After the Kashmiri students studying in Pacific University Rajasthan were asked to evacuate the hostel two weeks ago, the students have demanded assurance of their adequate security from the varsity authorities before re-joining. Two weeks ago, a scuffle had taken place between Kashmiri students and hostel mess staff over cleanliness issue when a Kashmiri student had refused to eat in a dirty plate. The incident is said to have caused violence in the campus with students turning hostile against varsity authorities for not entertaining complaints against “dirty food”. Fearing any…
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Omar’s tweets ‘childish, based on little knowledge’: Hurriyat (G)
Terming the tweet of National Conference working president Omar Abdullah about Pakistan as ‘childish and based on little knowledge’, Hurriyat Conference (G) Saturday said not only Pakistani leadership but everyone in Kashmir knows the course of implementation of the UN resolutions and that is India and Pakistan have to pullout their respective troops simultaneously from Jammu and Kashmir. Hurriyat (G) spokesman addressing Omar Abdullah said that when India is totally refusing the UN resolutions then why should Pakistan demilitarize its controlled area? “The main and major hurdle in the implementation…
Read MoreHC hints at stern action against officials abetting Jhelum encroachment
Seeks list of engineers who were posted in areas through which the river flows The Jammu and Kashmir high court has sought list of officers guilty of abetting encroachment of river Jhelum, hinting at taking action against them. The division bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar sought report from Commissioner Secretary of Irrigation and Flood Control Department (I&FC) about particulars of all the Engineers from rank of Chief Engineers to Junior Engineers who remained posted in the areas through which river Jhelum flows. The Bench…
Read MoreDisconnecting Kashmir
AJAZ UL HAQUE The government decided to ban all internet services on the three Eid days. The move was likely to evoke a furious response which it did. Holding all hostage for the fault of a few is certainly not just, but we need to see the problem from a larger – less emotional and a more rational – perspective. Our dependence on the internet is too obvious to be emphasised. But given the volatility of Kashmir as a tinderbox dangerously close to the smallest ignition, certain measures become indispensable.…
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Kashmiri Language Dr Qayum Hamid Changal Few years ago I along with my parents visited one Kashmiri Pandit family in Jammu. It was a cold January and we were invited on lunch, personally I was very excited about the visit. It was my first visit to any Kashmiri Pandit family, and I knew it would be a great learning experience. Ready to explore and assimilate, as soon as we entered, we were welcomed with warmth. Tears in everybody’s eyes, we started discussing about our culture and fondness for each other.…
Read MoreState on threshold of losing its identity
The year 2015 has pushed Jammu and Kashmir to an alarmingly dangerous threshold. People of the state are feeling lost and confused as they find themselves caught in a bind in an all-suffocating atmosphere of reeking corruption and an unresponsive system peppered by communalism and radicalism. Is it worth living in this state, where the leadership of all hues is self-serving and interested in promoting a highly polarised agenda? This question is haunting the people in the state, with each region and community becoming distrustful of one another. The Kashmir…
Read MoreOIC reaffirms Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination
Foreign Ministers of Islamic countries have called for resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India. At their annual coordination meeting, the foreign ministers of 57 member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) adopted the reports of various OIC Contact Groups, including the one on Jammu & Kashmir, which reaffirmed the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions. The meeting was chaired by Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Foreign Minister of Kuwait and attended by Foreign Ministers of member states…
Read MoreSrinagar-Qazigund four laning stretch may be delayed
Four-laning of the Srinagar-Qazigund stretch of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, which has missed the deadline last year, may get further delayed with little progress on completion of 75 per cent of work by the end of September. Having missed the deadlines, work on this 66-km project, part of the prestigious Srinagar-Kanyakumari national highway corridor, was further delayed due to floods last year. With the intervention of the state government, which came under heavy criticism early this year due to the dilapidated condition of the road, the construction company was asked…
Read MoreMirwaiz among world’s top 10 Muslim leaders
Again figures in world’s 500 most-influential Muslim list Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq has figured at number nine in the list of ‘Top-10 Muslim Leaders’ and also made it to the list of 500 most-influential and most-famous Muslims in the world for the second year running. The Mirwaiz, who besides being the Chairman of the Hurriyat (M) and top religious leader in Jammu Kashmir, figures at number nine in the list of ‘Top-10 Muslim Leaders’ in the field of politics in the Islamic world prepared…
Read More02 Arrested, 39 Bovine rescued in Samba
Two persons have been arrested for allegedly smuggling bovines and 39 cattle were rescued from their possession in two separate incidents in Samba district and here, police said today. In the first incident, Mohammad Rafiq was arrested when he was trying to allegedly smuggle 33 bovine animals into Punjab from Khangwala village in Samba district yesterday, police said. In another incident, Mohammad Benia was nabbed and six bovine animals were rescued from his possession in Domana area of the Jammu district yesterday, they said. The accused failed to give a satisfactory answer when questioned and was arrested…
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