An Investment of $80 for Kashmiri Shia Women in their difficult time

"Generosity is to help a deserving without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke." Saying- 53 from “Nahjul Balagah” by Imam Ali (a.s.)
An Investment of $80 for the Kashmiri Shia Women in this difficult time when Kashmir is Burning!!!
Donate $80 each to give a Sewing Machine with accessories to the Poor in Kashmir. Your smallest contribution can be a capital for years the Poor family. Suffering Kashmiri Shia and Mo'meneens Conscience!!!

Allah Reminds us Again and Again in this Holy Month of Ramadan To Care for Humanity: The passed one; The Destitutes; The Hungary Ones; The Disables; Those who are in Debts; This who are in Problem; Those want to go back to their Home Country; The Situation of Muslims were ever they are and The Sick Ones.

Kashmiri Shia are Victims of the Victim. They are between the aggression of Indian Army, Freedom Dilemma and Wahhabi Terrorism
Shia-Mo'menins Conscience
Where is the Conscience of Shia - Mo'menin!!!. What will be your reply when Prophet Mohammad s.a.w. will ask you about your duty of the oppressed Shia of Jammu & Kashmir; How will you face Sayyedia Fatima when she will ask the Mourner of my Hussain were suffering and no Attention was given and How one can pray for the appearance of Imam Mahdi when Suffering Shia of Imam Ali a.s. were ignored!

Nobody Will be able to say that we did not know about Sufferings of Shia of Jammu and Kashmir. Nobody will be able to say that No Chance was given where to contact and where to send the help!!!

Immediate Relief Fund is required for Suffering Kashmiris

Donate on Humanitarian Basis no Ejaza of Marja'.
Empowering Women in Srinagar and Kargil Ladhak Projects of Kashmir
"The whole Shia community in Kashmir is backward in every sphere of life. The women are the worst hit in our society. They are being ignored altogether. The education was not imparted to the females till the recent past. The girls outside the Srinagar city are still deprived from education. In nut shell, the woman in our society is living a
miserable life".  (Dr.Kawthar Aga)

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"Give a Net and Not a Fish to the Poor" Donate $80 to give a Sewing Machine with accessories to the Poor Family who are suffering lack of job. This smallest investment ever will be able to feed the whole family for months.

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Mo'meneen living Abroad - Help Charity Organization that is helping to feed oppressed people of Kashmir!!!

Curfew, Band, Crackdown, Protest and without enough basic supply. Kashmiri Civilian are suffering. Mazdoor and Middle class people are mostly effected!

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"Our First Support is to strengthen Darul Quran Al Zahra - Women's projects in Lal Bazaar and To Establish at Mir Behri (Dal Lake) in Srinagar and Zainabia Women Welfare Center in Kargil, Ladhak."
The Above Women Projects are to empower Women in Islamic Studies, Learn recitation of Holy Quran, Tailoring, Computer skills and other Handcrafts for their earnings. In Future we will establish micro finance scheme to support poor  Shia women.

If you have any question please contact me directly.

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Asiya Andrabi-a Women anti-India activist in Kashmir Arrested

Asiya Andrabi Arrested

Srinagar, Aug 28- A strict curfew is being enforced in Srinagar and other major towns of the Kashmir valley to thwart an attempt by Hurriyat Conference to hold a rally in heart of the capital to mark the victory of battle of Badr.

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Meanwhile police today arrested an active anti-India woman leader from her hide-out in Srinagar outskirts.
Curfew was clamped in Srinagar as Hurriyat led by Syed Ali Geelani had called for a march to Polo Grounds in Srinagar on the occasion of "Yaume Badr". Batle of Badr in the 624 CE (17 Ramzan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) had established the roots of Islam and eased the persecution of Muslims.
Kashmiri Muslims every year mark the day with pro-freedom demonstrations. Mr. Geelani, who was to address the gathering, was placed under house arrest this morning along with the chairman of Moderate Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq.
Meanwhile Special Operations Group Of Police arrested a wanted woman leader Asiya Andrabi this afternoon from Habak area of the city.Andrabi,  a key figure in Geelani led Hurriyat, has been evading arrest for past three months.  

Asiya Andrabi: Warrior in Veil

Asiya Andrabi, the chief of South Asia's single militant organisation of women, has been evading arrest for sometime. Her organisation Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Ummah) has been assisting Lashkar-e-Jabbar in imposing purdah on Kashmiri.women. She is wanted under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for allegedly taking money from ISI. Andrabi, daughter of a physician, is a science graduate. A fierce militant, before marriage she had expressed her desire to her father to marry only a mujahid.

