Category: Community

Bilal Dar an 18 year old ragpicker becomes example for Kashmiri Boys

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It was a day of 18 year old Bilal Dar alias Billa of Laharwarpora of Bandipora district on Sunday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned his name in Mann Ki Baat on radio address. Bilal Dar was 14 year old when he started earning his living by picking up waste from the Wular Lake in Bandipora district of north Kashmir in 2013. Bilal’s father Mohammad Ramzan Dar, who also a Ragpicker, died in 2003 due to cancer and he took to collecting plastic trash and other waste material from the…

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Kashmir Issue be settled under UNSC resolutions: OIC

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Indian government has for the eighth consecutive year refused visa documents, passports and other facilities to the leaders of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq of Indian Held Kashmir (IHK) who were invited by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to attend the Contact Group’s important meeting held here on the margins of the ongoing summit session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. The denial of the Indian government has infuriated the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The sources…

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Shabir Shah received Pak funding to promote terror in Kashmir: Enforcement Directorate

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Shah was arrested by the ED on July 25 from Srinagar and was brought to Delhi where he was produced in a court. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed a chargesheet in the Delhi Court against Separatist leader Shabir Shah for his involvement in a decade-old money laundering case for alleged terror financing. “Shabir Shah admitted that he talks to Hafiz Saeed over the phone on the issue of Kashmir. He recently spoke to Saeed in January 2017,” ED in its chargesheet said. It also added that Shah received…

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Amit Shah summons J&K BJP MLAs, Ministers to Delhi

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All BJP ministers, MLAs and speaker J&K Assembly Kavinder Gupta have been summoned to New Delhi where they will be attending a meeting to be chaired by BJP president Amit Shah on September 25. It was learnt that the ministers will be informed about some important party decisions at the meeting. This has given rise to speculations about a change in party’s ministerial arrangement in J&K. The meeting is being held after BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav cut short his J&K visit and flew back to Delhi. In Srinagar,…

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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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