Year: 2017

Involve everyone in Kashmir talks: Mirwaiz to Center

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Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday that said he favoured unconditional dialogue with the government of India but said that the best chance of success would be if it followed the Vajpayee government’s doctrine. Farooq, who is Kashmir’s chief cleric, noted that in the Vajpayee formula “all parties were involved,” referring to the simultaneous communication that the Kashmiri separatist leaders were allowed to have with New Delhi as well as with Islamabad and counterparts in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. “We want a mechanism to be prepared for talks where everyone…

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Amit Shah, Rajnath, Madhav discuss Kashmir post BJP meet

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BJP president Amit Shah, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and some other party leaders including Ram Madhav and Ram Lal closeted Monday for an hour-long meeting, where they are believed to have discussed issues related to Jammu and Kashmir among others, sources said. They met at the home minister’s residence after the BJP executive meeting here and is said to have reviewed the political situation in Jammu and Kashmir, the sources said. While details of the meeting were not immediately available, according to sources the leaders are believed to have…

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Shutdown affects life across Kashmir, Train services suspended, Joint leadership supported todays call

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Life was affected in Kashmir valley on Monday due to a shutdown called by traders, transporters and resistance leadership against “high-handedness” of the National Investigation Agency. All shops and other commercial establishments are closed in business hub of Lal Chowk in Srinagar while public transport remained mostly off the roads. However, private transport was plying normally. Life remained affected in Downtown Srinagar where restrictions have been placed by the authorities to prevent any protests. Traders and transporters have called for Kashmir Bandh today to protest against the NIA notice to…

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Earthquake threat in Kashmir is Real

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Whenever a major earthquake hits any part of the planet Earth it always sends panic waves, and this has been going on for centuries. Jammu and Kashmir is one of the tectonic hotspots that has always been in news. The cause of earthquakes in this region is primarily because Indian plate is continuously trying to push harder to dive under the Eurasian plate, and in doing so it often breaks via earthquakes. Since the tectonic plates are solid and thus one cannot simply expect a solid to make a smooth…

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Bilal Dar an 18 year old ragpicker becomes example for Kashmiri Boys

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It was a day of 18 year old Bilal Dar alias Billa of Laharwarpora of Bandipora district on Sunday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned his name in Mann Ki Baat on radio address. Bilal Dar was 14 year old when he started earning his living by picking up waste from the Wular Lake in Bandipora district of north Kashmir in 2013. Bilal’s father Mohammad Ramzan Dar, who also a Ragpicker, died in 2003 due to cancer and he took to collecting plastic trash and other waste material from the…

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Kashmir Issue be settled under UNSC resolutions: OIC

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Indian government has for the eighth consecutive year refused visa documents, passports and other facilities to the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) who were invited by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to attend the Contact Group’s important meeting held here on the margins of the ongoing summit session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The denial of the Indian government has infuriated the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The sources…

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No holiday on Hari Singh’s birthday, J&K’s deputy CM heckled

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Hari Singh was the last Dogra ruler, who signed instrument of accession with the Union of India on October 26, 1947. Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister, Nirmal Singh, was allegedly heckled by people from the Dogra community over PDP-BJP coalition government’s failure to declare September 23 as a state holiday on the birth anniversary of Maharaja Hari Singh. Hari Singh was the last Dogra ruler, who signed instrument of accession with the Union of India on October 26, 1947. Singh, who reached the Tawi Bridge to take part in…

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Shabir Shah received Pak funding to promote terror in Kashmir: Enforcement Directorate

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Shah was arrested by the ED on July 25 from Srinagar and was brought to Delhi where he was produced in a court. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a chargesheet in the Delhi Court against Separatist leader Shabir Shah for his involvement in a decade-old money laundering case for alleged terror financing. “Shabir Shah admitted that he talks to Hafiz Saeed over the phone on the issue of Kashmir. He recently spoke to Saeed in January 2017,” ED in its chargesheet said. It also added that Shah received…

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‘Warmest Place on Earth’ promotional film released by Mehbooba Mufti to promote Kashmir Tourism

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To offset negative perception about Kashmir not being safe, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday released a five-minute tourism promotional film ‘Warmest Place on Earth’ here at Tagore Hall highlighting the hospitable nature of Kashmiris. The film has been produced by tourism department for the promotion of tourism sector and to help portray the hospitable nature of the Kashmiris. Speaking on the occasion, Chief Minister said Kashmiris have always been hospitable and helped tourist all the time. Citing many examples of hospitable and caring nature of the…

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NIA summons Research Scholar, Separatists in Terror funding case

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The National Investigation Agency has issued summons to a Kashmir university PhD student, the head of a traders’ body and two Hurriyat leaders to appear before it tomorrow in connection with a case related to the funding of terror activities in Kashmir, NIA officials said today. Yaseen Khan of Kashmir Traders and Marketing Federation, Aala Fazil, pursuing a doctorate from University of Kashmir, and leaders of Syed Ali Shah Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference Abdul Hameed Magrey and Wali Mohammed have been asked to appear before the NIA at its headquarters in…

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