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'We won't give an inch': India faces defiance in 'Kashmir's Gaza'
.jpg) [DAWN] Young men sit beside a pile of rocks and a bonfire, protecting the only entrance to a besieged neighbourhood they call "Kashmir...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... 's Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... " as a mosque loudspeaker broadcasts slogans of liberation. In an act of defiance against New Delhi's controversial decision to withdraw occupied Kashmir's special status and integrate it fully into India, Soura neighbourhood on the outskirts of Srinagar has sealed itself off from security forces. Since early August, residents have erected ramshackle barricades of tin sheets, wooden logs, oil tanks and concrete pillars, and dug trenches to keep soldiers at bay amid daily protests against India. "They can only enter Soura over our bodies. We won't give even an inch of land to India," Mufeed, a resident who volunteers to guard the neighbourhood at night, told AFP. "Just like Gaza is resisting Israel, we will fight for our motherland with all our might," Mufeed added. Related: Kashmir: 2019-08-21 Authorities make more arrests in Indian Kashmir to deter protests Kashmir: 2019-08-21 Zakir Naik apologises to Malaysians for racial remarks Kashmir: 2019-08-21 Pakistan to take Kashmir dispute with India to International Court of Justice Related: Srinagar: 2019-08-21 Authorities make more arrests in Indian Kashmir to deter protests Srinagar: 2019-08-18 50,000 landline phones restored in Kashmir, schools to reopen Monday Srinagar: 2019-08-17 Hundreds of protestors clash with police in occupied Kashmir Posted by: Fred 2019-08-23 |
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