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Why I wonder ? why live in Kaffirland under Kaffir Administration when you could be living in the land of the pure.Pakistani Wives of Former Kashmiri Militants Demand Indian Citizenship
The women sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik to end their plight.
Srinagar: Pakistani wives of former Kashmiri militants, who returned from across the Line of Control under a rehabilitation scheme for surrendered militants, on Saturday appealed to the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government to either grant them Indian citizenship or deport them.
The women sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik to end their plight.
"It is our right to have the citizenship of the state. We should be made citizens here as is the case with women who marry men in any country. We appeal to the government of India and the state government to either grant us citizenship or deport us," one of the protesters, Zeba, told reporters here.(*I added this, not in the article*I thought Kashmiris weren't Indians, so how does marrying one automatically grant you Indian citizenship ?)
These women arrived in Kashmir during the past decade along with their husbands. They allege that the state government was denying them travel documents to visit their families in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
"Ours is a humanitarian issue. We were promised many things, but nothing was fulfilled. We have no identity here. Many of us are going through depression. There should be initiatives for us like the Karavan-e-Aman (Srinagar-Muzaffarabad) bus service so that we can visit our families," another woman Safia said.
The Karavan-e-Aman (peace caravan) bus service runs between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad in PoK. The bus service was started in 2005 on fortnightly basis as a confidence-building measure between India and Pakistan.
The distressed women also appealed to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and human rights organisations to take note of their ordeal.
Former chief minister Omar Abdullah had in 2010 announced a rehabilitation policy for former Kashmiri militants, who had crossed over to Pakistan from 1989 to 2009.
Hundreds of Kashmiris, who had crossed the Line of Control (LoC) for arms training, returned along with their families through Nepal border till 2016, after which the policy was discontinued by the Centre.
Pakistani Wives of Former Kashmiri Militants Demand Indian Citizenship
Say @BMD didn't you guys have some 16-17 year old girls running off to Syria to fight for ISIS and then demanding to come home or something. What happened with that ?
Give this a read........
Next in their sights: Why India should be extremely wary of American Islamism
Next in their sights: Why India should be extremely wary of American Islamism
More to read on ............
A South Asian Threat in America - Morning Consult
Jamaat-e-Islami: A Danger in South Asia and the U.S. | RealClearDefense
A South Asian Threat in America - Morning Consult
Jamaat-e-Islami: A Danger in South Asia and the U.S. | RealClearDefense
Plenty of terrorists getting arrested and not killed in recent weeks. Pakistan giving up them in fear or just compromised so heavily? New trend.
New trend indeed. I think they just ran out of supplies, the added pressure on their support system(Huriayat et al) is causing surrenders.
@BlackOpsIndia look another one. Delhi police arrested him in Srinagar, what is Jammu and Kashmir police doing ?
Jaish terrorist carrying Rs 2 lakh reward arrested by Delhi Police in Srinagar
Read more at:
Jaish terrorist carrying Rs 2 lakh reward arrested by Delhi Police in Srinagar - Times of India ►
Jaish terrorist carrying Rs 2 lakh reward arrested by Delhi Police in Srinagar
Read more at:
Jaish terrorist carrying Rs 2 lakh reward arrested by Delhi Police in Srinagar - Times of India ►
Looks like Ghar Wapsi of terrorists, youth who left for violence returning home but don't want blot of surender and getting into hit list of terrorist, therefore under the pretence of arrest and some jail time they are trying to get back into mainstream.
ISIS announces a ‘province’ in India
After the attack on Easter in Sri Lanka, Islamic State seems to be focusing on India
ByPrakash Katoch
During the weekend, Amaq News Agency, the mouthpiece of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), announced it had established “Wilayah of Hind” – a “province” of its own – in the Kashmir Valley.
The announcement also claimed that ISIS had inflicted casualties on Indian soldiers in Amshipora, a town in Shopian district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). This came after a militant who had pledged allegiance to ISIS was killed in a clash with Indian security forces.
The loss of territory by ISIS in Iraq and Syria led to hundreds of its cadres moving elsewhere – some on their own and others orchestrated by the nations that continue to support and arm them. ISIS claimed responsibility for the recent Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. But the announcement of “Wilayah of Hind” was something that was waiting to happen, with India’s lackadaisical handling of the ISIS issue, particularly in J&K, despite ominous signs that have been present for years.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) reported in 2014 the recruitment of more than 300 Indian youths by Pakistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), which had joined hands with ISIS. Jamaat-e-Ahrar was the latest breakaway group of TTP proclaiming allegiance to the ISIS. However, much earlier, the Syrian ambassador to India had stated that some 5,000 Pakistan Taliban had been fighting alongside ISIS in Syria and Iraq for several months.
