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Anger Among Kashmiri’s Growing Each Passing Day: Mehbooba Mufti

November 19, 2021 Editor

“I request the people of Jammu to stand up and not let Kashmir go,” PDP president Mehbooba Mufti said. PDP President Mehbooba Mufti has asked the people of Jammu to be a bridge and maintain a strong bond with Kashmir that is drifting away due to the “strong-arm tactics” of the BJP-led dispensation. The former chief minister said her struggle through peaceful means would continue for restoration of the special status being enjoyed by the people of Jammu and Kashmir before August 2019. “Today Kashmir is in pain…the wound has…

‘Will Knock On Every Door’, Won’t allow Kashmir to turn into graveyard: PAGD

November 19, 2021 Editor

PAGD spokesperson Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami said: ‘We will also seek legal advice about approaching the Supreme Court… we will knock on every door’. Saying the magisterial inquiry ordered by the J&K administration to investigate the incident cannot be fair, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Thursday demanded a judicial probe into the Hyderpora encounter. “We will be writing to President Ram Nath Kovind this evening, seeking a credible probe into the Hyderpora incident. In our view, only a judicial probe can be credible and fair,” CPI(M) leader Mohammad…

Hurriyat calls for shutdown over deaths of civilians in Hyderpora encounter

November 19, 2021 Editor

Issuing a statement, the Hurriyat Conference said it has called the shutdown in support of the families of the two civilians who were killed in the Hyderpora Encounter. The Hurriyat Conference on Thursday called for a Bandh on Friday and demanded justice for the civilians killed in the Hyderpora encounter. Issuing a statement, the Hurriyat Conference said the Hyderpora encounter has stunned the people of Kashmir and said it has called the shutdown in support of the families of the two civilians killed in the encounter. A fresh controversy has…

Kashmiri Pandit body terms Hyderpora Gunfight a ‘Clear cut case of Homicide’

November 18, 2021 Editor

An organisation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits on Wednesday termed the Hyderpora gunfight in Srinagar district “homicide” and demanded a probe into the incident, reported the IANS. According to Satish Mahaldar, chairman of Reconciliation, Return and Rehabilitation of migrant Kashmiri Pandits: “The Hyderpora incident seems to be a clear cut case of homicide.” “Murder is the unjustified killing of one human by another with malice aforethought. The families of two of the four killed in the Monday gunfight have categorically disputed the police version,” he claimed. “Terrorism”, he stated, “clearly has…

Police detain kin seeking bodies of slain civilians killed during staged shootout in Hyderpora

November 18, 2021 Editor

Aijaz Hussain Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir late Wednesday detained over a dozen relatives of two civilians killed in a controversial gunfight, eyewitnesses said, hours after they staged a protest in the disputed region’s main city while pleading with authorities to return the bodies so they could bury them. Police officials wearing flak jackets and carrying assault rifles swooped on a protest site in Srinagar minutes after lights were turned off in the locality. They dragged the relatives into a police van amid slogans by the family members in the freezing…

Jolt to J&K Congress: 20 Senior leaders from Ghulam Nabi Azad camp resign

November 17, 2021 Editor

Demanding change in party leadership in the Union Territory amid speculations that the assembly elections are around the corner, the Congress leaders have stated that under the presidentship of GA Mir, the party is headed towards a disaster. In a major setback to Congress amid speculations that the assembly elections are imminent in Jammu and Kashmir, at least 20 senior Congress leaders considered close to former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, have resigned from their respective party positions. All those who have resigned are…

Cites Terrorism; US issues advisory for Americans traveling to J&K

November 17, 2021 Editor

In its advisory, the US State Department urged US citizens not to travel within 10 kilometers of the India-Pakistan border due to the potential for armed conflict. The US has issued level two and three travel advisories for India and Pakistan, saying while American citizens are urged to reconsider travel to Pakistan due to terrorism and sectarian violence, those going to India must exercise increased caution due to crime and terrorism. In its advisory issued on Monday for India, the US State Department urged US citizens not to travel to…

Chill intensifies across Kashmir Valley, most parts recorded season’s coldest night

November 17, 2021 Editor

Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season as the minimum temperature settled at minus 1.2 degrees Celsius, officials said on Tuesday. Kokernag was the only weather station in the Valley to record minimum temperature above the freezing point. Pahalgam, which serves as the base camp for the annual Amarnath yatra, recorded a low of minus 4.7 degrees Celsius. Pahalgam was the coldest recorded place in Kashmir. Gulmarg resort in Baramulla district recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius. The mercury in Kupwara settled at minus 2.3 degrees…

Families of killed trader, Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti demand impartial probe in Hyderpora Encounter

November 17, 2021 Editor

After the families of two businessmen killed in Hyderpora gunfight on Tuesday contested police claims that the deceased was overground workers (OGWs) for terrorists, the National Conference and the Peoples Democratic Party demanded a time-bound probe into the incident. According to the police, a Pakistani terrorist and his local associate Mohammad Amir, along with two civilians — Altaf Bhat and Mudassir Gul — were killed in the encounter in Hyderpora locality, where an illegal call center and a terror hideout were allegedly being run. The families of Bhat and Gul,…

APHC condemns ‘Gruesome Civilian Killings’, seeks justice for families of slain

November 17, 2021 Editor

Hurriyat condemns ‘Gruesome Civilian Killings’, seeks justice for families of slain

All Parties Hurriyat Conference Tuesday strongly condemned the ‘Gruesome Killing of Civilians’ during a military operation at Hyderpora. As per the family sources, Mohd Altaf Bhat of hyderpora was killed by armed forces while being used as a human shield and had no affiliation with any group as claimed by the authorities, a statement by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq led pro-freedom body said. “His niece Saima has in fact claimed in the media that there was no gunfight… He was taken three times as a human shield for checking and when…