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NH-44 on Jaish, Lashkar target: Intelligence inputs

September 14, 2021 Editor

According to highly placed sources, several inputs suggesting a ‘major attack’ on the forces have been received since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan on August 15. Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the two terror groups that have been working in coordination for some time, are planning to carry out a major attack in south Kashmir by “ripping the national highway to shreds” with a series of IED explosions, intelligence inputs suggest. “There are threats of IED attacks on National Highway-44 from Qazigund to Khanabal axis in south Kashmir,” said a…

Deadline extended for J&K domicile certificate as govt got cold response to the offer

September 14, 2021 Editor

The office of the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner has also decided to hold special camps to accept applications at places where a minimum of 50 such families are residing. One such camp was held in Delhi around a fortnight ago. THERE seem to be few takers for the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s offer of domicile certificates to former residents who, or their ancestors, moved out of the erstwhile state years ago, provided they register with the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (Migrants) at Jammu. The administration has now extended the scheme,…

Banihal-Srinagar National Highway stretch to have emergency landing facilities

September 10, 2021 Editor

Banihal-Srinagar road stretch of Jammu-Srinagar National Highway will be among 19 other places in the country where emergency landing facilities would be developed to strengthen the country’s security. These 19 places will also include Leh/Nyoma area. An announcement in this connection was made by the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari while inaugurating the emergency landing facility on National Highway 925A in Rajasthan with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday. Gadkari said that NH 925A run-way would further strengthen the country’s security in protecting the borders which…

Committed to fight for restoration of Article 370: Dr. Farooq Abdullah

September 8, 2021 Editor

National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah Wednesday said that his party will not shy away from participating in the Assembly polls but the Centre must first restore statehood before announcing elections. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the 39th death anniversary of NC patriarch Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah at his mausoleum at Hazratbal, Srinagar, Dr Farooq said: “I don’t know when elections would be held. Whenever they are held, we won’t shy away and rather participate and win as well. The Centre must first restore statehood before holding polls.” The…

Pained the way Geelani’s body was treated after his death: Mehbooba Mufti

September 8, 2021 Editor

‘You fight with a person when he is alive. But when he dies he becomes a body. That body deserves respect,’ Mehbooba Mufti said. Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today said people of Kashmir are sad and are in pain the way the government treated separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani after his death. Accusing the government of being afraid of Geelani’s body and of fighting with the separatist leader’s body after his death, Mehbooba said, dead bodies deserve respect. “You fight with a person when he is alive. But when…

Hurriyat at a crossroads

August 30, 2021 Editor

The Hurriyat Conference, the political platform of separatists in Kashmir, is getting increasingly marginalised, with the Centre cracking down on its leaders and considering a ban on both factions. By -Bashaarat Masood After banning the Jamat-e-Islami and the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), there have been reports that the Centre is considering a ban on both factions of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference. What does the Hurriyat Conference stand for, and what is its relevance? The beginnings In the winter of 1992, when militancy was at its peak in…

Tarigami moves Supreme Court to challenge abrogation of Article 370, 35-A

August 28, 2021 Editor

Prays for an early hearing of the case in the ‘interest of justice. The Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and spokesperson of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), MY Tarigami Friday filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India, challenging the constitutional validity of abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A and passing of the Jammu and Kashmir (Reorganisation) Act 2019 in the parliament, which bifurcated the state into two Union Territories. In the written petition, Tarigami has prayed before the Supreme Court to…

‘Only unity can take people out from Suppression, Repression and Oppression’, somebody’s ideology can’t be changed on gunpoint: Mehbooba Mufti

August 24, 2021 Editor

While laying emphasis on the need for unity, former Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party President Mehbooba Mufti Tuesday said that ‘only unity can take people out from suppression, repression, and oppression.’ She was addressing workers at the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) meeting in Srinagar. “There is so much suppression,” she said adding that this suppression can be tackled and get rid of by the unity which is the need of the hour. “We are facing a lot of suppression. Let us see when elections are…

Notion of normality is far from reality, ‘Further alienating Kashmiri’s by its actions’: Yashwant Sinha

August 24, 2021 Editor

Contesting the central government’s belief that everything is normal in Kashmir, former Union finance minister and Trinamool leader Yashwant Sinha says this notion “is completely wrong and far from the reality”. The former BJP leader said that people in Kashmir still have a strong resentment in their minds against what the Modi government did on August 05, 2019. “It is good to see that Kashmiris are not offering themselves to get killed on roads and they have resumed the normal activities (post-August 05, 2019), but that does not mean that…

Hurriyat Conference likely to be banned under UAPA, TeH removes sign board from its office in Hyderpora

August 23, 2021 Editor

A ban under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act may be imposed on both factions of the secessionist conglomerate Hurriyat Conference which has been spearheading the separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir for over two decades, officials said. They said a recent probe into the granting of MBBS seats to Kashmiri students by institutions in Pakistan indicates that the money collected from aspirants by some organisations which were part of the Hurriyat Conference conglomerate was being used for funding terror organisations in the union territory. The officials said both the…