OIC Seeks Peaceful Resoulation of Kashmir, Stresses for Daoilouge Between India and Pakistan

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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation-OIC 14th summit will be held on 31 may in Makkah. The custodian of two holy mosques, King Salman invited 57 OIC member states for the summit. According to the foreign ministry of Pakistan OIC is “a valuable platform to exchange views and deliberate on a range of political, economic and security issues of interest to Islamic countries”.

PM Imran Khan among other leaders will be delivering a key note speech at the summit, PM’s speech will focus on Solidarity and unity among Muslim nations, support for the Muslim causes including Jammu and Kashmir, countering Islamophobia and on educational and scientific excellence among Muslim nations. Foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi arrived in Jeddah on Tuesday, attended OIC council of foreign ministers meeting to draft and finalize the agenda ahead of the leaders’ summit in Makkah.

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They beat me in school because im Kashmiri

‘They Beat Me In School Because I Am Kashmiri’

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On March 2, 2014, as Pakistan defeated India in a cricket match during the Asia Cup, the usual cheering for Pakistan brought a heavy price for Kashmiri students in mainland India.
This ‘grave crime’—cheering for a foreign team playing against India—led the management to expel 66 Kashmiri students from the College of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University of Meerut, on the outskirts of New Delhi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP).

UP is the most powerful state in the Indian union. It is the base of the Hindi-speaking ruling elite of India. The nation’s federal capital, New Delhi, is located within this state.

In recent years, UP has become notorious for other things, like the astronomical rise in Hindu extremist groups, and the embarrassing rise in rape cases against Indian women and foreign tourists.

Gulzar Ahmed, one of the 66 students expelled from the Meerut college, said that he and his colleagues did not do anything wrong. In fact, local Indian students attacked the Kashmiri students with stones and verbal abuse after the match. The college administration, in Gulzar’s words, instead of taking action against the attacking Indian students, took the Kashmiri students to a local bus stand and told them to leave for Kashmir.

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Impunity continues in Kashmir

Impunity Continues In Kashmir

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The first six months of the year 2015 prove to be disastrous for the civil rights of nearly thirteen million Kashmiris living under Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir. The territory remains at the center of an international dispute for the 67th year, with close to two dozen United Nations resolutions waiting implementation, and more than half-million Indian soldiers deployed in one of the most militarized zones in the world.
While awareness and civil rights improve worldwide thanks to education and technology, Kashmir is seeing backward march as India tries to dampen Kashmiri demands for freedom and end to military occupation. New Delhi’s choice methods to do are to restrict education options for young Kashmiris, and to impose censorship on electronic and social media.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hailed as a business-friendly leader, though his country remains to stall opening up in trade negotiations with Europe, United States and China. He was elected in a one of the largest electoral exercises in the world, in terms of the overall number of voters in densely populated India. But this has not translated into more civil rights for Kashmiris who live under Indian control.

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OIC Seeks Peaceful Resoulation of Kashmir, Stresses for Daoilouge Between India and Pakistan

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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation-OIC 14th summit will be held on 31 may in Makkah. The custodian of two holy mosques, King Salman invited 57 OIC member states for the summit. According to the foreign ministry of Pakistan OIC is “a valuable platform to exchange views and deliberate on a range of political, economic and security issues of interest to Islamic countries”.

PM Imran Khan among other leaders will be delivering a key note speech at the summit, PM’s speech will focus on Solidarity and unity among Muslim nations, support for the Muslim causes including Jammu and Kashmir, countering Islamophobia and on educational and scientific excellence among Muslim nations. Foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi arrived in Jeddah on Tuesday, attended OIC council of foreign ministers meeting to draft and finalize the agenda ahead of the leaders’ summit in Makkah.

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They beat me in school because im Kashmiri

‘They Beat Me In School Because I Am Kashmiri’

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On March 2, 2014, as Pakistan defeated India in a cricket match during the Asia Cup, the usual cheering for Pakistan brought a heavy price for Kashmiri students in mainland India.
This ‘grave crime’—cheering for a foreign team playing against India—led the management to expel 66 Kashmiri students from the College of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University of Meerut, on the outskirts of New Delhi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP).

UP is the most powerful state in the Indian union. It is the base of the Hindi-speaking ruling elite of India. The nation’s federal capital, New Delhi, is located within this state.

In recent years, UP has become notorious for other things, like the astronomical rise in Hindu extremist groups, and the embarrassing rise in rape cases against Indian women and foreign tourists.

Gulzar Ahmed, one of the 66 students expelled from the Meerut college, said that he and his colleagues did not do anything wrong. In fact, local Indian students attacked the Kashmiri students with stones and verbal abuse after the match. The college administration, in Gulzar’s words, instead of taking action against the attacking Indian students, took the Kashmiri students to a local bus stand and told them to leave for Kashmir.

Read more
Impunity continues in Kashmir

Impunity Continues In Kashmir

Blog, Home

The first six months of the year 2015 prove to be disastrous for the civil rights of nearly thirteen million Kashmiris living under Indian rule in Jammu and Kashmir. The territory remains at the center of an international dispute for the 67th year, with close to two dozen United Nations resolutions waiting implementation, and more than half-million Indian soldiers deployed in one of the most militarized zones in the world.
While awareness and civil rights improve worldwide thanks to education and technology, Kashmir is seeing backward march as India tries to dampen Kashmiri demands for freedom and end to military occupation. New Delhi’s choice methods to do are to restrict education options for young Kashmiris, and to impose censorship on electronic and social media.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hailed as a business-friendly leader, though his country remains to stall opening up in trade negotiations with Europe, United States and China. He was elected in a one of the largest electoral exercises in the world, in terms of the overall number of voters in densely populated India. But this has not translated into more civil rights for Kashmiris who live under Indian control.

Read more