Month: May 2018

President Ram Nath Kovind to visit Siachen base camp today

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President Ram Nath Kovind will visit the Siachen base camp, world’s highest battlefield, on Thursday and interact with soldiers. President Kovind, who is also the Supreme Commander of the armed forces, will be the first President to visit this camp since the visit of then President APJ Abdul Kalam in 2004. According to Rashtrapati Bhavan, the President will also visit the Kumar post, located at 4,800 metres, from where supplies are dispatched to pickets on the Siachen Glacier. This is the second visit of President Kovind to the strategic Ladakh…

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Univarsities across Kashmir witness student protests against civilian killings

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Students of different universities of Kashmir valley Wednesday protested against the killing of civilians and Assistant Professor turned militant, Mohammad Rafi Bhat. Scores of students of University of Kashmir protested in solidarity with the Assistant Professor turned militant who was killed during an encounter in Badigam village of south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Sunday. Eyewitnesses told Kashmir Post that the students of different departments assembled outside the Iqbal Library and started demonstrating against the killings. The protesting students at KU were carrying a banner reading “In memory of Shaheed Dr…

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Court seeks report on mowing down of youth by police vehicle

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The court of chief judicial magistrate Srinagar has directed SHO Noorbagh to file a status report in the case of Adil Ahmed Yadoo of Safa Kadal here who was crushed to death by a police vehicle on 5 May 2018. The court issued directions after the family of the victim moved an application through counsels advocate Bashir Siddiq and Muhammad Ashraf Bhat. The 18 year old youth was crushed to death by a police armoured vehicle in downtown Srinagar amid protests following a firefight between militants and government forces, a…

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Pune’s former mayor, Rajlakshmi Bhosale faith in Kashmir tourism unshaken

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Rajlakshmi Bhosale was on her way to Srinagar when she got the news of the killing of a tourist in a stone pelting incident. But the General Secretary of Nationalist Congress Party in Pune and former mayor of the western Indian city let her earlier experience of travels to Kashmir guide her rather be panicked by the news of the death of 22-year-old R Thirumani of Chennai after he was critically injured near Narbal when his vehicle was caught in a stone throwing protest. Bhosale flew from the hills of…

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Deploying NSG will boost forces but elite commandos should be shielded from stone pelters

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Reports in the media indicate that the elite National Security Guard (NSG) is to be deployed in Kashmir as part of the counterterrorism grid. According to home ministry officials, the force would be directly involved in specific counterterrorism operations particularly in hostage situations as well as have a role in training the state police and the CRPF in an increasingly complex security scenario. There is also a hint that the NSG is being deployed to keep its specific skills honed for its actual task, which is as the country’s quick…

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PM Narendra Modi likely to visit J&K later this month

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Jammu and Kashmir for two days later this month during which he will inaugurate a hydro-electricity project and participate in the 100th birth anniversary celebrations of Ladakhi spiritual leader Kushak Bakula and a university convocation, officials said here today. While the dates are yet to be officially announced, the officials said most probably the prime minister will arrive in Srinagar on May 19 and dedicate to the nation the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project, whose progress was monitored by the PMO. The…

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All Party Delegation appeals for ceasefire during Ramadan, Yatra

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APD to visit Delhi to meet PM If AoA implemented, situation can get better The All Party Meeting (APM) convened by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday appealed Government of India (GoI) to consider a unilateral ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir starting from Ramzan in mid May till the completion of the Amarnath yatra in August. “The GoI should announce unilateral ceasefire starting from Ramzan till Amarnath yatra,” Mehbooba told reporters after conclusion of four-hour All Party Meeting (APM) convened by her to discuss the present situation in the Valley…

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All-party meet today to discuss Kashmir violence

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Apart from ruling PDP and BJP, the opposition National Conference and Congress are expected to participate in the all-party meeting. The Jammu and Kashmir government has convened an all-party meet Wednesday afternoon to discuss the worsening situation in the valley that has seen frequent gunfights between militants and security forces and deaths of civilians in firing during protests near these encounters. Apart from ruling PDP and BJP, the opposition National Conference and Congress are expected to participate in the meet. “In order to improve the situation, the government will have…

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Hardened local terrorists a concern for security forces

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Kashmiris joining the Hizbul Mujahideen are now displaying a higher level of commitment and risk-taking on par with foreign terrorists of Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e Mohammad operating in Jammu & Kashmir, a trend that has seen locals stage terrorist strikes and choose death over surrender when cornered by security forces. “Local terrorists recruited by Hizbul Mujahideen had carried out a terrorist strike at a CRPF camp in Pulwama on December 31, 2017. Until then, suicide attacks were known to be the preserve of ‘well-trained and committed’ foreign terrorists pushed into J&K…

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Tourist death could be last nail in Kashmir Tourism Coffin: Industry

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The tourism trade in Kashmir condemned the killing, saying that those who had thrown stones at the vehicle in which the tourist was travelling were not well wishers of Kashmir but cold-blooded murders. The fragile tourism industry in Kashmir has taken another blow with the death of a tourist hit by stone-pelters, and the sector fears that the incident may further affect the already falling footfall in the troubled Valley. The killing of the Chennai youth could be the proverbial final nail in the coffin of tourism in Kashmir, Ashfaq…

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