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In the local language, it is termed as "Kanni Jung", which means <i>fighting with stones</i> and the <i>stone pelters</i> are called as <i>Sangbaaz</i> or <i>Pathraw Player</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-theanalystworld1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theanalystworld1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-indiatoday_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatoday-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-soldier-killed_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soldier-killed-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in the recent past the number of stone pelting has dropped significantly.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background_and_history">Background and history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background and history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir">Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir</a></div> <p>In the past, stones were pelted by the <a href="/wiki/Kashmiri_Muslims" title="Kashmiri Muslims">Kashmiri Muslim</a> youth on the police in the streets of <a href="/wiki/Srinagar" title="Srinagar">Srinagar</a> for expressing their anger during <a href="/wiki/1931_Kashmir_agitation" title="1931 Kashmir agitation">1931 Kashmir agitation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/Insurgency_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir">rise of insurgency and separatist movement</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kashmir_conflict" title="Kashmir conflict">Kashmir conflict</a>, the stone pelting incidents became prominent in Kashmir from the <a href="/wiki/Amarnath_land_transfer_controversy" title="Amarnath land transfer controversy">2008 Kashmir protests</a> in which the separatist movement had taken a new dimension from gun-fighting with armed forces to the pelting of stones on them.<sup id="cite_ref-theanalystworld1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theanalystworld1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thehindu1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the year 2008, stone pelting incidents in the valley were reported on regular basis, the prominent among them were recorded in <a href="/wiki/2010_Kashmir_Unrest" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Kashmir Unrest">2010 Kashmir Unrest</a> and <a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Kashmir_unrest" class="mw-redirect" title="2016–17 Kashmir unrest">2016-17 Kashmir Unrest</a>, nevertheless minor skirmishes were also reported in those intermediate years.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The act of stoning (<i><a href="/wiki/Rajm" class="mw-redirect" title="Rajm">rajm</a></i>) is mentioned in multiple <a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">Hadiths</a>. However some factions within Islam disagree with the legality of <i>rajm</i>. In Pakistan, military dictator <a href="/wiki/General_(Pakistan)" title="General (Pakistan)">General</a> <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq" title="Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq">Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq</a> who implemented <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia law</a> reconstituted a court, which declared <i>rajm</i> as Islamic.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A_Form_of_Resistance">A Form of Resistance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A Form of Resistance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many separatist leaders say that stone pelting is a form of resistance used by Kashmiri people to challenge Indian administration.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <p><a href="/wiki/MC_Kash" title="MC Kash">MC Kash</a> a Kashmiri Rapper writes in his song <a href="/wiki/I_Protest" title="I Protest">I Protest</a>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>"I protest, For a mother who lost her son. I protest, I'll throw stones and never run".</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commentary">Commentary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to scholar Waheeda Khan, most of the 'stone-pelters' are school and college going students. The stone-pelters, in turn get attacked by the armed personnel with pellets, rubber bullets, sling shots and tear gas shells. This leads to eye-injuries and several other kind of injuries to many people. Security forces also face injuries, and sometimes get beaten up during these events. Large number of these. According to political activist Mannan Bukhari, Kashmiris made stone, an easily accessible and defenseless weapon, their weapon of choice for protest.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Incidents have been there where Kashmiri youth was hired during protests for stone pelting.