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Saturday, June 22, 2013

J&K serves notices on Army, BSF, for defacing Srinagar hill range

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Srinagar: Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, Shri Shailendra Kumar has served notices on the Army, the Border Security Force (BSF) and even the Jammu and Kashmir Police, asking each to explain reasons as to why they had committed ecological vandalism, with the massive defacement of a hill range overlooking the capital city.

Authoritative sources revealed to The Hindu that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had pulled up senior officials and bureaucrats over turning a blind eye to the large-scale defacement of a barren hill range from Sonwar to Zewan by the police and security forces.

The boldly laid slogan “Ajeet hain, abheet hain [we are victorious, we are invincible],” directly facing a civilian population of two million, sources said, was termed “most disgusting” by the Chief Minister.

“They need to address it to the Chinese Army, not their own people,” the Chief Minister is said to have said at an official meeting. He was not available by telephone for confirmation. Bureaucratic sources, however, confirmed that Kashmir’s Divisional Commissioner Shailendar Kumar had served the notices separately to the Army, the BSF and the Police on the Chief Minister’s direction.

Politicians as well as officials were reportedly in unison that the slogans imposed with painted stones over furlongs of the lofty hills were not only an act of “ecological vandalism,” and banned by the Supreme Court of India, but also suggestive of “conquering the country’s own citizens.”

Sources said that a notice, directly served on Headquarters, 15 Corps, asked the Army to immediately restore virginity to the hill. Identical directions under different laws have been reportedly communicated to the BSF and J&K Police.

A senior police officer is said to have resisted dismantling of a building housing the Shergarhi police station and threatened the government through a senior bureaucrat. The officer had reportedly said that “machine guns would roar” if authorities proceeded with the demolition.

The Chief Minister, however, put his foot down and got the station demolished by the Economic and Reconstruction Authority (ERA) within a day.

He alleged that different agencies and bureaucrats had been creating roadblocks in the construction of an ambitious flyover between Jehangir Chowk and Rambagh.

All Deputy Commissioners have been directed to take inventories of government lands occupied or encroached upon by the police.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Indian troops kill 19 civilians in Kashmir

Srinagar, September 14 In Jammu and  Kashmir, Indian paramilitary personnel killed at least 19 civilians and injured over 200 others when hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several parts of the held valley, demanding of India to vacate the territory without any further delay. Those killed included three teenaged boys, a woman and district president of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front-R.

The killings took place in Bandipore, Tangmarg, Cherare Sherief, Budgam, Pampore, Sopore and Islamabad on Monday. Another youth who was injured on September 6 in the firing of police personnel succumbed to injuries in a Srinagar hospital on September 12.

With fresh killings the death toll of protesters in the ongoing uprising mounted to 96 since June 11.

On the other hand, Indian troops during crackdown operations martyred three innocent civilians at Lashkoot in Bandipore.

Meanwhile, an indefinite curfew was imposed in Poonch town while protest demonstrations were also held in Jammu, Doda, Ramban, Banihal, Batote, Kastigar and Mandi areas.

The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has demanded of India to stop killings of innocent Kashmiris and take solid steps for resolution of the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris’ aspirations.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar said that the people of occupied Kashmir were demanding their birthright to self-determination but the Indian troops and police personnel were showering bullets and teargas shells on peaceful demonstrators.

He said that the massive anti-India demonstrations by the people of the occupied territory was a referendum against India. He said that the Indian government was hoodwinking Indian people regarding the Kashmir situation and they were not being apprised of the real situation.

The APHC Chairman said that the Indian government was giving the impression that the Kashmir dispute was a non-issue and Pakistan was involved in the deteriorating situation of occupied Kashmir. He said Kashmiris from 10 years to 70 years of age were demanding for their right guaranteed by the United Nations.

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq urged India to give up its rigid stance on Kashmir, realise the ground reality and settle the Kashmir dispute through meaningful tripartite talks including Pakistan, India and the real leadership of Kashmiri people.

He also appealed the international human rights organisations to put pressure on India to stop continued killings of innocent Kashmiris and amicably resolve the dispute so that permanent peace could be established in South Asia.(Writer-South Asia)