Year: 2016

People irked over ‘Ban’ on night movement on Highway

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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…

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Ongoing unrest has roots in militant hotbed Tral

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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…

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Valley on edge for fifth Friday, 250 Injured in fresh clashes; Another youth succumbs to injuries

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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…

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Bar association appeals Int’l bodies to ‘Rescue’ Kashmiris; Er Rasheed detained, police foil his sit-in

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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…

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Clashes erupted in Beerwah; No Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid for 5th consecutive week

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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…

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After Phone Gag, Internet Service Providers ordered to ‘SHUT’ Services in Kashmir

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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…

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80 Additional paramilitary companies for violence Hit Kashmir Valley

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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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Seeing the new normal in Kashmir

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From all assessments, the protests in the Valley are frighteningly spontaneous. Mehbooba Mufti, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, faces a terrible identity crisis. She has begun blaming Pakistan for encouraging young Kashmiris to take up arms and accused the country of pushing infiltration. Her lexicon of blame now echoes that of New Delhi, where it is fashionable to reflexively drag all blame to Islamabad. Home Minister Rajnath Singh has done it; Minister of Information and Broadcasting Venkaiah Naidu has done it; so also has Minister for External Affairs…

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Burhan Wani and the Power of the Internet misread in Kashmir

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Derek O’Brien Years ago I read a definition of the difference between a nationalist and patriot. The nationalist loves his country, the patriot loves the people of his country. This one-liner came back to me recently as I considered the volatile and worrying situation in the Kashmir Valley, and how some people in India, on social media and on prime-time shows and in real life as well, unfortunately, seem to make a distinction between Kashmir, the land and Kashmiris, the people. As if the first is all-important to India and…

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Curfew, Clashes enters 35th Day across Kashmir Valley; Mobile network snapped

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Curfew and protest shutdown continued to paralyse life in Kashmir for the 35th consecutive day on Friday. Kashmir is observing protests ever since Commander Burhan Wani was killed in south Kashmir on July 8. 58 civilians have been killed in armed forces actions in the past more than one month. 6000 people have been injured during the period. Last Friday (August 5) was one of the most violent days in the ongoing unrest witnessing three civilian deaths and hundreds of injuries in clashes across Kashmir. Police on Thursday issued a Friday…

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