SHABU

STAY HUMBLE AND HUSTLE HARD.

[Arif Amin @ArifAmin__]

“Na Jhukne Wali PDP, Na Bikne Wali PDP!” ✊

@MehboobaMufti @jkpdp

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

Because silence was never an option. @MehboobaMufti.

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

“Bol Ke Lab Azaad Hain Tere”
Breaking the Silence in J&K. @MehboobaMufti addresses massive gathering at SK Park.

[Arif Amin @ArifAmin__]

ALL forgotten.

CM @OmarAbdullah promised every constituency a ministry in return for a massive victory for NC candidates. Today ministries have gone to a chosen few close to him. The people delivered; he reneged.

1 lakh jobs, reservation, 12 gas cylinders, PSA repeal.

[Vikas Amin @Vikasamiinn]

For the last 2 years, the atmosphere around the Cabinet expansion by the NC was created in such a way that it felt like once it is done, half of Kashmir's problems would be solved. And today, what did we get:

Ali Mohd Sagar: 68+ years old.
Saifullah Mir: 65+ years old.
Shameema Firdous: 60+ years old.
Altaf Kaloo: 55+ years old.

How can almost an entire Cabinet, who have crossed the retirement age, be considered wise enough to be Ministers to decide the future of a generation they have no connection with? How can they understand challenges they have never lived and never felt?

If a 27 to 31-year-old has the potential to clear the country's toughest exam & is trusted to run the entire civil & police administration of a district, why shouldn't he be in the Assembly using all his potential, knowledge & energy for his own people?

Why should that place be filled with people old enough that the Govt itself has declared retired from service? How can they become the decision-makers for our future?

You trust the youth to crack UPSC, JKPSC, IIT and NEET. You trust them to hold the gun at the border & the pen in the DC office. But you exclude them from the decision making. For how long?

At a time when nearly 70% of J&K's population is youth, and when AI & robotics are redefining the very concepts of livelihood, education, jobs, security and human relationships, the entire Cabinet has been handed over to old lot.

Can they understand the trauma of youth who are being systematically excluded from all institutions because of an unjust reservation policy?

Can they understand the depression and anxiety of students across all fields spending 10 hours a day inside libraries for years with no outcome? The humiliation of exam scams, years wasted waiting for recruitment lists, and interviews that never come?

Can they feel the pain of a boy or a girl who desperately wants to live and work here, but is forced to leave home for a job in Delhi or Dubai just so that his family can eat?

Can they understand the fear of an AI-driven world where degrees are useless without skills, while 80% of our education is still traditional and outdated?

These are young people's battles & only the youth understand the gravity of these issues. Old energy can’t give new answers. If Kashmir's future is youth, why is there no youth in power?

[Mirwaiz Umar Farooq @MirwaizKashmir]

Disturbed to learn about the attack on a Kashmir bound bus in Haryana, leaving an elderly passenger injured and others traumatised. Reports of threats against J&K-registered vehicles are causing concern among people. Those in authority must ensure the safety of Kashmiri travellers and take swift and strict legal action against those responsible.

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

A Delhi–Srinagar sleeper bus was attacked with bricks in Kurukshetra while passengers slept. An elderly Kashmiri was left bleeding. Disturbingly, reports suggest police targeted passengers instead of the attackers.

Hate is making ordinary Kashmiris unsafe. We demand arrests and accountability. FYI @DGPHaryana @police_haryana @HMOIndia

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

Replugging.

[Arif Amin @ArifAmin__]

FAITH BEYOND BARRIERS, COURAGE BEYOND WORDS

@parawahid met over 20 specially abled children at Madrasa Abdullah Bin Abbas, Chersoo, Pulwama, memorising the Holy Quran despite being unable to Hear, Speak or See.

May Allah accept their Hifz and bless them and their teachers.

