Year: 2016

‘If Yatra, RSS marches are facilitated, Why ban Islamic functions?’ Geelani

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Angry over government not allowing a religious conference at Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani’s residence here, pro-freedom leaders on Monday questioned the government that if Amarnath Yatra and RSS marches are facilitated, why an Islamic function is disallowed by using force. Tehreek-e-Hurriyat had organised a Seerat conference on Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW), the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), at Geelani’s Hyderpora residence where Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Miwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik were also invited to address besides various other religious clerics of Kashmir. Since…

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Situation in Valley still grim: Wajahat Habibullah

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Team unlikely to meet separatist leaders ‘Everybody wants peace to prevail; Delhi must understand situation in Kashmir’ The five-member delegation led by senior BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Monday said though situation has improved in many ways in Valley but it is still “very grim” and maintained that Kashmiris including Hurriyat leadership and civil society members want peace to prevail. The five-member delegation led by Sinha and including former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, former Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) Kapil Kak, Journalist Bharat Bhushan and Sushoba…

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Mehbooba bats for better ties with Pak, advocates for opening trade routes with Pak for making JK Economic Corridor

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‘J&K was gateway to Central Asia but we closed its doors’ Wants Centre, state to make collective efforts to settle all contentious issues ‘J&K will never go away from India; we need to have good relations with Pakistan’ Referring to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti Monday pitched for opening of all trade routes of Jammu and Kashmir with Pakistan for making it an economic corridor of the region. Recalling former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s peace overtures, she also stressed on the need for having good…

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Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) today

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Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi (SAW) is being celebrated with full reverence, devotion and religious fervour in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. The day marks the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Religious processions, special prayer meetings, Seerat Conferences are being organized across the State to celebrate the day. Special functions would be held in the Kashmir at various shrines and Masjids. The biggest congregation will be held at Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar where devotees in large numbers would offer special prayers and have glimpses of the holy relic of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). In…

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Protests, Functions held on Human Rights Day in Valley

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Protests and official functions marked Human Rights Day in the Kashmir valley today. Independent legislator Engineer Rashid was detained when he tried to take out a march towards the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) office here. A spokesman of the Awami Itihaad Party said that Rashid was detained by the police at Rajbagh in Srinagar while he was leading a protest march against “unabated human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.” Pro-freedom leaders and activists of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front were also detained when they tried to march towards…

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Asia’s longest road tunnel Chenani – Nashri Tunnel waiting for NHAI nod for Opening

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Asia’s longest road tunnel— Chenani-Nashri tunnel, which would connect Udhampur district with Ramban district on Jammu-Srinagar Highway awaits nod from National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) for its opening. Sources involved in construction of 9 kilometer long 2-lane tunnel, told Kashmir Post that the project is almost complete but the NHAI so far has not given its Commercial Operations Date (COD), mandatory for start testing and commissioning. “All civil works on the tunnel including extension of cemented roads on both North (Nashri) and South (Chenani) end have been completed,” sources…

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Mehbooba Mufti being cornered by BJP?

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There appears to be a bigger game plan at play in the verbal duel over the Kashmir Police Service cadre review between the two alliance partners — PDP and BJP — in a Cabinet meeting here on Friday that witnessed a rare walkout by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. A simplistic conclusion of the unseemly episode is that the BJP wanted Delhi to be consulted — meaning seeking its approval — before putting this review of the KPS cadre in the Cabinet meeting. The review, mooted by Mehbooba Mufti, as Home…

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Kashmir consumers deprived of LPG subsidy for last 4 months

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Domestic LPG consumers from Kashmir have been deprived of their due gas subsidy for last four months due to the negligence of the oil marketing companies (OMCs). Informed sources said that the denial has happened as the OMCs operating in Kashmir have failed to forward the details to National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) for transferring subsidies to the linked bank accounts of LPG consumers in Kashmir. The government of India transfers subsidy on domestic gas consumption to the bank accounts of consumers after they purchase the LPG cylinders from…

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Gulmarg receives first snowfall, border towns in Kupwara cut off

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The Gulmarg meadow resort of the Valley received the season’s first snowfall overnight while the border towns in Kupwara were blocked by heavy snow. An official of the state Meteorological Department said Gulmarg received 1.5 millimetres of snowfall, covering the meadow resort with a thin layer of snow. The minimum temperature in Gulmarg had dropped to -2.0°Celsius overnight. It is the first snowfall in the region as it heads into a long winter with night temperature already falling below the freezing point during the past weeks. The official said several…

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‘Kashmir issue can be resolved by talks, not violence’ Sinha & Team, Visits Shopian, Anantnag

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He said they wanted to take forward the agenda of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (former prime minister of India) to take the Kashmir issue to “some resolution”. The track-II delegation, led by BJP stalwart Yashwant Sinha, today toured the south Kashmir districts, the epicentre of the long unrest, and met members of civil societies there. The delegation met the local civil societies in Shopian and Anantnag, two of the four districts that form the south Kashmir region. Former Air Vice-Marshal Kapil Kak, one of the five members of the delegation, said…

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