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Local cab driver ferrying soldiers killed post daylong Shopian Siege

May 5, 2017 Editor

3 Soldiers also injured 4000 soldiers carry out daylong anti-militancy operation Locals accuse forces of damaging properties Drones, choppers assist forces on ground during 8-hr operation Several youth injured in clashes A civilian Sumo driver ferrying soldiers returning from a daylong anti-militancy operation in Shopian was killed when militants ambushed the vehicle on Thursday. Three soldiers were also injured in the attack. Soldiers from army’s 62 Rashtriya Rifles battalion were returning in a private Tata Sumo vehicle to their Imam Sahib camp after carrying out searches in the area. The…

Pakistani, Saudi channels beam into Kashmiri homes, stoke ‘Azadi’ rage

May 5, 2017 Editor

Saudi clerics and Pakistani news anchors are being beamed direct to Kashmiri homes, and are stoking the fires of ‘azadi’. Over 50 Saudi and Pakistani channels, including Zakir Naik’s banned Peace TV preaching Salafist Islam, and others indulging in anti-India propaganda are running without necessary clearances via private cable networks in Kashmir. All this is happening under the nose of the PDP-BJP government, which even subscribes to these cable services in some of its offices and buildings. Although satellite television service providers like Tata Sky , Airtel digital TV and…

Kashmir Tourism hit big time, almost all package bookings cancelled

May 5, 2017 Editor

Rs. 3,000-crore losses last year; shortfall to increase manifold this year Tourism, the mainstay of J&K’s economy, has been the worst hit by the ongoing turmoil in the Kashmir valley as the majority of the tourists have cancelled their bookings for the months of May and June. The state already witnessed an unprecedented decline in tourist footfalls in March and April. “Almost 100 per cent of the package bookings of tourists, who had planned to visit Kashmir after visiting the Vaishno Devi shrine and other religious places in the Jammu…

Wary of costly treatment, Pellet-hit boy’s family ‘Disowns’ him

May 5, 2017 Editor

With his right eye hit by pellets, Bilal Ahmad of Shopian walks towards the CT scan room of SMHS hospital. He asks his friend to call his parents who hurriedly dials the phone number. As the friend informs Bilal’s parents about his injury, they refuse to come, saying, “Let him die”. Bilal is disowned by his family as they don’t have money to spend on his treatment. “They are extremely poor people and his family cannot afford to take care of him, that’s the reason why they are disowning him,”…

Student Protests continue, several injured in Sopore

May 5, 2017 Editor

Student protests show no signs of dying down as dozens of students of the Government Higher Secondary School and Degree College in Sopore were injured when police foiled their protest march on Thursday. Students of Kashmir Government Polytechnic College at Gogji Bagh, Srinagar, also clashed with the police. Valley-wide student protests were sparked by use of force on the students of Degree College College Pulwama on April 15, prompting the government to suspend class work in colleges and higher secondary schools for several days. Sopore Dozens of students of Government…

Massive door-to-door search operation conducted for 1st time since 90s in Shopian

May 5, 2017 Editor

Security forces called off a massive day-long cordon and search operation in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Thursday evening after no contact was made with any militant, the police said. “We had inputs about the presence of militants and it was a coordinated operation by the police, army and the CRPF,” said deputy inspector general of police, south Kashmir, SP Pani. An official at the police control room in Shopian said the operation was launched in around 20 villages of the district around 7am after security forces received information about…

Forces deployed to create nineties like situation in Kashmir: Geelani

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 Editor

Expressing solidarity with the families of Bomay Sopore and Begum Bagh Kakpora, Syed Ali Geelani today said the role of police and their track record in past has always remained doubtful. “Till now not a single culprit has been brought to book and it is as such an attempt to cool down the people’s resentment and hush up the cases,” Geelani said. Geelani expressed anguish over the Bomay Sopore and Begum Bagh Kakpora incidents in which Geelani said forces severely thrashed members of families. “Forces have been deployed to create…

20 Villages under siege in South Kashmir, Clashes in Sopore after forces teargas Protesting Students

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 Editor

Following spurt in Insurgent activities, government forces launched a major crackdown in south Kashmir’s Shopian district and laid siege to at least 20 villages, local sources said. Sources told Kashmir Post that the government forces in a bid to neutralise Insurgents suspected to be hiding in Sugan, Turku Wangan and adjoining villages, launched a major cordon and search operation this early morning. Source said people at Sugan and Turku Wangan resisted security operation and pelted stones on government forces including army. Police retaliated by teargas shelling, ensuing clashes between two…

Bus plunges into gorge in Poonch scores injured

May 4, 2017 Editor

Twenty passengers were injured, six of them critically, in a road accident in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. An official said that a passenger bus on way to Mandi from Poonch plunged into a 20-ft gorge near Dingla, resulting into injuries to twenty passengers. He said the injured were shifted to District Hospital Poonch for treatment.