2011: Unfortunate, Tragic And Painful

Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society today reviewed the overall situation in the year 2011 and again termed it as tragic and unfortunate year for Kashmiris. The body provided a detail data and statistics

TOTAL KILLINGS

Year 2011 has just passed, and many have declared this year, a peaceful year in Jammu and Kashmir. Of course, assertions of peace by various quarters are relative. Enforced silence cannot be construed as peace. Despite the hype of peace, people of Jammu and Kashmir have witnessed unabated violence, human rights abuses, denial of civil and political rights, absence of mechanisms of justice, heightened militarization and surveillance. The figures of violent incidents suggest that 2011 as usual has been the year of loss, victimization, mourning and pain for the people, the report said.

The report also said that in 2011, a total of 233 people have lost their lives due to violent incidents in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of 233 persons, 56 were civilians, 100 were alleged militants, 71 armed forces personnel and 6 were unidentified persons and counter insurgent renegades.

Out of the total 56 civilians killed this year, 11 were students, amongst whom 7 were minors. Also amongst the civilians killed 6 were women.

UNMARKED GRAVES AND MASS GRAVES

The body once again raised the issue of mass graves in their brief report and said that this year has been very significant for those struggling against the human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir. “It is for the first time a state institution like State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) endorsed the findings of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and International People’s Tribunal for Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK) regarding the presence of unmarked graves and mass graves in north Kashmir, besides acknowledging the possibility of burial of some of the people subjected to enforced disappearances in these unmarked graves and mass graves,” the report added.

So far APDP/IPTK has submitted the prima-facie evidence of 6217 unmarked graves and mass graves in 5 districts; Kupwara, Baramulla, Bandipora, Poonch and Rajouri. While as the SHRC has acknowledged existence of 2156 unmarked graves and mass graves in Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipora. The SHRC inquiry in Poonch and Rajouri is not yet concluded, the report firther said in its findings.

ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES

The report also accused state government for not initiating any step to solve the saga of ‘enforced disappearances’, this year APDP submitted a list of 1417 cases of enforced disappearance to the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and urged the government to inquire into all the cases of enforced disappearances, but so far the government continues to be indifferent.

Enforced Disappearances is not an issue of the past. People have disappeared even in this year. Atleast 2 persons, Susheel Raina of Aishmuqam, Anantnag and Nisar Ahmad Banday of Chechal, Banihal disappeared this year. The government as usual has failed to initiate any conclusive investigation into those who disappeared this year.

Successive governments have given contradictory statements about the total number of people ‘missing’ in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2002, the National Conference government said 3184 persons are ‘missing’, then in 2005 Peoples’ Democratic Party led government claimed 3931 persons were ‘missing’ and in 2009 the present National Conference led government divulged that 3429 persons are missing in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. In this context APDP on 7th October 2011, applied for information under Jammu and Kashmir Right to Information Act 2009 from the State Home Department for providing all the lists of ‘missing persons’ as claimed by various governments. More than 2 months have passed the state government has failed to provide any information regarding the contradictory figures of ‘missing persons’ divulged by various governments on the floor of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

CUSTODIAL KILLINGS

The JKCCS in its brief report submitted the alleged custodial and extra-judicial killings in the state. “The year 2011 has not been free of custodial killings and fake encounters. 7 persons were allegedly killed in custody. In all the cases of custodial killings, the government has failed to either prosecute or conduct an impartial conclusive investigation. Whether it was the killing of Ashok Kumar, a mentally challenged person who was killed in a fake encounter in Surankote, Poonch or the killing of Nazim Rashid of Sopore who succumbed to custodial torture or the custodial death of ruling National Conference party worker, Mohammad Yousuf, who died after he was handed over by the Chief Minister to the Crime Branch officials, the practice of impunity is consistent. No credible investigations have been carried out, thus creating space for cover ups, which otherwise also is the norm in Jammu and Kashmir” the report said.

JKCCS on 4th August 2011, had filed an RTI application for seeking information regarding the investigations being conducted in the killing of Nazim Rashid of Sopore, but so far the Jammu and Kashmir Police has failed to provide the information.

