Mirza Waheed
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Is India the only country that has responded to Coronavirus with Islamophobia?
Yes.
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“A woman protestor applied salt on her face, to protect herself from the teargas smoke during a clashes that erupted after Friday prayers in Kashmir.(TRTWorld)”
I’ll remember this photograph for a long, long time.
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Rana Ayyub has taught the entire political leadership of India a lesson in empathy.
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Hello world, more than 7 million Kashmiris have not been allowed to speak with their loved ones for 12 days now.
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A country that wilfully destroys the homes of an occupied people is not a democracy. It’s a tyranny.
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Kashmiri journalists are among the bravest in the world. In solidarity.
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I don’t think I’ve seen enough condemnation of India’s communication blockade in
#Kashmir
.
It’s cruel, illegal, immoral, and reprehensible. No other country has deprived an entire people of their fundamental right to speak with their loved ones.
I condemn it. Will you join me?
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What kind of bitter, unhappy, insecure person goes out of their house every week to stop someone from praying.
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I’ve been a journalist for more than twenty years and I can confirm I’ve never, not even in my nightmares, seen the kind of bonkers shit that’s broadcast in the name of news on much of Indian TV these days.
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This is one of Masrat Zahra’s most striking photographs. Great work.
“A woman protestor applied salt on her face, to protect herself from the teargas smoke during a clashes that erupted after Friday prayers in Kashmir.” November, 2019.
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A Kashmiri family on the front page of New York Times is just heartbreaking.
“Crying in Pulwama for a detained family member”
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You have to salute the dignity and strength of character of Indian Muslims who live with the daily torment of being treated like second-class citizens in the Hindutva state.
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The major who violated Geneva Conventions by torturing a Kashmiri civilian for hours was given a medal of commendation by none other than India’s army chief.
All I’m trying to do is understand how you can talk about Geneva Conventions with a straight face.
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The torture of Kashmiri children should be infinitely more disturbing and reprehensible than a former chief minister’s long detention and beard.
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Virat Kohli, full of respect towards arch rivals and victorious opponents today, is such a remarkable ambassador for the game.
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Do you remember any country that has kept an entire people under lockdown and a communications blackout for a full month?
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A dark night descends on Kashmir, as a siege is imposed by India. I’m extremely worried about my home.
Long suffering people of Kashmir, stay safe.
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Hear this. A large number of rather strange people are boycotting a detergent powder because its TV ad shows a Hindu child being nice to a Muslim child.
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For my generation, India changed irrevocably when a heritage mosque was pulled down brick by brick and the whole country watched. The demotion was televised.
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Women journalists in India are among the bravest in the world. They receive unspeakable abuse every day - for doing their job, for having opinions, for simply being who they are - and yet they carry on. Lesser mortals would quit.
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The first time that the Indian government comes out to defend a journalist is...when it’s not a journalist.
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The Killing of Bashir Ahmed Khan is quite clearly much more than heinous or atrocious. Every moment, every frame presents a hugely damning question:
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Everything is banned in Kashmir. Cellphones, Internet, broadband, even landlines are blocked! I cannot speak with my parents. We have no way of finding out how our loved ones are.
It’s terrifying.
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These apocalyptic images are from Kashmir.
Bastiyan mismaar karke kehte ho kohraam kyon macha hai.
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Pehlu Khan, he who was lynched on camera, humbly begs to differ from the grave.
The happiest Muslims in the world are found in India, thanks to the Hindu culture, says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat
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It’s not a cremation. They chose to burn the Dalit girl’s body as if it were rubbish.
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You might want to file this under unbelievable but true.
Ten Kashmiri boys have been booked under a dreaded “anti-terror” law for playing cricket.
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No.
Free Kashmir means exactly what it says.
Free Kashmir.
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It’s a terrifying and, of course, utterly disgraceful moment when a former senior army officer is allowed to call for the rape on national TV.
Be worried, India, very worried.
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As a matter of fact, it’s not. It’s Srinagar, a city under shutdown for more than three months now. Srinagar - my city - is in Kashmir, where more than 700,000 Indian soldiers suppress 8 million Kashmiris as we speak.
Therefore, please don’t do this.
Best wishes
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The attacks on Ilhan Omar
from nasty Indian trolls, and trolls disguised as journalists, are indeed hateful, misogynistic, racist and, of course, deeply Islamophobic. You should report them, in India and in the US, but not amplify by engaging with the locusts.
