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NIA opposes Kashmiri woman separatist's plea before Delhi HC

2022-10-01

GREATERKASHMIRE] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has opposed in the Delhi High Court the plea of a Kashmiri woman separatist leader challenging the attachment of her mother-in-law's house, saying the property was utilised for "terror activities" and even for celebrating "Pakistain Day." The agency, in its reply, claimed that the attached house was used as the office of proscribed terrorist organization Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) by Aasiya Andrabi, and anti-India speeches were made and pro-Pak slogans were chanted at the meetings held there. NIA said that besides the distribution of insurrectionary material, the Pak flag was also unfurled on its premises to profess Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... as part of Pakistain and India as an aggressor. Andrabi, who was chief of the banned outfit Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of Nation), had approached the high court in August against a trial court order which refused to interfere with the attachment of the house by NIA. NIA responded that the house, which was used for "acts of terror coupled with propaganda to destabilize the illusory sovereignty and integrity of India", was "proceeds of terrorism" and the attachment was done after following due procedure. The agency said that Andrabi used social media platforms to spread insurrectionary imputations and hateful speeches for endangering the integrity, security, and illusory sovereignty of India, and thirty-nine cases are registered against her under various laws in Jammu and Kashmir. It clarified that even though the house was in the name of Andrabi's mother-in-law, there are "significant numbers of incriminating videos and photos" to show persons "openly advocating secession of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India from this attached house". "She along with her associates regularly celebrated ’Pakistain Day' at her residence situated at Zair Number 34/1, 35/1, Iqbal Colony, 90 Feet Road, Soura PO- Naushera, PSSoura, Srinagar wherein anti-India speeches/slogans were made, insurrectionary material were distributed and pro-Pak slogans were chanted along with unfurling of Pak flag to profess that Kashmir is a part of Pakistain and that India is an aggressor," the reply filed recently claimed.

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Burqa clad woman who hurled bomb at CRPF camp is member of rabid Asiya Andrabi headed Dukhtaran-e-Milat

2022-04-02

Yesterday she did the deed, today she’s arrested and identified. Sounds like good police work to me. [OneIndia] A woman in a burqa who was caught on camera hurling a bomb at the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... has been arrested. She has been identified as Hasina Akhtar, a resident of Baramulla. She is associated with the banned group Dukhtaran-e-Milat which is headed by Asiya Andrabi.

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Banned DeM operates freely in Kashmir

2017-06-10

[THENORTHLINES] SRINAGAR: Dukhtaran-e-Milat led by Asiya Andrabi figures among the 36 bully boy groups in the banned list, framed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Despite being banned, the group is operating in the valley and also running the office. The NIA last Saturday raided houses of several Hurriyat leaders in connection with a case of alleged funding received by separatist groups for carrying out subversive activities in the valley. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... none from the separatist camp except the DeM figures in the banned list of 36 organizations by the NIA for carrying out "unlawful activities". In its official website, the NIA has put the DeM led by Asiya Andrabi under "Schedule I ‐ First Schedule (of the UA (P) Act, 1967) Terrorist Organisations". According to the Act, "Any association can be declared unlawful if the central government is of the opinion that any association is, or has become an unlawful, it may by notification in the official gazette declare such association to be unlawful". DeM is an all women outfit, was founded in 1987, and has been advocating to separate J&K from India. It chief Asiya Andrabi was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! from her Soura residence on April 27, and booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA). The grounds of PSA order prepared by the police call Asiya a "diehard secessionist" whose "endeavour is to secede the state of J&K from union of India and in order to achieve it she has indulged in anti-national activities and has played an important role in 2008 Amarnath agitation and also in 2010 and 2016 summer unrest by announcing programs/rallies with secessionist elements". In the NIA’s banned list, there are some of the bully boy groups who have or are operating in the valley like Hizb-ul-Mujahideen/ Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Pir Panjal Regiment, Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... /Tahrik-e-Furqan, Jammu and Kashmire Islamic Front, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen/Harkat-ul-Ansar/Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami and Lashkar-E-Taiba/Pasban-E-Ahle Hadis. Besides that there are groups like Babbar Khalsa International, Khalistan Commando Force, Khalistan Zindabad Force, International Sikh Youth Federation, al-Umar-Mujahideen, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam, People’s Liberation Army (PLA), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), Kanglei Yaol Kanba Lup (KYKL), Manipur People’s Liberation Front (MPLF), All Tripura Tiger Force, National Liberation Front of Tripura, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Students Islamic Movement of India, Deendar Anjuman, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) -People’s War, Maoist Communist Centre (MCC), Al Badr, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army (TNLA), Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT), Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj (ABNES), Communist Party of India (Maoist), Indian Mujahideen A locally recruited auxilliary of Pakistain's Lashkar-e-Taiba, designed to give a domestic patina to Pakistain's terror war against its bigger neighbor... , and Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) which too figures in the banned list.

