Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) has called shutdown in Kashmir tomorrow against the custodial death of a school teacher. “JRL has strongly condemned the custodial killing of 28-year-old school teacher Rizwan Asad Pandith of Awantipora who was picked up by the SOG and NIA a few days ago,” said a statement today. JRL has expressed sympathy with his bereaved family, it added.
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A youth from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district died in a police custody in Srinagar on Tuesday. A senior Police officer confirmed the incident while talking to Kashmir Post. “An individual has died (in custody). He was held in a militacy-related case. We will share the details after sometime,” he said. According to reports the deceased youth has been identified as Rizwan Asad of Awantipora in Pulwama.The death took place during intervening night of 18 and 19 March, reports said.Quoting a Police officer, a local news agency GNS reported that Police…
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A high-level meeting of the National Conference’s parliamentary board decided on Monday that the party president Farooq Abdullah will contest the Lok Sabha election from Srinagar and senior leader Mohammad Akbar Lone will contest from Baramulla. Sources in the party said the decision was taken after a lengthy meeting of the party’s parliamentary board, which is headed by Farooq and was attended by several senior leaders of the party, including vice-president Omar Abdullah and general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar. The meeting took place at the party headquarters in the city…
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The High Court Monday asked the government of India and the Jammu and Kashmir government to respond to a plea against two constitutional amendments extended to the state vis-à-vis reservation in promotion for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, and reservation for economically-weaker sections of the society in the state. A bench of Justice Rajesh Bindal issued notice to the union home ministry, union ministry of law and justice, union cabinet through cabinet secretary and state of J&K, through its chief secretary, seeking their response to the petition by April 16.…
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Noted Australian travel planner Margia Thomas Sunday slammed the “negative publicity” of the Kashmir situation, saying a section of media was projecting the Valley as a “war zone”. “Kashmir is safe for tourists. Unfortunately, sections of domestic and international media project it as a war zone when, in fact, nothing could be further from truth. As a tourist I would be more concerned about going to London, Paris or Bangkok,” Margia, who has been frequently visiting Kashmir for the past 15 years, told Kashmir Post. Margia’s first visit to Kashmir…
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The Kashmir Valley on Friday came together to denounce terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that killed at least 49 people saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach The Kashmir Valley on Friday came together to denounce terror attack at two New Zealand mosques that killed at least 49 people saying the brutality proved that there is no place terrorism cannot reach. Across the political divide and on the street, Kashmiris voiced their disgust over the way gunmen said to be whites entered two…
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The Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Friday said that he has been seeking a “peaceful” resolution of the Kashmir issue as per the aspirations of the people, and questioned how such an advocacy can be termed as “terrorism.” He also said that different “ploys and intimidations” were employed since 1931 to “silence” the pulpit of Jamia Masjid and to target the Mirwaiz family “on one pretext or the other”.Mirwaiz was addressing a Friday gathering at Jamia Masjid here, day after he was served a second notice by the…
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Despite recent drop in Kashmir’s tourist footfall after the Pulwama attack on February 14, popular tourist hubs across the valley continue to be popular destinations for Bollywood to shoot their films. With Tulip and almond bloom expected during end of this month, a considerable increase in permissions being sought for film shoots is being witnessed. Director, Tourism Kashmir, Nisar Ahmad Wani told Kashmir Post that both feature film-makers and short film producers are seeking permission for film shoots here. “Tulip garden is a major attraction for film crews and we…
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The BJP kick-started its Lok Sabha campaign in militancy-hit Valley with a meet at the Sher-e-Kashmir Park on Thursday.The ‘Shakti Kendra Sammelan’ was presided by party’s national vice-president Avinash Rai Khanna. The agenda of the meeting was to strengthen ground-level organisation by holding several such meetings in the state, which has six Lok Sabha seats.The party had last month launched a programme to meet workers in clusters of two or three constituencies across the country. In Jammu, BJP president Amit Shah addressed workers of two constituencies. Khanna said the party…
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Police said they had seized the mobile phones “for the purpose of the investigation”. “This game is highly addictive and the accused were so engrossed in playing them that they could not even notice our team approaching them,” said police inspector Rohit Raval. A week after it issued a notification banning the popular multiplayer mobile game PUBG, the Rajkot police have arrested ten people, six of them under-graduate students, for playing the game in the last two days. Police Commissioner Manoj Agrawal, who had banned the game in the city…
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