PROBES AND INQUIRIES

Questioning the probes and inquiries the JKCCS said that in 2011, the government has ordered 8 different probes on various human rights abuses. So far no probe has yet yielded any results, which is nothing unprecedented as even in the past probes have been announced by the government to neutralize the public pressure. From 2003 to 2011, different governments have appointed 151 probes but justice remains elusive.

The report alleged the state government for its non-seriousness and said: “It appears the basic objective of the government to appoint probes is not to convict perpetrators but to only deflate the public anger. If perpetrators would have been punished as a result of meaningful and effective probes in the past, it would have helped in creating deterrence for the recurrence of these crimes. We urge the government to ensure that investigations and probe should not be politically motivated, but aimed at holding the perpetrators accountable.”

KILLINGS OF POLITICAL WORKERS

Condemning the killings of political workers and attack on people’s lives JKCCS expressed its shock and termed the killings unfortunate incidents. The report stated that killings of civilian political workers continue to be an unabated phenomenon. In the year 2011, we have recorded killings of 8 civilian political workers. 4 out of the 8 political workers killed belong to ruling National Conference party, 2 were from Indian National Congress, while as 1 belonged to Peoples’ Democratic Party and Moulvi Showkat Ahmed Ahmed Shah of Jamiat Ahle-Hadith. Killings of civilian political workers at the hands of state or non-state actors, is completely unacceptable. Killing of civilian political workers only creates a culture of intolerance and chokes dissent. It is therefore, JKCCS has been urging all the combatant forces – Indian military forces and the members of United Jehad Council to refrain from killing any civilian political workers.

JKCCS appreciated the speedy probe of death of Molvi Showkat Ahmed Shah. “Somehow government was very quick in probing the death of Molvi Showkat Ahmed Shah, which is a welcome step, but investigations into the killing of 7 other civilian political workers have not yielded any results so far.”

JKCCS demands an impartial and independent investigation into all the killings of civilian political workers. Impartial investigations would help bringing the perpetrators to justice and also act as a deterrent.

SUICIDES AND FRATRICIDES BY ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL

Suicides and fratricides by the personnel of the Indian armed forces, continues to exist as an issue in the year 2011. This year 15 armed forces personnel committed suicides in Jammu and Kashmir due to unknown reasons and another 9 were killed in fratricidal incidents of violence.

TORTURE/HARASSMENTS/ILLEGAL DETENTIONS

The paranoia of government regarding the summer uprising of 2010, was very evident this year in the actions taken by the government. Even in 2011, when there was no apparent street uprising, hundreds of boys were detained on the pretext of being stone pelters. These young boys are subjected to torture, intimidation and harassment. In many police stations boys are illegally being detained; sometimes for few hours and sometimes for few days. Some boys are regularly being called to police stations on one pretext or the other. There is complete disregard towards the juvenility of the boys being detained. This year many minors were arrested on charges of stone pelting.

In some cases people alleged that police officials have been demanding ransom for releasing these boys who were illegally detained in various police stations.

RAPES AND MOLESTATIONS

State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) passed a judgment on the Kunan Poshpora mass rape case of 1991, demanding re-opening of the case and also filing a case against the then Director Prosecutions. It is for the first time a government institution has acknowledged this mass rape incident. It took state 20 years to acknowledge the crime and it isn’t clear how long government will take to convict perpetrators.

This year in Kulgam area of south Kashmir, there was an allegation of rape, where a woman alleged that she was raped for 2 days. The way police conducted investigations into this case and also kept the family literally under house arrest, raised more suspicion against the government.

Fear and social stigma makes it difficult for the victims to report the rape or molestation cases. One such case, by coincidence came into the notice of JKCCS in north Kashmir this year where the rape victim did not want to report her victimization. In the month of February a woman (identity withheld) from north Kashmir was allegedly raped in police custody infront of her husband. The husband was kept under detention as a hostage so that his wife would not report her case. The woman did not want to file complaint as she had no hope of getting justice and also was worried that by filing the case she would endanger her husband’s life.

IMPUNITY

Government of India has been claiming that despite the imposition of AFSPA, mechanisms of justice are functional and deliver whenever anyone is found indulging in human rights abuses, but facts provided by the state institutions this year contradict the claim of the Indian state.