[Vikas Amin @Vikasamiinn]

The tale of leadership of 2 protests in India:

Anti-CAA (2019-20) Anti-ECI/SIR (2026)

Umar Khalid Abhijeet Dipke
Sharjeel Imam Saurav Das
Gulfisha Fatima Neha Bohra
Safoora Zargar Ratna Singh
Shifa-ur-Rehman Ashutosh Ranka

Today, the protests happening in Delhi led by Abhijeet, Neha, Saurav, etc is an extension of the same resistance that was first lit & led by Umar, Gulfisha, Sharjeel, etc in Shaheen Bagh. But the difference in how the two were treated is heartbreaking.

What is being fought for at Jantar Mantar today, the people in Shaheen Bagh, AMU & Jamia were fighting for almost the same in 2019-20. But how is it that the pain of Jantar Mantar becomes the conscience of the nation, while the pain & tears of Shaheen Bagh, AMU, Jamia are buried, criminalised & jailed in silence?

When Abhijeet, Neha, Saurav & others were touched, the entire civil society, media & political ecosystem erupts in one voice. Editorials are written, debates are held, and they are hailed as defenders of democracy & the future of the nation.

But when students were lathi-charged inside AMU & Jamia, when Shaheen Bagh was met with brute force & young activists were branded as anti-nationals & thrown into jails to rot for years without trial, there was ominous silence. No political party called for a protest, no studio held a debate that democracy was in danger. Instead, the same media that is defending Jantar Mantar today presented them as anti-nationals.

We are celebrating Jantar Mantar today, but we abandoned the daughters & sons of our nation when they were fighting for what is being fought today in 2019 at Shaheen Bagh.

History may remember that in 2026 all opposition parties assembled together to stand with student activists to save democracy, but it will never forget that in 2019 they closed their eyes & ears and let poor Muslim students pay the price for saving that same democracy.

#delhijantarmantar #AISAProtest #cjp_पार्टी #Srinagar #resigngyaneshkumar

[Mohit Bhan ( موہت بھان ) @buttkout]

My earlier X (Twitter) account was hacked in July, and despite repeated attempts and complaints for over three months, I have been unable to recover it. I have sent 50+ emails and received not a single response. That says a lot about X’s customer support system and its disregard for the concerns of its subscribers.

Much thanks to our cyber security experts here and @X for this sheer incompetence. @elonmusk

I am now active on this new account, despite my deeply disappointing experience with a platform that cannot seem to protect the security of a paying subscriber, let alone provide basic customer support or respond to legitimate concerns.

Yet, you continue to stay here because of the people you connect with, the knowledge you gain, and the information you exchange. Before bragging about Starlink in the name of education and seeking to attract more subscribers and revenue from India, @elonmusk should first ensure that X has a responsive support team that takes its existing subscribers seriously.

Requesting everyone to connect with me on this account and help spread the word as we rebuild our network.

Thank you for your continued support.

[Arif Amin @ArifAmin__]

FTR

@OmarAbdullah was part of the INDIA bloc when he questioned @RahulGandhi over EVM vote chori. After becoming CM, he targeted @INCIndia and praised Modi and the ECI.

NC cannot escape its responsibility for the 1987 blunder. Kashmiris have paid the price for decades.

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

Decoding 1987 in Kashmir.

[Vikas Amin @Vikasamiinn]

The Muslim Conference was converted into the National Conference by Sheikh Abdullah with the support extended by leaders like Gandhi and Nehru, not by Allama Iqbal. For this, he embraced a new ideological framework "Kashmiriyat" at the cost of remaining dominant in Kashmir's political landscape.

This marked the birth of Kashmiriyat, an ideological shift that replaced the earlier framework of Muslim consciousness. The alignment of Sheikh Abdullah with this framework played a decisive role in this ideological replacement of rejecting the Muslim League’s Two-Nation Theory.

