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Changing face of militancy | |
2003-04-11 | |
A short piece from a long article: The Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), one of the biggest militant groups operating in Kashmir, is in the throes of a violent churning. Within the span of a fortnight, two of its senior-most leaders, albeit belonging to rival factions, have been killed. Besides, fighting between the two factions is said to have assumed serious proportions in recent weeks. Last week, Indian security forces killed Saif-ul Islam, the "chief operations commander" of the HM in Indian-administered Kashmir. According to Indian sources, Saif-ul Islam, second in command to the Pakistan-based HM supremo Mohammed Yusuf Shah, alias Syed Salahuddin, was captured by Indian security forces on April 2. Indian sources say that Saif-ul Islam led the security forces to a HM hideout where he was killed in an exchange of fire between militants and the security forces. Separatists contend that Saif-ul Islam's death was the result of torture while in custody.
The "Don't give Peace a chance" crowd. HM militants active in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are said to be deeply resentful of the way in which Salahuddin issues orders and controls the operations from the Much more betrayal and infighting, read the whole thing. | |
Posted by:Steve |
#1 Isn't it 'interesting' that whilst Pakistan claims to be supporting the indigenous kashmiri people, they also seem to be killing the Kashmiri people. Kashmiri Islam is completely different to the talibani Islam that Pakland is trying to push into the region. What the ISI keeps forgetting to mention is that the puppet Prime-Minister of Pakistani side of Kashmir must agree to accede Kashmir to Pakland. Any one that wants a kashmir independent of both India and Pakland is not even allowed to run for election by PakGov. Also when they keep talking about protecting their fellow muslims they forget to mention the genocide that the Pak army committed against the musims of Bangladesh (then east Pakland) in the 1970s. |
Posted by: rg117 2003-04-11 10:11:46 |