Category: Community

Ready for talks if GoI shuns military approach: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

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Delhi’s approach on Rohingya Muslims unfortunate Will revive Masjid Committees to fight growing social evils Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday said they are ready for talks if Government of India (GoI) shuns military approach and changes its present policy towards Kashmir. Addressing Friday congregation at historic Jamia Masjid, Mirwaiz said people of Kashmir always wanted better relations between India and Pakistan and resumption of meaningful dialogue between the two nuclear-armed nations. “New Delhi should start political approach rather than following military approach. We will be ready for…

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Chief Minister, Joint Resistance Leadership, Hizb, NC others condemn tral attack

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The grenade blast in Tral in which two civilians were killed and 35 others injured came in for strong condemnation on Thursday. The joint separatist leadership comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik expressed deep shock and grief over the loss of precious lives of innocent civilians in the explosion, saying “rampant construction of camps and bunkers by Indian forces everywhere in the densely-populated areas has made life of innocent people miserable and vulnerable.” In a joint statement, the leaders prayed for the deceased and expressed…

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Adopt community policing to track crime: CM to Police

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Asking the police to be more relaxed and humane in dealing with the situation, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today advised the force to act as an institution of public reassurance rather than a cause of fear among the masses. Addressing district superintendents of police (SPs) and range DIGs of Kashmir province here today at a meeting to review law and order and crime situation, the Chief Minister asked them to adopt social and community policing to track the crime in the state. She said a compassionate and responsive approach with…

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Resistance Group hold protest against NIA Raids, Arrests

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Resistance today staged a protest demonstration here, denouncing and condemning the raids and detention of several separatist leaders by the National Investigation Agency. The protest was organised jointly by both factions of the Hurriyat Conference, headed by Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front headed by Yasin Malik. Scores of second-rung Hurriyat leaders and activists participated in the stir. The NIA, which is probing the funding of secessionist activities in Kashmir, has already arrested several separatist leaders and also carried out raids at several…

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Aabha Hanjura’s concert reflects real Kashmir, holds audience spellbound

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Chorus singing bespeaks bonhomie between two communities. Based on new melodious tunes and rendition of Kashmiri folk songs, ballads and sonnets, Abha Hunjura’s open concert in the lawns of Sheri Kashmir International Convention Complex (SKICC) on Saturday left the audience enthralled. “She left everyone spell bound with her performance. We appreciate her connect with her moorings and where she is rooted even after a gap of nearly three decades,” said Manzoor Bhat, an employee with a private organization. Abha whose forefathers originally belonged to village Hanjura in Badgam district, shifted…

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Track-II parleys behind separatist’s talks offer

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Behind the surprise development of the Kashmir separatist leadership issuing a statement on Friday calling for meaningful and serious dialogue with New Delhi without any conditions, are hectic Track-II negotiations between the separatists and some “go-betweens” in New Delhi. The separatists did not embark on the beaten track of calling for plebiscite and implementation of UN resolutions. It was after the Centre’s intervention that the police allowed Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik to hold talks at Geelani’s residence, according to highly placed sources in the…

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Big weddings Un Islamic: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq

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Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulema patron and All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq while expressing concern over the growing social evils in Kashmiri society said everyone was morally duty-bound to contribute in shaping a healthy society and saving it from deterioration. Terming the extravaganza in Kashmiri marriages and other related functions a dangerous menace which was un-Islamic, Mirwaiz said Islam encouraged to tend to guests within the limits of moderation but our marriage functions had become an exhibition of pomp and show and an occasion for crude display of wealth. “This…

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Geelani urges UN chief to intervene on Kashmir Issue

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Separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani on Sunday sought the intervention of the United Nations (UN) for “peaceful settlement” of the Kashmir issue and also demanded setting up of a war crimes tribunal to identify and penalise the “culprits of human rights abuses.” In a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Geelani described Kashmir as a “long-pending issue waiting for the final dispensation in accordance with the agreed UN resolutions.” “The people of Kashmir demand the UN intervention for a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue, lingering for the past seven decades…

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Ensure two juvenile’s granted bail in DSP’s killing are sent home

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After taking note of apprehensions of the defense counsel that the police might re-arrest the two juveniles who were granted bail on Friday in connection with the lynching of a deputy superintendent of police and implicate them in false cases, a court directed the police and Harwan Juvenile Home authorities to accompany the duo the Home. Defense counsels Mushtaq Ahmad Dar and Arzaan Ahmad Dar moved an application to the in charge officer of the Juvenile Home, asking him to ensure proper handover and custody of the juveniles to their…

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Eight Kashmiri youths take to gun every month

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Despite the government adopting a tough posture towards militants, which has resulted in the elimination of 148 militants in Jammu and Kashmir since January this year, young Kashmiris continue to take to the gun, averaging about eight a month. “From January to August, we know of at least 80 young Kashmiri boys who have joined the militant ranks,” a top official source in the government has told this newspaper. “The tragic part is that these young boys who join various militant groups are thrown into terror operations without much training…

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