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PDP in Trouble over ED Summons, Notices to Leaders to vacate Govt Housing

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Editor

PDP President Mehooba Mufti addressing media during a press conference

With ED summons to Mehbooba Mufti’s mother over financial irregularities and eviction orders to PDP leaders living in official housing, the party is caught in a bind. The troubles for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) chief minister Mehbooba Mufti are far from over with the J&K administration asking a young PDP leader to vacate his official accommodation in the capital Srinagar. A former legislator from south Kashmir, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, was asked on Wednesday by the J&K’s estates department to vacate his accommodation…

‘Conversion Row’ won’t back down, ‘Will fight to get my wife back’; Muslim Husband reiterates

July 10, 2021July 10, 2021 Editor

Shahid Nazir Bhatt, 29, has been accused of forcefully converting a Sikh woman. But he claims she converted to Islam and married her of her free will. As Shahid Nazir Bhatt walked out of jail on 2 July, all he wanted was to start a new life with his wife, his love of six years — Manmeet Kaur. He rushed home, expecting to see her, but as he switched on his phone on the way, it was flooded with photographs of her wedding with another man, a Sikh, like her…

Tourists attack doctors, medical staff in Tangmarg

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Editor

A group of tourists from Mumbai allegedly attacked two doctors and two other government employees on covid-19 duty for not giving them a “negative report” for the covid-19, purportedly underhand, in Sub District hospital Tangmarg on Wednesday. Official sources told GNS that at least sixteen tourists comprising seven male and nine female members entered Sub-District Hospital Tangmarg and sought covid-19 negative without undergoing the required test for visiting some tourist destination in the area. On refusal by the staff on duty, they said, seven male tourists attacked the staff, injuring…

Kashmir interfaith marriage row: For politics of ‘Hate’ and ‘Honor’, a woman must perish

July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Editor

Women are invisible in the narrative as the larger demons of ‘community and ‘honor’ take over. And nothing has changed in the last 70 years. By Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal A Kashmiri Sikh woman, allegedly forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man, was retrieved to her parents on June 27 after she submitted a statement in a court in Srinagar. There are still layers of mist about what she said in court and how the custody of an adult woman was given to her parents. Some reports have…

Noor Mohammad Shah: Kashmir folk singer’s rise from dusty street to music star

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Editor

Noor Mohammad Shah had always happily lived a life of obscurity. Born in a small village in the conflict-ridden state of Kashmir in India, Shah had been introduced to the mystical world of Sufi music as a child and for decades since had made a meagre but fulfilling living singing traditional songs and performing on his rabab, a lute-like music instrument, at weddings and village festivals. Yet it was a chance encounter between Shah and a group of young men, who happened to pass by as the god-fearing musician was…

Amind threats life threat MC, BDC Heads asked to vacate govt housing

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Editor

Amid hostile conditions when public representatives are facing life threats from militants across Kashmir valley, the district administration Bandipora on Tuesday ordered the Municipal Committee, Chairman, Sumbal and BDC Chairman Naidkhai to vacate the accommodation and warned them of initiating necessary action under law if he failed to do so in the stipulated period of time. Jahangir Ahmad, the incumbent Chairman of Municipal Committee, Sumbal and BDC Chairman Naidkhai Ghulam Nabi Ganai in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district told CNS that they have been asked to vacate the government accommodation provided…

Kashmiri’s under no illusion that Modi-Shah only focussed on implementing the Hindutva agenda in the region

July 2, 2021July 2, 2021 Editor

People of Kashmir can clearly see that BJP’s only concern is to consolidate its ideological and political project to reshape the identity and obliterate any vestiges of autonomy of J&K Prakash Karat The meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of 14 political parties of Jammu and Kashmir was seen as an unusual step. After August 5, 2019 when the Modi government summarily nullified the special status of J&K under Article 370 of the Constitution and dismantled the state into two Union territories, a relentless effort was made to discredit…

Kashmiri Sikh girl, separated from Muslim husband by force and made to marry to a Sikh

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Editor

Leader from Delhi criticised for indulging in ‘dirty politics’ It all started with a marriage that took place in north Kashmir’s Baramulla away from public gaze. Before tying the knot, Shahid Bhat and Manmeet Kaur, were in love. Kaur converted to Islam, took Zoya as her new name and married Bhat on June 5 in accordance with Islamic traditions. The marriage angered Zoya’s family and on June 26, both wife and the husband, 19 and 28 respectively as per affidavit seen by Clarion India, were taken to a local court…

Job aspirants in Kashmir apprehensive as Govt amend Civil Services Instructions

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Editor

Job aspirants in Kashmir apprehensive as Govt amends Civil Services Instructions

The verification process now requires candidates to disclosed details of their social media accounts used in the past. Experts say this may coerce people to freely expressing themselves online. Zubair Amin In 2019, when the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the Centre diluted Article 370, Kaiser Ahmad (25) was in China, studying medicine. Back home, Kashmir was under a protracted communication blackout, the longest in the history of any democracy. Cut off from his family, an angry and distraught Kaiser would flood his social media with posts criticising the Centre’s…

Pahalgam closed for day picnickers on weekends to prevent possible COVID-19 resurgence

July 1, 2021July 1, 2021 Editor

Besides, a fine of Rs 1000 shall be imposed on locals, tourists, and hotel staff found roaming without masks, the order said. District administration Anantnag on Wednesday barred day picnickers from visiting tourist destination Pahalgam on Saturdays and Sundays in a bid to prevent a possible COVID-19 resurgence due to heavy tourist influx at the resort of late. The administration also fixed a fine of Rs 1000 for violators of COVID-19 SOPs including mask wearing. An order issued to this effect by Deputy Commissioner Anantnag, Dr Piyush Singla, who is…