Seventeen years on, Kashmir kidnapping of foreigners under review

[Windjammer]

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SRINAGAR: A state human rights commission said on Tuesday that it will review records from the 1995 kidnapping of six foreigners in Indian-held Kashmir after a new book alleged that Indian intelligence agents were involved in the deadly crime.

The six tourists were trekking in a Himalayan meadow when they were kidnapped by a previously unknown militant group named Al-Faran. One American escaped, but the body of a Norwegian was later found in a remote village. Another American, a German and two Britons were never located.

India alleged that the kidnappers were backed by Pakistan, and that some disappeared after the crime while others were killed in gun battles with Indian troops.

However, authors Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clarke suggest in a recently published book, The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began, that the Indian government deliberately undermined hostage negotiations and prolonged the crisis to damage Pakistan’s reputation, and then used its own militants to take custody of the hostages before they were killed.

The Jammu-Kashmir State Human Rights Commission asked Tuesday for reports about the 17-year-old case from government and police authorities. Commission Secretary Tariq Ahmad Banday said it is also seeking access to two officers who were part of the original investigation.

The commission will discuss the case at its next meeting May 28, after being asked to look into it by a local rights group, the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice.

The group called for an inquiry into “why no action was taken on various points … despite the authorities having knowledge of the location of the hostages, and then subsequently the burial site of the hostages.”

Seventeen years on, Kashmir kidnapping of foreigners under review | DAWN.COM

[HAIDER]

Not only this case , soon more cases will surface where Indian govt was involved. Still the case of unmarked graves not resolved yet.

[Areesh]

that the Indian government deliberately undermined hostage negotiations and prolonged the crisis to damage Pakistan’s reputation

Humm.

[RazPaK]

Bhartis have evil intentions in Kashmir.

[karan.1970]

relook at who is opening this inquiry ... Its the Indian govt itself

[SpArK]

A state human rights commission said on Tuesday that it will review records from the 1995 kidnapping of six foreigners in Indian Kashmir after a new book alleged that Indian intelligence agents were involved in the deadly crime.


The Jammu-Kashmir State Human Rights Commission asked Tuesday for reports

Nobody is above law. Not even the armed forces.

The state mechanisms will and should investigate anything thats unlawful.

[Ammyy]

relook at who is opening this inquiry ... Its the Indian govt itself

I think thread starter forget to read this point

[Windjammer]

relook at who is opening this inquiry ... Its the Indian govt itself

What choice did it have, after being exposed by a Western/ Unbiased source. !!

[karan.1970]

What choice did it have, after being exposed by a Western/ Unbiased source. !!

Western sources eh ??

Now if I had a Pakistani flag in my avatar, i could have pulled in some other comments from Western sources calling them unbiased but as of now, I will get banned for going offtopic

[HAIDER]

Most famous case surfaced when Indian intelligence killed his own Sikh nationals before Clinton visit to US. To gain US sympathy. But whole setup backfire.
Its not Indian govt, its different Liberation groups who pressure the courts to open the cases. Otherwise if Indian govt has good intention first of these killings wouldn't happened and removed the Marshal law, the longest Marshal in human history run by 700,000 govt boys.

[Ammyy]

Most famous case surfaced when Indian intelligence killed his own Sikh nationals before Clinton visit to US. To gain US sympathy. But whole setup backfire.

On daily basis terrorist killing many muslims in Pakistan (mainly Shia) who's sympathy you want to gain ????

[Windjammer]

Western sources eh ??

Now if I had a Pakistani flag in my avatar, i could have pulled in some other comments from Western sources calling them unbiased but as of now, I will get banned for going offtopic

Ya Ya....guess who swears by the white man and calls all else as Rupee News.

[HAIDER]

On daily basis terrorist killing many muslims in Pakistan (mainly Shia) who's sympathy you want to gain ????

Its not govt machinery use to kill shia, Its few wahabi dogs, who are biting not only shia but also sunnis too.
Let's get back to the topic..

[Abu Zolfiqar]

sooner or later, maybe ten years from now, the true facts surrounding 26/11 will come out as well.....its curious that it took indian police almost 3 days to stop a few lightly armed gunmen in the financial capital


india already has a proven track record over fake encounters and false flaggers

[karan.1970]

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Ya Ya....guess who swears by the white man and calls all else as Rupee News.

Pakistan

sooner or later, maybe ten years from now, the true facts surrounding 26/11 will come out as well.....its curious that it took indian police almost 3 days to stop a few lightly armed gunmen in the financial capital


india already has a proven track record over fake encounters and false flaggers

If a possibility expressed by 2 westerners in a book amounts to proven track record then the adjectives that can be assigned to Pakistan on that basis will exhaust the monthly bandwidth limit of this forum