Year: 2018

PDP, Congress disown slain political worker in Kashmir; Omar Abdullah tweets ‘let’s just call him a NC worker’

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A former Congress and PDP leader Ghulam Nabi Patel died few minutes on way to the hospital in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district soon after suspected militants suddenly appeared in front of his Scorpio vehicle and fired multiple shots, two of them hitting his face on Wednesday. His son and two security personnel were also injured in the attack. But ironically enough Patel, 67, a resident of Dangerpora Shadimarg on Pulwama-Shopian border in south Kashmir, who worked for different mainstream political parties in the Valley and was ostracised for the same…

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Militants flee after snatching four rifles from policemen on Srinagar outskirts

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Militants flee after snatching four rifles from policemen on Srinagar outskirts Militants attacked an armed guard of Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police and decamped with four rifles, police said. A police spokesman, in a statement, said that militants attacked an armed guard of JKAP 13 battalion at Goripora on the outskirts of Srinagar and decamped with four service rifles of policemen. “Police has reached on spot. Area is under cordon. Further details will follow,” he said.

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Former BOPEE chairman Mushtaq Ahmad Peer gets 16 year rigorous imprisonment, fined Rs1 cr

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Peer sold question papers through brokers; 43 convicted A special anti-corruption court in Srinagar on Wednesday convicted former head of the J&K Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) Mushtaq Ahmad Peer and 42 other accused in the 2012 MBBS paper scam. The court sentenced Peer, the prime accused, to 16 years of rigorous imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs 1 crore on him for his corrupt practices. While convicting Peer on four counts with punishment adding to 16 years, the court observed that the sentences would run consecutively and…

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Salman Khan in Kashmir for shooting of Race 3, Meets Mehbooba Mufti

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Salman Khan and his Race 3 crew met Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti before they shooting for their film in the valley. Bollywood superstar Salman Khan arrived in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday for a two-day shoot schedule of his upcoming film Race 3. He met the state’s chief minister Mehbooba Mufti and pictures from his visit are flooding the internet. The crew first reached Srinagar where they received a warm welcome from CM Mufti and spent an hour with her. Later, they travelled to Sonamarg and shot…

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AMU alumnu’s pic with Hizb operatives seen on Social Media

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Another photograph of former Aligarh Muslim University PhD scholar Mannan Wani has surfaced on social media. Security agencies tracking scores of Kashmiri youths who have strayed from mainstream and joined militancy, stumbled upon Wani’s photograph and shared it with UP Police few days back. Fears of law enforcement agencies came true as the photo shows Wani posing with two other terror suspects, including Hizb-ul Mujahideen’s most wanted operative Saifullah, and one Hafiz Aadil. Saifullah, who hails from Pulwama district, was also a PhD scholar. The photo shows Wani, Saifullah and…

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PDP activist G N Patel killed, two PSOs injured in Pulwama attack

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A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) activist critically injured in a suspected militant attack at Rajpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Wednesday has died. An official said that gunmen fired at the vehicle of PDP activist Ghulam Nabi Patel at Rajpora chowk, leaving him and his two PSOs – Imtiyaz Ahmad Zargar and Bilal Ahmad Lone – injured. Patil, a resident of Dangerpora Shadimarg, who was formerly associated with the Congress Party, later succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital. A police spokesman, in a statement, said that the…

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Divide between ‘Hindu’ Jammu & ‘Muslim’ Kashmir is spreading across India

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Sagarika Ghose The gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua took place in January. That it took three months for a court monitored investigation to be completed, that lawyers from Jammu sought to prevent the police from filing the chargesheet and a crowd mobilised by the Hindu Ekta Manch shouted slogans in support of the accused even as counter protests were held in the Valley, speaks volumes for the steadily deepening jagged fissure that now exists between a so called ‘Hindu’ Jammu and a ‘Muslim’ Kashmir. The Kathua…

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Freedman, an Australian journalist asks Sania Mirza to name her baby as ‘Kashmir’

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Australian journalist reacted smartly to tennis sensation Sania Mirza’s tweet about her pregnancy on micro-blogging website telling her to name her baby as “Kashmir”. The Australian journalist Dennis Freedman was at his best when he reacted to Sania Mirza’s Twitter post in which the tennis star seemed to announce her pregnancy and her intention to surname it Mirza-Malik, reported The News. “‘Congratulation!’ You should name it ‘Kashmir’,” wrote Freedman.

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Pellet gun use debunk ‘Tolerance, Pluralism myth’

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Former academicians Tuesday said incidents like Kathua and use of pellets guns in the Valley had debunked the ‘myth of tolerance and pluralism’ of the Indian society. Expressing dismay and concern at the decline in secular, democratic and liberal values in the current political scenario in contravention of the preamble of Indian constitution, the retired academicians said the recent rape cases that had come to light in Unnao, Kathua, and Surat were nothing short of butcheries. They said the entire world was shocked by the act performed by a group…

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Defence lawyer in Kathua rape-murder case appeals Hindus to stop selling land to Muslims

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Ankur Sharma, lawyer defending the accused in the gang-rape and murder case of the Kathua girl has appealed Hindus of Jammu province to not sell their land and properties to Muslims and stop buying milk and dairy produce from Gujjars, mainstay of the nomadic community. A seven-minute video making rounds over social media shows Sharma saying Muslims believe Hindus were powerless. “But we are not,” Sharma can be heard saying in the video. While praising the Hindu Ekta Manch (HEM), formed in defense of the accused in the Kathua case,…

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