Talk:Riyaz Naikoo

Recent edits on the article
Fellow editors, and especially DTM, would you like to review the recent changes made on this article by. I don't like edit warring, and have thus resorted to talk page. Regards - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 02:06, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You mean changing "terrorist organisation" to "militant organisation"? The justification he gives, viz., that it is how it is described on the Hizbul Mujahideen page, is perfectly valid. If there is disagreement over it, it needs to be raised and decided at latter page, keeping in mind WP:TERRORIST. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 07:40, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I see the word terrorist has been removed from this page as well as from the lead of the parent page Hizbul Mujahideen. Let's change Lashkar-e-Taiba to a militant organization too while we are at this. What is your reasoning when international bodies have decided to call it a terrorist organisation? Isn't it enough that we use militant before the individual but terrorist for the organisation? Or you are proposing militant everywhere as in Lashkar-e-Taiba? DTM (talk) 13:57, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * , I propose terrorist being added for the organisations only as they've be designated so. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 14:01, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Why don't we call it a "rebel group" or "insurgent organisation" or something? Why does everything have to be a "terrorist" organisation? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 17:36, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You bring a good point. I am fine with "rebel group" as well. But, I think "militant rebel group" would be much better? - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 00:43, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I will reply to this. Sorry for the delay. DTM (talk) 12:06, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Amazingcaptain has raised a similar issue at Talk:Hizbul_Mujahideen DTM (talk) 12:11, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

I am proposing ONLY for Hizbul Mujahideen: What do you all think? DTM (talk) 13:38, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Organisation: guerrilla group ie Hizbul Mujahideen is a guerrilla group
 * Individuals in the organisation: Mujahideen / jihadists ie Riyaz Naikoo is a mujahid
 * DTM, I would disagree with the use of mujahid. guerrilla group for HM is alright. Militant is what is common in the valley. I propose this. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 13:42, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Aaqib Anjum Aafī, they are part of Hizbul Mujahideen, why is calling them mujahid wrong then? Is it just because the word has a negative connotation around it? I don't think so? DTM (talk) 13:57, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * DTM, the use of word mujahid on these articles may problem with WP:Islam, and it would also would be a WP:POV issue. Being a member of organization, doesn't seem valid criteria for the use of word mujahid. It has vast meaning. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 14:01, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Aaqib Anjum Aafī, I don't agree as per the article Mujahideen. Has this ever been discussed in WP:Islam. Please find the relevant debate/section and link it here. Also, how can it be WP:POV when they call themselves that? DTM (talk) 14:05, 29 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment - "Mujahid" is not an English word. So we shouldn't use that unless it is absolutely the right description. I am fine with "militant". No objection to "guerrilla group" on NPOV grounds, but it needs to be sourced. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 14:10, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I may call myself a PM. That's not right. We are strict at POV about issues which are controversial. Muslims do not normally regard them so, and so is the case in valley. They are commonly referred to as militants and this is what we should use. For example, see this from Greater Kashmir. Best. - Aaqib Anjum Aafī (talk) 14:45, 29 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I agree with others. Militant is the term that should be used. Even though the organization has been designated a terrorist organization I think we should refrain from using that descriptor as some parties do not consider them as terrorists and calling them that would be a POV. Amazingcaptain (talk) 16:58, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Kautilya3, you have written "Mujahid" is not an English word. The article for Mujahideen says that "The English term jihadists grammatically corresponds to it", so language shouldn't be a problem. Amazingcaptain I can't emphasise more that they call themselves this, we aren't giving them the label/descriptor of jihadists. But ok, since no one seems to be going with this line of thought, even though they call themselves that, sticking to militant seems ok. We are actually back where we began then with this.
 * As for the "guerrilla group", there are more than enough citations, just as there are more than enough citations for multiple terms related to them:
 * Dar, who had founded the Hizbul Mujahideen guerrilla group in 1990 (2009, Hindustan Times)
 * The largest Kashmiri guerrilla group, the Hizbul Mujahideen (2011, Hindustan Times)
 * Formed in 1989, Hizbul Mujahideen is considered the largest guerrilla organisation active in Indian-administered Kashmir. (2012, aljazeera)
 * The social resources of the Jamaat clearly contributed to "the decisive ascendancy of HM as the dominant guerrilla groups in the armed struggle" (2012, Paul Staniland)
 * Police Wednesday arrested two overground workers of guerrilla group Hizbul Mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir. (2015, Business Standard)
 * snatched away in a trail of internecine clashes by the pro-Pakistan guerrilla group Hizbul Mujahideen (2020, The Quint)
 * However it has to be noted that they are a guerrilla group as compared to being a separatist group is mutually independent, just as is the descriptor militant group signifies something else about them. It is therefore now also a decision of which label comes first, second and third:
 * guerrilla group/organisation
 * militant group/organisation
 * separatist group/organisation
 * There are also certain other descriptors to consider such as "pro-Pakistani", "insurgent", "terrorism" or a combination of these as certain actions by Hizbul may seems terrorist like whereas other militant or guerrilla like - like it says here:
 * By 1996, most of the Kashmiri insurgent guerrilla operations were soundly defeated across J&K, clearly confirmed by Kashmiri insurgent tactics switching dramatically from regular direct attacks on the Indian Army to terrorism against the Kashmiri people.
 * The types of warfare that are available to Kashmiri insurgent organizations are terrorism, guerrilla war, conventional war, or a combination of these (A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree)
 * Aaqib Anjum Aafī, what do you also make of all this? DTM (talk) 07:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I couldn't process everything you wrote. But generally:
 * ✅ for "rebel", "guerrilla fighter", "insurgent", "militant", "Islamist", "pro-Pakistan"
 * ❌ for "terrorist", "mujahid", "freedom fighter"
 * for "jihadist"
 * An easy translation for "mujahid" is "holy warrior". For "jihadist", it is "one who professes to be a holy warrior". So, calling some one a "jihadist" is a third-party way of saying "mujahid".
 * The trouble with calling HM rebels as "jihadist" is that it is unclear if jihad is their primary motivation. They are essentially separatist fighters who have latched on to a jihadist bandwagon. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 09:04, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Woh slow down with closing this. Far from complete. There is a lot more to discuss.... more words such as ultras that need consideration. "Attempts will be made to push ultras across LoC: Army (Indian Express 2012)" or "ULTRAS KILL 16725 CIVILIANS IN 24 YRS IN J&K (The Kashmir Times 2014)", 6 commanders among 22 J&K ultras killed in a week (TOI). Guerrilla group has just been put forward as a probable word rather than being discussed to a logical conclusion as the word to use. DTM (talk) 06:52, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

Police abductions
I removed this unsourced statement from the lead: "As Hizbul operations chief, he was responsible for a number of attacks, killings, and abductions, including the abduction of numerous police members and their families." If you add something to the article with a source, you could replace it. Yoninah (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2020 (UTC)