Tag: Kashmiris

LONDON - A UK-wide representative convention of Kashmir Centre London Advisory Council was held in Birmingham on Sunday. Delegations from across the country attended the convention which was organized and presided by a prominent Kashmiri leader Chaudhry Sabir Hussain of Walking.
Sheffied based community leader and ex-councillor Ilyas Khan, Director Kashmir Centre UK Nazir Shawl, Iltaf Abbasi, Nisar Qureshi Chartered Accountant Haji Younas , Abdul Ghaffar JP, British Airway

Srinagar - More than 50 innocent Kashmiris are languishing in Tihar Jail who have been implicated by Indian police in false cases.
Ghulam Mohiudeen Dar, a recently released Kashmiri from Tihar Jail, talking to the newsmen in Srinagar, said that the Indian police was victimizing the people of occupied Kashmir.
"I was a dealer of Gulnar tea and used to go to Delhi on business frequently. On one such trip on June 15, 2005, the Delhi Police unlawfully arrested me by implicating

SRINAGAR - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in restive Indian occupied Kashmir on Saturday after a student was shot dead by the army. The new unrest raised memories of massive anti-India protests that rocked the Muslim-majority region last summer in which at least 114 people were killed, most of them shot by security forces.
Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 21, a student, was killed by Indian troops late Friday in Handwara, 80 kms (50 miles) north of the region's summer

DASKA - The Kashmir Day will be observed today (Saturday) in Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur and Sialkot with fervour to express solidarity with the people of Indian-held Kashmir and pay tribute to the Kashmiris who sacrificed their lives for liberation.
The day is an annual event being observed to support the indigenous freedom struggle of the people of the occupied Kashmir against the Indian illegal occupation and atrocities against the innocent people.
A large number of people,

LAHORE - British Deputy High Commissioner Dr Peter Tibber called on Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary General Liaqat Baloch at his residence on Tuesday and discussed the international political situation and regional matters. Tibber's Political Secretary Alistair K Smith accompanied him. During the meeting which lasted for around one and a half hour, the British diplomat was informed about the JI's policy on important issues.
Baloch told the visiting diplomat that the UK, as an

SRINAGAR - Hurriyat Conference leaders in Indian-held Kashmir said on Saturday that reports in leaked US diplomatic cables that Indian armed forces used torture in the disputed state came as no surprise.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided US diplomats in 2005 with evidence of systematic use of torture by Indian security forces in IHK, the cables released by WikiLeaks said.
"There was nothing new. I, too, was subjected to third-degree torture in

LAHORE: Pakistan would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris for their right to autonomy, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Like-Minded Group Punjab Vice President Amer Reza Niall and Central Vice President Ubaid Kamran said on Monday in a press conference. Niall referred to gross human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) and said that former Indian Northern Command GOC Lieutenant General HS Panag was compared with Milosevic of Bosnia for butchering

SRINAGAR: Kashmiri leaders called on Saturday for fresh demonstrations to coincide with the upcomming visit of US President Barack Obama to India. The region has been hit by rolling protests since June 11 when a 17-year-old student was killed by a police teargas shell.
Since then, security forces have been accused of killing a total of 111 people, mostly teenagers and students. Obama arrives in India next Saturday on a three-day trip. Senior Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali