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SRINAGAR
(India held-Kashmir): Suspected separatist rebels hurled a
grenade on an Indian paramilitary vehicle driving through a
busy market on Thursday, killing an officer and wounding seven
civilians and four soldiers in Indian-controlled Kashmir,
officials said.
Two other people were killed in separate violence, a BSF
spokesman Tirtha Acharya said by adding that the attackers
threw a grenade on a passing paramilitary jeep in Sopore, a
town of apple orchards about 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of
Srinagar, the summer capital of the occupied part of the
Himalayan State of Jammu & Kashmir which is forcibly held by
India with a military might of almost a million troops.
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In separate dissenter violence, freedom fighters, struggling
to achieve their right of self-determination—in line with the
UN resolutions, adopted more than a dozen times—shot and
killed a worker of Kashmir’s ruling People’s Democratic Party
in Mattan village, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) south of
Srinagar.
In nearby Naagum village, suspected rebels shot and injured
another ruling party activist, a police spokesman said on
customary condition of anonymity.
Also Thursday, Indian soldiers killed a suspected rebel in the
Kandi forests of the frontier Kupwara district during a gun
battle, police said.
Dozens of groups, representing the pragmatic aspirations of
the people of the Muslim-dominated State have been fighting
for Kashmir’s independence from India and its accession with
neighbouring Pakistan since 1989, an epoch that has claimed
more than 85,000 lives.
Jammu-Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority state in India. A
part of this Himalayan realm was invaded by India in 1947 when
the British rule ended in the sub-continent and a new
country—Pakistan emerged on the global Atlas under the
leadership of the great leader of the 20th century,
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Since then, India has fought two wars with Pakistan to keep
New Delhi’s illicit hold in the held-Jammu & Kashmir. Yet the
people of the State are determined to make India quit the
occupied Kashmir—in its’ own interest.
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