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Combatting Youth Drug Addiction: A Multi-Front Battle in Kashmir, from Mosques to Classrooms

September 3, 2023 Editor

Religious centres and educational institutions are assuming a new role in Kashmir by doubling up as counselling and testing centres to curb the fast-spreading menace of drugs. These rare interventions come as the Valley is battling a drug addiction crisis; over 10 lakh people were officially designated drug addicts by the Jammu and Kashmir administration this year. Otherwise restricted for the clergy, the pulpit at Magam Imambara in north Kashmir’s Baramulla, where Shia Muslims organise large religious congregations, recently saw Muzaffar Khan, a clinical psychologist who heads the Drug De-Addiction and Rehabilitation…

Schools, Mosques, Orphanages kept outside the scope of seizure, sealing: Govt

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 Editor

The governor’s administration Sunday said that schools, mosques and orphanages have been kept outside the scope of seizures and sealing in the wake of the ban imposed by the government of India on the socio-religious organisation Jamaat-e-Islami. “Action is being taken against offices, assets, properties and other equipment of the banned organisation,” Rohit Kansal, the official spokesman of J&K government, said in a statement, adding that the ban is for five years and subsequent orders to do so (seizure/sealing) have been issued by the state government and the deputy commissioners.