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India-Pakistan
India immorally, illegally annexed Kashmir: Syed Ali Gilani
2019-12-20
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India-Pakistan
Shutdown in occupied Kashmir against India's ban on Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front
2019-03-25
[DAWN] A complete shutdown was observed in India-Indian Kashmiree against the banning of Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF) by the Indian government, the Kashmire Media Service reported on Sunday.

New Delhi had announced a ban on the pro-independence group yesterday, as part of a crackdown on what it calls "separatist organizations".

A statement issued in Delhi said the Indian government had declared JKLF an "unlawful association" as it was trying to curb the activities of "secessionist organizations" posing a threat to the country’s unity and integrity.

The group’s leader, Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
, was tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 recently in a counteroffensive against dissent following a Feb 14 suicide kaboom that killed over 40 Indian soldiers in the disputed region. Over a thousand people have been arrested since then.

The call for a strike was given by the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.

All shops and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar and other cities of the valley.

Indian police and paramilitary forces set up checkpoints at several places, while troops were deployed to foil possible protests in downtown Srinagar.

"The order to ban Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
 and JKLF is nothing but an act of political vengeance and an oppressive tactic to suppress the just movement of people of Jammu and Kashmire. The Indian government’s decision to ban the organizations peacefully striving for the resolution of Kashmire dispute, will not cow down the people," a statement from the JRL said.

The statement added that the Indian government wants to "push people towards the wall for raising the demand to get their rights but it will not make pro-freedom leadership to crumble".

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India-Pakistan
Kashmiri leader distances himself from social media campaign against newspaper
2018-10-02
[DAWN] Veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Gilani has said that he neither has a Twitter account nor has he ever criticised a Pak newspaper for its coverage of the protest movement by Kashmiris for their right to self-determination in India-held Kashmire.

Mr Gilani’s family sources said the recent outburst on social media, quoting Ali Gilani in the debate about the use of phrases like ’militants’, has no basis. It was done through a fake account as Mr Gilani doesn’t use social media.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his shoulder. Ow! he exclaimed, with feeling......
 Iftikhar Gilani, son-in-law of the veteran leader, while referring to the coverage of events in IHK said in a tweet that "Dawn is perhaps the only hope left in South Asia that stands for objectivity, credibility and accountability. [we] need to celebrate the feat and feel proud rather than berate".
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India-Pakistan
Indian Forces gun down two more Kashmiri students
2016-09-08
Srinagar: In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops killed two more students including a teenager in Baramulla districts raising the death toll to 91 in the uprising triggered by the killing of mujahid commander, Burhan Muzaffar Wani by Indian troops on July 8 in the territory.

20 year-old Naseer Ahmad Dar was killed and over 150 people injured after Indian paramilitary personnel fired bullets and pellets on protesters at Seer Hamdan in Islamabad district.

A 35-year old woman, Tasleema was critically injured when she was hit by a teargas shell while a 17-year boy, Musaib Majeed Nagoo succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Srinagar. He was brutally injured by the Indian forces in Wadoora area of Baramulla district on Sunday.

More than 11,000 people have been injured in the Indian forces’ violent actions during the past two-month period.

The people however, have defied the restrictions and staged anti-India and pro-freedom rallies and protests in many areas of the occupied territory.

Meanwhile, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik in their statements have rejected Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks about Jammu and Kashmir and the Hurriyet leadership. They added that India was scared of any meaningful dialogue with Hurriyet leadership and Pakistan, as New Delhi had occupied Jammu and Kashmir illegally and forcibly
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India-Pakistan
Another protester killed by Indian troops firing in held Kashmir
2016-08-26
[DUNYANEWS.TV] Another youth was killed on Wednesday by security forces armed with shotguns in India-held Kashmire which is reeling from weeks of deadly violence, police said.

The youth identified as Amir Gul Mir departed this vale of tears after he was hit by pellets and teargas shells at Prichoo in the district. Around forty other people were maimed in violent actions of Indian police and troops against the protesters. The killing of Amir Gul Mir has raised the toll in the ongoing Intifada to 84 since July 8, when Indian troops killed the top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Wani in Kukernag area of Islamabad district.

Panic gripped Batamaloo area of Srinagar after Indian troops resorted to firing at Batamaloo Bus Stand and beat up the people who went out to buy milk, vegetables and other essential commodities. A big anti-India rally was held at Bugam in Chadoora, which was addressed among others by Sikh liberation leader, Narinder Singh Khalisa.

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik
...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
 while giving a joint call of Azadi March on Friday have appealed people to march massively towards Eidgah in Srinagar.

