M Junaid

کئشر | anthropologist I research on #SouthAsia #Kashmir #MilitaryOccupations #PoliticalSubjectivity #PostcolonialEmpire #ImagesOfViolence

[Ahmed @musalmankoshur]

Al Jazeera's piece on my mother's sentencing contains a serious omission regarding my father. It states he was "convicted for the murder of H. N. Wanchoo" without a single line representing our story. A reader walks away thinking my father is a murderer.

https://t.co/PJwStPa3Lj

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

Speaks only a day after occupiers brutally murdered a Kashmiri man! Some imam.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Jammu & Kashmir: "After removal of Article 370, there is a new Kashmir; Earlier children used to throw stones, today they hold pens," says All India Imam Organisation Chief Imam Umer Ahmed Ilyasi in Srinagar.

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

#JammuAndKashmir

[AJ+ @ajplus]

India sentenced Kashmiri grandmother and activist Asiya Andrabi to 3 life sentences using anti-terror laws, despite failing to prove she was involved in any acts of violence.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Family Alleges 'Cold-blooded Killing’ After Army Says Militant Shot Dead in Ganderbal, Kashmir

The Army did not identify who it had killed in the encounter, while the family of Arsheed Mughal says it was him and he was not a militant.

@Gaamuk✍️
https://t.co/NfkKHLFnQk

[Ahmed @musalmankoshur]

A note on India sentencing mother to life imprisonment today:

[Majid Maqbool @MaqboolMajid]

"Nearly three years later, he remains in prolonged pre-trial detention in a maximum-security prison in New Delhi, more than 500 miles from his home city of Srinagar...his bail application remains undecided and his trial has yet to begin."

https://t.co/CDBtq6RI5r

[Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth]

Thinking of scholars and colleagues whose work places, communities are being targeted with bombs

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

@fjriwlpq Dm your email to me

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

For those struggling to understand this rather oddly timed debate about Kashmir and colonialism, here is an essay I wrote about how Indian “left’s” view of Kashmir involves deliberately ignoring Kashmiri critique.

https://t.co/hdYxTefZyg

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

X has banned my account in India. I decided to not use this platform much in response. But please share the essay with those curious in South Asia.

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

In it I also question the formulation of “internal colonialism”, which was proposed by Chatterjee in 2019. This renewed “debate” is again based on vague insinuations and no citations, and no engagement with the Kashmiri critique.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A woman in Iran is documenting the reality of this illegal war - not through Western media filters

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

An Iranian woman shares her reality: bombed daily, scared, But this war made nation one family

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

Two Kashmiris are assaulted in an Indian state, and Indian media uses “allegedly,” when the images clearly show assault and the local police have already identified the assailants. Hindutva violence against Kashmiris is enabled by Hindutva-lite media whitewashing.

[Mojo Story @themojostory]

An 18-year-old Kashmiri shawl seller, identified as Tabish Ahmed, was allegedly assaulted in Uttarakhand’s Vikas Nagar area near Dehradun on Wednesday, according to the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association. His cousin was also attacked in the incident and sustained minor injuries.
The student body said Ahmed was stopped by a group of men and questioned about his identity. The assault reportedly began after he told them that he was a Muslim from Kashmir. Ahmed suffered a fractured left arm and serious head injuries and was initially taken to a local hospital before being referred to Doon Hospital in Dehradun for further treatment.

Nasir Khuehami, national convenor of the Jammu and Kashmir Students Association, said police have registered a case under provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita relating to grievous hurt and intentional insult intended to provoke a breach of peace. He added that the Director General of Police, Deepam Seth, assured him of strict action in the matter, while stressing that accountability must be time-bound and transparent.

Reacting to the incident, Congress leader Pawan Khera said that while Kashmiri craftsmanship is widely admired, Kashmiri people are often denied safety and dignity. He questioned what message such attacks send about the value placed on Kashmiri lives.
The incident follows a similar case reported in December, when another Kashmiri shawl seller, Bilal Ahmed Ganie, was allegedly assaulted in Udham Singh Nagar while selling shawls door to door. He claimed he was attacked after being asked to raise nationalist slogans.

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

Do all the occupiers go to the same training academy and learn how to bully and brutalize the native population? Across the globe, they just look the same.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

#InPics | Jammu and Kashmir Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel conducted house-to-house searches in Srinagar as part of heightened security arrangements ahead of India’s Republic Day.

#JammuKashmir #SOG #Security #Searches #RepublicDay #ITPhotoblog

[Tarushi Aswani @tarushi_aswani]

In Kashmir, senior reporters for national papers are being summoned, forced to wait hours in police stations, & pressured to sign vague “bonds” for simply for reporting facts.

Read how press is under pressure in Kashmir:
https://t.co/nH3qWtwvJ3

[Zuhaib Yousf Mir @ZuhaibYousf]

Jammu & Kashmir Police has escalated summons against journalists from national outlets like Indian Express and Hindustan Times for reporting on the DRACONIAN PROFILING of Masjids Imams and Seminaries. This harassment stems from the fact that journalists are fulfilling their duty to expose establishment’s hypocrisy on religious and racial profiling, which undermines democratic norms.

Religious sites aren’t surveillance targets. Firstly, religious and Racial profiling is not right . Secondly trying to push the journalists against the wall, gaging the sentiment and concealing the truth won’t help . Asking journalists to give affidavits, mushlaqs , undertakings and bonds is simply Orwellian and unbecoming of a democracy.

Historically Over 200 journalists summoned since 2019 to Cyber Police and other stations, as per rights groups.

Democracy demands more than election , it requires safeguarding institutions like the free press as the fourth pillar against fascist tendencies. Concealing truth erodes trust . National media must resist to protect all voices in J&K. @IndianExpress @GreaterKashmir @washingtonpost @zoo_bear @htTweets

[Shahid Hussain Rather @Shahidali379]

Chipko Movement in Kashmir !💔

Boycott, Pulwama–Shopian railway line.
These orchards are our life. From them, we earn a living, marry our daughters, educate our children, and put food on our table. We are ready to give our lives, but we will not let these orchards be cut down.

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

This is what imperial “national integration” is. Destroy indigenous Kashmiri society through control, fear, and surveillance of their shared community spaces. Foreign empires in Kashmir have tried it since 1815.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

'Many people see the exercise as discriminatory'

Srinagar residents say police profiling of mosques feels less like a routine survey and more like an attempt by the state to exert control over Kashmir’s religious institutions.

🔗: https://t.co/DGqzjafoxU

[M Junaid @mjunaidr]

Looking cool in front of the monument to colonialism.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Ghanta Ghar. Srinagar ❤️