Braid Chopping :Dignity Attacked

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Scores of braid chopping incidents across the length and the breadth of the Kashmir valley have send shock waves in entire valley and installed fear in the masses especially women .

 

In the past seven weeks, more than 200 “braid chopping” incidents have been reported in Kashmir , according to reports .All this has once again brought the issues of women safety concerns into limelight .

Pertinently, the monster of domestic violence had already been paining our women. It is worth mentioning here that  Domestic violence (also domestic abuse, spousal abuse, intimate partner violence, battering or family violence) is a pattern of behavior which involves violence or other abuse by one person in a domestic context against another, such as in marriage. Globally, a wife or female partner is more commonly the victim of acts of domestic violence.

In recent past, even the Urban Police Stations have registered hundreds of cases of domestic violence showing the grim nature of the issue. Sometime back the Data compiled by the Jammu & Kashmir Police Crime Branch reveals that in the past two years, it has registered over 4,000 cases of crimes against women.

Not Enough protests and Sit-ins have been witnessed with reference to burning issue of Domestic violence but the trend seems changing as against the menace of braid chopping several protests, anger and rage has been witnessed.

 

 

In a heartening development,  District administration Anantnag has constituted a Committee to investigate the braid chopping incidents reported in the district.  The district administration has sought cooperation of the general public to nab culprits and maintaining peace.

 

Meanwhile, the district administration thanked Village and Auqaf committees for being proactive in their approach and maintaining vigil. The administration appealed people not to pay heed to rumors and cooperate with the Committee so that a thorough investigation is carried out into these incidents.   In this regard, People have been urged to cooperate with district administration and for any assistance contact on 18001807054/ 01932222337/ 9419047052/ 9419367252.

Mushtaq ul Haq Sikander, Gender Justice Activist stated – “ The issue of braid chopping has once again brought to fore front how crimes against women are taking different forms, painfully enough the concerned authorities are having no clue about the evil forces behind these acts whileas people have complete distrust towards authorities. All these bleak realities have further worsened the situation with reference to serious issue of women safety in our part of the world .”

Nevertheless, braid chopping has instilled a wave of fear and uncertainty in Kashmir with respect to women safety.

 

 

Chaotic Kashmir

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Chaos, Panic has spread throughout in Kashmir in wake of braid chopping attacks being reported from length and breadth of the Kashmir Valley.

Scores of women in Kashmir have reported being attacked by masked assailants in the last two months. The women claimed the attackers sprayed chemicals on their faces and left them unconscious. Upon waking up, they found their hair had been chopped off.

Meanwhile, a PIL has also been filed by some lawyers in this regard .

 

Talking to our  correspondent , Advocate Masrat Kawsar  (who filed PIL) stated -”  Braid Chopping has assumed menacing form .We have in our PIL brought attention of honorable High court into the serious matter of braid Chopping and calling upon the Police to ensure nabbing the culprits and making the women folk feel secure .With intervention from Court we are hopeful that the process of acting swiftly in these ugly incidents of braid chopping will gain momentum. We are hopeful that it would be Soon listed for hearing.”

Uneasiness, hooligan approach at some instances has also crept in.

Narrating the ordeal of a mentally challenged person who was roughed up taken as braid chopper Javeed Ali, columnist wrote  “ A person was roughed up near our house. My all attempts to protect him from beating and listening to his version failed completely as he was badly overpowered by the huge group of people of our vicinity. In the meantime, police vehicles arrived and they asked to hand him over to them. The people declined to hand him over to police and started chanting slogans suspecting him as Army worker. They pelted stones on police vehicles but police burst tear smoke shells and took him forcibly in their vehicle. After that everyone started making bizarre stories surrounding the incident as is common in Kashmir.

The next day, respectable and trustworthy elders of our area went to the police station to enquire about the fate of the alleged braid chopper. They were shocked to know that the person whom they had beaten barbarously is a mentally retarded patient of our nearby locality. He was now admitted in a hospital. His family members were present there with the medical documents which confirmed that he is suffering from stress and depression since last 20 years. They were crying bitterly along with the mentally challenged person whom we had suspected as braid chopper.”

Without doubt the alleged braid-choppers have frightened locals across the valley of Kashmir and life has literally come to grinding halt , with growing suspicion and innocents also been targeted becoming the sad realities .