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India-Pakistan
Clashes break in Srinagar as Kashmiri students chant pro-Pakistan slogans
2015-09-14
[DAWN] Clashes broke out in Indian-held Kashmire on Sunday when Kashmiri students chanted pro-Pakistain and pro-freedom slogans at the venue of a marathon in Srinagar.

Footage showed the university students as chanting "Pakistain! Pakistain!" and pro-freedom slogans at the venue of the 'Big Kashmire Marathon' in Hazratbal area of Srinagar as Indian forces fired tear-gas shells and baton charged the young demonstrators, a news channel reported while quoting Kashmire Media Service (KMS).

The 21-kilometre marathon was scheduled to begin from Naseem Bagh at the Kashmire University and go along the scenic Dal Lake.

Kashmiri youth shouted slogans in favour of freedom and pelted rocks on the forces guarding the venue in the varsity. Police and paramilitary forces fired teargas shells on protesters at Habak crossing near the venue.

Speaking to a news channel (Geo News), senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani said that under the influence of power, the Indian administration has been ignoring reality on the ground in held Kashmire.

"If they had taken notice, then the armed occupation would have ended a long time ago," he told the news channel.

The youth marathon comes after two days of strikes in Indian Held Kashmire on the call of Hurriyat leaders.

The organisers said the aim of the 'Big Kashmire Marathon', in which professional runners from outside India also participated, was to promote healthy lifestyle and raise awareness.
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India-Pakistan
 RSS attempt to attack Gilani foiled
2010-10-22
In New Delhi, the hooligans of orc Hindu organization, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, made a failed attempt to attack veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, at a seminar on Kashmir, today.

According to reports, when the veteran leader reached the venue of the seminar, the RSS people rushed to assault him.

However,
The infamous However...
 their plan failed when a group of enthusiastic Kashmiri youth encircled Syed Ali Gilani and shielded him from attack. The incident was followed by forceful anti-India and pro-liberation slogans, which reverberated the seminar hall continuously for half an hour.

The event was organised by the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners and those who spoke on the occasion included Syed Ali Gilani, Arundhati Roy, Professor Abdur Rehman, Professor Sujatha Rao, Najeeb Bukhari, Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Varvara Rao and Dr N. Venu. The majority of speakers stressed the need for an early resolution of the Kashmir dispute while denouncing the human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
 violations by Indian troops in the occupied territory.

On the other hand, Indian troops pressed gunship choppers into service during a clash with Mujahideen at Maloora Shalteng in the outskirts of Srinagar, today. Two Kashmiri youth were martyred in the shootout, which was underway till last reports came in.

The authorities imposed curfew and strict restrictions in Srinagar and all other districts of the valley in a bid to thwart Lal Chowk March, call for which had been given by the forum patronized by Syed Ali Gilani. Indian police resorted to brute force to quell peaceful protesters in Habba Kadal in Srinagar and near Cement Bridge in Baramulla town.

On the occasion of the death anniversary of Agha Syed Yousuf Al-Moosvi Al-Safvi, APHC leader, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi, addressing a function in Budgam, said that the mission of late religious leader would be continued against all odds.

The Norwegian Parliament has issued a schedule to debate the Kashmir dispute from November 15 taking serious note of the human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
 violations in Indian Kashmir. The reports said that the Norwegian Foreign Minister would release a policy statement on Kashmir after the debate.
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India-Pakistan
 Indian convoy in Srinagar; Mirwaiz, Ali Gilani house-arrested
2010-09-21
[Geo TV] An all-party delegation led by Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram arrived in Srinagar on a two-day visit to assess the ground situation in Kashmir Valley amid continued tension across the Indian held territory.

In Indian Kashmir, the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani and other pro-movement leaders have refused to meet the visiting Indian all-party delegation in protest against the killing of innocent Kashmiri youth.
"We got nuttin' to say to dem guyz!"
The APHC Chairman in press release said that assault on the life and dignity of the Kashmiri people had been relentless and daily life in the homes and streets of the territory had been turned into a nightmare as the entire population was being treated as hostage on its own soil.

He wrote that just a simple act of stepping out of house with a rock in one's hand had been turned into an act fraught with danger, threat and menace with unprecedented prolongation of the brutal curfew, ruthless persecution, topped up by some of the most uncivilized acts by a nation that claimed to abide by democratic practice and the rule of law.
My goodness, there are an awful lot of emotion-laden modifiers there. One wonders if the gentleman took an undergraduate degree in advertising or creative writing.
He maintained that the blockading of food, fuel, life-saving drugs, nocturnal raids and illegal detention of youth, clampdown on the local media and thrashing of media persons in recent days was clearly an attempt at bullying and humiliating the Kashmiris. He deplored that Kashmir had been converted into a concentration camp by India, which was deliberately denying the Kashmiri people the right to life. "More than 100 Kashmiri youngsters senselessly but brutally killed by the Indian forces in just over 100 days," he added.

