As loudspeakers installed at mosques and other places of worship across restive Kashmir continue to blare pro-freedom slogans and rebellious songs and music, the security forces at places have chosen
As loudspeakers installed at mosques and other places of worship across restive Kashmir continue to blare pro-freedom slogans and rebellious songs and music, the security forces at places have chosen to pay back in the same coin.
According to a report, amplifiers installed inside an Army garrison along barricaded Shikargah road on the outskirts of southern Tral town on Tuesday afternoon reverberated with “desh premi” or patriotic songs, such as Aye mere watan ke logon, zara aankh me bhar lo paani; Jo shaheed huye hain unaki, zara yaad karo qurbaani — the highly acclaimed song written by Kavi Pradeep and sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
The other song, according to the reports that quoted a resident who lives half-a-mile away from the garrison, was Chak de! Ho Chak De India — written by Jaideep Sahni for 2007 Bollywood movie Chak De! India.
Soon the mosque loudspeakers in retaliation began broadcasting Pakistan’s national anthem and pro-aazadi slogans and music in high-pitched volume, the report said.
Tral, located 42-km from Srinagar, is the home town of Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the 22-year-old Internet-savvy poster boy of Kashmiri militancy whose killing by the security forces on July 8 sparked off a new wave of unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving 51 protesters and two policemen dead and over 7,000 people, including security personnel injured, so far.
