Category: Community

Govt. revokes order on Kashmiri Pandit’s pilgrimage registration

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Kashmiri Pandits are sons of the soil and they do not need any permission to visit the shrines in the Valley, says Minister. The Jammu and Kashmir government on Monday removed a senior official and ordered a probe into the official directive asking migrant Kashmiri Pandits to register before embarking on any pilgrimage at the historic temples of the Kashmir Valley. “Migrant Kashmiri Pandits belong to this soil. They don’t need to register for such religious pilgrimages. They don’t require any permission from the government. We cannot have them questioned…

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Security forces issue list of top ten commanders in Valley

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After death of several top terrorist commander’s, security forces have issues a new list of top commanders in the Valley. The names were made public with an aim to eliminate them from the region. Among the wanted terrorists, Riyaz, Zakir and Pakistani terrorist Naveed Jatt alias Abu Hanzullah, who escaped from the clutches of the Jammu and Kashmir police. Their escape came as a big blow to the security agencies, which are witnessing a fresh round of unrest. According to the police, all the top ten terrorists have been put…

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Make your children give up violence: Priya Sethi to mothers of “Misguided Youths”

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BJP leader Priya Sethi exhorted Sunday the mothers of “misguided youths” in Jammu and Kashmir to convince their wards to give up violence and join the mainstream. The former minister was speaking at a women leadership conclave Pink Marathon: Empowered women Empower women organised by Epilogue Press on the occasion of Mother’s Day. “Today, we are celebrating Mother’s Day and nothing could have been better than this conclave. I ask mothers of misguided youth who have taken up arms to influence their children to shun the path of violence,” Ms…

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Omar seeks probe for harassment & beating of Kashmiri’s Delhi

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National Conference working president Omar Abdullah on Friday urged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to ensure that the alleged thrashing of a group of Kashmiris, including women, in Delhi was investigated urgently. “@HMOIndia @rajnathsingh Please have this investigated urgently and bring the guilty to book,” the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister wrote on Twitter. Last night in New Delhi’s Sunlight Colony area, a group of 40-50 people surrounded five people, including four women, from Kashmir, and beat them up, according to the police. The victims alleged they were targeted…

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Historic Jamia Masjid sealed to prevent Separatist Protests

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The authorities on Friday locked Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, disallowing the weekly congregational prayers. The move was part of the preventive measures to thwart protests called by separatist leaders. The police locked the gates of the city’s largest mosque at Nowhatta. Security forces personnel were deployed in large numbers in the area to prevent protests. Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who delivers a weekly sermon at Jamia Masjid, condemned the restrictions as he remained under detention at his residence in the city. The restrictions were imposed in response to…

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Court seeks report on mowing down of youth by police vehicle

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The court of chief judicial magistrate Srinagar has directed SHO Noorbagh to file a status report in the case of Adil Ahmed Yadoo of Safa Kadal here who was crushed to death by a police vehicle on 5 May 2018. The court issued directions after the family of the victim moved an application through counsels advocate Bashir Siddiq and Muhammad Ashraf Bhat. The 18 year old youth was crushed to death by a police armoured vehicle in downtown Srinagar amid protests following a firefight between militants and government forces, a…

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Pune’s former mayor, Rajlakshmi Bhosale faith in Kashmir tourism unshaken

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Rajlakshmi Bhosale was on her way to Srinagar when she got the news of the killing of a tourist in a stone pelting incident. But the General Secretary of Nationalist Congress Party in Pune and former mayor of the western Indian city let her earlier experience of travels to Kashmir guide her rather be panicked by the news of the death of 22-year-old R Thirumani of Chennai after he was critically injured near Narbal when his vehicle was caught in a stone throwing protest. Bhosale flew from the hills of…

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Deploying NSG will boost forces but elite commandos should be shielded from stone pelters

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Reports in the media indicate that the elite National Security Guard (NSG) is to be deployed in Kashmir as part of the counterterrorism grid. According to home ministry officials, the force would be directly involved in specific counterterrorism operations particularly in hostage situations as well as have a role in training the state police and the CRPF in an increasingly complex security scenario. There is also a hint that the NSG is being deployed to keep its specific skills honed for its actual task, which is as the country’s quick…

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When 15 funeral prayers were not enough for Saddam Paddar & Bilal Moulvi

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Rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the mourners who swarmed Heff village to have a last glimpse of the rebels killed in a gunfight with government forces on Sunday. By early Monday morning, as the rains intensified, the Eidgah was filled to its capacity. People jostled for the space—many young boys climbed poplar trees— so that they could offer funeral prayers to the deceased militants Saddam Paddar and Bilal Moulvi. Such was the rush of people to the village that the families had to delay burial on Saturday, the day…

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Omar Abdullah takes dig at Mehbooba, says Kashmiris paying with blood for her to remain Chief Minister

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In a scathing attack on the chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, opposition leader Omar Abdullah on Monday said that Kashmiris were paying with blood for her to remain CM and for “PDP & BJP to remain ‘partners in crime’.” Omar was reacting to CM’s comment on micro blogging website Twitter in which she had said: “The loss of 5 innocent civilians in Shopian serves as a grim reminder that violence is no solution to the issues that plague us. We all must unite & pull J&K out of this endless nightmare…

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