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Curbs on ferrying patients at night after firing on ambulance driver

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The decision has been taken to avoid confrontation with Army and CRPF personnel patrolling roads and highways at night. A day after an ambulance driver was shot at by the CRPF at Safa Kadal area of the city, officials Friday asked district and sub-district hospitals to manage critical patients at rural health centres at night instead of taking the risk of moving them to Srinagar. The decision has been taken to avoid confrontation with Army and CRPF personnel patrolling roads and highways at night. Night curfew has been imposed stringently in…

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Volunteers disallow ‘Fact-Finding team’ from Delhi to meet injured; People’s anger in genuine, Team

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Aiyer, Jha face resistance at SMHS hospital; Delegation says ‘We are here to listen to people’ People’s anger in Kashmir genuine: Civil society delegation A fact-finding non-governmental team from New Delhi arrived here on Thursday to meet civilians injured during the ongoing unrest in Kashmir. However, two members of the team—Mani Shankar Aiyar (MP) and Prem Shankar Jha (Journalist)— were not allowed to meet the injured by volunteers at SMHS hospital here. Sources told Kashmir Post that the team comprising Aiyar, Jha,Vinod Sharma, MK Venu, Ruby Arun, Shabnam Hashmi (social…

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BSNL Stops sale of post-paid SIMs on security grounds

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The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) Jammu Customer Service Centre (CSC) at Bahu Plaza has stopped issuing new post-paid SIM cards from today after it was directed by the government to do so on security grounds. Sources said the Jammu CSC had been witnessing a heavy rush of customers from the Valley to get new post-paid SIM cards for the past few days. However, keeping in mind the unrest, the BSNL decided to immediately stop the sale of new post-paid SIM cards, fearing that it might create more security-related problems.…

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Residents despair as Communication Gag continues

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Today marks the 39th day of curfew in Kashmir. The private mobile phone networks remain suspended. Internet blocked. Roads deserted. In the current scenario, when all sources of communication have been snapped, people are increasingly getting desperate to know what is happening in others parts of the Valley. “The situation is getting worse than the 2010 unrest. We are suffocating. Phones are not working. At least children used to surf the internet and tell us what is happening in other parts of the Valley, but now we have been deprived…

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9 Year-old boy is battling for life at SMHS hospital

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His head and face are wrapped in bandage. Since Monday evening, he is lying motionless on a bed in Srinagar’s SMHS hospital. And the only signs of life in him are the beeps on vital-signs monitor wired to his body. Just 20 hours earlier, nine-year-old Irfan Ahmed Sofi was playing his favorite game Football with his friends in Bijbehera area in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Today, the “football champ” as he is known in his locality, is battling for life at the Surgical ICU of the SMHS hospital after he…

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Sedition case registered against Amnesty International India over ‘Pro-freedom Slogans’

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An FIR was on Monday registered against Amnesty International India in connection with alleged raising of “independence” slogans by “pro-freedom” Kashmiris who entered into heated arguments with a Kashmiri Pandit leader for hailing Indian Army. A police official involved in the investigation said that a First Information Report has been registered and investigations will proceed. The FIR has been registered under IPC sections– 142 (being member of an unlawful assembly), 143 (whoever is a member of an unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 124A (sedition), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on…

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Doctors protest against ‘Indiscriminate’ use of pellet guns

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The doctors tried to highlight the sufferings of patients who have lost vision or suffered eye injuries due to pellet guns. The doctors at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SHMS) on Wednesday came out to protest against use of pellet guns in the valley. Several doctors, including senior faculty members of the Government Medical College Srinagar and its associated hospitals like SMHS, gathered at the college campus for a sit-in against the ‘indiscriminate use of pellet guns’ by armed forces. Posing as pellet victims with a bandaged eye, the doctors…

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Police issues Friday Advisory

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Appeals parents to stop wards from pelting stones, clerics asked not to make provocative speeches Apprehending violence after Friday prayers, Police has appealed people to stop their children from taking part in stone pelting besides asking clerics not to deliver provocative speeches. A police statement, issued in this regard, states: “It has been observed for last few Fridays that after the culmination of congregational prayers miscreants force people to assemble on the chowks and roads thus obstructing the normal traffic. Many a times these gatherings are manipulated to pelt stones…

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Police issues list of ‘Stone Pelters’, Youth who was martyred in 2010 figures in the list

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People who will give any information regarding the 31 boys will be rewarded: Police Dead wanted by police for stone pelting A youth who was martyred during the 2010 anti-India uprising by the government forces figures in the list of the 117 youth whom the police have warned of detention under draconian Public Safety Act. The police have pasted a poster listing the 117 youth in Narwara, Eidgah locality of old city. Anees Khursheed Ganai son of Khursheed Ahmad Ganai, who was killed in 2010 by CRPF at Eidgah, figures…

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August 9, 1953: When Sheikh’s arrest changed Kashmir for ever

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People by and large believe that Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah was dethroned and arrested on August 9, 1953, for resisting moves aimed at diluting the autonomy of the state. However, his colleague and member Constituent Assembly, Abdul Gani Goni, narrated an entirely different story in an interview with Kashmir Post some time before his death last year. According to him, Sheikh’s July 13, 1953, speech is very significant. Sheikh had said, “These martyrs have prepared us for bigger sacrifices to achieve our freedom and our right of self-determination. If required, our…

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