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“Youth must maintain discipline; stone throwing a compulsion”

By News Desk | Srinagar Terming the death of a youth in Islamabad district of South Kashmir during to stone throwing  as unfortunate and extremely condemnable , the chairman of a pro-freedom Hurriyat Conference group, Syed Ali Geelani today called upon agitating youth to maintain discipline in the ongoing struggle. “Discipline is a pre-requisite for [...]

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Afzal Guru’s spirit is haunting us: Tihar prisoners

By News Desk Inmates at the highly fortified Tihar jail in New Delhi, have complained that Afzal Guru’s spirit was haunting them and have requested the jail authorities to hold prayers. Convicted for attacking the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mohammad Afzal Guru, was hanged on February 9, 2013 and buried in the jail. Quoting sources, [...]

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The Meaning of Maqbool Butt

By P G Rasool Regarding the revolutionary struggle, Eqbal Ahmad writes in Confronting Empire, “A strategy of moral isolation assumes that the adversary has based its own legitimacy on moral grounds.” For Eqbal Ahmad the strategy of moral isolation of the adversary counts high. In retrospect we can analyse the life and sacrifice of Muhammad [...]

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From Tihar Jail, New Delhi

Dated 7th August, 1981 To Mian Sarwar, a political activist in Srinagar Seeking help from God, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Dear Mian Ghulam Sarwar Sahib, Assalam-u-Alaikum I received your letter of 27th July a few days ago. Believe me, that epistle of love and the attached newspaper clippings have doubled the joy of [...]

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The Leader: Maqbool Butt

By Muhammad Faysal “Nations survive because of that (strong) spirit, that abiding passion for liberty, which according to our Holy Prophet (pbuh), “emboldens one to recite the Kalima-e-Tawheed (the call for truth) before a tyrant, and that too with the conviction that this is the greatest Jihad”.  —Maqbool Butt Of all the heroes in Kashmir’s [...]