<sup id="cite_ref-indiatoday_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-indiatoday-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Kashmiri senior journalist Parvaiz Bukhari remarked:<sup id="cite_ref-:1_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><blockquote><p>The summer of 2010 witnessed a convulsion in the world's most militarized zone, the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, an unprecedented and deadly civil unrest that is beginning to change a few things on the ground. [...] Little known and relatively anonymous resistance activists emerged, organizing an unarmed agitation more fierce than the armed rebellion against Indian rule two decades earlier. And apparently aware of the post 9/11 world, young Kashmiris, children of the conflict, made stones and rocks a weapon of choice against government armed forces, side-stepping the tag of a terrorist movement linked with Pakistan. The unrest represents a conscious transition to an unarmed mass movement, one that poses a moral challenge to <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>'s military domination over the region.</p></blockquote><p>Journalist Malini Parthasarathy says that stone pelting is driven by the <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir#Indian_Armed_Forces" title="Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir">brutal killings</a> of Kashmiri youth at the hands of Indian forces.<sup id="cite_ref-thehindu1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thehindu1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 April 2017, talking about the stone pelters in Kashmir, the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army_Chief" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Army Chief">Indian Army Chief</a> <a href="/wiki/Bipin_Rawat" title="Bipin Rawat">Bipin Rawat</a> has said, "In fact, I wish these people, instead of throwing stones at us, were firing weapons at us. Then I would have been happy. Then I could do what I (want to do)," referring to the 'dirty' nature of the proxy war and the need to protect electoral apparatus, and stating his perception post the human shield controversy<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> The <a href="/wiki/Special_director_general_of_police" title="Special director general of police">Special Director General</a> (SDGP) of <a href="/wiki/Central_Reserve_Police_Force" title="Central Reserve Police Force">Central Reserve Police Force</a> (CRPF) N K Tripathi stated that since the militancy related activities have declined in the region, </p><blockquote><p> "a new form of gunless terrorism in the shape of stone-pelting has emerged in Kashmir", "It is being funded by Pakistan and its agencies through <a href="/wiki/Over_ground_worker" title="Over ground worker">Over Ground Workers</a> (sympathizers of militants) and <a href="/wiki/Hawala" title="Hawala">hawala</a> channels" with an objective to disturb the <a href="/wiki/Peacebuilding_in_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Peacebuilding in Jammu and Kashmir">peace in Kashmir</a> and India. He added that "There are a large number of instances of unprovoked stone-pelting by hostile mobs on CRPF that has left 1500 <a href="/wiki/Private_(rank)" title="Private (rank)">jawans</a> injured and close to 400 vehicles damaged in the last one-and-a-half year" (2009-10).<sup id="cite_ref-GunlessTerror_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GunlessTerror-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reports">Reports</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Reports"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_Kashmir_unrest" class="mw-redirect" title="2016–17 Kashmir unrest">2016–17 Kashmir unrest</a>, in March 2017, <a href="/wiki/India_Today" title="India Today">India Today</a>, after conducting an investigative operation in the <a href="/wiki/Kashmir_Valley" title="Kashmir Valley">Kashmir Valley</a>, has reported that some stone-pelters are paid for protesting by separatist forces. India Today interviewed five protesters from <a href="/wiki/Baramulla" title="Baramulla">Baramulla</a> district who confessed on camera that they are paid an amount of Rs. 5,000-Rs 7,000 a month and are also provided with clothes and shoes. One of them also said that separate funds are given for making petrol bombs. They refused to disclose the identity of the financiers.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2017, a report by Indian <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_Bureau_(India)" title="Intelligence Bureau (India)">Intelligence Bureau</a> (IB) has stated that the Pakistan's intelligence agency, <a href="/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence" title="Inter-Services Intelligence">Inter-Services Intelligence</a> (ISI) supplied Rs 800 crore to Kashmiri separatist leaders including <a href="/wiki/Syed_Ali_Shah_Geelani" title="Syed Ali Shah Geelani">Syed Ali Shah Geelani</a> and <a href="/wiki/Asiya_Andrabi" title="Asiya Andrabi">Asiya Andrabi</a> to fuel unrest in the Valley. As per the report, the funds supplied by the ISI were used to pay off stone-pelters and petrol bomb throwers, and also to propagate anti-India and anti-security forces sentiments in the Valley.