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	Kashmir History and Politics
		Kashmir, the most picturesque area in this part of the world, known for its beauty, gardens and gentle people has been reduced to a region of ghosts because of the devious means adopted by Pakistan to incite the people by giving them arms and instigating them into terrorism.
		Since Jammu and Kashmir presents a variant of the federal structure in which the Indian States were welded, the present study is expected to provide a perspective for the future evolution of the federal frames which the founding fathers of the Constitution of India constructed.
		Kashmir: Wail of a Valley is the heart rending tale of the people, popularly known as Kashmiri Pandits, the natives of Kashmir who by brutal force were reduced to a minority during a few centuries of Muslim rule.
	www.ikashmir.net /history/politics.html (1955 words)

	Kashmir: A Paradise turned into Hell by Terrorism
		Kashmir has a myth and history, language and literature, art and architecture, culture and tradition, and religion and ritual that is distinct, yet similar to the civilization of the Indian subcontinent.
		In this once happy valley with its peace-loving and crime-free people, Buddhism reached the zenith of its glory, Hinduism extended its philosophical frontiers into Shaivism and Shaktism, and Islam achieved a new meaning and practice in its tradition of Sufism.
		After centuries of decimation of our population within Kashmir valley, the 1990 pogrom by Islamic terrorists and their supporters against us was the final act that expelled almost the entire remaining 400,000 strong population of Kashmiri Pandits - something that has unfortunately gone largely unreported in the Western press.
	www.kashmir-information.com (502 words)

	The Himalayas - Kashmir Himalayas
		Kashmir has been involved in a political controversy ever sincethe independence of India, with parts of it under the illegaloccupation of Pakistan and China.
		Administratively, the Kashmir valley, or the Valley, is part ofthe Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that rises in tiers fromthe plains to encompass mountainous terrain, high altitudevalleys and plateaus.
		According to geologists, Kashmir was earlier a huge lake calledthe Karewa, which was formed by the blocking of the Jhelum riverby the rising Pir Panjal range in one of the periodic phases ofHimalayan uplift.
	library.advanced.org /10131/kashmir.html (276 words)

	Kashmir
		Kashmir's symbolism to India is as critical a consideration as any security significance associated with this fragment of ice and rock threaded by a beautiful valley.
		Jammu is inhabited mainly by a Hindu majority, the Kashmir Valley is settled by a Muslim majority, and a Buddhist majority resides in Ladakh.
		In Jammu and Kashmir, the judicial system barely functions due to threats by militants against judges, witnesses, and their family members, because of judicial tolerance of the Government's heavy-handed antimilitant actions, and the frequent refusal by security forces to obey court orders.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/kashmir.htm (1905 words)

	Basics
		Jammu and Kashmir is made up of many regions but is called Jammu and Kashmir because the two most populous regions in the state are called Jammu and Kashmir.
		The Kashmir Valley is surrounded by some of the highest mountain ranges in the world.
		The valley itself is green and thickly populated.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /basicfacts/basics.html (3208 words)

	Kashmir Valley tense on the eve of elections
		Kashmir Valley tense on the eve of elections
		Srinagar: Tensions ran high and the Kashmir Valley was closed on Sunday, a day before the Srinagar and Ladakh constituencies go the polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
		During the heyday of militancy, neither the parliamentary nor neither the parliamentary nor Assembly elections could be held in Jammu and Kashmir.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives1999/99september04a.html (656 words)

	Behind the Kashmir Conflict - Summary (Human Rights Watch Report, July 1999)
		Focusing on the border areas in southern Kashmir that have emerged as important new areas of conflict since 1996, it also documents abuses that took place in the Kashmir valley in late 1998, based on extensive interviews with residents and government officials conducted during a mission in October 1998.
		While such wholesale attacks on civilians have decreased in the valley as Indian forces have consolidated their hold there, they have increased in the southern border districts where they are perceived by the local population as an attempt by Indian forces to punish the Muslim community at large.
		Elsewhere in Kashmir, most of the militant groups have lost considerable ground militarily, their ranks diminished through infiltration and assassination by "countermilitant" militias made up of former guerrillas and by the government's long policy of summarily executing captured guerrillas.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/kashmir/summary.htm (2175 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Kashmir: Where conflict rules
		Kashmir was an oddity, a predominantly Muslim state with a Hindu ruler (Raja Hari Singh).
		Kashmir is the only Indian region to have a majority population of Muslims, something that bolsters India's claim to secularism.
		However, experts also point out that Kashmir is not just a territorial issue, but also a political one involving the wishes of the Kashmiri people, and suggest that the area of the Kashmir valley, where the violence is the greatest, must be given greater autonomy from the Indian state.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/kashmir/overview.html (1140 words)

	land Jammu and Kashmir-Kashmir valley-webindia123.com
		The valley of Kashmir is a unique, oval plain, approximately 134 km in length and 32 to 40 km in breadth, with an average height of 1,800 m above the sea level, and nested securely among the Pir Panjal range of the Himalayas.
		The legend that the Kashmir valley was a vast lake, Satisar, in pre-historical times, corresponds with the results of geological observations.
		The shape of the valley is that of an elliptical saucer.
	www.webindia123.com /JAMMU/LAND/kashmirvalley.htm (439 words)

