[B]Kashmir: Another school targeted by terrorists[/B]

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Kashmir: Another school targeted by terrorists


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IANS[ TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2005 03:14:30 PM ]

SRINAGAR: Terror struck in Jammu and Kashmir again on Tuesday with a school in Srinagar being attacked by an explosive device and the brutally murdered bodies of four abducted villagers being recovered from a forest near hereThe Kamla Nehru School in Barbarshah area, barely a kilometre from the city centre, was closed for two days after miscreants hurled a powerful firecracker at the gates. Stone pelting followed, a teacher at the school said, adding that miscreants had warned them against running the school.

The incident, which created panic, came just five days after a grenade attack at a complex with two schools killed two and injured 45 people, including many students.

The bodies of four villagers were found at a forest near Dara village close to the Dachigam National Park, 11 km from here. They had been abducted with three others from their homes in Dara Monday evening.

Police said the throats of all four slain villagers had been slit.

No separatist guerrilla group has owned responsibility for the abduction and murders.
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I think thats 56 killed and over a hundred injured by terrorists in Jammu and kashmir India, In the past 6 days.

http://wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=189916#post189916

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India urges Kashmir militants for Ramadan truce
(Reuters)

12 September 2006



SRINAGAR - The chief minister of Indian Kashmir urged separatist guerrillas in the Himalayan region to stop violence during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and said the government would match such a truce.


Islamist militants in the disputed Himalayan region usually step up attacks against troops during Ramadan, considering it to be an auspicious time to wage jihad or holy war. Ramadan begins in the last week of September this year.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, the most senior elected official of Jammu and Kashmir, urged militants to end violence in the region, where more than 45,000 people have been killed since the revolt erupted in 1989.

“He said keeping in view the holy month of Ramadan, people will appreciate the same (a militant truce) and, from the government side, he will be happy to respond,” a government statement, issued late on Monday, quoted Azad as saying.

There was no reaction from militant groups to the offer.

Earlier this year, Syed Salahuddin, the chief of an alliance of militant groups fighting Indian rule, said the rebels would consider a truce if India recognised Kashmir as ”disputed”.

New Delhi has consistently refused to do so and claims the entire region, including the territory administered by Pakistan, as its own. Pakistan claims the region fully as well.

In late 2000, New Delhi declared a truce in the region, which was not by matched by the guerrillas and was marked by violence. It was called off after two months.

Indian authorities say overall violence levels have declined in the region since India and Pakistan began a peace process nearly three years ago.

But, on an average, at least half a dozen people die in daily gunbattles, shooting incidents and occasional bomb attacks.

“The time has come to openly declare stoppage of all kinds of violence,” Azad said in the statement

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http://www.countercurrents.org/kashmir-mahmud310805.htm

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Humanitarian Jihad

The ghastly killer earthquake that hit Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and Jammu & Kashmir in early October was expected to silence terrorist guns. Since Muzaffarabad was the epicentre of the quake, along with countless civilians, the mujahideen were also said to have suffered tremendous losses. The Lashkar-e-Tayyaba openly admitted extensive damages to its infrastructure, as well as death of at least 70 of its cadres and an unspecified number of its POK-based office-bearers in the quake. It has not ruled out the possibility that many more of its cadres might have died in the POK. Adding this to the unreported losses in North West Frontier Province, this frontline terrorist organisation was expected to lie low, nursing the wounds.
Here is what India got as a response to wishful thinking: On 9th October, a day after the earthquake, jihadis carried out attacks in Rajouri district, killing ten Hindus and a Muslim, slitting throats with impunity. No organisation claimed responsibility for the massacre, but suspicion was on Hizbul Mujahideen’s Pir Panjal Regiment (HMPPR) and the LeT. The Indian army foiled an attempt by a group of terrorists to infiltrate into the Indian side of Kashmir on 12 October 2005, killing all the eight near the Line of Control in Kupwara sector. A woman suicide bomber blew herself up on the Srinagar - Jammu national highway at Awantipora on 13 October 2005. The blast occurred at 11:30 am, but no casualties were reported. Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammad, claimed that the woman was a suicide bomber of its women's wing - Banati Ayesha (daughter of Ayesha). Considering that suicide terror has not been a prominent mode of action in the valley, this has bad omens.

In a major terrorist attack on the security forces, two Territorial Army jawans were killed and seven others were injured when LeT attacked the battalion headquarters of the 158 Territorial Army at Kalibari in Kathua district in Jammu and Kashmir on 16 October 2005. The soldiers were returning to their barracks after their morning training. In another incident of terrorist attack, a prominent CPI (M) leader, Ghulam Nabi Ganai, was shot dead by militants in Anantnag district on 17 October 2005. He was shot outside a local mosque near his house at Seer-Hamdan village of Mattan. Two militant groups Al Mansoorian and Islamic Jihad Front, in separate telephone statements claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The incidents of terrorist attacks have ironically gone up after the earthquake in the valley. This can be attributed to the fact that banned outfits undertook rescue and relief work in earthquake-affected areas of PoK. Analysts say that the relief work undertaken by these outfits could translate into greater popular support for their jihad in Kashmir. After all, combining humanitarian work with militarism is an age-old practice of jihad, dating back all the way to the time of Prophet Muhammad. The humanitarianism is, of course, limited only to co-religionists of the ummah and not to non-believers. Shia in Gilgit and the Northern Areas continued to be persecuted and killed in scores after the earthquake, with the much-hated Pakistan rangers and ISI doing much of the damage against agitating students.

