Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Daesh terrorist group has executed possibly hundreds of detainees in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul and buried them in a mass grave that could be the largest one discovered in the country so far. Witnesses told the New York-based rights organization that the victims, including several members of Iraqi security forces, were executed between June 2014 to May or June 2015, with their bodies being dumped in a sinkhole at a site in western Mosul. Terrorists had also laid landmines and booby-traps in the…
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Mother Helpage Emergency Relief Appeal for Fire Victims in Anantnag
More than 4 families have been affected by the fire that engulfed at least 3 houses at kadipora Anantnag during the intervening night of 20th March 2017. These unfortunate people were forced to spend their nights in harsh cold winter under the open sky in absence of household goods as their whole belongings were reduced into ashes. Mother Helpage disaster response team along with MH Army( Volunteers of Mother Helpage ) have started rehabilitating these fire victims at kadipora Anantnag by providing emergency relief material .These fire victims are in need…
Read MoreIndia, Pakistan to hold talks on Kishanganga, Rattle hydropower projects in US
India and Pakistan would hold three-day secretary-level talks on the Kishanganga and Ratle hydropower projects from April 11 in Washington following the “intervention” by the US and the World Bank, a senior Pakistani minister has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the two-day talks between Indus Water Commissioners from both sides, Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif welcomed India’s decision to resume negotiations under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty on the proposed Pakul Dal, Miyar and Lower Kalnai hydro power projects, disputed by Pakistan. “The US has intervened at the…
Read MoreDGP (Kashmir) regrets ‘Manhandling’ of photojournalist, mulls special badges for lensmen
Regretting an incident of alleged manhandling of a photojournalist, the Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday said that it is mulling special identification badges for lensmen belonging to media organisations to facilitate their field work. “While regretting the recent unfortunate incident involving a photojournalist and a police officer, DGP SP Vaid hoped that such isolated instances will not come in the way of the energised approach of the law enforcing agency and the media fraternity. The matter is being looked into,” an official spokesman said here. Vaid said that the…
Read MoreBJP under fire over ‘Renaming’ Mubarak Mandi -Bahu Fort
The change in the nomenclature of the Mubarak Mandi-Bahu Fort Cable Car project to the Mubarak Mandi-Shahabad project is set to snowball into a major controversy as Jammu-based groups have upped the ante against the “attempt to change the demography” of the winter capital of the state. In other terms, the name of Bahu Fort no more exists in the official records of the cable car project as it has now been named “Shahabad Station”. The ruling alliance partner, BJP, has come under fire not only from the Opposition but…
Read MoreShabir Shah steps down as Hurriyat(G) General Secretary
Separatist leader Shabir Shah, who is the general secretary of the hardline faction of the Hurriyat Conference, has asked Syed Ali Geelani, party chairman, to relieve him of the top post. Shah had joined the Geelani-led faction in September 2015. Immediately after his joining, he was made the separatist faction’s general secretary. Shah said he had written to Geelani and had told him that he wanted to step down from the post. “Since I became the general secretary, I have remained continuously under detention because of which I have not…
Read MoreBureaucratic hassles welcome foreigners at Srinagar Airport
Cumbersome registration puts tourist to inconveniences The cumbersome and lengthy process of filling registration form at Srinagar airport is putting the foreigners to lot of inconveniences. Many foreign tour operators have expressed their resentment at the tedious process of registration for the foreigners at Srinagar airport. In a complaint a tour operators from Singapore said the cumbersome process at Srinagar airport can prove detrimental for the growth of tourism in Kashmir. In the complaint, Mohammad Afandi the owner of Afandi Travel and Services Pvt Ltd. says his group of 25…
Read MorePDP unlikely to surrender Poonch seat to BJP
Even as the BJP is staking its claim on the Legislative Council seat reserved for Poonch district, sources said the PPDwas unlikely to leave the seat for its coalition partner as the party had set a target to make the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri its citadels. For the PDP, Poonch and Rajouri are politically “fertile” belt in the Jammu province so the party leadership is likely to leave no opportunity to make inroads into the mountainous belt, the sources said. The BJP during its state election committee…
Read MoreNational Conference, Congress slams PDP for ‘Importing RSS’ into Kashmir
Fascist forces have no place in Kashmir: Mir PDP is carbon copy of RSS: Sagar National Conference and Congress Tuesday assailed PDP for importing RSS into Kashmir, saying that the politically sagacious people won’t allow the machinations of saffron social engineering to succeed in a pluralistic state like Jammu and Kashmir. “PDP stands exposed for facilitating the RSS to spread its tentacles, first by inducting its political constituent BJP into the government and now by vitiating the atmosphere on communal and regional lines”, senior NC and Congress leaders said while…
Read MoreOnly Modi can heal Jammu & Kashmir: Mehbooba Mufti
‘He has the mandate to take state out of morass, hold talks with Pak’ Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi could take bold steps like resuming talks with Pakistan and was better for J&K than his predecessor Manmohan Singh who could not even visit his ancestral home there. “If there is any leader who can talk to Pakistan it is him (Modi). Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister for 10 years. He had a wish to visit the other side (Pakistan) as he was born there…
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