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India, where a Muslim family was attacked inside their home a few miles from Delhi, wants a report on teenage Hindu girls forcibly converted in Pakistan.
The subcontinent in full bonkers mode now.
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You’ve got to salute Indian Muslims for the courage and dignity they’ve shown in the face of everyday assaults on their existence as equal citizens.
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A polite reminder.
Hiba Nasir was in her mother's arms when the volley of pellets hit her. She was eighteen months old at the time.
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It’s been 40 days since Kashmir was cut off from the world and put under a siege. 40 days.
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The denial of normal Internet services to millions of Kashmiris, as the world grapples with a devastating pandemic, is a criminal act.
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“...death had turned every day in Kashmir into some family’s Karbala.”
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“The journey from being a colony of the British empire to colonising the unyielding Muslim other next door reveals a catastrophic mutation at the heart of the Indian state.“
-My piece in The Guardian~
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After he’s done with journalists and historians, Obama should sit down for interviews with the kin of those killed by his drones.
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For a tiny bit of perspective, read this: Thirteen thousand Kashmiris were arrested last year. 13,000.
Some of them are still in prison.
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Of course, India abstains from calling for humanitarian truce in Gaza. It knows a lot about putting a people under siege and cutting off all communications.
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Kashmir was and remains a military occupation. The Indian government just staged a demonstration for the whole world.
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Not too long ago, BJP lawmakers took out a rally in support of the men who abducted, raped and bludgeoned to death an eight-year-old girl.
Remember Asifa Bano of Kathua.
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Thank you very much, everyone. I’m grateful to the judges for the recognition.
I’ll receive the prize by post.
Please stay home.
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My goodness. Indian politicians, journalists, editors, are openly defending and celebrating brutal violence against Kashmiri kids.
There’s no hope.
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As news of a massacre arrives from home in Kashmir, I realise it’s been thirty years since the killings started. Please stop, India, the slaughter of a people who do not want to stay with you will never make them do so.
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It’s been 75 days since India dealt a low, humiliating body blow to Kashmir. It’s been 75 days since much of Indian media went into overdrive to run a false narrative of normalcy.
Kashmiris will not forget. Memory and memory-making are every thing for the dispossessed. Remember.
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You must remember that they did not let Afzal Guru’s wife and young son to meet him one last time before he was hanged.
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Kashmiri Pandits' right to return home is an inalienable right. I don't know of any Kashmiri who opposes the return of Pandits.
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Shame on you all for attacking one of the most courageous women in the world because she chose to speak for the besieged children of Kashmir.
#Malala
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The Internet, social media and journalism have all been criminalised in Kashmir. As for democracy, it never really arrived.
The internet and social media have democratized journalism and revitalized democracy: President Kovind
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I’m told Muharram starts tomorrow. For thousands of families in Kashmir, Muharram never really ended.
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The Indian state kills Kashmiri boys, kidnaps their corpses, and buries them in places far away from their devastated families.
It’s a grotesque new policy that ensures complete erasure of accountability.
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The original term is ‘civil curfew’. It was invented in Kashmir.
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Not sure if there’s any need to respond to those who this morning decided that the Pulitzer Prize, too, is a ‘conspiracy’ against India. You should just watch them make international fools of themselves.
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The most humiliating thing you can say to a besieged people is that ‘it’s for your own good’.
#Kashmir
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On the eve of Ashura, may all oppressors meet the same fate as Yazeed, may all tyrants find themselves in eternal ignominy.
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Hundreds arrested in
#Kashmir
without known charges. Those caught on camera killing a helpless man in Rajasthan acquitted.
That should tell you everything about contemporary India.
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You cut off the Internet every time you organise an “election” in a region with the highest density of soldiers on the planet.
Please.
"There are people in Delhi who always taunt and insult me. They want to teach me lessons in democracy. I want to show them Jammu and Kashmir DDC polls as an example of democracy": PM Modi
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Read this real slow.
Kashmiri parents are required to register their phone numbers at a government office before they are allowed to talk to their children.
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Did you know that Kashmir has been denied normal internet services for 500 days?
It’s just that I heard two billionaires, who’ve amassed more wealth lately, talk shit about connectivity on a TV thing the other day.
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Must salute the unimaginable courage, grace and dignity of Indian Muslims in the face of vicious assaults on their very existence.
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What is the need for amnesty international when you have Amit Shah to safeguard human rights.
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A lockdown within a lockdown. A siege upon siege. The silencing of Kashmir, in the midst of a pandemic, is terrifying.
