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Kashmir Media Watch

Weekly Kashmir News

ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION IN POK.

Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party (NAP) and National Students Federation (NSF) held an Anti-War demonstration in Kotli, POK.

The demonstrators raised, 'anti- US imperialism, anti-IMF, anti-World Bank and anti-WTO slogans and against the continuos escalation in Indo-Pakistani military tensions in the Sub-Continent.
The demonstrators marched through the town and also raised slogans in favour of, 'workers democracy', and against the Ordinance, 2000, termed as anti-worker, and against POTO.

LASHKAR NOT A KASHMIRI ORGANIZATION: JKLF 

The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has said that Lashkar-i-Taiba was not a Kashmiri organization as mentioned by US President George W. Bush after he ordered the freezing of its assets. 

In a letter faxed and emailed to the American president, with a copy to Secretary of State Colin Powell, the JKLF chairman, Amanullah Khan, said the Kashmiris were surprised to hear him say that Lashkar-i-Taiba was a Kashmiri-based terrorist organization, which it was not. 


CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN KASHMIR

from Kashmir Times

Missing the snow for the third consecutive year, Kashmir’s Christian community on Tuesday celebrated Happy Christmas with traditional prayers and religious fervour. In the prayers, elder members of the community
said, the emphasis was on peace between the two nuclear-capable estranged neighbors.

Prayers were offered at Catholic Church on the M A Road as well as the All Saints Church, the Protestant church here. After many years, they said, some Muslim brethren joined them both at the prayers and the subsequent tea party.


KASHMIR TROUT FARMER SETS SIGHTS ON PARIS
 
They were brought from Scotland a century ago.They've survived war. And if Shaukath Ali has his way, their descendants will eventually end up on the best dining tables of Paris.

Trout, Kashmiri trout, is the business of the future as far as he and others who run Kashmir's trout farms are concerne
re sales take off and Kashmir is able to prove its trout are the best in the world.