In 2014, ISIS distributed pamphlets in Peshawar, Pakistan, and border areas of Afghanistan propagating the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (IS-KP). Multiple Wahhabi-Salafi groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan backed by Saudi Arabia, including in Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, and Ahrarul Islam (another splinter group of TTP) pledged support to ISIS. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is also aligned with ISIS. In addition, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) also discounts national boundaries and wants to establish an “Islamic world.”
With respect to IS-KP, the US intelligence assessment under former president Barack Obama’s administration was that these were disgruntled elements of the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan Taliban coming together. But it is believed that IS-KP (of about a brigade-level strength) had help from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Peshawar area, which was then pushed west into Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Afghans at times refer to this IS-KP brigade as the “ISI brigade.”
In 2014, the UK’s Channel 4 reported that an Indian, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was behind the biggest “ISIS Twitter handle” known as “@ShamiWitness.” He operated for several years in India and helped in the recruitment of more cadres. Biswas was apprehended after Indian investigators found him working for a food company in Bengaluru, India.
It has also been reported that ISIS flags have been appearing in Kashmir for the last couple of years. The first recognition of ISIS operating in Kashmir came with the group claiming responsibility for attacking a police party in the Zakura area of Srinagar on November 17, 2017, killing a sub-inspector and injuring a special police officer.
ISIS also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman guarding the residence of Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi in Srinagar on February 25, 2018. On June 22 last year, Dawood Ahmad Salafi, chief of Islamic State of J&K (IS-JK), a known ISIS affiliate, was gunned down in the Anantnag area of the Kashmir Valley. The next day, security forces killed another four IS-JK militants, bringing the tally to eight.
After the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday, ISIS issued a threat to India and Bangladesh and appointed Abu Muhammed al-Bengali as its new chief in Bangladesh. ISIS sympathizers who run several channels using Telegram, an encrypted messaging service, on April 25 circulated a poster in Bengali saying “Coming soon,” with the logo of a group called al-Mursalat.
After announcing a “province” in Kashmir, ISIS may also attempt to increase its presence in other Indian states such as West Bengal or Kerala. A number of young men and women from Kerala had already been identified as joining the IS-KP a few years ago. Some are believed also to have traveled to Syria.
There was no official reaction from Indian authorities to the ISIS claim of establishing “Wilayah of Hind” in Kashmir. Observers point to a deteriorating situation in the state over the past five years, particularly during the coalition government run by the Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. That period witnessed unprecedented violence, with casualty figures of security forces rising by 93% compared with figures for the years between 2003 and 2014. Stone-throwing crowds surged.
Successive Indian governments have lacked a cohesive policy for tackling the insurgency in Kashmir. Even the education system in the state has not been fully integrated with the rest of India.
Pakistan-based terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have succeeded in radicalizing Kashmiri youth. This was a major factor that led to the designation of those organizations as international terror groups by the United Nations Security Council. Indian intelligence and the CIA have linked those organizations to ISIS, in particular to IS-KP and the ISI
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If some one is reading this then I just want to say that, as I have already mentioned a lot of times, the war is for territory and terrorism is a tool to capture territory. You should not be fooling yourselves any more. This is RED ALERT. You keep going to UN which has failed to prevent Syria and Venenzuella, to tarnish Pakistan's involvement in India , you will fail all the time, because obviously there is a particular lobby working for greater cause.
War any kind of is only fought for resources and territory, we Indians are the only ones who believe that it's fought to bring peace. Yes, peace for you is disaster for some one else. And if it's a stalemate with pakistan, it means you have lost it.
The more Indians fools themselves especially Hindus that Kashmir is a political problem, I tell you, you will lose the war. Why? Because Pakistan is trying to show Kashmir as religious trouble. The muslim lobby will never come openly onto it but behind the curtains they are after Kashmir.
Yes Christian lobby will support you at the world platform but then they have other interests as well. India needs territory and that's the only solution. IF IS is getting strong hold in Kashmir, then India has full right to go military over the region and capture as much as territory as India can.
After the attack on Easter in Sri Lanka, Islamic State seems to be focusing on India
ByPrakash Katoch
During the weekend, Amaq News Agency, the mouthpiece of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), announced it had established “Wilayah of Hind” – a “province” of its own – in the Kashmir Valley.
The announcement also claimed that ISIS had inflicted casualties on Indian soldiers in Amshipora, a town in Shopian district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). This came after a militant who had pledged allegiance to ISIS was killed in a clash with Indian security forces.
The loss of territory by ISIS in Iraq and Syria led to hundreds of its cadres moving elsewhere – some on their own and others orchestrated by the nations that continue to support and arm them. ISIS claimed responsibility for the recent Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. But the announcement of “Wilayah of Hind” was something that was waiting to happen, with India’s lackadaisical handling of the ISIS issue, particularly in J&K, despite ominous signs that have been present for years.
