India: Kashmir women fight 'obscenity'
Source:
BBC Eight veiled women gather outside a shop selling alcohol on the ground floor of a hotel in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir and start ransacking it. The women comprise the Maryam Squad of the Dukhtaran-e-Milat (Daughters of the Nation).
Website Link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4198768.stm
Submitted on Tue, 08/30/2005 - 23:00
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