Category: Community

Resistance group welcome US push for Kashmir dialogue

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The Hurriyat leaders have welcomed the US push for dialogue on Kashmir even as the PDP leader and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti termed the disclosures by the American President Donald Trump during his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan as a “huge policy shift”. “Being the most affected party, the people of Kashmir want an early resolution to the lingering Kashmir conflict. I have been urging for dialogue at all levels. Every effort, pushing India and Pakistan in that direction by @POTUS is welcomed by the people of…

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Local police senses lack in trust as NIA taking control of cases in Kashmir

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As the government amends the law governing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to bring more crimes under its purview and even acts of terror originating overseas, its mission creep back home – in Jammu and Kashmir – has so far escaped scrutiny by the opposition and media alike. For the past two years – and probably for the first time since the inception of militancy in the state in the early 1990s – a central probe agency has been conducting raids in connection with the “funding of militants and separatist…

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Ailing Geelani’s health deteriorating, Hurriyat appeals people to pray for his speedy recovery

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All Parties Hurriyat Conference, in a meeting held on Saturday, has expressed grave concern about the deteriorating health of its chairman Syed Ali Geelani and appealed people to pray for his speedy recovery. The meeting was presided over by Hurriyat Conference general secretary Ghulam Nabi Sumji at Hyderpora office, according to a statement issued by Hurriyat Conference. In an advisory meeting of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, scheduled to be convened under the chairmanship of Syed Ali Geelani, was presided over by its General Secretary Haji Gh. Nabi Sumji at Hyderpora,…

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Father of dead twins shares his agony, the doctor slapped, harassed my wife after we lost the kids

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A poignant letter by a mourning father has shocked Kashmir as he accused the region’s main maternity hospital of medical negligence that caused the death of his new-born twins. The letter, addressed to Governor Satya Pal Malik and written by a journalist Abid Sofi, was posted by him on the social media. The letter accused the staff of the Lal Ded Hospital, the main maternity facility in Kashmir valley, and demanded an inquiry into the deaths “due to negligence”. The hospital administration, however, said that the standard operating procedures (SOPs)…

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Highway woes continue, even dead bodies not allowed

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Imtiyaz Wani, KAS officer stopped from carrying father’s body A senior government officer was today forced to vent his anger and frustration in public after the ambulance carrying the body of his father was not allowed to move forward to Srinagar from the Jammu highway in view of the restrictions imposed on civilian traffic owing to Amarnath Yatra. The incident, which happened in the Nagrota area of Jammu along the Jammu-Srinagar highway, has generated shock, anger and outrage in the Valley. The ambulance carrying the coffin was on way from…

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Kashmir is facing the new monster of drugs, Geelani joins the fight

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After Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Syed Ali Geelani today became the second senior separatist leader to join a growing campaign against rising drug addiction in the Valley. In a statement, which his group described as a “stimulating message”, the separatist leader said Kashmir was facing “a new and unique monster of drugs, running deep in society and threatening its existence”. “Health experts and institutions reveal horrifying data that no sane person wants to believe. After 2015, there is addition of more than 6,000 addicts every year, which indicates a good number…

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Boycott political parties favoring abrogation of Articles 370, 35A: Shah Faisal

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President of Jammu and Kashmir’s Peoples Movement Shah Faesal on Sunday said that people should “socially boycott” the political parties that favor abrogation Articles 370 and 35-A. Shah Faesal while addressing a public outreach program organised by People’s United Front (PUF) here in north Kashmir said, “Jammu and Kashmir has an existential threat at this time as special status of the state is under threat. People should stand up against the parties who are talking about scrapping the special status of the state. People should go for a social boycott…

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‘Secured Camps’ in Kashmir to resettle Pandits: Ram Madhav

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The Bharatiya Janata Party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Kashmir Valley, senior leader Ram Madhav said, a proposal that would almost certainly heighten tensions in the restive region. Madhav, who is the BJP national general secretary responsible for Kashmir, said his party was committed to helping bring back some of the estimated 200,000-300,000 Hindus who fled the Jammu and Kashmir in the aftermath of an armed revolt that began in 1989. “Their fundamental rights of returning to the valley have…

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Kashmir Celebrates, Jammu Mourns India’s World Cup Defeat

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Soon after India lost their semi-final match to New Zealand, residents of Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley could not hide their pleasure and took to streets to celebrate the defeat. At the same time, the residents of Jammu city which is the twin capital of Jammu and Kashmir along with Srinagar were mourning the Indian loss. The Indian team who were widely seen as one of the favourites to lift the trophy were bundled out for 221 at Old Trafford with Matt Henry’s bowling spell wreaking havoc on their batting…

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How a Hindu pilgrimage became militarised in disputed Kashmir

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The Indian government has come under criticism for taking advantage of a spiritual journey to meet political ends. From a distance, several Indian soldiers blow whistles and wave their right hands frantically while holding AK-47 assault rifles chained to their bodies on the left. This is an order for all vehicles to pull over and stop on the main highway that links India-administered Kashmir to the rest of the world. The ritual is familiar to the regular commuters, many of whom grow restive and start cursing the Indian state that…

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