 

Braid Chopping : Unending Mystery

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The series of continuous braid chopping incidents in different areas of the Kashmir valley have given rise to panic and fear. According to Wikipedia, Mysterious hair chopping incidents and rumours of Indian females have erupted in India and Nepal from late June 2017 onwards when  a news channel reported on June 23 that a female from Bikaner, Rajasthan was chopped her hair by a suspect witch when she was sleeping in night, but only one such incident was reported in the entire state at that time. After the incident, many villagers were keeping a strong eye on the woman’s house but later no evidence of a witch or any other supernatural creature was found. As this incident went viral to almost every part of India, especially in the northern states like Delhi, Bihar, Haryana, Uttarakhandand Uttar Pradesh.

The Kashmir Valley reported its first braid chopping in September, about a month after Jammu had reported several similar incidents. In all, according to the police, 35 cases of braid chopping have been reported from Kashmir so far and 192 from Jammu division.

Different reasons are being attributed to it and aptly described by the sane voices . Doctor Yasir Wani on Social Networking Website Facebook wrote :

“Braid chopping :

1) Some doctors opine it is hysterical conversion reaction which is a functional disorder more common in adolescent girls than boys and adults.

2) Some people blame the agencies

3) Some people blame the local criminals who are taking advantage of the confusion and chaos.

4) others are of the opinion that braid choppers are a reality as an organisation with a purpose to cause fear psychosis among already anxious kashmiris.

I think all above opinions are partly right. The reality might lie in the mix of all the above opinions..!!

P:S : Rumours on the social media add fuel to the fire..!!”

In addition to the fear psychosis, the politics has also heated on the issue of braid Chopping in Kashmir and with it public anger is also growing. On October 2, Riyaz Naikoo, field operational commander of the militant group Hizbul Mujahedeen, released an audio statement saying the chopping of women’s braids was aimed at “weakening” the separatist movement.

On its part the Jammu and Kashmir Police  stated recently that it doubled the bounty to Rs 6 lakhs for providing any information about the mysterious braid chopping incidents that has gripped the Valley.

 

“Incidents of mysterious braid cutting occurred in south and central Kashmir. Police announced reward upto Rs 6 lakh for info on people behind incidents,” said SP Vaid, DIG Police,  Kashmir.

“ We hope the evil forces behind the ugly incidents of braid chopping would soon be identified and arrested so that the fear created by them is defeated .Currently these braid chopping incidents have given rise to panic and unease, stated Sameena, a house wife.

Undoubtedly, braid chopping has given rise to atmosphere of chaos and fear in Kashmir.

 

 

 

 

Bright Billa

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised Bilal Dar, an 18-year-old ragpicker who earned his living by picking up waste from the Wular Lake in Bandipora district of north Kashmir.

 

In Mann Ki Baat, PM Modi congratulated the SMC Srinagar for their initiative for picking him as Brand Ambassador. PM Appreciated Bilal and said he Could serve as an inspiration for others.

Meanwhile Bilal said that I am very much happy that PM Modi Appreciated me and Praising my Work.

 

Bilals also known as Billa Journey From Ragpicker to Brand Ambassador:is mind blowing –

 

Up until recently, 15-year-old Bilal Ahmad Dar earned his living by collecting scraps and cleaning up toxic debris and dead animal carcasses from the famous Wular lake in Bandipora district of northern Kashmir.

 

However, in a remarkable twist of fortune, the teen was appointed as brand ambassador by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) who believed that Bilal could serve as an inspiration for others because even though he came from a disenfranchised background that did not stop him from caring for his environment.

 

“Bilal is an energetic boy and  inspiration for everyone. From a tender age, he earned a living by cleaning the Wular Lake by removing garbage, used bottles and shoes from it. But money wasn’t the only driving force behind his work, he genuinely cares for the environment. We are proud of overall efforts in this regard ,” said SMC Commissioner Shafqat Khan while talking to News Kashmir.

 

“Wular has been poisoned due to all the trash that floats around in it and tourists who visit this majestic lake felt dejected so I decided to help clean some of the filth from it,” Bilal said.

