March 6, 2023 | Kashmir POST

Article 370 abrogation only on paper: Sanjay Raut

March 6, 2023 Editor

Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said abrogation of Article 370, which ended the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, by the Narendra Modi Government was only on paper and was done to serve the political interests of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In his weekly column ‘Rokthok’ in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut said Kashmiri Pandits had not got their rights despite this move, and BJP leaders have no answers to their woes. A Kashmiri Pandit was killed by terrorists in Pulwama recently but the BJP poured…

Turkey backstabs ‘Dost’? Raises Kashmir issue at UNHRC, India hits back

March 6, 2023 Editor

Exercising its right of reply at the High-Level Segment of 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, Seema Pujani, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India in Geneva, dismissed the reference to the statement made by Turkey and the OIC representative. “As regards the OIC statement, we reject the unwarranted references to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Turkey must to refrain from making unsolicited comments on our internal matters,” Pujani said in a statement on Friday. India slams Pakistan India also highlighted the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan,…

Staged Encounter: Army Court gives life imprisonment for army captain involved in Amshipura ‘Fake Encounter Case’

March 6, 2023 Editor

An army court has awarded life imprisonment to an officer involved in a staged encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district. Captain Bhupinder Singh, accused in the fake encounter, was sentenced to life imprisonment after court martial proceedings were completed a few days ago, official sources said. In July 2020, three labourers were killed at Amshipora in Shopian district. Army officers had claimed they were Pakistani terrorists and with their killing, terror threat was eliminated in the district. But days later, locals alleged that the three young men killed were…

Tardy police verification leaves many Kashmiris without Jobs, Passports

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Editor

Kashmir Valley residents feel police are delaying the process of clearance to ‘punish’ people who may have relatives with separatist leanings; hundreds of applicants denied passports for ‘security reasons’ There’s a new source of anxiety in Kashmir after the Centre ended Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional position in 2019. Delayed or no police verification or adverse police reports have left hundreds without jobs and passports. According to top official sources, these have reached a five-digit mark in Kashmir, the highest in the past decade. Several J&K politicians, including former Chief Minister…