Normality returns to Kangan after 6 days
Srinagar, Apr 08: Normalcy returned to Kangan area of Ganderbal district today after six days of continuous shutdown against the killing of a local youth by government forces. Contingents of forces were also withdrawn from the area that were deployed to thwart protests by people after the killing. Shops and other commercial establishments opened today […]
One year on, Budgam ‘human shield’ struggles with depression
Srinagar/New Delhi, Apr 8: An embroidery artisan who created magic on fabric till a year ago and now shunned by neighbours as the Army’s “human shield” against stone-pelters, Farooq Ahmed Dar is a broken man, struggling to pick up the threads of his life. Suffering from insomnia and depression, boycotted by villagers branding him a […]
A mother’s last journey with her son…
Ganderbal, Apr 08: April 09, 2017 — the day of parliamentary bi-elections in central Kashmir’s Srinagar Lok Sabha seat – remains etched forever in their memories, haunting and tormenting them. It was on this day they lost their grandson – 22 years old Umar Farooq to the bullets of government forces. No wonder when this […]
CM pays tributes to Mehjoor
JAMMU, APRIL 08: Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has paid tributes to celebrated poet of the State, late Ghulam Ahmad Mehjoor on his 66th death anniversary. The Chief Minister recalled the role of late Mehjoor in the social and political awakening of masses and also for his message of amity, mutual brotherhood and communal harmony through […]
Malik released from custody
Srinagar, Apr 08: Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik was released from Central jail Srinagar Sunday. He was arrested by police on the morning of April 02 along with zonal organizer Bashir Ahmad Kashmiri, who has also been released, JKLF said in a statement. It said some other JKLF leaders who were […]
Internet services restored in south Kashmir
Srinagar, Apr 08: High and low-speed Internet services were restored in south Kashmir’s Pulwama and Shopian districts on Sunday after being suspended earlier this week. The mobile Internet services were suspended in Pulwama following Friday’s gunfight in Kangan village. A local militant Mussavir Wani was killed in the gunfight. However, only low-speed Internet service was […]
DeM activists detained on way to Pulwama
Srinagar, Apr 08: Seven activists of Dukhtaran-e-Millat (DeM) were detained by the police in Pinglan area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district when they tried to visit the family of slain militant Mussavir Wani on Sunday. Reports said that seven DeM members were on their way to Wani’s residence to express condolences with the bereaved family. […]
CM to take up Sharda temple issue with PM
Jammu, Apr 08: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today assured a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits that she would place before Prime Minister Narendra Modi their long-pending demand to reopen the Sharda temple in Pakistan-administered-Kashmir (PaK) tomorrow. Mehbooba met the delegation, headed by All Parties Migrants Coordination Committee (APMCC) chairman Vinod Pandit, at her residence, the organisation […]
US’ tilt towards India creates imbalance in S Asia: Pak envoy
Islamabad, Apr 08 : Pakistan has asked the US to resume the balancing role that it played in South Asia before its “tilt” towards India, saying the move has “emboldened” India and created imbalance in the region. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhary also said that peace will prevail in South Asia if […]
In Poonch, arch rivals PDP-NC pitch for Indo-Pak peace
Farooq Abdullah asks India to ‘stop treating us as slaves’
Urges converting LoC into ‘Line of Peace and Goodwill’ Srinagar, Apr 07: National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday questioned the viability of independent Kashmir owing to the region being landlocked and surrounded by three nuclear powers, while urging India to stop treating people of Kashmir as slaves. “Independence is no option. On one side […]
