| A Muslim women’s group in Indian-held Kashmir burned greeting cards and beat young couples to stop people celebrating Valentine’s Day, witnesses said on Wednesday. The separatist Dukhtaran-e-Millat raided restaurants and showered blows on some couples and then burned cards during a rally in Srinagar’s centre. The group, along with the Forum Against Social Evils, regularly wage morality campaigns against movies and other emblems of Western culture. “We will not allow Western culture to take roots in Kashmir,” chanted several dozen marchers led by Dukhtaran-e-Millat chief Aasiya Andrabi. |