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Grenade attack at Hari Singh High street, 03 Civilians injured

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Editor

Grenade attack at Hari Singh High street, 02 Civilians injured

At least three civilians including two women have been injured in a grenade explosion at Hari Singh High Street area of commercial hub Lal Chowk on Tuesday. Official sources said that suspected militants lobbed a grenade towards 40 battalions of SSB near Hanuman Mandir here at Hari Singh High Street. They said two women among three civilians have sustained injuries, adding that they were shifted to SMHS hospital for treatment. “The area has been cordoned off to nab the attackers,” they said. Meanwhile, Kishore Prasad, DIG CRPF for Central Kashmir…

J&K under ‘Direct Assault’ from New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi

August 10, 2021 Editor

Statehood in full should be restored forthwith; Elections be held in a free and fair manner; My fight against PM Modi’s divisive policies to continue, Congress believes in love, honour, not hatred; will visit Jammu, Ladakh soon Stating that J&K was “under the direct assault from New Delhi”, All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday said and the Government of India should restore full statehood to J&K and conduct the elections in a free and fair manner. Rahul, who arrived in Kashmir on a two-day sojourn, also…

Kashmir’s lone rose water maker Abdul Aziz Kozgar, scents uncertain future

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Editor

Declining sales, insecurity in Kashmir have dealt blow to Abdul Aziz Kozgar’s business The sweet smell of rose water filled the air as Abdul Aziz Kozgar opened the shutters of his nearly 100-year-old shop in Srinagar for another day of business that has been hit by a sharp decline in sales over recent years. Wearing a skull cap and a loose kurta salwar, the traditional dress of most Kashmiri men, Kozgar smiled when reminded of his status as the last rose water maker in Srinagar, skills he acquired from his…

Rahul Gandhi, 2 Years after he was made to Go Back, Returns to J&K

August 10, 2021 Editor

Two years after he was turned back from the airport, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to arrive in Srinagar today on a two-day visit. It will mark the first visit of Mr. Gandhi to Jammu and Kashmir after it was stripped of its special status and statehood in 2019. Rahul Gandhi had led an opposition delegation to Kashmir in 2019, days after the special status to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 of the Constitution was removed by presidential order, and the state was divided into two Union Territories,…

Ghulam Rasool Dar, BJP Sarpanch, Wife shot dead in Redwani Kulgam

August 9, 2021 Editor

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kisan Morcha leader and his wife were shot dead by militants at Lal Chowk area in South Kashmir Anantnag district, around 50 from Srinagar, officials said on Monday. The militants entered into the rented accommodation of the BJP leader Ghulam Rasool Dar (Sarpanch) of Redwani Kulgam and fired indiscriminately killing both Dar and his wife Jawahira, who was panch of her area. Disclosing the details about the incident, BJP J&K spokesman Altaf Thakur condemned the killing of Dar, and his wife and termed it as…

Kashmir Police force traders to end strike, open shops on 2nd anniversary of Article 370 Abrogation

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Editor

Shopkeepers and passers-by in the main city centre of Srinagar accused the police of breaking locks and hauling them over through phone calls to open their shops on August 5, the day that marks the second anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370. They said the forced measure was a follow-up to police warning to keep shops open and not to carry on strike over the last few days. The government in Kashmir seemed to be in no mood to allow anyone to spoil “celebrations” of doing away with the…

After two years revocation of special status Kashmiri’s continue to suffer

August 5, 2021 Editor

Two years after the revocation of Kashmir’s special status, India is still working to silence Kashmiris and erase Kashmiri’s identity. Ather Zia On August 5, 2019, in the wake of the Indian government’s move to revoke the parts of the constitution that give Indian-administered Kashmir special status, I penned an article for Al Jazeera titled There is reason to fear for the safety of every Kashmiri in India. In the two years since my worst fears have come true. After revoking Articles 370 and 35-A of the constitution, which ensured…

Post abrogation of article 370 more locals are joining rebel ranks in Kashmir?

August 5, 2021 Editor

Every time Bashir Ahmad Bhat’s gaze falls on the bloodstains on the walls, he is reminded of the night his brother, a policeman in Indian administered Kashmir, was murdered. It was June; Mr Bashir had been preparing to go to sleep when he heard the sound of gunshots coming from next door. Alarmed, he sprang out of bed to check. A heart-wrenching scene awaited him – his brother lay dead at the entrance of his home. His wife and daughter lay next to him, bloodied and struggling in pain. They…

Past two years saw people silenced, ripped off jobs: Gupkar Alliance

August 5, 2021 Editor

Tarigami says BJP’s ‘Naya Kashmir’ slogan ‘is a joke now’ The Peoples Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of five Jammu and Kashmir parties, including the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Wednesday said the past two years, after ending J&K’s special status in 2019, saw “people being divided into smaller units, silenced, ripped off their jobs and rights over the natural resources”. In a statement issued on the eve of the second anniversary of the reading down of Article 370, Gupkar alliance spokesman…

Article 370 abrogation incremented trust deficit, alienation among people of J&K: Altaf Bukhari

August 5, 2021 Editor

He further said that “by now it must have been explicit to everyone in New Delhi that Article 370 was not an impediment in the way of development of Jammu and Kashmir”. “Unfortunately, we have not witnessed any major development taking place in J&K since August 5, 2019, as was projected by the advocates of abrogation of Article 370. Rather, ways of cultural imperialism have been facilitated by the bureaucratic regimes who seem hell-bent to convert our heritage sites into commercial entities like Mubarak Mandi in Jammu,” he added. Bukhari…