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incidents">Incidents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Incidents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2009 separatists and political party workers were believed to be behind stone-throwing incidents, which led to retaliatory fire from the police. An <a href="/wiki/Autorickshaw" class="mw-redirect" title="Autorickshaw">auto rickshaw</a> laden with stones meant for distribution was seized by the police in March 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Kashmir witnessed 2690 stone pelting incidents in various districts with Baramulla topping the list with 492 incidents followed by Srinagar and <a href="/wiki/Kupwara" title="Kupwara">Kupwara</a> each with 339 incidents. The least recorded incidents were 65 in <a href="/wiki/Ganderbal" title="Ganderbal">Ganderbal</a>. According to official data of state home department, North Kashmir saw the highest number of 1,248 incidents followed by 875 incidents in South Kashmir and 567 in Central Kashmir.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 7 September 2018, Jammu and Kashmir plainclothes <a href="/wiki/Jammu_%26_Kashmir_Police" class="mw-redirect" title="Jammu & Kashmir Police">policemen</a> disguised themselves as stone-pelters and mingled among a stone pelting mob in Srinagar, resulting in the successful arrests of repeat stone-pelting offenders.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The policemen threw stones as well as used toy guns as part of the disguise.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This strategy had previously been used by the police in the region during the <a href="/wiki/2010_Kashmir_unrest" title="2010 Kashmir unrest">2010 unrest in Kashmir</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 October 2018, an <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a> soldier was killed after sustaining head injuries in a stone pelting incident in <a href="/wiki/Anantnag_district" title="Anantnag district">Anantnag district</a> of South Kashmir.<sup id="cite_ref-soldier-killed_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-soldier-killed-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Indian soldier was identified to be Rajendra Singh, a 22 year old from <a href="/wiki/Uttarakhand" title="Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a>. An army spokesperson said that <a href="/wiki/Sepoy" title="Sepoy">Sepoy</a> Rajendra Singh was part of a "Quick Reaction Team" that was providing security to a <a href="/wiki/Border_Roads_Organisation" title="Border Roads Organisation">Border Roads Organisation (BRO)</a> convoy.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the event Army Chief <a href="/wiki/General_(India)" title="General (India)">General</a> <a href="/wiki/Bipin_Rawat" title="Bipin Rawat">Bipin Rawat</a> said that stone pelters are like terrorists and must be dealt with sternly, repeating his earlier stand that the stone-pelters are nothing but <a href="/wiki/Over_ground_worker" title="Over ground worker">over ground workers</a> of terror outfits, "I still say the same... If they (stone-pelters) can kill people with such acts, are they not becoming like terrorists".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sangbaaz_Association_posters"><i>Sangbaaz</i> Association posters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sangbaaz Association posters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In July 2016, posters attributed to a group of stone-pelters, calling themselves as "<i>Sangbaaz Association Jammu and Kashmir, Azad Kashmir</i>", were seen in <a href="/wiki/Srinagar" title="Srinagar">Srinagar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The posters listed various points, including threatening to burn girls alive for riding scooters. The text read as – "we request all girls please don't use of scooty if we saw any girl who ride scooty we will burn the scooty as well as the girl".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kashmiri media blackened out the report of the threats, but it was carried by media agencies and houses such as <i><a href="/wiki/Press_Trust_of_India" title="Press Trust of India">Press Trust of India</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Indian_Express" title="The Indian Express">The Indian Express</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Quint" title="The Quint">The Quint</a></i>. Reacting to the blackout, <a href="/wiki/Shujaat_Bukhari" title="Shujaat Bukhari">Shujaat Bukhari</a>, Editor-in-Chief of <a href="/wiki/Rising_Kashmir" title="Rising Kashmir">Rising Kashmir</a> stated, "The issue is that you don't know who is putting up these posters... There is no authenticity."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_stone-throwing" title="Palestinian stone-throwing">Palestinian stone-throwing</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stone_pelting_in_Kashmir&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-theanalystworld1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-theanalystworld1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-theanalystworld1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theanalystworld.com/stone-pelting-and-kashmiri-youth/">"Stone Pelting and Kashmiri Youth"</a>. 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