August 25, 2015 | Kashmir POST

Kashmiri Pandits hold protests in Valley

August 25, 2015 Editor

An organisation of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley today held a protest here in support of their demands including minority status for them and a job package for the youths. “The government is focusing on bringing back the migrant Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley which is a good thing. However, the non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits are being ignored and neglected by successive state governments,” General Secretary of Hindu Welfare Society Kashmir C L Bhat said. He said the protest was being held to press the government to fulfill the demands…

Salman Khan BROKE his promise, claims his adopted family in Kashmir!

August 25, 2015 Editor

The family reports that Salman hasn’t kept his word and that all their attempts to contact the actor have gone in vain Apart from his acting, stardom and crazy fan following, Salman Khan is also known for his philanthropic side. Not only does he actively involve himself with his Being Human NGO, he also makes sure to not let any opportunity to help other go by. Accordingly the actor made headlines for the same while he was shooting in Kashmir for his last release, Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The actor had adopted…

Making Missionary Schools Accountable

August 25, 2015 Editor

When they’re earning millions, why should they pay peanuts to government? People generally are under this impression that Right to Information Act ( RTI) is applicable to Government departments only and that is the reason citizens of this state seek information under RTI from the Government departments and public sector undertakings ( PSU’s) only. For the information of our esteemed readers, I want to clarify that nowhere in J& K RTI Act 2009 and even Central RTI Act 2005, it is mentioned that RTI is applicable to Government authorities only. Section 2…

Ufa: Another Opportunity Lost

August 25, 2015 Editor

One thing is very clear. The statement issued by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif representing some kind of agreement at the Russian city of Ufa on July 10, 2015 seems on its face to be conspicuously duplicitous. One wonders if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had some subordinate prepare it, trusting him to convey the intent, but never actually read what was published before it was published. Here’s the thing. There are two distinct parts to the Ufa agreement as it is explicitly written. First, It is prefaced with the general…

Mirwaiz to get Z+ security

August 25, 2015 Editor

The Z security status of Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq is likely to be enhanced to Z plus in the wake of the increasing threat perception on his life. Sources said authorities have decided to upgrade Mirwaiz’s security to the highest level after receiving inputs about threat to his life. “There are intelligence inputs from central and state agencies that Mirwaiz might be under life threat following which authorities have decided to upgrade his security from Z to Z plus,” they said. Sources said central agencies interrupted some…

Schools asked to do away with ‘barring process’ in class 10, 12

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 Editor

Minister for Education, Naeem Akhtar, Monday said the state government has asked the educational institutions to do away with the practice of barring the students from appearing in 10th and 12th class examinations to improve results. “All the heads of educational institutions have been directed not to detain any student for his/her poor performance in the Golden Test,” the Minister said while speaking at a function at Government Higher Secondary School Aragam. MLC, Yasir Reshi, Deputy Commissioner Bandipora, Sajjad Hussain Ganai, Director School Education Kashmir, Dr Shah Faesal, SSP Bandipora,…

No talks with India without Kashmir on agenda: Pak

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 Editor

• ‘If Kashmir is not an issue why India has stationed 7 lakhs troops in the region’ • ‘India should hold referendum in Kashmir to let people decide their fate’ • ‘India acting like regional superpower, wants talks on its own terms’ • ‘Nuclear power Pak knows how to defend itself’ Pakistan Prime Minister’s adviser of National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz Monday asserted that there could be no talks with India without Kashmir on the agenda. “There is no difference between the Pakistan Army and the political leadership.…

JK fails to keep NHAI on toes

August 25, 2015 Editor

The expansion of Srinagar-Jammu highway continues to be on at a snail’s pace. This is notwithstanding J&K government’s repeated assurances that it would keep the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and its concessionaires on the toes. A latest status report of the project has exposed the sluggish approach of the NHAI and its concessionaires—Ramky Infrastructure Private Limited and Navayuga Engineering Company—in widening the Srinagar-Qazigund and Qazigund-Banihal portions of the highway. According to the report, 66-km Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the mega project has recorded least physical progress among four portions…

Army ‘forces’ youth to pose before camera along with AK-47 rifle in Srinagar

August 25, 2015 Editor

Seeking immediate removal of an Indian army officer and registration of an FIR against him, MLA Batamaloo, Noor Muhammad, and locals of Lawaypora HMT Srinagar Monday wrote a letter to SSP Srinagar Amit Kumar alleging that an Army party headed by an officer from Sharifabad camp forcibly took a local youth to a nearby paddy field and photographed him along with their service rifles and grenades. Reports said that on 14 August, an Army party from Sharifabad camp detained three youth from Lawaypora locality after they allegedly made a graffiti urging…

Separatists—the silent winners in latest Indo-Pak slugfest

August 25, 2015 Editor

The slugfest over NSA level talks between India and Pakistan has brought into focus Kashmir’s separatist leadership after New Delhi asserted that any engagement between Islamabad and pro-freedom leaders was unacceptable to it. Last time, the separatists were at the centre-stage of Kashmir politics in the summer of 2010 when an anti-India uprising swept the Valley. That time an unnerved New Delhi rushed a parliamentary panel to Kashmir to reach out to the pro-freedom leadership, as a fire-fighting tactic. As war of words between New Delhi and Islamabad resulted in…