She went into hiding after the arrest of Imtiyaz Bazaz, the editor of the Mountain Valley. It is alleged that Bazaz had approached Ayub Thakur, the London-based president of World Kashmir Freedom Movement at her behest for funds for insurgents in Kashmir.

Andrabi formed Dukhtaran-e-Millat for a social cause as she claims. The objective was to help Kashmiri women to fight for their rights conferred on them by Islam. She fought for special reservations for women in buses, ostracised families that demanded dowry, and married off poor girls. She staged a rally in March 1987 against pornographic films, when foreign films were being screened all over Srinagar. DeM cadres carried brushes and cans of paint under their burqas and painted posters showing nudity.

Andrabi’s organisation has not taken to arms yet. However, her cadres support jehad in Kashmir and act as messengers for other militant organisations. With the onset of militancy in Kashmir in 1989, her activists staged rallies against atrocities. The next year she protested against Kashmiri women not wearing burqa. In May 1993 DeM warned women not to venture outdoors without a veil. Andrabi’s cadres have been accused of throwing acid and paint on the faces of women not wearing burqa.

After many years of silence, she was in news last year for supporting Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ), the militant outfit imposing purdah on Kashmiri women. LeJ activists reportedly threw acid on two women in Srinagar on August 7. Andrabi says that the purdah campaign is the "beginning of a comprehensive social reform movement based on true Islamic thought". She has asked women to quit their jobs and stay at home.

Andrabi, who has proclaimed herself to be some sort of moral police chief, had an enlightened upbringing. The metamorphosis in her came when she read the book khawateen ki dilon ki baatein ( Words from the Hearts of Women), a compilation of the writings of Islamic women revolutionaries. After reading the book she was a changed person. She decided to live and die for Islam. She told her father that she would marry only a mujahid. Her father married her to Mohammad Qasim, a member of militant organisation Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen.

The DeM chief is of the view that only jihad (holy war) can protect the Islamic faith. That’s why she wants her two sons to emulate Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad Omar, not a doctor or engineer. She has told her husband that he should take two or three more wives, given the large number of Kashmiri women widowed by the insurgency in Kashmir. "I would be more than glad to share my house with the other wives of Qasim", she says. That way, between them, Qasim's wives would have a lot of children to be raised in the image of Osama and Omar.

_¯ M. Mazharul Haque

I am Pacifist. But here's why I want to be a Stone-pelter.

I am a pacifist. But here’s why I want to be a stone-pelter

BY ZAHID RAFIQ

I have always avoided physical fights. In college, even though I was part of some gang, my friends always criticised me for being weak. They said I couldn’t even beat people they had already cornered. I wasn’t weak. It was just that before the crucial moment when one is drawn into a fight, I’d realise the futility of it. I hate the word pacifist, but I am one. There must be better ways than violence — negotiations or debates, perhaps — to resolve conflicts, I thought.

But today, if I weren’t a journalist and if writing was not an act of defiance, I know I’d be throwing stones in the streets of Srinagar, just like my friends.

EVER SINCE I remember, I have been bearing witness to the repression and massacres in Kashmir. Everything has seemed grey forever but in the past two months, Kashmir looks like a black-and-white postcard. The world, it seems, has conspired into silence, almost with a finger on its lips. It is on the altar of that finger and closed lips that pacifism is sacrificed every day. It is from this silence that all violence begins.

With every phone call from home announcing heartbreak, I could feel violence build up inside me, stone by stone. I was in Delhi when my mother called to say the vegetable seller near our house had been shot. When I left home for Delhi, he was the last person from my neighbourhood I’d seen. We had exchanged smiles and shook hands. I felt a murderous rage.

My younger brother told me on the phone the CRPF had gone berserk outside, smashing windows and looking to thrash anyone who could even walk.

A Kashmiri friend working for a Delhi think-tank that focuses on Kashmir — what they like to call a Track-II organisation — called me one evening. Between his sobs, I figured he had seen the picture of nine-year-old Sameer Ahmad, who had been beaten to death by the CRPF in Batamaloo. There were flagellation marks all over his body; his half-chewed toffee still in his mouth. I was supposed to calm my friend down, but we took turns to console each other. He said he was going back to Kashmir the next morning. “Here, they are all lying, and they believe their own lies,” he said.

In India, there is a myth, largely perpetrated by conformist sections of the media, that the army and CRPF protect Kashmiris. No Kashmiri feels protected by the army and CRPF. People in India call them security forces and believe they save Kashmiris from terrorists but it is from them that Kashmiris want to be saved. Kashmiris want these occupying forces off their land. The only feelings Kashmiris have for them are of fear, hatred and revenge.