In a reply to an application under Right to Information Act by JKCCS, the State Home Department of the Jammu and Kashmir government on 6thSeptember 2011 claimed that from 1989 to 2011, they have applied for sanctions for prosecution from Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home Affairs under section 7 of AFSPA in 50 cases only. Out of these 50 cases, 31 pertain to Ministry of Defence and 19 others have been sent to Ministry of Home Affairs.

Within these 50 cases stated to be applied by the State Home Department for sanctions under AFSPA, sanction for prosecution is awaited in 16 cases and declined in 26 cases. The State Home Department claimed sanction for prosecution has been recommended in 8 cases. A deeper study of these 8 cases where the State Home Department says that the status is “recommended”, it appears that the information given is incorrect as the cases according to Defence Ministry are still in the category of “under consideration” or sanction has been declined.

Above facts reveal that the provision of sanctions for prosecution under AFSPA is a fig leaf and the truth is that there is 100% impunity for the soldiers operating in Jammu and Kashmir.

In the context where in Jammu and Kashmir we have more than 8000 cases of enforced disappearances, thousands of cases of custodial killings and fake encounters, thousands of cases of rape and molestation and thousands of cases of torture etc; applying for sanctions for prosecution in only 50 cases speaks volumes about the seriousness shown by the State Government so far for protecting the human rights of people of Jammu and Kashmir.

This year there have been voices raised by politicians regarding the revocation of AFSPA, which is also aimed at generating an impression that human rights violations will end by the revocation of AFSPA. The fact is that Jammu and Kashmir Police has been an equal partner in crimes committed on the people. The Jammu and Kashmir Police personnel also have been responsible for a huge number of human rights abuses.

The armed Village Defence Committees (VDCs), Special Police Officials (SPOs), and the counter insurgent government sponsored militias like Ikhwan have also been responsible for perpetrating heinous crimes. Which law allows the creation of these groups? Which law encourages them to perpetrate human rights abuses? Which law sanctions their impunity? It is the law of lawlessness.

Revocation of AFSPA from some areas would not help in ending the human rights abuses as the sense of immunity in the soldiers is not derived from laws but from the political culture of impunity, for which State Government and the Government of India are largely responsible.

The government should help the processes of justice and help prosecute officials accused of human rights abuses. The mechanisms of justice which have been forced to not function by the government should be empowered to punish the guilty, which would be a meaningful confidence building measure for the people of Jammu and Kashmir.

We urge the Government of India to end the culture of impunity and not just AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir.

KILLINGS DUE TO UNEXPLODED SHELLS AND LANDMINES

This year 8 persons have lost their lives in explosions, which were caused due to unexploded shells used during counter insurgency operations and 1 out 8 deaths was reported due to landmine explosion.

ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS OF JUSTICE

State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has tried to assert its existence by passing some very significant judgments this year. Prominent amongst the cases where SHRC passed the judgements was the case of unmarked graves and mass graves in north Kashmir, Kunan Poshpora mass rape case and the plight of prisoners languishing in various jails across Jammu and Kashmir. Besides these judgments SHRC has been actively helping in the cases to provide ex-gratia relief.

Judiciary in Jammu and Kashmir continues to show an abysmal performance and has failed to live up to the expectations of the victims. Amongst the people of Jammu and Kashmir disillusionment regarding judiciary is at its lowest, as it has failed in holding perpetrators accountable. Notwithstanding the powers to protect life and liberty of citizens, judiciary has disappointed people of Jammu and Kashmir. Judicial activism for protecting the civil and political rights and seeking accountability from the state actors is very apparent in India, but it seems to be completely absent in the Jammu and Kashmir judiciary.

