Following the path of Mahatama Gandhi, the Amarnath Sangarsh Samiti has decided to launch Civil Disobedience movement in Jammu. People have been asked to disobey the government authority and refrain from paying taxes.
In another interesting twist, the SAYSS has decided to take out a funeral ceremony of the Union government to break it's slumber and take into accound the suffering of the people of this region. The Samiti alleged that union government was banking on the fact that this movement will tire out with time and alleged that Governor Vohra was dancing to the tune of separatists and fundamentalists.
A Srikrishna Sudarshan Chakra yatra has also been announced by the Samiti to send the message across that movement in Jammu would not succumb to any pressures and threats.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Times of India does it again
The esteemed Times of India is continuing with it's anti-India propaganda and today a front page story screams Tri-colour at 8am, Separatist flags at 4pm, with huge photos of Lal Chowk showing Indian and Pak flags.
As if he is a god, correspondent Avijit Ghosh claims that the symbolism of this spectacle tells the alienation Kashmir valley is complete.
What kind of reporting is this, why was the Pakistan flag allowed to be hoisted in Lal Chowk. Are Indian forces impotent to stop this kind of behavior. Instead of asking searching questions, the reporter is telling India, look how brave the kashmiris are, they are burning Indian flag and hoisiting Pak flag.
Is this a very tough task, any one even a kid can burn a Pakistani or an Indian flag. With Governor NN Vohra, asking the security men to go slow and be kind to the agitators, it is but natural that kashmiris will be allowed to indulge in such hooliganism.
And if they think that doing this will win them freedom, let them have it. But atleast the TOI should restrain its correspondent and tell him not to suffer from Stockholm syndrome.
Dear Ghosh Sahib you are a reporter and not a Public relations officer of the Hurriyat or Kashmiris. Behave like a mature journalist as it appears that this is your first assignment in this kind of surcharged situation.
While TOI gives front page coverage to Pak flags, it doesnt care to get a story on how the National Flag is being hoisted by the people of Jammu. How thousand of people across the region hoisted the national flag in Jammu despite boycotting the state function.
The Hindustan Times has been a little better compared to it's competitor and has atleast published two three stories from Jammu. Also Barkha Dutt on the edit page has written some sensible things and is good to read, when she suggests that people should come forward to find a solution and delves on the failure of UPA government.
Indian express acts as a two way sword, it has allowed the usual anti-india propganda by Muzamil Jaleel, where he says covertly that the Jammu agitation is communal and speaking through governor NN Vohra's mouth-tells that Jammu is bigoted. However, express has published a small Jammu based piece from Neeraj Santoshi and a good picture by Yogesh Manhas, which speaks about the nationalism and patriotism of the people of Jammu.
CNN-IBN does not allow comments if they are little bit unpalatable and wants everything sugar coated and sweet.
As if he is a god, correspondent Avijit Ghosh claims that the symbolism of this spectacle tells the alienation Kashmir valley is complete.
What kind of reporting is this, why was the Pakistan flag allowed to be hoisted in Lal Chowk. Are Indian forces impotent to stop this kind of behavior. Instead of asking searching questions, the reporter is telling India, look how brave the kashmiris are, they are burning Indian flag and hoisiting Pak flag.
Is this a very tough task, any one even a kid can burn a Pakistani or an Indian flag. With Governor NN Vohra, asking the security men to go slow and be kind to the agitators, it is but natural that kashmiris will be allowed to indulge in such hooliganism.
And if they think that doing this will win them freedom, let them have it. But atleast the TOI should restrain its correspondent and tell him not to suffer from Stockholm syndrome.
Dear Ghosh Sahib you are a reporter and not a Public relations officer of the Hurriyat or Kashmiris. Behave like a mature journalist as it appears that this is your first assignment in this kind of surcharged situation.
While TOI gives front page coverage to Pak flags, it doesnt care to get a story on how the National Flag is being hoisted by the people of Jammu. How thousand of people across the region hoisted the national flag in Jammu despite boycotting the state function.
