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| India-Pakistan |
| Hindu-Muslim clashes escalate in IHK |
| 2008-06-26 |
| Kashmir Valley turned into a battlefield for a third day on Wednesday as hundreds of youth fought pitched battles with police and paramilitary forces protesting against the transfer of forestland to Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath. Clashes: The latest clashes left a civilian, Farooq Ahmed dead, and 65 others wounded, including 15 members of Indian police and paramilitary forces and four Hindu pilgrims, police said. Most government offices, businesses and schools in Srinagar were forced shut. Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad issued an appeal for calm and vowed no accommodation for Hindu pilgrims would be built until further notice. “I request all to maintain peace and brotherhood,” Azad told a news conference, and promised an “all-party meeting to reach a consensus on how to deal with the issue”. Meanwhile, a document issued by the six-member action committee constituted by the Hurriyat Conference against the land transfer has stated that under the garb of providing facilities to the Hindu pilgrims, the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board is planning to construct dams on Lidder and Indus rivers to generate power for the shrine. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Ah... those tolerant Muslim Kashmiris, moderate sufis and all that... |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-06-26 18:44 |
| #1 I blame the Jews. /most of the Western media |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-06-26 11:03 |