Year: 2016

National Conference attacks Mehbooba for ‘Insensitive’ remarks over Kashmir Unrest

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Opposition National Conference (NC) today lashed out at Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for her “insensitive” and “obtuse” remarks over the last few days, alleging her “shocking insensitivity had emboldened the brutal response” to the current unrest in the Valley. The National Conference questioned the Jammu and Kashmir chief minister’s sense of priorities and perspective in trying to portray normalcy in the state through the “Information Department” rather than trying to achieve “actual normalcy through empathy and humility.” “From meetings with female staff in the civil secretariat, to photo-opportunities in civil…

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#Day26, Valley seethes with anger after fresh killings, Hundreds injured in Kulgam Clashes

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Chattabal youth killed by pellets, death toll crosses 60 IG CRPF says cops involved in Riyaz’s killing won’t be spared Over 130 injured in clashes in Kulgam, 8 injured referred to Sgr hospitals Many injured in clashes in Pahalgam Curfew, restrictions, shutdown continue for 26th day Banihal, Bhaderwah observe strike against civilian killings Over 470 arrested in Kashmir: Police Kashmir remained tense after the overnight killing of a youth at Lethpora in South Kashmir in police firing and death of a 23-year-old ATM guard from Chattabal area of downtown Srinagar due…

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Come to Kashmir, the Valley of Roses, Apple Trees and Corpses

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Generation after generation in Kashmir are crushed in slow motion, and the longings of a people are inscribed on the scars and burns of their young. Shama Naqushbandi A man rows his boat in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. Credit: Reuters I have been visiting Kashmir since my childhood. Over the years, the valley has taught me many hard lessons about the world. With my early trips to Kashmir, the terrain between history and reality blurred. It was the first time I realised that tragedy was not a foreign country. Its proximity was…

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Situation tense in Kulgam, dozens injured during violent protests, Geelani, Mirwaiz stages sit-in, lashes out at UN

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 25 injured reach Kulgam Hospital, situation very tense Reports from Kulgam in south Kashmir suggest that situation is very tense and more than 30 persons have sustained injuries in the ongoing clashes in the district however officials were not available for comments. District Hospital Kulgam sources told Kashmir Post that they received 25 injured persons who have different sorts of injuries. Intense clashes erupted in Adeejan area of the district after thousands of protesters were stopped from marching to DH Pora. Local people had called a prayer meeting at DH Pora in…

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Army major chants azadi slogans ‘Hum Kya Chahte? Azadi!’

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Curious scenes, recorded on mobile phone cameras for posterity, were witnessed in Vessu village of Qazigund on Monday of an Indian Army officer full-throatedly shouting ‘Hum Kya Chaahte? Azadi!’, ‘Hum Kya Chaahte? Azadi!’, ‘Nara-e-Takbeer, Allah-u-Akbar!’ Not just this, there were Kashmiri youth carrying the army officer on their shoulders, cheering as he chanted the slogans and his subordinate troops chanted after him. The drama began at 5:30pm in the evening when locals were offering Asr prayers in the local mosque. The major of the army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit in the…

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Two more deaths push Kashmir to the edge again

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Protests erupted in Srinagar and south Kashmir on Wednesday following the death of two young men – one in Srinagar and the other in Pulwama – on Tuesday night. People came out on roads in Chattabal area of Sirnagar’s old city after Reyaz Ahmad Shah, a bank ATM guard was found dead under mysterious circumstances near Shri Maharja Hari Singh Hospital. Protesters alleged that the guard was shot dead by security forces. Police said he was shot by a pellet gun from close quarters and had a deep wound in…

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Massive clashes erupt in Kulgam, 04 Persons injured in forces action, Pro-freedom march in Pahalgam

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At least four persons sustained injuries when forces fired tear smoke canisters and pellets to disperse the protest rally at Damhal Hanjipora in south Kashmir’s  Kulgam district  on Wednesday, reports said. Massive clashes between government forces and protesters Wednesday erupted in Kulgam district after police and Para-military forces stopped people from reaching DH Pora. Earlier, a large number of people from dozens of areas in district Kulgam assembled and started their march to DH Pora to pay homage to those killed recently at the hands of government forces. Sources said…

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Another youth killed by pellets, death toll crosses 60, Curfew extended to more areas across Valley

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People defy curfew in Srinagar, reach Eid Gah along with Chattabal man’s body Hundreds of people defying curfew and restrictions on Wednesday succeeded in reaching ‘martyrs’ graveyard situated at Eid Gah, Srinagar to bury Reyaz Ahmad Shah there. Reyaz was killed after fired by a pellet gun at a blank range during the night. People took the body of Reyaz and raising anti-India slogans marched from Chattabal to Eidgah defying curfew. Reyaz was later laid to rest. Autopsy report of Reyaz Ahmad Shah resident of Chattabal Wednesday revealed that there were hundreds…

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Mehbooba asks; where children of pro-freedom and pro-India leaders are currently

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Chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that “those  people whose children were studying abroad were instigating other children to violence” and “many forces have joined hands to vitiate atmosphere in the valley.” She has not named anyone. In the only elaborate statement on the protests, she again referred to unnamed people who “go from place to place”, incite young “boys to attack security installations and escape” while leaving the boys to face bullets and pellets. Since protests occur at several places (a few days ago a police statement said 70…

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#Twist ‘Mehbooba asked cops to apologise for Burhan Wani’s killing’

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Tuesday’s attack on the house of J&K education minister Naeem Akhtar is only the latest instance of brazen defiance in the trouble-tossed valley. In the last few days, two other PDP MLAs, one of them a minister, have been targeted by angry mobs. One of them, Khalil Bandh elected from Pulwama, has been in critical condition in a Delhi hospital since July 18. Rural development minister Abdul Haq was set upon at Tangdhar in north Kashmir by an angry mob with stones and chased. He managed to escape in his…

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