One of most important outcome of historical significance for Kashmir that came out after the Glancy commission report (1931-32) on discrimination faced by muslims which exposed the systemic oppression faced by the Muslim population under the Hindu Dogra ruling class was formation of J&K Muslim Conference in 1932, a party centred around the cause of Muslims.

This was the first ever mass movement in modern history of Kashmir emerged that gave vocabulary & structure to nascent Muslim consciousness, BUT when everyone was conceivable that this movement might eventually evolve into a Muslim nationalist movement, this did not happen. Instead, the SHEIKH ABDULLAH changed the ideological framework rooted in Muslim consciousness of that time & replaced by a new framework by converting Muslim Conference into the National Conference.

With this conversion, Sheikh Abdullah buried J&K Muslim Conference, initially created to explicitly represent Muslim identity, by transforming into the J&K National Conference in 1939. This conversion almost killed the space for any strong Muslim political organisation & was the verdict against the framework of "Religion as nationality."

The decision for the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir to accede to India was influenced by this transformation that the NC, under Sheikh Abdullah’s leadership, remained dominant in Kashmir’s political landscape. This dominance was maintained for years & years.

But in 1944, Sheikh Abdullah sought approval from Muhammad Ali Jinnah to gauge whether his party, the National Conference, or the Muslim Conference was more popular among Muslims in Kashmir. This raises a crucial question: if Abdullah later rejected the Two-Nation Theory and aligned with secular nationalism, why did he seek Jinnah’s approval in the first place? The invitation was a strategic move to assert Kashmiri autonomy, and showcase Abdullah’s focus on addressing class-based oppression over religion-based identity.

It is paradoxical that Sheikh Abdullah and the NC, despite their opposition to the oppressive Dogra regime, eventually became more acceptable to the Hindu Maharaja than organizations like the Musim Conference. The latter, despite being exclusively Muslim in membership and advocating for Muslim nationality, was sidelined in favor of the National conference.

In this entire process of transformation , the Kashmiriyat framework was sold as the dominant alternative. This shaped Kashmiri politics for years to come, but the cosmetic use of Kashmiriyat failed to reflect the common will of all masses. Instead, contradictions emerged, and Muslim consciousness remained a persistent force in Kashmiri politics.

[The villager @qaidey]

You are the youngest one in our friend circle, and with your marriage, an era has come to an end. We grew up together, shared countless memories, laughter, and moments that we’ll always cherish. Wishing you a lifetime of love, happiness, and beautiful memories ahead. ❤️
Congratulations @_rovmut

[Vikas Amin @Vikasamiinn]

From 1947 till this day, whenever the NC is questioned about the crimes it inflicted on the people of Kashmir, it uses the accession with India as a shield & instantly brands you as anti-national.

Let the facts be put straight today: the first person who went against India was not Syed Ali Shah Geelani or Maqbool Bhat, but Sheikh Abdullah himself. Way back in the 1950s, it was he who sowed the seeds of separatism among the people, and then used it as a bargaining chip to blackmail Delhi that either he remains in power, or Kashmir will not stay with India.

Today, on the same old playbook, the NC ecosystem is telling Delhi that only they are Indians and the rest of Kashmir is anti-national. Here is a brief history of the contradictions of the Abdullah-led NC and how it used both Delhi and the people of Kashmir.

1) Isn't the very foundation of NC's politics rooted in anti-Hindu sentiment, when in 1931 Sheikh Abdullah mobilised Muslims against the Dogra Maharaja in the name of religion?

2) Didn't Sheikh Abdullah start backchannel contacts with Pakistan and the US for self-determination and independence just 7-8 years after J&K merged with India?

3) Isn't it a historical fact that NC backed the Plebiscite Front from 1953 to 1975? Wasn't that the first ever separatist movement against India? Wasn't Syed Ali Geelani himself a product of this Plebiscite Front politics?

4) Didn't NC use the state machinery in 1979 to crush its opponents — torturing religious people, burning the Quran, killing and disappearing people — and then sold the narrative that it was India that committed these crimes?