101 Reasons Indian Security Forces Make Our Lives Miserable In Kashmir

BY; LONESOME KASHMIRI

1. By Having Their Guns pointed at us all the time.
2. By looking at us with suspicion all the time.
3. By Making us Show our Identification every 100 meters.
4. By Occupying our Orchards, Schools and Houses.
5. By shooting at us and taking sick pleasure from it.
6. By beating us while we play cricket in the field.
7. By making us sit in cold, hot weather and rain when they search our villages and towns.
8. By burning our property. In One instance they burnt down the entire Iqbal Market of Sopore.
9. By looting our valuables.
10. By Killing young innocent young people.
11. By consistently reminding us of their presence with their whistles and bamboo sticks.
12. By making us wait on the road for hours while their convoys are passing through.
13. By taking our vehicles whenever they want and sometimes keeping it with them for as long as they like.
14. By torturing us without any reason.
15. By arresting us without any warrant, proof or valid reason.
16. By forcibly taking our apples and other crops and not paying for it.
17. By ruining our forests and natural resources.
18. By having our deposit my identity card at the camp when I visit my sister’s place.
19. By having our walk almost a mile to the main gates of the army camp when we enter our own villages.
20. By having us record our names, addresses and telephone numbers even when I go inside my village.
21. By having to answer the army what I am doing in my own house.
22. By not being able to walk alone when I leave my house and have to go through a road where there is an army camp.
23. By making us run errands for them as if we are their servants.
24. By desecrating our religious places.
25. By entering our homes and showing no regard for our privacy.
26. By extorting money from us on various false allegations.
27. By making our young boys addicted to drugs and alcohol.
28. By embarrassing our elders and showing them no respect.
29. By Making us do forced labor for years and years.
30. By staging fake encounters.
31. By commiting custodial killings.
32. By wreaking havoc after grenade attack or firing incidents.
33. By haunting the steps of our sisters in Kashmir.
34. By blaming us for imaginary crimes.
35. By cordoning off the entire villages and not even allowing people to have a sip of water.
36. By forcing us to hoist Indian flags when we do not want to.
37. By forcing us to vote in elections when we do not want to.
38. By supporting anti-social activities and anti-social people.
39. By Making us go through an identification parade at every army camp we pass on our way.
40. By summoning the parents and relatives of Militants to army camps as if they were some petty criminals.
41. By occupying every bridge and bank of rivers.
42. By resorting to psychological torture when physical torture does not seem enough for them.
43. By not allowing us to particpate in our religious duties.
44. By having us use only lanterns and not torches or electric lamps when go out in the night.
45. By Not allowing us to pray in the Mosques.
46. By not allowing us to voice our protests.
47. By not listening to us and instead torture us some more.
48. By having to explain to the army why am I walking, running, Sleeping, Eating or even breathing.
49. By forcing us to carry multiple identifications all the time. And then not honoring them.
50. By making our take longer routes so I can avoid the army bunkers.
51. By having those hated military bunkers in every nook and corner of the valley.
52. By acting superior to us even though most of them are illiterate.
53. By constructing third rate Bus stands and sub-standard schools which endanger everybody.
54. By making Highways “One ways”.
55. By not allowing us to celebrate our religious festivals.
56. By not failing to summon the groom on the day of his wedding.
57. By making our hit my friends at gunpoint.
58. By taking everything from our including my pride.
59. By polluting our fresh water bodies.
60. By chopping down pine trees to make furniture for their homes.
61. By colluding with Government agents and destroying the cultural fabric of Kashmir.
62. By making us mentally sick with their presence.
63. By diluting our faith by bringing sins of alcohol, cinema etc. with them.
64. By making our places of worship inaccessible to us.
65. By using us as their shields in encounters.
66. By haunting the steps of our sisters.
67. By having us clean the blood of our brothers from the road.
68. By erecting Hindu temples in our localities.
69. By establishing circles and circles of barricades around your camps and making even our walking difficult.
70. By showing arrogance when offered water and they throwing the utensils to ground.
71. By talking obscenely to our elders and ladies.
72. By showing no regard to our sentiments and feelings regarding our history and religion.
73. By kidnapping people as if they do not matter.
74. By acting as police, Lawyers and Judges all by themselves.
75. By making us feel insignificant and unimportant.
76. By making our take permission from them for a wedding party even though it is my village, my home.
77. By Imposing restrictions on my movement any time they want.
78. By Making my mother and sisters cry every time they abduct our to their army camp.
79. By torturing relatives if there is a militant in the family. Does not matter even if that militant is not a close relative.
80. By refusing our passport again and again and again by giving negative verification reports.
81. By humiliating children in front of their parents and humiliating parents in front of their children.
82. By committing heinous crimes and then blaming them on us.
83. By frisking our every time I go into a government office.
84. By having to go through endless security checks at the airport.
85. By making our small children frightened by their hateful stares and abuses.
86. By hitting our young small children with rifle butts.
87. By making our hospitals places for them to practice.
88. By not allowing ambulances which carry critical patients.
89. By not allowing us to bury our dead with respect and honor.
90. By suffocating us with their alcoholic habits.
91. By making our young boys shameless and characterless.
92. By using 100′s of mortars to defeat one single militant and in the process destroying dozens of homes.
93. By coming in the dead of the night and harassing our religious figures.
94. By beating our Imams and Muezzins.
95. By showing no remorse when they desecrate the Quran ul Kareem.
96. By forcing us to shout “Jai Hind” when I don’t want to.
97. By forcibly making our say ‘Hey Ram” and Hindu Shloks when I hate to say it.
98. By asking our questions for which I have no answers.
99. By trying to sabotage any peace initiative in Villages.
100. By Making us lose our sanity with constant crackdowns and actions.
101. By simply being there all the time.