	KASHMIR - The story behind the story
		Jammu and Kashmir has 3 distinct components: a Hindu majority in Jammu, Buddhist dominate Ladakh in the North, and a predominantly Muslim population in the Kashmir Valley.
		The ceasefire of 1st January 1949 created the first Line-of-Control in Jammu and Kashmir, separating the area: the east (the valley of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh) guarded by Indian troops, the west (known as 'Azad [Free] Kashmir'), administered by Pakistan.
		The heart of the area is the fertile Vale of Kashmir (The Valley), which lies between the Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range, making it a militarily strategic area.
	www.didyouknow.cd /story/kashmir.htm (1639 words)

	eAppeal to Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The grand design of this separatist insurgency is aimed at snapping all historical, economic, cultural, and political links of Kashmir valley with India and annexing it with Pakistan which is encouraging it overtly and covertly and lending moral, financial, political, diplomatic and military support.
		Those who dared to return to the valley even after a brief absence were frisked and taken for questioning and accused of having spied against the terrorists and of having received arms training to counter the terrorism.
		Even after attainment of independence and accession of Jammu and Kashmir to India, the fundamentalist forces in the Kashmir valley refused to accept the principles of secularism and democratic pluralism and intensified their nefarious designs against the minority community of Kashmiri Hindus and against the Indian Republic.
	www.kashmiri-pandit.org /home/eappeal.html (2999 words)

	Jammu & Kashmir
		Kashmir is an area on the northern borders of India and Pakistan; officially known as Jammu and Kashmir.
		The capitals of Indian-held Kashmir are Srinagar in the summer and Jammu in the winter; whilst the capital of Azad Kashmir is Muzaffarabad.
		India maintains that Kashmir is an integral part of India based on the claim that the state was acceded to the Indian Union by the last ruler of Kashmir.
	www.ummah.net /kashmir (1000 words)

	Kashmir Sentinel
		The Kashmir Valley is surrounded on all sides by high Himalayan ranges which remain snow-bound for many months.
		Because of this geographical seclusion, Kashmir all through the history, has remained either a separate kingdom or separate province of the empire built by Ranjit Singh till 1846 when it was acquired by Gulab Singh.
		Due to over-representation given to the Kashmir valley in the State Assembly, Kashmiri Muslims have developed a kind of imperialistic tendency to dominate Jammu and Ladakh.
	www.kashmirsentinel.com /aug2002/16.html (1186 words)

	Islamic Terrorism and Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jammu and Kashmir being the only Muslim majority state in whole of India, the protection of minorities and their living peacefully, in their homeland, is crucial for India to remain as a Secular Democratic State.
		Ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindus) from Kashmir valley is the crucial failure of Indian state to uphold its commitments to people of India as enshrined in Indian constitution which provides right to live with dignity and honour to every citizen irrespective of caste, creed, religion or colour.
		Kashmiri Pandits are progenitors of Kashmir Shaivism the philosophy of oneness of mankind.
	www.kashmiri-pandit.org /sundry/genocide.html (1152 words)

	Understanding the Kashmir Turmoil
		The moot point, however, is that the turmoil in Kashmir has transcended the legalities of the accession of the state in 1947, and the insurgency is not a phenomenon of political dissent or a movement meant to change the government but it is a "jehad", a religious crusade against the non-conformists.
		Tej Krishan, a Hindu was hanged to death at Yachikot Lidder near Pahelgam in Anantnag district of the Kashmir valley.
		It seems that the terrorists after killing the entire Hindu population from the Kashmir valley now want to close down any process of return of the Hindu population ty burning their vacant houses, their last link with the valley.
	www.kashmir-information.com /Turmoil (2276 words)

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		There is yet another tradition in connection with King Solomon according to which even King Solomon reached the Kashmir Valley and through his wisdom aided the people of Kashmir by successfully regulating the Jalum river.
		Kashmir is known amongst the Kashmiri Pandits and other Saraswats (who fled Kashmir during periods of Islamic persecution) as Shardapeeth or the Abode of the Goddess of Learning and Fine Arts.
		The Valley of Kashmir owes its fame, doubtless, not less to the wild grandeur of the barriers, which surround it than to its own intrinsic loveliness.
	www.lycos.com /info/kashmir--kashmir-valley.html (590 words)

