April 2022 | Kashmir POST

Protests in Kashmir against prolonged power cuts during Ramadan

April 23, 2022April 23, 2022 Editor

Several areas witness 12-hour cut Brace for more outages say, officials Protests erupted in many parts of Kashmir over a major power breakdown that has created a huge inconvenience for people during the month of Ramadan. Scores of women today staged a protest in the Gawkadal locality of Srinagar against the administration for failing to provide the scheduled power supply. Similar protests have been witnessed in other parts of Kashmir over the past one week as villages and towns are facing more than 12 hours of the power outage and…

Two non-local workers injured in Nowgam militant attack

April 23, 2022 Editor

Two non-local workers from West Bengal were injured in a hit and run militant attack in Srinagar on Friday evening while a massive has been launched to nab the attackers. They have been identified as Najmul (21) and Anik-ul-Islam (28). The incident took place in the Nowgam area of Srinagar. “Two outside labourers namely Najamul Islam and Anikul Islam hailing from West Bengal shot by terrorists in the periphery of Srinagar district on Srinagar-Pulwama-Badgam boundary in rural belt Suthsoo. Both are in hospital and stable. The operation has been launched…

ASI killed, 4 Security personnel wounded in Sunjwan encounter: Police

April 22, 2022 Editor

An assistant sub-inspector of CISF was killed and five other security personnel wounded in an ongoing gunfight with the militants in the Sunjwan area of Jammu district on Friday. “During the night, we had laid a cordon in the area (Sunjwan) following inputs about the presence of terrorists who were planning to do something,” ADGP Jammu Mukesh Singh told journalists. He said that during early morning hours, the security personnel was fired upon by the militants in which one security man was killed and three to four others wounded. “Encounter…

Two killed, 28 hurt as bus falls into gorge in Udhampur

April 22, 2022 Editor

Two persons were killed and 28 others injured when a bus carrying a marriage party skidded off the road and rolled down into a deep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district. The accident took place near Rang-Udak village late on Wednesday night, they said, adding the bus was on its way to Bland village. The injured persons were shifted to Ramnagar hospital. Twelve with critical injuries were referred to Udhampur hospital, they added. The deceased have been identified as Rajjo Devi (66) and Vimla Devi (48), the officials said.…

Plunged into darkness electricity crisis in Kashmir likely to worsen

April 22, 2022 Editor

Kashmir is facing the worst power outages in the spring season this time as the electricity continues to play hide and seek much to the dismay of consumers amid the Ramadhan. Normally from March onwards, the power supply in Kashmir used to improve considerably in comparison to harsh weather months, however, this time the situation is different as in April there are more prolonged and unscheduled power cuts being reported across Kashmir. This has infuriated the general populace who are facing prolonged power cuts mostly during Sehri and Iftaar time.…

J&K Police arrest PhD student under UAPA for article published 11 years ago

April 19, 2022 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency on Sunday arrested a Ph.D. scholar from Budgam district for a “highly provocative and seditious” article in the online magazine The Kashmir Walla. The article was published in 2011, according to The Indian Express. “Abdul Aala Fazili’s article, ‘The shackles of slavery will break’, is intended to create unrest in Jammu and Kashmir, and written with the purpose of abetting the youth to take the path of violence by glorifying terrorism,” the police said in a statement. The article promoted a false narrative to…

Railway police official killed, two others injured in militant attack in Kakapora

April 19, 2022 Editor

A Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel were killed, while another was injured when militants attacked them in volatile south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Monday. A police official said unidentified militants opened indiscriminate fire on the RPF personnel in Kakapora Railway Station in Pulwama, injuring two personnel. The injured personnel was immediately shifted to a nearby hospital, where one of them succumbed to his injuries, he said. Reports said, immediately after the attack, the area was cordoned off to nab the attackers.

Arrest, Bail, Rearrest: Kashmir journalists face forbidding pattern

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Editor

By: Suhasini Raj After being held in jail for close to four years awaiting trial on charges of aiding militants, Kashmiri journalist Aasif Sultan was granted bail by the courts last week, and he thought he could finally return home to his wife and his daughter, who was just 6 months old when he was arrested. But Indian authorities did not let him go, levying similar charges under a different law, and have since moved him to a different jail. Sultan’s case is the latest instance, rights activists say, in…

Eye Lie: Hindi films from Zanjeer to Mission Kashmir to The Kashmir Files have routinely used kohl to mark out the villainous ‘Muslim’ Man

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 Editor

By: Chandrima S. Bhattacharya The best way to identify a “terrorist” in a Bollywood film is by his kohl-lined eyes. The latest example is The Kashmir Files and we will not delve into the viciousness of the rest of the film here. But a man’s kohl eyes are by themselves a phenomenon worth looking at. They are backed by a long line of tradition in popular Indian cinema which has been reinforced recently. Strictly speaking, a man wearing kohl, or surma, may be more than a “terrorist”. On-screen, a man’s kohl-lined eyes…

AAP plans high-profile entry in J&K Politics

April 17, 2022 Editor

Priortising jobs and education, the party could upset the calculations of the BJP and smaller parties From organising iftar parties in volatile and militancy-infested Pulwama to holding membership drives in National Conference (NC) bastions of north Kashmir, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is gearing up for a significant entry into the Union Territories of J&K ahead of Assembly polls likely later this year. The development is likely to unsettle smaller development-driven and not ideology-based parties in the Valley and upset the BJP more in the Jammu region. Attracting the young…