Kashmir All-girls Band

• Blog: 'Music omnipresent in Kashmir, Pragaash must continue'

  When I first heard the name of the rock band Pragaash, or the first ray of sunlight, I smiled to myself and thought how it was such a beautiful coincidence that our names have the same meaning and that we have the same purpose - to express ourselves through music.

• Two men arrested for allegedly abusing members of Kashmir's all-girls rock band online

  Two men, who had allegedly attacked the members of Kashmir's all-girl band online, have been arrested. Both the men were arrested from south Kashmir, police said.

• We've quit as Grand Mufti said it was un-Islamic: Kashmir's all-girl band member

  An all-girl rock group from Kashmir has disbanded after receiving hate mail on their Facebook page and a "fatwa" or a religious decree from a senior priest. One member of the group says she will never play the guitar again because "the people of Kashmir are not happy with us."

• Police identify those behind online abuse for Kashmir's all-girls rock band

  Amid reports that the all-girls rock band in Kashmir has decided to quit singing, the police have started a manhunt to arrest those who posted death threats and hate mail on their Facebook page. Sources say the police have filed and FIR in the case and have identified those who posted the abuses.

• Kashmir's all-girl band gets support from chief minister Omar Abdullah: Who said what

  Threatened and pushed into a corner by a fatwa from a cleric and online threats Kashmir's all girl band Pragaash has reportedly decided to quit. However, chief minister Omar Abdullah told NDTV that he supported them and was willing to provide them security if that was the issue. Here are all the reactions on the fatwa issued against the band:

• Blog on all-girls Kashmir band: hey, preacher, leave those girls alone

  The mullahs have struck again and this time with the support of online Ayatollahs. A rock band of teenage girls in the strife-torn valley of Kashmir has been forced to lie low because a grand mufti and some self-proclaimed caretakers of Islam see their music as "un-Islamic."

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  Can give security to all-girls band, but can't force them to play: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah

  After an all-girls rock band in Kashmir has decided against live performances after death threats and hate mail on their Facebook page, across India, musicians, politicians and others are urging them not to give up.

• Singers can't be silenced by morons: Omar Abdullah on all-girl band

  An all-girls band in Kashmir is receiving support from different parts of the country after its members were threatened and abused online, and a local priest issued a fatwa or religious decree, ordering them to stop performing.

• Singers can't be silenced by morons: Omar Abdullah on all-girl band

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has come down heavily on those threatening the three young girls who have formed the Valley's only rock band, Pragaash, and Monday promised police investigations into the threats.

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• Omar Abdullah, activists back all-girls Kashmiri rock band

  Activists, filmmakers and others today came out in support of Kashmir's first all-girls rock band, which is facing online threats and abuses, with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah ordering a police probe and hoping that the talented teenagers will not let themselves be silenced by a "handful of morons".