Jyeshtha Krushna Ekadashi
Are we living in any Muslim majority country, where Muslims protest on the issue of land allotment to Hindu Temple? Muslims are also blocking way to Amarnath so that Hindus could not visit the Holy place!
Updates
- We’ll disrupt Hajj: VHP(28 Jun 08)
- Anti-India demonstrations continue in Kashmir (28 Jun 08)
- J&K: Protests continue for 4th day (26 Jun 08)
- Land allotment protests continue in Kashmir Valley (25 Jun 08)
- Srinagar tense after youth dies in police firing (24 Jun 08)
- Violence in J&K over land allotment to Amarnath board (23 Jun 08)
We’ll disrupt Hajj: VHP
Jyeshtha Krushna Ekadashi
Jammu : In a strong warning to Kashmiris, state VHP chief Dr. Rama Kant Dubey today said they will disrupt Hajj if the agitation over forest land transfer was not stopped immediately.
”If fundamental or separatist groups try to disrupt pilgrimage of Amarnath by attacking devotees in the Valley any more, then VHP will not allow Hajjis to fly over Jammu, besides disrupting their presence in other religious places in the country,” he said.”If separatists as well as so-called mainstream leadership does not desist from harming the yatris, the leadership should be ready to face the consequences all across the country.”
In a press conference here on Wednesday, Dubey demanded implementation of president’s rule and free hand to forces in the state to prevent the situation from drifting any further.
VHP chief further demanded that the responsibility of smooth functioning of Amarnath pilgrimage should be handed over to Army.
Source: www.greaterkashmir.com
Anti-India demonstrations continue in Kashmir
June 28, 2008
Jyeshtha Krushna Dashami
Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir): In occupied Kashmir, three people have been killed and hundreds wounded since Monday as Indian troops used brute force to quell protests that erupted over the transfer of Kashmiris’ land to non-Kashmiris.
Tens of thousands of Kashmiris filled the streets of all major cities and towns including Srinagar, Baramulla, Budgam, Bandipore, Ganderbal, Pulwama and Shopian for the fourth consecutive day of protests on Thursday. Dozens of people were injured in fresh clashes between irate mobs and the troops across the held valley, which continue to remain paralysed. All business establishments, educational institutions, courts and banks remained closed and transport was off the road.
Protesters who were shouting anti-India and pro-liberation slogans said that the Indian government was planning to build Hindu settlements in the occupied territory in order to change the demographic balance in the region. "We are protesting against the land transfer, which is one of India’s nefarious designs to consolidate the occupation of Kashmir," said Mohammad Iqbal, who was marching in Srinagar’s main business hub, Lal Chowk.
The demonstrators fought pitched battles with the troops at various places of the territory and the protesters were subjected to indiscriminate firing, heavy lathi charge and excessive tear gas shelling. The troops entered into the houses of the civilian at Nowhatta, Nawakadal, Jamalatta, Lal Bazar, Habba Kadal, Parimpora and Aali Kadal in Srinagar subjecting inmates to severe torture and women to molestation.
People in hundreds, mostly youth took to the streets in Sopore and staged protest demonstrations. Raising anti-India and pro-freedom slogans, the protesters burnt tyres on the roads and demanded the cancellation of the land transfer. They clashed with policemen, who fired tear gas shells and resorted to cane charge to disperse the protestors. Similar demonstrations were held in Baramulla town.
Meanwhile, Kashmiri Pandits in Baramulla too have opposed the transfer of forestland. They have formed a committee with many social and religious organisations of the district to oppose the land transfer and organize protests. A pandit leader, Hadi Nath Ganjoo said that the Amarnath Yatra should be handed over Kashmiri Pandits. “We support the protest of over Muslim brethren against the transfer of forest land”, he added.