In the past two months, 55 unarmed civilians have been killed in Kashmir in police and CRPF firing. Most of them have been boys who were either throwing stones or playing in their neighbourhoods. I was in Kashmir when the unrest started to build and every funeral I went to, I saw how angry Kashmiris were. In Gangbugh, I saw thousands defying curfew to attend the funeral of a 17-year-old boy. While his two friends said on camera that they had seen him being picked up by the police, the latter claimed he had drowned. But the dead boy had been a good swimmer and his autopsy showed two blunt injuries on his head.

In an interview on NDTV a day later, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah remarked, “If his life had been so important, why didn’t the other two boys pull him out.” It was a really insensitive thing to say but this is also Omar’s worldview. For him, Kashmiris are just ungrateful agents ready to die for PDP’s money and at ISI’s bidding. Omar got this view from the life he spent in mainland India, which means most of his 40 years. As for the Muftis, who walk a line so thin in Kashmir politics, it is hard to tell when they are separatists and when Indian nationalists. All they want is power. They want the Centre to dethrone Omar and install Mehbooba instead.

Rush of blood The aim of the stone-pelter is not to kill the soldiers, but to make a point that something is rotten in the state of Kashmir Rush of blood The aim of the stone-pelter is not to kill the soldiers, but to make a point that something is rotten in the state of Kashmir

An almost opaque membrane divides the Abdullahs and Kashmiris. While the gun barrel stares at Kashmiris at all times, it rests, as Omar put it nicely about himself during the same interview, against the shoulders of the Abdullahs. In Kashmir, people say that the Abdullahs and Muftis will never understand why ‘suicidal’ Kashmiris defy curfew and throw stones because none of their own lie buried under the 70,000 tombstones Kashmir has acquired in the past two decades. I now understand why an old relative of ours, who was a die-hard NC supporter earlier, felt personally betrayed by the Abdullahs. He would keep repeating almost every day that Sher-e- Kashmir (Sheikh Abdullah) had stood up to free Kashmiris from the tyrannical rule of the Dogra Maharajas but created a more bitter legacy in its place.

I saw a picture of an old man clinging to the dead body of his young son near Hazuri Bagh in Srinagar. Half-a-dozen policemen tried to drag him away from the dead body. He didn’t want to let go. His shirt was smeared with blood, his white beard stained a little red. The longer I looked at the picture, the louder it sounded. I couldn’t imagine what it must be for a father who is being forcibly stopped from hugging his dead son and grieving. Can Omar’s appeal stop the old father from defying curfew and joining the ‘mob’? What would Omar have done had he been in the old man’s place — as a father, as a Chief Minister? Would he have torn the city down? I imagined Srinagar burning.

And then I thought of all the fathers, brothers, uncles, friends and neighbours I’d seen in Kashmir trying to wake up their loved dead ones and I felt they were doing too little by throwing stones, burning police stations and Special Operations Group camps.

Kashmir is too long, too tragic and too bloody a story to be called a lawand- order problem. If only the boys orphaned by the armed forces in Kashmir were to pick up stones, you would have 60,000 stone-pelters on the streets. If those widowed by the armed forces joined, there would be 30,000 women stoning every bunker, every camp and every soldier.

When a boy in Kashmir walks towards an armed soldier with a stone in his hand, he is aware of the difference in power. His best shot could give the soldier a bump or a few stitches, if he is able to get past the leg guards, the bulletproof vest and the helmet. But the soldier — and the boy knows this well — with his gun or teargas shell, can leave him dead or seriously wounded.

The very act of choosing a stone as his weapon, the boy believes, puts him on higher moral ground. His aim is not to kill the soldier, but to make a point that something is seriously wrong. This is why not even a single soldier or policeman has been killed in the stone-pelting in the past two years, even though we have seen plenty of images of a lone soldier being captured by five stone-pelters.

Kashmiris have been waiting for India and the world to listen to them for too long but it was as if no one understood their language. It was as if Kashmir realised that it must talk in a primitive language known to all humans. In the past two months, they have been talking in the language of stones.

The Kashmiri boy believes the very act of choosing a stone as his weapon puts him on higher moral ground than the soldier

The mothers, to whom Omar appealed to keep their children indoors, have come out on the streets pelting stones themselves. When I saw the images of stone-pelting on television last month with the captions saying the LeT was inciting trouble through paid agents, I saw some familiar faces in the ‘paid mob’ from my neighbourhood. I saw two sisters pelting stones. I knew them; their brother had been picked up by the BSF in 2005 and one of them had chased the BSF jeep barefoot. Ten days later, the brother was found dumped on a nearby street; his skin burnt, his body crushed by heavy rollers and wires inserted into his penis. He was never the same again. I saw a middle-aged woman whose husband had gone missing in 1995, I saw a mother whose son had been killed by the armed forces. Each one of them had a story to tell from the past 20 years and they were finally saying it through stones. Their stones hardly reach the soldiers but that is not important. It is the act of throwing, not of hitting, which they makes them come out of their homes.