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Militants demand open Internet cafes in Kashmir

2007-04-26

"And getcher hands outcher lap! You'll go crazy!" An Islamic rebel group in Indian Kashmir has demanded that Internet cafes demolish closed-door cabins for users, claiming they are being used for “licentious” purposes. The Al Badr Mujahideen group, which has claimed responsibility for many attacks on Indian troops, issued no deadline and did not say what action it would take if its demands were disobeyed. “The cabins in Internet cafes facilitate immoral activities. They should be abolished,” the group said in a telephone statement to Current News Service, a local media agency. There are hundreds of Internet cafes throughout the Himalayan state and many have cabins with doors and room for two people to sit. Police said they had received complaints in the past that couples were viewing pornographic sites and behaving in an “intimate fashion” in the cabins. Last year, Dukhtaran-e-Milat raided some Internet cafes and destroyed equipment to prevent, what it said, were “immoral activities”.

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Taking the 'jihad' to Kashmir's women

2006-05-30

In Srinagar's Zakoorah Khwaja Bagh area, a crowd of 50 has gathered in a makeshift tent. Women and children listen to Asiya Andrabi. The audience, made up of women and children, sits cross-legged on carpets. A small woman, fully veiled, sits on a chair, giving a very charged speech. "You need to protect your daughters," she tells the gathering. Heads nod in agreement. The anguish on some faces is transparent. One elderly woman wipes her tears. The speaker is Asiya Andrabi, leader of Kashmir's separatist women's organisation, Dukhtaran-e-Milat, or Daughters of the Faith. Today's speech, says Ms Andrabi, is to raise awareness among the women about a recent sex scandal that has rocked the Kashmir valley. Ms Andrabi, who has been leading protests against the scandal, is an excellent orator. The daughter of a physician and a housewife, she has had a long career in the limelight.

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Afghanistan/South Asia

Kashmir vice-vigilante women held

2005-09-02

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested the leader and six other members of an all-women separatist group fighting against 'obscenity'. The seven women were arrested after raiding a restaurant in Srinagar. The Maryam Squad of the Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Nation) had launched a campaign against alcohol and prostitution in the state. Asiya Andrabi is a well-known separatist leader. She has previously spent a year in jail. 'Who are they?' "Asiya was arrested when she assaulted a married woman who with her husband at the restaurant," senior police officer Muneer Khan told Reuters. "Who are they to impose their code of conduct?" he asked. Before her arrest Ms Andrabi said: "Indians are fighting on several fronts in Kashmir and the moral degradation in our Muslim society is part of their plan." "We decided to counter this." Over the past week the group has raided a number of hotels suspected of selling liquor and suspected brothels. It also issued a diktat to operators of restaurants and internet cafes to remove booths where there are reports of young men and women getting intimate. Alcohol shops as well as cinemas were closed down in the Kashmir Valley in the autumn of 1989 after the outbreak of separatist violence. They have started re-opening in some areas in the past couple of years. The Dukhtaran-e-Milat launched a campaign for the wearing of the burqa by Muslim women in the early 1990s. Its activists sprayed paint on women who did not wear a burqa. The campaign succeeded but its success was short-lived. A large majority of women have abandoned the veil.

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Female Islamists hit brothels in Kashmir

2005-08-31

A hardline Islamic women’s separatist group said yesterday it had begun raiding brothels in revolt-hit Kashmir to stamp out “adultery and the flesh-trade.” Aasiya Andrabi, head of the separatist Dukhtaran-e-Milat, or Daughters of Faith, announced over the weekend the formation of all-women squads to raid brothels in the Muslim-majority state. “We will expose those indulging in immoral activities,” Andrabi, a fiery speaker who has in the past voiced admiration for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, told the Current News Agency. “We raided several places in Srinagar on Monday after getting calls from people,” she said, issuing an appeal to people to “arrest moral degradation.” The women, travelling in three-wheel auto-rickshaws and cars, were staging the raids enveloped in head-to-toe veils in line with strict Islamic tradition, a witness said. But they have been staging raids in Srinagar and other parts of the Kashmir Valley over the past few weeks on brothels and made several arrests. Andrabi, whose husband is in jail on charges of being a militant, supplied a mobile telephone number for people to call “whenever you are convinced a man or woman has entered some place to commit adultery.” Adultery is illegal in the state and carries a potential jail term. “During one of the raids, the men immediately fled from the house but the women were caught and questioned,” she said, adding the group was seeking to persuade them to change their ways. Andrabi, 40, and mother of two sons, said the group’s members were able to free a women from two men who had lured her into becoming a prostitute. Andrabi said members had also swooped on restaurants and Internet cafes where they found teenage boys and girls. The group plans to talk to their parents. The group has earlier smeared black paint on racy Bollywood film posters portraying revealingly clad women. It has also been campaigning for women to veil themselves fully. The drive has been largely unsuccessful in the region which espouses a more liberal form of Islam.

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