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Mother kills children in Kashmir to ‘teach husband a lesson’

January 22, 2016 Editor

In a horrific act, a woman in Anantnag district of south Kashmir killed her two children before grievously injuring herself “to teach her husband a lesson”, police claimed on Thursday. According to a police statement, Ruqiya Begam took the extreme step on January 13 in Khatti Larnoo village of Kokernag. The two children – Imran Wagay, 4 and his sister Chandni, 2 – were killed and the mother was also found injured. “After killing her children, she attempted to commit suicide with the same weapon of offence,” the statement read.…

Cop decamps with four rifles from DSP’s residence in south Kashmir

January 16, 2016 Editor

A cop of Jammu and Kashmir Police has decamped with four rifles from the residence of a top-ranking police officer in south Kashmir. Sources told KIF on Saturday that Shakoor Ahmad, who was posted as Personal Security Officer (PSO) to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) and SDPO Bijbehara Irshad Ahmad Bhat in Bijbehara area of Anantnag district, decamped with the rifles last night. Ahmad, a resident of Kundalan in Shopian district, was escorting Irshad, when he was badly injured in a militant attack recently, said a police officer. Sources believe…

Mehbooba attends prayer meet at Mufti’s grave

January 16, 2016 Editor

She will meet leaders on government formation soon: Naeem Akhter PDP president Mehbooba Mufti attended the congregational ‘fateha-khwani’ (prayers for the deceased) at her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s grave here today. Hundreds of PDP workers assembled at Dara Shikoh Garden. They attended prayers for their late leader after offering Friday congregational prayers at the park. Mehbooba arrived from Srinagar around 2 pm. A sombre Mehbooba walked holding the arm of her brother, Mufti Tasadduq. Her daughters and sisters accompanied her to the grave. Mehbooba stayed at her father’s grave for…

Protesters hoist Pak flag on Mufti’s ancestral house

November 25, 2015 Editor

Youth mourning the killing of three Hizbul Mujahideen militants hoisted a Pakistani flag on Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed’s ancestral house in Bijbehara town of Anantnag district today. Hundreds of youth, women and children participated in the funeral procession of the slain militants, two of whom belonged to main Bijbehara town. The militants were killed during a brief gunfight with security forces in the Siligam area of Anantnag district on Monday afternoon. While the bodies of the two militants were being carried for the funeral prayers today, some of the…

Five years on, upgrade of Anantnag hospital incomplete

November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 Editor

Five years after missing the first deadline, the Jammu and Kashmir Projects Construction Corporation (JKPCC) has managed to complete just one of the three blocks at the Anantnag District Hospital. The project to construct three additional blocks on the hospital premises was proposed in 2007 with an aim to upgrade the medical facility. The government had set 2010 deadline for the completion of the project. Despite drawing flak from successive governments for the delay, the JKPCC is yet to start work on the other two blocks. After missing several deadlines…

Protest in Betingo against Farooq Abdullah’s visit

October 29, 2015 Editor

At least four female protesters and a lady constable was injured when the protests erupt against the emergence of National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah in Betingo hamlet of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses told CNS that Farooq Abdullah arrived in Betingo to express sympathy with the bereaved family of Zahid Rasool Bhat who lost his life after Hindu mobs attacked a Kashmiri truck on 9 October this month at Shivnagar Udhampur. “As Farooq Abdullah emerged in the hamlet scores of females took to streets and staged a…

Slain Hizb militants were aides of Burhan, say police

October 24, 2015 Editor

The police have said that the Hizbul Mujahideen militants killed in Thursday’s encounter in Shopian were close associates of the outfit’s tech-savvy commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani. The slain duo has appeared with Wani in a couple of videos, released by the outfit on the social media. Hizb militants, Adil Khanday, a resident of the Imam Sahib area in Shopian, and Irshad Ahmad Sheikh, a resident of Maldair village in Shopian, were killed in a brief gunfight with security forces in the Mazimpora area of Shopian district on Thursday. Superintendent of…

Curfew-like restrictions continue in Anantnag for the 5th day

October 23, 2015 Editor

• Separatists barred from visiting Zahid’s house • Geelani detained; Mirwaiz, Shah, others under house arrest • Tanker driver critically injured after being hit by stone at Charsoo • Bijbehara 1993 massacre commemorated amid curbs The curfew-like restrictions continued to prevail in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district to prevent people from taking to roads and staging anti-government demonstrations against killing of 18-year-old trucker Zahid Rasool Bhat in petrol bomb attack in Udhampur while authorities barred separatist leaders from visiting slain trucker’s residence by either detaining them or placing them under house…

22 October 1993 – Black Friday

October 22, 2015 Editor

When BSF men butchered 51 protesters in Kashmir ‘Pain lingers and horror still haunts survivors’ Twenty-two years have expired and the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel from 74th Battalion allegedly responsible for butchering scores of innocent and peaceful protestors in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district have not been brought to book and the ‘killers’ are still roaming free. Locals lament that justice has been eluding the families of the victims. Amnesty International reported that at least 51 people died and 200 were wounded on 22 October 1993, while the…

Boy injured seriously by CRPF action in Bejbehara

October 21, 2015 Editor

A youth was critically injured when CRPF personnel allegedly opened fire and used tear gas shells on protesters in Bijbehara town of south Kashmir. The youth was identified as Naseer Ahmed Dar of Zirpora Bijbehara. “The boy was hit by a shell on his head,” reports said. He has been, reportedly, referred to Srinagar in a critical condition. Meanwhile, clashes were going on in Bijbehara, Batengo, Uranhal and Islamabad on third consecutive day today against the murder of Zahid Rasool Bhat. Authorities have imposed restrictions in most of the Islamabad…