Women have been the silent sufferers in this conflict. Rapes and molestations that are a part of military psychological operations, have been under-reported. But the women know it, and so do the Médecins Sans Frontières counsellors and many psychiatrists. For them, the act of pelting stones is cathartic. With every stone they throw, they lessen the weight of the mountain that their hearts have become.

A few weeks ago, my five-year-old cousin, Athar, ventured out of his gate in Batamaloo and the soldiers ran towards him shouting, ‘Hum mar dalenge’ (We will kill you). He rushed inside, struck dumb. My aunt begged him to talk but only after 10 long minutes was he able to tell her what the soldiers had shouted at him. My aunt, a commerce graduate, wiping her tears in anger, perched him on her shoulders and took him out in a profreedom procession near their house. They both shouted proazadi slogans to let out their fear, and it worked. It was the first time for both of them. My aunt now writes, ‘Go India, Go Back’ on all the rupee notes that she handles and my cousin scribbles it on walls — the only English sentence he can spell. It is because of children like these that Srinagar, a city of rolled down shutters, empty roads, dusty walls and barred doors, is painted with pro-freedom graffiti all over.

THE MOVEMENT in Kashmir has moved away from the shadow of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kashmir has made a transition from guns to slogans and took to stones only when protests were forcibly stopped by the State. In 2008, there were lakhs who marched on the streets in Kashmir and made human chains so that no one could touch the bunkers and soldiers. This year, the State successfully stopped Kashmiris from marching non-violently and it is clear that the first order handed down to the armed forces has been to shoot to disperse. Under no circumstances, did the armed forces allow people to assemble this year. They even fired on mourners dozens of times making them stone-pelters.

In Kashmir right now, it will be hard for militancy to find hospitable homes and willing hands. Kashmiris want to settle their dispute with India without guns. I feel most frustrated when Kashmiris are dubbed paid agents of Pakistan and PDP workers. It is the NC, and not the PDP, which has won all the seats in Srinagar, which the government says is the hub of stone-pelting. Earlier this year, during an interview, I asked Omar whether he saw himself as a leader of Kashmiris or a politician from Kashmir. He replied in great agitation that he had been elected with 60 percent votes and that says it all. Where does he think those votes are now?

If the stone-pelters and protesters continue to be killed as terrorists, Kashmiris will be pushed to dig up their old guns. And the Indian State, being the largest importer of arms in the world and with its 7,00, 000 soldiers in Kashmir, seems to like the prospect of another armed rebellion that can be called a terrorist movement. But, if this generation of Kashmiris, who approach an AK-47 with a stone in hand, pick up the AK-47 themselves, it will be far worse than the 1990s. Kashmir knows how an armed revolution can eat up its own children but that won’t be enough to stop them. Kashmir will be reduced to stones again but the insulated glass palaces around them won’t be the same either. It will be a war, which the pacifist inside me says, must be avoided.

In Kashmir, Islam came by word and Kashmiris accepted it in their own unique way. My mother goes to shrines, so does my girlfriend, and almost all the women I know. The shrines are always full of people, even crowded than the mosques. Sufi Islam has lived for over hundreds of years here and if radical puritans defeat it one day, it will be because of the State repression and the status quo that India wants to maintain because it makes Sufi Kashmiris look docile and tolerance a weakness.

My aunt perched her five-year-old son on her shoulders and took him out in an azadi procession. It was their first time

As for what happened with the Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, I was too young to know about it and since then the story has been twisted in many ways. I belong to the generation of Kashmiri Muslims who have not seen Pandits but have heard varied accounts of what had happened that year. Whenever I try to make sense of it, the picture looks hazy. It is almost like finding my way through teargas in narrow lanes. I have heard about Kashmiri Pandits in the nostalgia of my mother, uncles and discovered them in old photo albums. In my family, it is taboo to say anything against Pandits, even against right-wing Pandit groups that are used to show that the political movement in Kashmir is communal. I hope that the Pandits return to their homeland soon and the new generation, unlike ours, grows up to be friends again and not strangers.

For me, the defining image of Kashmir is a Henri Cartier- Bresson photograph in which two Kashmiri women stand on the hills of Koh-i-Maran with their hands outstretched in prayer. One of them is dressed in an old Kashmiri burqa, the kind that covers the eyes with a mesh and the other is in a phiran (a loose, traditional Kashmiri gown) without any trousers. They both stand side by side, looking towards an open sky and huge mountains, praying to an invisible God, unaware and indifferent to differences between them. This conflict has already pushed those women into obscurity. And if unarmed protesters continue to be killed like this, even the hills where the women could one day have come together again would disappear. Kashmir, as we know of it in our dreams and in our hopes, will be lost forever.

