing Kashmir a lot of harm," the prime minister said. "Kashmir wants peace. Whatever Kashmiris want for betterment of their livelihood, the Centre will provide."

In his speech, Modi made a direct appeal to the youngsters of Kashmir, saying that those who should be holding laptops, bats, balls in their hands & dreams in their hearts are the ones carrying stones.
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