Seized video shows torture of Kashmiris by Islamic militants
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How can one be offended when the terminology has changed from "freedom fighters" to "Islamic militants"?So this thread was created to show that Indian Army is no less than Islamic Militants who are also called terrorists?
No offence.
But jokes apart, the thread was to show the other side of the coin, which many Pak members are not aware of, and some find it hard to believe.
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And we are just supposed to buy all of this?
After fake encounter cases coming out one after the other, the word of the Indian army posted in Kashmir is just a joke. To say the very least, they are full of it. They need God himself to come and testify for them to make this thing seem truthful.
Whats your point here. The wrong doings of JK police and Indian Army was highlighted and brought into light by the active and free Indian media and was dealt to by the Indian judicial system.
So what your issue with. Are you haveing an issue with wrong things happening, wrong things happen everywhere mate, its how you deal with it that matters, We have shown our brave face and taken to task the people concerned. So i feel your stand is weak and just the usual "vicitm card" that muslims enjoy playing.
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ISLAMABAD: An Indian daily The Telegraph-Calcutta claimed a strong co-relation exists between the Indian army, deployed in the residential areas in the valley, and the incidents of encounter deaths and custodial killings, KMS reported.
The newspaper commenting on disappearances wrote "women of different age groups regularly assembling in parks and street corners in Srinagar and other towns, and wailing for their sons, brothers and husbands who have disappeared after being picked up, either openly or clandestinely by armed forces."
Bodies of some of these people have often been discovered, several months later in impromptu graves in a village 200 km away or not discovered at all. The daily further maintained that there is a marked absence of documents that could help verify the official's versions regarding how or where the claimed encounter deaths took place.
"There is the parallel issue of abolition, at least an abridgement, of the provisions of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which is in effect carte blanche for troops to go on a rampage, and for which they are not held accountable," it maintained.
An official committee presided over by a retired judge of the Supreme Court had earlier made recommendations for its abolition. The authorities concerned, however, failed to act against the matter.
ISLAMABAD: An Indian daily The Telegraph-Calcutta claimed a strong co-relation exists between the Indian army, deployed in the residential areas in the valley, and the incidents of encounter deaths and custodial killings, KMS reported.
The newspaper commenting on disappearances wrote "women of different age groups regularly assembling in parks and street corners in Srinagar and other towns, and wailing for their sons, brothers and husbands who have disappeared after being picked up, either openly or clandestinely by armed forces."
Bodies of some of these people have often been discovered, several months later in impromptu graves in a village 200 km away or not discovered at all. The daily further maintained that there is a marked absence of documents that could help verify the official's versions regarding how or where the claimed encounter deaths took place.
"There is the parallel issue of abolition, at least an abridgement, of the provisions of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, which is in effect carte blanche for troops to go on a rampage, and for which they are not held accountable," it maintained.
An official committee presided over by a retired judge of the Supreme Court had earlier made recommendations for its abolition. The authorities concerned, however, failed to act against the matter.
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Srinagar, April 27 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Showkat Ahmad Zargar, 25, a government employee from Rainawari, Srinagar had to pay heavily at the hands of Indian troops — he was killed in a fake encounter in 2002.
Born to a middle-class family, Showkat, a graduate, worked on daily wages in the Deputy Commissioner’s office here to support his family. But destiny had something else in store for him.
The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops picked Showkat on November 1, 2000 and then released. He was arrested many times and set free with his and his family being unable to know on what charges.
Again on April 8, 2002, at 10:45 pm, the BSF troops barged into his house taking Showkat with them to an unknown location, Muhammad Amin Zargar, his father told media men. Amin said before leaving, the troops locked them in a room and switched off the lights. “My younger son Riyaz jumped out of window and opened the door. We all rushed out and raised an alarm but the troops bundled Showkat in a vehicle and ran away,” he said.