FIVE YEARS ago, I thought the longing for azadi had died but it was just a quiet phase of transition from guns to stones. From the plebiscite front in 1953 to Al Fatah in the early 1970s, from JKLF in 1989 to a nine-year-old stone-pelter today, the sentiment for azadi has somehow always endured in Kashmir.

If this generation who face an AK-47 with a stone in hand, pick up the AK-47 themselves, it will be far worse than the 1990s

India, a huge economy and a growing power, has spent thousands of crores to win the hearts and minds of Kashmiris. It seems most of them are not buying and even if they are accepting the money happily, they are not trading the sentiment. Track I has mostly been off-track and Track II has been busy tracking the wrong people in five-star hotels. It just hasn’t worked.

For the Kashmir issue to be solved, India needs to keep its money and gun aside and talk to Kashmiris. There are two ways by which New Delhi can approach Kashmir. To look at it as a dispute and talk like equal partners with an aim to solve it, or to call it a law-andorder problem and continue to treat the symptoms rather than the disease. The autonomy and self-rule documents given by mainstream parties like NC and PDP, who talk within the ambit of the Indian Constitution, have been trashed by the Centre. People’s Conference leader Sajad Lone laboured over ‘Achievable Nationhood’ for two years and it was never discussed. As Hurriyat chief Mirwaiz Umar said, by talking to New Delhi, they risk their reputations and lives. India has to be a little more honest about the talks and think of them as more than photo-ops this time.

As for the Indian soldiers, most of them are poor villagers from the plains who end up living inside the lonely sand bunkers in Kashmir. They face stones and then take the lives of Kashmiri boys. Concertina wires surround their own lives, and it manifests in their high suicide rates and fratricidal killings in Kashmir. If the Indian State treated them not merely as pawns of nationalism but as dignified citizens, it could be freedom for the soldiers too.

India can neither shoot its way out of Kashmir nor can it buy out the sentiment. And as for buying time, it has been 63 years already.

PHOTO: ZAHID RAFIQ
PHOT : AP
PHOTO: SHUAIB MASOODI

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zahid@tehelka.com

Hundreds Feard Killed in Ladhakh Flash Floods-Kashmir

Hundreds Feared Killed In Ladakh Flash Floods 

 

Srinagar, Aug 06 - Hundreds of people are feared killed in flash floods triggered by massive cloudbursts that devastated Ladakh region’s main town and surrounding areas late Thursday night.

According to reports reaching here, a massive cloudburst struck the Leh town, 400 Kms from here, around midnight Thursday following torrential rains in the area, triggering flash floods and mudslides.
Another cloudburst hit Choglamsar area , 13 kms further north of the town.
Meteorological Department described it a “disastrous weather event” in which “rate of rainfall may be of the order of 100mm per hour.
”While many villages like Sabu, Phyang, Nimoo and Choglamsar were affected, the city bore the maximum brunt of the calamity.
Reports quoting sources said that the death toll could cross over 500 as several far flung villages were yet to be accessed by rescue teams in this high-altitude terrain.
Aamir Ali, Coordinator Disaster Management Kashmir said late Friday night that the death toll by Friday evening had reached 112 with the recovery of more bodies and more than 400 injured were being treated in various hospitals.
He, however said rescue operation was suspended for the night and will resume early Saturday.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) will be flown in from Chandigarh to assist the District Administration in rescue operations tomorrow, he said.
Official sources said that the death toll could be much higher as the flash floods swept away mud houses with inmates who were asleep when the calamity struck.
Roads were blocked and all telecommunication links snapped making it difficult to assess the full scale of the damage in remote areas.
Nearly 150 of labourers working for NHPC and camping along the Indus river in Shyong village were reported missing. Officials fear that many huts would have been washed away in the flash floods.
Hundreds of  people were reported missing from the Chougham Sar.
The cloudburst hit Choglam Sar at around 2 a.m.
Many people were washed away in sleep with their homes and some of those who managed to run away were carried away by the gushing water later, survivors said.
Authorities said that the Army had suffered losses in Turtuk area. Some of the villages along the Chang La pass, world's second highest motorable road, were also believed to have been washed away in the torrential rains.
An army spokesperson said 6,000 of its personnel were engaged in the relief and rescue operation and helicopters had been pressed into service since foot movement was extremely difficult due to the mudslides and flash floods.
Flash floods have washed away concrete structures, including government offices, paramilitary camps and residential homes in the town.
The headquarters of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam limited (BSNL), a government polytechnic, the ITBP camp, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, some government offices and residential homes have been extensively damaged.
Strategically located Ladakh has a large presence of the Indian army and is connected to outside world with a difficult mountain road.
The area is a high-altitude desert about 11,500 feet (3,500 meters) above sea level as the Himalayas create a rain shadow, denying entry to monsoon clouds.
Recent flooding in the region has been attributed to abnormal rain patterns.
Ladakh, is a popular destination for Western tourists, particularly hikers, mountaineers and adventure sports enthusiasts. August is peak season with thousands flocking to the area.
Troops have rescued at least 100 foreign tourists, mostly Europeans, from Pang, a village about 120 kilometers northeast of Leh town, army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said. No tourist deaths have so far been reported.
All the monasteries in Buddhist-dominated Leh town were reported safe. KONS/Agencies

