April 26, 2016 | Kashmir POST

Amanullah Khan, architect of Kashmir militancy, dies

April 26, 2016 Editor

Amanullah Khan, co-founder of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) and chief architect of violent separatist movement in Kashmir, died at Rawalpindi in Pakistan on Tuesday. He was 82. Khan was from Gilgit, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK). His daughter Asma is married to Kashmiri leader Sajjad Lone, a minister in the BJP-PDP coalition government in Indian Jammu and Kashmir. According to sources, Sajjad Lone, who was in New Delhi to meet the BJP high command in connection with his ministry, has decided not to travel to Pakistan for the last rites of…

JK purchases power for Rs 4600 cr in 2015-16

April 26, 2016 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir government has spent a whopping Rs 4600 crore on power purchases from outside in 2015-16 to meet the state’s energy requirements, officials data has revealed. It has also revealed the state has spent Rs 32000 crore on power purchases from outside in the past 12 years (from 2004 to 2016). Officials said the genesis of bulging expenditure on power purchases in Jammu and Kashmir, which has a potential to generate 20,000 MW hydropower, lies in ‘illegal occupation’ of power projects by the National Hydro Power Corporation…

Heat wave continues in Jammu, Mercury touches 36 Degree

April 26, 2016 Editor

It is just the beginning of summer season but heat wave has gripped Jammu, the winter capital of the state, for past few days and today’s temperature crossed 36 Degrees mark. Jammu has been experiencing extreme heat for the past several days and Monday the city recorded its highest temperature for the month of April. “Jammu has crossed 36.3 degree Celsius in April, it not normal,” said Jammu-based Met spokesperson. The Meteorological Department also predicted dry weather for the next few days. “The weather is expected to remain dry in…

J&K’s thrust industrial sectors startups should focus on Kashmir

April 26, 2016 Editor

Jammu and Kashmir Government with support from central government has categorized certain industrial sectors with growth potential and market avenues in the state and has declared them as thrust areas. All the benefits to these sectors will be available even outside industrial estates. Both the governments provide special assistance, incentives and benefits for investing in these particular sectors. The rationale behind choosing these sectors is the availability of the raw material and consumption of the manufactured and produced goods within the state. The thrust area industries development has been given…

HC slams JK Govt: ‘You need people only during voting; then you don’t care for them’

April 26, 2016 Editor

Underscoring that there is no Food Testing Laboratory worth the name in Jammu and Kashmir, the High Court on Monday observed that it appears people in the state are made to “consume adulterated food.” “There is no food testing laboratory worth the name under Jammu and Kashmir Food Safety and Standards Act in the state. It appears that people of the state are made to consume adulterated food,” a division bench of Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar and Justice Ali Muhammad Magrey said. “All those responsible to check this adulteration probably…

Bus carrying wedding party turns turtle in Rajouri, injuring 45

April 26, 2016 Editor

Around 45 people were today injured, two of them seriously, when a bus carrying a marriage party turned turtle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. “The bus full of Baratis was on its way to Thandi Kassi from Saranu village when it turned turtle near Jamola bridge in Rajouri,” a police officer said. He said that 45 Baratis were injured in the mishap, two of them seriously. “The seriously injured persons have been shifted to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu for specialised treatment, whereas others are admitted to Rajouri…

PDP has no right to talk about Kashmir issue: NC

April 26, 2016 Editor

‘Party sold self-rule to highest bidders in Nagpur’ National Conference (NC) Monday said PDP had sold its self-rule document to the highest bidders in Nagpur in lieu of power in J&K and had hence lost the right to even talk about the Kashmir Issue. National Conference Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani lashed out at PDP for continuing in its shameless efforts to mislead the people of the State by still having the audacity to comment on autonomy while it was a long established fact that PDP’s patrons and leaders had…

Govt withdraws CRPF from NIT for ‘fanning’ protests

April 26, 2016 Editor

Paramilitary personnel were found to have shot videos which went viral online The government has withdrawn paramilitary CRPF from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) campus here after complaints that they were instigating protests. The CRPF men were deployed in the campus after the clashes between local and non local students over India’s loss to West Indies in WorldT20 semi final match on March 31. “Within few days of their deployment, the CRPF men were removed from the duties after it was found that some of the officials had shot…

Are you drinking pure milk?

April 26, 2016 Editor

DFCO launches valley-wide anti-adulteration campaign Jammu and Kashmir government is in a tight spot over the revelations made by officials in High Court following the media reports about the sale of adulterated food items including milk and milk products. Although there was a relief for a leading milk manufacturing company facing adulteration charges following a stay on District Court Budgam’s order by the High Court but there is still a question mark over the quality and standard of the milk sold in J&K. After HC’s cognizance, the authorities have launched…

Hartals do not benefit anyone

April 26, 2016 Editor

Alternative strategy needs to be evolved to protest and counter the human rights violations Muhammad Asif Rashid Hartaal…..! The dialogue by superstar Amitabh Bachchan in his angry baritone voice in 1983 movie ‘Coolie’ has wooed the women, mesmerized the men, impressed the classes and entertained the masses but who could have imagined even in his wildest dream that in the coming time the word hartal will echo on the streets of Kashmir for decades to come, would be on the tip of tongue of each Kashmiri and would change the…