The family immediately approached the Khanyar Police Station (PS) but the in charge officer told them their locality falls under the jurisdiction of Rainawari PS. “We rushed there too but the cops feigned ignorance about the arrest,” Amin said. Frustrated, the family contacted the then Deputy Superintendent of Police over phone but without success. The family could not sleep for the whole night. And at 1.30 am, they heard gunshots in the nearly Miskeen Bagh area. “Next morning as we visited the Rainawari PS, we were shocked when the cops told us to collect Showkat’s body from police control room,” Amin said.
“Mustering courage, I removed the blood-stained shroud, and I broke down. It was my Showkat. He was severely tortured before his killing. Besides bullet injuries on his chest, his arm was broken and there were bruises all over his body,” Amin said with moist eyes.
Born to a middle-class family, Showkat, a graduate, worked on daily wages in the Deputy Commissioner’s office here to support his family. But destiny had something else in store for him.
The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops picked Showkat on November 1, 2000 and then released. He was arrested many times and set free with his and his family being unable to know on what charges.
Again on April 8, 2002, at 10:45 pm, the BSF troops barged into his house taking Showkat with them to an unknown location, Muhammad Amin Zargar, his father told media men. Amin said before leaving, the troops locked them in a room and switched off the lights. “My younger son Riyaz jumped out of window and opened the door. We all rushed out and raised an alarm but the troops bundled Showkat in a vehicle and ran away,” he said.
The family immediately approached the Khanyar Police Station (PS) but the in charge officer told them their locality falls under the jurisdiction of Rainawari PS. “We rushed there too but the cops feigned ignorance about the arrest,” Amin said. Frustrated, the family contacted the then Deputy Superintendent of Police over phone but without success. The family could not sleep for the whole night. And at 1.30 am, they heard gunshots in the nearly Miskeen Bagh area. “Next morning as we visited the Rainawari PS, we were shocked when the cops told us to collect Showkat’s body from police control room,” Amin said.
“Mustering courage, I removed the blood-stained shroud, and I broke down. It was my Showkat. He was severely tortured before his killing. Besides bullet injuries on his chest, his arm was broken and there were bruises all over his body,” Amin said with moist eyes.
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Kashmir Issue – PAST & PRESENT
Principles of partition
Pakistan and India came into being in mid-August 1947 when the British colonial rule was rolled back in South Asian sub-continent. To create the two sovereign states, a partition plan based on two-nation theory was devised, which envisaged that there are two nations in the sub-continent, Muslims and Hindus. Under this plan, the Hindu majority areas had to form part of India and those with Muslim majority to constitute Pakistan.
Kashmir dispute
As laid down in the Partition Plan, Jammu and Kashmir being overwhelmingly a Muslim majority princely state should have automatically become part of Pakistan. However, the British and Hindus manipulated the Boundary Commission Award to prevent Pakistan from becoming the world's largest Muslim country. Thus the Muslim majority district of Gurdaspur was so divided as to provide road access to Indian armed forces to invade Jammu and Kashmir on October 27, 1947 in violation of the partition plan and quite contrary to the two-nation theory. The Kashmir issue thus stems from the unfinished agenda of the partition process.
Smelling the conspiracy, Kashmiri people revolted against the Dogra ruler of the state, who was bent on handing over Jammu and Kashmir to India against the will of Kashmiris. The struggling Kashmiris liberated some areas; now well known as Azad Kashmir. Since then a major part of Kashmir state i.e. Occupied Kashmir remains under illegal military occupation of India.
Events of 1947
Accession to Pakistan Resolution: It is pertinent to note that even before the approval of the Partition of India Plan, the Kashmiris had made a bold decision in regard to their future destiny. On July 19, 1947, a convention of All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference held in Srinagar, adopted the 'Accession to Pakistan resolution' demanding accession of the Kashmir state to Pakistan. It was adopted practically under the shadow of bayonets, as the entire city of Srinagar was at that time swarming with armed Dogra troops.
So-called Accession of Kashmir to India: India's claim regarding Jammu and Kashmir's accession to it has been exposed by the British historian Alastair Lamb in his book "The Tragedy of Kashmir". In his words, "From their arrival on October 27, 1947 to the present day, Indian troops continued to occupy a larger proportion of the state of Jammu and Kashmir despite the increasingly manifest opposition of the majority of the population to their presence."
