NH-44 on Jaish, Lashkar target: Intelligence inputs

NH-44 on Jaish, Lashkar target - Intelligence inputs

According to highly placed sources, several inputs suggesting a ‘major attack’ on the forces have been received since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan on August 15. Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the two terror groups that have been working in coordination for some time, are planning to carry out a major attack in south Kashmir by “ripping the national highway to shreds” with a series of IED explosions, intelligence inputs suggest. “There are threats of IED attacks on National Highway-44 from Qazigund to Khanabal axis in south Kashmir,” said a…

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Jailed Masarat Alam is the Kashmir’s new hawk

Jailed Masarat Alam is the Kashmir's new hawk

The 50-year-old new Hurriyat chief is a hardliner like the late Geelani but given that he is in jail, his appointment is merely symbolic In September 7, six days after the death of the veteran separatist leader and Hurriyat Conference chairman Syed Ali Geelani at his home in Srinagar, his protege Masarat Alam Bhat succeeded him. The 50-year-old staunch Pakistan supporter currently lodged in Tihar jail for terror funding has spent more than two decades of his life in jails. But his appointment, at a time when separatist outfits in…

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Hadowun Hospital – In History and Memory

Hadowun Hospital - In History and Memory

By – Dr Khan Khawar Achakzai IN Shah Mohalla, there was a big orchard that belonged to the Syed family and partly to the Kanji family of Suleiman Kanji, located on the left bank of Sonnar Koll. In addition, there were three graveyards on elevated portions. Sir Hadow (also called Heedo), an Austrian merchant and philanthropist much revered by Kashmiris, purchased 237 Kanals of land from the grandfather of Syed Ehsanul Haq in silver coins. Mr. Hadow initially established a carpet factory, Hadow Mills carpet factory, encompassing around 450 looms…

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Deadline extended for J&K domicile certificate as govt got cold response to the offer

Deadline extended for J&K domicile certificate as govt got cold response to the offer

The office of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner has also decided to hold special camps to accept applications at places where a minimum of 50 such families are residing. One such camp was held in Delhi around a fortnight ago. THERE seem to be few takers for the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s offer of domicile certificates to former residents who, or their ancestors, moved out of the erstwhile state years ago, provided they register with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants) at Jammu. The administration has now extended the scheme,…

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