Guess what, up until the mid 1960s, Govt of India's tourism posters in Britain and America advertised trophy hunting as an attraction. That's how badly we needed foreign exchange. Nehru ran the Indian economy aground in just a decade.
@mattforney "My life is better than those Indians and that's why I spend all previous moments of my life berating those indians on X who stole my job. Im better than them. Im very smart."
Matt 'Tubby' Forney aka cupcake.
Skanda and Kritika Kanyas - wall painting in the ruins of Dandān-Uiliq, Kingdom of Khotan 7th-8th Century CE, Taklamakan Desert in today's Xinjiang, China.
Yasin Malik’s Pakistani wife, Mushaal Hussein Malik, is very outraged that her husband has been charged as the master planner in Sarla Bhatt’s case, but she won’t utter a word against her masters in the Pakistan Army and the ISI, who have kept PoJK boiling for over three weeks now.
She won’t shed a tear over the point-blank killings of dozens of youths in PoJK at the hands of Pakistani security forces, but she will cry a river over her husband’s reckoning. Why shouldn’t she? She chose him for precisely these very credentials.
Yasin Malik has been chargesheeted in murder of Sarla Bhat after 36 years.
Here is Bitta Karate aka Farooq Ahmed Dar admitting on camera murder of Kashmiri Hindus in cold blood. What prevents government from sending him to the gallows ?
"Hang Yasin Malik": Sarla Bhat's Cousin Recalls Horror, Slams Political Outreach
Chargesheet names Yasin Malik mastermind in 1990 Sarla Bhat killing by JKLF terrorists.
"Things did not end with Sarla's killing,” he said, "The horror continued even after her death."
"When her last rites were performed, about 200 young men stormed the cremation ground. They desecrated her ashes - trampled them under their feet - and taunted, 'You're still here?'"
"We had to beg to collect at least a fistful of ashes. Somehow, we gathered a fistful. That same night, they bombed her house too. After that, we had no choice. We fled Kashmir."
https://t.co/Js9QZKPcd5
In 1990, Sarla Bhat, 27, was working as a staff nurse at Srinagar’s SKIMS hospital to support her family, even as fear forced her community to flee.
On April 15, 1990, Sarla was abducted from her hostel. For four agonizing days, JKLF terrorists subjected her to brutal torture and sexual assault. When her body was dumped in Mallabagh on April 19, her killers had carved the acronym "JKLF" directly into her flesh from a knife.
The horror continued for her family. When Sarla’s bullet-ridden body returned to Anantnag, the neighborhood was already a ghost town emptied by the exodus. Marooned and helpless, the grieving family could not find enough people to carry her to a funeral pyre. As they attempted her final rites, a grenade was hurled at their home. This targeted terror forced the last remaining Hindu families to flee.
Systemic apathy followed. Though a police complaint was filed in 1990, the file was buried. It took until 2025 for a Special Investigation Agency to reopen the case, naming four terrorists. Two are dead, one is absconding, and one is imprisoned: Yasin Malik, who was once pampered as a Damaad by New Delhi, invited to the high table as one of the esteemed "stakeholders in the Kashmir peace talks." Yesterday, chargesheet was filed in this case.
Sarla’s case is not isolated. Thousands of women faced similar brutality in Kashmir during the late 1980s and 1990s, leaving behind stories that have been completely erased from the records today.