"I weep for Kashmir from far away land"

Life seemed so perfect. Everything was falling in place. I was joined by a leading businessman seated next to me on a plane from Bombay to Srinagar. We had a conversation about market trends. How to start a business, maintain it and milk the cow for the rest of one’s life. It was a pretty educating insight as on my return home I wanted to start with a business.
I bid goodbye to the businessman as our plane landed at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Indian capital New Delhi.With nothing to do I plugged my ears with the latest ‘Creative’ headphones I had brought from Lamington Road in Bombay. I played Beatles – Tomorrow never Knows.
The plane took off once more, the rest of a journey was catalepsy of trance playing to my ears. I was coming back home after two long years and in this excitement time seemed to have paced up its speed.Unaware of the events back home, we landed at Srinagar. I alighted the plane waved at my dad who was standing there with a million dollar smile. We hugged and took a taxi back home. On the way, uptown Srinagar was calm considering the fact that last five days had been a curfew and today was a 'civil curfew'. A self imposed stay at home in which people impose curfew like restrictions on themselves to protest the denial of the rights to live.
For last sixty-three years Kashmir has been an occupation. Thousands of young Kashmiris have died, have been killed in the fight for liberation. An armed struggle which began when I was a kid went through different phases - from a popular mass revolt to a conventional guerrilla struggle.
Twenty years, after young Kashmiri boys crossed the border for arms training at the camp in Azad Kashmir, the struggle has passed onto another generation. My generation, my friends with whom I played cricket and rode a bike on the streets of Downtown Srinagar were fighting a brutal enemy. And this fight was unequal - my friends threw slogans at the enemy and the enemy responded with bullets. Taking away lives and silencing the dissent.As the taxi rode on the streets of Srinagar there was not even a single shutter or a road which did not carry the graffiti “Go India Go Back” , “We Want Freedom”.These words were written by a new generation who had choose the path of revolt against a sophisticated form of occupation, which unlike the one in Iraq and Afghanistan, is more cunning and more dangerous.
We enter Downtown. There was smell of burning tires near the Jamia Masjid. Groups of angry men and women faced the Indian occupational apparatus, some shouting for freedom, some carrying bodies of the injured and those killed by Indian Army, some pelting stones and others stuffing a ‘bag full of limbs’ which were scattered on the road.Women were showering the protestors with flower petals and dry fruits from the rooftops and windows. Others were singing folklores for the martyrs. Blood, tear-smoke and the spirit of freedom was all I could see.As we moved on the driver explained to me the events taking place here. How an old man who wanted to hug the dead body of his son was beaten to death, of how tear gas cannisters were aimed with an intention to hit the heads and how trigger happy the Indian soldiers were. How even the funeral processions of people killed by Indian forces were not spared and fired upon.How the dual rape of Shopian sisters took place and how the leading investigation agency of India, the CBI managed to fabricate the lies. They bestow ‘Chakras’ to the soldiers who rape women here, aid them to flee the country and evade law, said an old man I met at the Islamia College the next day.
I ought not to believe all this, not because I had not lived in Kashmir before but due to the fact that now I had spent quite a time in India, with people from India, with friends from India with whom I shared the food on one single plate, and how could I forget the taste of that crab cooked as per Maharashtrian cuisine -- it made me forget my religion.The jam-packed residential buildings had induced a spirit of secularism into me. We drove the same car irrespective of whom it belonged to, my language had a certain twist to it, I had started to speak Mumbaiya (combination of words from Hindi and Marathi).
This dual facet of India was hard to swallow. I grabbed the copies of all the newspapers from past thirty days. I wanted to see and analyze all this by myself. Page after page I came across the innumerous inhuman practices experimented upon the Kashmiri population. I came to know of the woman who was washing blood stains outside her home and how Indian media had edited the scene.I came to know of an eight year old kid with a toffee in his mouth was beaten to death, ruthlessly by the Central Reserved Police force. When his body was taken home, the toffee was still in his hand.I came to know about a neighbor mechanic, who as a kid used to play cricket with me and was a super fast bowler, who had his arm amputated when hit by a tear smoke shell.I felt an acute change taking over my being. It was time to free Kashmir from the shackles of slavery and chains of sufferings. A stone would come handy for most of my friends back home vouched for one.A stone in my hand and courage in my heart that is how we protest the illegal occupation of India at Kashmir, with bare chests and a desire to dance and die in the dust of Kashmir is how we protest the illegal occupation.
In the rain of bullets it takes courage for a mother to send her son out and fight the occupation. I salute the mothers of Kashmir who bid farewells to their grooms when they leave for their last journeys.