 

Bilal took up cleaning of Wular lake from 2012 and earned around Rs. 6000 monthly even though he says, that initially he received no help from the society of the administration in this noble endeavor but is very thankful of  Shafqat Khan SMC Commissioner efforts .

 

“I collected plastic and polythene trash from the lake and sold them. Off course it fetched me some money. But it also helped in cleaning up Wular. Water is life, it has to be clean.,” says the teen who had to forsake his dreams of pursuing an education because his family couldn’t afford the expenses.

 

“We couldn’t afford at one time Rs. 900,” said Bilal’s sister. Bilal who hails from Laharwarpora village in Bandipora, like so many others struggled for a livelihood in this conflict-ridden paradise and collected plastic trash from the lake which he then sold for Rs. 200 on an average day.

 

Wular has been poisoned due to all the trash that floats around in it and tourists who visit this majestic lake felt dejected so Bilal  decided to help clean some of the filth from it. He deeply cared for the lake and was saddened by all the trash floating in it.

“There are dead animals floating in Wular. Our environment has degraded, there is every chance you will get sick if you drank water from the lake,” Bilal says.

“If I picked 100 plastic bottles it helps keep the water clean. I did earn some money but the Wular gets cleaned in the process.,”. Bilal says with a look of satisfaction, adding that he collects over 14,000 kilos of trash each year from the lake.

 

Bilal while recollecting hard days says while often collecting  trash from the lake from dusk till dawn, but on some days, he failed to sell it. “Somedays I didn’t earn and I had to bear it,”. Bilal’s father Mohammad Ramzan Dar, who also worked as a ragpicker died of cancer in 2003 when he was a studying in Class 6th , forcing the teen to abandon studies and earn a livelihood to support his mother and 14-year-old sister.

“He became breadwinner for us, since his (father’s) death. Bilal never lets me do any hard-work. He abandoned school so that we wouldn’t have to suffer,” Bilal’s mother Mughli Begum (60) said with tearful eyes.

 

Bilal’s “Wular-cleanup mission” finally caught the eye of authorities and the SMC appointed him as their brand ambassador.

Bilal’s remarkable story caught people’s attention after he was featured in a critically-acclaimed short documentary ‘Saving the Savior – Story of Kid and Wular Lake,” by a Kashmir-based filmmaker maker Jalal-u-Din Baba.

“Credit goes to Bilal in the way he inspired people to care and show concern about their environment. He’s a remarkable human being,” Baba said.

Baba added – “He doesn’t wish to live like dead weight on mother nature like most people do by trashing their environment. He has amazing compassion for nature,”.

Bilal’s story also proves the efficiency of SMC While proving how a Government Department  if it acts positively can change our society.

Pellet Pain

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Amnesty International’s report “Losing Sight in Kashmir: The Impact of Pellet-Firing Shotguns”- designed with photographs of blinded pellet victims was released few days back  . Pertinently, the report  presented the cases of 88 people whose eyesight has been damaged by pellets between 2014 and 2017.

The widespread use of the weapon was witnessed across length and breadth of Kashmir during the agitation in the Valley last year killed several people and blinded  scores  after violence broke out during protests sparked by the death of a Hizbul Mujahiddin militant, Burhan Wani.

Amnesty International report maintained that there is no proper way to use pellet-firing shotguns. It is irresponsible of the authorities to continue the use of the shotguns despite being aware of the damage they do.

After a spate of ghastly injuries last year the havoc caused by pellet gun in Kashmir  earned the title “epidemic of dead eyes”, Amnesty and other rights groups called for a complete ban on the use of the shotguns. As a matter of fact  single cartridge fired releases at least 500 high-speed metal pellets. These lodge in any available body part and are difficult to remove.

 

It is worth pointing out that In its report, Amnesty said it interviewed people aged from nine to 65.

“In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that change in Kashmir will not come from guns or abuses – na goli, na gali. If the government truly means this, they must end the use of pellet-firing shotguns, which have caused immense suffering in Kashmir,” Aakar Patel, executive director of Amnesty International India, said in a statement.

The report named 88 people, who were injured by pellets fired by security forces to quell protests in the Valley between 2014 and 2017. Of them, 31 suffered injuries to both the eyes, with two of them losing their vision completely, the report said. Speaking on the occasion, the executive director of Amnesty International India, Aakar Patel, demanded that the central and state governments ensure “the weapons are used in line with international human rights standards”.