Grieved Mothers of India Say: Stop the killing of Children in Kashmir

Grieved Mothers Of India Say: Stop 

 

Srinagar, Aug 06, KONS: Nearly hundred women calling themselves ‘The Mothers Of India’ today issued an appeal calling for an end to the killing of children in Kashmir.

The signed statement from the Mothers Of India is reproduced below:
There is a sound in Kashmir that resonates longer than the staccato of the gun. There is a sound in Kashmir that wants the violence to stop. There is a sound in Kashmir, that doesn’t care about politics. There is a sound in Kashmir echoing: STOP, Enough! It is the sound of mothers crying as they wait for their children to return knowing that they may not. Wailing, as they wonder why their young ones were killed.

The Mothers of India calls out to the mothers all over India to make sure that no child is killed in Kashmir; that no mother cries in silence that violence does not beget more violence.

Mothers all over the country need to demand answers, why has Kashmir lost 17 children to a conflict they don’t even understand? We, the mothers, must raise our voices against any kind of extremism. After all we do not give birth to our children to see them killed brutally by bullets. How can we justify the violence on either side? How long can we be mute spectators and not respond to the pain of our sisters in Kashmir?

With 45 lives lost in the last few weeks we cannot sit back any more. We need to raise our voices for dialogue and debate. We need to look at a peaceful resolution to this mindless violence. The blame game should stop and mothers can do this.

The Mothers of India believe that the situation in Kashmir may yet be retrieved if the Government acknowledges that young people are feeling alienated. Treating it as a law and order problem will only deepen conflict and alienation.

This is a call to the mothers of Kashmir, of Manipur, of Assam of Chhattisgarh, of all the conflict zones to rise and come together for the future of our children. If we don’t stand up now and call for peace we will never be able to face our children whose future we are allowing to be destroyed.

This is not a problem of just the Kashmiri mothers alone. We are all impacted by the situation in Kashmir. Don’t our children deserve to live with dignity? Don’t they deserve a secure future? Don’t they deserve to grow feeling free and safe? We the mothers need to stand in solidarity against violent extremism. We need to permeate the corridors of power with a call for peace. Our voice has to be heard. Our voice will be heard!
Released on behalf of :

