All posts tagged "Maqbool Bhat"
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1.3KConflictKashmir shuts down to mark 37 years since Maqbool Bhat’s hanging in Tihar Jail
A shutdown is being observed in Kashmir to mark the 37th year of the hanging of JKLF founder Mohammad Maqbool Bhat, who...
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Parts of Kashmir remain shut against ‘hanging of Afzal Guru by New Delhi’
Srinagar: Parts of the Kashmir valley remained shut from North to South against the hanging of Afzal Guru on the same day...
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Maqbool Bhat’s brother, others test positive for COVID in ‘overcrowded’ jail, families say ‘prisoners at risk’
Srinagar: On the morning of July 11, 2020, a call from Central jail Anantnag to the family of one of the inmates...
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PDP MP writes to Modi, seeks return of mortal remains of Afzal Guru, Maqbool Bhat
Srinagar: Muhammad Fayaz Mir, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Member of Parliament in a letter to Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has...
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JRL calls for shutdown on Feb 9, 11 to observe ‘martyrdom anniversaries of Butt, Guru’
Srinagar: The Joint Resistance Leadership on Thursday called for a complete shutdown on February 9 and 11 to ‘observe the martyrdom anniversaries...
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Chapter Four: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Eight years in Tihar Jail’s captive chambers had already changed the ‘romantic’. Unlike his yesteryear’s Micawberish conviction, as his detractors would dismiss...
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4.6KConflict
Chapter Three: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Even after the two teen Qureshis—Hashim and Ashraf—would hijack an Indian Fokker plane ‘Ganga’ at 1305 hours on 30 January, 1971, with...
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5.6KConflict
Chapter Two: What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
As Trehgam’s defiant legacy had finally found it’s heir-apparent, the villagers would regularly watch a wiry, opinionated boy praying five times a...
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5.8KConflict
What fuelled Kashmir’s Maqbool Butt
Born in feudalism-infested Kashmir where tyranny was an order of the day, Maqbool Butt demonstrated his defiant nature quite early in his...
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Bring him back: Documentary on Maqbool Bhat released 34 years after his hanging
A film on Maqbool Bhat the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) was released on the 34th anniversary of...