India claims to have 'signed' a controversial document, the Instrument of Accession, on 26 October 1947 with the Maharaja of Kashmir, in which Maharaja Hari Singh obtained India's military help against the popular uprising. The people of Kashmir and Pakistan do not accept the Indian claim. There are doubts about the very existence of the Instrument of Accession. The United Nations also does not consider Indian claim legally valid. It recognizes Kashmir as a disputed territory.
Kashmir at United Nations
India adopted various tactics to lend credibility to its invasion of Kashmir. On January 1, 1948, India took the issue to the United Nations. The UN adopted two resolutions, on August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949. These resolutions granted the right to self-determination to the Kashmiris through a plebiscite to be held under the supervision of a UN-appointed plebiscite administrator. Both India and Pakistan accepted these resolutions.
UN resolutions on Kashmir
"The Government of India and the Government of Pakistan reaffirm their wish that future status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be determined in accordance with the will of the people." (13 August 1948)
"The question of the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India or Pakistan will be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite." (5 January 1949)
Elections' status
India is fully aware of the fact that elections in occupied Kashmir can never be a substitute to the plebiscite guaranteed under the UN resolutions. The United Nations has made it clear that the Constituent Assembly has no authority to ratify the so-called accession of the state to India. On March 30, 1951, the UN Security Council confirmed this again and emphasized the irrelevance of the Constituent Assembly in deciding the future of Kashmir.
The UN Security Council on 24 January 1957 adopted Resolution-122, which states, "Reminding the Governments and authorities concerned of the principle embodied in its resolutions 47 (1948) of 21 April, 1948, 51(1948) of 3 June, 1948, 80 (1950) of 14 March, 1950 and 91(1951) of 30 March, 1951, and the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan resolutions of 13 August, 1948, and 5 January, 1949, that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations, Reaffirms the affirmation in its resolution 91 (1951) and declares that the convening of a Constituent Assembly as recommended by the General Council of the "All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference" and any action that Assembly may have taken or might attempt to take to determine the future shape and affiliation of the entire State or any part thereof, or action by the parties concerned in support of any such action by the Assembly, would not constitute a disposition of the State in accordance with the above principle".
Election dramas in occupied Kashmir
During its half a century illegal occupation of the state, the Indian government and its puppet regimes have frequently staged election dramas for the so-called State Assembly as well as for the Indian Parliament. It is an internationally recognized fact that these elections had no legitimacy. Because, (1) Kashmiris did not accept the Indian constitution and Election Commission under which these elections were held and (2) all these elections were rigged at large scale.
India's attempts to manipulate elections in Kashmir and suppress the indigenous uprising have marked Kashmir's history. The elections for the so-called constituent assembly in Occupied Kashmir were held in September 1951. Out of 75 candidates 73 members of this Assembly ran uncontested. Contrary to what was stated in UN resolutions, the assembly was to determine the future shape and affiliation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Nomination papers of most of those who could form an opposition were rejected. The so-called Constituent Assembly on 6th February 1954 ratified so-called accession of the State to India.
The first general elections for the so-called State Assembly were held in March 1957, the second in 1962, third in March 1967, fourth in February 1972, fifth in July 1977, sixth in June 1983, seventh on 23 March 1987 and eighth in September 1996.
Draconian laws
To suppress the Kashmiris voice for the realization of their right to self-determination, a number of draconian laws have been enforced in the occupied territory:
Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act 1978:
Under this Act, the Government may detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State and the maintenance of public order.
Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1990:
This Act gives the Governor or the Central Government power to declare the whole or part of the State to be a disturbed area and to authorize the use of the armed forces in aid of the civil power.
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2002
On March 26, 2002 a joint session of Indian Parliament voted in favour of the controversial anti-terrorism legislation known as the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). The new law allows the government to confiscate property from suspected 'terrorists' and detain them for up to 90 days without trial. The law had actually been in force under a presidential decree issued on October 25, 2001 (then known as the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, or POTO).