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“Naya Kashmir” is so abuzz with newness that they’ve had to impose a curfew on it.
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A worrying number of media people in India and Pakistan seem to think that their job is to speak on behalf of the state. It’s bizarre.
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Very true, minister.
Journalist Aasif Sultan has been in jail for two years now. Last year,
the US National Press Club gave Aasif its annual John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award but your government has kept him in prison. Here’s AS with his little daughter.
We condemn the attack on press freedom in
#Maharashtra
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@PIB_India
@DDNewslive
@republic
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A friend once told me Kashmir isn’t a graveyard only for the slain of Kashmir but also for India’s conscience.
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When you depend on fake photos to mark ‘independence day’ in Kashmir, you turn everything, including the very concept of freedom, into a farce.
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A few years ago, I wrote about “fake encounters”, the strange term used to describe premeditated murders.
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The denial of normal Internet services to millions of Kashmiris, as the world grapples with a devastating pandemic, is a criminal act.
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India’s chief of defence staff is talking about ‘de-radicalisation camps’ (a euphemism for internment camps) for Kashmiri children. You should be terrified, very terrified, because one day, they will come for your children too.
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What is the term for those who plunder the homes of a besieged people?
Looters.
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I know of Kashmiris who haven’t slept well for 45 days.
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A huge developing story, thousands of Chinese troops well inside Ladakh, facing off with Indian soldiers, is mostly missing from the international press.
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I’ve been thinking, writing, about Kashmir, India, and Pakistan for twenty years, and I don’t remember a time when there existed such unbridled hostility towards ordinary Kashmiris.
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India mourns the loss of civil rights hero John Lewis while making sure an 80-year-old poet (Rao), a 70-year-old lawyer and rights activist (Qayoum), and many others remain in prison for speaking up.
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Research scholar Safoora Zargar is in prison in India for speaking truth to power. Zargar is pregnant.
Everyone should demand her freedom.
#freesafoora
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Israelis are still counting their dead, Palestinians are being killed as we speak but, of course, Hindutva media rushes to spread hateful disinformation. Probably the most sinister invention of our times, totally seceded from reason.
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Where is the statement from newspaper editors in Kashmir? Masrat Zahra needs and deserves your support and solidarity. It’s a simple matter of standing up for your colleague. Please do.
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They cut off Kashmir from the rest of the world as an empire blockades a colony. Kashmiris aren’t allowed to mourn their dead, to pay their tribute, speak of their loss…
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Perhaps you should pause to think before making hasty comparisons between a lockdown necessitated by a terrifying pandemic and a military siege a neo-colonial state imposed to annexe territory.
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The festival of small-mindedness that the Pulitzer Prize has led to is just hilarious to watch. So many people are finding it terribly hard to write the phrase “Kashmiri journalists”.
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The world is made soundless when you can’t hear your beloveds.
My essay on the siege of Kashmir.
via
@lithub
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All those bent on lazy comparisons with Kashmir, remember this and be very grateful: You’re not being shot dead and blinded en masse, tortured, or detained indefinitely under black laws.
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Outlook India Photo Gallery - Kashmir Photos That Won The Pulitzer
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April 2019. Life of a colonial subject:
A Kashmiri man has to seek permission to travel on his own roads. A magistrate imprints a seal on his hand.
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Reports from Kashmir say that the Indian state has now filed an FIR against journalist and author
@GowharGeelani
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It’s difficult to understand what the priorities of the state are at this time.
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Three Kashmiri men are killed in cold blood by an officer, a brigadier then holds a press conference to falsely claim the men were terrorists and were killed in a gunfight, that there was a mob present too. Two years later, the captain is found guilty.
The brigadier has a medal.
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What is the perfect response to media repression?
Your work wins the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
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Kashmir’s former rulers have an infinite capacity for barefaced hypocrisy. Hundreds were killed during their tenure and yet they demand inquiries, shed vacuous tears for those killed now.
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Year 20xx. Centrist lads reporting from detention camps in India:
As you can see, there are two sides to every story. While this is certainly a detention camp, the bathrooms here are much more sanitary than these people would’ve had if they were still in their homes.
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Today is ‘let’s stop a Muslim from offering his prayers’ day in India’s capital.
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The new domicile “rules” spell disaster for Kashmir. To do this as people are scared for their lives is just Machiavellian.
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News, images, and videos from Kashmir clearly show India is behaving more and more like Israel does with Palestine. Please remember the people of Kashmir in your thoughts.
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