By Junaid S

Faultline in Kashmir makes people root for Afridi and vote in polls

SRINAGAR: Like rest of the subcontinent, Srinagar shut down for the semifinal clash between India and Pakistan. But, the team they cheered for wasn't the Men in Blue(Indian Cricket Team). In hotels and homes, at roadside stalls and in Srinagar's downtown sprawl, in villages and small mohallas, Kashmir was rooting for Shahid Afridi and his team.

This support for Pakistan appeared to cut across caste and class, united mainstream politicians and separatists, and brought together prosperous businessmen who live half the year in Delhi and the shikarawalas who ceaselessly circle the Dal Lake.

On the day of the semifinal, children took a day off from school. India batted first and every Indian wicket prompted a blaze of firecrackers. When Pakistan started batting, every run was cheered. What does this tell us? Widespread support for Pakistan in the Valley? Not quite.

Most people who cheered for Afridi's team have no love lost for Pakistan with its failing economy and daily violence. The reality of Pakistan has done what the Indian state could not for years: made "Kashmir banega Pakistan" vanish from all protests. All that the Kashmiris have done is separate the reality of Pakistan from the idea of Pakistan.

Thus, the murder and mayhem in Lahore and Karachi represent the reality of Pakistan; Shahid Afridi's team in Mohali represent the idea of Pakistan. It is the best example of the mix of history, emotion, resentment and pragmatism that Kashmir is today. The generation applauding Pakistan today grew up fixated on the idea of Pakistan before the spiral of insurgency in the 90s.

"There is a connectedness, in the emotional sense, in the hearts of Kashmiris. We don't bleed blue, we bleed green," said Abid Hussein, a young professional.

It was at battleground Sharjah that India was humiliated. A young man spoke about how a television remote was hurled at him for cheering India in a match. And it was his grandfather who did so. The generation today is older. They have become politicians and businessmen firm in their knowledge that India is the way forward for Kashmir. They shake their heads at every blast in Pakistan. But once it comes to anything that represents the idea of Pakistan, like the Pakistani cricket team, they remember their love for it.

"In spite of my saying I'll never support Pakistan after they lose, I end up watching them play. Ath wanan (it means) true love. We curse them, we abuse them, we hate them but also always love them. Kashmiris have a deep emotion with Pakistan, and not only because of religion," said Farhan Faisal, a businessman.

Kashmiris are provincial in their actions, but Kashmiri nationalists in their mindset. This faultline makes them turn out and vote for bijli, sadak, pani in elections, scrutinise the increase in Central grants in the state budget, makes thousands vie for posts in the police. It also makes them throw stones and spray "Go Back India" on the walls. It makes them kit out in Pakistani colours and also makes them compliment the administration for imposing section 144 to prevent violence that would hurt business.

It makes them admire India, its plurality, its progress and its strength; and resent it for these very reasons. As Naveed Tariq described it, "I think today two matches were telecast. One which the whole world saw was played between Indian cricket team and Pakistan cricket team and was played in the spirit of the game. The other which some Kashmiris saw was played between the Indian Army team and Kashmiris."