It is confirmed: there is a snow storm in Kashmir. It is not a Pakistan-sponsored terrorist false flag operation.

Iltija, the daughter of former Kashmiri chief minister & Indian collaborator Mehbooba Mufti was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour on CNN about the blockade, now 95 days long. She passionately denounced the Modi regime as a “cesspool of bigotry” that was “hurtling towards an authoritarian regime….not the country I was born & raised in.” She probably is extremely distressed that her mother is being held by Indian authorities in a posh hotel after years of collusion with India in the arrest, torture, mass rape, forcible disappearance, pellet gun violence, executions of hundreds of thousands of Kashmiris. But why is Amanpour interviewing a young woman who won’t face up the crimes of her mother rather than any number of Kashmiris outside Kashmir who could speak powerfully to 72 years of Indian crimes without pretending Mehbooba Mufti is a victim rather than a leading figure in the occupation?

(Photo of Iltija Mufti from OpIndia)

(Posted on November 7th)

“Indian authorities have denied claims of snowfall in Indian-administered Kashmir, terming the images, videos and reports as fake, malicious and intended to threaten national security. “

–Kashmiri sarcasm by Shahid Tantray- شاہد تانترے @shahidtantray on Twitter

(Photo of first snowfall in Srinagar, November 7th, 2019 by Basit Zargar)

“Indian authorities have denied claims of snowfall in Indian-administered Kashmir, terming the images, videos and reports as fake, malicious and intended to threaten national security. :)”

–Kashmiri sarcasm by Shahid Tantray- شاہد تانترے @shahidtantray on Twitter

(Photo of first snowfall in Srinagar, November 7th, 2019 by Basit Zargar)

Translation of this window posting from Kashmir: ” Fall in love with us Kashmiri boys with remarkable caution because our funerals are often taken out in our youth. “

(Source is many Kashmiris on social media; date of photo not identified)

One Kashmiri friend was suspended for writing a piece on the character of freedom deemed a violation of community standards & another has been disappeared without notice.

There are different ways of capitalizing & punctuating English. When I edit your comments which I share into standardized American English form, it isn’t to pull a ‘cultural imperialism’ thing but to make your comments conform to my rigidities in language. Please don’t hate me for it.

India is discussing changing the official language of Kashmir from Urdu to either Hindi or English. Farah Bashir responds: “Changing Urdu as the official language in Kashmir is essentially to control all the communication and official dealings. By excluding Urdu in a region where majority reads and writes in that language is nothing other than apartheid.”

The Hindu is reporting today that of the 6,300 Kashmiri young people & political activists arrested since August 5th, all but 1,300 were released. They got that information from the police. Kashmiri human rights leader Parvez Imroz recently claimed with certainty that between 20,000 to 30,000 Kashmiris were arrested & other human rights sources have reported that at least 13,000 young boys were kidnapped & sent to prisons in India. The Hindu apparently lacks the investigative skills considered de rigueur for a 7th grade book report. They should have begun by interrogating the police report statistics & ended by demanding proof that 5,000 Kashmiris have been released. Otherwise they’ll soon be mistaken as a propaganda agency for India like RT or Sputnik news, both wholly owned by Russia.