May 4, 2017 | Kashmir POST

Forces deployed to create nineties like situation in Kashmir: Geelani

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 Editor

Expressing solidarity with the families of Bomay Sopore and Begum Bagh Kakpora, Syed Ali Geelani today said the role of police and their track record in past has always remained doubtful. “Till now not a single culprit has been brought to book and it is as such an attempt to cool down the people’s resentment and hush up the cases,” Geelani said. Geelani expressed anguish over the Bomay Sopore and Begum Bagh Kakpora incidents in which Geelani said forces severely thrashed members of families. “Forces have been deployed to create…

20 Villages under siege in South Kashmir, Clashes in Sopore after forces teargas Protesting Students

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 Editor

Following spurt in Insurgent activities, government forces launched a major crackdown in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and laid siege to at least 20 villages, local sources said. Sources told Kashmir Post that the government forces in a bid to neutralise Insurgents suspected to be hiding in Sugan, Turku Wangan and adjoining villages, launched a major cordon and search operation this early morning. Source said people at Sugan and Turku Wangan resisted security operation and pelted stones on government forces including army. Police retaliated by teargas shelling, ensuing clashes between two…

Bus plunges into gorge in Poonch scores injured

May 4, 2017 Editor

Twenty passengers were injured, six of them critically, in a road accident in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. An official said that a passenger bus on way to Mandi from Poonch plunged into a 20-ft gorge near Dingla, resulting into injuries to twenty passengers. He said the injured were shifted to District Hospital Poonch for treatment.

Children put to torture to ensure hassle-free movement of Bureaucrats

May 4, 2017 Editor

The change in school timings ordered by School Education Department has evoked widespread criticism with parents and civil society accusing the department of putting students to torture for ensuring hassle free traffic movement for bureaucrats during day time. The government recently decided to change the timings for government as well as private schools and said the timing for the schools within the Municipal limits of Srinagar shall be from 8 am to 2 pm and for the schools outside Srinagar Municipal limits shall be from 9 am to 3 pm…

UN Chief ‘Paying Attention’ to Indo-Pak border tension

May 4, 2017 Editor

Secretary General Antonio Guterres is “paying attention” to the tensions between India and Pakistan at the border but the UN has not received any reports of alleged recent ceasefire violations, his spokesperson said. “The Secretary General is paying attention to this issue,” UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters at the daily briefing when asked about the escalating tensions between two nuclear armed South Asian neighbours. “We checked with our colleagues at UNMOGIP (United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan). We have not received any alleged ceasefire violations reports…

Rail bridge taller than Eiffel Tower over chenab coming up in two years

May 4, 2017 Editor

In around two years from now, the Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir will be spanned by the world’s highest railway bridge that is expected to be 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower. The massive arch-shaped structure, being constructed at a cost of around Rs 1,100 crore in hostile terrain, will use over 24,000 tonnes of steel and will rise 359 metres above the river bed. Designed to withstand the wind speed of up to 260 km per hour, the 1.315-km-long “engineering marvel” will connect Bakkal (Katra) and Kauri (Srinagar).…

Use of Pellet guns controversial: National Human Rights Commission

May 4, 2017 Editor

The National Human Rights Commission has told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that use of pellet guns during the turmoil in Kashmir Valley was “controversial”, but human rights of security personnel are also involved as crowd pelts stones at them. It alleged that the turmoil in Kashmir was “augmented by trans-border terrorism and ‘jihadi’ funding from the neighbouring country”, in a veiled reference to Pakistan. “The turmoil in Kashmir is on the spotlight now… The use of plastic pellets by CAPFs (Central Armed Police Forces) is controversial. The NHRC…

Displaced Kashmiri Pandits turn to UN over rights violations in state

May 4, 2017 Editor

Displaced Pandits have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to give due consideration to the plight of 3.5 lakh Kashmiri Hindus who were forced to leave their homeland by militant groups inspired by Islamic extremist ideology in 1989-90. In the backdrop of attacks by militants on Pandit habitations and vandalism of transit camps housing minority community employees by stone- throwing mobs during the 2016 unrest, human rights activists have urged the UN body to take note of fact that Pandits have been denied the right to live in…

Gunmen loot 2 banks in 2 hours in Pulwama

May 4, 2017 Editor

Unidentified gunmen on Wednesday looted cash from two banks within a span of two hours in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district which has been witnessing attacks on financial institutions for the past three consecutive days, police said. A police official said three masked gunmen entered Wahibug branch of Ellaquai Dehati Bank at about 1:30 pm and looted Rs five lakh on gunpoint. “After collecting the cash, they (gunmen) managed to escape from the spot,” he said. Soon after the incident, police and army reached the spot and questioned the employees and…