The Hindustan Times has been a little better compared to it's competitor and has atleast published two three stories from Jammu. Also Barkha Dutt on the edit page has written some sensible things and is good to read, when she suggests that people should come forward to find a solution and delves on the failure of UPA government.
Indian express acts as a two way sword, it has allowed the usual anti-india propganda by Muzamil Jaleel, where he says covertly that the Jammu agitation is communal and speaking through governor NN Vohra's mouth-tells that Jammu is bigoted. However, express has published a small Jammu based piece from Neeraj Santoshi and a good picture by Yogesh Manhas, which speaks about the nationalism and patriotism of the people of Jammu.
CNN-IBN does not allow comments if they are little bit unpalatable and wants everything sugar coated and sweet.
Friday, August 15, 2008
PM again sermonises on J&K instead of taking action
On the 61st Independence Day of India, i was watching the TV and listening to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sermonising on the negatives of divisive politics. How India could be divided if such kind of politics is not stopped and how Indian strategic interests will be hurt if the agitation in Jammu and Kashmir continues.
He told the nation as to how the great Muslim community of Kashmir had taken care of Amarnath Yatra for last so many years-may be 150 years. How kind and benevolent have been the Kashmiri muslim and his brand of Kashmiriat and Sufiana Islam, which has always upheld human values.
However, someone needs to tell Dr Manmohan Singh some hard facts. Kashmir was under the rule of Hindu Dogra Rajas, who ruled the state since 1846 and were able and strong administrators. How could muslims stop a Yatra and oppose it under Dogra rulers, who were strong and able and ruled the state with vigour.
Secondly, Kashmir is a tourism based region, where the Hindu yatra was a sources of income for the many families of valley, which is predominantly muslim. No Kashmiri did any favour to Hindu Yatris for free or without charging him money.
The Yatra is a business for kashmiris as well as traders of Jammu also benefitted, so it is no point saying that Kashmiris did not oppose the yatra. During the last 20 years of insurgency, it is amarnath yatra, which has sustained the tourism sector in valley.
Hindu pilgrims from across the country have pumped in millions of rupees for the tourism sector to sustain in valley.
As far as secular fabric of the country is concerned, the PM should ask the Kashmiri pandits forced out of valley as to what they feel. How muslim fundamentalists of Kashmir valley killed their leaders and froze them in fear, so that they leave the valley.
The Prime Minister, his party and his governor in J&K have tried to brand the agitation as communal, with the active help of fake secularists and the national media.
Appealing for peace and sermonizing will not solve any problem. Give Kashmiris their freedom and Jammu its due share, we want nothing else.
He told the nation as to how the great Muslim community of Kashmir had taken care of Amarnath Yatra for last so many years-may be 150 years. How kind and benevolent have been the Kashmiri muslim and his brand of Kashmiriat and Sufiana Islam, which has always upheld human values.
However, someone needs to tell Dr Manmohan Singh some hard facts. Kashmir was under the rule of Hindu Dogra Rajas, who ruled the state since 1846 and were able and strong administrators. How could muslims stop a Yatra and oppose it under Dogra rulers, who were strong and able and ruled the state with vigour.
Secondly, Kashmir is a tourism based region, where the Hindu yatra was a sources of income for the many families of valley, which is predominantly muslim. No Kashmiri did any favour to Hindu Yatris for free or without charging him money.
The Yatra is a business for kashmiris as well as traders of Jammu also benefitted, so it is no point saying that Kashmiris did not oppose the yatra. During the last 20 years of insurgency, it is amarnath yatra, which has sustained the tourism sector in valley.
Hindu pilgrims from across the country have pumped in millions of rupees for the tourism sector to sustain in valley.
As far as secular fabric of the country is concerned, the PM should ask the Kashmiri pandits forced out of valley as to what they feel. How muslim fundamentalists of Kashmir valley killed their leaders and froze them in fear, so that they leave the valley.
The Prime Minister, his party and his governor in J&K have tried to brand the agitation as communal, with the active help of fake secularists and the national media.
