India's HR Commission seeks explanation from JK police over youth's custodial death | read this item
New Delhi (August 4, 2011): India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday sought explanation from Jammu and Kashmir Police as to why it did not intimate it about the death of a youth in custody within the stipulated 24 hours.
Nazim Rashid, who died in custody of SOG | read this item
Srinagar, (August 02, 2011): Another custodial death is reported by various sections of media from Kashmir. Nazim Rashid, a 28-year-old youth, is reported to have died in police custody in Baramulla district’s Sopore town on 31 July, 2011 a day after he was detained.
Srinagar (July 28, 2011): The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) today released the report Half Widow, Half Wife? Responding to Gendered Violence in Kashmir. It examines the situation of women in Indian-administered Kashmir whose husbands have ‘disappeared,’ but not yet been declared deceased. Members of APDP who are themselves half widows released this report at SK Municipal Park, Srinagar.
Indian government slammed for barring Amnesty Director to visit Srinagar | read this item
Amritsar, PUNJAB (March 25, 2011): The Dal Khalsa slammed the Indian government for barring Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Director to visit Srinagar for the release of the report on human rights abuses in the valley.
International community should take initiative to investigate into reports of torture in Kashmir | read this item
Ludhiana (December 18, 2010): Commenting upon reports of widespread and systematic torture being practised by India’s armed forces upon Kashmiri People, the Sikh Students Federation has claimed that India had indulged itself in committing “Crimes against Humanity”, no only in Kashmir but upon other people also who oppose India’s imperialist policies and want to live with dignity.
Dal Khalsa flays attempts to muzzle 'voices of dissent' by branding them as 'seditious' | read this item
Amritsar (December 01, 2010): Dal Khalsa expressed its deep concern at the registration of a ‘sedition’ case against veteran Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Arundhati Roy, Prof SAR Geelani, Dr Sheikh Showkat Hussain, Sujato Bhadra, Varavara Rao and Shuddhabrata Sengupta by the Delhi Police on the direction of Metropolitan Magistrate Navita Kumari Bagha.
They can file a charge posthumously against Jawaharlal Nehru too: Arundhati Roy | read this item
In his telegram to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, “I should like to make it clear that the question of aiding Kashmir in this emergency is not designed in any way to influence the state to accede to India. Our view which we have repeatedly made public is that the question of accession in any disputed territory or state must be decided in accordance with wishes of people and we adhere to this view.”
This is permanent and old tactics of New Delhi to create confusion by raking up unnecessary things: Geelani | read this item
Srinagar (November 29, 2010 – Habib Yousafzai): Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Sunday said that his five-point proposals were clear and there was no ambiguity in it.
Does India deserve permanent membership in the United Nation Security Council? | read this item
The atrocities of the Indian forces committed against the Kashmiris cannot be forgotten, e. g., more than 192,685 killings, 215,877 arrests, 110,000 disappearances, 115,665 home demolitions, by Indian Security Forces, leaving 122,675 widows and 207,218 orphans. Indian forces have been committing crimes such as rape, torture, atrocities and gross human rights violations of the Kashmiri people. Nobody is there to listen to their agony for the past 63 years.
Arundhati Roy Booker Prize Winner Author. | read this item
I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day.
Nazim Rashid, who died in custody of SOG | 
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