The apogee of terrorist upsurge after the quake was felt in New Delhi on October 29th, when serial bomb blasts planted by the dastardly LeT killed more than 60 innocent Diwali-shoppers and injured 210 of them. The Indian capital was reminded that jihad knows no limits and will not be cowed down by nature’s fury. No earthquake can stem its violent crusade. This was proved throughout the month of November in several attacks in the heart of Srinagar, which spilt more innocent blood.

How is one to analyse the paradoxical increase in Pakistan-sponsored terrorism after a severe humanitarian crisis was triggered by the earthquake? Since international attention was riveted on the quake and its aftermath, it was easy to order new attacks in India and not suffer the usual condemnations and backdoor reprimands. Another advantage in instant offensives after the quake was in sending a political message to Pakistan sympathisers in the valley that their master was not going to let things lying down, no matter how big the natural disaster was. Pakistan-sponsored terror depends a great deal on motivation and religious zeal- both of which could have fallen after an earthquake of this magnitude. To keep the jihad spirit alive, attacking was imperative.

What is the role of international donors who are pouring millions into quake-relief in Pakistan and of the US, which is supplying helicopters for grinding its own anti-Al Qaeda axe? What is the payoff between allowing American actions in Balochistan and FATA areas of NWFP and having a free hand to massacre in J&K? How much of the reconstruction aid is being lopped off for jihad? How has General Musharraf capitalised on the humanitarian sympathy wave and yet managed to keep the jihad enterprise going? These are questions which need urgent analysis.

Jihadi time bombs are ticking away even as India has opened borders to assist in the humanitarian relief effort in PoK. Those who believed that like in Sri Lanka, where the LTTE and the army suffered severe losses during last year’s tsunami and lowered the intensity of conflict, Kashmir will have an unexpected windfall of peace after the earthquake, have been badly belied by Pakistan’s determination to keep stoking hatred and religious fanaticism.

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3killed in separate attacks in Kashmir


2006/10/7
By Aijaz Hussain SRINAGAR, India, AP

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?ID=92249&GRP=D

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Pakistan’s Islamist press calls for jihad


Praveen Swami


Fresh demands for violence against India escalated weeks before Hyderabad bombings




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“Musharraf’s regime should discard the pro-U.S. policy”

“Make jihad, martyrdom part of the curriculum”


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NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Islamist media published a series of explicit calls for violence against India in the six weeks before the Hyderabad bombings — a development that analysts believe reflects the weakening of General Pervez Musharraf’s regime, and raises fears of a renewed wave of terror strikes.

In an editorial published in the Jamaat-e-Islami-affiliated Daily Jasarat’s August 19 Friday supplement, the newspaper demanded that the “slogan of jihad should reverberate in every nook and corner of Pakistan. If Pakist an allows jihadis to infiltrate into India then Kashmir could be liberated in six months.”

“Within a couple of years,” the newspaper asserted, “the rest of the territories of India could be conquered as well, and we can regain our lost glory. We can bring back the era of Mughal rule. We can once again subjugate the Hindus like our forefathers.”

Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, in turn, used the July 20 rape and murder of north Kashmir teenager to call for escalated violence. “The Indian Army,” he wrote in July 22 article published on the terror group’s website, “is raping the daughters of Islam. How can we tolerate this? We will kill every single soldier of the Indian Army and take revenge for the honour of our sisters. Let India deploy more soldiers in Kashmir so that our mujahideen have more pigs to hunt.”

According to Islamist publications, these calls for violence are legitimised by what they characterise as a global war against Islam and Pakistan. “India and other foreign powers,” Saeed told a congregation at Lahore’s al-Qadsia mosque on July 20, “are involved in the recent spate of bomb blasts in Pakistan. Only India could be behind the recent attacks because only a Hindu could do it. No Muslim can think of shedding the blood of another Muslim.”

The War Within

Much of the Islamist press’ ire is focussed on Pakistan’s own establishment — and the figure of President Pervez Musharraf.

Writing in the July 30 edition of the Daily Jasarat, which has an estimated circulation of 50,000, Lashkar deputy chief Abdul Rahman Makki demanded that General Musharraf’s regime “discard the pro-United States policy th at has weakened the Kashmir cause. It is time to adopt a pro-jihad and pro-jihadi policy. You give us the country for six months and we will conquer Kashmir. We will also force the Americans out from Afghanistan.”

In another attack on General Musharraf, published on the Lashkar website on August 8, Saeed asserted that “Muslim rulers have disappointed the Ummah [worldwide Muslim community]. It is time to wage jihad against them. They are not Muslims. They are the agents of Jews.”

However, Saeed was careful not to endorse pro-democracy protests. “The answer is not democracy,” he wrote. “The answer is the caliphate.” He followed this up with an appeal to Pakistan’s military establishment: “Remember, O foolish rulers, the United States is not going to help you. Jihadis are your true friends.”

Soon after, Makki launched an even more acidic attack on General Musharraf at the Madrassa Ayesha, near Rawalpindi. Pakistan, he asserted, “is ruled by Ahmadis at present” — a reference to a heterodox Muslim sect officially proscribed in Pakistan, and long subject to persecution by Islamists. “Most of the top Generals and bureaucrats,” he continued, “are Ahmadi.”

In order to counter this pernicious influence, Makki called for “jihad and martyrdom to be made part of the curriculum. They should be taught in textbooks at school, college and university levels.”

Several key members of the Musharraf regime have also been singled out for attack in the Islamist press. In an August 12 editorial, the Nawa-i-Waqt, which is estimated to sell some 2,00,000 copies daily, railed against Education Min ister General Javed Ashraf Qazi for the publication of a Grade II school textbook which omitted Jammu and Kashmir from a map of Pakistan. “The Education Minister,” it stated, “is a Jewish agent.”





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