Hundreds of students of Degree College took out a protest rally at Handwara against the transfer of land. They were demanding immediate cancellation of the order. Bandipore also witnessed large-scale protest demonstrations against the transfer of land. People in hundreds took to streets at Ajas, Hajin, Khenusa, Arin and Sumbal of the district. The protestors termed the land transfer as illegal and demanded annulment of the land transfer order.
Source: ‘Kashmir Media Service’
J&K: Protests continue for 4th day June 26, 2008
Jyeshtha Krushna Ashtami
Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir): Security forces lobbed teargas shells to disperse stone-pelting mobs in different parts of Srinagar as the overall situation in the Kashmir Valley remained tense in the wake of spontaneous strike crippling normal life for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday.
The demonstrators were protesting against the transfer of forest land to Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board.
Police lobbed teargas shells as groups of youths at Natipora, Rambagh, Nowhatta, Khanyar, Nowpora, Hawal and Gojwara hurled stones at police and paramilitary forces personnel on Thursday morning.
However, there were no reports of casualties, official sources said.
Although no organisation has given a call for strike, shops, business establishments and educational institutions remained closed while public transport was off the road in the city and all major towns in the Valley.
In the absence of transport, attendance in the government and semi-government institutions was thin.
At least three persons have been killed and nearly 100 others, including 35 policemen injured in the police firing and clashes between stone-throwing demonstrators and security forces during the past four days in the Srinagar, they said.
Reports from other places in the Valley said near complete hartal was observed in south and north Kashmir.
The row between coalition partners Congress and People’s Democratic Party over transfer of 39.88 hectares of forest land in Anantnag district to the Amarnath shrine board has snowballed into a major controversy forcing Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad to stop construction activity on the land and call an all-party meeting on the issue.
Source: http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jun/26jk.htm
Land allotment protests continue in Kashmir Valley
June 25, 2008
Jyeshtha Krushna Saptami
Shame on Jammu & Kashmir government who can’t take appropriate action against Muslim protestors! – Editor
Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir): Violent protests against the forest land allotment to the Sree Amarnath Shrine Board spilled over into third day and into more areas, paralysing life across Kashmir Valley.
Meanwhile four pilgrims returning after darshan at the holy Amarnath Cave shrine were wounded in stone-pelting on a bus carrying them near the famous Nishat Garden on the banks of Dal Lake on Wednesday afternoon. (Now Hindus should learn to save themselves from such anti-Hindus! – Editor)
The injured pilgrims from Utter Pradesh were taken to the nearby Hazratbal health centre for treatment.
Angry demonstrators yet again clashed with police and paramilitary forces at several places in Srinagar and adjoining Ganderbal district and in south Kashmir’s Anantnag and Pulwama districts and Baramulla, Bandipore and Pattan in north, where the protests and violence spread on Wednesday.
Srinagar wore a deserted look, as all the commercial establishments remained closed and public and private transport remained off roads.
Chanting anti-SASB and anti-government slogans, mobs were on the road early on Wednesday morning clashing with police and paramilitary forces deployed in strength in view of Tuesday’s largescale violence in Srinagar.
Security forces fired warning shots and resorted to repeated baton charges and teargas to breakup the protestors, who, however, continued to regroup in lanes and bylanes and engaged the police and the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force in clashes.
Hazratbal area on the banks of Dal Lake also witnessed fierce clashes between security forces and protesting mobs.
The police had to fire warning shots and repeated teargas shelling to control the situation.
Nearly 45 vehicles carrying pilgrims to the cave shrine of Amarnath had to be halted for reasons of their security.
Authorities in Srinagar say 20 persons including five policemen were injured in Wednesday’s clashes.
South Kashmir Anantnag town erupted in violence early on Wednesday morning after hundreds of people came out of their homes to join the Valley-wide protests against the land allotment.
Anantnag is located on the south Kashmir Srinagar Pahalgam route to the Amarnath Cave shrine and authorities had to deploy more paramilitary and police reinforcements for the pilgrims.
The annual yatra was suspended for Wednesday in view of the prevailing situation in the Valley.
