Somewhere in Kashmir....

Kashmir’s top clergyman, Mufti Azaam Mufti Bashir-u-Din has issued a “fatwa” against three Kashmiri girls for being part of a rock band which performed in Srinagar in December 2012.
The Grand Mufti (Mufti Azaam) confirming his decision and said he has decreed against the girls because the music is banned in Islam and they (girls) should imbibe “better values” in them instead of the vices. “I issued the fatwa where I said to the girls that music is not good for society,” he said. “All the bad things happening in the Indian society are because of music,” he said.
Mufti Azaam said, “The parents of the girls should try to correct erring teenage girls and teach them Islamic values instead of exhibiting them as source of entertainment for thousands of people. I will be forced to issue a fatwa in case these girls and their parents do not take corrective measures to mend their ways.”
The mufti and other separatist groups issued statements and “fatwas” against the girls who have taken refuge in New Delhi after CM Omar Abdullah offered support to them. The three teenage girls -- drummer Farah Deeba, guitarist Aneeka Khalid and vocalist-guitarist Noma Nazir — performed at a Srinagar stadium last December organized by Adnan Mattoo and Raheel Khurshid’s Bloodrockz. Their performance came under fire from conservative elements in Kashmiri society and they received threats. Sources said Omar Abdullah has asked crime branch of the J&K police to investigate the matter. He said on Twitter that he hoped the talented young girls would continue to pursue their goal and not let a handful of people silence them.

After being chased off stage by conservatives on social media, threatened by religious leaders and extremists, Kashmir’s first all-girl rock group announced it was disbanding.
Despite statements of support from chief minister Omar Abdullah, the young musicians have been unable to go back to the Valley and remain in New Delhi. While the Pragaash page on the Facebook account of Bloodrockz showed that the three teenagers— drummer Farah Deeba, guitarist Aneeka Khalid and vocalist-guitarist Noma Nazir, all Class 10 students — had quit the band, spooked organizers of Bloodrockz, who discovered the all-girl rock group Pragaash, too, have gone into hiding.
The government said it was mulling action against those who threatened the teenagers on social media and Omar Abdullah tweeted that the girls should not be thwarted by “a handful of morons trying to silence them”.