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Javid Amin - IT Consultant, Freelance Writer, Travel Enthusiast, Entrepreneur Javid Amin is a dynamic professional with a diverse skill set and a passion for technology, travel, and entrepreneurship. With a background in IT engineering, he excels as an IT consultant and is equally enthusiastic about staying ahead in the ever-evolving tech world. Javid's creative flair shines through his work as a freelance writer, where he crafts engaging content across a wide spectrum of topics. As a travel enthusiast and consultant, he shares his love for exploration and his deep knowledge of Kashmir's hidden gems. Javid is also the visionary behind several successful digital ventures, each contributing to the promotion of Kashmir's beauty, culture, and craftsmanship. His career embodies versatility, creativity, and a deep connection to his roots. Printer, Publisher, Editor of "Weekly Shohrat - Kashmir" (Print Edition) as well owner of online news portals www.KashmirPost.org / www.KashmirInFocus.com.

80% roads restored, bridges to be fully repaired by 2017: Bukhari

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Jammu and Kashmir has been struggling to restore the damaged infrastructure since the floods last year left a trail of destruction. About 500 bridges and 6,000 km of roads were fully or partially damaged, snapping connectivity to thousands of villages. The large-scale devastation pushed the state’s development planning back to several decades. The Roads and Buildings (R&B) Department is racing against time to rebuild basic infrastructure lost to the nature’s fury. Talking to us on the first anniversary of the floods, Minister for Public Works Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari said: “Nearly…

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PM to take final call on Rs 1.35 lakh-cr financial package soon

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The wait for Jammu and Kashmir to get a financial package may end soon and the package could be staggering Rs 1.35 lakh crore. The file is pending with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has to take a final call on it. This package will cater to all needs of the state government, including rehabilitation of flood victims, who have been waiting for the past one year. Since the PDP and the BJP joined hands to run the coalition government in the state on March 1 this year, they were…

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Who will ostracise ghosts of the Sept 6, 2014 Kashmir floods

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Few Kashmiris can forget the night of September 6, 2014 and the horror that continued for nearly a month after unprecedented floods hit Jammu and Kashmir this day last year. Summer capital Srinagar bore the brunt of nature’s fury on that day. As scores of houses collapsed in Srinagar’s posh residential areas, so did the state government and the capacity of the administration to organise timely rescue and relief operations. Thousands of people in Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, Wazir Bagh, Gogjibagh, Rambagh, Solina, Barzalla, Chanapora, Bemina, Natipora, Nowpora, Karan Nagar, Shetrashshi…

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World peace linked to Kashmir settlement

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The veteran Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has said that peace in South Asia will remain a far-fetched dream unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved as per aspirations of the Kashmiri people. Syed Ali Gilani was addressing a seminar on “Factors behind Pak-India Tension”, held under his chair at Hyderpora in Srinagar, today. He urged the world community to intervene for settlement of the Kashmir dispute, saying that eruption of a war between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India this time could engulf peace of the entire world. The relations between the…

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Pakistan violates ceasefire in Poonch district

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With today’s ceasefire violation, the number of such violations has gone up to seven in September. A day after an army jawan was injured in ceasefire violations from across the border, Pakistani troops once again resorted to firing on Indian positions in the frontier district of Poonch on Sunday. The firing drew retaliation from the Indian army. “Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations in forward areas of Poonch’s Mandi sector along the Line of Control (LoC) today,” Jammu-based defence spokesperson Lt Col Manish Mehta said. “The area witnessed ceasefire violations…

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With Kashmiris until Kashmir’s freedom: Hafiz Saeed

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Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed on Sunday said he is with the people of Kashmir until its freedom, adding that Pakistan talks about dialogue while Modi government is creating war hysteria. Talking to the Difa-e-Pakistan (defence of Pakistan) rally in Lahore, Saeed said Indian aggression along the Working Boundary and Line of Control (LoC) should be considered war. “If India wants war then we’ll fight this war in Indian cities,” he said, adding that he considers 1971 war a ‘conspiracy’ and not a war. He said the war was of…

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Flood victims wait for rehabilitation

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A year after floods devastated parts of Kashmir, the victims of the natural calamity feel that governments at the Centre and in the state have done “precious little” for rehabilitating them. “We are talking one year down the line and all we have got peanuts in the name of relief and rehabilitation,” 75-year-old Ghulam Mohammad Bhat told PTI. Bhat’s three-storey house in Jawahar Nagar area of the city collapsed in the flood that struck Kashmir and some parts of Jammu in the first week of September last year. He and…

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RSS anti-Kashmir statement betrays its foolishness: JKLF

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The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) has termed the RSS statement, advising the Indian government to suppress the ongoing movement in Jammu Kashmir with iron hand, as ridiculous. The JKLF Chairman, Muhammad Yasin Malik in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “It seems that RSS has lost all its wisdom because of its hawkish mindset. Since 1947, India has applied its policy of oppression in Jammu Kashmir. Besides killing lakhs of people, its forces subjected tens of thousands to the worst kind of torture in jails, interrogation centres and camps.”From…

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Two new blocks of SNM hospital Leh commissioned

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Chief Executive Councilor, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh Rigzin Spalbar today inaugurated two new blocks of SNM Hospital, Leh in presence of former Minister and MLA, Leh Nawang Rigzin Jora and Executive Councillor, LAHDC Leh. The new blocks have been constructed by PWD at a cost of around Rs 32 crore. Speaking on the occasion Spalbar highlighted the achievements in health sector quoting significant decrease in child mortality rate and death rate in the district. He appreciated the doctors, medical and paramedical staff for improving the health standards…

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Authorities not to allow traders to protest at Srinagar

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Authorities on Sunday decided not to allow Kashmir Economic Alliance and other traders body’s proposed protest against government’s failure to rehabilitate the flood victims at Lal Chowk on Monday. A senior police officer told Srinagar based news gathering agency Global News Service (GNS) that administration has denied permission to KEA for protest at Lal Chowk. The official said that the traders were offered SK Park as the venue which they declined. “They won’t be allowed to protest at Lal Chowk as there is apprehension of law and order problem as…

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