Category: Community

Police trainees from Kashmir accuse officer of harassment, ‘He calls us stone pelters, gets annoyed if we offer prayers’

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A batch of about 1000 Kashmiri recruits who are undergoing training at the Police Training School (PTS) Kathua in Jammu region on Sunday alleged that they are being harassed by a police officer who is in charge of the training course. A group of trainees told Kashmir Post on the condition of anonymity that they are being thrashed, abused, threatened and called names. “For the past nine months we have been through hell. All the 978 recruits are undergoing basic training and all of us belong to Kashmir,” the trainees…

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Tracing the life of a ‘Half Widow’: Muslim director, Kashmiri pandit writer join hands for a film

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Half widow is a term used extensively in Kashmir for women whose husbands have disappeared mostly in custody of security forces in the past 28 years of conflict. An upcoming film traces the story of one such woman. Kashmir has often attracted filmmakers for the beauty and conflict that the valley brings but an upcoming film will now showcase a Kashmiri perspective. Based on the lives of Kashmir’s ‘half widows’, the movie is generating a lot of buzz for something every native has yearned for – an insider’s view. Interestingly,…

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FIR against Army after authorities confirm student’s death in fake encounter

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Protests against the killing of a local youth in an alleged fake encounter took a violent turn as protesters torched an official vehicle of the district administration of Kupwara in Kashmir. Shahid Bashir Mir of Daril Tarathpora who according to his family had gone missing was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Hafrada forests. His killing sparked violence in Handwara and surrounding areas, while people staged a massive protest demanding a registration of FIR against the army troops involved in the incident. Protesters according to eyewitnesses torched an official…

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Fissures in BJP’s Kashmir unit? 2 Groups shoot letters to high command

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First time since the BJP shared power in J&K on March 1, 2015, major fissures have surfaced in the party’s state unit with two groups locking horns against each other. Irked by the approach of some party leaders, a group of disgruntled party leaders and activists have shot a letter to BJP’s Kashmir affairs in-charge Dr Narendra Singh, appealing him to investigate the “acts against the party’s interest and promoting lobbyism.” The letter, signed by BJP’s district presidents and party activists reads that there are some people lobbying for their…

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What if Article 35A goes? Playing the fear card over ‘Special Privileges’

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All conversations conclude here with a question: what will happen if Article 35A goes? The answer is: “All hell will break loose in Kashmir”. The narrative of the consequences of the removal of the Article that confers special privileges on all permanent residents in Jammu and Kashmir to acquire immovable assets, jobs, scholarships, is assuming alarming proportions. There is a campaign against those who have moved the Supreme Court for its “discriminatory” approach as it debars Indian citizens living in other parts of the country from availing themselves of any…

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Kashmiri student goes missing in Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University

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Varsity alerts police after reports suggested he may have joined militancy Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (BGSB) authorities Tuesday lodged a written complaint with police and civil administration following reports about one of its B.Tech students joining militancy ranks. As per the university’s official statement, one of the B.Tech (IT) students from 2014-18 batch namely Mohammed Eisa Fazili, son of Noor-Un-Naeem Faizili of Ahmed Nagar, Soura, Srinagar who was residing in the hostel left the premises of the hostel on August 17 without any information to the management. “The concerned…

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Kashmir NCC woman cadet trolled on Facebook over azadi, stone pelting comments

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“I want to tell the youth that the real azadi (freedom) is here. If you want azadi, it is here,” she said in the post and asked young Kashmiris to stay away from stone pelting and raising pro azadi slogans. An NCC woman cadet from South Kashmir was trolled by Facebook users for her strong message to the youth of Jammu and Kashmir, urging them to shun stone pelting and azadi campaigns and to enjoy “real freedom” in India. The video of her sound bite, taken by a little known…

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116 PoK residents stranded in Jammu sent back via Uri

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The J&K Government sent 116 stranded residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) back home as the cross-Line of Control (LoC) bus service operating between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad resumed today. The LoC bus service also known as Karvan-e-Aman (peace bus) resumed after remaining suspended since August 14. As per the schedule, the weekly bus left Srinagar today for the Kaman post, the last Indian military post on this side of the LoC in the border town of Uri in Baramulla district. The bus carried 50 passengers, including 42 PoK residents and eight…

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Kashmir will witness bloodbath if Article 35A scrapped: KEA

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Appeals civil society, transporters, trade bodies to observe black day on the day of hearing of case in SC The trade body, Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), Monday warned that Kashmir would witness a worst bloodbath if anybody tried to fiddle with Article 35-A, which grants special privileges to residents of Jammu and Kashmir. The traders affiliated with KEA staged a protest demonstration against BJP and RSS-backed NGO, “We the citizens”, which has filed petition against Article 35-A in the Supreme Court. The protesting traders, chanting slogans like, “Save Article 370…

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Zakir Musa back in action, vows to take jihad to the last corner of India

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Nearly 10 days after reports that al-Qaeda’s recently announced Kashmir unit chief Zakir Musa was trapped by security forces in Pulwama’s Tral area, the Burhan Wani successor is back in action. In a detailed statement, surfaced on Saturday, Musa-led Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a unit of al-Qaeda, has openly threatened Indian authorities, vowing to “take jihad to the last corner” of the country and by listing its targets. Al-Hurr, the propaganda arm of the newly formed terror group, posted the three-page statement on social media, which was accessed and put forth by…

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