5) Didn't NC and Congress rob the public mandate in broad daylight in 1987? Didn't they torture, humiliate and terrorise those who dared to challenge them within the democratic mainstream, and then made people believe that it was India as a country doing this?

6) Didn't NC create the Ikhwan and use them to loot, rape and kill with impunity? Didn't they break our youth in torture cells and then sell the lie that Delhi did it?

7) Didn't Farooq Abdullah nurture the JKLF and use them when he felt he was losing his chair, to create fear in Delhi that if he is out of power, Kashmir will slip out of India's hands?

8) Didn't Farooq Abdullah in 2016 urge the Hurriyat leadership to continue the violent separatist movement and say, "We will never be free until we are united [against India], and I am asking NC workers not to stay away from the movement"?

PS: This is just the tip of the iceberg. If a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is established and a postmortem of NC's politics is done, even the sky will weep at how they ruined Kashmir.

They destroyed our past, mortgaged our future and are criminalising our present. They made Delhi suspicious of Kashmir and made Kashmiris suspicious of Delhi. For 75 years, Kashmiris paid the price in blood, in graves, in jails, in half-widows and orphans, while the Abdullah clan built palaces over our pain. The time has come to reclaim Kashmir for Kashmiris & re-engage with Delhi. We need a Messiah to do this.

[SHABU @_rovmut]

Since you have been demolished by @javeddar786 sb and you are now going into history, let's start from 1947.

[Umer Maqbool @umerwrites_]

Let us presume that Farooq Abdullah was at fault.Let me ask you: what was the crime of Mehraj Malik when they tried to heckle and humiliate him inside the Legislative Assembly complex at Jammu ? How can they dare to heckle a sitting MLA inside the Legislative Assembly complex for his utterances? I know his remarks may have hurt PDP guys, but that was not a civilised way to deal with anyone. The heckling of the legislator was an insult to every native of Jammu & Kashmir.
How would you or I feel if anyone talked to our parents in such a harsh tone, even if they are in public life? I would never allow anyone to behave in this manner with my near and dear ones.
I would expect @MehboobaMufti Sahiba to at least disassociate herself from the act. These actions would further squeeze her political space. Can she now afford to talk about forging unity?

[The villager @qaidey]

@OmarAbdullah You can’t even ask for restoration of statehood, forget autonomy or restoration of article 370, stop fooling people with your emotional slogans,

Rationalisation of reservation is much under your domain and needs urgent attention even more then restoration of statehood, the youth of Kashmir are reeling under uncertainty due unemployment and unfair reservation rules.

Pay heed to the concerns of the youth instead of reducing everything to emotional slogans.

[Waheed Ur Rehman Para @parawahid]

Waiting in an NIA court Srinagar, facing yet another hearing in a UAPA case, when I should be sitting in the Assembly, speaking for the people.

Perhaps this is the cruelest irony of our reality.

We have elections.
We have a government.
We have an Assembly.
We have the appearance of normalcy.

And yet, beneath that fragile surface, there is a Kashmir carrying years of grief, fear, silence and unanswered questions.

For the ordinary Kashmiri, life has become a strange paradox: so much changes, and yet nothing truly changes.

The calendar moves. Governments change. Elections happen. Institutions reopen.

But the wounds remain.
Today is my birthday.

And perhaps birthdays are not always meant for celebration. Some are meant for reckoning.
To ask ourselves why we were born, what we are meant to stand for, and whether we have the courage to carry the pain of our people without looking away.

If I have to spend my birthday in a courtroom instead of the Assembly, let it at least remind me of this:

We are not born merely to live through history. We are born to speak when history becomes unbearable for our people.

[Roy Showkat @RoyshowkatR]

_Pulwama _ 12-year-old Syed Ali Hasnain from Tral is undergoing treatment for a kidney tumor at PGI Chandigarh. _His poor family is struggling to bear the t