The APHC Chairman said that India had failed to fulfill the promises made by its rulers of resolving the Kashmir dispute through dialogue adding that New Delhi was responding to Kashmiris' peaceful struggle with bullets and violence. He maintained that it was the high time to develop a peace processor on Kashmir as lingering of the dispute would result into more loss of human lives.

He said that the APHC, with a view to generating a conducive atmosphere for a purposeful dialogue, had put forth suggestions like revocation of draconian laws, release of political prisoners, withdrawal of troops and zero tolerance against human rights but these proposals were not taken seriously by India.

He pointed out that New Delhi offered dialogue only when a major crisis erupted in Jammu and Kashmir and as soon as the situation improved it restored inherent political complacency and negligence. He proposed that Pakistain and India should set up Kashmir committees to develop and enter into a process of engagement with Kashmiri leadership to bring about a just solution of the dispute.

Some members of the 42-member delegation are likely to call on Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his Hyderpora residence here. Though Geelani has officially refused to meet them, he said the delegation members will not be turned away if they decide to call on him at his house as they were guests.

The freedom fighters have given mixed signals to the visit of the delegation. While the moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference headed by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF led by Mohammad Yasin Malik has said that they will hold joint consultations to decide whether to meet the delegation, the hardline faction led by Geelani has decided to boycott it. The delegation hopes that the leaders of various freedom movement groups will finally come for the talks.
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India-Pakistan
APHC leader placed under house arrest
2009-11-06
[Dawn] Authorities in occupied Kashmir have placed senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, under house arrest and heavy contingents of Indian police have been deployed outside his residence.

According to Kashmir Media Service, a spokesman of the forum patronised by senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement issued in Srinagar, the arrest was made to thwart his Kulgam programme where he was scheduled to address a public rally tomorrow (Friday) in the third phase of his agitation against the occupation of Kashmiris' private land by troops.

However, he criticised the authorities saying, 'Our rallies are always 100 per cent peaceful so there is no reason why we were being stopped from conducting such programmes.'

The spokesman said the Kulgam programme would be held as per schedule, adding that the veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader would address the gathering and announce the next programme for Kupwara.

'Right of self-determination is the only logical solution to end the Kashmir dispute and our peaceful struggle will continue,' he added.
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India-Pakistan
Qazi flays arrest of Kashmiri leaders
2008-08-26
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has condemned the arrest of Kashmiri leaders Syed Ali Gilani, Mir Waiz Omer Farooq and Yasin Malik by the Indian army on Monday, taking strong exception to direct fire on the protestors.

In a statement issued on Monday, Qazi said New Delhi was violating all norms of human rights in order to crush the freedom struggle of Kashmiris. He said the march of tens of thousands of Kashmiris towards the Pakistani side of Azad Kashmir was ample proof that the struggling people of Kashmir would not rest until they secured independence from Indian occupation.

Qazi blasted the mum of the UN and the world human right bodies and the government of Pakistan. Kashmiris, he said, were fighting the war of Pakistan. "Leaving them destitute and unattended in their hour of need would be great injustice towards their cherished dream of joining Pakistan," he said. "In this backdrop," he opined, "any effort to normalise relations with India, through trade and exchange of cultural troupes, is highly condemnable."
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Kashmiri leaders under house arrest
2004-10-09
Syed Ali Gilani, the chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, and Shabbir Ahmad Shah, the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party, were put under house arrest in Srinagar on Friday morning to prevent them from continuing their anti-polls campaign.
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India-Pakistan
Gilani arrested in Pattan
2002-06-08
Former All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) chairman, Syed Ali Gilani was arrested in Pattan Friday while he was on his way from Srinagar to Sopore to address Jummah congregation. According to Kashmir Media Service, an APHC worker, Muhammad Maqbool Nerwani, accompanying Syed Ali Gilani was also taken into custody.
Gilani was also jugged in March for agitation and incitement to riot...
Meanwhile, senior APHC leader Maulana Abbas Ansari, addressing Jummah congregation in Srinagar, expressed grave concern over the growing tension in the region and said that peace in the region will be ensured only when Kashmir issue is resolved in accordance with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people.
Aspirations as defined by Hurriyat, mind you. Accept no substitutes...
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