India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) reported in 2014 the recruitment of more than 300 Indian youths by Pakistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), which had joined hands with ISIS. Jamaat-e-Ahrar was the latest breakaway group of TTP proclaiming allegiance to the ISIS. However, much earlier, the Syrian ambassador to India had stated that some 5,000 Pakistan Taliban had been fighting alongside ISIS in Syria and Iraq for several months.
In 2014, ISIS distributed pamphlets in Peshawar, Pakistan, and border areas of Afghanistan propagating the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (IS-KP). Multiple Wahhabi-Salafi groups operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan backed by Saudi Arabia, including in Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, and Ahrarul Islam (another splinter group of TTP) pledged support to ISIS. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is also aligned with ISIS. In addition, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) also discounts national boundaries and wants to establish an “Islamic world.”
With respect to IS-KP, the US intelligence assessment under former president Barack Obama’s administration was that these were disgruntled elements of the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan Taliban coming together. But it is believed that IS-KP (of about a brigade-level strength) had help from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Peshawar area, which was then pushed west into Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Afghans at times refer to this IS-KP brigade as the “ISI brigade.”
In 2014, the UK’s Channel 4 reported that an Indian, Mehdi Masroor Biswas, was behind the biggest “ISIS Twitter handle” known as “@ShamiWitness.” He operated for several years in India and helped in the recruitment of more cadres. Biswas was apprehended after Indian investigators found him working for a food company in Bengaluru, India.
It has also been reported that ISIS flags have been appearing in Kashmir for the last couple of years. The first recognition of ISIS operating in Kashmir came with the group claiming responsibility for attacking a police party in the Zakura area of Srinagar on November 17, 2017, killing a sub-inspector and injuring a special police officer.
ISIS also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman guarding the residence of Hurriyat leader Fazal Haq Qureshi in Srinagar on February 25, 2018. On June 22 last year, Dawood Ahmad Salafi, chief of Islamic State of J&K (IS-JK), a known ISIS affiliate, was gunned down in the Anantnag area of the Kashmir Valley. The next day, security forces killed another four IS-JK militants, bringing the tally to eight.
After the Sri Lanka bombings on Easter Sunday, ISIS issued a threat to India and Bangladesh and appointed Abu Muhammed al-Bengali as its new chief in Bangladesh. ISIS sympathizers who run several channels using Telegram, an encrypted messaging service, on April 25 circulated a poster in Bengali saying “Coming soon,” with the logo of a group called al-Mursalat.
After announcing a “province” in Kashmir, ISIS may also attempt to increase its presence in other Indian states such as West Bengal or Kerala. A number of young men and women from Kerala had already been identified as joining the IS-KP a few years ago. Some are believed also to have traveled to Syria.
There was no official reaction from Indian authorities to the ISIS claim of establishing “Wilayah of Hind” in Kashmir. Observers point to a deteriorating situation in the state over the past five years, particularly during the coalition government run by the Peoples Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. That period witnessed unprecedented violence, with casualty figures of security forces rising by 93% compared with figures for the years between 2003 and 2014. Stone-throwing crowds surged.
Successive Indian governments have lacked a cohesive policy for tackling the insurgency in Kashmir. Even the education system in the state has not been fully integrated with the rest of India.
Pakistan-based terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed have succeeded in radicalizing Kashmiri youth. This was a major factor that led to the designation of those organizations as international terror groups by the United Nations Security Council. Indian intelligence and the CIA have linked those organizations to ISIS, in particular to IS-KP and the ISI
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If some one is reading this then I just want to say that, as I have already mentioned a lot of times, the war is for territory and terrorism is a tool to capture territory. You should not be fooling yourselves any more. This is RED ALERT. You keep going to UN which has failed to prevent Syria and Venenzuella, to tarnish Pakistan's involvement in India , you will fail all the time, because obviously there is a particular lobby working for greater cause.
War any kind of is only fought for resources and territory, we Indians are the only ones who believe that it's fought to bring peace. Yes, peace for you is disaster for some one else. And if it's a stalemate with pakistan, it means you have lost it.
The more Indians fools themselves especially Hindus that Kashmir is a political problem, I tell you, you will lose the war. Why? Because Pakistan is trying to show Kashmir as religious trouble. The muslim lobby will never come openly onto it but behind the curtains they are after Kashmir.
Yes Christian lobby will support you at the world platform but then they have other interests as well. India needs territory and that's the only solution. IF IS is getting strong hold in Kashmir, then India has full right to go military over the region and capture as much as territory as India can.
Those who are laughing on my post , when their daughters and sisters are taken away by invading army like 500 or 600 years ago, then you will not be smiling. Indians are not realizing what is happening around them like pigeons with eyes closed. It is time before it's too late to teach these scums on earth a lesson. They want war India will give them war. And would make sure that these scums regret it for their ghazwa and other things what they are doing in kashmir every other day and take back our lost territory to accommodate the growing population in India.