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| JKLF leader warns of 'intifada' in Jammu and Kashmir |
| 2007-10-03 |
| A senior Kashmiri leader has warned of an “intifada” in Jammu and Kashmir, as he believed the peace process between India and Pakistan had failed to show any tangible results. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leader Javed Ahmed Mir, who was here for the past one week meeting diplomats, said that India and Pakistan have failed to realise the anger building up in Srinagar. “The bubble will burst in the near future,” he said, forecasting that a repeat of a 1989 situation was in the pipeline, when people thronged the streets in large numbers. Mir is among the pioneers of the armed struggle in Kashmir. He has served as the chief commander of the JKLF also, and presently heads his own faction of the organisation. He said the confidence building measures (CBMs) introduced a few years ago including the bus service and free movement across the border had raised hopes in Kashmir. However, he said, they seem to have been dashed as the situation of human rights had not improved and the Indian Army was consolidating and widening its bases in Jammu and Kashmir. |
| Posted by:Fred |
#3      Indian army soldiers leave the site of a gunbattle in Ringawari, a heavily forested village 45 kilometers (28 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. Indian soldiers battled Islamic militants in a forest outside Kashmir's main city, the first major clash in the besieged Himalayan region in almost two months, officials said Wednesday. At least two soldiers and nine rebels were reported killed. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-10-03 19:28 |
#2 Meanwhile... Newly appointed Chief of Indian Army General Deepak Kapoor after reviewing a Guard of Honour at the Indian Defence Ministry in New Delhi, India on 01 October 2007. General Deepak Kapoor took over as the Chief of the Army Staff from General J.J. Singh.  Outgoing Indian Army Chief J.J. Singh inspects a guard of honour before he hands over the charge in New Delhi, 30 September 2007. Singh handed over the charge to General Deepak Kapoor who will be the 23rd chief of the Indian Army |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-10-03 19:26 |
| #1 He should remember that it was a Muslim, Lt Gen. Mohammmed Zaki who took back Srinagar from the original "insurgents". Zaki may be retired but there are others like him in the Indian Army. In 1988 there was a surplus of young unemployed men and the Indian Army itself was unprepared. Today that situation is reversed. Of the original group that dreamed of jihad and Pakistan, most are dead, killed by the Army and Police. |
| Posted by: john frum 2007-10-03 06:53 |