Appealing for peace and sermonizing will not solve any problem. Give Kashmiris their freedom and Jammu its due share, we want nothing else.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Times of India or Times of Pakistan
Every morning, I wake up and wait for the Times of India to give me my daily fix of new, views, happening and what not is happening in the country. But, since the agitation in Jammu and Kashmir has started my stomach churrns every morning after i go through this paper.
Times of India seems has turned into Times of Pakistan or Times of Kashmir and like the other separatist papers of Kashmir valley biased reports that smack of pro-kashmiri and anti-national agenda are filling the paper. TOI it seems supports the anti-national and anti-India agenda of the Pakistan supporters in Kashmir valley, while the paper talks of atrocities in Kashmir, it has effectively censored most of the news from Jammu.
While pictures of kashmiri protesters flying Pak flags can be found prominently, no one is talking about the anti-national agenda of the leaders in Kashmir. On Thursday, August 14, Sumit Ganguly, a US based professor has asked the BJP to stop its dogs agitating in Jammu to ensure the temperature comes down in Kashmir Valley.
The tragedy is that despite being nationalists, the people of Jammu are neither required by Kashmir and nor the Indian nation, whose media has tried to brand the agitation of the people as secular. But in Kashmir where lakhs of hindus were thrown out, temples destroyed, amarnath shrine board divested of land, where Indian flag is burnt-The government of India is begging and playing footsie to every demand of the fundamentalist Kashmiris.
But why is the Indian media, so supplicant to the Kashmiri cause, if the Indian government thinks Kashmiris have a genuine cause then they should allow a plebiscite in Kashmir and give due rights to them and let them go. But, why are the people of Jammu being made slaves to the Kashmir cause.
The Times of India on August 15 has filed a story 'No quiet on Kashmir Front' by Mohd Saleem Pandit, and he writes in a clear anti-India style sending the message that India will lose Kashmir, if their demands just and unjust are not met.
His each and every story smells of an impending revolution in Kashmir unless India meets their every demand. But TOI has to answer where are stories from its Jammu based stringer Anil Kotwal. Is he not filing stories, why no story from Jammu is being published on the popular agitation and whether some newsworthy happenings are taking place there.
Avijit Ghosh of ToI looks more to be a reporter of Greater Kashmir and it seems he is suffering from Kidnappers syndrome, where the kidnapped person sympathizes with the Kidnappers. Trying to be more Kashmiri than Kashmiris, he has written that a Blockade in Kashmir has led to stoppage of marriages and how rural kashmiris are helping people with vegetables as if none is available in Kashmir due to economic blockade by jammu people. Has he taken pains to visit lower munda, Jawahar tunnel and Lakhanpur on the national highway, where hundreds of trucks under army supervision are travelling daily. It is shameful that a national paper is supporting a wrong agenda and the publication appears completely biased.
Times of India seems has turned into Times of Pakistan or Times of Kashmir and like the other separatist papers of Kashmir valley biased reports that smack of pro-kashmiri and anti-national agenda are filling the paper. TOI it seems supports the anti-national and anti-India agenda of the Pakistan supporters in Kashmir valley, while the paper talks of atrocities in Kashmir, it has effectively censored most of the news from Jammu.
While pictures of kashmiri protesters flying Pak flags can be found prominently, no one is talking about the anti-national agenda of the leaders in Kashmir. On Thursday, August 14, Sumit Ganguly, a US based professor has asked the BJP to stop its dogs agitating in Jammu to ensure the temperature comes down in Kashmir Valley.
The tragedy is that despite being nationalists, the people of Jammu are neither required by Kashmir and nor the Indian nation, whose media has tried to brand the agitation of the people as secular. But in Kashmir where lakhs of hindus were thrown out, temples destroyed, amarnath shrine board divested of land, where Indian flag is burnt-The government of India is begging and playing footsie to every demand of the fundamentalist Kashmiris.
But why is the Indian media, so supplicant to the Kashmiri cause, if the Indian government thinks Kashmiris have a genuine cause then they should allow a plebiscite in Kashmir and give due rights to them and let them go. But, why are the people of Jammu being made slaves to the Kashmir cause.
