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Kheer Bhawani: Majority of Kashmiri Pandits miss mela amid panic over targeted killings

June 8, 2022 Editor

Less footfall was observed at the Mata Kheer Bhawani temple in Kashmir as many Kashmiri Pandits have boycotted this year’s Kheer Bhawani festival. The festival, which was organised after a hiatus of two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, witnessed a thin attendance because of the recent killings of the Kashmiri Pandits in the city. For the unversed, the Mata Kheer Bhawani festival is one of the largest gatherings of pilgrims in Kashmir following the Amarnath pilgrimage. The Kheer Bhawani temple is situated at Tullamulla village in the Ganderbal district…

Target Killing 2022: 18 Civilians killed across Kashmir since last five months

June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Editor

Seventeen civilians were killed in Kashmir in the last five months so far this year. As per news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), they include 12 Kashmiri Muslims, two from minority community, a Hindu teacher, a bank manager from Rajasthan and an employee of a liquor shop. On 25 Feb, a civilian identified as Shakeel Ahmad Khan resident of Shopian was killed during a gunfight in Amshipora Shopian in which two militants were killed as well. On 02 March a Panch identified as Mohammad Yaqoob Dar of Kulpora Srandroo Kulgam was…

Kashmir Back To Square One: Another exodus begins following 16 killed since January

June 4, 2022 Editor

This week in Kashmir was marked by murder of a Kashmiri Pandit school teacher Rajani Bala (36) in Kulgam, the seventh targeted killing in May alone, and the threat of yet another exodus of Pandits from the Valley. A summon sent to Yash Raj Sharma, editor in-charge of the portal The Kashmir Walla for an article published in 2011, asking him to present himself in Jammu on June 2, also indicated that the Government had not given up its hard security approach to Kashmir. Earlier, Fahad Shah, the editor of…

No end to traffic jams on Srinagar-Jammu National Highway

June 3, 2022 Editor

The commuters and drivers of various types of vehicles were up against huge inconvenience due to the traffic congestion between Nashri – Ramban ,Ramban and Ramsu sector of highway on Thursday. However, traffic officials said traffic congestion remained at a few places due to ongoing four lane construction work. Huge rush of vehicular traffic was witnessed on the highway for Srinagar and Jammu on Thursday while commuters and drivers were confronted with traffic jams at various places between Nahsri to Banihal sector of highway. Commuters and drivers alleged that traffic…

Yasin Malik’s journey: From gun-toting Kashmir rebel to Gandhism

June 1, 2022 Editor

The top rebel leader was handed a life sentence last week after his conviction for ‘terrorism’, a charge to which he pleaded guilty. From holding a Kalashnikov rifle to becoming a self-avowed follower of Mahatma Gandhi, the last 30 years of legendary Kashmiri rebel leader Yasin Malik’s life have remained a struggle against the Indian rule in the disputed region. Malik, 56, was sentenced to life in prison last week after he was convicted in a terror-funding case, to which he pleaded guilty. Malik is among key separatist leaders in…

Is Al-Qaeda refocusing from Afghanistan to Kashmir? UN Report

May 31, 2022 Editor

United Nations: A change in the name of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) magazine “suggests a refocusing” of the terror group from Afghanistan to Kashmir, a UN report has said. The 13th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team submitted pursuant to resolution 2611 (2021) concerning the Taliban and other associated individuals and entities constituting a threat to the peace stability and security of Afghanistan was released on Saturday. The report said that being subordinate to the Al-Qaeda core, the AQIS is maintaining a low profile…

Khurram Parvez jailed Kashmiri Rights activists finds place in Time’s 100 list

May 24, 2022 Editor

In its list of this year’s 100 most influential people, the US-based magazine calls Parvez a ‘modern-day David’ who ‘had to be silenced’. Kashmiri rights activist Khurram Parvez, jailed by India since November last year on “terrorism” charges, has been named as one of the 100 most influential people of 2022 by the United States-based Time magazine. Parvez, 44, is chairman of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) and coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS), a prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Himalayan region…

‘Immediately’ do fire safety audit of all govt buildings: Admin

May 23, 2022 Editor

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday ordered fire safety audit of all the government buildings “immediately”. “It is hereby ordered that Director General, Fire and Emergency Service shall carry out fire safety audit of all government buildings in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir immediately,” reads a government order. “All the concerned Administrative Secretaries shall take immediate corrective action in light of the Fire Safety Audit Reports so furnished to them for preventing occurrence of fire incidents in all buildings of their Departments,” the order added.

Kashmir is witnessing most dangerous terrorism since 2019: Former R&AW Head A.S. Dulat

May 20, 2022May 21, 2022 Editor

Dulat said that he believes this is the work of a professional independent terror cell located in Srinagar, which is linked to Pakistan. By: Karan Thapar In a disturbing interview which paints a very worrying picture of the sharply increased terrorism in the Kashmir Valley, a former head of R&AW and one of India’s foremost security experts on Kashmir has said the Valley is experiencing “the most dangerous terrorism since August 2019”. What’s worse is, this time it’s occurring in the heart of the Valley, i.e. the capital Srinagar. A.S.…

PDP raises questions on Yasin Malik conviction; Will this solve the Kashmir Issue?

May 20, 2022 Editor

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) raised questions in the wake of Yasin Malik’s conviction in the terror case. The party asked how will the conviction help in the resolution of the Kashmir issue. PDP stressed that the Kashmir issue is a political problem and that convictions will not solve it. Terming the latest development as a part of a ‘legal process’, the party averred that such actions haven’t worked in the past and will not work in the future. A spokesperson for PDP stated, “We have seen people being picked, convicted…