Drug abuse promotion in Kashmir a conspiracy: DAK

Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the menace of drug abuse in Kashmir has reached unprecedented levels and the situation has become explosive. President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that drug abuse in valley is promoted in a well planned conspiracy to wipe out youth of the valley. Drugs are new weapons used for destroying our young generation. The hope and future of Kashmir is lost to drugs. Youth are targeted by drugs to make them physically, mentally and psychologically morbid. Substance abuse is a…

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Business Shut in Lal Chowk, Journalist Injured in Nowhatta

Business Hub of Srinagar city, Lal Chowk, Friday witnessed spontaneous shutdown when two youth allegedly tried to unfurl right wing Hindu nationalist party BJPs flag on the clock tower (Ghanta Ghar). As the news broke, the shopkeepers, in a jiffy, downed their shutters and are observing a shutdown. The neighbouring Maisuma witnessed clashes between forced and youth post Friday congregational prayers. News coming from old city said that clashes broke out after Friday prayers in Nowhatta area. Youth and forces were engaged in ding dong battles. The protesters raised pro-Islam…

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Saffron Brigade wants Kashmir to burn in a fire of Communal Hatred. Political prisoners shall be released: Mirwaiz Qazi Yasir

Chairman Ummat e Islami, Mirwaiz South Kashmir, Qazi Ahmed Yasir today addressing a mammoth gathering at Jamia Masjid Islamabad spoke about the dangerous consequences of the Saffron brigades’ in routes to Jammu Kashmir. Mirwaiz Yasir said that the saffron brigade is hell bent upon disturbing the communal harmony of the state. He said by imposing ban on bovines, the brigade plans to fracture us economically and at the same time it wants the state to burn in a fire of communal violence. He said the people of Jammu Kashmir have…

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Two non-Kashmiri youth try to unfurl flag on clock tower

Witnesses said that two youths were surrounded by a crowd while they were trying to unfurl flag at the clock tower in Lal Chowk. The flags of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday appeared in Lal Chowk and adjacent Maisuma area on a day Yasin Malik-led JKLF is planning a sit-in protest in the area. Witnesses said that two youths were surrounded by a crowd while they were trying to unfurl flag at the clock tower in Lal Chowk. One of the youth, identified as Sachin, is a resident of RS…

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Altaf Kaloo is ‘Cheerleader’ of the Autumn Session Assembly

On the day 6th of on-going Autumn session of JK Assembly, NC lawmaker from Pahalgam is apparently stealing the show by calling jibes and cheering for the government, albeit sarcastic ones. Kaloo who during the first three days of the session was at forefront to trigger ruckus in the house with his ‘funny’ theatrics Friday seems to be at his witty best by making fun and evoking laughter in the house. The MLA Pahalgam was earlier seen signalling at BJP MLA from Nowshera, Ravinder Raina who was at forefront yesterday…

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IIT, IIM for Jammu; Land for AIIMS being identified in Sgr, Jmu: Govt

The state government Friday clarified that it is setting IIT and IIM in Jammu while land is being identified, measuring 200 acres, each in Jammu and Srinagar for setting up of AIIMS. In a written reply to legislator Er Rashid representing Langate in North Kashmir, the government said, “GoI has advised state government to identify pieces of land each in Jammu and Srinagar and two teams have been constituted by GoI for visiting and finalizing the sites for establishment of AIIMS.”

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PDP MP Warns Mufti against BJP’s ‘communal agenda’

Seeks FIR against BJP MLAs who assaulted Rashid ‘Incident akin to Dadri lynching’ Senior PDP leader and Member Parliament, Tariq Hameed Karra has said the BJP legislators who assaulted independent MLA, Er Abdul Rashid on Thursday in the Legislative Assembly should be booked for their reprehensible action in the House. “Today’s highly deplorable action by the BJP legislators in the Assembly has not only brought shame to the House and the PDP-BJP alliance, but the outrageous action of the BJP legislators is almost akin to the lynching of Mohammad Ikhlaque…

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Welcome to SKIMS; wait 4 hrs in queue, return untreated

GoI sleeps on `450 crore expansion project Till 3 pm, middle- aged woman Habla from Kupwara has waited three hours in the queue for making a payment at SKIMS Cash Counter. She had also spent an hour at OPD Card Counter in morning, and then outside the medicine OPD she had to wait for another half hour. The counter closed and Habla was asked to come the next day to make the payments. On Monday, 750 payments were made at the two OPD Cash Counters. At four OPD Card Counters,…

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No Self-Rule, Autonomy, Achievable Nationhood records available with Centre

The Central Government has not received any document from National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and Peoples Conference about Self Rule, Autonomy and Achievable Nationhood respectively. In reply to an RTI filed by social activist Advocate Irfan Hafeez Lone, the Prime Minister’s Office has said that the “information sought is not available in records.” “The Prime Minister’s Office has no records available about the information sought,” reads the RTI reply from the PMO’s office. The activist had wanted to know whether NC, PDP, PC had submitted their documents of Self Rule,…

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Kashmir: The Pursuit of the Possible

Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai – October 9, 2015 Benjamin Franklin, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Britain, and a man responsible for negotiating a treaty between the colonies and France, asked, “When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?” Perhaps the simple answer to that is that it will occur when power is distributed among men in such a way that it cannot be abused by any individual or nation, and that both personal and national sovereignty is once and for all respected.…

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