The Times of India on August 15 has filed a story 'No quiet on Kashmir Front' by Mohd Saleem Pandit, and he writes in a clear anti-India style sending the message that India will lose Kashmir, if their demands just and unjust are not met.
His each and every story smells of an impending revolution in Kashmir unless India meets their every demand. But TOI has to answer where are stories from its Jammu based stringer Anil Kotwal. Is he not filing stories, why no story from Jammu is being published on the popular agitation and whether some newsworthy happenings are taking place there.
Avijit Ghosh of ToI looks more to be a reporter of Greater Kashmir and it seems he is suffering from Kidnappers syndrome, where the kidnapped person sympathizes with the Kidnappers. Trying to be more Kashmiri than Kashmiris, he has written that a Blockade in Kashmir has led to stoppage of marriages and how rural kashmiris are helping people with vegetables as if none is available in Kashmir due to economic blockade by jammu people. Has he taken pains to visit lower munda, Jawahar tunnel and Lakhanpur on the national highway, where hundreds of trucks under army supervision are travelling daily. It is shameful that a national paper is supporting a wrong agenda and the publication appears completely biased.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Mishandling of Amarnath issue snowballs into crisis
Inapt handling of the Amarnath controversy has led to widespread ramifications. With UPA government not able to decide what to do their is a political stalemate in the country. The nation is confused and wants to know what the Government plans to do to resolve the Amarnath issue except offering sermons and platitudes.
The minority and Kashmiri appeasement policy, practiced by successive governments in Delhi has not yielded any dividend to the country or Congress. Kashmiris still have not and do not want to join the national mainstream and whenever they are asked to be accountable and responsible, they pretend to revolt and shout pro-pakistan slogans.
India scared of this sloganeering and to ensure that its strategic interests are not hurt has been bending backward to accommodate the Kashmir valley.
And all this at the cost of the hapless Ladakhis and people of Jammu, who have been mere pawns in this high stakes game. Every one wants to have the best out of the Kashmir deal, be it valley based politicians, their stooges in Jammu and the great Indian machiavilis.
However, time has come for all to realise that the policy of muslim and Kashmiri appeasement will not be allowed at the cost of Jammu. Indian strategic interests can not come at the cost of sacrificing the social, economic and political rights of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, be it Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Gujjars, Paharis and Budhists.
Jammu is one and the agitation in Jammu is a peoples movement and not a communal and violent agitation as has been witnessed in Kashmir valley and in Kishtwar, where separatist protesters threw handgrenades and fired on minority Hindus.
The minority and Kashmiri appeasement policy, practiced by successive governments in Delhi has not yielded any dividend to the country or Congress. Kashmiris still have not and do not want to join the national mainstream and whenever they are asked to be accountable and responsible, they pretend to revolt and shout pro-pakistan slogans.
India scared of this sloganeering and to ensure that its strategic interests are not hurt has been bending backward to accommodate the Kashmir valley.
And all this at the cost of the hapless Ladakhis and people of Jammu, who have been mere pawns in this high stakes game. Every one wants to have the best out of the Kashmir deal, be it valley based politicians, their stooges in Jammu and the great Indian machiavilis.
However, time has come for all to realise that the policy of muslim and Kashmiri appeasement will not be allowed at the cost of Jammu. Indian strategic interests can not come at the cost of sacrificing the social, economic and political rights of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, be it Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Gujjars, Paharis and Budhists.
Jammu is one and the agitation in Jammu is a peoples movement and not a communal and violent agitation as has been witnessed in Kashmir valley and in Kishtwar, where separatist protesters threw handgrenades and fired on minority Hindus.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Clueless Vohra begs Kashmir separatists to keep peace
Even as both Jammu and Kashmir regions are burning, the state government and the union do not have any solutions to the issues confronting the state, which have turned it into an violent inferno.
Jammu burnt for 40 days and is still burning due to the Amarnath agitation and now Kashmir is burning and Governor NN Vohra has no clue except for appeasing for peace and bending his back to placate the separatists. Vohra perhaps has never lost his kith and kin in violence and neither have most of the politicians in Kashmir valley, who are leading masses to commit harakiri.
