Navreh Celebrations at Hari Parvat,Anangpur,Faridabad

Pictures of the Navreh Celebrations......

Legendary Kashmiri Singer Kailash Mehra enthralling the audiences..... She brought the past back to us....From Naem Saab's Bedardi Dade Chane to Krishaan Joo Razdan's Bel tay Madal it was journey of nostalgia but with Sahebo Sat Cham mae Chaane it was a voice of hope...
And she bade farewell for now with Paertho Gilas-e-kuleney Taland Sh.J.N.Kaul blesses Kailash Mehra...

Roots in Kashmir unveiling its New LogoRavi Bhan singing Moti Lal Saqi's"Ganemat Sham-e-Gham"

A section of the Audience....

KILL US AND OUR SILENCE WILL SPEAK.....

When we first wrote a post requesting “The India Today Group” to rethink its decision of inviting Yasin Malik as a speaker to its Annual Conclave, it was out of hope that the group’s management would see reason.
(http://kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/2008/02/yasin-malik-and-india-today-conclave.html)
We wrote 3 posts to this effect and hundreds of e-mails were sent to them requesting them to re-consider the decision. But alas! All of them seem to have fallen on deaf ears or blind eyes. No one seems to be interested in seeing reason or hearing out what has been documented by various journalists of repute including the India Today Group itself.

We had painstakingly collected all the evidence that’s there to show that Yasin Malik is a criminal, a third rate one .There is a no crime known to mankind that Yasin Malik has not been involved in. You name it and he has done it all…killings, kidnappings, hawala, gun running. He is the one who along with Shawkat Bakshi pumped bullets into the then Director of Doordarshan Lassa Kaul to silence the media once and for all. He and his JKLF goons are singularly responsible for the largest forced exodus of the modern history. Yet The India Today Group has gone ahead and invited him to be a speaker at its conclave. One can only feel sorry for the people who have taken this decision of inviting him.

Well, we can’t behave like Yasin Malik. Thankfully we don’t have it in us to kill people who don’t agree with us. We can’t kill unarmed innocent people and call it armed struggle. Call us meek, cowards or whatever you choose to. Civility may not be a virtue for people who kill or for the ones who play hosts to them, but we will stick to it. As responsible citizens and human beings we will however register our protest right outside the venue of the Conclave.For all those who wish to join us,here are the details

Venue:
Main Entrance
The Taj Palace
Sardar Patel Marg

Time:
2.30 PM

Carry your guns Mr.Malik, be the man you are. Kill us too and India Today Group will give you some more airtime. You could next year be their “Man of the Year” or at-least make it to their list of most powerful people. After all not many in India have the distinction of killing so many as you have.

Kill us and our silence will speak.

YASIN MALIK's HAWALA MONEY-INDIA TODAY REPORT

A report published in India Today clearly shows how Yasin Malik was involved in Hawala Transctions.How can they be so dumb as to now invite the same man to its conclave as a "youth icon".

Here is the report and the link.The report is damning...Someone is surely out of his head....to invite this monster to a prestigious conclave like this.

http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20020408/states.shtml

STATES: JAMMU AND KASHMIR
Money Games
JKLF chief Yasin Malik’s arrest raises suspicions about the rising reliance of separatists on hawala funds in the ValleyBy Ramesh Vinayak
ON THE DEFENSIVE: Malik, who was booked under POTO, says he was framed in the case
Police say the money was meant to fund activities that would hinder the state elections to be held soon.
On March 24, the Jammu police recovered $100,000 (Rs 48 lakh) neatly stitched on to the salwar of a young Kashmiri woman at a check-post on the Jammu-Srinagar highway. What was significant was not the quantity of money or the ingenuity in its smuggling. It was the sheer timing. The case came in the run-up to the high-stake battle by the A.B. Vajpayee Government to push the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (poto) through Parliament. The Government could not have asked for a more telling example to press its point home. Two days after the police booked Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (jklf) Chairman Yasin Malik in Srinagar, the intended recipient of the seized dollars, under poto, the terror bill was passed by a joint sitting of the Parliament.The dollar grab—the latest in a string of at least eight cash and hawala seizures in Kashmir and Delhi in the past three months—highlights the increased importance of foreign funding in sustaining militancy in Kashmir and the growing desperation of secessionists for hard cash to keep their operations running.

It also underlines the fact that the hawala route in the Valley is intact and active as ever.Intelligence officials in Srinagar believe the latest consignment was part of the funds Malik had raised during his trip to the US in July-September last year. But the funds could not be channelled to Kashmir in the wake of 9/11. It was only in March this year that Altaf Qadri, a pok-based jklf leader known for his proximity to Malik, got the money in Pakistan through hawala channels. Qadri had the money delivered in Kathmandu to Mushtaq Ahmed Dar, a former district commander of jklf. Dar used his fiancee Shameema alias Shazia Begum as a cover and the plan worked during their travel from Kathmandu to Jammu. Police say the JKLF planned to host a meeting of the Hurriyat’s parallel election commission—with members from India and Pakistan—in the US before the assembly elections due in September-October. It needed funds to finance the trip of the Indian members to the US. The money, the police say, was meant for that—a charge Malik denies. “It’s a dirty trick by the Government to thwart the Hurriyat’s proposal to prove its true representative character in a parallel election,” he says.But police officials sense a sinister dimension. Says ig (Kashmir) K. Rajendra Kumar: “The terror funds have a clear trail leading to Pakistan.” Pakistan has to fund not only militant groups and the secessionists—allegedly the Hurriyat too—but also the families of dead militants in the state. Only small consignments of cash come into Kashmir from across the loc. With militancy losing popular support, local financial help is hard to come by. So militants have come to rely heavily on hawala money. The terror funds from Pakistan get routed to the Gulf countries before being sent to India. “Unearthing hawala routes is an uphill task,” says a top police officer in Jammu. “Only one end gets busted in such operations, the other remains elusive.” According to intelligence estimates, Pakistan has been pumping in about Rs 6 crore every month for sustaining its covert operations in Kashmir. Police officials admit that they are able to seize only a fraction of this money.

The key to rooting out militancy may lie in stopping the fund flow. “Money is the oxygen on which militancy survives,” says a top intelligence official. Whether poto can increase the choking effect on terror funds is a million-dollar question.