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Cops seek to ensure low-key funeral of militants in Kashmir Valley

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While there is no change in policy under governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir on handing over bodies of local terrorists killed in anti-terror operations to their families, J&K police are ensuring that their funerals remain uneventful with only close relatives and limited number of people from the village in attendance. “The bodies of all four Islamic State-influenced terrorists killed in Anantnag on Friday were handed over to their respective families. Mobile internet services in the home village/town of the slain terrorists as well as adjoining areas were suspended to…

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A referendum in the Indian part of J&K should ask the people a simple question: Do you wish to stay in India or not?

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Nothing is ever new in Kashmir and nothing ever changes. Every party, whether local to J&K or from the Rest of India (ROI), has failed to either win the support of the people or to contain the dissidents of one colour or another. J&K remains the only state where ROI needs to send delegations of MPs (obviously they never visit the state on their own) or interlocutors ( whose reports are invariably ignored). In no other state in ROI, mobile phones are jammed if the PM is visiting. J&K (or…

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Shujaat Bukhari gunned down by militants on orders from Pakistan: J&K Police

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The Jammu & Kashmir police department has got some concrete clues on the killing of Shujaat Bukhari and expects to crack the case soon, even by the end of June, senior police officers said on condition of anonymity. The officers, who are directly involved in investigations, added that Bukhari was gunned down by terrorists on instructions from across the border, most probably for trying to promote peace in the Valley. According to them, this was seen unfavourably by separatists and the Jamait-e-Islami leaders on both sides of the Line of…

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21 Top militants on ‘Hit List’ of security forces in Kashmir Valley

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Twenty-one top terrorists are now on the “hit list” of security forces after Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) chief Dawood Ahmed Salafi and three of his aides were gunned down in a shootout at Nowshera village in south Kashmir on Friday. The bodies of Dawood Ahmad Sofi (known also as Salafi and Burhan), the chief of ISIS in J&K and involved in several terror attacks on policemen, snatching of weapons, stone-pelting cases, and three others were retrieved from the site on Friday. The encounter, considered as a major…

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Kashmir-Jammu an old dilemma

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The BJP was well placed to manage it, but it chose short-term political gains The Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to break its alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and plunge Jammu and Kashmir into political chaos comes as a climax to a dilemma that the party’s government at the Centre had been facing since the State elections in 2014. On the one hand, it needed political stability and a friendly government in J&K to find a political solution to the growing insurgency and unrest in the Valley. On the…

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Muscular approach always at core of BJP’s Kashmir Policy

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Since the inception of BJP’s predecessor, Bharatiya Jan Sangh, to the present, Jammu and Kashmir has been an integral part of the party’s discourse. BJS founder Shyama Prasad Mookerjee died in the state while taking up the issue of “one country, one Constitution”, the abrogation of Article 370 that gives special status to the state is one of party’s key goals, the Muslim majority state is high on the party’s target while espousing nationalism, and it has always slammed Congress and former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for failing to resolve territorial…

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Dineshwar Sharma to continue to engage with people of Kashmir: Home Ministry

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The Governor would emphasise to restore the rule of law back on the streets of Kashmir, while Dineshwar Sharma would be engaging with people politically too. Dineshwar Sharma, the Centre’s special representative, will continue to engage with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, even though Governor’s Rule has been imposed in the state. “He was appointed to keep engaging the people there and he will keep doing that”, a senior official from the ministry told NDTV. According to him, Dineshwar Sharma was tasked by the government to engage with all…

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Why Governor’s rule are the best days for J&K’s MLA’s?

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President Ram Nath Kovind has approved governor’s rule + in J&K . The move comes after the BJP pulled out of its three-year alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir. J&K governor NN Vohra has placed the J&K assembly under suspended animation. Unlike other states, where President’s rule is imposed in such situations, the J&K constitution provides for governor’s rule for six months, but only after the consent of the President of India. Governor NN Vohra will be presiding over the state for the fourth time,…

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Thousands throng Kheer Bhawani shrine yearn for peaceful Kashmir

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Thousands of pilgrims, mostly migrant Kashmiri Pandits, thronged the Kheer Bhawani shrine on the occasion of annual Jyestha Ashtami at Tulmulla in Ganderbal district on Wednesday. A unique feature of the festival this year was the Kheer Bhawani yatra by migrant Pandits, which started from New Delhi on Monday and reached the shrine via Jammu on Wednesday. “This has been part of the wish to return to our homes in Kashmir,” said Satish Mahaldar, who organised the yatra with the participation of 126 Pandits from New Delhi and nearly 3,000…

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Omar Abdullah demands dissolution of Kashmir assembly, asks for early elections

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National Conference vice president and former chief minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday sought dissolution of the state legislative assembly to thwart attempts of horse-trading and further erosion of democratic processes and institutions. He also said the ongoing crisis in the Kashmir valley could not be resolved by operational and military means. Only dialogue both internally and externally as well could resolve the political conflict of Kashmir, he said at his party’s core group meeting today at the NC headquarters. In a scathing attack against the Mehbooba Mufti government which collapsed…

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