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The Valiant Women of Kashmir

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Ghulam Muhammad, Nawaz Muhammad and Atta Muhammad, all had been martyred. These words fell like bomb shells on Noor Fatima. Under the recently promulgated Article 370 and 35-A of this constitution, a Hindu boy, Karishan Kumar purchased a plot nearby her house and started harassing all the young girls. When they resisted, Karishan and many other rascals charged into the locality, firing briskly and indiscriminately. He shot all male members dead. He challenged very proudly: Torture, tyranny, oppression ----our ambitions. Treason, treachery, oblivion ----our weapons. Is there anyone to resist us? Noor Fatima went inside, took hold of her husband’s gun and came out courageously and replied: “If the male members of my family have been martyred, I am alive. My faith is alive. My mission is alive.” Her words echoed throughout the whole valley and thousands of voices joined her, declaring: "We are alive. Your atrocities can spill our blood and cut our bodies but they ca...

I am Kashmiri!

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I belong to that place whose elegance  can't be compared to the whole world. I came from the place that is a reflection of heaven on earth; it is blessed with nature's beauty and love. It is rightly said by someone: "IF THERE IS PARADISE ON EARTH, IT'S HERE IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE." Yes, I belong to KASHMIR.  But it is unfortunate that this beauty has been ruined by the tyrants of India.  This heaven has been transformed to hell, the walls of which are painted red with the blood of innocents, the aura of this eden keeps on smothering. T his land of our's holds the bodies of sons who once used to be honey bunches of their mothers. Father's couldn't see their bundles of joy as they feel conspiracies of the decoy, husbands couldn't become the comfort of their wives as they were brutally murdered with bloody knives. Here, the blood keeps on running from rivers; seeing this horror, every one shivers. If, in this 21st century, there is any extre...