Police said mobs damaged a local hotel and burnt the effigies of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and former chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed near the main bus stand at Anantnag.
Pulwama district also witnessed violent protests leading to closure of markets and businesses in the town and its adjoining areas.
For the second day, Ganderbal district located on the Baltel route of yatra continued to register protest against the land allotment with hundreds of locals fighting pitched battles with the security forces deployed in heavy numbers to control the situation.
The Baltel route remained closed for the pilgrims for the second day.Protests and violence also rocked other parts of Ganderbal district. Reports of protests against the land allotment order were received from Baramulla, Pattan and Bandipore towns.
Source: www.rediff.com
Srinagar tense after youth dies in police firing
Jun 24, 2008
Jyeshtha Krushna Shashthi
Widespread violence and protests rocked Srinagar on Tuesday, as members of various outfits protested the allotment of forest land to Sree Amarnath Shrine Board by the state government.
One person, who was critically injured during the protests on Monday, succumbed to his injuries in the Soura Medical Institute late in the night.
Feroze Ahmad was injured when the Central Reserve Police Force personnel opened fire on protestors demanding revocation of the allotment order.
Three other victims, who received gunshot wounds, are currently undergoing treatment and one of them is reportedly in a critical condition.
The body of Feroze Ahmad was handed over to his relatives by the police.
Hundreds of mourners, who attended Ahmad’s funeral prayers, shouted slogans against the government and the SASB at Nowhatta area of old city.
Feroze’s death further fuelled the angry protests in Srinagar. Stone pelting mobs stopped traffic and forced closure of businesses and educational institutions throughout the old city area. (Muslims are doing riots on the issue of land allotment to Hindu temple. Such Muslims should leave Hindusthan & should live in any other Muslim country! – Editor)
The mob also shouted slogans against the allotment of land to SASB on the streets of Nowhatta, Gojiwara, Hawal, Lal Bazzar, Soura, Chotta Bazzar, Karan Nagar, Safa Kadal, and Maisuma.
Police and paramilitary forces responded by repeated baton charge and firing tear gas shells to disperse the protestors. Senior separatist leaders, including Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Democratic Freedom Party chief Shabir Shah, were placed under house arrest to prevent their participation in the protests.
The north Kashmir Srinagar Baltel Amarnath Cave Shrine route was closed for traffic in view of protests by hundreds of locals at Beehama in Ganderbal district. Scores of vehicles carrying pilgrims were stranded on the highway.
Local lawyers and prominent citizens carried out a peaceful protest march through Lal Chowk, demanding the revocation of the forest land allotment order.
Source: www.rediff.com
Violence in J&K over land allotment to Amarnath board
Jun 23, 2008
Jyeshtha Krushna Panchami
Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir): Violent protests broke out in Srinagar once again over the controversial allotment of forest land to Sree Amarnath Shrine Board by the state government.
Protesters took to the streets as leaders of both factions of the separatist Hurriyat Conference in Jammu and Kashmir were placed under house arrest. Hurriyat leaders were supposed to be part of the protests.
The protest was called by the hardline Hurriyat group led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and has united both factions of the separatist Hurriyat Conference in Jammu and Kashmir after five years. (Such Anti-Hindu Muslims should leave Hindusthan & should live in any other Muslim country! – Editor) Both the groups had earlier announced separate protests against the allotment of 40 hectares of forest land in north Kashmir’s Baltal area to the Amarnath Shrine Board.
Shabir Shah is one of the highest profile campaigners for Kashmiri independence. As a leader of the Jammu Kashmir People’s League, he has campaigned for self-determination in Kashmir since the late 1960s.
Having spent much of his life in Indian jails, and – in the 1990s – gained international coverage as an Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience, Shah remains an important as well as controversial figure in Kashmiri politics.
He declined to join the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) because it would not adopt his more liberal agenda, and chose instead to start a new political party called the Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP).
Source: Times of India