“Pellet guns are only used in Jammu and Kashmir and not anywhere else in India. We have raised the issue with the government and it has assured us that they will be used only in extreme situations. We were told that the government understands that the damage caused by pellets is disproportionate,” he said.

Ajaz War , PRESIDENT JKYJA Stated – “ The report of Amnesty International is an eye-opener on the havoc caused by the pellets especially the loss of vision .It is high time that in the larger interest of humanity and peace the Government bans the pellet gun forever .”

 

Undoubtedly, Amnesty International report and voices of sanity clear call for blanket ban on this cruel weapon known as pellet gun.

NIA Crackdown: Bid to crush Separatists?

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National Investigation Agency (NIA) raids continuing since past few months have gained momentum and we are often now regularly witnessing NIA raids across the length and breadth of Kashmir .

Recently there have been swift developments with regard to it.

Few days back in press conference at historic Jamia prominent pro-freedom leaders including JKLF Chief Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Syed Ali Shah Geelani  dared the NIA. Malik sent a warning to the agency, saying “keep the doors of Tihar Jail open. We are coming.”

In the same  press conference, they said that they have already arranged for their tickets and will volunteer their arrest before NIA.

 

 

“We are going to hold a protest outside NIA headquarters in New Delhi against the harassment of pro-freedom leadership. We are ready to get arrested and be lodged in Tihar,” they said.

While talking to the news channel, Mirwaiz said that what the NIA has done is not an investigation. He added that all the information was presented to the media and instead of an investigation, it is like a media trial. He added that the entire NIA drama is a propaganda because the leadership is scared and Hurriyat’s stand will not change now.

In yet another big development , The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday raided the residence of senior separatist leader and Shia cleric, Syed Agha Hassan in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district. Sources said the NIA sleuths assisted by the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) raided Hassan’s home and carried out searches for several hours . On Wednesday, the agency had raided 24 places in the Kashmir Valley and in Delhi focusing mainly on traders, who allegedly have links with the terror funding case presently under probe by the NIA.

While few days back even a photojournalist was also arrested by NIA.NIA had stated that it arrested two notorious stone pelters .An NIA spokesperson identified them as Javed Abdul Bhat from Kulgam and Kamran Yusuf from Pulwama in south Kashmir. Describing them as “notorious stone-pelters”, the spokesperson said they would be produced in a Delhi court on Wednesday.

This is the first time the NIA has arrested people allegedly involved in stone-pelting incidents. These are also the NIA’s first arrests from south Kashmir since filing a case on May 30.

According to the NIA, Bhat is unemployed while Yusuf is a photojournalist who takes pictures of stone-pelting incidents and sells them to newspapers.  While as in reaction to this journalists from South Kashmir held a protest demonstration at Press Colony on Thursday against the arrest of Kamran Yousuf by National Investigating Agency (NIA) in stone pelting related cases

 

Meanwhile, J&K High Court Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom  was also questioned for many hours at NIA Headquarters at Delhi.

Amid all this many too are seeing all this as a bid to crush separatist thought and leadership completely in troubled kashmir.

SC Judgment on triple Talaq: Reactions

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Recently, the supreme court in 395-page landmark  judgment  on the triple talaq issue  stated that  ” In view of the different opinions recorded, by a majority of 3:2 the practice of talaq-e-bidat – triple talaq is set aside.” It is signed by all the five judges involved, namely Jagdish Singh Khehar (Chief Justice), Kurian Joseph, Rohinton Fali Nariman, Uday Umesh Lalit and S. Abdul Nazeer.

The reactions overall are welcoming .Noted writer and communist leader Brinda Karat in her column titled  BJP’s Hypocrisy In Seeking Credit For Triple Talaq Ban

wrote – “

This order constitutes a victory for the secular struggle for women’s rights. Any judgement which enhances the rights of women of one community certainly impacts positively on all women. Muslim women have been in the forefront of the struggle against what they consider a patriarchal misinterpretation of Koranic tenets such as the talaq-e-bidat form of divorce which is instant and arbitrary, and all credit to their struggle and that of democratic women’s organisations like AIDWA who took up this issue many decades ago and campaigned in a sustained manner among Muslim women.

