Category: Community

Pellet victims left to fend for themselves

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Costly treatment pushes affected families to penury Eviction of volunteers from SMHS hospital deprived patients of valuable assistance On July 9 when the protests against the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Burhan Wani spread far and wide and casualties started pouring in, various volunteer groups set up stalls at SMHS hospital to help the injured civilians and their attendants. Since the eviction of the volunteers from the hospital compound, the pellet victims have been left to fend for themselves. At a time when the authorities failed to provide assistance in…

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JK Govt to fight petition in Delhi HC challenging Article 370

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The PDP-BJP coalition government has decided to fight a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging non-applicability of any constitution amendment in the region under Article 370 of Indian Constitution. The Law department officials told Kashmir Post that they would examine the case and file writ petition against the PIL filed in Delhi High Court challenging the non-applicability of any constitution amendment in Jammu and Kashmir without a Presidential order under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. “We have to thoroughly examine the petition filed in Delhi High Court so that we…

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2016 Summer will go into history of Kashmir as epidemic of dead eyes: Hurriyat (M)

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119 civilians killed by forces in 2016, 16000 wounded, 13000 arrested, 3 civilians died in accidents due to alleged road blockades, 2 cops killed in mob attacks, says Hurriyat (M) Human Rights report Stating that the summer of 2016, will go into the history of Kashmir as a season of “epidemic of dead eyes,” Hurriyat (M) on Thursday said that “119 civilians were killed by security forces in J&K this year.” The group also asserted that three civilians lost their lives in accidents caused allegedly due to road blockades, etc.,…

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Today Resistance Camp call for bandh over West Pakistan Refugees Issue

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As the fortnight-long relaxed protest calendar ended today, the separatist leaders called for a bandh and statewide protests and demonstrations tomorrow against “issuance of domicile certificates” to the West Pakistan refugees. It was for the second consecutive week that normal life activities continued for five days followed by two days of shutdown. The continued shutdowns have been a practice in the past about six months following the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir on July 8. In a joint statement, the…

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Power Situation to improve from next week: PDD

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Power Development Department (PDD) has said the power situation will improve from the nest week. Chief Engineer PDD Shahnaz Goni told Kashmir Post that they would reduce the hours of daily power cuts and maintain proper power supply from next week. She said PDD is trying its best to overcome the power crisis so that they don’t have to listen to the complaints about unscheduled power cuts from customers. “We will also solve the problem of unscheduled power cuts soon. Our department is monitoring the issue,” she said. Goni, however,…

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15 Day ‘Relaxed’ Shutdown calendar ends today

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While the five full-day relaxation period under the separatist calendar ends tomorrow, it will also be the end of the first fortnight of relaxed calendar after weekly shutdowns, marking the six-months of unrest in the Kashmir valley. The separatists are yet to come out with the proposed “plan for transition from weekly calendars” to “a long-term plan of programmes and initiatives” as the New Year starts after the ongoing schedule ends. Normal life activities resumed for five days each during the past two weeks, something which was not seen since…

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Resistance Group exempted lawyers from shutdown

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Resistance leaders in the Kashmir valley today exempted lawyers from the two-day shutdown later this week. Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik, the three separatist leaders who have been issuing weekly protest and shutdown calendars for the past several months, in a joint statement exempted the lawyers from the shutdown scheduled on Friday and Saturday. The separatist trio said there were “thousands of habeas corpus cases pending for hearing”. “In view of the winter vacation of the courts, lawyers are requested to help out the cases of these…

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Resistance leaders, Activists take out protest march from Jamia

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Slam issuing domicile certificates to WPRs, implementation of SARFEASI Act in JK Warn of massive agitation if ‘anti-Muslim, anti-Kashmir’ decisions were not revoked On the call of united separatist leadership, large number of separatist leaders and activists of different political groups staged a peaceful protest march from historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar towards Nowhatta Chowk on Monday afternoon. The march was taken out to express solidarity with thousands of people arrested after outbreak of unrest in the Valley and lodged at Kot Bhalwal, Kathua, Hira Nagar, Udhampur and other jails. Carrying…

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Srinagar -Banihal highway four laning project misses another deadline

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While work on major portion of Srinagar-Jammu highway from Jammu side is complete, the four laning of 67.7 km from Srinagar-Banihal has missed another deadline with officials stating that the project would take yet another year, thus aggravating the connectivity conundrum faced by the people in Kashmir. The four-laning project of Srinagar- Jammu Highway has been divided into six sub-projects, Jammu-Udhampur road (65 km), Chenani-Nashri tunnel (9.2 km), Ramban-Udhampur road (43 km), Banihal-Ramban road (36 km), Qazigund-Banihal road (15.25 km) and Srinagar-Banihal road (67.7 km). While work on Jammu-Udhampur stretch…

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PDD Violates own schedule, resorts to over 20 Hour Cuts

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Power supply will improve soon: Chief Engineer The Power Development Department (PDD) is resorting to over 20-hour power cuts in violation of the curtailment schedule of 4 and 8 hours which was earlier approved by the government for metered and unmetered areas respectively. PDD is not sticking to any curtailment schedule and the electricity is supplied only for few hours during the day which has triggered widespread resentment among people with protests lodged at many places. Even as PDD had to notify the outages schedule, it has not done so…

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