#3 Hurriyat means liberation. There are several players seeking hurriyat here. APHC is what the sympathetic media likes to call the Tehreek-e-Hurriyat; an umbrella association of all separatists working to own free Kashmir. Or trying.
These are [from left to right] Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik; Pakistain sponsored separatists and one an ex-terrorist [Malik]. I have 'spoken to' the two on the right at length. Malik still has the marks to show for it ☻. Hustlers and frauds who lost their funding and their power.
They breathe loudly, and they're arrested these days. Most of them were just released from prison or house arrest. Their assets and properties are forfeit. The money's not coming in from Pak, Qatar these days. Just a little trickle from the UK and from within India, to live on. Their cause is history now, so they find silly excuses to act as 'leaders of the people' when they can.
It was a routine deployment. Troop strength is always high in border areas, the companies were just borrowed for election security and were sent back. |