Youth in IOK keen to join army

[somebozo]

Well this could also be due to rampant unemployment plus Kashmiris policing Kashmir gives them a say in the valley issues versus some BJP proxies imported form the south!

 

[perplexed]

Well this could also be due to rampant unemployment plus Kashmiris policing Kashmir gives them a say in the valley issues versus some BJP proxies imported form the south!

nevermind !!

 

[53fd]

November 7, 2011:

17 security men injured as clashes mar Eid festivities:

SRINAGAR: At least 17 security personnel were today injured as protesting youths clashed with them soon after the congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers concluded in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said.

Clashes also broke out at Sopore town in Baramulla district and some parts of the city, marring Eid festivities.

17 police and CRPF personnel were injured in Anantnag, 50 km from here, when clashes broke out after the security forces tried to prevent a large group of youths from taking out a protest rally after the congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers, police said.

Shouting "pro-freedom" slogans, the agitators threw stones at the security forces who retaliated with tear smoke cannisters, they said.

At least 12 policemen, including Anantnag SSP R K Jalla and SP (Operations) Zahid Malik, and five CRPF personnel were injured in the clashes, police said.

Several protesters were also injured in the clashes, they said.

In Sopore, people took out a protest march soon after coming out of the Eidgah, police said.

When police attempted to intercept the rallyists, they started pelting stones at them.

Police fired several tear smoke cannisters there to disperse the crowd.

Protests also erupted in the old city here as youths clashed with police at Saraf Kadal locality after the Eid prayers. (AGENCIES)

Daily Excelsior....News Page

 

[cyphercide]

Earnest apologies for the culture dump; This is probably the most anti-Indian magazine that I have come across;Outlook.Even with it's glorified Arundhati Roy editorial articles.They all couldn't deny the new rise in Kashmir;


Excerpts include;

“We have no heroes to look up to today. Not Omar Abdullah, or the separatists. We’d like the army to truly change colours and become our heroes.” Ajaz Ahmed, Lecturer in Srinagar college

The very boys who might have been tempted to pelt stones at armymen last summer now thronged Hasnain for autographs after the event, posed for pictures with him and asked him for help to get into the army!

“He encourages us to voice our complaints, our gila-shikvas,” says Abdur Rashid of the Handwara Traders Association. “He listens and acts. The people of Handwara have greatly appreciated that a general like him has come to our level and talked to us. He even hugged me!” A simple gesture in the end, but one that generations of Kashmir experts haven’t managed.

www.outlookindia.com | Art Of Peace

All we ask is to be left alone and improve on Kashmir....