Day: December 27, 2016

Kashmir on the brink of another agitation: Domicile Row

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As the Sun was setting on Christmas-eve, security agencies in Kashmir were taken by surprise when massive stone-pelting erupted in the summer capital of Srinagar. Voicing pro-freedom slogans, masked youth appeared in areas like congested Batamaloo and high-security Airport Road, throwing rocks at the police and paramilitary CRPF. It happened on Saturday when there was actually no call for any roadside protests. However, there was a hartal, as a part of the 2-day strike call given by the “united” Hurriyat, spearheading the ongoing agitation. A day prior to this, the…

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Kashmir Totally Safe For Tourists: Tour Operators

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Terming Kashmir as a safe place for tourists, a delegation of tour operators from different parts of the country, who were on a familiarisation tour of the Valley, today called upon the people to visit the “heaven on earth”, saying the atmosphere here was “totally positive.” “We have seen a total positive atmosphere here in the Valley right from the airport. Till now in these 20 years (since the militancy broke out in Kashmir), no untoward incident has happened with any tourist in Kashmir. They remained safe here, feel safe…

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Resistance leaders, Activists take out protest march from Jamia

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Slam issuing domicile certificates to WPRs, implementation of SARFEASI Act in JK Warn of massive agitation if ‘anti-Muslim, anti-Kashmir’ decisions were not revoked On the call of united separatist leadership, large number of separatist leaders and activists of different political groups staged a peaceful protest march from historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar towards Nowhatta Chowk on Monday afternoon. The march was taken out to express solidarity with thousands of people arrested after outbreak of unrest in the Valley and lodged at Kot Bhalwal, Kathua, Hira Nagar, Udhampur and other jails. Carrying…

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Refugee Vs Refugee turns into Kashmir Vs Jammu

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Identity certificates spark protests and violence BJP leaders said they would raise the issue of the “Increasing number” of Rohingya Muslim refugees in the state in the coming Budget Session of the Assembly. In an echo of the Amarnath land row, the issue of ‘identity certificates’ to West Pakistan refugees in Jammu and Kashmir is threatening to divide the state on regional and religious lines. While protests have erupted in the Valley, with separatists and the mainstream opposition accusing the PDP-BJP coalition government of trying to dilute state subject laws…

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Govt directs officers to speed up release of compensation to PaK refugees

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The government has directed the payment of Rs 5.5 lakh be made to each of the over 36,000 displaced families of Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) by December-end as compensation for the properties left over by them on other side of Line of Control (LoC). As per the documents available with Kashmir Post, Relief and Rehabilitation department has directed that entire work of the actual payments, preparation of accounts shall be over by December 31, 2016. The Finance department has vide the government order no 169-F of 2016 dated 14 July…

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Domicile Row: Controversial decision by J&K Govt can touch a nerve

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Kashmir, limping back to normal after five months of violent agitation, is seeing murmurs of protest following a series of decisions that are being read as an attempt to dilute the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir. The Kashmir Valley was shut down on Friday. The separatists had called the strike after a section of media reported that the government had begun issuing domicile certificates to west Pakistan refugees. As anger grew, the government clarified, twice in two days, that the reports were mischievous. The refugees were only given…

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SHRC seeks report on people blinded by pellets during Kashmir Unrest

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The Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) on Monday directed all deputy commissioners (DCs) to submit reports about those blinded during the unrest in the Kashmir, which began on July 8, after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani in an encounter. “Taking suo-moto cognizance of a report published in a section of the press, chairperson SHRC, Justice (retd) Bilal Nazki directed the deputy commissioners of all the 10 districts of Kashmir to submit a detailed report of all the victims who have sustained eye injuries during…

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Govt trying to create world-class tourist infra: Mehbooba Mufti

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Describing tourism as the best mean to promote people-to-people engagement, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday said her government was making efforts to create a world-class tourist infrastructure. “Tourism promotes people-to-people contact and tourists become goodwill ambassadors of a place. Like the maxim ? ‘seeing is believing’, a tourist can testify the veracity of the claim about a place only after visiting it,” she said. She dismissed the notion that the state was unsafe for tourists in the aftermath of months-long unrest in the Valley. “Jammu and…

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2016 – A year of turmoil for Kashmir

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2016 saw Mehbooba Mufti taking over as the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Army claiming to have conducted surgical strikes on militant camps in Pakistan administered Kashmir (PaK) after a militant attack in Uri left 19 army men dead while protests for over five months hit hard normal life and resulted in shutdown of schools and death of 94 people. The government had also to grapple with the NIT unrest, mysterious school burning incidents and blinding due to pellet gun firing issues. The only silver lining…

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Kashmir Shivers at -5.1, Water bodies frozen, Power Scenario worsens

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No respite from dry, cold weather conditions; Power scenario worsens, winter sports hit Temperatures plummeted further in Kashmir last night, resulting in freezing of the Dal Lake and other water bodies. Srinagar froze at minus 5.1 degree Celsius during the night while on Monday the maximum temperature was recorded 11.5 degree Celsius, said a Meteorological Department official. He said that light to moderate rainfall in plains and snowfall on higher reaches could occur on December 29 and December 30 at isolated places across the state. Leh in Ladakh region experienced…

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