'Kashmir part of Pakistan: Nokia': Economic Times

JABALPUR: Sores of activists of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) rampaged a Nokia showroom for showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan's territory in its mobile navigation system.

They barged into a Nokia showroom and snatched mobile phones and burnt them. Besides, they also set hoardings on fire outside the showroom. Dozens of policemen were present when the attack took place. A BJP leader and a deputy in the state assembly demanded legal action against Nokia.

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What Did Kashmir Have to Do with the Mumbai Attacks?: Time

Two suspected members of Lashkar e Toiba (LeT) — the same militant group that is under suspicion for orchestrating the Mumbai attacks — were killed by Indian authorities Friday night after trying to cross the border into Kashmir near the village of Dardpura. Two AK-47s were recovered from them, along with ammunition. That encounter, police say, is part of a slight increase in infiltration by militants from Pakistan over the last few months.

That development added to the growing evidence of both infiltration from Pakistan and local Indian collusion in the siege of Mumbai. Early on Saturday, Indian authorities revealed that two men had been arrested for illegally providing SIM cards to the attackers: one of them is believed to be a police officer from the Indian-occupied half of the disputed region of Kashmir. If so, it is a disturbing development. Police in Kashmir are deeply involved in the fight against the militants who sneak in from Pakistan as well as local Kashmiri separatists. Local newspapers report that Mumbai police officers have been in Srinagar this week investigating the role of Mukhtar Ahmed, the police constable from the area allegedly involved in the SIM card purchase. It is the first evidence so far that the attackers had help within India.

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Jeevey Jeevey Pakistan: The Nation

By Shamshad Ahmad

For the past 60 days or so, since the end of June, the people of Kashmir have been free. Free in the most profound sense. They have shrugged off the terror of living their lives in the gun-sights of half a million heavily armed (Indian) soldiers, in the most densely militarised zones in the world.-Arundhati Roy, 'Azadi'- Outlook India)Kashmir is in crisis and aflame again. This time nobody can blame any foreign hand in it. It is indigenous and an inevitable eruption of volcanic suffocation simmering underneath among the Kashmiri people for several decades. Since after 1947, Kashmir has been at the core of South Asia's issues of peace and security, and is today a sombre reminder to the world that despite universalisation of fundamental values and freedoms, the people of Kashmir remain deprived of them.In a remarkable piece on the current uprising in Kashmir, Arundhati Roy, a Booker Prize winner and world's renowned humanist has challenged the world's and India's conscience on this issue drawing their attention to a huge price being paid in terms of military, material, moral and human costs in keeping the Indian occupation of Kashmir against the wishes of its people.

She narrates how an ill-conceived move over the transfer of a small piece of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board "suddenly became the equivalent of tossing a lit match into a barrel of petrol. She acknowledges that "rightly or wrongly, the land transfer was viewed as the thin edge of the wedge. It triggered an apprehension that it was the beginning of an elaborate plan to build Israeli-style settlements, and change the demography of the valley."In reaction, the Kashmiris mounted massive protests bringing the valley to a complete shutdown. In no time, despite curfew and crackdown, the political revolt spread from the cities to villages and developed into a mass movement which not only resurrected memories of the Kashmiri uprising in the 90s but also gave a new dimension to their struggle for freedom. Numerous Kashmiri people were killed by the Indian armed forces in street clashes.

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