May 2017 | Page 17 of 26

Soldiers told to ‘Inform Police, Army Units’ before heading home

May 12, 2017 Editor

Day after a 22-year-old Army officer was abducted and later killed by suspected militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, the Army on Thursday directed its soldiers hailing from the Valley to strictly “adhere to set guidelines” and “inform concerned Army units before going to home on leave.” Lieutenant Umar Fayaz was found dead at Harmain village in Shopian district on Wednesday. He had visited his home on leave to attend the marriage ceremony of his cousin. The slain Army officer was posted in Akhnoor area of Jammu region. Police sources…

Spontaneous protests wrongfoot police, loosening India’s grip on Kashmir

May 12, 2017 Editor

Images of students confronting police on campuses have come to symbolise Kashmiri protests against Indian rule as much as gun-toting militants in fatigues, in what security officials and separatist leaders say is a dangerous new phase of the conflict. The sharp rise in violence in recent weeks is more spontaneous than before, complicating the task of Indian security forces trained largely in counter-insurgency and poorly equipped to contain broader unrest. A political stalemate in India’s only Muslim-majority state is a further hurdle to resolving the long-running Kashmir dispute, as is…

Alternative Highway to Valley get Centre’s nod

May 12, 2017 Editor

The Centre has cleared the decks for the construction of an alternative national highway to connect the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country through the erstwhile Doda district. The Union Ministry for Road Transport and Highways has approved the construction of the Chhattergala tunnel along with the 170-km Basohli-Bhaderwah-Doda road. This stretch has been declared the new national highway. This was conveyed today to Minister of State in the PMO and MP from Udhampur-Kathua-Doda Jitendra Singh by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. As per the…

RSS to hold 7-day mega show in Jammu in July

May 12, 2017 Editor

Mohan Bhagwat, 200 RSS Pracharaks to discuss ‘Sangh ideology expansion plan’ All 200 Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Pracharaks, heads of all allied organizations of RSS and Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat would be holding intense deliberations in Jammu for seven days from July 15 onwards to discuss and formulate a strategy for “expansion of Sangh ideology and programmes” in the state. The top BJP leaders including national general secretary and chief architect of BJP-PDP alliance, Ram Madhav, national general secretary (organization), Ram Lal, heads of RSS’ allied organizations, VHP, National Mazdoor…

Wife killed, Husband injured during Pak shelling in Nowshera

May 12, 2017 Editor

The Pakistani army resorted to heavy mortar shelling over the areas along the Line of Control in Nowshera subdivision on Wednesday, killing a woman and damaging a school. The shelling also set off migration from a few areas with about 15 families from the Jhanjar sector heading for a camp set up at Nowshera. On Wednesday night, 40-year-old woman Akhter Bibi was killed while her husband Mohd Haneef received serious splinter injuries when a shell landed on their home. Haneef was rushed to the Sub-district Hospital at Nowshera. “The Pakistan…

Student Protests continues across Kashmir, scores injured

May 12, 2017 Editor

Students clashed with police and paramilitary forces in south Kashmir’s Anantnag, north Kashmir’s Baramulla and Kupwara district and central Kashmir’s Budgam district Thursday. Students of Government Higher Secondary School Magam clashed with the forces when they allegedly tried to enter the Government Degree College Magam and Government Higher Secondary School Magam premises. As protesting students pelted stones at the forces, they fired dozens of tear smoke canisters and charged students with batons to disperse them. Six students were detained during the clashes, locals said. In north Kashmir’s Sopore town, 13…

Army’s Cordon and Search Ops (CASO) return to Kashmir after 15 Years

May 12, 2017 Editor

Cordon and Search operations in Kashmir were abandoned 15 years ago by the army in view of inconveniences faced by locals Two days after terrorists dragged out a young army officer, tortured and murdered him, the army decided to make “cordon and search operations” a permanent feature of its anti-terror operations in Kashmir. The procedure, which was followed rigorously at the height of militancy in Kashmir in the 1990s, had been abandoned 15 years ago in view of the inconvenience locals faced during such operations. The biggest cordon and search…

Students clashes rocks Sopore, Magam, Langate, Dooru

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017 Editor

Students of Government Degree College Magam Thursday clashed with forces in Magam area of Budgam.Local sources told Kashmir Post that forces resorted to heavy tear smoke shelling to disperse the protesting students. Reportedly, forces have also lobbed tear gas shells inside the premises of the college. Kashmir is in grip of student protest after forces entered the college premises of GDC Pulwama on April 15 in which 60 students were injured. Since April 15, more than 120 students have been injured across Kashmir in various forces action. Students of Government Higher Secondary…

Opposition pushes plan for conclave on Kashmir, all-party meeting likely soon

May 11, 2017 Editor

Kashmir Conclave: Sharad Yadav meets Manmohan Shah; Omar Abdullah reaches out to CPI. A series of meetings between Opposition leaders to plan a conclave on Kashmir, as also to look for a political solution, has picked up pace in Delhi. On Wednesday, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav met former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the second time in recent days to discuss the proposed conclave. A date for the conclave is likely to be decided after a meeting between Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. In the half-hour meeting, Yadav is…