Five persons have been booked for their alleged involvement in anti-India activities and indulging in “provocation” to disturb peace in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. “(They) have been booked for provocation to disturb peace and anti-India activities in Kishtwar district during a protest,” a senior police officer said. The situation is peaceful in the district, he added. Several protests had broken out in the Valley following the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani on July 8. PTI
Read MoreDay: July 21, 2016
Gurez protests against Zee News biased reporting
Hundreds of people Thursday morning took to roads in Gurez area of Bandipora against the “biased” reporting of Zee News which according to locals telecasted propaganda news on Tuesday evening. Angry locals said that Zee reporter bribed few pro-Indian politicians and army workers to record anti-freedom statement which were later telecasted on Zee News. Locals said all the statements were recorded inside a BSF Camp. They said besides having presence of more than 60000 troopers, amid 32000 population, Gurez has always supported Kashmir cause. Gurez has also observed three day…
Read More‘What was the need to kill Burhan’, Muzaffar Beg asks in Lok Sabha
The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday witnessed sharp reactions from various parties over killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani. In a surprising development, BJP’s partner in Jammu and Kashmir, PDP, has raised questions on the Wani’s killing! “What was the need to kill Burhan Wani,” PDP MP Muzaffar Beg asked the Modi government in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Beg also questioned the timing of the encounter. “If Wani was on the radar of intelligence agencies why was he not arrested earlier,” Muzaffar Beg asked. Kashmir unrest Life remained…
Read More#AmidCurfew, Schools in four districts to reopen today
Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday decided to reopen schools in four of the 10 districts of the violence-hit valley from today. “In partial modification to the orders in regard to summer vacation, it has been decided that the schools in the districts of Baramulla, Bandipora, Budgam and Ganderbal as well as winter Zone of Jammu Division will reopen on July 21, 2016,” an order issued by Commissioner-Secretary Education Department Shaleen Kabra reads. The schools, which were closed for 17-day summer vacation from July 1, were scheduled to reopen on…
Read MoreCommunication gag compounds miseries of Injured, Patients
The trauma of injured and their families is multiplying manifold with communication embargo enforced in Kashmir for the past 11 days making treatment seeking, logistic arrangement difficult and even creating impediments in hospital functioning. On Wednesday, a young man from a village ’25 km off Kupwara’ with pellet injury in eye pleaded before another getting discharged from the hospital: “Please stop your vehicle at my village and whosoever you meet on road, give them this letter.” “The villagers will in turn hand this letter to my family,” the young man…
Read MoreAs Restrictions, Curfew continue, People facing difficulties in finding essentials
With no let-up in restrictions imposed by the authorities, the Kashmir valley is grappling with shortage of essentials as people in curfew-bound areas are finding difficult to get baby food, medicines and even food items at certain places. Baby food, medicines like insulin, food items and some other essential supplies have dried up have dried up across Kashmir division due to prolonged curfew and restriction which have entered 12th day today after the killing of Hizb Commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani. This reporter visited the Srinagar’s old city where curbs and…
Read MoreLet’s stop lying to ourselves about Kashmir
Would we accept it if the government shut down the media in Mumbai, Delhi or Bengaluru? Yes, but only if soldiers regularly opened fire to kill and maim protesters in those cities Aakar Patel Who is in control in Kashmir? The answer seems to be nobody. As the violence has continued and the list of those killed has increased, we read stories of legislators too terrified to visit their people and a chief minister stunned into inaction. What are we to make of it? The Union home minister’s analysis of…
Read MoreOil Supply to Valley, Ladakh remains suspended for 8th day
200 tankers damaged; 1,800 remain off road; 10 drivers injured Even as the supply of petroleum products to Kashmir and Ladakh remained suspended on the eighth consecutive day today, tanker owners have claimed that around 200 oil tankers have been damaged by the protesters at various places in the Kashmir valley. They also claimed that at least 10 tanker drivers have suffered injuries after they were allegedly assaulted by violent protesters. In the prevailing volatile situation, oil tanker owners have refused to restore petrol and diesel supply to the Kashmir…
Read MoreProtesters make men in uniform keep standing, sprinkled engine oil in front of shops to deprive policemen of resting places
As if stone-throwing protesters weren’t enough, security forces in Kashmir now have a new irritant, particularly in Srinagar. Hostile locals are making things difficult for the men in uniform by pouring automobile engine oil on shop fronts where troopers sometimes sit and rest after standing for hours. In the Bohri Kadal locality of Srinagar’s old city area, several shop fronts have been painted black with the sticky lubricant so that the security personnel on duty cannot sit on them. There is a heavy deployment of both the state police and…
Read Moreear-old Arafat has pellets in Heart, Intestines, Chest, Eyes and Spinal-cord
13-year-old Mir Arfat from Khanabal area of Anantnag district has been hit by pellets in his vital organs and is battling for life at SMHS hospital here. The Class 7th student—the latest victim of ‘deadly’ pellets—has pellets in his heart, intestines, abdomen, chest, neck, eyes and in his spinal-cord area as well, said a senior doctor who examined Arfat. “We can’t say anything about his condition right now. The priority is that his condition should remain stable first. We will monitor him for next 12 hours and then only a…
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