Current issues
Detention of APHC Leaders: Former APHC chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, senior leaders, Shaikh Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Yaseen Malik and several other liberation leaders and activists have been put behind the bars under the draconian laws ahead of the so-called assembly elections. APHC in past had launched massive anti-election campaign and to prevent such like eventualities, these leaders and activists have been detained.
Upcoming Elections: India on August 2, 2002 has announced dates of the election drama to be staged in occupied Kashmir in four phases on September 16, 24 and October 1 and 8. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has reiterated boycott.
Escalation of Troops: Now that the schedule for so-called Assembly election has been announced the puppet regime of occupied Kashmir has urged the Indian government to provide more forces. Sources say the Indian government has assured full support to the Farooq Abdullah regime in this regard and will send over 400 companies of paramilitary forces to the state during elections. According to reports fifty-eight companies have already arrived
Principles of partition
Pakistan and India came into being in mid-August 1947 when the British colonial rule was rolled back in South Asian sub-continent. To create the two sovereign states, a partition plan based on two-nation theory was devised, which envisaged that there are two nations in the sub-continent, Muslims and Hindus. Under this plan, the Hindu majority areas had to form part of India and those with Muslim majority to constitute Pakistan.
Kashmir dispute
As laid down in the Partition Plan, Jammu and Kashmir being overwhelmingly a Muslim majority princely state should have automatically become part of Pakistan. However, the British and Hindus manipulated the Boundary Commission Award to prevent Pakistan from becoming the world's largest Muslim country. Thus the Muslim majority district of Gurdaspur was so divided as to provide road access to Indian armed forces to invade Jammu and Kashmir on October 27, 1947 in violation of the partition plan and quite contrary to the two-nation theory. The Kashmir issue thus stems from the unfinished agenda of the partition process.
Smelling the conspiracy, Kashmiri people revolted against the Dogra ruler of the state, who was bent on handing over Jammu and Kashmir to India against the will of Kashmiris. The struggling Kashmiris liberated some areas; now well known as Azad Kashmir. Since then a major part of Kashmir state i.e. Occupied Kashmir remains under illegal military occupation of India.
Events of 1947
Accession to Pakistan Resolution: It is pertinent to note that even before the approval of the Partition of India Plan, the Kashmiris had made a bold decision in regard to their future destiny. On July 19, 1947, a convention of All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference held in Srinagar, adopted the 'Accession to Pakistan resolution' demanding accession of the Kashmir state to Pakistan. It was adopted practically under the shadow of bayonets, as the entire city of Srinagar was at that time swarming with armed Dogra troops.
So-called Accession of Kashmir to India: India's claim regarding Jammu and Kashmir's accession to it has been exposed by the British historian Alastair Lamb in his book "The Tragedy of Kashmir". In his words, "From their arrival on October 27, 1947 to the present day, Indian troops continued to occupy a larger proportion of the state of Jammu and Kashmir despite the increasingly manifest opposition of the majority of the population to their presence."
India claims to have 'signed' a controversial document, the Instrument of Accession, on 26 October 1947 with the Maharaja of Kashmir, in which Maharaja Hari Singh obtained India's military help against the popular uprising. The people of Kashmir and Pakistan do not accept the Indian claim. There are doubts about the very existence of the Instrument of Accession. The United Nations also does not consider Indian claim legally valid. It recognizes Kashmir as a disputed territory.
Kashmir at United Nations
India adopted various tactics to lend credibility to its invasion of Kashmir. On January 1, 1948, India took the issue to the United Nations. The UN adopted two resolutions, on August 13, 1948 and January 5, 1949. These resolutions granted the right to self-determination to the Kashmiris through a plebiscite to be held under the supervision of a UN-appointed plebiscite administrator. Both India and Pakistan accepted these resolutions.