The reactions of BJP leaders are amusing, hailing it as their victory. It is nothing of the sort. The court has maintained a fine balance between the protection for personal laws granted by the constitution and judicial intervention. In the majority judgement too, the judgement is careful to point out that it is related to only one type of triple talaq, talaq-e-bidat, which it found arbitrary and not intrinsic to Koranic tenets. It did not accept the efforts and arguments of the Attorney General representing the central government to widen the scope of the court intervention to other aspects of divorce under Muslim personal law. The efforts to bring in arguments in favour of the Uniform Civil Code were also not taken into consideration by the Court. In fact, the Chief Justice of India made a specific mention of the arguments of the Attorney General and made an implicit warning against a “cascading effect.”

 

Prof Rakesh Sinha , Delhi University and honorary director, India Policy Foundation.,in his opinion piece published in NDTV Wrote “The Supreme Court’s verdict on triple talaq naturally entails further discussion on the necessity of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) for the country. This is not far-fetched since, in a liberal, democratic and secular society, gender justice based on a sense of equality can only be ensured by a common civil code. The Supreme Court ruling on triple talaq as unconstitutional is a landmark, not only for victims of the medieval practice, but also because this is the first time that the Indian state has taken a radical stand on the issue.

In 1950s, during a discussion on the Hindu Code Bill in the Lok Sabha, J B Kripalani, a socialist and former President of the Indian National Congress, accused the Nehru government of being communal since it was proposing modernization of a community and not extending the benefits to Muslims. Nehru was guided by Curzon’s philosophy to justify obscurantism and gender inequality to appease Muslims. Both of them failed to understand that the state does not belong to a community and the moral and legal duty of agencies and institutions of the state is to increasingly infuse scientific temperament and modernity.”

Overall throughout the country the striking down of Triple Talaaq is being welcomed.

 

Modi’s Jhappi

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Recently, on India’s 71st Independence Day  Prime Minister Narendra Modi speech contained fair amount of reflection on Kashmir situation too. PM Modi stated – Na goli se, na gaali se Kashmir ki samasya hal hogi (Neither bullets nor brickbats will solve the Kashmir issue)”, adding, “it will only be solved by love and by embracing all Kashmiris.

 

 

The speech came at a time when  Kashmir is sliding from bad to worse  and worst hit is especially the violence hit South Kashmir . Bloodbath has become  order of day and many had not thought that Indian Prime Minister in his Independence day speech of 2017 ,his fourth as Prime Minister from ramparts of Red Fort Delhi would sound a softer , changed approach on Kashmir .

 

Voices  in Kashmir are optimistic that this speech would be translated into action and especially the orders will be passed on to end grave human rights violations and Government  forces would be held accountable for any undue action against common masses. From Quite sometime now  we have seen increased instances of youth  getting killed in Government forces action .

 

Ground opinion is clear that the first step that would give this speech meaning is the ugly cycle of death would be put to end .

 

While talking to News Kashmir, Journalist Ajaz War, Chairman JKYJA Stated  – “ The speech can be good beginning provided it is realized via concrete action. Following the first step, one hopes PM Modi would initiate a meaningful dialogue with the pro freedom leadership and Pakistan to find an amicable solution to this deadly conflict of Kashmir whose no resolution has added to chaos . We have to agree bullets , deaths won’t solve Kashmir but broad vision, dialogue with all stakeholders  would. Sanity is the need of current times .”

 

In his column in NDTV senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar wrote –“ The Agenda for Alliance that led to the PDP-BJP coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir binds the BJP to reaching out to every Kashmiri. So there is nothing new in Modi’s words – although they come in the wake of a long trail of broken pledges. There has been lots of “gaali”, lots of “goli”, but, to Mehbooba’s despair, no attempt at “embracing every Kashmiri” (that includes Geelani, who I have embraced and been called a “traitor” for my pains). Mehbooba has been pleading all along for dialogue – above all, with the Hurriyat. At every turning, she has been thwarted. And by whom? By Narendra Modi, of course. Once again, the culprit remains the same”

Pertinently, the PM Modi Speech on Kashmir has definitely given rise to what one can term as cautious optimism and measured reactions.