1.    Aasma Khan – Kriti Sansthan, MP
2.    Aasma Parveen – Navdisha Sahar Mahila, Chanderi, MP
3.    Amandeep Kaur – Punjab
4.    Amrita Nandy Joshi- Sangat
5.    Anju Dubey, Centre for Social Research
6.    Annie Raja, NFIW
7.    Anuradha Marwah, Ajmer Adult Education Association (AAEA)
8.    Aparna Dwivedi, Human Rights Law Network
9.    Astha Ranjan, ANHAD
10.    Balwinder Kaur - Punjab
11.    Bansanti Behera - Orissa
12.    Barkha Lakra – Jharkhand
13.    Bharti Sonkar – Bhopal, MP
14.    Bimla Bardhan - Orissa
15.    Bondita Acharaya - Assam
16.    Chandrakanta Bharti – Dalit Foundation, New Delhi
17.    Charu - Punjab
18.    D. Sharisa – Tamil Nadu
19.    Damyanti Tambay, Secy. War Widows Association
20.    Dr V Rukmini Rao, Gramya Resource Centre for Women ,Secunderabad
21.    Dr. Jyotsna Chatterji, Joint Women's Programme
22.    Dr. Nasreen Jamal – Jharkhand
23.    Dr. Rose Kerketta -Orissa
24.    Dr. Shanti Khalko – Jharkhand
25.    Dr. V. Mohini Giri, Chairperson, Guild of Service and war Widows Association,
26.    E.Ezhil Caroline – Tamil Nadu
27.    Farhat Amin – Orissa
28.    IGSSS
29.    J. Gurmeet Singh, President War Widows Association
30.    Jamila Nishat – Hyderabad
31.    Jayanti Ahirwar – Amantran Mahila Mandal, Khajuraho, MP
32.    Johani Xaxa - Orissa
33.    K. Shangnaidur Tontang - Manipur
34.    Kamala Valli – Tamil Nadu
35.    Kamala Bhasin- Sangat
36.    Kamini Attawaele – NAWO, Chattisgarh
37.    Khairun Nisan Ibrahim Pasta – Ahmedabad, Gujarat
38.    Koely Roy – Kolkatta, West Bengal
39.    Lalita Missal – Orrisa
40.    Leena Gajbhiye – AIPWO, Nagpur, Maharashtra
41.    M. Narmadha Devi – Women Initiative in development, Tamil Nadu
42.    Mahfuza Rehman – Gawahati, Assam
43.    Manisha Trivedi-ANHAD, Gujarat
44.    Manju Rai – Rajasthan
45.    Manjula Pradeep – Navsarjan, Gujarat
46.    Mansi Sharma – ANHAD, New Delhi
47.    Mary G. Bage - Orissa
48.    Mehjabeen Pathan -Gujarat
49.    Meristella Wahlang – Meghalaya
50.    Monisha Behl – North Eastern Network, Assam
51.    Mousumi Gupta, YWCA of India
52.    N Naseema – Tamil Nadu
53.    Nanom Jamoh – Arunanchal Pradesh
54.    Navneet Kaur - Punjab
55.    Nazhat H. Shaista - Gujarat
56.    Neelu Parmar - Gujarat
57.    Nonitala Narengbam – Manipur
58.    Noori Parveen – Jharkhand
59.    Nusarat Naqvi – Ajmer
60.    Padmini Kumar, Joint Women’s Programme
61.    Pamela Philipose, Women Feature Service.
62.    Prabhawati – Sakhi Kendra, Kanpur, UP
63.    Premwati Dhumketi – Mandla district, MP
64.    Priyanka Jaiswal, ANHAD
65.    Prity Bohidar – NAWO, MP
66.    Promilla Swain – NAWO, Orissa
67.    Qamar Azad Hashmi, Delhi
68.    PV Sathyabadan – Hyderabad, AP
69.    Rajni -  NAWO, Chattisgarh
70.    Resly Abraham – Anvashi Dalit Women Centre, Thiruvalla, Kerala
71.    Rosa Wahlang – Meghalaya
72.    Rose Mary Dzuvichau -  Kohima, Nagaland
73.    S. Kamala Deva Mani – Tamil Nadu
74.    S. Ramzan – Tamil Nadu
75.    Sabiha Naaz - Jharkhand
76.    Salge Mardi - Jharkhand
77.    Samina Begum – AYESHA, Suberpur
78.    Sania Hashmi, ANHAD Media
79.    Savitri Dhumketi – Mandla district, MP
80.    Shabnam Hashmi – ANHAD, New Delhi
81.    Shabnam Sen Gupta – NAWO, MP
82.    Sheba George, NAWO, Sahrwaru, Gujarat
83.    Shipra Devi – Chattisgarh
84.    Smriti Minocha, HRLN, Delhi
85.    Sonam Gupta, ANHAD
86.    Subhashini – Mahila Manch, UP
87.    Sudha Sundararaman, General Secretary, AIDWA Suneeta Dhar, JAGORI
88.    Sunila Singh, Jagori
89.    Sunita Macwan - Gujarat
90.    Supriya Mallik - Orissa
91.    Sushila Goyal – NAWO, MP
92.    Swapna Majumdar
93.    Tarini Manchanda
94.    Thulasi Munda - Orissa
95.    Urmi Chaluna – Tripura
96.    Vasavi  Kiro – Jharkhand
97.    Vidya Sharma – Jhansi, UP
98.    Vinita Nagar, Delhi
99.    Women's Initiative For Peace In South Asia
100.    Zulekha Jabin – Chattisgarh

Immediate Relief Fund is required for Suffering Kashmiris

Srinagar.

1. Idara Falah e Aam (Waqf), Srinagar,
Aalamgir Complex Alamgari Bazar, Srinagar Kashmir -190011

Permission granted by His Excellency, Grand Ayatullah Uzma Syed Ali Sistani Idara Falah Aam (Waqf) Srinagar is authorized to collect Sahim Mubarik Imam (a.s.) from the people in India, Hujatul Islam Aga Syed Baqir Kashmiri.Ayatullah Syed Ali Khamenei

"Generosity is to help a deserving without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke." Saying- 53 from “Nahjul Balagah” by Imam Ali (a.s.)

