Category: Community

A forgotten story of how over 2 lakh Muslims were killed in Jammu which led to Kashmir Issue

Editor

After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, a large number of Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs, aided and abetted by the forces of the Dogra State headed by the Maharaja Hari Singh. The activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) played a key role in planning and executing the riots. In November 1947, thousands of Muslims were massacred in Jammu region by…

Read More

Rs 125 cr recovery notice from J&K Bank to Sheikh Imran Srinagar’s Dy Mayor

Editor

The recently elected Srinagar’s Deputy Mayor, Sheikh Imran, is a major defaulter of Jammu and Kashmir Bank as he owes over Rs 125 crore to the bank. He has been issued a recovery notice and threatened of being declared as willful defaulter. The Jammu and Kashmir Bank issued recovery notice (Ref: No. JKB/ ZOKC/ IAPM/ SRFS/ 2018-1929 dated 31-10-2018) to Chairman of Kehwah Group of Industries, Sheikh Imran son of Sheikh Mushtaq of Ishber Nishat after he failed to honour full and final settlement of 23 accounts of the group…

Read More

Joint Resistance Leadership may end its hartal politics

Editor

The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik are mulling to shun the two-decade practice of calling strikes after every untoward incident. Sources said the JRL is thinking about replacing the shutdowns with protests similar to ones carried against the proposal to repeal Article 35-A of the constitution. They said during the ongoing consultation with all sections of the society that include religious organisations, lawyers, traders, transporters, employees, academicians, civil society members, it was agreed that continuous hartals were not serving any…

Read More

Rebel transgender Javaid Ahmad who coined Ragda in 2008

Editor

In 2008, when the first of a hat-trick of summer uprisings broke out leaving more than 60 dead and over a 100 injured, the resistance vocabulary of Kashmiris got richer by one more word: ragda. Ragda went on to become the Kashmiri equivalent to the Palestinian intifada and has made its way into many news stories, articles and opinion pieces on Kashmir carried by various newspapers and periodicals ever since.  A rebel transgender behind the epic coinage and a series of slogans has been the mascot of resistance in and…

Read More

1947 Jammu Genocide Unfolded

Editor

On the 70th anniversary of the organised and officially patronised Jammu massacre, almost nothing has been written by India’s mainstream media, keeping alive the tradition of sweeping this enormous human tragedy under the carpet. We pieces together a series of events that turned various areas of Jammu into killing fields. At a time when trainloads of Hindus and Sikhs were coming to Hindustan, leaving the newly-formed nation state of Pakistan behind, and tens of thousands of Muslims were boarding the trains to Pakistan from Delhi, something terrible was happening in…

Read More

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq among top five influential persons in subcontinent

Editor

Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has for the fifth consecutive year been chosen among the 500 most influential Muslim personalities across the globe by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISISC) Jordan and one among the five top influential persons in the sub-continent. “Dr Farooq inherited the title of the 14th Mirwaiz, (traditional preacher of Muslims in Kashmir) in 1990 after the martyrdom of his father. At the young age of twenty, he became the chairman and founder of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a grassroots coalition of pro-freedom parties in…

Read More

16 Mentally challenged persons, including 2 women killed by forces outside camps in 15 years

Editor

Government forces operating in Kashmir Tuesday said that they would perhaps have to modify their standard operating procedure (SOP) to minimise killings of mentally-challenged persons who wander around security camps during late hours. The tacit admission by the forces that there is no specific mechanism to deal with mentally-challenged persons near the camps comes barely two days after Rayees Ahmad Wani, a mentally challenged person was shot dead outside an army camp in Shopian. Rayees was not the first person to be killed in such a manner. In February this…

Read More

Journalists sought action against IG Basant Rath for slapping scribe

Editor

Journalists, camera persons and the management committee of the Press Club of Jammu on Wednesday submitted a memorandum to Governor Satya Pal Malik, seeking action against Inspector General (Traffic) Basant Rath for allegedly slapping a journalist and snatching his mobile phone for unknown reasons. In a meeting here, the journalists unanimously decided to submit a copy of the memorandum to Malik seeking action against the officer. The journalists had also taken out a protest march against him on Tuesday. They put forth various suggestions in the meeting after which a…

Read More

Suppression has become unbearable for people: Separatists discuss Valley situation

Editor

The Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik Tuesday met at Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman’s Hyderpora residence and said they are going to have wide-range consultation with all sections of the society to frame a comprehensive joint strategy against “Indian suppression”, which has reached beyond tolerable levels. After being released from their prolonged house confinement and police custody, Mirwaiz and Malik held a meeting with Geelani at his Hyderpora residence. The three leaders had a thorough discussion on the prevailing situation in…

Read More

Probe all corruption cases of BJP-PDP Govt: NC, Cong ask Governor

Editor

As Governor Satya Pal Malik has established Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to fight corruption in the State, National Conference (NC) and Congress have urged the Governor to reopen all cases of wrong doings of previous PDP-BJP coalition government. Talking to Kashmir Post, NC General Secretary, Ali Mohammad Sagar said the party had raised the corruption cases in nine different government departments in last assembly session. “However, the then PDP-BJP government brushed all of them aside,” he said. Sagar alleged rampant corruption and nepotism practices were going on in Transport, Education,…

Read More