Untying Knots

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The political temperatures , overall situation is heating up in already tensed Valley of Kashmir over talk of striking down of article 35 A and also with Supreme court accepting the plea in this regard . Article 35A of the Indian Constitution is an article that empowers the Jammu and Kashmir state’s legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state and provide special rights and privileges to those permanent residents.

From polity to news studios it has given rise to war of words.

 

 

National Conference President, Farooq Abdullah, who chaired the all parties Opposition meeting on Article 35-A warned that the scrapping of the article will “create a revolt far greater than Amarnath Land row”.

“It was very important to discuss the issue of Article 35-A and its implications on the state, and all its three regions-Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, so that people understand as to why we are against its abrogation, which gives us the basic right and scrapping it will take away that basic right from us,” Abdullah told reporters at his Gupkar residence after chairing the all party meeting.

 

“Abrogation of Article 35 A will create a far greater revolt than Amarnath Land row, on which people rose overnight,” the former chief minister warned.

“It is a state subject law which should not be eroded at any cost,” he said.

“We have decided that we will take the issue to the people as a united front. All parties in Jammu, Kashmir or Ladakh will try to make people understand effect of abrogation of the Article on the state. Abrogating article will affect all the people. We will go t before the people and create awareness among them about its impact. People are the masters,” he said.

He said that it (state subject law was implemented) was done in the Maharaja (Hari Singh’s) time to prevent others coming in to dilute their culture.

 

 

In a related development blaming Article 370 of the Constitution for creation of a “separatist emotion”, the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP said recently that the time has come for the people of the state to say goodbye to it and also Article 35 A.

Both these articles, instead of being beneficial to the people of the state, have done a great damage and hamper progress and development, claimed J&K BJP spokesperson Prof Virender Gupta.

“The time has come when the people of Jammu and Kashmir should say goodbye to Article 370 and ask the Government of India to revoke Article 35 A,” he said.

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The voices within Kashmir are quite worried with overall repercussions that debate or any possible abrogation of Article 35 A  would have on the overall scenario of Kashmir.

Ajaz War, Journalist and editor in chief Kashmir Media Watch states – “ The passions are already evoked due to debate on striking down of Article 35 A with the impression in Kashmir valley that remaining autonomy of Kashmir is being taken away .Saner heads should prevail otherwise the situation could turn into disaster which does not augur well for anyone.”

Kashmir’s Killer Fields

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Kashmir is now in all pragmatics losing young blood at a very fast pace, with daily killings becoming a norm .Killings and just killings are defining the current situation of Kashmir with no end to misery in sight .

The area of South Kashmir is resembling a war zone as if killings are  a normal affair and long written script being played .Just in this week death and just death has defines the life in Kashmir ..

 

 

Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Arif Nabi Dar alias Arif Lelhari and Abu Dujana  was killed in a gunfight in Hakripora village on  1 August 2017.

Abu Dujana was top  militant  who was killed in a joint anti-militancy  operation in Pulwama , Jammu and Kashmir. Dujana was Lashkar-e-Taiba’s chief commander for the Kashmir Valley. He was listed among the most-wanted in Jammu and Kashmir for several attacks on security forces and civilians. He was an A+++ category militant and carried a reward of ₹1,500,000.

On 3rd August , Two local  militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Gopalpora area of Kulgam . One of the slain militants had been party to an ambush on a bank’s cash van on May 1 this year. The attack had claimed the lives of five police officials and two bank security guards.

On the same day in another incident  of bloodletting in the valley, an Army major and a soldier were killed in an ambush in Shopian and other critically injured.

Killings signal all what is wrong in kashmir . The Killings of  civilian and protestors due to varied reasons have become order of the day. Wailing Kashmiri mothers and sisters mourn the acts of the different violent sources  is order of day  and the images are seen in the print, online  media and in  the satellite television medium. These killings have refreshed the killings of more than one lac homosapiens  in Kashmir in past three decades.

Bilal Bashir Bhat, a young journalist and Editor-in- Chief Only Kashmir news portal, while talking to News Kashmir on the unabated spate of killings stated – “Daily  Killings are paining the soul of beautiful valley of Kashmir. We have become addicted to hearing the news of killings now and unfortunately it is becoming normal to our psyche. Steps should be taken to address the political issue of Kashmir so that we put an end to these killings .”

The ground pulse is calling upon all the stakeholders to put an end to these killings .