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Angry Kashmiris master the art of stone-peltings 10/14/2007 10:03:06 PM Early Times Reporter Srinagar | Oct 14 It happens here almost every Friday after the midday prayers. The area around Jamia Masjid, the main mosque in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, transforms into a sea of stone-pelting protestors, angry over just about anything. The city's downtown area comes to a standstill amid pitched battles between demonstrating youth and police. It has virtually become a weekly affair in this violence-ravaged city since 1989 when the separatist war erupted in this north Indian border state that is at the heart of a territorial dispute with Pakistan. Anything can provoke anger - blasphemous cartoons, America's invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, Pakistan's Lal Masjid, Kashmir's infamous sex scandal, murder, rape, or for that matter the death of a militant in a gun battle with the Indian Army or police. Roadblocks follow the demonstrations and any vehicle that passes by becomes a target of stone pelting. Police personnel swing in and the action starts. The area around the mosque every Friday afternoon smells of burning rubber tyres and tear gas, and ...   READ MORE

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Angry Kashmiris master the art of stone-peltings 10/14/2007 10:02:24 PM Early Times Reporter Srinagar | Oct 14 It happens here almost every Friday after the midday prayers. The area around Jamia Masjid, the main mosque in this summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, transforms into a sea of stone-pelting protestors, angry over just about anything. The city's downtown area comes to a standstill amid pitched battles between demonstrating youth and police. It has virtually become a weekly affair in this violence-ravaged city since 1989 when the separatist war erupted in this north Indian border state that is at the heart of a territorial dispute with Pakistan. Anything can provoke anger - blasphemous cartoons, America's invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan, Pakistan's ...   READ MORE

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