2018 | Page 126 of 187 | Kashmir POST

Ashraf Sehrai advocates ‘Solid Unity’ among resistance leadership

April 2, 2018 Editor

Stressing for “solid” unity in the rank and file of the separatist leadership, newly elected Tehreek-e-Hurriyat chief Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai (in pic) has said difference of opinion is a bliss in Islam, but the difference should not lead to confrontation. Speaking during a seminar organised by the J&K High Court Bar Association to observe the death anniversary of Bar lawyer advocate Jaleel Andrabi, Sehrai recently advocated for a “solid” unity while describing the present unity among the separatist leadership as “fractured”. This was Sehrai’s first speech at a public platform…

Brace for dry April and Water Scarce summer

April 2, 2018 Editor

The weather department has made a grim prediction. Like March, April would be nearly dry. By then natural springs and streams, thirsting for adequate rains since last June, would turn dry. Groundwater level, which has been depleted, won’t be recharged. “ From September last year there has been no significant precipitation like it used to be in Kashmir. There was no significant snowfall or rain this winter. When there is no snowfall in the mountains it is naturally going to affect water level in the plains. It causes both qualitative…

BJP rejects Mehbooba Mufti’s proposal of talks with Pak

April 2, 2018 Editor

The BJP on Sunday vowed to aggressively pursue its agenda in the government following criticism from its supporters for “meekly surrendering before the PDP, its coalition partner, to remain in power”. The BJP’s aggressive posture was witnessed during its executive committee meet at Suchetgarh, where party leadership rejected the proposal of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti to hold talks with Pakistan. Amid applaud by executive committee members, Avinash Rai Khanna, state J&K in charge, said there was no reason to hold talks with Pakistan in the present situation. He said as…

T-Shirts glorifying use of human shield in Kashmir spark row

April 2, 2018 Editor

Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga has sparked national controversy six months after his online shopping company Tshirtbhaiya.com started selling T-shirts glorifying the use of a human shield in Kashmir last year by an Indian Army major. The T-shirt in question has a representational image of a man tied to the front of a jeep. It’s an obvious reference to the incident when an alleged stone-pelter from central Kashmir was tied in front of an Army jeep last year. Major Nitin Leetul Gogoi, the officer who had done it,…

Massive forest fires in four districts of J&K

April 2, 2018 Editor

Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said officers and fire department are on the job to control forest fires Forest fires have engulfed large tracts in Bandipore, Kupwara, Ganderbal and Anantnag districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, tweeted a short while ago that her government departments are on high alert. Thousands of alpine trees have been burnt during last two days and efforts are on to control the fire, say forest department officials. Local residents say, unusually high temperatures at this time of the…

Local Muslims helping ‘Illegal’ settlement of Bangladeshi, Rohingya refugees: RSS body

April 2, 2018 Editor

Bharat Raksha Manch (BRM), an RSS affiliate, today blamed the local Muslims for the “illegal settlement” of immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar in Jammu region. The right wing organisation alleged that the Muslim organisations in Jammu have been assisting the Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees “just to change the demography of Jammu region as was done in Kashmir after ousting the Kashmiri Pandits from their homeland.” “They (the Muslim organisations) want Jammu to be another Kashmir. And to make this happen, they are helping the refugees in establishing their shanties, colonies;…

Bloody Sunday: 12 Militants, 4 Civilians, 3 Troopers killed, 200 Injured in South Kashmir

April 2, 2018 Editor

54 hit by bullets, 38 receive pellet injuries Thousands of people attend funeral prayers of slain militants At least twelve militants, three troopers and four civilians were killed in separate gunfights between militants and forces in South Kashmir on Sunday, triggering clashes in the area. Sources said joint cordon and search operations (CASO) were launched at Dragad and Kachdoora villages in Shopian and Peth Dailgam in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. They said army, police and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) launched CASO at Dragad at around 10 pm…

Portrayal of Kashmir Human shield incident in ‘Baaghi 2’ is a new low for Bollywood

March 31, 2018March 31, 2018 Editor

In 2018, the industry still uses Pakistan-bashing and vein-popping bursts of patriotism as crutches. Tone-deaf, problematic, ignorant and insensitive are all epithets that can describe the garden variety Bollywood potboiler. Tiger Shroff’s latest “action movie” Baaghi 2 manages to tick all the boxes with just one scene. In an exceptional display of callousness, this new Sajid Nadiadwala film decided to address an issue that has continued to be contentious since April 2017, when Farooq Ahmad Dar, an innocent Kashmiri voter, was forcibly used as a human shield by Major Nitin…

Man accused of raping minor lynched in Ghaziabad

March 31, 2018 Editor

A man accused of raping an eight-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by his neighbours in Loni, Ghaziabad, on Friday night. Police rushed both the accused – 24-year-old Jitendra – and the victim to the hospital. While the girl was admitted for treatment, doctors declared her alleged attacker dead on arrival. Police said Jitendra had gone to attend a religious ceremony in the neighbourhood with his wife around 12.30 pm on Friday. After dropping her off at the venue, he brought the girl back home with him and allegedly…