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Unrest In Srinagar: Capital Of Indian-Administered Kashmir
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 7, 2010: again unrest in the Indian administered Kashmir has surfaced. Most of the young generation people have been at the front to oppose the Indian rule in Kashmir. Television channels have shown the Indian forces indiscriminately firing on the peaceful protestors. Thirteen innocent youngsters have died by the security forces firing on them.
According to the New York Times reporter, Home Minister P. Chidambaram has accused the banned Pakistani militant group called Lashkar-e-Taiba of fomenting the violence in Kashmir leading to upset the peace talks two countries are going to hold.
BBC in its July 7, 2010 reporting has said that Indian army soldiers have marched through Srinagar: the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir in a show of force. A defense spokesman Lt Col JS Brar told the BBC that the army had conducted "a flag march" on the outskirts of Srinagar city particularly on the road leading to the airport.
A curfew has been imposed in Srinagar and is being strictly enforced by the police and paramilitaries. The curfew in Anantnag has now been in place for eight consecutive days and there is no sign of the tension diminishing according to the BBC NEWS.
The killings of civilian protesters: most of them teenagers have angered many in the valley. One newspaper headline described 2010 as the "year of teenage killings" in Kashmir. Even the pro-India People's Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the government of declaring war on its own people says the BBC report.