15 people were killed in Jammu during Amarnath protests while, the police firing has claimed 13 lives in Kashmir valley. It is pertinent to mention that people of Jammu are demanding that and be transferred to the Amarnath Shrine Board, where as PDP, NC and Hurriyat, the Kashmir based parties are opposing the same.
In a repeat of what he has been doing since he assumed office, Governor, N N Vohra, today in a televised appeal, attributed the prevailing unrest to unfounded suspicions and misconceptions.
Referring to the movement of supplies and transportation of fruit to and from the Valley, the Governor said that, notwithstanding the sporadic attempts to create obstacles in smooth vehicular movement for a day or two, the Srinagar-Lakhanpur National Highway has been fully sanitized and round-the-clock traffic movement ensured. Since the past 12 days, over 9000 trucks carrying fruit, merchandise, medicines petroleum products/LPG cylinders and other essential commodities have been transported from both the sides, which includes 800 truckloads of Kashmiri fruit transported to the plains.
Vohra saw no justification in the Muzzafarabad Chalo Call and said that the fruit mandis all over the country were eagerly awaiting for the Kashmiri fruit. He appreciated the need for uninterrupted transportation of apple during the current fruit season and said that he was himself monitoring the movement of fruit and essential supplies on the National Highway. He also referred to the measures taken to carry supplies in convoys with police escorts, fitted with wireless sets having direct communication with Police Control Rooms, and mobile patrolling under the supervision of the concerned District Superintendents of Police. He said that the Chief Secretary has been asked to monitor the movement of to ensure supplies round-the-clock smooth and uninterrupted flow.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Lets call the Kashmiri bluff-once for all
Well the Kashmiris today marched to Muzaffrabad but were not allowed to reach PoK, the security forces pushed them back. But if people of Kashmir are serious about going to Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir then it is high that Indian government values their choice and let them go.
Lets call the Kashmiri bluff once for all and let them decide if they want to stay in India or pursue the Pakistani dream, which is obviously in tatters for majority of people living their, barring the feudals, the army wallahs and few bureaucrats.
If they want to go, then there should be not stopping them. And if they want to sell apples in Muzzafrabad only and not send them to India, even then it is perfectly fine.
Whether Indians eat Kashmiri apples or not, they will survive but will the Kashmiris survive in the badlands of Pakistan, where even today the migrants from India are treated as third grade citizens.
Pakistan Zindabad is an empty slogan, which the Kashmiris shout to put pressure on Indian leadership, which time and again has proved spineless and tactless.
The agitation in Jammu has shown the true face of Kashmiri leadership, which has vehemently opposed all the demands put forth by the Jammu people. They have tried to brand the agitation communal and sadly media people have also played in their hands.
We are tired of Pakistan Zindabad and its time people in valley decide once for India, Pakista or independence. People of Jammu are tired and sick of Kashmiri appeasement and discrimination against and its time the people get rid of this historical baggage.
Lets call the Kashmiri bluff once for all and let them decide if they want to stay in India or pursue the Pakistani dream, which is obviously in tatters for majority of people living their, barring the feudals, the army wallahs and few bureaucrats.
If they want to go, then there should be not stopping them. And if they want to sell apples in Muzzafrabad only and not send them to India, even then it is perfectly fine.
Whether Indians eat Kashmiri apples or not, they will survive but will the Kashmiris survive in the badlands of Pakistan, where even today the migrants from India are treated as third grade citizens.
Pakistan Zindabad is an empty slogan, which the Kashmiris shout to put pressure on Indian leadership, which time and again has proved spineless and tactless.
The agitation in Jammu has shown the true face of Kashmiri leadership, which has vehemently opposed all the demands put forth by the Jammu people. They have tried to brand the agitation communal and sadly media people have also played in their hands.
We are tired of Pakistan Zindabad and its time people in valley decide once for India, Pakista or independence. People of Jammu are tired and sick of Kashmiri appeasement and discrimination against and its time the people get rid of this historical baggage.
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