UN resolutions on Kashmir
"The Government of India and the Government of Pakistan reaffirm their wish that future status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be determined in accordance with the will of the people." (13 August 1948)
"The question of the accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to India or Pakistan will be decided through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite." (5 January 1949)
Elections' status
India is fully aware of the fact that elections in occupied Kashmir can never be a substitute to the plebiscite guaranteed under the UN resolutions. The United Nations has made it clear that the Constituent Assembly has no authority to ratify the so-called accession of the state to India. On March 30, 1951, the UN Security Council confirmed this again and emphasized the irrelevance of the Constituent Assembly in deciding the future of Kashmir.
The UN Security Council on 24 January 1957 adopted Resolution-122, which states, "Reminding the Governments and authorities concerned of the principle embodied in its resolutions 47 (1948) of 21 April, 1948, 51(1948) of 3 June, 1948, 80 (1950) of 14 March, 1950 and 91(1951) of 30 March, 1951, and the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan resolutions of 13 August, 1948, and 5 January, 1949, that the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations, Reaffirms the affirmation in its resolution 91 (1951) and declares that the convening of a Constituent Assembly as recommended by the General Council of the "All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference" and any action that Assembly may have taken or might attempt to take to determine the future shape and affiliation of the entire State or any part thereof, or action by the parties concerned in support of any such action by the Assembly, would not constitute a disposition of the State in accordance with the above principle".
Election dramas in occupied Kashmir
During its half a century illegal occupation of the state, the Indian government and its puppet regimes have frequently staged election dramas for the so-called State Assembly as well as for the Indian Parliament. It is an internationally recognized fact that these elections had no legitimacy. Because, (1) Kashmiris did not accept the Indian constitution and Election Commission under which these elections were held and (2) all these elections were rigged at large scale.
India's attempts to manipulate elections in Kashmir and suppress the indigenous uprising have marked Kashmir's history. The elections for the so-called constituent assembly in Occupied Kashmir were held in September 1951. Out of 75 candidates 73 members of this Assembly ran uncontested. Contrary to what was stated in UN resolutions, the assembly was to determine the future shape and affiliation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Nomination papers of most of those who could form an opposition were rejected. The so-called Constituent Assembly on 6th February 1954 ratified so-called accession of the State to India.
The first general elections for the so-called State Assembly were held in March 1957, the second in 1962, third in March 1967, fourth in February 1972, fifth in July 1977, sixth in June 1983, seventh on 23 March 1987 and eighth in September 1996.
Draconian laws
To suppress the Kashmiris voice for the realization of their right to self-determination, a number of draconian laws have been enforced in the occupied territory:
Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act 1978:
Under this Act, the Government may detain a person "with a view to preventing him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State and the maintenance of public order.
Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1990:
This Act gives the Governor or the Central Government power to declare the whole or part of the State to be a disturbed area and to authorize the use of the armed forces in aid of the civil power.
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) 2002
On March 26, 2002 a joint session of Indian Parliament voted in favour of the controversial anti-terrorism legislation known as the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). The new law allows the government to confiscate property from suspected 'terrorists' and detain them for up to 90 days without trial. The law had actually been in force under a presidential decree issued on October 25, 2001 (then known as the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance, or POTO).
Current issues
Detention of APHC Leaders: Former APHC chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, senior leaders, Shaikh Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Yaseen Malik and several other liberation leaders and activists have been put behind the bars under the draconian laws ahead of the so-called assembly elections. APHC in past had launched massive anti-election campaign and to prevent such like eventualities, these leaders and activists have been detained.
Upcoming Elections: India on August 2, 2002 has announced dates of the election drama to be staged in occupied Kashmir in four phases on September 16, 24 and October 1 and 8. The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has reiterated boycott.
Escalation of Troops: Now that the schedule for so-called Assembly election has been announced the puppet regime of occupied Kashmir has urged the Indian government to provide more forces. Sources say the Indian government has assured full support to the Farooq Abdullah regime in this regard and will send over 400 companies of paramilitary forces to the state during elections. According to reports fifty-eight companies have already arrived
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