Srinagar, 3 November 2010 (Bashir Assad): Separatist leadership in Jammu and Kashmir asked people to observe October 27 as black day and called for a march to United Nations Military Observers Group (UNMOG) in Srinagar demanding withdrawal of security forces from Jammu and Kashmir. The authorities, however, clamped curfew in the entire valley and stringent security majors were put in place to foil the proposed march to UNMOG).
Srinagar, 31 October 2010 ( Bashir Assad): Over the years, people in Jammu and Kashmir state especially in Kashmir valley are struggling with identity crisis and the Kashmiri nationalism has been at the root cause of the political turmoil in the state since 1989. Manipulation and interference in Kashmir's internal affairs, has grown shrill with the passage of time. As a subtext, economic discrimination, anti-Muslim bias in recruitment to central government and private sector jobs, nepotism, cronyism, and large scale corruption have also become part of the nationalist protest.
Srinagar, 23 October 2010 (by Bashir Assad): Hospitality for which Kashmir was known for centuries, has been transformed by the elite as an institution of corruption for favour. In the recent past startling revelations were made about the missing of some antiques of Maharaj’s time from the Hospitality and Protocol Department. Sources said that some of these historical antiques were gifted by the government to many VVIP’s who visited Kashmir in recent past.
