It appears all over for Kas-hmir’s only all-girl rock band, at least for now. The three-member group has apparently decided to disband to avoid more trouble for themselves and their families. “Please, leave us alone,” said the father of one of the girls on Monday, a day after Kashmir’s Grand Mufti Bashiruddin issued a fatwa saying singing by females was “un-Islamic”, asking the teenaged girls’ parents “to rope their children in teachings of Islam”.
Earlier, separatist groups had asked the teenaged rock band members to aba-ndon their pastime. Kash-mir’s chief Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chief of his faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conf-erence, said the girls’ rock band was against the “moral values” of the people of Kashmir. Sayeda Aasiya Andrabi, chief of all-women Dukh-taran-e-Millat, had threatened: “If they don’t follow our advice, we would be forced to announce a social boycott against them.”