Month: June 2020

Emergency landing and runway strip coming up along the NH-44 in Anantnag

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As the standoff continues between the Indian and Chinese armies along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the government is constructing an “emergency landing and runway strip” along the NH-44 in Anantnag district of south Kashmir. The 3.5-km-long airstrip on the Srinagar-Banihal highway is being constructed along the NH-44 from 246.2 km to 249.7 km. Currently, the earth filling work is being done on the stretch. The work is being executed by a lesser-known construction company — Fetch Constructions — based in the Mirbazar area of Anantnag district.…

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New thinking and New action plan needed to resolve Kashmir Issue, Nationalists must unite!

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By Hashim Qureshi Since a long time, I have been suggesting that all nationalist parties and organizations in J&K State should be dissolved. New ground situation has to be taken into account and three or four persons should be identified from big or small nationalist groups to form a Central Committee. This committee will have consultations with experts and the agenda should be to re-unite the state, struggle for opening all road links, set a claim for fundamental rights, rights for development and announce a definite anti-terrorist policy. The demand…

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Amid pandemic woes Kashmir’s big fat wedding to become lean

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The new norms restrict the number of guests between 30 and 50 As the season of big fat wedding season sets in Kashmir, the pandemic and the new norms have cut its size and dulled down the traditional flavor. The new norms, which have been set in place, restrict the number of guests between 30 and 50— depending on the threat perception based zones. Deputy Commissioner of Srinagar, Shahid Chaudhary, said that the wedding ceremonies would require prior permission and social-distancing would be mandatory. “Thirty to fifty guests would be…

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Israeli’s Blueprint: Kashmir the next Palestine in making

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Danish Geelani “As the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic amid a global race to stop its spread, India has passed a new law in Kashmir which residents fear will change the demographic status of the Muslim-majority territory.  The new domicile law announced by India’s Ministry of Home Affairs on 1 April grants permanent residency rights, which entails owning and buying property and access to government jobs, for anyone who has resided in Indian-administered Kashmir for a period of 15 years.  The move has sparked anger in the contested region, with…

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Non-locals to be ‘Considered & Dealt with as RSS agents’: The Resistance Front

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The offshoot of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba has issued an open threat to the non-residents of Jammu and Kashmir saying that they’ll be considered and dealt with as the agents of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). “We openly declare that any Indian who comes with an intention to settle in Kashmir will be treated as an agent of RSS and not as civilian and will be dealt with appropriately,” the Resistance Front said in a statement. The Resistance Front, which is owning up terror attacks in Kashmir, is an offshoot of the…

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