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Peace Rally infront of Indian Embassy in USA - Sunday August 8 and 15, 2010

Kashmiri American Council Invites you To participate in a Peace Rally In Front of the Indian Embassy 2586 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. Sunday, August 8, 2010 12.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m. (Nearest metro: Dupont Circle, 5 minutes walk) The real face of India is evident truly in Kashmir where the Indian Army during the past 20 years has: Killed over 100,000 men, women and children. Tortured and maimed tens of thousands; WHY ALL THIS? Because the people of Kashmir demand an end to the military occupation of their land by India; Because they demand what they have been pledged by both India and Pakistan and guaranteed by the Security Council, with the unequivocal endorsement of the United States – demilitarization of Kashmir and a free vote organized impartially. Should India Get Away With The Flouting of International Agreements? Should India Be Grated a License For The Genocide of the People of Kashmir? These are the questions for President Obama who said on September 25, 2008, “I will continue support of ongoing Indian Pakistani efforts to resolve Kashmir problem in order to address the political roots of the arms race between India and Pakistan.”  He also said on October 30, 2008, “We should probably try to facilitate a better understanding between Pakistan and India and try to resolve the Kashmir crisis.” Amnesty International reported on August 2, 2010 that ”At least 14 protesters have been killed in shootings by security forces during protests in Kashmir over the last four days.” Christian Science Monitor wrote on August 2, 2010, “In what the Indian media are calling Bloody Sunday, 10 people died yesterday in protests across Indian-controlled Kashmir. ..The protests are part of a popular uprising against Indian rule and heavy-handed police tactics in Kashmir. ..The recent uprising appears to have no links to Pakistan. Instead, it is led by Kashmiri youth ranging from six to 30 who are using a mix of nonviolent defiance of curfews and rock throwing at security forces in a bid to win independence for Kashmir. London Review of Books wrote on July 22, 2010, “More than a hundred thousand people marched peacefully to the UN office in Srinagar. They burned effigies, chanted ‘Azadi, azadi’ (‘freedom’) and appealed to India to leave Kashmir. The movement was not crushed. It was merely ignored. Nothing changed. Now a new generation of Kashmiri youth is on the march.” European Parliamentary Delegation said that “Kashmir is the most beautiful prison of the world.” Please join us along with your family and friends to show your solidarity with the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Co-sponsored by: Jammu Kashmir Muslim Conference Jammu Kashmir Peoples Muslim League Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party Peoples Party Pakistan, AJK Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front; Jammu Kashmir  Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Front Kashmir Mission, New York World Kashmir Freedom Movement For more information, please contact: Fai, 202-607-6585 Attorney Mumtaz Wani, 703-615-8220 W. Qureishi, 909-9984 Zubair 703-244-7433 Liaqat 301-674-9291 Zulfiqar 571-277-0428Tahir Iqbal  571-278-3483 ORSend email to gnfai2003@yahoo. com N.B.:Please note that Kashmiri American Council will organize another peace rally on Saturday, August 15, 2010 between 1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. in front of the Indian Mission, New York 235 East 43rd Street, New York. (5minutes walk from the United Nations). For further information, please call Hafiz Sabir on 1-917-204-0121 If you would like to subscribe or unsubscribe from the news list, please visit our website www.kashmiri.com Day 54: 5 More Killed, Curfew In Shreds "Asking the world community to awaken its conscience on the persecution in Kashmir where, according to him, even young boys were being imprisoned under draconian laws, Ronga called for global pressure... on India to uphold human rights."......(Civil Doctors and Lawyers) Srinagar, Aug  03, KONS: Kashmir began to lose track of the how and where of killings in firing from the government forces as five more fell to bullets and battering during  a valley-wide upsurge on Tuesday, while Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s Eidgah March in Srinagar turned  into a large mourning rally for some casualties with curfew-defying multitudes forcing the deployed police and paramilitary personnel to withdraw from the area’s streets. The mourning procession had swelled to thousands as people from Shah Mohalla and Knai Mazaar joined the march to the shaheed mazaar. Tear-gassing and firing during protest marches was also reported from Hyderpora, Galwanpora, Chanpora, Rawalpora, Sanal Nagar, Rambagh, Barzulla, Kralpora, Moochu, and Chadoora, leading to a number of casualties. Immediate Relief Fund is required for Suffering Kashmiris Srinagar. 1. Idara Falah e Aam (Waqf), Srinagar, Aalamgir Complex Alamgari Bazar, Srinagar Kashmir -190011 Permission granted by His Excellency, Grand Ayatullah Uzma Syed Ali Sistani Idara Falah Aam (Waqf) Srinagar is authorized to collect Sahim Mubarik Imam (a.s.) from the people in India, Hujatul Islam Aga Syed Baqir Kashmiri.Ayatullah Syed Ali Khamenei "Generosity is to help a deserving without his request, and if you help him after his request, then it is either out of self-respect or to avoid rebuke." Saying- 53 from “Nahjul Balagah” by Imam Ali (a.s.) 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