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Geelani issues protest calendar

By News Desk Hurriyat G chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Monday issued a new protest calendar. He said that bringing back the mortal remains of Muhammed Afzal Guru is the ultimate demand of his party. In a press release issued here, Geelani was quoted saying, there will be no strike of Tuesday but people [...]

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SAR Geelani leads Kashmiri students protest in Delhi

By News Desk Hundreds of Kashmiri students studying in Delhi on Friday held a protest against the hanging of Afzal Guru in Tihar Jail. The protests march coincided with the Eidgah Chalo call given by the Hurriyat Conference in Jammu and Kashmir. Carrying banners and placards that read: We Want Freedom, Quit Kashmir, Resistance for [...]

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Omar did for Guru what Farooq did in Bhat’s Case: Hurriyat (G)

By News Desk While reacting to media reports suggesting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had snubbed Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for the way parliament attack convict Muhammad Afzal Guru was hanged without informing his family, Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani termed it as ‘too little too late and akin to wiping [...]

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Assemble at Eidgah on Friday: Geelani

By News Desk Asking people to assemble at historical Eidgah on Friday in Srinagar, Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani has urged Government of India to return the mortal remains of Afzal Guru to his family. He also called for return of mortal remains of Maqbool Bhat who was hanged at Delhi’s Tihar Jail in [...]

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Protest in Delhi against the attack on Geelani

By Fahad Shah “We want freedom“- the slogan, a demand of the people of Indian-held-Kashmir reverberated today in the centre of India’s capital Delhi, at Jantar Mantar, just walking distance away from the parliament of this country. Early in the evening, assembling in a large tent, erected on one side of the road, hundreds of [...]

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ACCESS DENIED

By Caelainn Hogan In the international media, the murder of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad raised crucial concerns about the intimidation and targeting of journalists and political activists by the ISI in Pakistan. However, the detention and deportation of human rights advocate Gautam Navlakha from Kashmir has barely been mentioned. As Vaclav Havel argues, it is [...]

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Freedom chants for Kashmir, Pandits react violently

By Fahad Shah Sitting in an auditorium on a clammy afternoon of end-October, an enthusiastic audience chanting pro-freedom slogans after each praises to the speakers was the scene in New Delhi on Thursday. Little Theatre Group auditorium in central city, just three kilometers away walking distance from the higher house of Indian government, Parliament house [...]