	Jammu and Kashmir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, circa 1900.
		With the help of General Zorawar Singh, Gulab Singh established the Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir which extended beyond the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley to the Tibetan Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh and the Emirates of Hunza, Gilgit and Nagar.
		The region of Kashmir and Jammu includes dry climates in the southwest, a strip of humid temperate climate through the center of the region, and a humid cold climate in the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kashmir,_India (1794 words)

	The Kashmir T E L E G R A P H: l Articles l Opinions l News-analysis l Features l And more l
		The major dimension of terrorist violence in Kashmir is the terrorists´ commitment to the extermination and subjugation of the Hindus in the state, because Hindus do not subscribe to the idea of separation from India, nor will they allow governance by the tenets of Islam.
		The strategies involved in the terrorists´ operation against the Hindus in Kashmir are simple: the extermination of Hindus, that is Subjecting Hindus to brutal torture, to instil fear among them in order to achieve their submission.
		Kashmir was the crucible of Knowledge, Spirituality, a hallowed centre of learning and the cradle of Shivaism.
	www.kashmirtelegraph.com /0703/seminar.htm (968 words)

	The Practical Nomad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This barred them from the Kashmir Valley, since it was on the Indian side of the Line of Control, which came to separate Pakistani- and Indian-controlled portions of Kashmir.
		In the Kashmir Valley, we were hoping for a restful vacation within a longer trip that had included some hard traveling elsewhere.
		While in Kashmir, quite by chance, I met and talked about the situation with the Mirwaiz (a title of spiritual leadership unique to Kashmir) of Kashmir, Mohammed Farooq.
	hasbrouck.org /kashmir (1182 words)

	Kashmir travel guide - Wikitravel
		The Kashmir valley is a region of Jammu and Kashmir state in India.
		He was writing about Kashmir, a land divided between the northern half of the northern-most state of India, Jammu and Kashmir and the district of Kashmir in Pakistan.
		Torn by war, terrorism and violence since 1948, this beautiful valley has long been considered a dangerous place to go to, but tourism is slowly coming back to the valley as kidnapping, explosions and terrorism is slowly dropping.
	wikitravel.org /en/Kashmir (218 words)

	Kashmir Watch :: Daily News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kashmir is considered as a bilateral issue between the two countries ignoring the primary party-people of Jammu and Kashmir- to the dispute.
		Implementation of the UN resolutions, he said, was a popular demand in Kashmir for it guaranteed the oneness of the state.
		Muzffrabad district of erstwhile Kashmir province and Mirpur district and parts of Poonch-Rajouri and frontier areas are under Pakistani control while the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and major parts of Jammu province are with India.
	www.kashmirwatch.com /mushkf.htm (7211 words)

	Kashmir Sentinel
		IN the wake of terrorists' violence, more than 50,000 families migrated from strife torn Kashmir valley and got themselves registered with the government authorities in various districts in Jammu region by the end of November 1990.
		Tej Krishan, a Hindu was hanged to death at Yachikot Lidder near Pahalgam in Anantnag district of the Kashmir valley.
		It seems that the terrorists after pushing out the entire Hindu population from the Kashmir valley now want to close down any process of return of the Hindu population by burning their vacant houses, their last link with the valley.
	www.kashmirsentinel.com (365 words)

	Kashmir Affairs - Security & Conflict Analysis of Kashmir
		Where at one time in Kashmir, boys and girls would marry even before the right time would come, most of the people are now getting married after having celebrated their 30th birthday.
		The fact that protests are still continuing in the capital city as well as in other urban areas some two weeks since the decision became public seems only to perplex the on-lookers further, reaping space for the angry and frustrated demonstrators to be branded 'anti-nationals', 'undemocratic', 'fanatics', and even 'terrorists' themselves.
		There is not a single family in Kashmir that has not experienced the cruel acts of the Indian occupation forces, which has sadly drawn no significant attention from the international community, including Canada.
	www.kashmiraffairs.org (1417 words)

	Kashmir Newz homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Deep rooted corruption in Indian administered Kashmir is hindering the deprived sections of the society to benefit from the reservations meant for them in government jobs or education.
		One year on school children in the quake hit zones of Jammu and Kashmir are taking classes in the open as government seems to have ignored the damaged school buildings.
		Due to the continous blockade of National Highway linking Kashmir valley with rest of India, the region has been experiencing shortages in the supply of various essential commodities like vegetables and fuel.
	www.kashmirnewz.com (619 words)

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