Month: July 2016

Taking advantage of unrest, land mafia has field day in Dal

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Taking undue advantage of prevailing law and order situation in Kashmir, land mafia is having a field day to encroach upon Dal lake. Reports said that from past few days some, people have encroached various portions of Dal Lake at Jogilankar, Rainawari and adjacent areas. Illegal structures are also coming up at Brein, Nishat, Shalimar and its adjacent areas. “Encroachers are also constructing houses, shops and walls on the encroached land. Land filling of the lake is also going on at various places,” they said. The ongoing encroachment and construction…

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Business Community to follow joint programme of resistance camp

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• Mehbooba not in control, should leave chair • Burhan not the first one, surely not the last The business community of Kashmir Tuesday said Kashmir is a dispute and it was never a part of India and shall never be so. They also said the slain Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani was their ‘child’ and the ‘darling’ of Kashmir. Chairman of Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), Muhammad Yasin Khan, President of Federation of Commerce and Industry Kashmir (FCIK) Ashraf Mir and the representatives of the Civil Society Kashmir while addressing…

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Police will be answerable for excessive use of force, will seek accountability : Mehbooba

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According to the Home Ministry, Wani had around a dozen cases with serious charges against him, mostly under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. As Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Kashmir Tuesday and appealed for calm, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, in first public remarks following the protests and violence over the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, asked parents to dissuade their children from taking to the streets. She said security personnel and policemen “will be made answerable” for incidents where excessive force was used. Expressing…

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Pellets take a toll, 92 eye surgeries and counting

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Pellet guns have been regularly used to quell protests in Kashmir since 2010, when the state police introduced them as “non-lethal weapon”, their use has increased over the years. Eighteen-year-old Mohammad Yasin lies on a hospital bed, his vision smeared with a white haze. He is not sure if he will ever see properly again. All 72 beds in the ophthalmology ward of Srinagar’s SMHS hospital, where Yasin is recovering, are occupied — some by two patients. The patients are mostly young, many of them minors, including a 12-year-old girl.…

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Fresh killings take death toll to 35 and counting, PM & CM appeals for calm

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One more succumbs, toll is 35 Firing on protesters in Kupwara; Bijbehara youth succumbs Youth clash with police, CRPF men across Valley Cleric, who led funeral prayer of Mufti Sayeed, not allowed to lead Jinaza of Bijbehara youth Life remains crippled for day 4; Separatists remain caged With one more injured succumbing in the hospital, the death toll in the violence that erupted across Kashmir last SAturday has gone up to 35. Police sources told Kashmir Post that one Javed Ahmad from South Kashmir had been injured in a firing…

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How smartphones are shaping Kashmir’s insurgency

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It is all too easy to dismiss the upsurge in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir this weekend as just another cycle in a conflict that has ebbed and flowed ever since the country received independence in 1947. But that would be to ignore a new factor that is transforming the nature of protest in the region. There’s a clue to what is happening in the government’s response to the threat of disorder. Burhan Wani, the young militant leader whose death sparked the latest explosion of violence, was killed in a gun…

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Protests or no protests, forces to go full steam against terror

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Unfazed by violent protests in south Kashmir in the wake of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan Wani ‘s killing, the security establishment will continue to go full-steam in its fight against terror. The encounter in Handwara and the foiling of an infiltration bid in Keran on Monday exhibit the security establishment’s resolve to deal firmly with those who pick up arms and indulge in violence. According to a top officer of the security establishment, protests or no protests, there would be no compromise on crushing terror with armed action. Stating that…

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Festivity punctuated by death and violence

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The festive mood was still on when the news of Kashmir’s ‘azadi’ icon Burhan Muzaffar Wani’s killing broke out late in the evening. It was third day after Eid and children in the nearby lane could be seen bursting firecrackers. The mood was enthusiastic and the kids holding their toy guns were seen everywhere — some posing as rebels, some as policemen and others as victims falling to bullets from both sides. That’s the impact deep-seated turmoil has on the kids in the Valley. The same trauma had made Wani,…

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Women in large number take to road against Burhan Wani’s killing

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At least 10 women have been injured since the protests started after Hizbul Mujahedeen commander Burhan Wani’s killing on Friday. In Kashmir it is not just men on the streets, women in large numbers have also taken to roads to protest the killing of Hizbul commander Burhan Wani in the Valley. At least one woman has died during the firing and many are recuperating in the hospitals across the Valley. At least 10 women have been injured since the protests started after Hizbul Mujahedeen commander Burhan Wani’s killing on Friday.…

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Doda, Kishtwar observed Bandh over killings of civilians in Kashmir

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The majority community in the twin districts of Doda and Kishtwar today observed partial bandh over the killings of civilians during the Kashmir unrest following the gunning down of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. In Doda, protests were held at two separate places, Ghat and Doda town, this morning in which pro-Pakistan and pro-azadi slogans were allegedly raised by protesters. Around hundred youth took out the protest march in the town by raising slogans against the killings. Shops and other business establishments of the majority community remained closed in the…

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