Hurriyat (G) on Friday warned ‘some’ drivers and traders in uptown Srinagar who he said were defying the joint resistance programmes. A spokesman said that in case these people have some problem or face any hardship, they should locally contact the representatives of their Mohalla Committee. “… but requested them not to be the part of the Indian and its local collaborators game plan to sabotage the ongoing struggle for right to self-determination.” “Whosoever tries to do so will be treated as a traitor and dealt with accordingly,” he warned.
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Violence spills over to Jammu region from Kashmir; 47 hurt
A magistrate, an SSP and three other police officers were among 47 people injured on Friday as stone-pelting incidents spilled over from Kashmir to Jammu region where violence took place in Doda district. Meanwhile, the authorities extended curfew to many areas of Kashmir and snapped mobile telephony as part of a bid to foil a march called by separatists. In the valley, more than three dozen incidents of stone pelting were reported from different districts including Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian, Baramulla, Sopore, Kupwara and Bandipora, a police spokesman said. 35…
Read MoreBJP leader threatens to quit if ‘Tiranga Rally’ disallowed in Valley
BJP leader Eshfaq-ur-Rehman Poswal today threatened to quit the party if the high command disallows his proposed ‘Tiranga rally’ in the Kashmir valley. The BJP leader from Kupwara district had earlier urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow him to conduct the rally from the Line of Control (LoC) to Lal Chowk in Srinagar, ahead of Independence Day. “I will be forced to to quit the BJP if it fails to organise ‘Tiranga rally’. I am surprised the party has not held any programme in Kashmir in the run-up to…
Read MorePeople irked over ‘Ban’ on night movement on Highway
The decision of security forces to “disallow” night traffic on the Srinagar-Baramulla national highway for the past three days has triggered anger among people, especially fruit growers. While District Magistrate, Baramulla, Naseer Ahmed Naqash said no night curfew order was issued by him, commuters travelling on the highway and other routes accuse the Army and the police of not allowing them to travel during the night, saying the forces take the excuse of night curfew. “The Army does not allow any movement on the highway after 9 pm,” said Suhail…
Read MoreOngoing unrest has roots in militant hotbed Tral
On the Jammu-Srinagar national highway that snakes through the Valley, a curve near Awantipora town in south Kashmir leads to picturesque and mountainous Tral sub-district, home to many militants of the region’s new-age insurgency. It is in Tral, 35 km south-east of Srinagar, that Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani’s body arrived home in the dead of a stormy night last month, setting the stage for the largest funeral in the region in decades and the most overt expression of pro-militant sentiment. Burhan’s killing on July 8 triggered an unprecedented pro-militant…
Read MoreValley on edge for fifth Friday, 250 Injured in fresh clashes; Another youth succumbs to injuries
Lethpora youth succumbs, death toll 58 Tangmarg youth critical 41 including 17 women wounded as army flexes muscles on protesters in Arhama Ganderbal Soldiers patrol South Kashmir streets to enforce curfew 3 persons sustained bullet injuries Pellets continue to rain on people Pro-freedom rallies held in several areas A youth Suhail Wani, who was injured in Lethpora when SDM Ramban’s security guard opened fired on protesters, succumbed early Saturday at SKIMS hospital, Srinagar. With the death of Suhail, the death toll so far in Kashmir has reached to 58. More than 250…
Read MoreBar association appeals Int’l bodies to ‘Rescue’ Kashmiris; Er Rasheed detained, police foil his sit-in
Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Srinagar on Friday said that “Kashmir is neither an integral part of India nor are the happenings in Kashmir an internal matter of India and in this regard reference to the Constitution of J&K is totally misconceived, irrelevant and redundant.” This was stated by Mian Abdul Qayoom, President of the Bar Association, in an Executive Committee meeting which was held here today to discuss the issue in the context of what was stated by the Parliament members in the Rajya Sabha. The…
Read MoreClashes erupted in Beerwah; No Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid for 5th consecutive week
Hundreds of people on Friday defied curfew in Beerwah area of Budgam district and started raising anti-India and pro-freedom slogans. Reports said that already deployed police and CRPF personnel resorted to tear smoke shelling on the protesters. Clashes were going on when the reports last came in. Authorities on Friday did not allow congregational prayers in Jamia masjid Srinagar for fifth consecutive Friday. A heavy deployment of police and para-military CRPF had cordoned off Jamia masjid area since early morning and nobody was allowed to reach the historic mosque. Local sources told…
Read MoreAfter Phone Gag, Internet Service Providers ordered to ‘SHUT’ Services in Kashmir
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have asked the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to stop Internet services in Kashmir “immediately”, Kashmir Post has learnt. Several service providers said that got phone calls from the authorities, directing them to suspend the Internet services, especially to newspapers and other media houses. Only last night, the authorities blocked for the second time in a month the mobile phone services, except the state-owned BSNL post-paid phones. Earlier on the night of July 15, the authorities raided the printing presses of various newspaper, and seized over…
Read More80 Additional paramilitary companies for violence Hit Kashmir Valley
More forces for violence-hit Valley, 80 additional paramilitary companies to fan out across Kashmir The security grid engaged in maintaining law and order situation in Kashmir will get a boost in coming days. Over 80 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) will fan out across the Valley to contain the protests. This includes nearly 40 companies of additional CAPF, which are being rushed to Kashmir and also the 40 companies of the CRPF engaged in securing the Amarnath yatra route, which would be redeployed in parts of Kashmir…
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